Scouters & Scouting families,
I need your help.
The Iroquois Trail Council has some immediate needs
for volunteers at the district and council levels. The list of the open
positions – many of which are brand new duties – can be found below.
Please know this, though: I’m not necessarily
looking for your help in those roles…I
need your help in filling them.
Your plate is full when it comes to your unit; you
have weekly meetings to run, campouts to plan and attend, and summer camps to
visit for a week at a time. You already do a lot for Scouting -- and I
appreciate that immensely.
What I’d like you to do is to reach out to a parent
in your troop or someone in your neighborhood or church who may not have had
the time or interest at the troop level (not everyone is as comfortable as you
are working with children…it can be a daunting task for many adults). Their
unique skill sets or project management abilities might translate well for what
we need. Plus, in most cases, the time demands will be far less intensive for these
responsibilities than they would be at the unit level.
If you know of someone interested or someone who
may be a good candidate, please contact me and Council Executive Jim McMullen
via email. My address is bobconfer@juno.com
and his is Jim.McMullen@scouting.org
Yours in Scouting,
Bob Confer
Marketing
committee (council level) -- 4 total
openings, 1 of which will be the chair: This new committee will meet in
Batavia once per month and develop and implement marketing and advertising
strategies that will be employed at the unit, district and council levels. We
need 4 people with an advertising or public relations background for this
committee. One individual from the 4 will be chosen as the marketing chairman
and he/she will report and interact with the Council Executive, Council
President and Vice-President of Membership on a regular basis as well as attend
the monthly membership meeting in Batavia.
Local school
administrator (council level) – 1 opening: We would like to recruit one
individual who is a superintendent, principal or vice-principal to attend our
monthly board meeting in Batavia so we can bounce ideas off him/her regarding
the best way to recruit kids at schools, develop new projects/posts/clubs within
schools, etc.
Corporate
Friends of Scouting champion (district level) – 1or 2 openings per district:
As a council we do a great job of utilizing Scouting families for Friends of
Scouting but we don’t do so well at procuring gifts from large corporations or
small businesses. For each district we’d like someone with an extensive
networking background (someone who is an active Chamber of Commerce member,
Rotarian, or Lion) to spearhead these efforts. General workload will depend on
how much of a go-getter this person is as a fundraiser. This person will attend
the monthly district meetings/roundtables and report to the District Chair,
District Executive and the Council’s Vice-President of Finance while having
regular interaction with the Council Executive. It might behoove us to have a
couple of folks handle this task in each district due to the centralized-nature
of communities and the “borders” put up by those communities (as an example,
someone might have a lot of contacts in Lockport, but Medina is a different
story…different communities, different counties, different community/networking
organizations).
Risk
management committee (council level) – 1 opening remaining: This new committee will handle a wide variety of risk management
issues from property & insurance issues to public policy to the development
of Council by-laws (which will be first and foremost on their radar). This
committee will meet every other month, likely in Batavia. Once per year the
committee will tour our properties. The chair of this committee will report to
and interact with the Council Executive and Council President.
Eagle Alumni
committee (council level) – 4 total openings, 1 of which will be the chair:
This new committee will begin to develop a number of Eagle alumni initiatives
from outreach to regular get-togethers to scholarships to events recognizing
our newest Eagles. This committee will meet every other month, likely in
Batavia, and should be made up solely of Eagles. Workload outside of the
meetings depends on the events/activities the committee is willing to
undertake. The chair of this committee will report to and interact with the
Council Executive and Council President.
Lockport
golf tournament chair (District level) – 1 opening: District level golf
tournaments have proven to be successful in our Council (without affecting our
Silver Lake Golf Tournament) so we would like to have one in Lockport to
capitalize on the number of businesses and willing donors in our Council’s
largest city and town. This person will work independently with a committee of
his/her choosing and will report to the District Chair and District Executive.
