DofE Expedition Manager Positions 2025
Role: DofE Expedition Manager.
Start date: March 2025 onwards.
Pay: £200 per day.
Contract: Non-contract - This is a freelance position.
Location: Operating from our Kendal HQ, UK wide.
Minimum qualification requirement: Mountain Leader Summer.
Extras: £10 DofE assessor report writing allowance, £40 named driver allowance.
How: To apply for this role please read the information and recruitment steps below, before sending your C.V with a covering letter to chris@samsykesltd.co.uk
Want to know more about working for us? Check out our staff recruitment video below…
We are recruiting Expedition Managers to join our industry leading team for 2025 onwards.
Successful candidates will be active outdoor instructors, with experience of expedition or course management with various outdoor education and adventure companies similar to ours.
Applicants must be high performing professionals with the ability to work effectively with our team, and participants from differing backgrounds.
Ideally the candidate will have substantial experience of the DofE expedition section or similar.
Our DofE courses operate throughout the U.K.
Expedition Manager positions are available to those with (as a minimum);
Summer Mountain Leader.
16 hour outdoor first aid.
Current clear Enhanced DBS check.
Full UK driving license.
Safeguarding Qualification.
To learn more about this role please see the linked job description and personal specification.
Recruitment steps;
Send in your CV and covering letter to chris@samsykesltd.co.uk
If stage 1 successful, candidates will be asked to upload their details through our application portal.
Following a review of the uploaded details, an in person interview will be arranged at Sam Sykes HQ with our Operations Manager. This will also be an opportunity for you to interview us, and discuss the role in more detail with your preferred short and long term outcomes presented to our senior team.
If successful at interview, your references will be contacted along with any other safeguarding procedures completed and documentation checked.
Following positive outcomes from the references, safeguarding and documentation checks in step 4, an induction process and internal training process will be arranged with you.
If you have any queries regarding the role after reading the job and personal specifications (buttons above), please contact us directly by e-mail.
About Sam Sykes
Operating throughout the U.K.
Sam Sykes is a world leading provider of the expedition and residential sections of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award.
Our team is the core of our business success.
Since 2009 we have grown consistently as a commercial organisation, whilst maintaining an unparalleled reputation for safety, professionalism and ambition. The consistency of our continued growth and professionalism is symbiotic with the internationally regarded staff team here at Sam Sykes.
Based from our HQ in the Lake District.
We are driven to ensure that our staff enjoy working within a team of like minded people, where personal development is actively encouraged and opportunity for progression is clear. Each member of the Sam Sykes team is an ambassador with an important voice both internally and externally to our company.
The story of Sam Sykes is steeped in over five decades of family history, delivering inspirational adventures to people worldwide since the early 1970’s. For more information on our background just click here.