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Scouts website

with the Muslim Scout Fellowship

Find the right platform, then build a website that works brilliantly for everyone who uses it, from parents to Scout leaders.

Partner
Muslim Scout Fellowship
Project
Platform advice and a new website
We need
A product owner, a designer and a builder
Status
Drafting now. Applications open.
Scouts in uniform listening to a talk at the Muslim Scouts Jamboree
the problem
Muslim Scout Fellowship

A slow site.
A crowded backend.
Resources stuck in PDFs.
Leaders left searching.

We're back with the Muslim Scout Fellowship, our first partner. MSF supports more than 70 Scout groups and over 5,000 young people every week. Its website is where parents find a group, volunteers get involved and leaders plan what they'll run next.

Right now, that website is slow. It's built on a WordPress template from the Scouts Association, so there's little room to make it MSF's own, and the backend has grown so crowded that finding or changing anything is hard work.

The programme resources leaders rely on, from activity badges to year plans, only exist as PDFs. They're hard to search, awkward on a phone and difficult to keep up to date.

A page that won't load. A PDF nobody can find. A parent who can't work out where their nearest group meets. Each one makes Scouting harder to join, and harder to run.

today
  1. A leader needs a plan
  2. A slow, crowded site
  3. Hunt for the right PDF
  4. Scroll to find the page
the aim
  1. A leader needs a plan
  2. A fast, clear site
  3. Resources as real pages
  4. Ready for tonight's session

Our challenge: find the right platform for MSF, then design and build a website that's a great experience for everyone who uses it, from a parent looking for a group to a leader planning tonight's session.

join the team

We need three Forward Deployed Impact Engineers.

You'll embed with MSF's team as their trusted advisor on where the website should live, then design and build it with them and be there when it goes live. The aim is a website that helps parents find a group, leaders run great sessions and partners see what MSF is about.

We'll agree the commitment and timings with you on a call, before either side commits.

Open

Product

Get to know the people who use the site, from parents and leaders to partners, and shape what each of them needs from it. Help MSF weigh up the platform options and organise the resources so they're easy to find.

Open

Designer

Make it fun, clear and unmistakably MSF. Design the journeys that matter most, like finding a group or planning a session, and use video and graphics to bring Muslim Scouting to life.

Open

Builder

Recommend the platform that fits MSF best, then build a site that's fast on any phone, brings the resources in as real pages and holds up as MSF grows.

About you

You're comfortable with ambiguity and good at working alongside partner organisations.

You're low ego. You listen before you build, collaborate well and care more about solving the problem than owning the solution.

You obsess over the people you're building for, and you'd rather make something simple and delightful than clever.

And importantly, you're doing this for the right reasons.

your move

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