Other roles include liaison with parents, districts, or other parties such as the unit's sponsoring (chartered) organisation.

Beyond the Scout programme, lay supporters may take responsibility for administrative tasks such as budgets, managing properties, recruitment, equipment, transport, and many other roles.

Beyond the group are further uniformed positions (sometimes called Commissioners) at levels such as district, county, council or province, depending on the structure of the national organisation.

Before appointing an adult leader, most associations perform background checks on candidates to ensure their suitability for working with children.

There are several different types of Leader in Australia, all of them (and all members of the Rover Section) have the opportunity to complete the Wood Badge training scheme Run a Unit each week.

are responsible for the management of an aspect of Scouting and/or the leadership of other adults, as opposed to sectional leaders who run the youth program.

They have the opportunity to help out occasionally when leaders are needed temporarily because of hospital or travel, at large camps such as Jamborees and are still covered by Scout Insurance.

When a new Probationary Leader begins, they are presented with a Certificate of Adult Membership and complete a three-hour seminar called Intro to Scouting (or Rovering) which outlines the basic structure and procedures.

After this comes the Basic Sectional Techniques course, which gives the Leader the right to wear the two-strand Turks Head or "Gilwell" Woggle.

Later they can also complete a Diploma of Leadership and Management or Certificate Qualifications in Outdoor Recreation through the Scouts Australia Institute of Training.

Various Group, County, Provincial and National appointment holders in general need to be Scouters.

In the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, all uniformed adults, including office employees, are "Scouters."

Troop Leaders, Outfit Advisors, and Circle Managers may be men or women, and are often informally called "Scoutmasters.

To gain the rank someone should have been serving as a Scoutmaster, have received positive assessment of the service and finally have submitted a record of his (or her) activity to the Chief Scout.

Nomination to this rank was celebrated yearly on the occasion of National Holiday of Polish Restitution on 22 July.

[citation needed] This rank was given to approximately 6000 people, which significantly diminished its initial purpose.

Nominations to the rank were ended with collapse of Polish People's Republic and holders were proposed to return to Scoutmaster.

Attempts to change the rank's name to Scoutmaster of Republic of Poland were abandoned because of protests of majority of traditional Scout groups of ZHP.

[10] Traditionally the primary adult Scout Leader is called Skip, short for Skipper, but recently more often by their first name.