In Girl Guides, Unit Leaders are trained volunteers who look after the girls and provide them with the Australian Guide Program. Units have girls of a mix of ages and our Carlton group covers ages 5-14 years. We are looking for 3-4 reliable new volunteers to attend regularly and and train to become qualified Unit Leaders (able to run the group independently in future).

During a typical girl guide meeting, there is a mix of games, skill development activities, crafts, discussion and planning, and badge presentations. Girl Guides is non-formal education, so Unit Leaders help set learning goals and plan activities, but there isn't a structured curriculum and we do a lot of self-directed learning, learning through play and working in small groups. Each activity will involve learning and skill development in a fun way.

Units meet weekly during school terms after school has finished. Units also can go camping and have special activities on weekends or holidays.

In 2020, Carlton Girl Guides shut down due to COVID and we restarted earlier this year for 2021. While we hold in person meetings when restrictions allow, we may need to switch to video meetings over Zoom should it be necessary for health and safety. It is essential that all volunteers conduct themselves in a COVID safe manner and take responsibility for conducting activities in a safe manner in line with our COVID Safe plan. As we need to have a certain number of volunteers to monitor COVID Safety at each meeting, this role requires volunteers to be reliable and proactive in communicating when they are not available to volunteer.