Job: Artisans of Luxury – 4 openings (NYC)
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Thanks to JET Alum Elizabeth Mandel (Yokohama-ken, 1992-93) who works in Sales & Marketing for the company for sharing these JET-relevant listings. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: 4 openings at travel planner Artisans of Luxury
Posted by: Artisans of Leisure
Type: Full Time
Location: New York, NY
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview of openings:
1.) Luxury Travel Expert
Artisans of Leisure is looking for extremely knowledgeable, sophisticated, well-traveled professionals to work in our New York City office.
Ideal applicants will have lived, worked, and/or traveled extensively in international destinations. Applicants should be familiar with the main cultural highlights of a wide range of countries in each region as well as be familiar with a variety of special-interest attractions and activities, including local arts, cuisine, history, customs, luxury hotels and resorts. Travel industry experience is not necessary. An ability to articulate your passion for cultural travel within these destinations is.
This creative, multi-tasking position includes the following responsibilities:
•Working one-on-one with affluent travelers to customize private international tours based on firsthand travel expertise and experience
•Product development: designing, costing and creating new tours and related materials
•Writing for tours, newsletters, website, blog and other collateral materials
•Research related to tours and special interests (culture, food, family activities, art, architecture, gardens, historic attractions, etc.)
•Assisting with administrative projects and activities
•Using own initiative to develop new activities, destinations, and partnerships
•Other creative and design projects and sales activities
•Attending events related to travel Read More
Job: ESL Full-time faculty position at American University in Kosovo
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Via the Hunter MA TESOL list serve. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Instructor For Foundational English
Posted by: American University in Kosovo (A.U.K.)
Type: Full Time
Location: Kosovo
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview:
The Academic Support Center at the American University in Kosovo (A.U.K.) seeks a full-time experienced TESOL teacher to steer the university’s Foundation English program. The Foundation English program prepares students to achieve the high competence in English writing and comprehension skills needed for successful transition to the regular degree courses offered at A.U.K. in conjunction with its partner-institution, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.
Position & Responsibilities
The university seeks a candidate for a non-tenure track, renewable full-time faculty position to teach foundational English classes to A.U.K. students whose English skills do not meet entry requirements for the higher level RIT English courses. The selected candidate will be responsible for teaching English Foundation and Basic Writing courses, curriculum development, student and faculty workshop development, training and supervising undergraduate English tutors as well as directing and developing the Academic Support Center. Read More
Job: Teacher of History, Geography, Economics and Social Studies – Teikyo School, Buckinghamshire (UK)
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Thanks to JET Alum Nic Klar (author of “My Mother is a Tractor”) for passing along this interesting job listing at a Japanese boarding school in the UK. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Teacher of History, Geography, Economics and Social Studies
Posted by: Teikyo School
Type: Full Time
Location: Buckinghamshire
Salary: Dependent on experience and qualifications
Start Date: April 2014
Overview:
Teikyo is a Japanese boarding school offering a senior high school education to Japanese students aged from 15 to 18 years old. The school follows the curriculum laid down by the Japanese Ministry of Education; all teaching is conducted in the Japanese language.
We require a well-qualified, enthusiastic teacher to start from April 2014 to teach History, Geography, Economics and Social Studies. There may be a requirement to stay overnight in the school dormitory as a duty organiser once a week.
A teaching qualification recognised by the Ministry of Education in Japan and fluency in the Japanese language are essential. Salary is dependent on experience and qualifications but is expected to be in the range of £20,000 to £30,000. Accommodation on site may be available.
Please apply in writing to the Headmaster, Teikyo Foundation UK Ltd, Framewood Road, Wexham, Bucks SL2 4QS.
Closing date: 8th November 2013.
Teikyo Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with previous employers and the DBS.
http://www.tes.co.uk/job/Teacher-of-History–Geography–Economics-and-Social-Studies-170267/s_cid/48
Job: Melbourne Consulate – Political/Economic Research and Analysis Officer (Australia)
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Thanks to Eden Law for sharing this posting. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Political/Economic Research and Analysis
Posted by: The Consulate-General of Japan
Type: Full time position
Location: Melbourne
Salary: Decided according to your personal history and professional experience etc. Wages paid monthly.
Start Date: N/A
Overview:
The Consulate-General of Japan in Melbourne is seeking a Political and Economic Research Analyst. Reporting to Japanese Consuls, the successful candidate will examine issues related to Australian political and economic affairs, and discharge other related duties as required.
Primary Accountabilities:
a) Analysis and preparation of reports on relevant political and economic issues. Monitoring the media and important press releases to keep watch of important political and economic events.
b) Liaison with various government departments and other bodies.
c) General support to Consuls, including arranging meetings and drafting correspondence.
d) Preparation of speeches and letters.
e) Other duties as required.
f) Working at consulate events. Read More
Job: JTB – Online Content Coordinator (Sydney, AU)
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Via JETAA New South Wales. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Online Content Coordinator
Posted by: JTB Australia
Type: Full Time
Location: Sydney (CBD, Inner West & Eastern Suburbs)
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview:
JTB is an established international travel company with a strong presence in Australia. We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the best possible travel experience.
We are currently seeking an Online Content Coordinator to join our web team in Sydney CBD Office. The successful candidate will have a great understanding of the online world and be a self starter, motivated, organized and have great interpersonal skills. Read More
Job: Senior Advisor Clinical – Japanese Fluency (CA)
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Via JETAA Northern California. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Senior Advisor Clinical – Japanese Fluency
Posted by: Abbott
Type: Full-time/ Day shift
Location: Santa Clara, California
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview:
Abbott is a global healthcare company devoted to improving life through the development of products and technologies that span the breadth of healthcare. With a portfolio of leading, science-based offerings in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic pharmaceuticals, Abbott serves people in more than 150 countries and employs approximately 70,000 people.
Primary Job Function:
A senior-level scientist that is fluent in reading, writing, and speaking formal Japanese is needed to provide clinical science support for both coronary and core medical devices in Japan. This support consists of (a.) actively participating in Japan strategy meetings, (b.) writing/translating protocols or Informed Consent Forms (or amendments), clinical study reports, and publications, (c.) providing clinical trials.gov updates for all Japan clinical trials (required by US Public Law 110-85), (d.) attending clinical trial team meetings (conducted in Japanese), (e.) addressing PMDA regulatory questions about clinical data, (f.) liaising with top interventional cardiologists to provide scientific support, (g.) updating investigator brochures or IFUs, (h.) supporting Japan audits, (i.) providing scientific support to the commercial team, and (j.) attending Japanese investigator or advisory board meetings. Read More
Around Japan in 47 Curries: Yamanashi Fruit
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Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture almost every week. Here’s an excerpt from his 14th installment, in which he explores whether or not Yamanashi Prefecture fruit is a good curry ingredient:
Grapes and wine are Yamanashi’s most famous products. The cultivation of grapes dates back about 1,300 years, apparently beginning with a monk who had a vision of Buddha holding a bunch of them. Wine production didn’t get started until the 1868-1912 Meiji era, but there are now more than 80 wineries in the prefecture, making about 40 percent of Japan’s domestic wine.
In 2007, the prefecture was No. 1 in grape production, at 51,400 tons, well ahead of second-place Nagano with 30,700. It was also first in peaches (54,100 tons, ahead of then second-place Fukushima at 27,800) and plums (6,660, ahead of second-place Wakayama at 3,280).
While driving through Yamanashi Prefecture a couple of weeks ago, I picked up some grape and peach curries at a highway rest stop…
Autumn Widdoes at the Japan Writers Conference
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Autumn Widdoes (Okinawa, 2010 – present) is “a teacher, a writer, and a performance/hybrid-theater artist whose work explores the multiple intersections between written and spoken language and movement/dance.” She recently finished a dance theater video that will soon appear on her website, but you can also see it here. Her upcoming projects include a Nov. 2 lecture and workshop at the 2013 Japan Writers Conference titled “Performative Words: Writing for and Making Performance.” Here’s the official description:
Autumn Widdoes (photo by Melissa Campenile)
How do you enter into a new language with only the performative words that you know? This performace lecture will discuss how to create work for performance in Japan (performance art, poetic narratives for movement/dance theater, and plays), how to find both non-Japanese and Japanese collaborators/actors/performers to stage the work, and how to cultivate an audience, with a particular focus on doing this outside of the major cities and without networks. Additionally, we’ll discuss how to incorporate and enfold personal experience, the writing and unwriting of oneself into the texts, working with translations (and “anti translations”), and engaging with new language(s) and their complexities in one’s work without using it/them as simplistic ornamentation.
For details on the Japan Writers Conference, visit its site HERE.
To learn more about Autumn, visit her site HERE.
Job Fair: Career in Japan 2013 Australia (Sydney)
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Originally posted to the JETAA New South Wales FB group by Eden Law. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Career in Japan 2013 Australia
Posted by: N/A
Type: N/A
Location: N/A
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
Career in Japan 2013 Australia is a “Job fair for global-minded people in Australia in September! Companies will visit Sydney to recruit you for jobs in Japan!!”
Japanese companies are participating our job fair since they believe many talented people are found in Australia. We hope the job fair lead to your career and more global opportunities!
Date and Venue
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Sat. 14th 11:00-18:00
Sun. 15th 10:00-17:00
September 2013
@Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Exhibition hall 6
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Points of our job fair
1.Many Japanese companies who are eager to hire global-minded candidates will participate the fair !
2.Some companies will hold interviews on the spot!
3.You can contact the participating companies in advance!
Job: Tutors / Summer Instructors – Student Support Services (Paterson, NJ)
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Via Indeed.com. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Tutors / Summer Instructors – Student Support Services
Posted by: Passaic County Community College
Type: N/A
Location: Paterson, NJ
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
The objective of the SSS Learning Center is to create an environment that allows program participants to receive supplemental instruction that aids in the successful completion of all registered courses.
We are currently seeking applicants with expertise in Math, English, and Science with the ability and desire to work with first generation college students and ESL populations. Preference will be given to candidates who are qualified to provide instruction in two or more of the specified content areas.
A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
View and apply:
Job: Teachers & Tutors needed ASAP at Cabrini Immigrant Services (NYC)
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Via the Hunter College TESOL listserve. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: ESL Teachers and Tutors
Posted by: Cabrini Immigrant Services
Type: N/A
Location: New York, NY
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
Join Cabrini to help improve the lives of immigrants through teaching ESL. They offer beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, and limit class-size to 15 students. Texts are provided, but teachers are given wide latitude for their curricula. Classes meet twice a week for two hours,
Mondays-Thursdays (one class/week teaching commitment required).
Class times are 10am-12 noon, 12:30-2:30 pm, and 6-8 pm.
The majority of the students speak Spanish or Chinese as their first language.
Cabrini Immigrant Services
139 Henry St.
NYC 10002
Contact ESOL Coordinator Joy Haas, at: jhaas789@gmail.com
Job: Director – Sales – Shire Pharmaceuticals (Tokyo)
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Thanks to JET alum Therese Stephens for sharing this listing, which is for the company where she works. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Director Sales
Posted by: Shire Japan
Type: Full time, permanent
Location: Tokyo (Shinjuku-ku Ward)
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overall purpose
To lead and manage the Japan Sales Team, and co-develop and implement in collaboration with the Marketing Team and Medical Team the Annual Business Plan for all Shire products within Japan. This will include setting annual sales targets, implementing agreed sales and marketing strategies and tactics, developing and monitoring sales activity targets, and ensuring that sales targets are achieved. Also responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining the Sales Team
Responsibilities
As a member of the Shire Japan Management Team, and in collaboration with local and global team colleagues:
•Achieve the budgeted sales of all Sales Team promoted products, and any future Shire Japan products and to ensure expenses are managed in line with budget and forecast expectations
•Provide sales input into the Japan Annual Business Plan, marketing strategy, and long range planning process. Through this develop and communicate in a timely manner the Annual National Sales Plan
•Work with the various marketing and medical teams to co-develop an integrated Sales, Marketing, and Medical Brand Plan each year. Drive and champion the Sales Plans and strategies within the Sales Team. Read More
Job: Visiting Chair in Australian Studies, University of Tokyo
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Thanks to JET Alum Nic Klar (author of “My Mother is a Tractor”) for sharing this Aussie-relevant listing. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Visiting Chair in Australian Studies
Posted by: The University of Tokyo
Type: 10 Months
Location: Tokyo
Salary: N/A
Start Date: October 2014-15 and/or 2015-16
Overview:
The University of Melbourne is now seeking applications for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. Applications must be submitted by 5pm (AEST) Friday 20 September 2013. For information about this significant academic role, please see the position description.
Open to: Australian citizens and permanent residents
Location: Centre for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
AJET Survey: “Life After JET”
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To: All JET Alumni — Please take 15 seconds to complete the “Life After JET” survey that AJET has put together. AJET has done a great job with this year after year, and the results matter–to the JET Programme, to JETAA, and to the future of JET. See below from Yolanda Espiritu of the AJET National Council 2013-14:
I am pleased to inform you that the survey on “Life After JET” is now available. We ask all of our sempai to complete this survey and let us know about “Life After JET.”
“Life After JET” Survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LifeAfterJET
WIT Life #247: Takao Osawa bonanza!
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WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
Two of Japan’s best current actors, Tatsuya Fujiwara and Takashi Osawa, in Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw
I’m interpreting for a client in L.A. this week, and on the cross-country flight I had the chance to watch two interesting Japanese movies that were just released this year, making the long journey pass by much more quickly (Thank you Delta!). They both starred one of my favorite Japanese actors, the always かっこいい Takao Osawa. In this blog I have mentioned his appearances in other films, such as in 終の信託 (Tsui no Shintaku or A Terminal Trust) as the intimidating prosecutor. Osawa’s work never disappoints, and even though these particular movies were not necessarily of a genre I would usually opt to watch, he made sticking with them to the end worth it.
The first film was 藁の楯 (Wara no Tate or Shield of Straw), directed by the legendary Takashi Miike and based on the eponymous book by Kazuhiro Kiuchi. It features another one of my favorite performers, the fabulous Tatsuya Fujiwara who I recently highlighted from the film I’M FLASH! which debuted at this year’s Japan Society Japan Cuts film festival. Fujiwara plays a serial killer named Kiyomaru who targets young children, and Osawa is in the role of one of the Special Police assigned to safely escort him from Fukuoka to Tokyo (with Nanako Matsushima as his cracker jack partner). The grandfather of Kiyomaru’s most recent victim offers 1 billion yen to Read More
