{"id":30292,"date":"2013-05-20T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30292"},"modified":"2013-05-20T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:53:35","slug":"job-us-japan-bridging-foundation-seeks-part-time-project-director-to-support-jetaa-usa-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/20\/job-us-japan-bridging-foundation-seeks-part-time-project-director-to-support-jetaa-usa-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Job:  US-Japan Bridging Foundation seeks Part-Time Project Director to support JETAA USA growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of background on this very unique job posting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/2013\/05\/20\/bridging-foundation-recruiting-jetaa-project-director\/\">http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/2013\/05\/20\/bridging-foundation-recruiting-jetaa-project-director\/<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/about-2\/board-of-advisors\/\">JETAA USA Board of Advisors<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/about-2\/current-country-reps\/\">JETAA USA Country Representatives<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/national-initiatives\/building-national-capacity\/\">JETAA USA Working Group<\/a> have been collaborating with JET alum Paige Cottingham-Streater of the US-Japan Friendship Commission (among others) on the opportunity to grow and strengthen JETAA USA and its chapters. Thanks to Paige&#8217;s hard work, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership has created a part-time position to work for the US-Japan Bridging Foundation to support this mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*********************<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>May 20, 2013<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>United States-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Part-time Project Director Position Announcement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgingfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF)<\/a>, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the ties between Japan and the U.S. through cultural and educational exchanges, is launching a new initiative \u201cStrengthening the JETAA Network and Connecting Next Generation Leaders.\u201d \u00a0The purpose of the project is to build infrastructure in support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\" target=\"_blank\">Japan-Exchange and Teaching Program Alumni Association, United States of America (JETAA USA)<\/a> and enhance its impact promoting U.S.-Japan relations. \u00a0The first year of the project will involve fact-finding to collect and analyze information from the JETAA USA Working Group, local chapters and stakeholders in the U.S. and Japanese governments and local communities; enhance the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\" target=\"_blank\">jetaausa.com<\/a> website, strengthen the online media Facebook and Twitter presence; help coordinate regional and national meetings\/ conferences for participants from 19+ JETAA chapters; and other duties as required in order to carry out the mission of this position.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Foundation seeks a part-time project director to:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">consult with JETAA USA Working Group members and other members of the JET community throughout project period;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">serve as a central point of contact; conduct fact-finding activities; monitor chapter activities and organize special outreach projects in designated regions;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">maintain social networking presence (Facebook and Twitter);<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">further develop a website presence;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">develop, conduct and analyze a survey to assess challenges facing JETAA USA at the chapter and national levels; identify best practices, and develop proposals for addressing those<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Applicants will need to have strong organizational, communications (interpersonal, verbal and written) and technical skills (computing including database, website and social media). \u00a0Successful candidates will also demonstrate creativity, innovation and a commitment to supporting the U.S.-Japan relationship.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Experience as former JET participant strongly preferred.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This position is part-time (2-3 days\/ week) and expected to work closely with the USJBF Executive Director at the Foundation\u2019s offices in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Applications due by Wednesday, May 28, 2013, by email, postal mail or delivery service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Email:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:info@bridgingfoundation.org\">info@bridgingfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mail:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">1201 15th Street, NW, Suite 330<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC 20005<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original posting from the US-Japan Bridging Foundation website:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgingfoundation.org\/news\/bridging-foundation-recruiting-jetaa-project-director\">http:\/\/www.bridgingfoundation.org\/news\/bridging-foundation-recruiting-jetaa-project-director<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/national-initiatives\/building-national-capacity\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA USA National Initiatives section on Building National Capacity.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of background on this very unique job posting from http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/2013\/05\/20\/bridging-foundation-recruiting-jetaa-project-director\/: The JETAA USA Board of Advisors, the JETAA USA Country Representatives, and the JETAA USA Working Group have been collaborating with JET alum Paige Cottingham-Streater of the US-Japan Friendship Commission (among others) on the opportunity to grow and strengthen JETAA USA and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7SA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30294,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions\/30294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}