▷ (27/10/2025) Southbound Adventures - Senior Leader

Southbound Adventures is a small, family-owned Outdoor Education company with over 30 years of experience delivering exceptional Outdoor Education experiences to school students from kindergarten through to Year 12, with our core focusing being Years 7 to 10. We specialise in Bronze, Silver, and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Adventurous Journeys, particularly Gold expeditions on the Overland Track in Tasmania

Based by the beach in the Illawarra, we operate across a diverse range of areas, including over 25 National Parks and 34 venues. This diversity is one of the many reasons our clients love working with us, and our team enjoys the variety of working in different locations on a weekly basis.

At Southbound Adventures, we believe that quality in everything we do is incredibly important. This starts with the team we work with, and extends to the high-quality equipment we provide and the support we offer to our team. If you’re interested in working with an organisation committed to providing exceptional Outdoor Education experiences, that values being a flexible, fun, and rewarding employer, then we want to hear from you

Position Description

Southbound Adventures would like to invite those looking for an exciting, energetic work environment to apply for the permanent Senior Leader position.

Senior Leaders are responsible for providing support to our Program Director and Group Leader teams while delivering outstanding Outdoor Education Programs.

This is a dynamic role where flexibility and adaptability are must have qualities, providing the opportunity to work as a Group Leader, Activity instructor, Team Leader, Logistics Support and Assistant Director capacities on a broad range of hard top, soft top and journey based Outdoor Education Programs.

This is also a mentoring role bringing the opportunity to contribute to the skills and development of our permanent and casual team. There is also the opportunity to build into a Program Director role in the future.

Senior Leaders should display:

- An enthusiastic attitude to their life and work.

- The ability to work alone or in team situations with groups of 10 to 15 clients.

- A willingness to be a positive role model for students and accompanying staff.

- A desire to educate students in an outdoor environment and pass on your passion for the outdoors.

- The ability to enable students to understand their strengths and acknowledge those of others in order to work in a group situation.

- Wilderness First Aid (or equivalent)

- Current driver’s licence or the ability to obtain one

- As part of our commitment to child safety, our applicants require a Paid NSW WWCC and National Police Check.

This role also includes:

- Being part of a high performing team We work hard to deliver the client experience we know we’re capable of.

- Social Team activities throughout the year, including our Senior Team Day tradition (e.g. flying the staff to the Gold Coast for an adventure day or climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge)

- Professional Development and Training, as well as opportunities for advancement into Program Director roles. You can have a career at Southbound.

- Wilderness First Aid recert paid for

- All meals and accommodation whilst on program

- A Wilderness First Aid kit for use on program, maintained by Southbound.

- Team clothing package (SPF50+)

- Accrue Time Off In Lieu (TOIL) that can be used to take paid days off.

- Additionally, earn 2 hours overtime per overnight at the applicable overtime rate.

- Opportunities for extended periods of leave during our quiet period in Winter and over the Christmas Holidays.

- Team members have been able to take up to 3 months off in Winter and (with some planning in advance) they can usually be paid for all of it using Time in Lieu and Annual Leave available. Work is still available over this period, its just a little quieter than peak season

- Over the Christmas holiday period 5 weeks off is also achievable, were usually closed for 3 weeks in this period to ensure everyone can take some quality R&R time after a busy season

- Opportunity to advance into a Program Director role

Additional Information:

- Where : Albion Park Rail, NSW - with fieldwork throughout NSW

- Workload : Permanent Part Time - 0.9 Load - equivalent to 4.5 days per week (averaged across 6 months)

- Base Remuneration: As per the Miscellaneous Award $55,029.08 per annum, inclusive of First Aid allowance. In addition to this, there is also:

- field loading,

- overtime,

- annual leave loading,

- sick leave

- 12% superannuation.

- Start Date: As soon as we have the right candidate

Where: Based in Albion Park, NSW - however we mainly operate in areas around Sydney, the Illawarra, Kangaroo Valley and the Southern Highlands

Closing Date: N/A

Contact...
Rachel Salmon - Human Resources Manager
Southbound Adventures

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