As an Assistant 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 is responsible for guiding in the District, and can have a team of assistant managers to share the role. This includes managing volunteers, building partnerships within the community, ensuring policy and risk management is followed, solving problems, liaising with parents and other community organisations, recruiting youth members and volunteers and representing girl guides in the community. You will work closely with the Melbourne District Manager, and she will support you in learning the role.

The role of Assistant District Manager could involve chairing regular meetings, handling administration and volunteer management via phone and emails, participating in award ceremonies, visiting unit meetings and activities and promoting guiding, according to the interests of the volunteer and the needs in the Melbourne area as agreed with the District Manager. You may be managing a small team of volunteers on projects, or working independently. 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 experience in managing people, or risk management. This role is great for a volunteer who wants to support girl guides but doesn't want to work directly with girls or make a weekly commitment to unit meetings. The role can be time flexible and most of it can be done on your schedule.

However, this is a long term role requiring commitment. It will take about 6 months of working in the role with an experienced mentor to gain the Assistant District Manager qualification. Ideally, we are looking for a women who is interested in being part of the team for at least 2-3 years.