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What are the roles?

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You've decided to spend your career break or retirement volunteering overseas, but what kind of role should you choose?

Whether you're suited to a project based role or a field based role, both require grounded skills and experience, but equally an enthusiastic, positive attitude. We then build upon these skills by providing full training that will compliment your own knowledge and experience.

Are you adaptable and able to cope with stressful situations in a calm, logical manner? In a project based volunteer role you will:

  • Lead a volunteer project either for the duration of the expedition or several different projects throughout
  • Be in charge of a team of volunteers in a managerial, decision-making and problem-solving role
  • Take responsibility for completing the project and the venturers' learning and development.

Roles include:
Adventure project manager, adventure challenge events manager (8 week expeditions only), construction project manager, interpreter (Spanish), medic, project manager

Or are you a team player with the ability to work alone who takes a dynamic and flexible approach to problem-solving? In a field based volunteer role you will:

  • Work at ‘field base', the organisational hub of expedition
  • Support the smooth running of the programme alongside the Country Director
  • Communicate daily with project sites and much more!

Roles include:
Administrator, artist, driver (Costa Rica & Nicaragua expeditions only), deputy programme manager, finance manager, communications officer, logistics manager (Costa Rica & Nicaragua and India expeditions only), logistics co-ordinator, photographer, videographer, team coach

What role you choose really depends on what you're looking to get out of your career break. With this in mind there may be more than one role you'd like to apply for. We'd advise you to apply for both and after we've received your application we'll invite you to an assessment weekend to assess your suitability. This is also a chance to find out more about life on Raleigh and if we are right for you.

Read our word of mouth to find out what past volunteer managers got out of their Raleigh experience.