Outdoor Guide for Water Activities and Communication Coordinator

📍 Location: Akenkaai 8, 1000 Brussels
⏳ Time commitment: 4 days per week (Monday – Friday)
⏳ Period: April 2025 – October 2025
🌱 Organization: City to Ocean

Are you adventurous, social, and driven to make an impact? Do you want to play an active role in protecting waterways and enjoy being outdoors? Then this versatile and dynamic job is for you!

About City to Ocean

City to Ocean is a non-profit organization committed to clean and green waterways, where nature and biodiversity also have a place. We achieve this through:

✅ Raising awareness through kayak and canoe-catamaran tours to collect waste from the water
✅ Proposing structural solutions such as green floating islands on the canal and the installation of waste barriers and waste plinthes along the canal
✅ Improving water quality by addressing sewer overflows
✅ Creatively recycling the waste retrieved from the water

Your role

🛶 Guide and ensure the safety of kayak and canoe-catamaran tours on the canal for new participants each time, using kayak, electric boat, and canoe-catamaran.
🗑️ Lead guided tours along the canal while collecting waste.
📸 Take photos and videos during activities, and process them into photo publications and videos for social media and the website.
📆 Communicate with participants wishing to register and manage the scheduling of activities.
📊 Collect data during the tours and process it, for example, for the annual Brand Audit.
🔧 Maintain kayaks, canoe-catamarans, and artworks placed along the quay.
🥤 Represent our upcoming beverage brand with a message.
🔄 Collect and clean the plastic waste fished from the water for recycling.
🌱 Assist with the installation of rainwater tanks and swales at people’s homes.
💡 Contribute creative solutions for the environmental issues we tackle.
📱 Create content for social media and the website.

Who are we looking for?

Trilingual: You speak and write fluently in Dutch, French, and English.
✅ You are sporty and enjoy outdoor activities on the water.
✅ You have strong communication skills, are enthusiastic, and can guide groups.
✅ You can take photos.
✅ You are environmentally conscious and share our vision of a circular world.
✅ You are practical, can work with your hands, and aren’t afraid to get them dirty.
✅ Experience with kayaking or canoeing is a plus, but not required.

What do we offer?

🌊 A unique job on the water.
🎯 A varied role with room for your own initiative.
🌱 Working in an organization with a positive environmental impact.
💡 The opportunity to help launch a new, sustainable beverage brand.

Interested?

Send your CV and motivation letter to info@citytoocean.org and tell us why you’re the perfect person for this role! You can also email us with any questions, and a phone call for more information is also possible 🚣‍♂️🌱