How it Works – Employers

Looking for a new role? Do you love biking and hiking? Are you a motivated and friendly people-person with great organisational skills?

Adventure South NZ is a Christchurch based adventure tourism company operating guided cycling, hiking, and adventure itineraries throughout New Zealand for more than 30 years. We are experiencing growth and we need to grow our awesome guiding team.

We are on the hunt for hosts committed to help guests have great experiences, connecting with people and the amazing landscapes we travel through. We’re looking for guides or people with skills transferrable to guiding to lead guests on our our active adventures.

We are looking for people with a positive professional attitude, who are passionate and knowledgeable about our New Zealand environment and stories. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Do you have:

A passion for the NZ outdoors through biking or hiking, including experience of our cycle trail network?
Leadership experience, including great organisational and communication skills; with an ability to be flexible, dynamic and think on your feet?
A good understanding of the nature, culture and history of New Zealand and an ability to help guests have a great time discovering our country?
Qualifications or ability to gain Outdoor First Aid, Passenger and Class 2 Driving Licenses?

We offer great training and support, a strong guiding culture, and an opportunity to work with interesting guests from New Zealand and overseas.

We employ people from all walks of life; however, we prefer those who are looking at adventure tourism with a longer-term view. We are committed to sustainable adventure travel.

Adventure South NZ guides are the face of the company and carry a large amount of responsibility. Our season runs from October through to April. Each trip you can expect to be away from home for a week or longer. Our guides work long days and each day you’ll need to be ready for different challenges that come your way.

Great guides make for great trips. We are flexible and enjoy having people work with us guiding lots of trips or just a few. We are proud of the feedback we receive from our guests, and our high number of returning guests.

All applicants must be eligible to work in New Zealand and have the ability to start/ finish tours in Christchurch.

If you’re ready to start the adventure apply now