WHAT IS AN OUTDOOR INSTRUCTOR TRAINING PROGRAM?
To be ready for the outdoor pursuits industry, you need to have training and qualifications, like hiking qualifications and rock climbing certifications. You will also need demonstrable work experience, with the quality of the work experience being an important factor, and a logbook that demonstrates a high degree of ongoing professional and personal development and training.
The 36 week Outdoor Instructor Training Program is designed to make you industry-ready. If offers accelerated immersion in the industry, to produce a high-quality employment candidate, at a level of experience and proficiency that makes a genuine range of quality outdoor technical work available to them.
The Outdoor Instructor Training Course gains participants the following qualifications:
- NZOIA Bush Leader
- NZOIA Rock Leader
- NZOIA Bush Instructor (Level 1)
- NZOIA Rock Climbing Instructor (Level 1)
- Pre-hospital Emergency Care Qualification (PHEC)
- Swift Water Rescue Safety Level 1
- Pure Exploration Certificate of Outdoor Education & Instruction
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
This training program is for high school leavers and university graduates who are seeking a rewarding gap year that will provide skills and experience that will transfer powerfully into their future study or career success.
Alternatively, those seeking preparation and entry into the Outdoor Education, Adventure Guiding, Advanced Qualifications such as Mountain Guiding or Tourism have hit the holy grail of academic, practical and experience based training.
Career break? Then you are one of the large proportion of participants we see every year, and promise this will be a great fit for you. We offer a fantastic way to take that time out, reset, rediscover yourself, and develop in ways you hoped you would, but didn't know how.
PROGRAM LOCATIONS
THREE SEMESTERS - GLOBAL LOCATIONS!
You can complete this program entirely in New Zealand, or opt to take your first and third semesters in Nepal, Patagonia, Iceland or Italy/Slovenia!
This means, you could use this program as a way to not only get qualified, but explore the mountains on a round the world adventure!
HOW WILL IT WORK?
SEMESTER 1: LEARN
Complete our globally renown Adventure Guide Program, gaining you the ultimate foundation skills for guiding.
Based in New Zealand, Nepal, Iceland, Italy/Slovenia or Patagonia.
SEMESTER 2: INTERN
Time to immerse yourself in the outdoor industry! You'll be working behind the scenes as a crucial part of a global adventure tourism organization; shadowing instructors, helping develop programs, learning about the operational and office-based requirements.
You'll join our HQ team in Queenstown, New Zealand, for your intern semester
SEMESTER 3: WORK EXPERIENCE
Time to put it all into action as you work as a guide assistant. You'll be planning, executing and assessing gaining crucial real-world experience that is not only unbeatable on your CV, but builds confidence in your skills that is unmeasurable. At the end of this semester, you'll be ready to sign on to a well-paying industry role, as a qualified and more importantly experienced outdoor guide. Bring on that dream job!
Based in New Zealand, Nepal, Iceland, Italy/Slovenia or Patagonia.