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Volunteers Needed: Help Inspire the Next Generation of Junior Rangers!
(Inserted 19/02/2025)
The National Parks Association of Queensland (NPAQ) is calling for enthusiastic volunteers to become Activity Leaders for the 2025 Junior Rangers program during the school holidays in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
If you’re a parent, student, or educator with a passion for nature and enjoy working with kids, this is a great opportunity to inspire young minds while exploring the outdoors.
Requirements:
✔️ A valid Blue Card
✔️ Reside in Brisbane or the Gold Coast
✔️ Enthusiasm for environmental education
Join the team and help create unforgettable outdoor experiences for the next generation!
📩 Express your interest via email at admin@npaq.org.au or visit the NPAQ website: Express Interest in Being a Volunteer Ranger.
Outdoor Education Teacher
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Imbil QLD
(Inserted 31/1/2024)
Full-time, ongoing position
Brisbane Girls Grammar School provides a broad, liberal education for girls from Years 7 to 12, establishing the educational foundation for young women to contribute confidently to their world with wisdom, imagination, and integrity. One of Australia’s leading girls’ schools, Brisbane Girls Grammar School is an academically non-selective independent school, established in 1875 as one of Queensland’s original Grammar schools.
About the Role
Brisbane Girls Grammar School’s dedicated Outdoor Education campus, the Marrapatta Memorial Outdoor Education Centre, is a picturesque campus nestled in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, just two hours north of Brisbane. Marrapatta creates a space for immersive and engaging educational experiences beyond the classroom.
The School is currently seeking applications for an experienced full-time, Teacher specialising in Outdoor Education to join the dedicated team at the Marrapatta Campus. If you have a deep commitment to inspiring students through engaging outdoor activities and adventures, we encourage you to apply.
The Position Description is available to view on our careers site.
Your key responsibilities as an Outdoor Education Teacher will include:
- delivering the Outdoor Education Program to students
- supporting the residential care of students, including overnight and campout locations
- supervising and guiding students (individual and group facilitation) during outdoor pursuits and activities, including canoeing, kayaking, bushwalking, orienteering, mountain biking, challenge ropes course and rock climbing/abseiling
- following the procedures for ensuring the health and wellbeing of students in the residential setting, including the promoting of positive relationships, medication and allergy management, dietary requirements and first aid
- involvement in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme or Outward Bound
- assisting in the planning, administration, resource production and preparation of other activities.
You will also have:
- current Queensland College of Teachers registration (or eligibility to apply)
- comprehensive understanding of and expertise in the delivery of an Outdoor Education Program
- relevant instructional and/or proficiency certificates in a range of outdoor pursuits, including canoeing, kayaking, bushwalking, orienteering, mountain biking, challenge ropes course and rock climbing/abseiling
- ability to follow procedures to ensure the health and wellbeing of students, including dispensing of medication, management of allergies and dietary requirements, and promotion of positive relationships
- ability to work collaboratively and energetically within a high-performing school culture
- experience in driving a four-wheel-drive vehicle off-road
- Wilderness First Aid qualification
- Manual Drivers Licence.
Why work for us?
Staff at Girls Grammar have access to a range of employee benefits, including:
- Extensive career and professional development opportunities
- 25% superannuation
- Salary packaging options
- Inclusion in the School’s Salary Continuance Plan (eligible staff)
- Generous long service and paid parental leave (eligible staff)
- Partial remission of tuition fees (eligible staff)
- An active social club with events and activities offered throughout the year
- Wellbeing services, including Mindfulness and Employee Assistance Programs
- Excellent facilities with innovative technology
- A collegial and supportive working environment.
How to Apply
We look forward to receiving your application.
Please visit our Careers site to apply and to learn more about joining Girls Grammar.
Your application should include:
- a cover letter to the Principal addressing your suitability for the role
- a curriculum vitae
- confirmation of Australian work rights eligibility.
For any enquiries, please contact Brigitte Bickham, our Human Resources Manager, on (07) 3332 1307.
Applications close Monday 24 February 2025.
Interviews may be conducted throughout the advertising period, and interested candidates are encouraged to apply early
Brisbane Grammar School
Moogerah, QLD
Permanent, Full-time position
The School
Brisbane Grammar School is a non-denominational boys’ school of about 2000 students (Years 5 to12) overlooking the Brisbane CBD. The School maintains a 150-year strong tradition of academic excellence, extensive cocurricular activities and student wellbeing programs. We are fortunate to have a team of dedicated and professional staff who provide an exceptional learning environment responsive to the needs of our students.
Our Professional Community
Brisbane Grammar School values the professionalism of our teaching staff and seeks to nurture a dynamic learning culture at the School for both students and staff. The School provides freedom for teachers to be creative and innovative, and to develop and grow our research capacity in pedagogical practice and blended learning. The School’s academic structures support collaboration, with staff working in teams within and across disciplines and between the Middle and Senior Schools. Our teachers model collaborative, lifelong learning, and are supported through generous professional development opportunities and high-quality resources.
Our Learning Environment
In recent years, Brisbane Grammar School carefully audited and reviewed its curriculum frameworks and practices. Our curriculum design processes are led by teachers who continually grow and refine their teaching skills. As a result, we are committed to systematically developing effective thinking cultures within all classrooms and staffrooms. We plan learning experiences in the language of student thinking and cognition and give feedback and guide learner improvement through distinct values of inquiry. The School has a well-supported and pedagogically advanced Tablet PC program, with all students in Years 7 to 12 enabled for one-to-one learning. Teachers are encouraged to work together to use technology and space in innovative ways, ensuring adaptive and transformative curriculum delivery. We are growing our capacity to identify and analyse relevant data that helps our teachers to respond to their students’ learning needs. In addition, the explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy informs curriculum design and classroom practice.
Applicants for all teaching positions must be eligible for registration with the Queensland College of Teachers and provide their academic transcripts and should be sympathetic to the aims and ethos of independent schools.
Job Description
About the Role
Outdoor Education at BGS contributes to the development of the Grammar Graduate through sequential outdoor learning experiences from Years 5 to 11 utilising Effective Thinking Cultures in Outdoor Education pedagogy. Each year, students reflect upon these place-based experiences building the dispositions of a Grammar learner and leader throughout the outdoor journey.
The outdoor education teacher works in a team of educators to deliver the Outdoor Education program. The Outdoor Education Teacher is responsible for the planning, preparation, implementation and management of outdoor education experiences and facilities. The program includes experiences for Years 5 to 11 students based at the School’s Outdoor Education Centre at Lake Moogerah, as well as expeditions to alternative sites, school-based training, and school community events.
The Outdoor Educator Teacher reports directly to the Director of Outdoor Education and through him to the Deputy Headmaster and Head of Senior School.
The Outdoor Educator Teacher is responsible for:
Teaching
- Implementing the School’s outdoor education program through developmentally appropriate and sequenced experiences providing an increasingly sophisticated set of physical and emotional challenges.
- Use of effective thinking cultures in pedagogy.
- Reviewing and improving the educational, safety and logistical aspects of the program annually.
- Staying connected to recent innovations and developments within the field of Outdoor Education.
- Participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme through registration as an Adventurous Journey Supervisor and planning and conducting expeditions.
- Following the programs operational documents at all times.
Organisational
- Assisting with construction, improvement and maintenance of existing program infrastructure.
- Representing the School with outside groups including local property owners and government agencies in the area.
- Engage with the P&F Support Group, parent and community groups.
- Follow procedures for catering, food preparation and cooking.
Administrative
- Produce weekly reports and media for each program.
- Ensure all program equipment is safe and fully operational at all times.
- Write and update operational documents including risk assessments, standard operating procedures, logistical procedures and teaching resources.
- Collaborate with and assist the Centre’s support staff.
Desired Skills and Experience
Skills & Experience
This position requires:
- Experience working with young people in outdoor education.
- A passion for the outdoors and adventure.
- An understanding of environmental concerns.
- An understanding and acknowledgement of Indigenous culture and history.
- Fit and active lifestyle.
- Clean and professional presentation.
- An ability to work collaboratively and independently.
- An exemplary professional approach when dealing with students, parents and colleagues.
- Strong ICT skills in both Mac/IOS and Microsoft Windows suite.
- An understanding of the needs of boys and how these impact on residential organisation and management.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in a wilderness setting ensuring the safety and care of students.
- Knowledge and ability to continuously manage and assess risk in a variety of environments.
The following qualifications are required to be maintained:
- Tertiary education degree and registration with Queensland College of Teachers.
- Height Activities: Rock Climbing, Abseiling, High and Low Ropes, Zip Lines.
- Paddle sports: Flatwater & Sea Kayaking.
- Bushwalking.
- Registration as an Adventurous Journey Supervisor with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme Queensland.
- Wilderness First Aid & CPR.
- Bronze Medallion.
- Chainsaw operation.
- Manual drivers’ licence.
- 4WD Operation.
- Safe Food handling.
Terms
- Working hours are dependent on the program and include overnight duties, on call responsibilities, some weekend and holiday work.
- Work includes an irregular roster including extended durations in an expedition format.
Application Process
Brisbane Grammar School recognises the value of diverse thinking and we encourage qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply. To better understand what it means to join BGS, please review the information on our website and social media accounts before submitting your application. You should also familiarise yourself with our key policies and procedures available on the School website, which may assist you during the recruitment process.
Our organisation is committed to protecting children and young people from harm. We require all applicants to undergo a screening process prior to appointment. Candidates must disclose any information relevant to their eligibility to engage in activities involving children.
Apply online at ELMO – Administration – Career – View Job – Outdoor Education Teacher (elmotalent.com.au)
Applications close Thursday, 20 February 2025.
Brisbane Grammar School reserves the right to close the advertisement before the listed closing date.
Trail Guide (Casual)
Spicers Scenic Rim Trail
Clumber QLD
(Inserted 14/1/2024)
Season: March to October 2025
At Spicers we put Guest and Team member experience at the forefront providing you with a rewarding and supportive work environment.
About Us
The Spicers Scenic Rim Trail is Queensland’s only member of Great Walks of Australia and is an ecotourism experience with a global reputation. Our tours offer an immersive nature experience delivered in relaxed luxury style.
Here’s what you’ll do
- Lead multi-day hiking tours, ranging from 2 to 6 days;
- Deliver accurate and engaging interpretations where your passion comes through;
- Use your outdoor skills and experience to ensure the safety and well-being of guests;
- Foster a positive and inclusive atmosphere for guests and colleagues alike;
- Prepare meals and host guests at camp;
- Champion high service standards to ensure high quality experiences.
Required qualifications (must have or willing to obtain prior to starting)
- Wilderness First Aid
- Current CPR
- Light Rigid licence plus Drivers Authority
- Manual drivers licence
- Responsible Service of Alcohol
- Food Safety Certificate
This is how you’ll know you’re right for this role
- Experience as a multi-day hiking tour guide;
- Available to start in March / April;
- Adaptable, flexible, passionate and nice to work with;
- Comfortable and competent in all aspects of guiding small groups;
- Physical fitness and strength to hike long distances with a backpack over varied terrain and in changing weather conditions;
- Knowledge of ecosystems, flora/fauna and cultural heritage with a personal commitment to ongoing learning and engaging with colleagues to share knowledge;
- Ability to cook meals that have been pre-prepared by chefs;
- Strong communication and leadership abilities;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to connect with diverse groups.
Please don’t use ChatGPT for your cover letter, we want to hear from you!
Apply online here: Jobs – Scenic Rim
Applications close when suitable candidates recruited.
Hiking Trail Guide (x2)
Spicers Scenic Rim Trail
Clumber, QLD
(Inserted 14/1/2024)
Full-time position
Overview
At Spicers we put Guest and Team member experience at the forefront providing you with a rewarding and supportive work environment.
We are looking for experienced guides who are eager to settle into the role and be a part of an exciting future. This is a full-time position(s), and we are open to hiring experienced couples. Subsidised accommodation can be included in the package if you don’t live in SE QLD.
Spend your work time hiking the beautiful mountains and rainforest of the Scenic Rim and your days off exploring the countryside or chilling at the Gold Coast, Brisbane or the Sunshine Coast, which are all within a 2-hour drive.
About Us
The Spicers Scenic Rim Trail is Queensland’s only member of Great Walks of Australia and is an ecotourism experience with a global reputation. Our tours offer an immersive nature experience delivered in relaxed luxury style.
Here’s what you’ll do
- Lead multi-day hiking tours, ranging from 2 to 6 days;
- Deliver accurate and engaging interpretations where your passion comes through;
- Use your outdoor skills and experience to ensure the safety and well-being of guests;
- Foster a positive and inclusive atmosphere for guests and colleagues alike;
- Prepare meals and host guests at camp;
- Champion high service standards to ensure high quality experiences.
Required qualifications (must have or willing to obtain prior to starting)
- Wilderness First Aid (or willingness to get prior to starting)
- Current CPR
- Light Rigid licence plus Drivers Authority
- Manual drivers licence
- Responsible Service of Alcohol
- Food Safety Certificate
This is how you’ll know you’re right for this role
- Experience as a multi-day hiking tour guide;
- Available to start in February or soon thereafter;
- Willingness to take on various responsibilities, including driving, hosting, and housekeeping, as needed to support the team and ensure smooth operations.
- Adaptable, flexible, passionate and nice to work with;
- Comfortable and competent in all aspects of guiding small groups;
- Physical fitness and strength to hike long distances with a backpack over varied terrain and in changing weather conditions;
- Knowledge of ecosystems, flora/fauna and cultural heritage with a personal commitment to ongoing learning and engaging with colleagues to share knowledge;
- Ability to cook meals that have been pre-prepared by chefs;
- Strong communication and leadership abilities;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to connect with diverse groups;
- Open to working at our other retreats during the off-season or taking an extended break.
Apply online here: Jobs – Scenic Rim
Applications close when suitable candidates recruited.
Maroon Outdoor Education Centre
Maroon Dam via Boonah, QLD
Salary: $74,146 – $116,729 pa. + super
Full-time, Fixed-term position from 22 January 2025 to 12 December 2025 with the possibility of extension
(Inserted 12/12/2024)
Maroon Outdoor Education Centre is seeking an Outdoor Education Teacher to teach Personal and Social Capabilities for Years 5 – 12. The successful candidate will have outdoor recreation skills and accreditation’s such as canoeing, rock climbing and bushwalking. There will be regular night work involved, and this time worked will be compensated through time off in lieu (TOIL).
Applicants for this position must possess:
- Tertiary Qualifications in Outdoor Education are highly desirable along with VET competencies in some or all of the following: Canoeing, Rock Climbing, High Ropes, Bushwalking, Lightweight Camping.
- A relevant teaching qualification. Click here for further information on teaching qualifications.
- Current full registration or current provisional registration with eligibility for full registration, as a teacher in Queensland. Graduate teachers must have been granted provisional registration prior to commencing employment as a teacher. For more information regarding registration requirements, please click here.
- Working rights in Australia, which means you have, or you are eligible to obtain a valid Australian Visa with work rights (if you’re not already an Australian Citizen or resident).
What is in it for you?
For further information about the incentives and benefits of working with the Department of Education please click here.
For further information about the school, click here to visit the school’s website.
For further information about the position contact: Susan Bell (Principal), ph. (07) 5463 6333.
Applicants need to submit their resume to the Principal of Maroon OEC at principal@maroonoec.eq.edu.au
Closing date: when a suitable candidate is recruited
Program Leaders
Gold Coast Recreation Precinct
(Inserted 23/09/2024)
Job Title: Program Leader – Recreational Centre
Location: Palm Beach, QLD
Work Type: Casual
- Excellent Pay Rate
- Fantastic Working Environment
- On the job training and development
Programmed is currently looking for a Program Leader to join their team and work at a large recreational client, that hosts various activities for schools and groups.
If you enjoy a fast-paced work environment, facilitating outdoor recreational activities with different visitors and groups and offering a high level of customer experience whilst ensuring safety – this role is for you!
Duties and responsibilities will include, however, are not limited to:
- Safely facilitate high quality sport and recreation activities and programs for individuals and groups in line with venue procedures.
- Perform logistical tasks associated with the delivery of outdoor recreation activities, including preparing and packing-down outdoor recreation activity equipment, delivery of equipment trailers to off-site locations, and maintaining equipment storage areas
- Adhere to safety guidelines and procedures, and follow risk management practices associated with the role
- Comply with workplace requirements, industry regulations and standards as well as the state-wide program framework
- Ensure that accompanying teachers / group leaders have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities while conducting activities at the Venue
- Undertake administrative and program related duties as required.
What we are looking for:
- Certificate 3 or higher / equivalent in Outdoor Recreation / Outdoor Leadership with the below electives is highly beneficial
- high ropes, abseiling, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, SUP, Archery, low ropes, surfing
- Previous experience in a similar role (tourism, recreation and hospitality industries)
- Positive Blue card – mandatory or willingness to obtain for starting
- Current first aid and CPR certificates or willingness to obtain for starting
- Current drivers licence
- Availability for all operational hours (Monday – Sunday
If you are interested in applying for this role, please click APPLY and upload an updated resume. If you experience any difficulties uploading your resume, please call Programmed on 1300 776 472 and quote job reference number 210263628.
Please note, only suitable applicants will be contacted.
Applications close when positions filled.
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