TheHive_gradientName of Organisation (Employer): The Hive

Position being advertised (Job title): Forest School Leader

Salary (per week, month, year OR negotiable, not applicable): Competitive day rate for the right candidate

Location (where is this job based?): South East London

Job description: The Hive runs holiday day camps during the school holidays throughout the year, as well as school workshops during term time and family experiences during selected weekends.

As we get ready for the summer, we’re looking to recruit a number of Forest School Leaders for our Spring and Summer 2015 missions. This will involve working with schools, families and children. Some positions are term-time only. Others are holiday positions.

The role will involve sharing expertise in the context of our Hive missions with children (holiday camps), families (weekend family experiences) and schools (school workshops). We are looking for people who enjoy education and passing on their knowledge.

What you’ll be doing

  • You’ll lead the mission and empower children (and adults) to succeed, drawing on your playfulness, energy, and imagination
  • You will be able to share your knowledge and experience in a really engaging way.
  • You’ll be happy to use mobile technology as a support to learning and your delivery
  • You’ll enjoy collaboration and working with a committed team of facilitators

Person specification : What we’ll need from you

  • Experience of working in an innovative way with children
  • A high energy and playful outlook with an instinctive understanding of what makes children tick
  • A strong interest in learning through play and experiential education
  • A basic level of experience of using tablet and mobile technology

Any other information: The Hive is an exciting new company running Outdoor Missions for children 6-14. The company was set up in 2013 and following a successful first year we are looking to scale up our activities.

As far as we know, The Hive is unique in the UK in bringing together high quality outdoor learning, gameplay and mobile technology. Each mission is story-based and revolves around an outdoors challenge that the children complete by undertaking activities and games, drawn from a range of outdoor disciplines, including bushcraft, orienteering, gardening, geocaching, potion making, foraging, whittling, raft building, bee keeping, nature forensics, water works, animal identification, tracking, map reading, etc.

Mobile technology (iPods) is threaded into the mission games and activities. Mobile activities are wide ranging and can include anything from experiencing AR in games, using bespoke maps for geocaching, reading QR codes to make up soil recipes, shooting an iMovie nature newsflash, following video instructions to build a mini raft, taking selfies to follow a nature hunt, using a range of nature-related apps, creating an outdoor animation film, etc.

Explain how applicants should contact you / apply: Applicants should send a CV and short cover letter to caroline@thehive-kids.com

Closing date for applications : 31.03.2015

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