Job: Program Coordinator at Baruch Leadership Academy (NYC)
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From JET alum Eli Cohen (Tanegashima, 2009-10). He currently works at Baruch College (CUNY) in NYC and says they have an immediate opening for a part-time Program Coordinator (Baruch Leadership Academy). Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Program Coordinator
Location: NYC
Overview:
The Academy is looking for an enthusiastic and organized Program Coordinator to work closely with the Director in the development and implementation of business operations for the entire program. The Program Coordinator will be responsible for all Academy communications both the registered and prospective students and parents. The position requires 20-30 hours of availability per week with an immediate placement. Read More
Job: [Teach For Japan] Openings in Development, Recruitment, Training and Mentoring (Tokyo)
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[Steve’s Note: Some very interesting and JET-relevant job openings with Teach for Japan received directly from the organization. (The listing is in Japanese because a high level of proficiency is required to work there.) Thanks to AJET Chair Kay Makishi for putting TFJ in touch with JETwit.
A little background in English: “We currently have a small team running the program, and we hope to expand the team as our operations expand moving forward. As does Teach For America, we send full-time teachers for at least two years to the most needy schools in Japan.” Read More
Job: 3 Immediate Openings at CSI (Kentucky & Nagoya)
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Three openings: Bilingual Admin Professional, Japanese/English Translator-Interpreter, and English Language & Cultural Instructor, all at CSI, a JET alum owned company based in Lexington, Kentucky that has hired a number of JET alums. Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Positions are available in Kentucky, USA and Nagoya, Japan
Consultant Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will provide training and a support network that facilitates success. We will also consider relocation and/or visa support for the right candidate. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Paid Time Off, Retirement, Insurance and other standard perks apply. Consultant Solutions, Inc. may assign candidates to a subsidiary based upon skill-sets. Read More
JQ Magazine: JQ&A with Cade Mosley on His Return to Japan with Rotary International
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“In my experience, Japan is going through an interesting evolution these days. It’s starting to take a more assertive role in international affairs and taking more of a stand for human rights, development, and peaceful relations. This also makes it a very interesting time for Westerners to be engaged in Japan more than ever before.” (Courtesy of Cade Mosley)
By Mark Flanigan (Nagasaki-ken, 2000-04) for JQ magazine. Mark is a program director at the Japan ICU Foundation in New York City and was also a Rotary Peace Fellow at ICU from 2010-12, during which time he volunteered for a tsunami relief mission in Ishinomaki after the terrible 3/11 tragedy. In addition to his JET and Rotary service, Mark has also been a U.S. Army officer, Presidential Management Fellow, Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leader, Eisaku Sato Memorial Essay Contest prize winner, and Aspen Institute Socrates Program Seminar scholar. His interests lie in international education, disaster response, and post-conflict peacebuilding. He can be contacted at mflanigan[at]jicuf.org.
Christopher Cade Mosley (Nagasaki-ken, 2000-01) is a current Rotary Peace Fellow at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo and previously served as a JET for one year. Born in Texas and raised mostly in Fort Worth, Mosley attended the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in government and philosophy. He also spent a semester abroad in Haifa, Israel and interned for Congressional House Majority Leader Dick Armey in Washington, D.C. He was also on student government for their department (Liberal Arts), chairing the committee on study abroad. In this exclusive interview, JQ caught up with Mosley to discuss his lifelong interest in politics and international affairs.
Thanks for your time and for answering our questions, Cade! Would you please tell everyone about your time on JET?
I was a JET in 2000-01 on a long, thin island called Tsushima in Nagasaki, but physically closer to the city of Fukuoka, nestled in the strait between the cities of Pusan and Fukuoka. Tsushima is famous for a decisive sea battle Japan won against Russia in 1905 that first put Japan on the map as a world power and set its course into the 20th century. There’s a massive Russian battleship sunk just off the coast from my apartment there! (Too deep to see, though.) I taught for the second largest district, called Mitsushima, on the south end of the island.
What was your JET role?
I was an ALT at four schools in my district, spending a week in each so that I would rotate through all four in a month. I spent Monday through Thursday assisting the teacher with the lesson, usually coming up with some creative activity or role play to complement the lesson, and Fridays at our BOE.
Did you have any previous background in Asian languages and cultures?
I actually was accepted to JET while I was teaching English in Seoul, South Korea, and my friends there insisted I take the opportunity. Before Seoul, I didn’t have any experience. My whole reason for going to Seoul and applying to JET were because I had zero experience with Asia and thought it would be a good chance to get to know the region, since I was already interested in international affairs at that time.
Life After JET: A Rabu (Love) Story
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The original article was first published in Volume 48 No.4 Summer 2013-2014 edition of Japan Reports from the Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney, and also reproduced on the JETAA NSW site. The article was written by Blair Milne (Nara-ken ALT, 2010-2012), originally from Scotland, on how he met and married a fellow JET (Carly Milne, Nara-ken ALT, 2010-2012), and finally settled with her in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, both of whom kindly gave their permission for re-publication.
Posted by Eden Law (Fukushima-ken ALT, 2010-2011), of JETAA NSW.
Japan: A Rabu (Love) Story
My name is Blair and I came from Scotland to work as a JET in Nara Prefecture for two years. Among all the fantastic opportunities that came from working on the JET Programme, I was lucky to meet my Australian wife Carly early on in my time in Japan. So after proposing during the Sakura Light Up at Nijo Castle in Kyoto, then marrying in the Old Town of Edinburgh, we have “returned” to Sydney to begin our lives after JET. In this article, I wish to reflect on my experience on the JET Programme, and the importance of maintaining links to Japan.
Firstly, I came on the JET Programme to experience living in a culture alien to my own, and to experience life on the other side of the world (and, of course, for the sushi). The things that excited me most were being able to contribute to school life, and to introduce aspects of my own culture to the school. At the same time, knowing no Japanese was a daunting prospect. In hindsight, all the initial worries were largely unwarranted. No matter how alien the language was, some form of assistance was never too far away, and common sense was a winner. From buying a train ticket to finding food in the supermarket, I took my time and tried not to be overwhelmed.
It was at a welcome BBQ for new JETs on the banks of the Totsukawa River that I first met Carly. Carly had come on the programme a year before, having studied Japanese at school then university. When Carly offered me a piece of her renkon (a Japanese vegetable), I knew we were destined to be partners in crime.
There are two senior high schools in Kashihara City: My school, Unebi, and my wife’s school, Kashihara. So when we were first spotted together, sipping coffee at Mister Donuts, I dread to think of the commotion we might have caused in the town. Certainly, grinning students became a pleasant part of life early on in our relationship. Later on, Carly and I were able to share parts of our life with our Japanese friends, from photos of our wedding, to stories about our travels around Japan. Sharing our life experience with friends in Japan was one of the best parts about being in Japan for Carly and me.
Relationships are such an integral part of being on JET, from students to colleagues to Japanese friends outside work, as well as other expats living in Japan. In many respects, it is important anywhere, but the unique situation of being on JET can add challenges: differences in language and culture can change dynamics in both obvious and subtle ways. I think for me, overcoming these differences was my biggest achievement on JET. (Apart from marrying Carly, of course!)
Now, living in Australia, I can look back fondly on everything I did in Japan, knowing I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t partaken in the JET Programme. Being in Australia for me also means learning about a new culture in much the same way as I did in Japan; new concepts like “a fair go” or Aussie Battler instead of Honne-Tatemae* and Salaryman. The smell of wattle in place of harvested rice fields, bushfires instead of typhoons, and Flat Whites instead of Frappucinos. Although I am loving life in Australia, and trying to make the most of the opportunities here, Carly and I both look forward to returning to Japan to see friends and maintain a connection to the community in which we met, and to remember all the little things about Japan that made us smile.
Blair Milne
Job: Study Abroad Advisor – Office of Overseas Study, Indiana University, Bloomington
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Via JET alum Carleen Ben. Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Study Abroad Advisor
Posted by: Office of Overseas Study, Indiana University, Bloomington
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Type: full-time
Job Duties:
- Advises students in person and electronically about approximately 100 active IU and non-IU study abroad programs and procedures, and other experiential activities. Provides individual pre-departure academic advising; plans and conducts information meetings, orientations and post-program debriefings; works closely with advisors and faculty on campus and abroad; and responds to queries. Helps to organize and maintain the Overseas Study Information Center.
- Evaluates application dossiers; and maintains the student database; and assists in hiring, training and working with 10-15 student peer counselors.
- Represents Overseas Study in professional groups and to student organizations and travels internationally as needed to become familiar with Indiana University program sites.
【RocketNews24】Five Japanese customs even some Japanese people think are a pain
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Posted by Michelle Lynn Dinh (Shimane-ken, Chibu-mura, 2010–13), editor and writer for RocketNews24. The following article was written by Casey Baseel, a writer and translator for RocketNews24, a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.
One of the trickier aspects of adapting to life in Japan is getting the hang of the numerous seasonal customs. While your acquaintances aren’t likely to get that bent out of shape if you miss a day or two, completely adhering to proper etiquette involves managing a year-round schedule of sending gifts and written salutations to friends, family, and business associates.
The sentiment is definitely admirable, but don’t Japanese people don’t find this all to be a huge hassle? Actually, it turns out some of them do, as shown in a poll of the top five seasonal traditions people in Japan would like to do away with.
WIT Life #262: 梅祭り！
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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.
Over the weekend I had the chance to try the 梅祭り (ume matsuri or plum blossom festival) Prix Fixe at Hi Collar in the East Village. It was my first time going to this cool hole-in-the-wall location, which hasn’t even been open for a year. Hi Collar operates as a coffee shop during the day, offering beverages and desserts, and at night transforms into a sake bar/restaurant. You can see some of the amazing ume offerings in the menu here, and I especially enjoyed the rice that closed the meal (although it lacked yuba which is one of my favorite foods, as they had run out). The cozy bar sits about 10 people (and has little hooks for your bags underneath, so convenient!), and we were there on Saturday night so it was packed. However, there is a turnover as some people just come in for a drink and leave fairly quickly, as opposed to people like my friend and I who lingered over our ume course for hours. At $38 it is amazingly reasonable so if you have a chance to go before the end of the month when the matsuri ends I would highly recommend it…
I also got the accompanying $30 Umeshu Pairing, which was phenomenal. It came with five glasses of various 梅酒 (ume shu or plum wine), not all of which were sweet. I really liked the Kimoto Umeshu from Daishichi Brewery in Fukushima. This sake producer was one of a few highlighted in a recent New York Times article about how the Japan government is using sake to revitalize the economy by Read More
2014 JETAANorthern California Scholarship Application
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Saw this posted to the JETAA Northern California LinkedIn group. I know none of you are high school students, but maybe you know someone or have kids who might be interested.
Context: JETAANC set this scholarship up a number of years ago. They’re the only chapter to offer something like this, which is really terrific since promoting study of Japan is a great example of Return On JET-vestment.
Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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2014 JETAANorthern California Scholarship Application
Submit completed online form and required uploads by no later than March 14, 2014.
Background:
The JETAANC serves as a support network and resource for returning JET Program participants in their transition to the Northern California Area, and also provides assistance in the recruitment and orientation for the JET Program to the Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco. The organization also works to promote and support understanding of Japan, and organizes and actively participates in Japan-related events
Purpose:
The JETAANC Scholarship honors one high school senior each year that has demonstrated a genuine interest in Japan with a non-renewable $2000 academic scholarship. JETAANC requires that the recipient be accepted to an accredited institution of higher learning beginning Fall 2014 and who is a resident of one of the Northern California or Nevada counties that the JETAANC serves.
A nice JET-relevant listing received directly from the company. (Thanks to JETAANY Webmaster Lee-Sean Huang for pointing them to JETwit.) Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Translator
Overview:
We are Gengo, a US and Tokyo-based online translation company. We are currently looking for Japanese to English translators to join our worldwide team.
If you are proficient both in Japanese and English, sign up to test today. Once qualified, you will gain access to hundreds of jobs.
Get started today and take the first step to work as a Gengo Translator! Read More
Job: Admissions Officer, International Student – Jacksonville University (FL)
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Via JET alum Carleen Ben. Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Admissions Officer, International Student
Posted by: Jacksonville University,
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Type: full-time
Overview:
Jacksonville University, located on the banks of the St. John’s River in North Florida, is a private, four-year, regionally accredited institution with an approximate undergraduate enrollment of 3,000 students. Seven full-time admissions officers work as a team to ensure the recruitment of a diverse and academically competitive student body. The open position will be primarily responsible for the recruitment of students in international territories.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Recruit and establish a trusting and professional relationship with prospective international students, parents and sponsors
- Evaluate prospective international students for admissions purposes
- Coordinate the issuance of I-20’s to admitted freshmen and transfer students
- Support students as well as University faculty and administrators with immigration and visa related pre-arrival inquiries
- Assist as needed with recruitment and admitted student events
- Represent the University to international schools, cultural missions, government representatives and educational consultants
Job: Program Manager, Brandeis-Led Study Programs (Boston, MA)
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Via JET alum Carleen Ben. Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Program Manager, Brandeis-Led Study Programs
Posted by: Brandeis University
Location: Boston, MA
Type: full-time
Overview:
Program Manager, Brandeis-Led Study Programs
Brandeis University is looking for a Program Manager to oversee all administrative functions for the Justice Brandeis Semester and Brandeis-Led Study Programs which include some seventeen faculty-run programs. The Program Manager coordinates the logistics of the program including publicity, the application process, budget monitoring, logistical arrangements for students and faculty, and assists in the evaluation of the programs. The Program Manager also assists in advising students interested in summer experiences abroad.
Job: Off-Campus Study Graduate Assistantship at Messiah College (Harrisburg, PA)
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Via JET alum Carleen Ben. Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Off-Campus Study Graduate Assistantship
Posted by: Messiah College
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Type: full-time
Overview:
Messiah College, a Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences located outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has recently begun offering a graduate assistantship for students enrolled in our MA in Higher Education program who are interested in working with off-campus programs and our new experiential learning requirement. If you know any graduating seniors or recent college graduates who might be interested in this opportunity, or are interested yourself, more information can be found below.
Job: Credit Analyst (Duluth, GA )
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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: Credit Analyst
Posted by: Hire Dynamics
Type: N/A
Location: Duluth, GA
Salary: Salary is up to $ 24.00 per hour – commensurate with ability
Start Date:
Overview:
- Need intermediate Accounting background
- Strong communication skills
- Assist with documentation and process flow for newly submitted credit applications and determine credit limits
- Obtain contractor, dealer, and distributer banking and trade references via email, phone and fax.
- Determine credit limits based on information obtained.
- Maintain customer accounts
- Manager customers in Sage ERP system
- Enter and manage credit memos.
- Successfully manage multiple projects in various phases of project development
- Back up data entry for daily invoice processing
- Act as liaison to sales, accounting and customer service departments
Please contact Cindy Weimer at 678.482.0200 or cweimer@hiredynamics.com for more information.
CLAIR Magazine “JET Plaza” Series: Don Brown (Osaka)
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Each month, current and former JET participants are featured in the “JET Plaza” section of the CLAIR Forum magazine. The March 2014 edition includes an article by JET alumnus Don Brown. Posted by Celine Castex (Chiba-ken, 2006-11), currently programme coordinator at CLAIR Tokyo.
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“I’ve been in Japan for 14 years now, but those first three in Kawachinagano were the most thrilling and character-building. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am now, and thanks to JET, I’m now doing exactly what I always wanted to do.”
Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, Don Brown (Osaka-fu, Kawachinagano-shi, 1999-2002) majored in journalism and Japanese at university and worked in television before taking part in the JET Programme as a CIR. He subsequently remained in Japan and held several jobs including Public Affairs Officer at the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo before becoming a freelance subtitler and translator specializing in Japanese film. In 2013, films for which he provided English subtitles were screened at the Cannes and Venice film festivals.
20/20 Hindsight
Somehow I doubt that I’m the only JET Programme participant who looks back on their time with regret. Now don’t get me wrong – this isn’t the beginning of some bitter diatribe. When I say regret, I mean along the lines of “I wish I’d spoken to that colleague more,” or “I wish I’d reacted differently in that situation,” or “I wish I’d done more in the time I had.” It wasn’t until my time on the Programme was up that I became fully aware of how lucky I’d been to have lived and worked in Kawachinagano.
No, you can’t ski there. Despite the “nagano” in the name, the city is located in the southeast of Osaka, on the border with Nara and Wakayama. Or as I liked to explain, the heel in Osaka’s boot. 70% of the city is forest (toothpicks and bamboo blinds are its major exports), and it even boasts mountains and a lake, but it’s only about a half-hour train journey away from downtown Namba. Try finding a place to live with those favorable specifications in Tokyo. I couldn’t.
The first time I stepped off the train at Kawachinagano Station on the Nankai Koya line, I instantly had a gut feeling that I was in the right place. My supervisor and a couple of other senior staff members from my division treated me to dinner at a conveyor belt sushi joint, made sure I had everything I needed at my apartment, and even helped me to acquire a bike. At the end of my bewildering first day at the office, the shy junior staff shuffled over to my desk in a tight formation and engaged me in conversation. Pretty soon, they were taking me out to massacre songs in two languages at karaoke and flail away in vain at lethal velocity baseballs at the batting center. Members of the international friendship association welcomed me into their homes and treated me like their long-lost son, only paler and frecklier.
Having never studied in Japan prior to JET, let alone translation and interpreting, being thrown into the deep end forced me to develop skills I still depend on today. It also dispelled all the preconceived notions about Japan and Japanese people that I’d accrued over the years from reading books and watching films back home, and gave me my first revelatory glimpses of what living and working in Japan was really like for flesh-and-blood Japanese people. As well as my colleagues in the cultural division and the international friendship association, my job brought me into contact with people from many and varied walks of life. Teachers and school children, sake brewers, calligraphers, firefighters and police officers, rice farmers, prefectural governors, World Cup organizers, and the diverse local foreign community. Coming from a wee island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf with a fluctuating population of only a few thousand, calling my time in Kawachinagano “eye opening” would do the place a gross disservice. “Mushroom-free consciousness expanding” is more like it. Read More
