Expedition Medic

Expedition: Expeditions taking place throughout 2025 and onwards in Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Contract: Per expedition

TDA Global Cycling organises trans-continental cycling expeditions on 6 continents and over 80 countries. Their expeditions are from 1 month to 5.5 months long. On our more remote expeditions, they have an Expedition Medic on the staff.

The main responsibility of the Expedition Medic is to take a lead role with all first aid and emergency situations on the expedition involving clients or staff. The Medic also deals with primary health care issues on the expedition, within their scope of practice, and assists clients to access hospital or clinic care for issues unresolvable on the expedition, in consultation with the Expedition Leader.

The Medic maintains the medical inventory for the first aid kits and tracks medical expenses incurred during the expedition. The Medic also documents all medical assistance given during the expedition.

The Medic is also part of the staff rotation during the expedition, which includes tasks such as cycling sweep behind the last cyclist on the road, preparing roadside lunches, assisting in the kitchen and with general camp duties, and other tasks as directed by the Expedition Leader.

Essential skills – medic

• Doctor, Nurse, Advanced paramedic or above
• Emergency medicine and ideally trauma experience

Essential skills – all team

• Open to adversity and ready to adapt to varying situations and environments
• Happy to live in a tent and work in varied and sometimes difficult climate conditions
• Cycling experience and able to cycle upwards of 100km in difficult conditions, at a moderate to slow pace. As well able to perform basic bicycle maintenance (fix flat tires, basic brake and gear adjustments)
• Good people skills – experience of interacting with diverse groups of people and having to find ways around communication barriers
• Available for 1​ – 5-month expeditions
• Willingness to work long hours with unpredictable schedules and physically tasking conditions
• Good written and verbal communication in English

Desirable skills

• Experience in Expedition Medicine
• Experience of working in wilderness areas
• Any other practical expedition/ mechanical skills – please outline in your application

Benefits

• TDA covers flights to and from the expedition, visas required, travel medical insurance, and accommodations and food during the tour
• $1,300 USD per/month 1^st time staff person pay rate.
• Opportunity to work on further expeditions in different areas of the world

To apply:

To apply please visit the jobs page on our website. There you will find an application that can be filled out.

For further questions email [email protected]