UNIT ADVANCEMENT COORDINATOR
The Unit Advancement Coordinator works with the unit committee and leaders to ensure the
unit advancement program is fully functional
Specific duties include:
- Encourage Scouts to advance in rank
- Work with the troop Scribe to maintain all Scout advancement records
- Arrange for boards of review and courts of honor
- Develop and maintain a merit badge counselor list
- Submit advancement reports to the Scout Service Center
- Secure badges and certificates
- Report advancement progress to the troop committee each meeting
- Work with the troop librarian to build and maintain a current supply of merit badge pamphlets and other advancement literature.
- Close contact with the Troop Guides. Their role is to insure that advancement opportunities are available during outings. Follow up and provide input to the Scoutmaster on how the Troop Guide is fulfilling his duty.
- Post advancement records in a conspicuous location. Posters are available in the Scout Service Center that enable tracking of every Scout through every requirement for rank and every merit badge that they can earn.
- Fine tune the merit badge counselor list that is published by the council. Select people in your community as the "first choice" to eliminate excessive traveling. Alert the council advancement chairman if a counselor is not performing their duties in a proper manner.
- Recruit qualified merit badge counselors. Every counselor must have an adult leader application on file and be approved by the council advancement committee.
- Make it a personal goal to submit advancement reports as quickly as possible, always within the same month as the advancement took place.
- Insure recognition for every rank and merit badge at least twice for every Scout.
- Check the recharter roster and investigate any Scouts who appear with the incorrect rank.
- Keep the current version of Boy Scout Requirements in the troop library. Archive any merit badge pamphlets that are outdated.
