Seasonal Assistants needed for 2025
Every spring WildWise recruits 2 new volunteers to support our amazing event programmes of day events, overnight camps and professional training courses. This involves working with leaders to prepare, deliver and manage the events and activities, camp infrastructure, cooking, stores & kit maintenance plus other adhoc duties.
We don’t have many of our 2025 event dates confirmed yet (these will be coming online between now and the end of the year) but the 2024 event calendar gives you a good idea of our typical schedule. You would be expected to support most of the public events – shared with the 2nd Seasonal Assistant we are looking to recruit.
Aside from public events there are a normally a few private events e.g. school camps and corporate events. In addition we offer short professional training courses which you would be welcome to join and benefit from.
We can advise at this stage that the commitment is typically about 60-75 days over the year between March/April and November with the summer months are obviously the busiest with lots of events and camps happening.
This will include many weekends and evenings. The role involves physical work in all weathers and conditions. You will work mostly as part of a team but occasionally alone and will need to work with a range of clients, adults and children. Many of our events are in rural locations not well served by public transport so a driving licence and access to transport is essential.
Benefits:
This is a non paid role however the seasonal assistant:
- gains a huge amount of practical experience and guidance in camp and event management, bushcraft and camp craft skills plus working with private clients and the public outdoors.
- Is offered a free place on our year long Outdoor Leadership foundation course, Call of the Wild (worth £2795) plus
- can join any of our professional training short courses (worth over £1600). We do not have a training programme yet for 2025 however to get an idea of the range of courses see the 2024 short courses schedule here.
Previous outdoor experience is helpful but not required. More important is that you are a team player and have a can-do positive attitude. You will also need to be fairly flexible in terms of your availability in 2025 to be able to join a wide range of events between March/April and November.
To find out more and register your interest get in touch via email info @wildwise.co.uk