Other volunteer roles

You do not have to join the committee or become a leader to help. These roles come up through the year, and most can be done alongside a full-time job. Not sure which suits you? Contact the Troop.

Running activities

• Activity Coordinator. The adult who plans and coordinates one outing: details, budget, reservations, sign-ups and carpools. The most common first volunteer role. You can sign up to coordinate an outing that does not have a coordinator yet in the activities app.
• Summer Camp Coordinator. Signs Scouts up for merit badge classes, organizes transportation, pays the camp registration, orders T-shirts, and makes sure medical forms, activity consent forms and any other required forms are complete for summer camp.
• Medical Records Coordinator. Keeps Scout and adult health forms current and organized so each outing has the records it needs. See medical forms for what families need to submit.
• Picnic Coordinator. Organizes the year-end family picnic in June.

Advancement

• Board of Review volunteer and coordinator. Boards of review are run by parent volunteers; Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters cannot serve. The coordinator schedules the boards, checks readiness in Scoutbook, finds volunteers and collects the results. Any parent can sit on a board, and no experience is needed. See Board of Review.
• Merit Badge Coordinator. Recruits and trains counselors, connects Scouts with counselors, and promotes merit badge opportunities, including the annual merit badge rally.
• Merit Badge Counselor. Teaches a merit badge and signs it off. To become one: register as an adult with the BSA, complete Safeguarding Youth Training, complete the Merit Badge Counselor training, and sign up for the badges you want to teach. See merit badges.
• Eagle Advisor. Works with Life Scouts on their Eagle requirements, helps choose a project, reviews the Eagle application and workbook, and helps schedule the Eagle board of review. See Trail to Eagle.
• Eagle Court of Honor Coordinator. Each Eagle Scout is honored at a Court of Honor a few times a year. The coordinator works with the families on the program, including the guest speaker, speeches, slide shows, proclamations and memorabilia.

Working with the Scouts and the community

• Den Chief Coordinator. Links Troop 33 with the area's Cub Scout dens, keeps a list of open Den Chief positions and interested Scouts, and places Scouts. See Den Chief.
• Chartered Organization Representative Delegate. The Troop's chartered organization, American Legion Post 558, names a Chartered Organization Representative from the Legion; that person is not a Troop parent. The delegate is a Troop adult who acts for the representative as the link between the Troop, the Legion and the council.