5 Jobs in International Education and 1 internship
Via Carleen Ben (Oita). Posted by Sophia Chan (Sapporo-shi, 2009-2014). If interested in more job listings, join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
(1) Univ of Denver_Associate Director, English Language Center
The English Language Center at the University of Denver currently has an opening for the Associate Director position. The job description and posting can be found on the DU online system here:
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Please feel free to pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested. For any inquiries, please email elc@du.edu<mailto:elc@du.edu>. Read More
Job: Executive Director at Japan Society of Boston (Boston, MA)
Posted by Sebastian Shimomichi, a Data Analyst for marketing at an IT firm & upcoming software developer. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Executive Director
Posted by: New England JETAA
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-Time
Overview:
We have recently been retained by the Japan Society of Boston to find its new Executive Director.
Founded over 100 years ago, the Japan Society of Boston (JSB) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote cultural and economic ties and active interchange between Japanese and Americans for mutual understanding, benefit and enjoyment. One of the first Japan Societies in the United States, the JSB serves as a bridge and programming nexus for a network of individuals, cultural and academic institutions and business and financial firms, linked together by a strong interest in Japan and a shared recognition of the importance of the US-Japan relationship.
Located in the GBA, its membership consists of individuals and corporations and students and teachers, old and young alike, unified by a common recognition that Japan and the United States wield great global influence and that their harmonious interactions affect the well-being of people throughout the world. As a repository of Japanese art and culture, with more than a century of cultural and economic exchange, no city in the world matches Boston. Linked by historic ties of commerce and cultural activity, “we understand the importance of our special history and see it as the foundation for a future of enriched cooperation and international impact.”
Internship: Marketing and Recruitment Intern – University of Melbourne (US and Canada)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Marketing and Recruitment Intern
Posted by: University of Melbourne
Location: US (Washington, DC) and Canada
Status: Approximately 35 hours per week
Overview: The University of Melbourne (UM) is a research intensive university located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. UM is represented with offices in seven countries providing engagement, marketing, recruitment and advancement/alumni support to the home campus. The University of Melbourne North America (NAO) office is currently seeking an intern to support the staff with marketing, communications, and recruitment activities.
The internship is available starting September 2015, and will be managed out of UM’s North America office. The duration of the internship will be 3 months in length. The intern program will be on a full-time basis (approximately 35 hours per week), requiring some travel throughout the US and Canada. The intern will be paid a negotiated monthly stipend of $1,500-2,000 depending on education and experience.
11 Jobs in International Education
Via Carleen Ben (Oita). Posted by Sophia Chan (Sapporo-shi, 2009-2014). If interested in more job listings, join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
(1) University of New Hampshire – International Education Program Assistant
· Coordinate the administrative enrollment processes for international programs/experience, including the study abroad scholarship competition.
· Assist the Education Abroad Administrative Director with statistical reporting and supporting risk management systems such as the travel registry and international insurance enrollment.
· Screen correspondences on the general study abroad email account.
· Support the University Committee on Study Abroad.
· Assist Study Abroad Advisor and Program Coordinator with events and presentations.
· Support the communication, marketing and social media efforts to increase enrollments in international programs.
· Serve as the front desk coordinator for operations in Center of International Education and Global Engagement, providing daily task supervision of work study students.
· Coordinate maintenance of the front office, resource library and waiting area, and distribution of mail.For more detailed information and instructions for applying go to the UNH Human Resources website: https://jobs.usnh.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp.Please do not reply to this email. All questions and applications must be submitted to UNH Human Resources.
Job: Associate Program Officer, Intellectual Exchange and Japanese Studies programs at The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (NYC)
Posted by Sebastian Shimomichi, a Data Analyst for marketing at an IT firm & upcoming software developer. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Associate Program Officer
Posted by: JET Alum Emily Rosenberg (Fukuoka City CIR, 2009-2013)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Overview: The Japan Foundation CGP has an opening for an Associate Program Officer who will work for CGP’s Intellectual Exchange Program as well as the Japan Foundation’s Japanese Studies Program. The Intellectual Exchange Program supports a wide range of policy-oriented projects conducted by U.S. and Japanese institutions including universities, think tanks and non-profit organizations. The Japanese Studies program provides grants designed to enhance Japanese Studies in the US, primarily at the university level, and is overseen by the American Advisory Committee (AAC).
Job: Openings at Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, NY)
by Sebastian Shimomichi, a Data Analyst for marketing at an IT firm & upcoming software developer. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Numerous positions
Posted by: JET alum Fernando Rojas
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Status: Full-time
Overview: The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.
Job: Program Officer – Business & Policy Program at Japan Society (NY)
by Sebastian Shimomichi, a Data Analyst for marketing at an IT firm & upcoming software developer. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Program Officer – Business & Policy Program
Posted by: JETAANY Vice-prez Katy Edwards
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-time
Overview:
The Program Officer will work with the Deputy Director in conceiving, planning and implementing approximately three programs per month. He/she will also draft and edit program materials and assist in program execution, research, program outreach activities, and interact with leaders and distinguished speakers in the academic and business community, as well as thousands of Corporate Members. He/she will also oversee and manage administrative and logistical tasks.
Job: Business Development at Septeni, a Mobile Ad/Tech Company (NY)
Posted by Sebastian Shimomichi, a Data Analyst for marketing at an IT firm & upcoming software developer. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Business Development
Posted by: Mr. Shinomiya (former Executive Director for the Japan-America Student Conference in DC).
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Overview: Septeni is a top tier full-service digital advertising agency that delivers innovative communications, consulting, and commerce solutions for the world’s leading brands. We specialize in mobile marketing, bringing the top US/European-made mobile apps and technologies to Asia. With our HQ based out of Tokyo, Japan we encompass 12 domestic branch offices in Japan and 5 global branches worldwide (San Francisco, London, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore).
We are in the process of opening our office in New York City. Join us in this global mobile movement and be part of the change that is revolutionizing the way the world moves and thinks. Mobile is Now!
WIT Life #289: NY Asian Film Festival
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.
This year’s NY Asian Film Festival is showcasing 11 films as part of its focus on new cinema from Japan. I had the chance to catch two of them, Permanent Nobara (パーマネント野ばら) and Chasuke’s Journey (天の茶助).
The former flick stars the drama and film fixture Miho Kanno and the seemingly non-aging Yosuki Eguchi in a story set in a small fishing village in Shikoku (with dialogue in the regional dialect). Kanno’s character Naoko has returned to her hometown with her daughter, after divorcing her husband and leaving her life in Tokyo. Her mom runs the only town’s beauty salon, whose signature service is perms. The regulars gather there to snack and gab while getting their hair done, and this convivial and often raunchy atmosphere reminded me of the relationships between the women in Steel Magnolias.
Various aspects of Naoko’s life growing up in the village are revealed via flashback, including Read More
Job: Science Instructor – Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School (Sapporo)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Science Instructor
Posted by: Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Status: Full-Time
Overview: Have undergraduate study in Science? If you want to stay in Japan and/or want to teach solo, the Sapporo City Board of Education (Hokkaido) is recruiting a teacher for Science to teach at Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School from October 2015.
There is a six-month internship period with conditions similar to the JET Programme in which candidates assist with lesson prep and get used to the school.
From April 2016, the teachers will be employed on renewable one-year contracts and will run their own classes teaching basic Science in English to 2nd year middle school students. Classes are capped at 27 students, classrooms are equipped with TVs/Apple TVs and teachers and students have iPads as well as brand new science classrooms.
Application Process: Experience teaching English and of the Japanese school system will be required so we consider JETs to be perfect candidates. Applications are due by the end of July and require documentation so please send expressions of interest/questions as soon as you can to benjamin.gibb@sapporo-c.ed.jp.
Job: Mathematics Instructor – Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School (Sapporo)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Mathematics Instructor
Posted by: Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Status: Full-Time
Overview: Have undergraduate study in Mathematics? If you want to stay in Japan and/or want to teach solo, the Sapporo City Board of Education (Hokkaido) is recruiting a teacher for Mathematics to teach at Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School from October 2015.
There is a six-month internship period with conditions similar to the JET Programme in which candidates assist with lesson prep and get used to the school.
From April 2016, the teachers will be employed on renewable one-year contracts and will run their own classes teaching basic Math in English to 2nd year middle school students. Classes are capped at 27 students, classrooms are equipped with TVs/Apple TVs, and teachers and students have iPads.
Application Process: Experience teaching English and of the Japanese school system will be required so we consider JETs to be perfect candidates. Applications are due by the end of July and require documentation so please send expressions of interest/questions as soon as you can to benjamin.gibb@sapporo-c.ed.jp.
Internship: Research Assistant – British Consulate (Osaka)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Research Assistant
Posted by: British Consulate
Location: Osaka, Japan
Status: Maximum of 28 hours per week
Overview: The British Consulate-General Osaka represents UK interests across the 29 prefectures of West Japan. Our three key objectives are to promote UK prosperity by fostering greater trade and investment links between the UK and Western Japan; to support British Nationals living or working in Western Japan; and to co-operate with Japanese partners across a wide range of issues ranging from science and innovation through to cultural links.
Internship: Research Assistant (Economic Diplomacy) – British Embassy (Tokyo)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Research Assistant (Economic Diplomacy)
Posted by: British Embassy
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Maximum of 28 hours per week
Overview: The Economic Diplomacy Team at the British Embassy in Tokyo works on a wide range of issues to help create the conditions for global growth by promoting a rules-based international economic system to underpin economic stability and by securing global energy supplies in a sustainable low carbon economy. Under the department, there are three different teams:
- The Science & Innovation section in Japan represents the whole of the UK science base in Japan. The team promotes and strengthens science, technology and innovation collaboration between the UK and Japan. It works closely with experts from both countries dealing with exciting themes including stem cell research, brain science, cybersecurity, space, energy technology including nuclear.
- The Climate Change & Energy section promotes UK climate change and energy policy in Japan, working with a wide range of governmental and non-governmental decision-makers, opinion-formers and influencers to encourage the political conditions which support Japanese climate ambition. The section has a major focus on energy as the main tool for achieving our climate objectives, as a crucial engine of the economy, and a source of trade and investment opportunities for the UK.
- The Economic & Trade Policy section works to promote UK economic interests in an open and expanding global economy by reporting on and seeking to influence developments in the Japanese economy and regulatory environment. It deals with structural financial and regulatory reform in Japan; the EU-Japan Economic Partnership and negotiations and discussions in the WTO, G7, EU and other bi/multi-lateral forums. It also promotes close links on economic, trade and financial issues between the UK and Japanese governments and central banks.
Internship: Research Assistant (Strategic Trade Team) – British Embassy (Tokyo)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Research Assistant (Strategic Trade Team)
Posted by: British Embassy
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Maximum of 28 hours per week
Overview: The Strategic Trade Team develops or improves market access for British businesses in areas such as defense, nuclear, global sports, cyber security and aerospace. UK Trade & Investment is the UK Government Department which helps UK companies export around the world, and assists foreign companies set up their operations in the UK.
Internship: Marketing Assistant (Japanese Investors) – British Embassy (Tokyo)
Posted by Sydney Sparrow, curriculum and content developer for a real estate school based in Virginia. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Marketing Assistant – Japanese Investors
Posted by: British Embassy
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Maximum of 28 hours per week
Overview: UKTI Japan Marketing team is responsible for developing and communicating messages to potential and existing Japanese Investors about the key strengths of the UK as an Investment destination. UK Trade & Investment is the UK Government Department which helps UK companies export around the world, and assists foreign companies set up their operations in the UK. The aim of the role is to:
- Provide support to the Marketing Delivery Manager on events, marketing & digital
- Provide support to the Marketing team and UKTI colleagues on contents, partners
- Provide support for Operations