School Expedition Field Guide - Limpopo at GVI

 About the role

The goal of the School Expedition Field Guide is to deliver world-leading groups programs in country, by focusing on participant experience, impact, safety, and costs. 

Role and responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the Head of Groups Delivery or Central Groups Operation Staff in delivering group programs
• Training of field staff on local context and safety measures.
• Managing pre-program preparation such as partner visits, third-party audits, and other tasks as needed
• Delivering exceptional groups programs in line with GVI standards
• Ensuring all health and safety policies are followed.
• Leading group activities throughout the duration of groups stay in country
• Liaising with local partners
• Facilitating reflection sessions for students throughout the program
• Delivering presentations and training relevant to the program
• Collating feedback from participants and teachers
• Ensuring all equipment is maintained throughout each program
• Social media responsibilities where relevant, following the measures of our child and vulnerable adult protection policy
• Managing post-program responsibilities such as financial reports, program reports, incident reports, and other tasks as required
• Additional responsibilities as required

 Daily Dynamics / Living Conditions
There is no single description of what a day-to-day looks like since each day has a different agenda. But in any scenario there are the following conditions:

• Shared accommodation between staff members.
• Staff to be available to attend to the group needs throughout the duration of the program, which may include evenings or other times outside of the scheduled activities.
• During the program, staff should refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages for the entire time participants are in the country.

About you

If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour,  we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us powerful and we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

Professional skills and experience:

• Guiding qualification such as IFGA, FGASA, or similar (advantage) 
• PDP certifications.
• Prior experience running/managing participants on group or individual service or adventure programs
• Qualifications in one of the following: Emergency first response, Mountaineer, Wilderness Safety or equivalent
• Local knowledge beneficial