Tour Leader Coordinator

About Us

G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.

Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.

With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.

Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.

If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.
- Assist in managing and performing all CEO administrative tasks as required, this includes but is not limited to payroll, accounts process, rostering and schedules, implementation of incentive programs and local awards programs, and assisting with managing correspondence from CEOs
- Maintaining CEO records including contracts, benefits, profile updates and up to date first aid qualifications and updating route guides, trip and welcome notes
- Support the CEO Management with the implementation of CEO incentive programs, local awards programs and monitor and regularly contribute to the CEO forum discussions, CEO engagement, recruiting and training CEOs and promoting growth in the region.
- Read the CEO comments section on passenger evaluations and make suggestions and provide input.
- Working with CEOs to ensure they take responsibility for their own trip’s expenses and documents.
- Responsible for compiling pre-trip documents for the CEOs and assisting the CEO Manager in pre and post-trip report and debrief of CEOs.
- Coordinate and assist in ground support for logístical issues during trips and on trip emergencies and assist with critical incident management as requested by the CEO Manager.
- Contribute to special projects, such as gathering and organizing photos for internal and external use; developing manuals and other CEO resources.
- Any other tasks as requested by the CEO Manager.
- Assist CEOs in getting all necessary information for trips.
- Provide CEO practical field support when needed or requested by the CEO Manager.
- Assist the CEO Manager to manage the operational aspect re new and existing Planeterra projects and the updating of CEOs and Cape Base on these projects’ operations.
- Supervise cleaning of vehicles, gear and packing of vehicles on occasion when needed.
- Assist the Tour Operations Manager with capturing of invoices as needed relevant to Tour Operations for special projects.
- Weekend work as required by role (will be made up with time in lieu)
- Carry Regional emergency phone as of rotation schedule
- Able to understand the needs of both a CEO and G Adventures as a business

**Experience**:

- Previous travel experience and a passion for the region/industry and people
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Strong administration background & organisational skills
- Ability to manage a crisis and take responsibility for the safety of others.
- Customer service oriented
- Ability to navigate and use a variety of computer systems confidently with speed and efficiency.
- Ability to recognizing the demands of deadlines and schedules in work.
- Ability to focus on day-to-day operations whilst achieving operational excellence.
- Ability to work legally in South Africa and travel as required by role.

Nice to have:

- 1+ years of service at G Adventures is preferred or relevant experience in the travel industry.
- Experience as a CEO, driver and/or guide in Africa would be an advantage.

What do we offer you?- Competitive salary commensurate with the role- Competitive benefits package- Birthday day off- Vacation time for you to recharge- Enhanced Parental Leave- Learning and growth opportunities

*Applicable based on location*

G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations. If you require accommodation, please reach out to the Global Talent team at

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