All section officers must meet the following eligibility requirements:
1. Be a registered member, in good standing, of the Order of the Arrow and Scouting America in a council within the section who has the approval, in writing and in advance of being nominated, of their council Scout executive or council Scout executive’s designee. The member’s council must be in good standing with a current charter for its Order of the Arrow lodge on file with the national service center.
2. Be younger than 21 during their entire term of office.
3. Should a candidate hold another council service territory or national position
within Scouting and be elected section chief they will need to resign from the other position.
The 2026-2027 section officer term is: Sunday April 26, 2026 — Sunday April 25, 2027
A candidate's date of birth must be on or after April 26, 2006, to meet the age requirement for the section officer term.
Please upload a headshot of you in uniform to be included in your Section Election Candidacy Statement. The form will automatically crop your photo to a square, which may cut off parts of the image if it’s not already in that shape. To ensure your headshot appears exactly as you expect, we strongly recommend pre‑cropping your photo to a square before uploading and resizing to be under 10MB.
Select all that apply. Responsibilities of each position can be found in the
Field Operations Handbook.
Youth elected to the position of section chief may hold no other elected position in
the Order of the Arrow or council service territory or national leadership position within Scouting during their term. They must resign from all lodge and chapter offices within 30 days of their election as section chief. This rule only applies to the office of section chief.
