{"id":33675,"date":"2014-02-04T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=33675"},"modified":"2014-02-04T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:07:49","slug":"job-associate-for-international-relations-at-hokkaido-and-alberta-govts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/04\/job-associate-for-international-relations-at-hokkaido-and-alberta-govts\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Associate for International Relations at Hokkaido and Alberta Govts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>[Steve&#8217;s Note: \u00a0<\/em><em>Just received this from Hokkaido CIR <strong>Holly Long<\/strong> (who just received the listing herself and was asked to forward it). A great opportunity for a Canadian with JET-like experience to work in Hokkaido. Hopefully who likes the sport of curling, too.\u00a0<\/em><em><strong>Please note the Feb 9 application deadline.<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Posted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7UhLCrNiHz8\">blogger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discussionswithdao.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/03\/vd93-ep33-japanese-wives\/\">podcaster<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Jon Dao (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755165&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Toyama<\/a>-ken, 2009-12)<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#!forum\/jetwitjobs\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to join the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#!forum\/jetwitjobs\" target=\"_blank\">JETwit Jobs Google Group<\/a>\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Position: <\/strong>Associate for International Relations<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Posted By: <\/strong>Alberta Government and Hokkaido Government<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Location: <\/strong>Hokkaido, Japan (Sapporo)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Type: <\/strong>One-year, full-time internship<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><b>Overview:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Abroad is an international work experience initiative of the Government of Alberta that places talented Alberta post-secondary graduates into short-term work placements (externships) with an international host organization. Alberta graduates will develop their specialized skills and gain international work experience through their externships.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Extern will work in two divisions of the Hokkaido Government:<\/p>\n<p>International exchange duties will be assigned in the International Affairs Division, and Sports promotion duties will be assigned in Hokkaido in the Culture and Sports promotion Division.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education: No specific specialization is required as long as the Extern is a graduate of an institution of advanced education.<\/li>\n<li>Language skills: Conversational Japanese, i.e. intermediate level for speaking and listening.<\/li>\n<li>Other: The Extern should be interested in sports. Curling experience is preferable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>More infromation about the position and how to apply can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Falbertaabroad.com%2Fexternship%2Fassociate-for-international-relations-hokkaido-japan%2F%23.UvA2mmJ_u0c&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEaFVLmO3MuKm5u384iyMoK9DNXLQ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/albertaabroad.com\/externship\/associate-for-international-relations-hokkaido-japan\/#.UvA2mmJ_u0c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Steve&#8217;s Note: \u00a0Just received this from Hokkaido CIR Holly Long (who just received the listing herself and was asked to forward it). A great opportunity for a Canadian with JET-like experience to work in Hokkaido. Hopefully who likes the sport of curling, too.\u00a0Please note the Feb 9 application deadline.] Posted by\u00a0blogger\u00a0and\u00a0podcaster\u00a0Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12).\u00a0Click here\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"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],"tags":[1213,1214],"class_list":["post-33675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","tag-alberta","tag-hokkaido"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675","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\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33677,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions\/33677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}