Senior Patrol Leader
In Fred’s words
Job Description
The senior patrol leader is elected by the Scouts to represent them as the top junior leader in the troop.
Reports to
Scoutmaster
Senior patrol leaders duties
- Runs all the troop meetings, events, activities and the annual program planning conference.
- Runs the patrol leader's council meeting.
- Appoints other troop junior leader with the advice and counsel of the Scoutmaster.
- Assign duties and responsibilities to junior leaders.
- Assists the Scoutmaster with junior leader training.
- Sets a good example.
- Enthusiastically wears the Scout uniform correctly.
- Lives by the Scout Oath and Law.
- Shows Scout spirit.
Scouting America’s position card for this job
Does it count for rank?
Positions that count for Star and Life: patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, OA troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, webmaster and outdoor ethics guide.
Scouts BSA Rank Requirements (Scouting America, December 2025) · Scout troop positions, Star and LifeCollected and written by Fred W. Kimball, Troop 7 Scoutmaster from 1987 to 2003, who kept the troop's website for many years. Brought here with his blessing, in his words. Rank, advancement and position-of-responsibility rules are named here in our own short words; the wording is Scouting America’s, and each one links to where it says it.