JAB / 135 / January 2025: Erection Perfection & Banana Etiquette
Vacancies, Leads, Links, Inspiration & Ideas For Working Abroad, Volunteering & Taking A Gap Year
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Canada, Croatia, chainsaws, camping, cats, chickens, chalets, chateau chefs, Chris, counsellors, coaches & more…
⭐️Bike Lovers Wanted In Morzine
FRANCE > We expect Atlas Ride Co to begin searching for chefs, drivers and chalet couples for their mountain biking holidays in Morzine soon. They will want people with a love for biking, people, teamwork, and a solid work ethic.
⭐️Work And Travel With International Experience Canada
CANADA > The chance to work in Canada and fund the trip of a lifetime is open for the new year. If you're 18 to 35 (18 to 30 in some countries), your first step is to check the website of the government programme to see if your country has an arrangement with Canada, then watch this video for an overview of the International Experience Canada application process and common mistakes to avoid along the way.
⭐️The Faroe Islands Are Closed For Maintenance Again
FAROE ISLANDS > The short window to apply to one of our favourite volunteer opportunities is open this year from January 14 to 16. The Faroe Islands require regular maintenance to keep their tourist sites in shape, so every year a weekend is set aside for tasks that include creating pathways, constructing viewpoints, and installing wayfinding signs to make navigation easier.
⭐️Pack A Tent For Trail Maintenance Volunteering
ICELAND > Land and Forest Iceland (Land og Skógur) coordinates trail maintenance, land restoration and wilderness management projects with international volunteers in Thórsmörk, Goðaland and beyond. They are looking for participants who have some experience of camping and hill walking, enjoy wilderness landscapes and are ready for a challenge in Iceland’s notoriously changeable weather. Applications for three, four and nine week placements are open until February 11. Once volunteers have joined the programme, food and campsites are provided throughout the placements and there is no participation fee.
⭐️Sell Bread And Other Roles
FRANCE > Volunteers stay for three weeks, ideally longer, between April and September helping out at Camping Sous Les Etoiles Normandie in exchange for a free pitch with facilities and utilities. Grass cutting, assisting with small construction projects, helping on reception and selling bread in the mornings are among the tasks here.
⭐️Open Bananas Properly And Teach Something To Chris
SPAIN > Chris Gray is offering a month or two in the Spanish countryside near Valencia from now until late spring but doesn't need volunteers for any specific project. Instead, teach him something useful, help him fit out his old campervan or with an online business idea and he’ll be happy - unless you’re a smoker, anti-vaxxer, into crypto, Elon Musk, astrology, football, rap music, Taylor Swift or open bananas from the bottom.
⭐️Carry On Camping
UK > Love fresh air, fixing things, and the British weather? Really? This job in Dorset is for you then. Erection perfection is another requirement for Land & Wave’s two new camp crew members, an energetic, outdoorsy role for people handy with their tools.
⭐️Chainsaw Work Exchange In Tasmania
AUSTRALIA > Do you long for a nature retreat in a peaceful quiet mountain town, with a small friendly population? Kylie Walker has a property in Tasmania, on an acre block, where she’s offering three weeks in a refurbished van - off grid, but in good working order, with running tank water and a plumbed bathroom - and some meals in exchange for chainsaw work and some other small basic handyman jobs. There is a shortage of labourers in the busy tourist town, so other opportunities for paid employment could be found.
⭐️2025 Overseas Party Rep Recruitment
EUROPE > Applications are closing soon to represent Pary Hard’s clubbing holidays in Ibiza, Magaluf, Ayia Napa, Malia, Zante, Malta, and Kavos in a role that combines customer service, digital marketing and alcohol consumption.
⭐️More Party Jobs
BULGARIA & PORTUGAL > Do you want the most fun summer job where you meet friends for life from all different countries and have more fun than you can imagine? That’s the pitch from Sunny Beach All Stars, which is starting the hiring process for their team in Bulgaria for the summer. Same same but in Portugal can be had through Starbu Events.
⭐️Astronomy Tour Guide
AUSTRALIA > A rare opportunity is open to an enthusiastic applicant to guide astronomy tours at Arkaroola International Dark Sky Sanctuary. You will be living and working at Arkaroola, a remote location in South Australia, for roughly six to nine months.
⭐️Get Creative In The Desert
JORDAN > Wadi Rum With-Haitham last week took to the Workaway Volunteers Europe Facebook group to offer free desert camp accommodation and delicious Bedouin meals to two creative volunteers helping them with internet management and digital marketing. In the same group, Jolanda Koopman recently offered accommodation in her house in Wadi Musa to a cat and chicken sitter.
⭐️Join The Kayak Gozo Team As A Sea Kayak Guide For An Epic Summer Adventure
MALTA > Got a passion for paddling and leading people on an adventure, along with other requirements outlined here. Then Kayak Gozo wants you to be on their team from May to September 2025.
⭐️Alpine Summer Camp Jobs
SWITZERLAND > International Summer Camp Montana is always seeking energetic, talented and responsible people with a commitment to education, leadership and development, but they particularly want them by January 30 because that’s their application deadline. EU citizens, US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South African passport holders can obtain a work permit to work at their privately owned and operated summer camp in the alpine resort of Crans-Montana.
⭐️Lead A Putney Trip
WORLDWIDE > Putney Student Travel‘s leaders come from all around the world and we are midway through their application cycle to become one yourself. Find out more about their ideal candidate here.
⭐️Backroads Trip Leaders
WORLDWIDE > Applications are now open for trip leader and trip prep specialist positions with Backroads. One of our Facebook group members bigged them up a couple of years ago, telling us they offer an amazing way for cyclists to live and learn about a new area of the world while enjoying free accommodation and making a good income. The sooner they receive your application, the better your chances are of being hired, so apply today.
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⭐️Bansko Nomad Fest 2025 Volunteers
BULGARIA > Bansko Nomad Fest, a celebration of the location independent lifestyle and nomad mindset, is held this year in June. Hundreds of nomads, remote workers and freelancers will take over a beautiful village in Bulgaria for a week of presentations, workshops, sports, mindfulness and nature. Volunteers can help as general or head volunteers, receiving a free ticket and other benefits in return.
⭐️Campsite Helpers
BULGARIA > Camping Veliko Tarnovo, a small family run campsite, is looking for a friendly, cheerful, hardworking couple or individual for the 2025 season. You must have your own motorhome or caravan to live in.
⭐️Visit And Volunteer In The Gambia
THE GAMBIA > A group of young Gambians have established a project welcoming volunteers to their country. We don’t know much about them other than accommodation and some food are included. Find out more from their website.
While checking if the correct name for the country is The Gambia or just Gambia we stumbled on Gambia Horse And Donkey Trust, a small animal welfare charity registered in the UK and locally. They always have two long term volunteers based in The Gambia, which means that once roughly every six months they are looking to recruit someone new to join their team. The successful candidate will be based in The Gambia for one year to oversee all operations of the charity and complete administrative tasks. All applicants must be educated to a minimum of degree level, be excellent team players, have very good communication skills and able to think outside the box. They will be based in a remote, rural location with very basic amenities and no electricity.
⭐️Watersports Instructor And Snorkeling Guide Wanted
MALDIVES > Are you passionate about the ocean and ready for an adventure of a lifetime? Divepoint Maldives is welcoming new faces to their dynamic team in the breathtaking Maldives.
⭐️Surf Lodge Managers
NICARAGUA > Las Plumerias Surf Lodge, a boutique surf lodge nestled on Nicaragua’s stunning Pacific Coast, is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic couple to manage all aspects of the lodge. This role is ideal for a couple who share a passion for hospitality, surfing, and sustainable tourism.
⭐️Watersports Coordinators
CARIBBEAN > Broadreach leads summer diving and sailing programmes for teens in the Caribbean. Recently they were looking to hire watersports coordinators to support their sailing, scuba, and marine science programmes and teach students to wakeboard, water ski, kneeboard and dinghy sail. Educators, scuba instructors, marine biologists, sailing captains, and veterinarians are more of their annual seasonal hires listed on their website.
⭐️Volunteer Opportunity At Mandala Life And Yoga
PORTUGAL > A creative soul is sought to work five to six hours per day (private group), five days a week in tasks including content creation, light facility oversight, cleaning, and event support. While this initially seems like a lot of hours for volunteer work, €350 per month pocket money compliments their offer of a shared room with a stunning view and plenty of flexibility to surf and enjoy Sagres.
⭐️Finca Almalibra Welcomes An Exchange
SPAIN > Finca Almalibra have typed stay with us for free exchange into the introduction of their Facebook page. They’re in the Tarragona Region, in the South of Catalonia. They were fairly recently also looking for a permanent addition to their team but this may well have been filled.
⭐️Musicians, Artists, Sporty Or Outdoorsy People Wanted
GERMANY > The Language Farm is hiring again. They teach English through adventure, music, cooking, outdoor experiences and creativity and are looking for English speakers who are already able to work in Germany.
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⭐️Help Bring American Style Summer Camps To Germany
GERMANY > KCA accepts applications year round from motivated and outgoing native speaking English teachers and teacher’s assistants at their English day and overnight camps in Frankfurt, Bremen, Berlin, Erfurt, Eisenach, Munich, Sachsen, Waldeck, and Freiburg for the summer, autumn, winter, and spring vacations.
⭐️Green Building And Gardening In Return For Sailing Experience And Wind Sport Lessons
UK > Peter Wilkins is doing a bit of permaculture by the sea, near Weymouth, and offers camping/glamping accommodation, sailing and paddleboarding trips, and wingfoiling and windsurfing lessons, in return for some help.
⭐️Help Animals In Need On The Island Of Kos
GREECE > Gasah Greek and Swiss Animal Help (GASAH), a dedicated animal welfare organisation, in Kos has used Voluntouring.org to put out an urgent call for volunteers.
⭐️Travelbound Publishes Their 2025 Chateau Du Molay Vacancies
FRANCE > Positions open to those with the right to work in France include chefs, pot washers, general assistants, activity assistants, kitchen porters, and maintenance.
⭐️Tall Ship Adventures
USA > Traverse Tall Ship Company has posted its jobs for the 2025 sailing season. For more information and to apply, head over to tallshipsailing.com/jobs. Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
⭐️Kitesurfing Vacancies And Volunteering
WORLDWIDE > Qualified kitesurfing instructors can choose whether to work in Tarifa, Rhodes, Djerba or Sicily in 2025. Enthusiasts lacking the qualifications for these paid roles can volunteer on Kite AliCori’s team at their pousada in Macapá during September, October, and November. A commitment of at least one month is required. They are looking for English speaking volunteers who are social and love to meet others in the kitesurfing community. In return is accommodation, food, and the opportunity to kite every day in 20-30 knots at one of the best spots in Brazil.
⭐️Taiwan Foreign English Teachers Program
TAIWAN > The Taiwan Foreign English Teachers Program (TFETP) was launched by the Ministry of Education to recruit foreign English teachers and teaching assistants to create more opportunities for Taiwanese students to learn English in schools nationwide. Applications for the 2025/26 academic year (from August/September 2025 to June/July 2026) will have started from January 1, closing once all of the available places have been filled. Eligibility criteria is given here.
Questions and answers about teaching in Taiwan, including the TFETP, can be found in the forums of Formosa.com.
⭐️TASIS Summer Programs
SWITZERLAND > TASIS says citizens of the United States, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and other non EU countries readily obtain work permits and individuals from all countries are welcome to apply for a counsellor, teacher, or nurse position on their 2025 summer programme in Lugano.
The work is described as exciting and rewarding, but it is not for everyone. All teachers and counsellors are expected to work seven days a week and perform duties around campus and in the dorm. There is little personal time available and only one weekend off per summer. Living arrangements are most often shared apartments with other staff, or a dorm room.
Weekdays will consist of morning classes, afternoon sports, evening activities, concerts, performances, tournaments, and workshops. Weekends are spent traveling to nearby cities or exploring the outdoors while rafting, caving, and canyoning.
Applicants from non European countries must apply before March 28, but Swiss and EU citizens, and those with Swiss work permits can still apply after this date.
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⭐️Last Call For US Teaching Assistants Wishing To Head To Austria
AUSTRIA > January 15 is the deadline for Americans to get in their application to live and teach English abroad in Austria.
⭐️January Is A Peak Time For English Teacher Hires
WORLDWIDE > For teaching English in many countries January is the secondary peak hiring time. International TEFL Academy answers the question of where with some words and charts in their blog.
⭐️Is Teaching In Korea Really As Tough As They Say?
SOUTH KOREA > Recently, someone considering teaching English in South Korea put the above question to experienced teachers there via Reddit. Plenty of responses, both positive and negative, were given.
⭐️Former Teacher In Thailand Discusses How Much He Earns From His YouTube Travel Channel
ONLINE > Youtuber Paddy Doyle lifts up the bonnet on his channel to reveal how much can be made from the platform.
⭐️Fulbright Teacher Exchanges
WORLDWIDE > Two programmes - one short and one long term - available to educators from the US are currently open for applications. The 12 month Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program provides two to three weeks of field experience in Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, or Uruguay to K–12 educators from elementary, middle, and high schools. The ten day long Fulbright Leaders for Global Schools Program sends cohorts of US K–12 school administrators to Finland, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
⭐️Transatlantic Outreach Program
GERMANY > Applications are open until February 1 for full time educators of social studies or STEM subjects in the United States or Canada to get on a fully funded professional development study tour to Germany. TOP study tour groups usually stay for two weeks in two to three German cities and visit schools, businesses, government offices, non-profits and civic organizations, historical sites, museums, etc. Travel grant recipient, Saba Moin recently shared her experience on the tour with the Teaching Traveling website.
⭐️Webinar Coming Up To Find Out More About Becoming A British Council English Language Assistant
WORLDWIDE > Applications close at the end of this month to become one of the 1,800 English language assistants from the UK sent by the British Council on a six month or one year placement to either Argentina, Colombia, Quebec, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain or Switzerland. On January 16, they are holding an information session to find out more about how the programme operates, hear insights from former assistants and ask any questions you may have.
⭐️Escape Northern Europe’s Cold Winters
SPAIN > The number of dogs calling SOS Animals Salobrena Cantalobos home has doubled so they need more volunteers. They are prioritising January to April and people able to stick around for a month at the moment but volunteers will be needed at other times of the year.
⭐️Interested In Volunteering For Knipnäs?
FINLAND > Knipnäs Wellness Center has put up a form for volunteers interested in joining them in their rather lovely looking centre in Tammisaari, southeast Finland.
⭐️Usual Suspects Advertising Vacancies In Greeka.com
GREECE > As we write, there are 20 summer jobs in Greece listed on Greeka.com. Many of the advertisers are the usual suspects we’ve featured in these pages before - such as Corfu’s The Pink Palace and Artemis Hamam & Spa on Kos - but jobs for snack bar servers on Rhodes and wait staff on Crete can be found here too.
⭐️Walking, Biking and Watersports Guide – Scottish Highlands
UK > Caledonian Discovery offers cruising holidays with outdoor activities along the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands, aboard two converted Dutch barges. They want an activity guide to join them for the Summer 2025 season in a full time and live aboard role during the working weeks. They haven’t updated their other crew jobs on their website yet but last year’s can be viewed here.
⭐️The Cheapest Places To Live In The World 2025
WORLDWIDE > Each year Nomadico’s Tim Leffel does a lengthy updated blog post on the best bargain countries around the world for those who are coming in with earnings or savings in a strong hard currency. Here’s his 2025 list. Conde Nast Traveller’s list of top 10 digital nomad visas in the world might be helpful too, even if it is a year old.
⭐️Shark Movement Ecologist
ECUADOR & ITALY > Experience and high end qualifications will be required to become the new shark movement ecologist for the Charles Darwin Foundation and be based at their research station in the Galapagos Islands. More entry level is this marine biology internship in southern Italy.
⭐️Volunteering In The Surfers’ Paradise Of Huanchaco
PERU > Will took the opportunity to volunteer for a few months in the surfers’ paradise of Huanchaco with Otra Cosa Network. Run by a British-Peruvian couple, alongside some European managers, and providing educational support to marginalised children, Will said the accommodation was cheap (about £10 a night for a private room) and there were incredible culinary opportunities both in the town and the nearest city, Trujillo.
⭐️Play Rugby In Paradise
AUSTRALIA > Port Douglas Rugby Club is recruiting players for the 2025 season from April to September. Each year over half their team is made up of backpackers from all over the world. Their post says they help with finding work and accommodation locally.
⭐️Short Notice Chalet Hosts
FRANCE > Alpine Elements is looking for a chalet host to join their team in La Plagne for the rest of the season. The role involves cooking and cleaning, with accommodation available if needed. Due to current work permit delays, this position is only open to EU passport holders or those who already have the right to work in France.
⭐️Wakepark Summer Jobs
GERMANY > The Turncable Wakepark in Thannhausen is still looking for kitchen assistants (private group) for their restaurant. Accommodation could be provided. Victoria Stanton’s question if this is open to UK passport holders has gone unanswered but it is unlikely.
⭐️Strong To The Finish, Cause You Eats Your Spinach
MALTA > We’ve seen Popeye Village Malta, a fun park based on the film set of the 1980 musical production of Popeye, showing a bit of ankle to jobs wanted posts on social media lately, suggesting that they are looking to fill spots on their animation team. They don’t have a jobs page on their website but sometimes post vacancies on their own Facebook page.
⭐️Rewilding Project Catering
UK > We popped in on Knepp, 3,500 acre rewilding project in West Sussex, to see if they were looking for a campsite warden. They’re not, but they do need a head chef for their restaurant and café, kitchen porters, front of house staff, and an assistant grower.
⭐️Isle Of Skye Seasonal Vacancies
UK > Dunvegan Castle is the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland and has been the ancestral home of the Chiefs of clan MacLeod for 800 years. It can be your home over the summer if accepted for one of their seasonal roles. Applications are open until February 28 to those with a UK working visa.
We’ve no news if they are, but Skye Basecamp is often looking for an assistant hostel manager around this time of year and their mountaineering business, Skye Guides, is open to hiring appropriately qualified guides and instructors.
If you are in the enviable position of being able to do without the currency of the realm for a while, Rubha Phoil, an ancient rock connected to the shores of the Isle of Skye, can put some Rubha Rocks in your pocket instead. These are earned by helping out at a small regenerative culture community and permaculture project and used to pay for food and accommodation.
⭐️Get Onboard The Big Green Coach
UK > Every summer Big Green Coach needs help from enthusiastic people of all ages who want to work in the events industry. They operate coach services to most major UK festivals and are always after volunteer coach reps and transport stewards to help for a few hours at their major UK pickup points in return for a festival ticket. They have onsite and paid roles too.
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⭐️Neilson’s 2025 Summer Jobs Are Open
EUROPE > Don’t forget Neilson Active Holidays has opened up applications for their beach, activity, and watersport roles in Greece, Croatia and Sardinia for this not coming soon enough summer. Find all the information you need on their recruitment website.
⭐️Holiday Park Jobs In Northern Ireland
UK > Blair’s Holiday Parks in Northern Ireland is hiring until January 19 for their 2025 vacancies. These include cleaning, maintaining hot tubs and for high ropes course instructors.
⭐️Summer Camp Job Fairs
UK & USA > Attend, interview with camps in person, and get your summer job sorted is the pledge to attendees of an American Summer camp fair. They’ve dates coming up in January and February in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Mexico.
January 25 and 26 provide a chance to get hired on the spot and secure your place at camp for an unforgettable summer through Camp America. They are holding jobs fairs on these dates in London, Manchester and Glasgow. Camp Leaders are holding their hiring fairs online from January 7 to 9.
⭐️Manor Adventure Instructor Selection Day
UK > Residential outdoor activity provider Manor Adventure is holding a selection day in Shropshire on January 18. The day is designed to be informal, relaxed, enjoyable and challenging while they consider the suitability of potential multi activity instructors to work with them at one of their centres next year. Other positions in catering, maintenance, and admin are also listed on their website.
⭐️Bear Sanctuary Vacancies
LAOS > Free the Bears are looking for a new consulting veterinarian and a research officer for their sanctuary in Luang Prabang.
⭐️Plant Trees For A Living
AUSTRALIA > Yoa Herstal has been planting trees with Timberwolf for over one and a half years now and says, that while it is hard work, it’s been a blast and is super rewarding and good money.
⭐️Learn Off Grid Living
AUSTRALIA > Halina and Phil have just moved to a property near Stroud, one and a half hours north of Newcastle, NSW. Stay with them, help them out, and learn off grid living.
⭐️Work At The Wimbledon Tennis Championships
UK > We said it this time last year, and we’ll say it again, applications close on January 31 for retail catering and front of house roles at Wimbledon with Compass Events. Or find work at 70+ other venues across the UK.
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