(EN) Melissa - Youth Advisor Candidate

Youth Advisor Candidate

World Scout Committee 2021-2024

Melissa Wilm

Brazil

My candidacy in a tweet! :)Click in each tweet to know more

My name is Melissa, but you can call me Mel. I'm Brazilian, and a Scientist and Project Manager. I'm excited and honoured to be the Scouts of Brazil's candidate for being Youth Advisor to the World Scout Committee 2021-2024! 🥳

About me!

⚡️✊🏼 I stand for the Scout Movement to be relevant, diverse and a key actor worldwide to raise the voices and skills of world youth to shape better times. My main motivation is to contribute to the Scout Movement by bringing inclusive youth participation with an effective positive impact to communities.

Priorities

📣 💡 Youth mobilization is needed more than ever, and scouting has a key position on this process. I see the beginning of the last triennium of Vision 2023 as an opportunity to overcome the global crisis and come out better than we were before!

My motivation

Over the last triennium I’ve been highly involved in the local, national, regional and world level. Some of the life changing experiences I've had were participating in the last 13th WSYF and 41st WSC, coordinating the IAR Jamboree and Camporee ( JamCam 2020), being the National Youth Network Coordinator, and part of the National Council from 2018 to 2020. ⚜️🏕️⚡️

Scout life

Melissa Wilm

Youth Advisor Candidate

About me

Hi I'm Melissa :) You can also call me Mel! I'm 24 and I was born in Petrópolis, a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and currently I live in the city of Curitiba. I'm a Scientist and Project Manager. It may sound unusual, but let me explain a little bit about my story. Okay, first of all.. It's impossible to talk about myself without contextualizing that I've always been intrigued by the mysteries of nature, the history of humanity, and social issues :

Mini Mel a few years after being born

I hold a B.A. Physics (yes!!) from Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), where I contributed to an article published in Applied Spectroscopy Journal, and could deliver monitoring program in Astronomy and Astrophysics to biology and physics students. I studied there from 2015 to 2018.

While in university, I was restless. I realised I needed to work actively to bring my own changes to the world, and at this time, the academic universe wasn't matching my expectations to broaden my horizons and act in the front line for social and environmental issues. Luckily right after graduating I had an oportunity to work at an enterprise called PM21 -in which I work since then-, that gives project management consultancy for socio-

environmental focused projects (mainly conditioning projects for operating licenses). There I had the opportunity to work as an assistant, researcher and currently as a project manager. That's why last year (2020) I started an MBA in Project Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), where I've been learning theorical and fundamental aspects of project management, leadership, diplomacy, negotiations, and finances. In this meantime, I had unique and lifechanging scout experiences (you can read my scout profile at the other page), such as coordinating our National Youth Network, taking part of our National Council, and coordinating our Regional Jamboree and Camporee (JamCam 2020, aka our last presential scout event). Because of this I was even called to deliver a speech at the Brazilian Congress of Management, Leadership, and Project Management, from PMI (Project Management Institute), very exciting!

I've always been committed to volunteer activities, as I actively participate at an NGO called Politize! for accessible political education, participated at an NGO called TETO for community development in vulnerable areas, and Global Shapers Community, initiative for local impact from the World Economic Forum. I'm passionate about learning, and to advocacy to a better world. The scout movement shaped my values and I truly believe scouting is a key actor in the mission of developing the youth to live better times.

Want to know some funfacts about me? Well, I like to study very random stuff, make long walks, ride my bike, eat bread, read, draw and paint. I also love nature, diversity, to exchange letters with my friends, and balconies. Ah, I'm also caretaker of two beautiful guinea pigs!! <3

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Melissa Wilm

Youth Advisor Candidate

Priorities

We are living a challenging time and we need to get out of this situation better than we were before. My main priorities to meaningfully contribute to the movement are directly linked to the barriers that we know we will face in the next triennium to achieve Vision 2023 and chart the next strategies for the coming years.

Scouting involves young people meaningfully for over a century of history and World Scouting has a relevant opportunity to support other global actors in doing so too. Our expertise in non-formal education is also significant for the implementation of the SDGs and in supporting all citizens in the journey of creating a better world.

I am convinced all the main issues are convergent to strategic growth to meaningfully fulfil our mission. At the broad spectrum of challenges, I notice a big one is to keep the agenda in face of the Covid-19 crisis, including our social impact, as well as the adherence of adults in scouting, along with the participation of young leaders. And how can I contribute to potentialize our opportunities and minimize or overcome our main issues? I believe I can collaborate with the World Scout Committee discussions mainly (but not only) in the areas of Governance, Youth Involvement, and Social Impact. Why and how? Bearing in mind that all of WOSM's strategic points are interconnected and in particular youth involvement is so transversal, I believe that I can bring my theoretical and professional background of strategic thinking to governance discussions, also working for the improvement and evaluation of tools for followup and monitoring, and financial assessments.

I also point up my scout background to work to ensure effective long-term youth involvement, as in this way we can have ideas that refresh and oxygenate our way of thinking, with the trends and demands of the new generations. I believe that as a consequence of youth involvement, we can have a generation of young volunteers capable of bringing new perspectives to the movement, and consequently we can increase our effectiveness. This triennium will be challenging to evaluate, propose new paths and strategies to youth involvement and I'm excited to take part into the decision making body to meaninfully contribute to this challange. I believe Social Impact is the consequence of an educational program applied with quality, along with strategic and solid partnerships. I consider it's essential that we have a standardized model to assess our real worldwide social impact, so we can leverage our purpose as a movement by investing in strategies that are consistent with our demands. I want to hear your ideas! Get in touch with me and let's exchange views and proposals :D

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Melissa Wilm

Youth Advisor Candidate

My motivation

We are faced with an enormous and unprecedented challenge as the global crisis advances. Youth are transforming and adapting, and the Scout movement has an enormous opportunity to reinvent perspectives on non-formal education, and reach out to unreached audiences. I stand for the Scout Movement to be a key actor worldwide to potentialise world youth to shape better times, and I feel ready to collaborate in the next triennium as Youth Advisor for the World Scout Committee. My main motivation is to contribute to the Scout Movement by bringing inclusive and diverse youth participation with an effective positive impact to communities.

It’s exciting and challenging we’re entering in the last triennium of Vision 2023 in a moment with multifaceted issues different realities are dealing with. I want to be part of the World Scout Committee and guarantee that the movement continues to be an agent of positive change in society, highlighting sensible eyes to different cultures and social aspects, and bringing light to th SDGs implementation.

I am motivated by challenges and I feel encouraged to represent the inherent diversity in the global level and contribute as a bridge between youths in the strategic level of WOSM, aware of the balance volunteer activities have between passion and responsibility.

I am genuinely motivated to make a positive change in the world in all my personal, professional and volunteer activities. I want to ensure the agenda for the next years is followed, considering the development of Vision 2023 and the new challenges due the Covid-19 pandemic consequences, mainly in the area of growth and readjustment of processes. I feel ready to constructively contribute to the discussions of the World Scout Committee, especially in the fields of strategic vision over Governance, Youth Engagement, and Social Impact.

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Melissa Wilm

Youth Advisor Candidate

Scout experience

Local level:

It all started back in 2009 with my Scout promisse. During my period as a young member of the Scout Movement, I achieved special badges, such as the environmental program badge and the Baden-Powell Scout Award while a Rover. Today, years after my scout promise, I am a leader for a troop in a Sea Scout group.

National level:

Over the last triennium in the national level I highlight coordinating the National Youth Network and being a Youth Representative in the National Administrative Council, where I participated in the development of the National Youth Involvement Policy. I was also the National Leadership Training coordinator and member of the International Relations Team. In these positions, I could actively contribute to the strategic priority of Youth Involvement and Social Impact when providing development and empowering experiences to young leaders, such as organizing national youth forums, gatherings and trainings.

Regional Level WOSM:

Back in 2019/2020 I was the General Coordinator of the Interamerican Jamboree (JamCam 2020), experience that gave me a plural understanding of representing diversity, political and diplomatic affairs, dealing with negotiations, and pressure. I was also an appointed member of the Working Group for the Interamerican Scout Committee to develop the Regional Events Policy in 2019. As a National Youth Network Coordinator, I could actively participate in the IAR Youth Network and join the networks meeting in 2019. Back in 2019 I also had the opportunity to take my Dialogue for Peace Training badge right after being an observer at the European Guide and Scout Conference.

World Level WOSM:

My international scout experience started in 2017, when I went to the World Scout Moot in Iceland as a participant, and then to the World Scout Youth Forum as an observer and the World Scout Conference as a delegate, in Azerbaijan. In 2019 I had the opportunity to take part at the 24th World Scout Jamboree 2019 in the USA as Contingent Management Team, and integrate the International Service Team for the World Non-Formal Education Congress here in Brazil. During pandemic times I also delivered a session at the Youth Dialogues initiative :)

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