Adult Leadership

Key Leadership Positions

• Scoutmaster: Guides the overall Scouting program and mentors the youth leadership (Senior Patrol Leader and Patrol Leaders' Council) while ensuring safety, growth, and adherence to Scouting aims and methods. Champions the patrol method, empowers youth decision‑making, and models Scouting values in every interaction.
• Assistant Scoutmasters: Support the Scoutmaster, provide coaching to youth leaders, and often focus on specific program areas such as new Scouts, outdoor skills, advancement, high adventure, or special initiatives. They observe and advise—stepping in only when safety, inclusion, or learning objectives require adult guidance.
• Committee Chair: Leads the troop committee, coordinates adult resources, sets meeting agendas, and ensures strong support for the youth‑led program. Facilitates long‑range planning and recruits capable, trained adults to fill needed roles.
• Chartered Organization Representative (COR): Connects the troop with the chartered organization, approves adult leadership, represents the unit at district/council functions, and helps align troop activities with the organization’s mission and standards.
• Treasurer: Manages the troop’s finances: collects dues, tracks activity/event fees, maintains transparent ledgers, and provides regular reports. Implements budgeting practices and promotes fiscal stewardship to youth leaders when appropriate.
• Secretary: Keeps minutes for committee meetings, maintains key records (charters, rosters, training status), and manages official correspondence. Supports timely recharter preparation and documentation integrity.
• Registrar (sometimes combined with Secretary): Oversees applications, renewals, background check processing status, and roster accuracy in national systems. Ensures youth protection, medical, and consent forms are current and properly stored.
• Advancement Chair: Tracks rank, award, and merit badge progress; verifies requirements are recorded; coordinates boards of review and courts of honor; submits advancement reports; and encourages a balanced pace focused on experience, not just checkbox completion.
• Eagle Coach / Life-to-Eagle Mentor: Guides Life Scouts through project selection, proposal development, planning, execution, and final documentation—reinforcing leadership, service impact, and adherence to national project guidelines.
• Outdoor / Activities Chair: Works with the Patrol Leaders' Council to build an annual program plan; confirms locations, permits, transportation, gear needs, and qualified supervision; and supports youth quartermasters and grub masters in preparation.
• Equipment Coordinator (Quartermaster Adviser): Supports the youth Quartermaster, maintains inventory and condition records, schedules maintenance, and recommends replacement or upgrades aligned with safety and program goals.
• Training Chair: Promotes required and supplemental training (Youth Protection, position‑specific, outdoor skills, safety certifications) and tracks completion. Encourages continuing education (e.g., Wood Badge, supplemental high‑adventure training) to strengthen program quality.
• Health & Safety / Risk Management: Reviews activity plans for safe practices, ensures medical forms are current (Parts A/B/C as needed), monitors weather and environmental risks, promotes incident prevention culture, and assists with incident reporting if required.
• Membership / New Member Coordinator: Leads recruiting (School Night, community outreach), supports crossover integration, orients new families to advancement, communication tools, uniforms, and fees, and helps foster a welcoming culture.
• Merit Badge Coordinator: Maintains an updated list of registered counselors, verifies proper counseling procedures, promotes diversity in badge experiences, and helps Scouts learn how to initiate merit badge work responsibly.
• Chaplain: Supports moral and spiritual development in an interfaith manner, mentors the youth Chaplain Aide, encourages respectful observance, and coordinates reflective or Scout’s Own services when appropriate.
• Outdoor Ethics / Leave No Trace Adviser: Encourages conservation mindset, integrates outdoor ethics training into planning, and supports youth Outdoor Ethics Guide (if appointed) in modeling low‑impact practices.
• Fundraising / Popcorn Coordinator: Organizes fundraising campaigns and events, communicates goals and best practices to families, and tracks proceeds allocation (individual Scout accounts if used, and general troop funds) transparently.
• Communications / Webmaster Adviser: Supports accurate, timely information flow (website, troop app, messaging, newsletters) and mentors youth roles such as Webmaster, Scribe, or Historian to practice effective communication.
• Unit Commissioner (District Liaison – external support role): A district‑assigned volunteer who periodically visits, offers objective guidance, shares best practices, and helps connect the troop with district/council resources. (Not always listed among unit staff, but a valuable partner.)

If you're interested in learning more about adult leadership opportunities in Troop 25, please contact us. We welcome parents and community members who want to make a difference in the lives of young people.