Adventure Leader - Educational Tours

About Us

The Learning Adventure is a leading educational tour provider for high school and university students, operating educational trips across the globe. The company focuses on offering bespoke itineraries that deliver prescribed learning outcomes and unique, engaging activities to inspire the next generation of global citizens.

The Learning Adventure is part of the Transforma Travel Group. Transforma’s family of brands create culturally enriching, off-the-beaten-track, and educational adventures for travelers and students alike. Across all our brands, our mission is the same: to expand minds through transformative travel experiences.

The Role

As an Adventure Leader with The Learning Adventure, you will lead educational tours for student groups from the UK, US and English-speaking International Schools on trips around your host country. Tours typically range from 5 to 14 days in length (with the majority being around 8 days).

Our Adventure Leaders need to be able to inspire young people about travel, their host country and learning. An Adventure Leader could be anyone with a genuine passion for travel and a desire to share their experience with those eager to learn.

This is a freelance position with tours that are offered throughout the year.

Responsibilities

• Managing day-to-day tour logistics
• Connecting with travellers and dealing with any concerns
• Ensuring safety of all TLA travellers • Leading fun and educational activities
• Handling tour finances
• Facilitating inclusion of everyone on the tour
• Communicating with suppliers
• Representing TLA whilst on tour

Competencies

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in and learn more about the fast-moving Travel sector, with internationally minded colleagues who are passionate about the tours that we run!

We are looking for Adventure Leaders who:

• have excellent spoken and written English language skills
• are based in the same country they will lead tours
• are excellent communicators with a passion for travel and education
• are organised and have high attention to detail
• are strong problem solvers who can think on their feet
• are dynamic and flexible to work with lots of different groups

Good to have:

• Destination knowledge of their host country
• Host country language skills
• Experience leading groups

Safeguarding

The Learning Adventure is committed to ensuring the safety of all people on our trips. You will be required to undertake a criminal background check and referencing before beginning work as an Adventure Leader.

How to apply

Please visit https://leaders.thelearningadventure.com/jobs/adventure-leader-rest-of-world/ to apply online. If you have any questions about applying for the role of Adventure Leader, please reach out to us at aldepartment@thelearningadventure.com

A successful application will lead to Adventure Leader Training to prepare you for your TLA tour. The Learning Adventure and Transforma Travel Group are equal opportunity employers and welcome and celebrate diversity and uniqueness in all forms

Job Type: Temporary
Contract length: 3 months