Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a specialised outdoor animator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a specialised outdoor animator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Specialised outdoor animators plan, organise, and safely deliver outdoor animator activities. They may also support one or more assistant outdoor animators, and be involved in aspects of administration, front office tasks and tasks related to activity base and equipment maintenance. They work with demanding clients, in terms of either their particular needs, abilities or disabilities or at the higher levels of skill and hazardous environments or conditions.

Also known as special needs outdoor instructor, personal instructor, outdoor education specialist, scuba diving instructor, skydiving instructor, paragliding instructor, specialized outdoor animator, outdoor instructor for disabled people, outdoor personal development tutor, outdoor education instructor.

Technicians and associate professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: activity leader, 42%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
activity leader 42% covered tourist animator 28% covered tour operator representative 23% covered environmental education offic… 22% covered tour organiser 22% covered specialised outdoor anima… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from specialised outdoor animator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a specialised outdoor animator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A specialised outdoor animator needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • assess risk in the outdoors information skills
  • empathise with outdoor groups management skills
  • give feedback on changing circumstances communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor interventions in the outdoors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • monitor use of outdoor equipment information skills
  • react acordingly to unexpected events outdoors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • research areas for outdoor activity information skills
  • evaluate outdoor activities information skills
  • manage groups outdoors assisting and caring
  • manage outdoor resources information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a specialised outdoor animator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Specialised outdoor animator is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a specialised outdoor animator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.