JAB / 125 / March 2024: Live And Work In Antarctica
Vacancies, Leads, Links, Inspiration & Ideas For Working Abroad, Volunteering & Taking A Gap Year
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⭐️Experience Life On An Unspoilt Tropical Island In The Middle Of The South China Sea
MALAYSIA > Battling a giant centipede aside, one of the readers of the 1.0 version of JAB had a great time working for Rimba Resort on the northern tip of Pulau Sibu island. We noticed them recently advertising for a bartender/ front of house member.
⭐️Holiday Care Staff Wanted
GERMANY > An event company specialising in holiday resort children’s animation is looking for motivated applicants who enjoy working with children during the summer holidays.
⭐️Working And Chilling In The Alps
FRANCE > In summer, the Morzine Alpine resort is warm and sunny, perfect for mountain biking and hiking, swimming in lakes and BBQs with your new workmates. Ric and Charlotte of Pure Morzine need new team members to enjoy this and help them keep their chalets and apartments clean and guests happy.
⭐️Scholarships And Teaching In Poland
POLAND & USA > The Kosciuszko Foundation is dedicated to promoting educational and cultural exchanges between the United States and Poland and to increasing American understanding of Polish culture and history. A number of their application deadlines are coming up in March.
First up, applications close on March 15 for scholarships of up to $12,000 offered to American students of Polish descent for undergraduate and graduate level studies at colleges and universities in the United States. Applications for their year abroad scholarships to study Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow are open until March 22. A few days earlier, March 18 is the new application deadline for teaching English in Poland through the TEIP program.
⭐️Festival Accessibility Volunteers
UK > Accessible Events are still looking for fun and enthusiastic volunteers to make sure deaf, neurodivergent and disabled customers have an enjoyable experience at several events across the UK. These include Noisily, WOMAD, Lytham Festival, Boardmasters, Truck, Forwards Festival, Waterworks, Gone Wild, and Love Saves The Day. Paid roles also occasionally come up. See this form too from Diverse UK, an independent charity that runs sensory calm spaces at some of the same events.
⭐️Kos Hamam Jobs
GREECE > Kos Island’s Artemis Hamam & Spa offers seasonal employment each year from the beginning of May to the end of October. They advertise their vacancies in Greeka.com where we also found positions posted by Euphoria Beach Hamam and Yoga on Kos. Over on Corfu, Venus Spa & Massage welcomes CVs from positive and energetic massage therapists eligible to work in Greece.
⭐️A Chance To Combine Your Childcare And Fire Mitigation Skillsets
AUSTRALIA > 2 Workin Oz Recruiting has a unique position in Western Australia offering the opportunity to be both an au pair and a fire mitigation team member.
⭐️Port Lockroy General Assistants
ANTARCTICA> Are you a committed individual who can live and work in a team for five months in Antarctica? The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is looking for committed individuals to spend November to March on Goudier Island sorting mail at the world's southernmost post office, welcoming up to 18,000 cruise ship visitors, running the charity gift shop, maintaining historic buildings and artefacts, doing wildlife observations, digging lots of snow and posting penguin memes.
International candidates are welcome to apply but all applicants must be resident in the UK by the start date of team selection and have the right to work in the UK. March 18 is the application deadline. The UKAHT also have vacancies for a shop manager and base leader.
Camilla Nichol, the charity’s CEO, told The Guardian newspaper successful applicants would need to be “resilient, physically fit, environmentally aware” and up for the challenge of spending five months so far away from home. Successful applicants will have to adapt to near constant daylight, always freezing temperatures and no flushing toilet or running water, but perks include breathtaking landscapes, whales and lots of penguins.
⭐️Board A River Yacht In Dijon
FRANCE > The Recrewters is looking for a chef to cater for five crew and six guests on a 40 metre luxury river yacht for a single season permanent role based in Burgundy. They are also searching for a tour guide for a barge on the Marne a Rhin canal, Saverne, Alsace, to live ashore and work four to five hours a day, four days a week.
⭐️Finish The Season With Skiworld
FRANCE & AUSTRIA > Chalet hosts, preferably EU passport holders, CDS holders or holding a valid work visa, are sought by Skiworld to finish the ski season in their snow sure resort across France and Austria. If you are interested, email recruitment@skiworld.co.uk with your CV and cover letter.
⭐️Childcare Roles Are Still Available With TUI
EUROPE > Ready to embark on a journey in the world of childcare, hospitality, and tourism? TUI is still looking to match their childcare roles in European holiday resorts with people holding recognised childcare qualifications and EU passports - though in this ad placed in Jobs.ie they ask for an EU or UK passport. Which one is right? Put this, or any other questions, to their recruitment team during their virtual event on March 13.
⭐️German, Dutch And/Or French Speaking Reps
TURKEY > English plus German, Dutch and/or French speaking hotel or service reps, aged over 21 with EU passports and a driving licence, are needed to relocate temporarily to TUI’s resorts in Antalya and the Aegean coast.
⭐️Corfu Hostel Jobs
GREECE > Around this time of year, the Pink Palace people have in the past got in touch with JAB to say that they were looking for happy and easy going volunteers to help with getting their Corfu hotel and hostel buildings ready for the new season: painting, cleaning, decorating, carpentry, etc. They also have paid jobs currently listed on Greeka.com. A few miles up the coast, Sunrock Backpackers has a long standing ‘Pay Your Way’ volunteer programme.
⭐️High School Teachers
JAPAN > Yamamura Kokusai High School in Sakado have full time and part time positions available. Full time is paid from 3,400,000 yen per year.
⭐️Instructors And Station Managers For The Summer Season
ITALY > Garganosurf, the largest water sports centre in southern Italy, will open soon. They’ll want to bag their kite surfing, windsurfing and/or diving foil instructors for the summer season by the time they do.
⭐️Water Sports Assistant
GREECE > Head to Crete if you want to work in a busy five star hotel’s water sports centre hiring out and maintaining the equipment. The job is open to young, energetic, sea loving and responsible EU nationals with the ability to communicate in English and any other European language. As well as salary, free accommodation and one meal per day are offered.
This close to posting this issue we’ve no time to check if they still are, but last week Thassos Island’s Golden Beach Watersports were looking for beach staff. No experience is necessary but applicants must be able to swim and speak English. On the outskirts of Athens, Moraitis Beach is listing a vacancy for a beach bar barista.
⭐️Animation Recruitment Days
SPAIN > Entertainers of tourists staying in Spanish hotels and campsites, Acttiv have several virtual and in person recruitment days coming up. See their recruitment website for dates.
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⭐️Summer Reception Position Available
SPAIN > La Casa Verde Hostel’s lead receptionist is taking a summer break so the small hostel in southern Spain needs someone competent to fill her shoes from mid May until September. The position is ideal for a young couple, as their maintenance assistant also takes his holiday over the same dates. EU nationals or travellers with a work visa need only apply for this paid position.
⭐️Spend A Summer On San Juan Island
USA > Want to spend a summer on San Juan Island? Like to volunteer? Have an RV? This could be for you. San Juan Island National Historic Park in northwestern Washington State is looking for a volunteer couple with an RV that can work with them from May 1 through Labor Day. They provide the RV site and all utilities, including internet and a ferry trip to and from the island in exchange for 32 hours per week, four days per week. Over the border in Oregan, there’s multiple host, office and maintenance opportunities in the Mt Hood National Forest.
⭐️Bags Of Enthusiasm For Working With Children And Available From March 22?
EUROPE > The peak season ski resort rep gig with Select School Travel, a leading name within the UK school group ski industry, was still being advertised as recently as Tuesday on Season Workers. We are still seeing their general assistant position at Château du Baffy in Normandy cropping up too.
⭐️Promote Tours In Florence
ITALY > In 2018, Gabby Boucher joined Smart Trip Europe as one of their tour promoters and tour guides. Smart Trip says they are always on the lookout for hard working, outgoing individuals with a passion for travel. They are currently advertising for tour promoters in Florence, saying the role is primarily a sales position with many travel opportunities.
⭐️Become A Dive Master
USA > Florida based Keys Huka Dive have an internship programme where you can work off the dive master course fees. Jerry, the owner of Keys Huka Dive, swung by our Facebook group recently to post other vacancies, saying don’t apply if you are not legal to work in the USA. That’s probably the case with the internships too.
⭐️J1 Training Programme
USA > Eligible individuals, currently pursuing a career in hospitality in Ireland or the UK, can apply to join Buzz Hospitality for 12 months in one of their locations in the US as a hospitality trainee on the J1 Visa. Buzz will be interviewing in Dublin in late April / early May for a Summer 2024 start in the USA.
⭐️Escape To The Northern Territory This Winter
AUSTRALIA > Litchfield Tourist Park, an hour or so out of Darwin, is accepting applications until March 19 from customer focused, team orientated all rounders (private group).
⭐️Laid Back Volunteer Camp Host
AUSTRALIA > Described as a very laid back position, McKinlay Shire Council is looking for volunteers to fill the role of camp host at their free RV site on the banks of Julia Creek in April, May and late July to mid August this year.
⭐️Walnut Harvest Starts Soon In Tasmania
AUSTRALIA > Swansea, a town on Tasmania's east coast, will soon be bringing in the walnut harvest. Try Stahmann Webster for an orchard job if you are in the area. Elsewhere on the island, Burlington Berries requires 100 seasonal horticultural labourers from early June.
⭐️Volunteer Opportunity At A Zoo In Ecuador’s Amazon Region
ECUADOR > Skip this one if you’re not prepared to pay a fee to volunteer. We are including Zoorefugio Tarqui because the opportunity to work directly with a variety of animals, helping with tasks such as feeding, cleaning, walks and general animal care, isn’t otherwise going to be given to volunteers with no previous experience. And the fee of US$200 per week, covering food and accommodation with the rest going towards the care of the animals, isn’t bad at all. We’ve done something like this ourselves and it is a wonderful experience.
⭐️Berry Pickers
AUSTRALIA > Hillwood Farm Services requires farm labourers/ pickers for repetitive labour intensive work to start in April and finish in November in the Bundaberg area of Queensland. In Childers, Farmgate Backpackers operates as a working hostel partnering with farms growing mangoes, lychees, sweet potatoes, citrus, avocados and ginger.
⭐️Motor Yacht Cook/Stewardess
FRANCE > A seasonal contract starting in April, with the possibility of turning permanent, is being dangled in front of a woman already accommodated in the South of France and able to cook simple, well presented food while the floor moves. French is a real plus. A valid STCW Basic Safety Training certificate is an absolute must.
⭐️Cruise Ship Spa Therapist
AT SEA > Scenic Luxury Cruises and Emerald Cruises are searching for a spa therapist to join their fleet ASAP.
⭐️Internships With A Volunteering Placement Organisation
UK > Travelteer specialises in providing university students with ethical volunteering placements. On their careers page, they are offering unpaid roles in their UK office in Nottingham with the prospect of joining their team in Sri Lanka or Nepal. These internships are in videography, public relations, and marketing.
⭐️Hiring Summer Camp Counsellors With Boating Experience
USA > Canoeing, rowing, fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding, sailing, tubing, wakeboarding, waterskiing, and windsurfing are some of the waterfront activities Camp Med-o-lark offers. Each summer, staff arrive from around the US and the world to bring their unique perspectives to this Maine summer camp.
⭐️Chicago Area Kiteboard Shop And School
USA > WindyCity Kite Sports offer their students kiteboard, wing foil and eFoil lessons. They teach and staff instructors year round, doing land and snowkiting lessons in the Winter. Help is offered to obtain a US work visa.
⭐️Kayak Tours Malta Is Looking For 2024 Season Guides
MALTA > Do you want to experience the summer of a lifetime working in the crystal clear Mediterranean waters of sunny Malta? Of course you do, and if you are a non EU national they will help with processing the work permit paperwork.
⭐️Sport, Fitness And Children Entertainers
CYPRUS > Wama Vibes, which does entertainment for hotels, bars, and private parties in Cyprus is recruiting people to do that.
⭐️Living And Working In Bangkok
THAILAND > YouTuber Chai Travels recently placed his microphone in front of four people living and working in Bangkok: an English language teacher, a communications director at an international school, someone working online for an American company, and the owner of a real estate company. Get on Ajarn for the latest English teaching jobs in the city.
⭐️Swim Teachers And Lifeguards Wanted For Easter
UK > Kings Camps are currently recruiting qualified swim teachers and lifeguards for the Easter school holiday.
⭐️New Hostels Added To Laulima Travels
EUROPE > Laulima Travels have been adding more hostels with which their users can arrange a work exchange. Their latest hostel sign ups are in El Tarter, Andorra; Shkoder, Albania; Ulcinj, Montenegro; Thessaloniki, Greece; and Belfast, Northern Ireland.
⭐️Seasonal Sales Assistants
IRELAND > WHSmith wants new sales assistants to start in April in their Dublin Airport store.
⭐️Outdoor Education Centre Vacancy
UK > One more seasonal instructor is needed to complete Dorset Council’s full team at Carey Outdoor Education Centre.
⭐️Hotel Jobs On The Isle Of Man
UK ISLE OF MAN > The careers page of The Sefton has application forms for their future food and beverage assistants and housekeepers.
⭐️Volunteer In The Peruvian Amazon
PERU > An NGO working for the economic and social development of different communities in the Peruvian Amazon needs volunteers to teach English or German, starting as soon as possible. Volunteers help up to 15 hours per week and in return, Semillas Life provides accommodation, a kitchen to prepare food, trips in the jungle, and the use of a tent for camping trips. There is a US$279 financial contribution involved here, but it is a one off fee covering a stay of up to three months.
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⭐️Hotels And Airbnbs Looking For Influencers
WORLDWIDE > If enough people like you to consider yourself an influencer, Stayamo is a marketplace connecting creators with free stays, discounted rates, or influencer deals with Airbnbs and hotels.
⭐️Farmer To Farmer
WORLDWIDE > When USAID’s Farmer to Farmer program was looking for a marketing strategy consultant to help an association of cacao farmers and chocolate makers with their marketing strategy in rural Colombia, they reached out to Tasha Prados. Everything we know about this programme, including where to register your interest, that you need to be an American with five years of experience in your field but don’t have to be a farmer (they recruit for all kinds of skills: beekeeping, graphic design, strategic planning, videography, hydroponics, ecotourism) we learnt from Tasha’s article.
⭐️Festival Stewards And Litter Pickers
UK > Join the crew for Balter Festival's 10th birthday bash held on May 23 to 26 at Chepstow Racecourse. For the price of a ticket sign up for a volunteer role of your choice, fully refunded once you’ve completed your shifts. Meet friends for life, camp in crew camping, get fed by the tasty caterers and start summer off with a bang.
⭐️A Few Spaces Left On JCA Activity Instructor Virtual Recruitment Days
UK > JCA is coming to the end of its recruitment cycle for residential outdoor activity instructor positions based at one of their UK children’s activity centres: Condover Hall, Shropshire or Croft Farm in Tewkesbury.
⭐️Move To The Lake District
UK > There are numerous bar and kitchen jobs available in Bowness-on-Windermere, Ambleside and Coniston with High Spirits Leisure Group. Send your CV over to Stacey.hughes@highspiritsleisure.com.
⭐️Christians Able To Quickly Find Their CV
ZAMBIA > If you are a qualified Christian outdoor activity instructor and want to work in Zambia, you’d better be quick: applications close today (March 8) to start in May at the Ndubaluba Outdoor Centre.
⭐️Getaround To Content Writing
FRANCE > Carsharing platform Getaround is looking for a versatile and creative content writer, in French and English, to craft powerful and differentiating pieces of content to promote Getaround in the EU region, educate on carsharing, and engage with their communities of car owners and drivers.
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