JAB / 133 / November 2024: Ringers From The Top End
Vacancies, Leads, Links, Inspiration & Ideas For Working Abroad, Volunteering & Taking A Gap Year
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Fairy forests, fjords, bins, toucans, chimps, theme park testers, trip leaders, Zakynthos, summer camps & more…
⭐️Mark Warner Is Thinking About Summer
GREECE & TURKEY > Mark Warner are offering a range of exciting roles this summer: working on the waterfront with the latest watersports equipment, coaching tennis, guiding scenic bike tours or providing their younger guests with a holiday they will remember. These positions run from April/May through to October/November depending on the resort, and they also offer some peak season positions from June to September.
⭐️TUI Is Now Hiring For Summer 25
EUROPE > TUI has launched their global career opportunities for summer 2025. While mostly available to EU passport holders, some roles can be taken up by Brits. See their careers website for more details.
⭐️Critical Roles Need Filling In Athens, Samos, And Katsikas Ioannina
GREECE > Indigo Volunteers have put out an urgent call for volunteers to help with their efforts supporting grassroots organisations that provide essential services to refugees in Europe. Right now they especially want a women’s space volunteer, project coordinator and English teacher.
⭐️Keyboard Hero Saving Turtles
MALAYSIA > Ever wanted to work from an idyllic beach location while dialling up your social media experience and saving sea turtles in your spare time? Bubbles Turtle Conservation, an established green sea turtle conservation project based in the Perhentian Islands, is accepting applications until November 15 for social media internships lasting two to three months from March to October 2025. A confident swimmer who is comfortable working across organic and paid social campaigns and doesn’t mind living on an idyllic, isolated island would be ideal.
⭐️Volunteer Conservation Field Biologist
MAURITIUS > Last month, Ebony Forest Reserve were offering a seasonal position for a hand rearer to get involved in the conservation of the Echo Parakeet. That’s most likely gone, but on their website they list a volunteer position in their forest reserve aimed at someone interested in gaining practical conservation experience and helping some of the most threatened species in the world. A shared room and basic costs are covered but food and personal expenses will be the volunteer’s responsibility.
⭐️Adventure Awaits At Carpe Diem Eco Retreat
NICARAGUA > In their first season accepting volunteers, Carpe Diem Eco Retreat took on 192 amazing volunteers and students. Each one arrived by boat and horse drawn cart to help with their projects, including releasing 9500 baby turtles into the ocean. From November 11 until May 2025 and beyond, they will be taking a new batch of volunteers.
⭐️Wilderness Trip Leaders
USA > Wilderness Adventures is looking for strong leaders who are enthusiastic about working with students between 11 and 20 years old in group wilderness settings. Leaders guide groups of students, with one or two co-leaders, through exciting yet challenging adventures of one to six weeks in duration. Applicants should have a Wilderness First Responder certificate, be 21 by the beginning of the trip in June, and possess a clean US driver’s license.
⭐️Summer Trip Leader Positions
USA & WORLDWIDE > Bold Earth seeks to partner with trip leaders, who should be highly motivated role models with previous experience working with teenagers. Organisational skills, a sense of humour, and an ability to teach teenagers about leadership and adventure travel are the qualities they value the most. Applicants must also be 21 by mid June, college graduates (or in the process of completing a degree), and legally allowed to work in the USA.
⭐️Get Hired On The Spot For Summer Camps In America
USA > Meet camp directors, find the perfect summer camp for you, get hired on the spot and spend nine weeks at a camp placement plus 30 days to travel across the US afterwards. A J-1 visa sponsor, Camp America is holding two jobs fairs in the UK this month, one in Birmingham on the 16th, and one in Edinburgh on the 17th.
⭐️Contiki On Site Team Member 2025
EUROPE > Names are being jotted down by Contiki for their 2025 on site positions. These vary at each site but include cooks, bartenders, housekeepers and bike guides. Register your interest here.
⭐️Trained And Professional Chefs Who Want To Work In A Chalet Hotel Environment
SWITZERLAND > The successful applicant for Ski Miquel’s winter season chef position will need to hold a British passport (or have the right) to work in the UK to be seconded to Switzerland for a period of up to 90 days.
⭐️Family Orientated Ski Businesses Still Hiring
FRANCE > Geeski is a family run business providing catered chalet holidays. They are looking for two people, either a couple or friends, who are bubbly and enthusiastic and keen to spend a winter in the Alps running their five bedroom luxury chalet in St Gervais. At Family Ski, they aim to create a welcoming atmosphere for guests of all ages and are advertising for a chalet team to help with that.
⭐️Transfer Drivers
FRANCE & SWITZERLAND > Morzine Link has been placing ads on several websites this week in their efforts to attract EU passport holders with a minimum experience of two years driving in a professional capacity. They want to turn these people into one of their transfer drivers ferrying ski holidaymakers from Geneva Airport to the French resorts of Morzine, Les Gets and Avoriaz in eight passenger seat minibuses. A shared apartment with your own room is available for the season, along with a competitive salary, uniform and full training commencing in December.
⭐️Snow Sports Loving Front Office Assistant
SWITZERLAND > Eskimos Saas-Fee has posted a few words and a picture to attract a front office assistant to join their team. On their website it is marked as an internship position. They also have vacancies for ski and snowboard instructors listed there too.
⭐️Peligoni Club Jobs In Zakynthos
GREECE > If they haven’t already by the time this issue is sent, the family run Peligoni Club in Zakynthos will shortly be opening applications for chefs, drivers, childcare staff, restaurant hosts and more to bag a job with them next summer. There are a small number of roles for which they will accept UK passport holders. Visit their dedicated recruitment website for more details.
⭐️Kayak And Bike Guides
NORWAY > Join Njord Kayak Centre’s international team in Flåm and you will be working next summer in the incredible environment of Norwegian fjords. Applicants should have proven experience and qualifications in sea kayaking, guiding, wild camping, and outdoor cooking.
⭐️A Fjord Experience
NORWAY > Dad jokes, taking power naps on a sheepskin throw and playing chess while stargazing will be part of the downtime for volunteers at Casa Grend, a newly renovated 100 year old village assembly house in Hardangerfjord.
⭐️Complete Le Reservoir’s Winter Team In Tignes
FRANCE > UK passport holders are accepted and accommodation is included for chefs applying to work at Le Reservoir, a bar and restaurant in Tignes.
⭐️Friendly As Fuck German Speaking Kite Surfing Instructor Wanted
PANAMA > Panama Kite Center in Punta Chame is looking for a German speaking kite instructor to complement their team from early December until mid April. You should be IKO certified, able to teach in English and German, and friendly as fuck.
⭐️Outdoorsy Chef
NEW ZEALAND > If you are a chef with the right to work in New Zealand, a bit of flare and are looking for a fun busy place to work overlooking the Pacific Ocean email info@thestore.kiwi with your CV, references and a recent photo. This may suit a couple as a front of house position is also available. Accommodation is included in the package and they say it will suit people that like hiking and surfing etc.
⭐️Seafarer Sailing Vacancies For Summer 2025
GREECE > Seafarer Sailing Holidays is recruiting hard working and enthusiastic yacht sailors to help run their flotilla and cabin charter holidays, RYA cruising instructors for their yacht training schools and RYA dinghy and windsurf instructors for their beach clubs in Lefkada.
⭐️Theme Park Tester
USA > Among the opportunities for travel content creators we spotted in the latest issue of Wildly Successful Travelpreneurs is this one for a theme park tester. Flights, accommodation, $1000 of spending money, and snacks, are waiting for the successful applicant and a friend ready and willing to take on all the rides.
⭐️88 Fab And Fun Days In Streaky Bay
AUSTRALIA > One person is needed to replace the last backpacker (private group) on an oyster farm in Streaky Bay, South Australia. No experience is necessary, but you should be strong, fit, comfortable on boats and have your own vehicle.
⭐️Commis Chef And An Activity Instructor Apprenticeship
FRANCE & UK > A commis chef is sought to join Skibound in Les Menuires, working in a busy kitchen delivering quality (but not complicated) meals to their UK school groups. An EU passport is needed. UK passport holders can console themselves that there is still time to apply for an activity instructor apprenticeship offered by the same leisure group at Condover Hall in Shropshire starting January 2.
⭐️Fairy Forest Volunteers
PORTUGAL > Someone with experience in planting, composting and water systems to help with building a greenhouse, and someone to help in the kitchen, preferably with barista experience, are needed to relocate for a month to the middle of Portugal. Decent living in a residential building and two meals a day are offered.
⭐️Learn To Ride The Waves
MOROCCO > Tasra Surf & Flow is opening in laid back Imsouane and they’re on the lookout for awesome volunteers to contribute five hours a day for six days per week in return for accommodation and meals.
⭐️Toucan Rescue Ranchers
COSTA RICA > We’re hearing that The Toucan Rescue Ranch is desperate for people right now. Organisers of the annual Sloth Ironman Games - billed as the most sloooowly exciting event of the year - they take on volunteers and interns to help with their mission to rescue, rehabilitate, and release Costa Rican wildlife.
We like that they have tried to keep their internships free and their volunteering fees reasonable - though they have had to give in to reality with the former, charging US$25 a day to interns to cover room and board costs as well as the education you will receive. Volunteers donate a $200 flat fee, refundable for all international volunteers who commit 12 weeks or longer. For local volunteers, the fee is waived.
⭐️Wildlife Sanctuary Workers
BOLIVIA > Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi, a small Bolivian charity that works with wild animals and a regular in these pages, is looking for wildlife workers to support them in taking care of their rescued wildlife and sanctuary activities. These admin and coordinator roles (private group) are for a minimum of six months and come with accommodation and meals and possibly a stipend too.
⭐️Call For Passionate Teachers Who Wants To Make A Difference And Bring Change Through Education
KENYA > Still I Rise, a humanitarian organization founded in 2018 to bring top quality education to refugee and vulnerable children around the world, is seeking passionate teachers to join their international teaching programme in Nairobi. A Bachelor of Education or equivalent in the subject taught and three years of teaching experience are required to unlock benefits including relocation costs, a monthly salary, accommodation and expenses.
⭐️Two Month ESC Funded Volunteering Project In Leszno
POLAND > Opportunity 4U is listing an open call for young people from all over Europe to join a two month volunteering project in Leszno funded by the European Solidarity Corps programme of the European Union. Volunteers will be engaged in several activities with children during the winter break, facilitating workshops and sport activities.
⭐️Beachside Hostel Volunteers Needed in Cabarete
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC > Cabarete is famous for its water sports, including kite surfing, wing foiling, and surfing. Surrounded by bars, restaurants, and friendly locals, it’s a lively spot for adventure and relaxation. Live there in return for helping out in a hostel for four hours a day, five days a week.
⭐️Live In A Vibrant And Friendly Caribbean Town
HONDURAS > The Honduras Child Alliance seeks volunteers to help provide educational enrichment and healthy living programmes in the seaside community of El Porvenir, a vibrant and friendly Caribbean town. They are upfront that there is a small fee of US$6 per day for housing within easy walking distance of their projects. More information can be found on their website, where they also make mention of 12 month stipended management positions that include free housing.
⭐️Sharing Love For Animals
GREECE > Linda Van Der Riet always needs help at her small dog shelter in Legrena. Volunteers play a crucial role in the daily care and well being of the dogs here, currently numbering ten. Tasks include feeding, grooming, providing socialisation and exercise, as well as helping with gardening and general maintenance. Accommodation is provided in a converted outbuilding.
⭐️Cook And Host Wanted For Mountain Bike Racing Team
EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA > A great way for a past seasonnaire to get to the mountains in the summer is to work for a mountain bike racing team. Orchards Cookery School is doing the hiring for one that needs a cook and a host for 11 events from mid May until mid October next year.
⭐️A Passage To India
INDIA > Gotoco’s short term India Teaching Programme is intended to help participants gain a TESOL qualification and launch a global teaching career. Aside from pre departure costs, it’s fee free and comes with room and board.
⭐️Surf And Skateschool Instructor
NETHERLAND > Surfschool Natural High is looking for a surf and skateschool instructor to join their team in the Netherlands for the 2025 season between June and October.
⭐️Windsports Instructor
ST LUCIA > The Reef Kite + Surf on Sandy Beach in St Lucia is looking for a certified kitesurf instructor who can also teach wing foiling and run their small but vibrant water sports centre for the 2024-25 winter season from December until April/May.
⭐️Summer School Welfare Leader And Activity Leader
UK > No formal qualifications are required to work as a welfare leader next July and August at Samiad Summer School, one of the largest residential summer schools in the UK, with four campuses and over 1000 students from 70 countries. Experience working with children is a requirement. On Season Workers they are also advertising for activity leaders. Accommodation and food are included in the package.
⭐️Active Jobs Working With Children And Young People
UK > Kings Camps has a vision of a world where children love being active. They operate sports and activity camps for thousands of children across the UK during Easter, Summer and half term school holidays, and specialise in active jobs working with children and young people.
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⭐️Halls Haven Helpers
AUSTRALIA > Halls Haven Holiday Units in the Grampians National Park is looking for an energetic couple to assist the owners in running the business. Cleaning and animal feeding are among the duties of this paid position suitable for a couple with a van.
⭐️Alcohol Sales Staff
AUSTRIA > Phoenix Staffing is hiring floor staff to sell shots in busy ski venues in Mayrhofen. And Victoria Hotel in Gerlos wants bar and other staff, preferably with Dutch or German language skills.
⭐️Resort Manager And Chefs
FRANCE & AUSTRIA > Kaluma Ski have what they bill as a rare and amazing opportunity to step up and manage a boutique chalet operation (private group) in Courchevel 1850. They are also hiring chefs in St Anton.
⭐️Peace Boat 120
WORLDWIDE > Peace Boat's 120th voyage leaves Japan on April 23 to visit 28 ports around the world, including Alaska and the Nordic Countries. Applications are open until December 2 for volunteer English and Spanish language teachers to get on board.
⭐️Hello Sailor
AT SEA > Sailing yacht crew recruitment specialists Hello Sailor is looking for a chef for a boat departing the UK on February 1. The itinerary will be the Med/Caribbean for a couple of years, with plans to head around the world afterwards. A couple of years of experience working as a sailing yacht chef is required, and a restaurant background is valued. They need a mate too.
⭐️Medical Stew
CARIBBEAN > Viking Crew is looking for a nurse/medic stewardess to board an 80M support vessel in the Caribbean for ten to 12 weeks.
⭐️Paid Opportunity To Teach In Dreamy Tropical Location During The Upcoming Retreat Season
NICARAGUA > Located at the shore of the Laguna de Apoyo crater lagoon, Villa Laguna is looking for guest yoga teachers who will be accommodated and paid for each student who attends their classes. Hopefully, you have a soft spot for rescue dogs and cats. They have a bunch of them.
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⭐️Aerial Yoga Teacher
SEYCHELLES > Experience a year living in Seychelles. Paradise Chalets Yoga & Wellness wants someone to teach aerial and other yoga practices to both hotel guests and members of their local community. Salary is 14,000 SCR and food allowance paid monthly, plus a private room.
⭐️Last Minute Surf House Yoga Teacher Wanted
SRI LANKA > Due to a last minute cancellation, Oasia Surf House is looking for a yoga teacher (private group) to join them in Weligama for the upcoming season starting end of November 2024. The link in the comments where they say you can find more details and apply isn’t there but contact details can be found on their own Facebook page. Drivethru Surfcamps want a yoga teacher too, this one a volunteer from April onwards.
⭐️Courageous Camp Counsellors
USA > Surrounded by state parkland and the Maquoketa River, Iowa’s Camp Courageous is hiring counsellors for summer 2025. They are a year round recreational, respite, and travel programme for individuals of all ages with disabilities. Camp Courageous hasn’t got back to our enquiry asking if these vacancies are open to international applicants.
⭐️Arty Counsellors
USA > Camp Med-o-lark is hiring. They are a coed creative arts sleepaway summer camp in Washington, Maine, for ages eight to 16 and are looking for counsellors who are specialists in the arts.
⭐️Au Pair In America
USA > Au Pair in America helps 4,000 young people each year from all around the world to live their American dream on a J-1 visa. Return flights, pocket money, a private room in a family home and three meals a day. Applicants should be aged between 18 and 26 and have a driving license.
⭐️Get An Entertainer Job In Greece, Italy, Spain And More
WORLDWIDE > Life Tourism & Consulting specialises in the recruitment and selection of tourist entertainers for luxury resorts in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Children’s entertainers, fitness experts, and performers will find regular posts aimed at them on their Facebook and Instagram pages.
⭐️Looking For An Adventure In The Heart Of Frankfurt?
GERMANY > Join Five Elements Hostel as a volunteer and make unforgettable memories while helping them create a great experience for travellers from all over the world. For four hours of housekeeping help per day, five days a week, volunteers get free accommodation in a shared dorm with fellow volunteers, a buffet breakfast every morning, groceries to cook dinner, some free drinks and bar discounts.
⭐️Applications For The 2025 JET Programme Close Soon
JAPAN > Brits have until November 8 to apply to be an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Japan next year. Many other nationalities can apply too, to teach English or other languages, though application dates vary a little, Last year Aussies had an extra day, Americans and Canadians up to a week longer, and the Irish and Kiwis could chill until December. Applicants interested in applying must do so through the Embassy of Japan in their home country by the deadline designated by that embassy. This PDF leaflet provides more information and embassy contact details.
⭐️Help A School In Uttaradit Teach Basic Spoken English Or Chinese
THAILAND > The Paradanusorn School in Uttaradit welcomes volunteers who would like to help them teach basic spoken English or Chinese Mandarin to their pupils. Teaching is done in the morning with afternoons free to explore the local area. A weekly fee of around €60 covers accommodation and lunch. Free waterfall tours, jungle trips, night outs, and motorbike tours are additional benefits.
⭐️Ringers From The Top End
AUSTRALIA > A ringer is a term for those on horseback who round up cattle, the Australian name for a cowboy or girl. Many cattle stations in northern Australia right now are advertising for positions including cooks and station hands. While not specifically for backpackers and mixed in with chicken feeder hacks and queries about what this farm tool is used for, WHV holders can find plenty of vacancies posted to the Ringers From The Top End Facebook group.
⭐️Bin Days
AUSTRALIA > Drivers are wanted for a bin delivery project. The work involves driving car license trucks and retrieving old bins around the Parramatta region of Sydney. The work is physical and involves running around.
⭐️Safe And Limited Chimpanzee Contact
CAMEROON > Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue is looking for dedicated volunteers to join their team in 2025. Limited contact with chimpanzees of all ages occurs during daily feedings and enrichment activities after one month of training. Depending on the status of their rescues, there are sometimes openings for volunteers to help care for baby chimpanzees.
While it’s pay to volunteer, their one time applicant processing fee of US$300 for a six month stay reflects their desire for volunteers to stick around longer. Shorter stays cost more. The project does not charge any other fees to participate and provides all meals and lodging at the site. Fees, qualifications, or length of stay are negotiable for applicants with professional veterinary or medical training, or mechanical, electrical or construction skills and experience.
⭐️Go Again Penguins
CHILE > A couple of volunteers, one this month and one in March, can experience the Valparaiso region, meet great people, and enjoy Chilean traditional foods and drinks while helping tour guide Jimmy Cabello.
⭐️Presentism
UK > Dale Farm, a campsite in the Peak District, is closed during November and December and could do with someone with their own van to be present on site (private group) and allow the owners to get out and about for a bit for a break.
⭐️Mapache Hostel Is Still Looking For A Hostel Manager
MEXICO > We mentioned in September that Mapache Hostel were soon hoping to welcome an experienced hostel manager to Isla Holbox, an island north of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Judged by this post on their social media, they still may be.
⭐️The Gulliver Travel Grant
WORLDWIDE > Since 2004, the Gulliver Travel Grant has been awarded annually to assist writers of speculative literature in their non academic research. The US$1000 fund is used to cover airfare, lodging, and other travel expenses. Travel may be domestic or international. Application is open until the end of the month.
⭐️It’s Still Churchill Fellowship Time
WORLDWIDE > Applications close November 12 for British citizens of any age, background or qualifications to benefit from a Churchill Fellowship averaging thousands of pounds to follow your passions and travel overseas in 2025 and beyond.
⭐️TeenLife Gap Year Virtual Fairs
REMOTE > An array of speakers are ready to go through the ins and outs of taking a gap year with students, parents, and educators at the TeenLife gap year virtual fair on November 14. There will be another one on December 12.
⭐️Remote Job Resouces
REMOTE > We spotted James Tomasi Kennedy sharing a list of remote job websites he himself saw on LinkedIn.
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