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UK Freelance Leaders

Company: World Challenge
Location: UK Wide
Benefits: Competitive wage + training and excellent opportunities for career advancement
Start: Early 2008
Duration: Ongoing and Seasonal Opportunities

Description
The role of a World Challenge leader is to facilitate the delivery of our programmes and to ensure that they are effective vehicles for the Challengers’ personal development. You will be responsible for the safe delivery of the programmes with support from World Challenge’s Operational Centre, extensive back-up and safety systems.

We are currently looking for UK freelance leader to work on our wide range of activities running through out the UK. Ranging from:

* 1-day adventures in school grounds and various sites
* Multi activity residential courses
* 3 – 7 day expeditions on foot or by canoe
* Full time season long contracts in Scotland, Wales and England.

Activities could include practical leadership tasks, high and low ropes, canoeing, kayaking, rafting, abseiling, trekking, climbing, orienteering and camp craft.

Whether you would like to be a Team Leader or an Expedition Leader, are a highly qualified, experienced, freelance instructor looking for work opportunities or an enthusiastic beginner, we have something for you!

Working with over 40,000 students every year there are many adventures and expeditions to facilitate throughout the UK, all year round.

Requirements
Minimum requirements

* Experience of working with young people
* All levels of outdoor education experience and qualifications considered. Desirable: Single Pitch Award or Mountain Leader (Summer) Assessment, or BCU Level 2 Coach Award
* An understanding of the World Challenge ethos.

We also have opportunities for UK Team Leaders who have experience of working with young people but do not necessarily hold NGB qualifications.

If you have a considerable amount of experience working with young people in the outdoors, there may still be opportunities.

Next Steps...

All potential Leaders must attend a free UK Potential Leader Training and Assessment Course before they are eligible to lead a World Challenge expedition. For further information on this and other positions available please click the button below.

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