Outdoor Adventure Leader or Guide
What the work is
Provides guided and adventure-based experiential education in outdoor adventure activities.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Leads and supervises participants involved in a range of outdoor adventure activities
- Instructs and motivates participants and manages group participation and cohesion
- Sets up and maintains equipment, and ensures that outdoor adventure equipment is safe and in working condition
- Demonstrates and provides instruction in the use of outdoor adventure equipment and techniques required for participation
- Provides advice on safety measures, and ensures that activities are conducted in a manner to minimise risk to participants
- Provides first aid and emergency response in outdoor settings
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a community netball club and an outdoor adventure program run from a fictional regional school camp. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A shy player shoots her first goal and the whole sideline erupts
- A group of teenagers reaches the top of a hike and nobody wants to leave
- A losing team walks off with smiles because they know how much they improved
Hard days
- A sideline parent shouting instructions that undermine yours
- Turning a group around when the weather changes, and facing their disappointment
- Training sessions in the rain when only half the team shows up
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 462438, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.