District Position Responsibility
The District Chairman
Leads the District and does the following:
- Identifies and recruits enough people as operating committee chairmen
- Initiates plans and helps committee chairmen recruit an adequate number of members to carry out the functions of the District
- Plans ( with the District Executive) and presides at District Committee meetings
- Works with the District Commissioner and District Executive to stimulate and coordinate the work of the District, to ensure the success of the Scouting units
- In cooperation with the District Executive, ensures the completions of District goals
- Represent the District on the Council Executive Board, once elected
- Recognize individuals, committees, and chartered organizations for their Scouting accomplishments
- Support local and national Scouting policies, procedures, and practices
- Help to secure support for Scouting from top community leaders throughout the District
- Track and attain goals for the District's achievement items
Advancement Chairman
- Responsible to District Program chairman
- Stimulate advancement and recognition of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts and Venturers
- Ensure that advancement and recognition remain in accordance with National Council's requirements and procedures
- Recruit and orient District advancement committee
- Establish advancement goals for District's packs, troops, teams and crews
- Develop plan to achieve District advancement goals
- Assist packs, troops, teams and crews: evaluate progress as required
- Provide Council with recommendations of youth or adults who qualify for special recognition (i.e. carious lifesaving awards)
- Assist District people in understanding of advancement procedures
- Coach troop and team leaders in methods for conducting Boards of Reviews and Courts of Honor
- Give special assistance to troop or team with poor advancement progress
- Recruit and train District merit badge counselors
- Produce a District merit badge directory
- Recommend unit and District Scouters for special District and Council recognition
- Track and attain advancement objectives
- Implement Council advancement and recognition program
Finance Chairman
- Responsible to District Chairman
- Ensure implementation of Council finance policies
- Serve as Council finance committee member if stated in Council bylaws
- Recruit and train committee on tasks provided by Council finance committee
- Ensure the acquisition of funds for the Council budget
- Maintain cooperative relationship with United Way
- Implement Friends of Scouting campaign
- Develop prospects and retain interest of contributors
- Support Council "project setting" program
- Support Council endowment development
- Inform units of unit financing policy
- Review units' funding project applications
- Achieve District's share of Council finance campaign's
- Support District activities that involve income and expenses, assuring proper policy and adult control
Camping Chairman
- Responsible to the District Program chairman
- Develop annual schedule of meetings and projects
- Recruit and orient District camp committee
- Understand each unit's camping and outdoor record
- Implement the Council's outdoor promotion plan in District
- Assist unit committees in understanding and implementing their year-round outdoor program through personal contacts and Roundtables
- Promote youth's interest in camping and outdoor programs:
- Order of the Arrow
- Summer camp
- National high-adventure programs
- Cub Scout day camp
- Cub Scout outdoor program
- Assist Council committee with outdoor program facilities
- Promote National Summertime Pack Award and National Camping Award
- Promote use of camperships
- Give guidance on health and safety concerns
- Supervise use of off-council campsites by permits and
- Assist troops and teams to assure outdoor activities; including 10 days and nights of camping with a long term summer camp
- Track and attain camping and outdoor objectives
- Implement Council camping and outdoor program
District Membership Chairman
- Responsible to District Chairman
- Interface with Council Membership/Relations chairman
- Establish plan and objective for membership growth
- Recruit and train organizers for units (new and reorganized)
- Work with District Commissioner and District training team to provide new units with trained personnel
- Plan and conduct youth-fact and chartered organization surveys
- Cultivate interest of potential chartered organizations and community groups
- Organize new packs, troops, teams, crews and posts
- Analyze District membership figures for all program levels
- Implement a year round membership plan
- Identify and conduct recruiting methods for chartered organizations and units:
- "Together Plan"
- Conclave (relationships conference)
- Track and attain membership growth objectives
- When District has Exploring membership responsibility:
- Plan and administer Explorer career interest survey
- Survey potential participating organizations
- Plan and conduct post's first meeting for youth
- Assist post committee with program capability inventory
- Help conduct Exploring impact plan
Activities Chairman
- Responsible to District Program chairman
- Develop and implement a plan for activities and civic service projects in District
- Ensure that activities remain in accordance with National policy
- Recruit and orient District activities committee
- Support and strengthen units by assuring program visibility and balance of activities
- Promote and conduct displays and skill events:
- Booth shows
- Expositions
- Camporees
- First Aid
- Swim meets
- Encourage Good Turn ideas through units' participation in community projects and civic service activities
- Plan, promote, and conduct special projects:
- Scouting Anniversary Week activities
- Demonstrations
- Window displays
- Shopping mall shows
- Religious observance
- Coordinate activities at District annual meeting and Scouter's recognition dinner
- Promote proper uniforming at all special events
- Evaluate progress in implementing an effective program
- Assist units in accomplishing activities and civic service objectives as required
- Implement with Council activities and civic service program
Program Chairman
- Responsible to the District Chairman
- Recruit enough of the right people as activities and civic service, training, camp promotion and outdoor, and advancement and recognition chairmen
- Ensure that District operating committee chairmen and committee members are trained to carry out the functions of the District
- Help District operating committee chairmen recruit an adequate number of members to help carry out the program functions of the District
- Plan (with the District Executive) the District's annual program planning conference and program preview meeting
- Coordinate with the operating committee chairmen the District's annual program
- In cooperation with the District Executive, set goals for the District program committees, track their progress, and ensure the completion of those goals
- Recognize individuals and committees for their Scouting accomplishments
- Support local and National Scouting policies, procedures and practices
- Encourage the District's role to attain public support of Scouting
Training Chairman
- Responsible to the District Program Chairman
- Establish district training objectives to train leaders, not just run training courses
- Participate in Council meetings dealing with training policies, programs and procedures
- Recruit and orient training committee and faculty team as required
- Prepare an inventory of all Scouting jobs which require training
- Plan, schedule and coordinate an annual District training program based on training inventory
- Evaluate and report on training progress
- Maintain unit and district training records
- Offer training opportunities to every unit leader
- Promote attendance at all training courses
- Give special assistance to untrained unit leaders
- Provide a trainer as a new unit is being organized
- Approve applications for District training recognitions
- Conduct basic and supplemental pack, troop, team and crew leader training
- Support Wood Badge training
- Provide specialized training such as:
- Cub Scout Leader Pow Wow
- Den Chief conferences
- When a District has Exploring responsibilities, assist Explorer post Advisors with basic and supplemental training and provide orientation for elected post officers
- Track and attain training objectives
- Implement Council training programs
