Profession activity leader
Activity leaders provide recreational services to people and children on vacation. They organise activities such as games for children, sport competitions, cycling tours, shows and museum visits. Recreational animators also advertise their activities, manage the available budget for each event and consult their colleagues.
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Personality Type
- Social / Artistic
- Social / Realistic
- Enterprising / Conventional
Knowledge
- Communication principles
The set of commonly shared principles in regards with communication such as active listening, establish rapport, adjusting the register, and respecting the intervention of others.
- Communication
Exchanging and conveying information, ideas, concepts, thoughts, and feelings through the use of a shared system of words, signs, and semiotic rules via a medium.
Skills
- Support children's wellbeing
Provide an environment that supports and values children and helps them to manage their own feelings and relationships with others.
- Apply organisational techniques
Employ a set of organisational techniques and procedures which facilitate the achievement of the set goals set such as detailed planning of personnel's schedules. Use these resources efficiently and sustainably, and show flexibility when required.
- Play with children
Engage in activities for enjoyment, tailored to children of a certain age. Be creative and improvise to amuse children with activities such as tinkering, sports or board games.
- Plan self-organisation
Identify the necessary tasks and prioritise them in order to develop an individual schedule and perform the work in an autonomous way, ensuring that the requirements are met.
- Evaluate outdoor activities
Identify and report problems and incidents according to outdoor programme safety national and local regulations.
- Supervise children
Keep the children under supervision for a certain period of time, ensuring their safety at all times.
- Manage groups outdoors
Lead and take responsibility of a session in a dynamic and active manner.
- Manage outdoor resources
Recognise and relate meteorology to topography; apply the principal of ‘Leave no trace'.
- Implement risk management for outdoors
Devise and demonstrate the application of responsible and safe practices for the outdoor sector.
- Manage feedback
Provide feedback to others. Evaluate and respond constructively and professionally to critical communication from colleagues and customers.
- Communicate in an outdoor setting
Communicate efficiently with participants in more than 1 EU language; handle a crisis following guidelines and understand the importance of proper behaviour in front of a crisis.
- Assess risk in the outdoors
Construct and carry out risk analysis.
- React acordingly to unexpected events outdoors
Identify and react to changing conditions in an outdoors environment and their effect on human psychology and behaviour.
- Entertain people
Provide people with amusement by doing or offering a performance, like a show, a play or an artistic performance.
- Communicate with youth
Use verbal and non-verbal communication and communicate through writing, electronic means, or drawing. Adapt your communication to children and young people`s age, needs, characteristics, abilities, preferences, and culture.
- Give feedback on changing circumstances
Respond appropriately to changing circumstances in an activity session.
- Animate in the outdoors
Independently animate groups in the outdoors, adapting your practice to keep the group animated and motivated.
- Organise camp activities
Organise various recreational activities for participants (usually youth) at a camp, such as games, day trips, and sport activities.
- Demonstrate games
Explain and demonstrate games and game rules to new players/visitors.
Optional knowledge and skills
geographical routes geographic areas research outdoor activities promote recreation activities geographical areas relevant to tourism structure information recreation activities manage budgets liaise with colleagues sport games rules empathise with outdoor groups develop recreation programmes monitor activities cooperate with colleagues outdoor activities features of sporting equipment coordinate eventsCommon job titles
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