Team Leaders
Go the extra distance this summer and become part of our team, leading a challenge and taking fellow students on a life-changing experience overseas! From fundraising in the UK to reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro, your support is vital, both to us and the students who’ll join 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
How do I become a Team Leader?
There are two ways that you can sign up to be a Team Leader:
1. Lead an existing challenge
Pick one of the challenges listed on our site or one being promoted through your university and you can apply to be a Team Leader after you have signed up. If you get accepted then you’ll only be required to raise 50% of the fundraising target. This can be reduced a further £50 for every person you sign
on to the challenge through your own marketing efforts!
2. Start a new challenge
You create the dates, where you want to go and the itinerary. If you have a group of friends who you know want to go or think you can get enough students together through your own marketing prowess then this one is for you! Get a group of 15-30 people onto your challenge and you can go for free! We will work with you and provide marketing materials and any help you require. This is perfect for students who already have a key role in their university hall or society.
Want even more?
Every year we offer an exciting opportunity to our best Team leader to come and work with us on a paid internship at Challenges Abroad HQ! We choose this person based on the qualities they have shown as a Team Leader and the work they have put in recruiting volunteers on the challenges.
You can find out more or apply to be a Team Leader by sending an e-mail to our team at info@challengesabroad.co.uk. Make sure you tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to become a Team Leader!
