Profession assistant outdoor animator
Assistant outdoor animators assist in planning outdoor activities, outdoor risk assessment and equipment monitoring. They manage the outdoor resources and groups. Assistant outdoor animators may help with office administration and maintenance hence they may work indoors.
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Personality Type
- Social / Artistic
- Social / Realistic
- Enterprising / Conventional
Skills
- Structure information
Organise information using systematic methods such as mental models and according to given standards in order to facilitate user information processing and understanding with respect to the specific requirements and characteristics of the output media.
- Manage feedback
Provide feedback to others. Evaluate and respond constructively and professionally to critical communication from colleagues and customers.
- React acordingly to unexpected events outdoors
Identify and react to changing conditions in an outdoors environment and their effect on human psychology and behaviour.
- Empathise with outdoor groups
Evaluate what different participants of outdoor activities can or cannot do in an outdoor context.
- Monitor use of outdoor equipment
Monitor the use of equipment. Recognise and remedy inadequate or unsafe use of equipment.
- Implement risk management for outdoors
Devise and demonstrate the application of responsible and safe practices for the outdoor sector.
- Assess risk in the outdoors
Construct and carry out risk analysis.
- Manage groups outdoors
Lead and take responsibility of a session in a dynamic and active manner.
- Monitor interventions in the outdoors
Monitor, demonstrate and explain the use of equipment according to the operational guidelines issued by manufacturers.
- Research outdoor activities
Describe and interpret the culture, history, natural and geography of the working place. Describe and interpret international designations such as specific areas of conservation. Identify and locate information about activity equipment.
- Evaluate outdoor activities
Identify and report problems and incidents according to outdoor programme safety national and local regulations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Manage outdoor resources
Recognise and relate meteorology to topography; apply the principal of ‘Leave no trace'.