Fancy a career in outdoor adventure? The industry is growing, which means more activity centres, more instructors, and professional activity instructor training courses offering teaching qualifications from the National Governing Bodies.
Whether you are seeking a new challenge or looking to make use of your existing experience in outdoor adventure, we have plenty of jobs and courses to keep you busy all season. Newsletter subscribers hear about new jobs first!
We are recruiting for instructors with and without previous experience, to work at our UK activity centres, where you will be teaching outdoor pursuits to school groups.
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UKSA's 11-week Watersports Instructor training course will give you all the qualifications needed to work as a Watersports Instructor. Qualify as a multi-disciplined instructor to teach dinghy sailing, windsurfing and multi-hull sailing.
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Do you have a passion for adventure? Would you like a career that you love? Become an outdoor instructor with one of the industry's leading outdoor adventure providers on Mendip Activity Centre's 18-week Accelerated Outdoor Instructor Training course.
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Step straight into a bike school and start living the dream!
This program is the World's leading pathway to become a Mountain Bike Instructor because it includes instructor training, level 1 certifications AND Your instructor Job Offer is guaranteed before leaving home.
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Join Essex Outdoors and help inspire the next generation through adventure, learning and the outdoors.
We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic Senior Instructors to join our teams in Harlow and East Mersea and play a key role in delivering outstanding outdoor education programmes.
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As the Deputy Centre Manager, you will lead the day-to-day operation of Celtic Harmony Camp, a busy centre operating 7 days a week, supervising the team, maintaining a welcoming and safe environment and ensuring quality outdoor experiences for schools, adult visitors and community groups.
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The primary role of this post is to lead activities from friction fire lighting to orienteering in a safe and engaging manner, improving wellbeing of schools, families and adult visitors.
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Activity instructor jobs (also referred to as multi activity instructors), are often based at a purpose built centre. The ultimate outdoor job, you may specialise in a couple of activities, or you may be trained to cover a wide range. Read advice given by industry insiders.
Activity Instructor Jobs
Activity instructor training courses equip you with the skills and experience to enter the workplace as a qualified activity instructor. Gain NGB awards and professional tuition on the following courses.
Activity Instructor Courses
Our wonderful coastline and appetite for water based adventure sports has created a big demand for qualified instructors in surfing, water skiing, sailing and windsurfing. Read our watersports career guide to find out how to get qualified and get working.
Watersports Jobs
To work in watersports you need to get qualified. The following watersport centres offer a range of professional training courses covering many types of water sports from the RYA and BCU.
Watersports Courses
To get an idea of the full route from beginner climber through to professional mountaineer, take a look at our career guide to climbing, further down this page. This post is all about the Mountain Leader awards which come in two flavours - Summer and Winter. They follow on from Walking Group Leader and set you up on the start of a career leading small groups in mountainous terrain.
Following on from our Mountain Leader page we now take a look at the even more serious Mountain Instructor scheme, overseen by Mountain Leader Training UK. The leader awards are great qualifications to have on your CV and very useful when it comes to introducing groups to our upland areas, but for serious climbers and budding mountaineers the MIA and MIC scheme is the next target on the horizon.
Perhaps you want to spend a season working in outdoor adventure as a way of filling the time between college and university, or on a temporary basis before you start working towards that 'proper' job that your parents want you to get. Or maybe you are serious about getting on and making as much money as you can, which still enjoying a career in outdoor adventure. If you are wondering which roles are going to give you the highest disposable income then take a look at this article as we bring you details of eight well paid jobs.
