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
Skills
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Monitor use of outdoor equipment
Monitor the use of equipment. Recognise and remedy inadequate or unsafe use of equipment.
- Monitor interventions in the outdoors
Monitor, demonstrate and explain the use of equipment according to the operational guidelines issued by manufacturers.
- 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.
- Give feedback on changing circumstances
Respond appropriately to changing circumstances in an activity session.
- Manage outdoor resources
Recognise and relate meteorology to topography; apply the principal of ‘Leave no trace'.
- Assess risk in the outdoors
Elaborate and accomplish risk analysis.
- Implement risk management for outdoors
Devise and demonstrate the application of responsible and safe practices for the outdoor sector.
- Empathise with outdoor groups
Identify the outdoor activities permitted or suited in an outdoor setting based on the group's needs.
- Manage feedback
Provide feedback to others. Evaluate and respond constructively and professionally to critical communication from colleagues and customers.
- Manage groups outdoors
Conduct outdoor sessions in a dynamic and active way
- 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.
Source: Sisyphus ODB