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Help promote our student expeditions!
Are you keen to take part in a life-changing experience but want to get a little bit more out of it? Are you a great motivator and organiser and ooze creativity? Do you want to challenge yourself and improve your leadership skills, while travelling and making a real difference to disadvantaged communities? If you answered yes to all of the above, then we want you!
Is being a Team Leader right for me?
Are you keen to take part in a life-changing experience but want to get a little bit more out of it? Are you a great motivator and organiser and ooze creativity? Do you want to challenge yourself and improve your leadership skills, while travelling and making a real difference to disadvantaged communities? If you answered yes to all of the above, then we want you!
Benefits of being a Team Leader with Challenges Abroad
- Boost your CV with skills that can be transferred to your future career – leadership, team management, interpersonal skills and more!
- Gain experience of international development
- Receive a certificate of recognition
- Become first-aid qualified
- Put yourself in the running for a paid internship with Challenges Abroad
- Opportunities to join our expeditions for free
Team Leader responsibilities
A Team Leader job starts well before the departure date of the challenge. In some cases you’ll be working with your team up to 9 months before departure, putting on fundraising and social events for your team. Below is an outline of what we expect from our team leaders:
- Attend a training and development session to help you prepare for your role (first aid training, information on Challenges Abroad and the FutureSense Foundation)
- Promoting Challenges Abroad to students as early in the academic year as possible, using a range of platforms, including: social media, presentations, university fairs, posters and flyers
- On-going support of students prior to departure
- Provide regular updates to us of progress made
- Make a video diary of your travels to help record your trip and show it to the world
- Offer support and motivation to your team throughout the challenge
- Be the point of contact with our overseas coordinators, our UK office and your group of students
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