Opportunities

Join our team to help grow our sport

Paid positions

For any recruitment enquiries please email Arpad Kocsik (General Manager) at gm@orienteering.asn.au

Learn to Orienteer: Coaches

Learn to Orienteer programs are currently running, and more are planned… but we need more coaches!

A Learn to Orienteer coach teaches the fundamental orienteering skills to people wanting to become more systematic with their navigation.
It is a great chance to bridge those new to orienteering into club membership, develop juniors or increase confidence of current members.
The time is right to become a coach! OA has recently developed an abundance of Learn to Orienteer resources to make the coach’s job easier.
The Play Well grant assists coaches to be paid for their time. And the new online learning makes gaining the accreditation flexible to your time.

You can start the journey now on the Orienteering Learning Centre. Sign in and enrol in the Learn & Play coaching accreditation. Brodie and Daniel will host an online practical session mid-December, and the assessment tasks can be ticked off while you run a Learn to Orienteer program.

There’s lots of support at the national and state/territory level. We would love you to be part of our coaching team! Need more information? Join us for an information on Monday 11^th November 7:30pm (check Eventor for zoom details). Or email Daniel at participation@orienteering.asn.au

Volunteer positions

Orienteering Australia values all contributions to our great sport. Here are additional opportunities to enhance orienteering.

Steering Committee: Beginner Instruction for Everyone project

Be part of our new project designing guidelines to assist participants during their first orienteering experiences.

Commitment: One online meeting every 2-3 weeks. About 3-5 hours per month reviewing and giving feedback.

For more information about the steering committee, or to express interest in joining, please email Daniel Stott at participation@orienteering.asn.au by Sunday 24th November.

Working Groups: various Participation Plan initiatives

We invite you to take part in transformative initiatives aimed at increasing participation in orienteering nationwide. Our Participation Plan is brimming with innovative ideas to propel the sport forward, and now is the perfect time to get involved by joining one of our groups.

If you have an interest or knowledge in one of our current priority areas, we encourage you to express your interest through this Google form.

Current priority areas and opportunities to be involved include:

‘Beginner Instruction for Everyone’ project
- Roles: Project manager and steering committee
Engagement with schools
- Roles: Brainstorming group (Schools Officers will be involved)
Volunteer Action Plan
- Roles: Working group (with assistance from ASC)
3 short eLearning modules
- Introduction to Course Setting, Introduction to Mapping, PurplePen/Condes
- Roles: Working group for each module
Market research
- Roles: Advisory group
Participation data reporting and analysis
- Roles: Project manager and working group

These initiatives offer a range of opportunities, from paid project manager roles to volunteer roles requiring approximately 1 hour per week. Your involvement will play a crucial role in shaping the future of orienteering participation.

To become part of one of these impactful working groups, please fill in the Google form or contact Daniel Stott at participation@orienteering.asn.au. More information about the Participation Plan can be found on the OA Participation webpage.