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Become a Volunteer Leader

Wildventure is looking for young adults to take on our new and exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in conservation and event coordination. Help make a difference by supporting restoration events like tree planting, bush regeneration, and community clean-ups—all while building your skills and connecting with like-minded people.

As a Volunteer Leader, you’ll learn what goes into organising impactful environmental projects, contribute to meaningful change, and grow your career prospects. It’s your chance to give back, learn valuable skills, and help create a thriving future for our planet!

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Why join the program?

We believe in empowering young people to take the lead in protecting and restoring our environment. By joining the Wildventure Volunteer Leader Program, you’ll gain invaluable skills and experiences that will allow you to make a lasting impact—not just today, but for years to come.

Our goal is to help young adults like you thrive and embrace Landcare as a practice for good. Through this program, you’ll learn valuable skillsets to share with others, ensuring the legacy of Landcare continues to grow with future generations.

This program is focused on you! We want to equip you with practical knowledge and hands-on experience so you can:

  • Take the skills you’ve learned into your career and become a leader in environmental fields.
  • Adopt better environmental practices in your daily life to make a difference in your own way.
  • Gain a meaningful avenue to give back to your community and help it flourish.
  • Empower others to care for the environment by sharing what you’ve learned.

Wildventure is your chance to build a better future for yourself, your community, and the planet. Let’s grow together while creating a thriving, sustainable environment.

What You'll Learn

As a Wildventure Volunteer Leader, you’ll gain practical experience and knowledge to prepare you for a future in the environmental field while contributing to meaningful conservation efforts.
Learn hands-on techniques in bush regen, tree planting & restoration to help protect local ecosystems.
Gain experience in the environmental sector, with opportunities to network and learn valuable on-the-job skills.
Develop skills to engage and connect with communities, building support for environmental projects and encouraging involvement.
Learn how to share knowledge about the environment and sustainability with others, helping to spread awareness and inspire action.
Get experience in leadership, planning and running conservation events, stalls, activities, guiding volunteers and more!

Sound Like a Fun Opportunity?

Our applications are OPEN for new Volunteer Leaders to join today!
Click the button the fill out our Expression of Interest form and we’ll be in touch with you ASAP!

What work will you do?

The work you do as a Volunteer Leader is not only fun opportunity, but a meaningful way to give back to nature.
Some of the tasks you’ll do include:
Event Support

Help with coordination, facilitation, education, logistics, check-ins, and setting up or packing down to ensure our environmental events run smoothly. You’ll be able help organise and facilitate some of our fun Wildventure events, such as hiking, beach clean ups, BioBlitzes, Campouts and many more adventure-based conservation activities.

Environmental Restoration

Assist in revitalising local ecosystems by doing tree plantings, removing invasive weeds, clean-ups, and engaging in other impactful hands-on activities that directly contribute to the health and sustainability of natural habitats.

Community Engagement

Help out at stalls and interact with the public at our events, workshops, festival stalls, and community gatherings. Represent Landcare’s mission by sharing your knowledge, inspiring others to take action,  educating attendees about critical environmental issues, restoration techniques, and ways they can contribute to protecting and restoring their local ecosystems.

Rewards & Incentives

We appreciate all of our volunteers and what they do to support Greater Sydney Landcare and environmental conservation. So we provide some great incentives to our Volunteer Leaders so you can benefit from our program as much as we benefit from your support. Not only will you experience community connection, career development, enjoy fun events/activities, you’ll also have access to great opportunities such as:

Certifications and Training

Gain FREE or subsidised certifications and training that will help you in your Volunteer Role and are  invaluable for your career. Examples include: Working with Children Check, First Aid Training and more!

Volunteer Recognition

No hour is left behind! All your volunteer work hours will be recorded so that we can provide signed certificates for you to add to your resume and/or employer, or just for you to hang on the wall and admire your hard work!

Access to Fun Events

Being a Volunteer Leader isn’t all work and no play! Greater Sydney Landcare and Wildventure often have access to lots of partnered events such as festivals, markets, field days and more. Volunteer with us at one of these events and you’ll still get plenty of time to enjoy it for FREE while still contributing to our environmental cause.

Work Experience

Need work experience for Uni or TAFE? We may be able to provide you the hours and extended volunteer/internship opportunities such as working alongside our Coordinators to make that happen. Just let us know how we can help!

Leadership Training

Ever wanted to start your own Landcare group? Or wanted to manage volunteers in environmental projects? Our Volunteer Leaders Program is designed to train the next generation of Landcarers, so that we can continue on our environmental restoration and conservation journey into the future. Becoming a Volunteer Leader is a stepping stone and perfect learning opportunity to coordinate and/or manage projects, whether it be a new Wildventure group, Landcare group or other project – the possibilities are endless!

Become a Volunteer Leader!

You’ve made it this far, our applications for Volunteer Leader positions are now OPEN. Why not give it go?
Click the button the fill out our Expression of Interest form and we’ll be in touch with you ASAP!
Have any questions?

Contact Us

If you have any questions about Wildventure and/or our Volunteer Leaders program you can refer to our FAQ page for any basic questions you need answered.

Frequently Asked Questions

For any further enquiries, please contact our program coordinator below:

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