As a District Manager with Girl Guides, you support and manage guiding in your community. In Girl Guides, youth members meet in units that are run by volunteer Unit Leaders and Unit Helpers. All the units in a council area form a District, and the District Manager and Assistant Managers are responsible for guiding in the District. This includes managing volunteers, building partnerships within the community, ensuring policy and risk management is followed, overseeing financial management, solving problems, liaising with parents and other community organisations, recruiting youth members and volunteers and representing girl guides in the community.

The role of District Manager could involve chairing monthly meetings, handling administration and volunteer management via phone and emails, participating in ceremonies, visiting unit meetings and activities, and promoting guiding. There is a strong support team in the Region to provide advice and assistance in finding any information or solving any problems.

No previous experience of girl guides is necessary if you have useful management experience. Or if you have experience in guiding this can be a chance to learn management skills. This role is great for a volunteer who wants to support girl guides but doesn't want to work directly with girls every week or make a weekly commitment to unit meetings. The role can be time flexible and most of it can be done on your schedule. Sample activities would include visiting different units once a month, attending monthly meetings with volunteers or parents, handling membership enquiries by phone and email, meeting with volunteers to solve problems and provide support, communicating with Council on venue hire for meetings.