Provincial Volunteer Opportunities
Calling all Guiders who are passionate about Guiding! Here is your chance to make a difference to BC Girl Guides at the provincial level! We have several opportunities and hope that you might nominate yourself or someone you know who might fit the descriptions below to join the BC Council in one of our vacancies.
BC Property Committee
The Committee administers Real Property Policy & Procedures, Capital Grants, other property grants and supports Property Committees and their Councils, as directed by BC Council and the National Strategic Plan. BC Properties range from big to small, from the Provincial Guide House, local Guide halls to campsites.
The Property Committee is looking for new members to add to our team.
- We are looking for a person with strong organization and administrative skills to support the Property Grants and large project processes. This person collects applications, oversees and tracks the review/approval process, follows up to receive reports and processes payment requests upon completion. For the Capital grants and large projects, there is one primary application window per year in August/September, for projects for the next fiscal year, which are presented at the September (for large projects) or November (for smaller projects) BC Council meetings for project approval, and a further application window in April for small projects (if funding is still available) for presentation to the May BC Council meeting. For Property Inspection/Arborist, grants application are accepted throughout the year for approval through the Property Committee.
- If you have experience in insurance, property management, horticulture, building trades, or are just interested in our properties and are willing to share your experience, we would like to hear from you!
Communication within the committee is by email, and remote meetings when required. Members also support and attend periodic workshops and learning opportunities when available.
If you are interested in supporting the committees who support Girl Guide properties where girls get to experience Guiding, please consider joining us, and contact bc-propertymgmt@girlguides.ca! Experience is not necessary, enthusiasm is welcomed!
BC Provincial Public Relations/Communications Adviser
Are you the woman that finds out about something new and must tell everyone? Are you a talker, a promoter, a sharer? Would you like to edit this paragraph and make it better?!?! Do you work great as a team leader? Are you good at motivating others? Are you knowledgeable of all sorts of communication tools and are eager to use them to get your ideas out there? Does branding GGC excite you? Do you have a background in Public Relations or Media relations? Maybe this sounds like your best friend?? Then nominate her to be the next PR adviser!
This position has a 3-year term commitment.
BC Membership Adviser
Do you like to think about ways to create more inclusive environments in Guiding? Are you the District Guider who is passionate about growing Guiding and Leadership? Do you like working with groups to find creative solutions to membership issues like waitlists? This is the position for you! Our BC Membership Adviser‘s role is to plan, coordinate, promote, and support activities and processes relating to the growth, registration, retention, and recognition of girl and adult Members. She is chairperson of the Provincial Membership Committee and has a team of dedicated Guiders to help support her. Put in your nomination today!
This position has a 3-year term commitment.
To make a nomination, or to self-nominate, for any of this position, please submit by email your candidate’s name(s) including iMIS number, the relevant position and a brief description of why you think this candidate is suitable for the role. There is no need to list Guiding experience, as this is on file in iMIS.
In British Columbia, the selections process begins with asking for nominations from across the province. Once nominations have been received, a selections committee will be established to select the person considered most suitable for the position. This committee will be organized and chaired by the BC Nominations Chairperson. Please return your nominations to the Executive Assistant at bc-executiveassistant@girlguides.ca.
Thank you,
Colleen McKenna
BC Nominations Chairperson