Job: Sales and Program Coordinator at BUNAC USA (TX)
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Position: Sales and Program Coordinator
Posted By: BUNAC USA
Location: Lewisville, TX (Dallas Area)
Overview:
A new role and addition to our staff in the US office, the Sales and Program Coordinator will work under the direction of the BDM to provide high quality work abroad programs. The role requires a professional approach and involvement in and commitment to all aspects of sales and administration of BUNAC’s Work Abroad programs. Read More
Job: Development Associate @ Japan Society of NY (NYC)
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Position: Development Associate
Posted By: Japan Society of New York
Location: NYC
Overview:
The Development Associate (Individual Giving) provides the administrative backbone for individual giving, ensuring the smooth operation of all aspects of Japan Society’s individual membership and gift programs, including renewals; gift processing and acknowledgement; data entry and record-keeping; handling of member queries via phone and email; special events assistance; and research. Read More
Job: Passenger Services Rep @ Criterion Travel (CA)
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Position: Passenger Services Rep
Type: Full-time
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Overview:
The Passenger Services Representative performs a wide variety of administrative, customer service, and other professional travel functions.
The diverse responsibilities and functions of the position require the capacity to abstract, conceptualize, organize, and integrate different sources of information into a coherent and practical frame of reference. The geographic expanse of assigned regions and the diverse range of programmatic services provided contribute to an operational complexity that requires a high level of ability and skills. Independent judgment is required in dealing with day-to-day problems and establishing priorities. Read More
Job: Psychosocial Program Evaluation Consultant (Japan)
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Position: Psychosocial Program Evaluation Consultant
Type: Temp
Location: Japan
Salary: Annual salary will be commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, and health club reimbursement; annual tuition or student loan reimbursement; outstanding pension plan and tax savings programs; generous vacation and sick leave; and more.
Overview:
AmeriCares works through local NGOs and a field office in Sendai to identify survivor needs including a focus on psychosocial support for survivors, filling gaps in health care and innovative projects that reconnect people to communities during the cleanup and rebuilding process. These efforts include more than 12 large and small therapeutic gardening projects for almost 5,000 earthquake and tsunami survivors. Therapeutic gardening is designed to promote the mental and physical rehabilitation of participants thereby reducing symptoms of depression, loneliness, and helplessness.
The field team in Japan is seeking a short term consultant who can assist with signature program evaluation work that we believe will showcase the critical impact we are providing by funding some truly innovative psychosocial programming. Read More
Job: Communications Associate/Production Manager (NY)
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Position: Communications Associate/Production Manager
Type: Full-Time
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Salary: Annual salary will be commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, and health club reimbursement; annual tuition or student loan reimbursement; outstanding pension plan and tax savings programs; generous vacation and sick leave; and more.
Overview:
The SSRC Communications Department seeks a Communications Associate/Production Manager to work closely with the Communications, Editorial, and IT teams. The Communications Associate/Production Manager will work closely with the Communications, Editorial, and IT teams and will have solid technical skills, with digital communications savvy, as well as an interest in public issues and the social sciences. The Communications Associate / Production Manager also supervises other team members and manages projects. Someone who is efficient and organized, and who can quickly learn and adapt to a variety of new systems and software would be well suited to this position. Read More
The 17th Japanese Film Festival in Australia is now showing in Melbourne, the last major city on its national tour before wrapping up for the year. Eden Law (Fukushima JET 2010-2011, current member of JETAA NSW reviews some of the films on offer.
I said SHUSH MF!! * machine gun fire *
Library Wars (Toshokan Senso) is the latest in a series of adaptation of an extremely popular series of light novels by Hiro Arikawa, which has included your usual manga and anime. The inspiration for the plot comes from the real life Statement on Intellectual Freedom in Libraries of the Japan Library Association, which kind of sounds pretty bad-ass when you think about it. Especially when, interpreting its mission statement rather liberally to mean the right to bear arms. Armed librarians. Hate to think what the penalties for late returns would be.
Dealing with the theme of censorship, Japan in an alternate reality has gone overboard with outlawing ‘unsuitable’ reading material, raiding shops with maniacal book-burning zeal. But against this thought police are the librarians who form the defensive Librarian force, who take up arms to protect the citizens’ right and access to information. Joining the ranks is Iku Kasahara (Nana Eikura), who is your typical rough diamond – brash, impulsive, klutzy, a rule-breaker and therefore audience favourite. She continuously butts head against hard-arse Atsushi Dojo (Junichi Okada), a no-nonsense senior librarian who naturally, questions her place in the force. Around them, forces are on the move to consolidate and destroy books and knowledge, and the Library Force gears up for the ultimate confrontation.
This isn’t Fahrenheit 451, although there are some discussions about freedom of speech and an out of control state that doesn’t know where to draw the line in the name of protecting the hearts and minds of the nation from indecency and corruption. But for the most part, it’s largely kept light and focused on comedy and action, with recognizable character tropes from Japanese fiction. While it’s a pure escapism, some things are a bit far-fetched: you wonder why no one, in the year 2019, have thought about making backups, especially if these things are so precious, for example.
The cast perform their roles as expected, their characters doesn’t have much need for complex character development. Things like character quirks that might work in a novel or an anime situation don’t translate too well into a live-action film – Kasahara’s personality isn’t that endearing, and Dojo, as handsome as he is, is rather a one-note character. There’s obviously a lot that hasn’t been transferred from a wealth of source material into the short timeframe of a film. Although I must say Jun Hashimoto’s scenery chewing is one of the entertaining things to watch in this film (it’s like each facial muscle is working independently of each other). Things pick up in the last half as it’s action-packed, but the film is largely froth and would appeal the most to the fan base. Had it been a lot funnier, I might be more forgiving of some of the plot holes, but as such, while it isn’t bad, it’s just rather pedestrian and unmemorable.
Library Wars (Toshokan Senso) by Shinsuke Sato, released April 27 2013 in Japan, starring Junichi Okada, Nana Eikura, Kei Tanaka, Sota Fukushi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kenji Takeyama, Iwao Nishina, Ryusuke Kenta and Maki Orikuchi.
Job: International Admissions Coordinator, South Seattle Community College (WA)
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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.
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Position: International Admissions Coordinator
Posted by: South Seattle Community College
Location: Seattle, WA
Type: part-time, 17 hr. Monday-Friday
Overview:
This is a part-time hourly position that works with the Admissions Program Coordinator in the International Programs Office Advisors at South Seattle Community College (SSCC) to provide admissions and services to international students.
Main Responsibilities:
- Creating files for new student applicants
- Processing application fees
- Notifying applicants and/or agent partners upon receipt of applications, missing documents or completion of applications
- Preparing acceptance packages for mailing with FedEx and DHL
- Assists in management of student records in the admissions database, campus data management system, FSA Atlas and the SEVIS system.
- Provides students, staff and the general public with information about the various services provided by the International Programs Office.
- Performs general office duties including photocopying, faxing, filing, emailing, and mailing.
- Directs students to resources on or off campus.
- Acute attention to detail.
- Serves as a member of the International Programs Staff and performs duties required of such.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Associate’s Degree required (Bachelor’s Degree preferred)
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated effectiveness working as part of a team
- Ability to problem solve and think quickly on your feet
- Ability to work independently to perform multiple tasks with frequent interruptions.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, and Access.
- Demonstrated experience working with non-native English speakers, including strong cross-cultural communication skills
- Knowledge of a second language (besides English) can help, but is not required (Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Vietnamese, French, Bengali)
Application Instructions:
Send Resume and Cover letter to:
Catherine Creason, Program Manager/PDSO
South Seattle Community College
6000 16th Ave SW, Seattle WA 98106-1499
Email: catherine.creason@seattlecolleges.edu phone: (206) 934-5360
【RocketNews24】7 things you should know before moving abroad
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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 Jessica, a writer and translator for RocketNews24, a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.
I’ve lived abroad three times in my life. Once was a homestay in France, once was a semester studying in Germany, and now I live and work in Japan. I don’t expect that I will ever move back to the States. I love Japan and have wanted to live abroad almost as long as I can remember. Even so, it has sometimes been challenging for a girl from suburban Arizona who didn’t even get a passport until she was 18, and lately I’ve been wondering what I would tell my younger self to better prepare her for this crazy expat life.
With the help of our globetrotting friends, we’ve come up with this list of seven things you should know before moving abroad.
Kitcher’s Café #003: Making the Most of Your Network
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Kitcher’s Café, a new series by Lana Kitcher (Yamanashi-ken, 2010-12) is an assortment of articles, topics and commentary written for the JET Alumni community. Lana currently serves as the Business Development Associate at Bridges to Japan, a New York-based cross-cultural consulting firm founded by JET alum Jennifer Jakubowski (Hokkaido, 1995-97).
Dear recent JET returnees and current “job hunters,”
I was given the opportunity to speak at the JETAANY Career Forum in New York City a few weeks ago. Approximately 25 recent returnees (plus JET alumni going through a career transition) attended the event and were able to learn from the presenters, and also from one another, about how to successfully land a job in today’s economy. We learned that it is important to keep strategies current as technology continues to change and as the methods of yesterday are not necessarily effective for our search today.
I would like to share with you some of the points from my presentation called “Making the Most of Your Network,” in case some of you are also going through this transition now. When I first returned home from the JET Program I had a really difficult time figuring out how to start the job search. At that point my only full-time job had been teaching English in Japan, and I didn’t know how to start looking for a new job from scratch. It took me until mid February to get a job, and I really wish someone had told me what I needed to hear earlier.
Kyodo News “Rural JET alumni” series: Elizabeth Gordon (Iwate)
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News agency Kyodo News has recently been publishing monthly articles written by JET alumni who were appointed in rural areas of Japan, as part of promotion for the JET Programme. Below is the English version of the column from November 2013. Posted by Celine Castex (Chiba-ken, 2006-11), currently programme coordinator at CLAIR Tokyo.
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“I discovered through these exchanges that the people with whom I was talking wanted to know as much about me, about Chicago and about America as I wanted to know about them, Iwate and Japan. Through these interactions over the course of two years I began to gain a small understanding of the subtle nuances that were part of the culture in which I was living.”
Originally from Chicago, Elizabeth Gordon (Iwate-ken, Ninohe-shi, 2003-05) holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology with a minor in Japanese Studies from Northwestern University, IL, and a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University, NY. She spent two years teaching English in rural Iwate before joining the Japan Foundation in New York as a Program Officer. She currently works as the Director of Private Events of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
Soba Diplomacy
Noodle making is an art, not to be taken lightly. Only a true master can produce the perfect noodle. After the wooden board is cleaned, the ingredients are kneaded in perfect rhythm until the correct consistency is achieved, and only the master knows for sure when that is. The rolling pin goes back and forth in a circular motion but forms a perfect rectangle, which is folded in half, then in half again, and in half again. Ever so delicately, the master cuts, slice after slice, all exactly the same width. They are cooked for just the right amount of time and then served with a simple dipping sauce sprinkled with scallions. The movements were ingrained in his muscles. I imagine he could have completed the whole process with his eyes closed. There is simplicity in the process, but the flavor is layered and complex.
When I arrived in Ninohe City, Iwate Prefecture in the summer of 2003 as a participant on the JET Program, I did not know a soul, nor had I ever heard of Iwate Prefecture. There was a short orientation in Tokyo, followed by a shorter orientation in Iwate’s capital city of Morioka. It was on the final day of orientation in Morioka that I met my supervisor, Mr. Sato. He picked me up and we drove the one and a half hours through the countryside back to Ninohe City. Mr. Sato did not speak much English and his heavy Iwate dialect was difficult for me to understand. We did, however, find common ground in a little bit of sports but mostly through food. I listed all of my favorite Japanese dishes, and he loved the fact that I could eat with chopsticks. He brought me to the Board of Education office and showed me my desk, which would be my home base for the next two years.
There was no rest for the weary, however. Before I could sit down I was whisked away on a driving tour of the entire city. We stopped at my two junior high schools and one of the eight elementary schools at which I would be teaching. I was asked to give a short self-introduction at each location. We also stopped at city hall to meet the mayor, and at the bank to open an account. Back at the board of education it was suggested that I be taken to the grocery store before I was dropped off at home for the evening. Read More
Job: Residential Coordinator – New York Institute of Technology (Old Westbury, NY)
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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.
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Position: Education Marketing Intern
Posted by: New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Location: Old Westbury, NY
Overview:
The Center for Global Exchange seeks a Residential Coordinator. The Residential Coordinator will live in NYIT residence hall, oversee Chinese student population, act as residential advisor, and develop programming for this cohort. Candidate will represent Center for Global Exchange on Old Westbury campus and/or as required; Assist Director with other programs as assigned. Position will require 1-2 days per week on the Old Westbury campus, or as needed.
Job: International Student Coordinator, City University of New York (CUNY)
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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.
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Position: Education Marketing Intern
Posted by: City University of New York (CUNY)
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $35,576 – $41,623 DOE
Overview:
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the nation’s leading urban public university serving more than 480,000 students in a wide range of educational programs at 24 colleges and institutions in New York City. The International Student Coordinator is responsible for performing various tasks associated with facilitating the admission of students into the International English Language Institute (IELI) including visa and passport related issues, work authorizations, and admission applications.
Job: Passenger Services Representative, Criterion Travel (Palo Alto, CA)
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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.
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Position: Passenger Services Representative
Posted by: Criterion Travel
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Overview:
Criterion Travel is a Palo Alto-based tour operator specializing in educational travel. We work with top U.S. affinity organizations to create and operate customized group itineraries worldwide with a strong educational focus. Our tours and cruises are designed for travelers interested in learning more about the destination that the average tourist. Many tours are unique and operate only once. Almost all have expert lecturers who complement what local guides have to say. Tours might feature a combination of land and chartered sea, river, rail or air transportation. Many of our programs provide private access or special features not available to individual travelers or other groups.
Position Description:
The Passenger Services Representative performs a wide variety of administrative, customer service, and other professional travel functions.
The diverse responsibilities and functions of the position require the capacity to abstract, conceptualize, organize, and integrate different sources of information into a coherent and practical frame of reference. The geographic expanse of assigned regions and the diverse range of programmatic services provided contribute to an operational complexity that requires a high level of ability and skills. Independent judgment is required in dealing with day-to-day problems and establishing priorities.
Job: Sales and Program Coordinator, BUNAC USA (TX)
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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.
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Position: Sales and Program Coordinator
Posted by: BUNAC USA
Location: Lewisville, TX (Dallas area)
Start Date: End of December 2013/Beginning of January 2014
Overview:
A new role and addition to our staff in the US office, the Sales and Program Coordinator will work under the direction of the BDM to provide high quality work abroad programs. The role requires a professional approach and involvement in and commitment to all aspects of sales and administration of BUNAC’s Work Abroad programs.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Sales & Marketing
- Assist in making outbound sales calls to customers inquiring about BUNAC programs
- Assist the marketing manager with social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs etc.) as needed
2. Program Administration
- To manage the processing of all inquiries & program/visa applications, either by mail, e-mail, web or telephone.
- To develop and maintain accurate database & record keeping.
- To handle calls from prospective and current participants.
- To manage all day-to-day correspondence (both email and phone) with applicants and participants.
- To work within the visa requirements & changes that may be introduced during the year.
- Handle all other administrative tasks as needed
Job: Academic Exchange Specialist, U.S. Department of State (Washington DC)
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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.
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Position: Academic Exchange Specialist
Posted by: U.S. Department of State
Location: Washington DC, DC
Salary: $74,872.00 to $115,742.00 / Per Year
Type: Full-Time – Permanent
Application Timeline: Monday, December 02, 2013 to Monday, December 16, 2013
Overview:
The men and women of the US Department of State with their skills, character and commitment to public service, are the backbone of America’s diplomacy. Civil Service employees support the foreign policy mission from offices in Washington, DC and worldwide. Join us in helping to shape a freer, more secure and prosperous world as we formulate, represent and implement US foreign policy. Choose from hundreds of career possibilities – there’s something for everyone!
This position is located in the Office of Global Educational Programs (ECA/A/S), Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in the U.S. Department of State (DoS). The incumbent serves as an Academic Exchange Specialist, initiating, developing, administering, and evaluating international academic exchange programs and other activities supporting ECA’s strategic goal to promote international understanding. This position is also being announced through Merit Promotion procedures under Announcement ECA-2014-0022. Candidates who wish to be considered under both Public (US Citizens)and Merit Promotion procedures must apply to both announcements.
