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. 

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

• Demonstrate games

  Explain and demonstrate games and game rules to new players/visitors.

• 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.

• Entertain people

  Provide people with amusement by doing or offering a performance, like a show, a play or an artistic performance.

• Implement risk management for outdoors

  Devise and demonstrate the application of responsible and safe practices for the outdoor sector.

• Supervise children

  Keep the children under supervision for a certain period of time, ensuring their safety at all times.

• Assess risk in the outdoors

  Elaborate and accomplish risk analysis.

• Evaluate outdoor activities

  Identify and report problems and incidents according to outdoor programme safety national and local regulations.

• React acordingly to unexpected events outdoors

  Detect and respond to the environment changing conditions and their effect on human psychology and behaviour.

• Apply organisational techniques

  Employ a set of organisational techniques and procedures which facilitate the achievement of the goals set. Use these resources efficiently and sustainably, and show flexibility when required.

• Manage outdoor resources

  Recognise and relate meteorology to topography; apply the principal of ‘Leave no trace'.

• Animate in the outdoors

  Independently animate groups in the outdoors, adapting your practice to keep the group animated and motivated.

• 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.

• Communicate in an outdoor setting

  Communicate with participants in more than one language of the European Union; handle a crisis following guidelines and recognise the importance of proper behaviour in crisis situations.

• Organise camp activities

  Organise various recreational activities for participants (usually youth) at a camp, such as games, day trips, and sport activities.

• Manage feedback

  Provide feedback to others. Evaluate and respond constructively and professionally to critical communication from colleagues and customers.

• Give feedback on changing circumstances

  Respond appropriately to changing circumstances in an activity session.

• 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.

• Support children's wellbeing

  Provide an environment that supports and values children and helps them to manage their own feelings and relationships with others.

• Manage groups outdoors

  Conduct outdoor sessions in a dynamic and active way

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB