JAB / 148 / February 2026: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Vacancies, Leads, Links, Inspiration & Ideas For Working Abroad, Volunteering & Taking A Gap Year
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Orphan bats, funky foxholes, sunset bintangs, island hopping, New Caledonia, burping DJs, & more…
⭐️Apply For More Tourism
ITALY > Applyfortourism is a Dutch company that rounds up entertainers, choreographers, football coaches, hospitality staff, receptionists, team leaders, and interns, and releases them into campsites across northern Italy. EU passports are required.
⭐️Allround Entertainers For The Balearic Islands
SPAIN > Did you know that in the Balearic Islands, you can find both crystal clear beaches and megalithic art? Us neither, but we do know that Acttiv is looking for all round entertainers to head there and organise children’s games for all ages.
⭐️Riveting Staff Wanted
CANADA > This summer, Dog Mermaid is running two adventure packed kids camps in British Columbia. They want kayak guides and instructors to keep things more exciting than this. Rental shop staff, too. They’ll hire international staff, but we detect a little sarcasm when they say they will handle the fun paperwork.
⭐️Discover The Magic Of Winter In The Snowy Mountains Of New South Wales
AUSTRALIA > Are you an experienced housekeeper or someone eager to learn? If that’s a yes, Jo’s Complete Clean needs housekeeper team members, team leaders and preppers to service holiday rental properties in Jindabyne, Thredbo and Crackenback.
⭐️On-Site Team Members 2026
FRANCE & AUSTRIA > Ever dreamed of living in a château in France, or the mountains of Austria? Contiki is once again looking for on-site team members to live and work at one of what they call their Special Stays in Europe for the summer season. Positions vary from site to site, but include cooks, bike guides, bar tenders and housekeepers. An EU passport is needed.
⭐️Experienced Chalet Host
FRANCE > Le Ski has a chalet host position - that could suit a couple - in La Tania for the remainder of the season.
⭐️Cooking, Foiling, Biking
A campsite with a wingfoil and mountain bike centre in northern Portugal has vacant cook/chef and kitchen assistant positions to fill in their restaurant.
⭐️Enjoy Your Great Spoliday
GREECE > Spoliday - where sport meets holiday - shared this free PADI Divemaster internship in Greece, put forward by GoDive Mykonos.
⭐️Island Hopping
GREECE & CROATIA > Someone who already knows their way around TikTok and Instagram, are comfortable in front of the camera, loves travel, and is not afraid to try new things will be perfect as the next content creator intern for Sail Croatia’s Island Hopping brand. Shared accommodation, a food allowance, flight contribution, and €2,000 paid at the end of the internship are in it for you. Applications close February 14. Sail Croatia itself is offering an identical gig in Croatia. Influencers, photographers and videographers can also leverage their creativity for complimentary experiences.
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⭐️EPIK’s Fall Application Period Should Be Open Now
SOUTH KOREA > How our heart lept when we saw EPIK’s notice that they have updated their website. It sank again once we realised it is still shit. It is better to navigate around, taking not long at all to find the how to apply page, and read the wonky text that applications for teaching in Korea through this programme, affiliated with the Korean Ministry of Education, should open on February 1. Many potential teachers use an agency such as Korvia Consultancy. Annah Pokubye’s application walk through came up first when we searched YouTube. Advice may also be found in r/teachinginkorea.
⭐️Camp Taiwan Is Hiring Now
TAIWAN > A North American style camp that works with international schools and local communities is looking for summer camp counsellors and seasonal outdoor instructors.
⭐️Adventure Awaits In Australia
AUSTRALIA > Belgravia Outdoor Education have put an up to $2,000 flight reimbursement on a stick and is waving it in front of British, Canadian and American outdoor educators. They want them for eight weeks in Victoria.
⭐️Volunteers Needed For Flying Fox Orphan Release
AUSTRALIA > Aw. A cute bat smoking a big pink cigar, we thought incorrectly on first glance at the pictures illustrating Bat Conservation and Rescue Queensland’s advert (private group) for volunteers. Volunteers who will live onsite at their orphan flying fox release site and help them return to the wild. They had us from that moment and didn’t let go, mentioning that during the minimum four week stay we will get to see the babies grow and learn to fly.
⭐️Volunteer Photographer Or Videographer
AUSTRALIA > Captain Paul Watson Foundation Australia is looking for a volunteer photographer or videographer to join their crew for two to four weeks before they head to Antarctica. You will sail to Hobart and document life at sea for their supporters.
⭐️Cook Vietnamese Food For Guests Staying In The Galapagos Islands
ECUADOR GALAPAGOS ISLANDS > A chef is wanted to cook Vietnamese food for guests staying in a villa in the Galapagos Islands from June 4 to 11. Chefs who think they know a bit about Asian food and would like to apply shouldn’t bother. The chef can be located anywhere, as the clients will pay the travel costs and arrange the visa.
⭐️The Sailing Ship Laborer Is Seeking Volunteers
CARIBBEAN > Since Captain Dave Perdew purchased the Labora in Denmark in 2018, the historic wooden vessel has become a floating classroom and cultural hub. Hundreds of crew members from various nationalities have joined its voyages, sailing from Denmark to Cape Verde and across the Atlantic.
The ongoing project was recently seeking volunteers to help maintain, and build sailing platforms throughout the Caribbean islands, welcoming individuals interested in hands on work, traditional seamanship, and cultural preservation. Stays are flexible. Some people join for a few weeks, others for up to a year.
⭐️Join Tobiasbrygga This Summer
NORWAY > Tobiasbrygga, a waterfront restaurant in the heart of Lofoten, is hiring waiters and kitchen staff for the summer. Consider also Husum Hotel in Lærdal, which is seeking seasonal staff for a combined role including housekeeping, reception duties, breakfast preparations and waiting tables.
⭐️Naturist Resort Vacancies
GREECE > Vritomartis Naturist Resort posted a bunch of vacancies from Crete recently, including this one for a receptionist with excellent French or German, plus English. The careers page on their own website covers food and beverage, housekeeping and guest relations.
⭐️Oasis Of The Possible
NEW CALEDONIA > Nestled in the mountains of New Caledonia, Oasis des Possibles welcomes Wwoofers who are passionate about gardening, caring for nature and sustainable living.
⭐️Another Chance For Conservation Volunteering In Iceland
ICELAND > Land and Forest Iceland’s search for volunteers, which we mentioned in the last issue of JAB, will be coming to an end on February 15. Another way to apply, by the same date, for conservation work on the island is through the Nature Conservation Agency of Iceland. Their trail teams spend ten weeks on a selection of nature protection tasks and natural trail maintenance projects throughout the country’s national parks and nature reserves. The remoteness of the worksites and Iceland’s notoriously changeable weather make this volunteer programme both a challenge and an adventure. Applicants should be aged over 20.
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⭐️Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
UK & WORLDWIDE > For a while, we’ve had the bones of a post about earning money as a film or TV extra sitting in our drafts and - hoorah! - we don’t have to finish it. Emma Lunn, writing in The Guardian, has done it for us. In her article, she reveals extras can expect to be paid between £150 and £250 a day on average, and lists agencies such as Uni-versal Extras. For readers in Ireland, we’d add Belfast based The Extras Dept. More agencies are provided in Save The Student.
Other advice in the piece suggests watching out for casting calls. Many are listed in Backstage and Project Casting, and through Facebook groups such as Film & TV Casting Calls UK.
Working as a background artist can be a lucrative side hustle, boosting travel funds before setting off and also while already on the road. JAB met the captain of a hijacked ship rescued by a girl with the ability to talk with animals in a restaurant in Chiang Mai, and here’s the ex of an old flatmate wearing a green shirt, chatting away behind Hugh Grant in Notting Hill.
Other travellers who have fallen into it include Johnny Duncan, who, on the second day of his first backpacking trip, was approached by film scouts and able to extend his time in Cairo doing various films, playing everything from a British diplomat to a doctor, a businessman and an army officer. He suggests, if you want to try the same, staying in or asking around at the cheapest backpacker guesthouses, and you might be approached.
Digital nomad James Clark method acted sitting in front of a computer for a cut scene in The Impossible about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Travel bloggers Cody McKibben, Adventurous Kate and Backpacking Matt danced in the background of a Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan for a German action movie, and Turner Barr got paid to stand around smoking dressed as an American soldier for a National Geographic documentary shot in Bangkok.
None of these went on to a career as a film extra, unlike John Walker who found that his look – skinny and not too good-looking – was in high demand, leading to more than 2,500 appearances on screen, or Jill Goldston, whose 60 year career as an extra was itself the subject of a film.
⭐️Eco Villa Renovation Volunteer Project
ITALY > An update has come over the wires from Voluntouring.org that ColivingLiguria is taking requests from volunteers interested in transforming beautiful, historic villas into a vibrant coliving space for remote workers, volunteers, and anyone who wants to take a break from frustrating city life. Flexible volunteer hours are agreed individually, and accommodation is offered in return.
⭐️Another Koh Rong Sanloem Volunteering Option
CAMBODIA > You can add SunBoo Beach Bungalows to last month’s Koh Rong Sanloem volunteering options. They are open to hosting people looking for a short term work exchange (private group) or long term employment opportunity at Sunset Beach.
⭐️Campsite Couriers
SPAIN & FRANCE > A new campsite team leader is in the sights of Siesta Lifestyle Holidays. They particularly want one that is enthusiastic, fun loving and responsible, who is also an EU passport holder or a UK national with residency in Spain. The use of a Gmail address on the advert looks a bit dodgy, but we checked their own website - where they also list vacancies for campsite couriers and couple site reps - and they use it there, too. KelAir Campotel is also advertising for couples couriers.
⭐️Waiters/Waitresses Wanted In Mallorca
SPAIN > Megapark has been on Hosco again, this time to advertise in English ten vacancies for wait staff to serve their mostly German customers. See their website for a video presentation of all their vacancies.
⭐️Live Your Summer On The Water
ITALY > Michele Marioni is doing the online stuff for her brother Stefano, advertising a bunch of instructor vacancies for Garganosurf in Vieste.
⭐️Manor Adventure Is Hiring Animators
FRANCE > Although the start date seems to have passed, Manor Adventure have six month contracts waiting for activity instructors joining them at their two locations in France. EU passports or work visas for France are needed, but experience isn’t.
⭐️Applications Are Open For The Next Series Of Race Across The World
WORLDWIDE > Race Across the World, BBC One’s BAFTA winning hit series, is back and once again is searching for intrepid duos ready to take a step into the unknown and embark on another epic race across land and sea. This experience is open to anyone with a passport, whether you’re a seasoned traveller or total novice, as long as you’re aged over 18 and legally resident in the UK. Applications are open until March 29.
⭐️Carry On English Language Summer Camping
EUROPE > A fair number of the posts we’ve shared in the last couple of issues of JAB have been from immersive English language summer camps for kids. The goal with these is to mix activities, games and fun into an English language environment created by native speakers.
Why not round them all up into one post, we thought. You get another chance to ponder the chances of getting a work visa to live in the woods or mountains in Europe, and JAB gets more time in the pub to add even more jobs abroad goodness into this issue.
In Germany, Fokus Camps are present in ten camp locations around the country, each needing their fill of enthusiastic, energetic English native level speaking camp counsellors, who are able to run sports and activities programmes for two to six week placements. And, good news for Germans with a native level of English, or native English speakers already living in Germany, Language Farm have now updated their application form for 2026.
There is a map of Kids Camp America’s kids camps in Germany on their jobs page. They hire teachers and teaching assistants with experience working with children - either in a teaching position or as a coach, au pair or similar - from English speaking countries all over the world, as well as German born English speakers, to run their sports and activities programmes.
A weekly summer salary of between €720 and €810, along with travel reimbursement and room and board, is paid to the English teachers who land this job with Alpadia Language Schools.
In France, American Village Camps seek energetic, creative, team players who are fluent English speakers who love working with children. Young Austria has been encouraging the participants in their kids’ camps to speak English in all situations - for the whole day - since 1950. They’re looking forward to receiving applications from native English speakers for yet another year.
Village Camps will be needing language teachers, activity counsellors and support staff for their summer camps in Austria, Switzerland and Portugal this summer, from the end of June until early or mid August. Two more options in Switzerland are Camp Suisse and Le Rosey Camps.
The English Camp Company is present in Austria and also in Italy. Their staff are volunteers. You Can Camp also takes on volunteers for their camps in Italy. They accept American, Australian, Canadian, Kiwi and European participants aged 20 to 35 years old, with a college degree or attending college/university. Alternatively, a TEFL certificate or previous camp experience is accepted as well.
Each year, Dalina Borcan recruits for summer camps in Transylvania, Romania, selecting English speaking volunteers who are 18 to 40 years old, energetic, enthusiastic, and who enjoy working with children and young people. Volunteers should be able to spend a minimum of four weeks here, but can stay the whole summer should they wish.
Lastly, to Spain. The Village offers an opportunity to work as a summer camp coach there for four weeks in July. They hire native English speakers (or Spaniards with C1) to engage in sports, music, dance, drama, games, outdoor activities, and coastal and mountain trekking.
Amy and Andrew, a British couple JAB met in Thailand a few years ago, are still on the road 13 years after they left home. One of their experiences in that time was a stint working in English camps in Spain. They share both their lowdown on how this went, and these companies that run English camps in the country: Forenex, Enforex, and TECS.
⭐️Ten Weeks Working At An Immersive English Camp: A Survivor’s Story
SPAIN > For anyone who’s considering a camp job, Stephanie Saint shares her story of the ten weeks she spent working at an immersive English camp in the north of Spain. The kids that attend the camp are meant to eat, sleep and breathe English for the duration of their stay, and, although she looks back on the camp with fond memories, it was also a pretty immersive experience for the teachers, too, for both good and bad reasons.
⭐️More Language Camp Vacancies
ITALY > Other camp positions to consider are the ones run by Alphabet Education. They believe that a summer camp is not only a programme, but also - and above all - a place that surrounds the participants and creates a whole new world. The place they chose for this goal, in the hills on the border between Tuscany and Umbria, attracted the abuses of their lawyers, according to our translation of their Italian language newsletter.
Ideal candidates for the ESL teacher, camp counsellor and group leader roles will be native English speakers, patient, have previous experience working with students, and possess ESL certification. Consider, too, this position that popped up last week in the English Teachers in Italy Association group. It will suit 18 to 35s happy to work with kids and available in July.
Lastly, every year, every single year, we check out Lingue Senza Frontiere’s website and social media and think nope, they’ve closed down. A year later, when we start thinking about English camp vacancies again, we find that they did run camps and staffed them with native English speakers with bubbly characters and a genuine interest in working with children. Currently, as expected, their application form is for 2025, but this will change at some point between now and this time next year.
⭐️Camp Europe
EUROPE > Though we missed their applications opening up last autumn - bad JAB! Bad! - yet another summer camp option is Camp Europe, who do their thing across various campsite locations in Germany, Austria, Ireland, England, Spain, and Italy. They hire camp counsellors, language coaches, offer a three month long internship, and a six month long outdoor education diploma. They also hire coordinators. Many of these come with a stipend to provide financial support.
Academic Camp doesn’t seem to be doing anything in Germany this year, but they do hire teachers and camp counsellors for their camps around the UK. As well as these, they are running a couple of camps in Canada.
⭐️Make A Real Difference In The Lives Of Animals
COSTA RICA > Wild Sun Rescue Center will be short of hands this March unless they get some support over the coming months. There’s no programme fee if volunteering for 12 weeks.
⭐️Castle Bartender Position
ITALY > The thousand year old castle we mentioned in our last issue is now putting out feelers for a bartender.
⭐️Big Boat Childcare And Sports Recruitment
AT SEA > Kings Active Foundation, a not for profit with a specialism in childcare and sports recruitment, is presently recruiting sports, youth and cruise staff for Royal Caribbean cruise ships travelling across the world.
⭐️Make New Friends, Party All Night, Tan Under The Sun By Day
GREECE > Saloon Tex Club in Kos tried to post an ad to our Facebook group in December, and we’ve only just noticed that a) it ended up in our spam folder, and b) we have a spam folder. The ad for promoters, proppers/PRs, reps, bartenders and DJs for their club was nearly the same as this one on their Instagram.
If their reviews are to be believed, the DJ should be able to burb into a microphone, the bartenders adept at watering down drinks, and PRs should be super aggressive. But, if there is a time and a place for this sort of thing, summer 26 in Kos is probably it.
Another summer 26 holiday job in Kos is this one, put forward by Wild Bull Kos. They are hiring bar staff and floor staff.
⭐️Volunteering Good, Bad And Ugly
WORLDWIDE > Abbey, a redhead gone rogue, has enjoyed her money saving experiences on the Worldpackers platform, volunteering in Turkiye, Morocco and in a castle in Scotland. Emma, who fled her Workaway host in the middle of the night, not so much. Both introduce us to Fialka, who doesn’t have the Workaway spirit and tries to ruin volunteering for us with her own horror stories and these from the Worldpackers subreddit.
⭐️More Safe Sailing
AT SEA > Emma’s host in Panama (see above) co owned a sailing school. Both her and Fialka have heard many similar horror stories from female volunteers on boats and conjecture that sailing experiences seem to attract the creeps. Here’s a reminder of our safe sailing post from May 2024.
⭐️The First Vegan Hotel In Italy Is Hiring
ITALY > La Vimea April is hiring Italian and English speaking (German is an advantage) reception, service, and housekeeping staff for April to November. It’s EU nationals only, and preference will be given to vegan applicants.
⭐️Sole Chef For World Travelling 50M Motoryacht
AT SEA > From mid to the end of February, a chef with experience in multi course plated menus will be travelling Europe before crossing the ocean to the Caribbean and/or USA later in the year. Another summer in the Med winter in the Caribbean opportunity presents itself to a chef with a sailing background if they cook for a team of seven to 15 staff on a private 40m sailing/racing yacht. Another sole chef will stay in Italy on a 23m charter sailing catamaran.
⭐️Stewardess Wanted In South Of France
FRANCE > A dedicated stewardess is wanted to join a 25m motor yacht based in the South of France for a seasonal position.
⭐️My Way And The Sky Way
PORTUGAL > MyWay Kite & Surf is advertising for kitesurf instructors, interns and volunteers for the 2026 season. Good English is mandatory; German and/or Portuguese would be good. French is also cool. They are also in the market for an English and Portuguese speaking handyman.
⭐️Workcampers Wanted In Virginia
USA > Indian Cove Resort in Virginia Beach is looking to hire workcampers for their 2026 season.
⭐️Greeka Jobs
GREECE > Now is a good time to drop by the job offers section of Greeka.com. Sales reps, boat crew, champagne girls and hospitality jobs, mostly with titles ending in “ess”, as is usually the want in Greece, were among the vacancies posted there when we dropped by.
⭐️Senior Watersports Instructor
GREECE > A week or so ago, BeyondBeach still needed a senior watersports instructor to step up into a role at their Greek Beach Clubs.
⭐️Swimming Coaches
EUROPE > TUI is looking for talented swim coaches who are willing to relocate to one of their holiday destinations for Summer 2026. If you speak English plus German, Finnish or Swedish (and have an EU passport, and a qualification in swimming teaching or a coaching certificate), head here.
⭐️Boat Barber
AT SEA > A wealthy someone with shaggy hair wants a hairdresser to join an 80m+ new build for three months of the year, filling in for the usual hairdresser when on leave. Candidates should have at least a year of yachting experience. The Med in the summer and the Caribbean in the winter is the likely itinerary.
⭐️Fulbright Grants Are Available To Austrian Students
USA > Applications for Americans to work in Austrian secondary schools via the US Teaching Assistantship Program have closed. Austrian students wanting to go the other way and obtain a Fulbright grant to pursue a master’s degree and study in the US are in luck, though. The Application period for this is February 1 to May 1.
⭐️Volunteer At Roskilde Festival
DENMARK > Every year, CoffeeCow goes to Roskilde Festival to sell coffee and asks for help from strong people. They’ve shown a preference for Irish girls and boys at previous festivals, offering tickets and food to their volunteers. Other vendors post their volunteer vacancies to the Roskilde Festival - Become A Volunteer! Facebook group, or check out the many positions listed here.
⭐️Working For Farmer Phil
UK > Farmer Phil’s music festival this year will be taking place from August 7 to 9 in a field near Shrewsbury. The festival continues to grow since its inception in 1998, and will need, among other things, stewarding, drink serving, rubbish collecting, and camping field a marshalin. Volunteers do these.
⭐️Live In A Tent, Wear Black, Serve Drinks And Hear Dance Music
UK > Hap Solutions is responsible for rounding up bar staff to work at Creamfields (Chelmsford, in May), and Creamfields North (Cheshire, in August). You will need a good quality tent and a sleeping bag.
⭐️Trotters Independent Travel Will Pay Travel Writers £200 Per Piece
REMOTE > We were very excited to read in a recent issue of Wildly Successful Travelpreneurs that Trotters is launching in 2026 and will need travel writers. Mostly because we could make a crap joke that this is Del and Rodney’s latest venture. Matador seeking writers for golf pieces in Scotland and Hawaiʻi, and Nomad Cruise’s want for a digital nomad lifestyle writer are some of the other opportunities shared there.
⭐️Will Teach For Surf Lessons
INDONESIA > Iwan Sang Dakhi is still hanging out in volunteering Facebook groups, spreading the word about the Fatora English Project, located on Nias, an island off the western coast of Sumatra. Volunteers teach English to local children in return for accommodation and surfing lessons.
The graphic with all the details says there is a small donation to support the project. It doesn’t say how much, but if it hasn’t changed from last August, it will be US$5 a day, plus volunteers source their own food from the many food stalls in the area. Videos of teachers doing their thing can be found here, and if you’re still wavering, these sunset bintangs by the beach are making us think about what we are doing with our lives.
⭐️Share Your Hospitality Skills
LAOS > La Folie Lodge, a small boutique resort on Don Daeng Island in the Mekong in Southern Laos, is interested in volunteers willing to share and teach their skills in hospitality.
⭐️Thai Akha Volunteers Discounts To Bloggers
THAILAND > We found Chiang Mai’s Thai Akha Cooking School in Rowena Harding’s post, Thailand Told Through Noodles. Their Workaway profile, through which volunteers could have helped them grow and develop their cooking classes, has been paused, but bloggers can earn discounts on their courses. Warm Heart, in the Phrao District of Chiang Mai, may be a suitable alternative for volunteering.
Asian Oasis, who work with the Lisu, another hill tribe in Thailand, and who kindly hosted JAB many years ago, are also willing to explore potential collaboration opportunities with influencers. They have volunteering and internship programmes, too.
⭐️Volunteers Wanted For New Backpackers Hostel In Langkawi
MALAYSIA > If you’re looking for a fun way to experience island life, meet backpackers from around the world, and be part of building a brand new hostel from the beginning, The Crowded House Backpackers Lodge is offering dorm accommodation and meals for helping out about the place.
⭐️Spring / Summer Activity Leaders For An International Language School
UK > Spend your spring and summer working outdoors, enjoying life and making memories with international teenagers through exciting activities, excursions, and adventures in Brighton and the south of England.
⭐️Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
WORLDWIDE > This award provides US$30,000 for a graduating college senior to undertake a one year public service project anywhere in the world immediately following graduation. Non US citizens can apply if graduating from a US college/university. The deadline for applying this year has been extended to February 9.
⭐️Escape The January Blues. Applications Open For Jobs In Antarctica
ANTARCTICA > British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have announced they are looking for people to work at its research stations in Antarctica. Carpenters, chefs, plumbers, boat handlers, scuba divers, plant operators and more are encouraged to apply for a job that offers the ultimate career change for those seeking adventure at the end of the Earth.
⭐️Have An ICE Time At Trump Camp
USA > An anonymous user with a silly name put a serious question to the Outdoor Education Jobs Facebook group about working at summer camps in the USA as a foreigner: would they be safe there, let alone be allowed into the country?
⭐️Work Campers Who Enjoy Gardening And Hands On Projects
USA > Handy work campers who enjoy gardening, power tools, and hands-on projects - raised beds, trellises, fencing, and practical homestead builds - can cover their campsite rent by working ten hours a week at Harvest Woods in Alabama. 20 hours a week if you use their camper or a private room in the house. Extra hours are paid.
⭐️Live, Work And Play In The Trinity Alps Wilderness Of Northern California
USA & CANADA > Camp Unalayee is excited to be hiring a number of new wilderness camp counsellors this year. They provide wages and not quite room and board, aka a tent. Wilderness counsellors and other staff are also needed in Ontario.
⭐️Call For European Volunteers
ITALY > Three places are available (two from the EU, one from Italy) for ESC funded volunteers to spend six months with Creative Art Farm, beginning in March. Apply by February 8.
⭐️Recruiting Nautical Instructors For The Orient Express Sailing
AT SEA > Talent Collective is thrilled to be supporting the recruitment for the inaugural season of the world’s largest and most advanced sailing yacht by rounding up world class nautical instructors. They also need a stage manager. Fucking hell! How big is this yacht?
⭐️Jump Is Recruiting In Europe
EUROPE > Jump Foundation is recruiting outdoor instructors in Europe for their programmes in Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic this May and June. Other jobs are available with them elsewhere.
⭐️ESL Teachers And ESL Nursery Teachers
THAILAND > The Language School is inviting ESL teachers and ESL nursery teachers to Surat Thani. As well as the usual native speaking suspects, fluent non native speaking teachers with an education degree and TOEIC certification may also apply.
⭐️Adventure Guides
USA > Santa Barbara Adventure Company is hiring adventure guides for seasonal roles with opportunities to transition into year round employment. This role is ideal for those with flexible availability during the high season (March to November) and a love for working outdoors. Some positions include opportunities to camp overnight in remote settings.
⭐️Outback Wilderness Sanctuary Needs A Housekeeper
AUSTRALIA > Privately owned and operated, Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, is renowned for its spectacular landscapes, unique geology, rich ecology, and world-class dark skies. They are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking housekeeper for a dual role position. Daytime hours will be spent in housekeeping, the evening in the restaurant/bar or kitchen as a kitchen hand/dishwasher (depending on your skills).
⭐️Lakeside Hospitality
IRELAND > There’s a nice selection of vacancies from the outdoors industry, as always, in the latest copy of The Wild Path, including these ones supporting hospitality, operations, and guest experience at the Gougane Barra Hotel, a fifth generation family run lakeside hotel in County Cork.
⭐️Thinking Of Hanging Up Your Ski Boots?
UK > The ability to ski or snowboard (though you could be taught by one of their young people) is essential, and ski Instructor qualifications are desirable for Snow Camp’s next wellbeing manager in the north west of England. They are a charity turning young lives around with the power of snowsport, taking young people from beginner to qualified snowsports instructors in just one year, with volunteering and apprenticeship progression routes available at the end.
⭐️Nauti Otter Yurt Village Night Host
USA > By day, the Nauti Otter Yurt Village night host will do their normal tourist stuff: taking a glacier cruise, kayaking, ATV, hiking, you name it, but by night, the Nauti Otter Yurt Village night host starts fires, and welcomes and mingles with guests staying at the Nauti Otter Yurt Village in Seward, Alaska.
⭐️Volunteer Gathering At Bjärkan In Northern Sweden
SWEDEN > Bjärkan, a land based community project in northern Sweden, recently highlighted the two week work exchange they are hosting from June 30 to July 11.
⭐️Cruise Job Fairs
UK & WORLDWIDE > Cruise Job Fair’s research shows that attending a cruise job fair is ten times more effective than applying for jobs online, says Cruise Job Fair. The first chance for cruise job seekers to meet recruiters in person, introduce themselves and hand out their CVs will be on February 26 in Barcelona. Other opportunities across the year will take place in Cancun, Varna, London, Amsterdam and Budapest.
⭐️Go Diving Show
UK & WORLDWIDE > NAEC Stoneleigh Park in Coventry will be hosting the 2026 Go Diving Show from February 28 to March 1. Google’s tame AI describes the show as an excellent venue for finding dive jobs, bringing together a large concentration of industry employers, including dive centres, liveaboard operators, and training agencies, and serving as a major hub for networking, allowing attendees to meet recruiters in person, which is often more effective than applying online.
⭐️African Impact
SOUTH AFRICA > Katie Adams shared with the Wildlife Workers’ Network (private group) African Impact’s paid camp management, research and photography guide positions. She says they offer a chance to live and work in a conservation focused environment where no two days are the same. Applicants should be South African citizens or have a work permit.
⭐️Sakharov Fellowship For Human Rights Defenders
EUROPE > The European Parliament’s Sakharov Fellowship offers up to 14 human rights defenders selected from non EU countries the opportunity for two weeks of intensive training in Brussels and at another location in an EU Member State. The Fellowship covers return travel, accommodation, and a daily living allowance. Candidates with a proven record in human rights campaigning and a high level of English proficiency should apply by February 15.
⭐️Apply To Zis By February 15 For Free Travel
GERMANY > Zis travel scholarships are once again open to young people of all nationalities as long as they are aged under 21. Non German applicants can apply if they live in Germany, travel to a German speaking country or choose a topic with a context to German culture. Apply by February 15. All information on the application can be found in a nutshell in the Zis info flyer.
⭐️Spanish Speaking Freelance Tour Guide
UK > Edinburgh based tour operator, City Explorers is looking for enthusiastic, committed, fun, friendly individuals who would like to work with them as a Spanish speaking freelance tour guide. Previous experience is a bonus but not necessary. The main thing is that you are committed, flexible, professional, willing to learn and fluent in Spanish at a native level.
⭐️Social Content For A Huge UK Artist
BELGIUM > A casting call is being, erm, called for a huge UK artist that JAB has most likely never heard of. See here if you’re black, over 18, based in Brussels, available on February 6 and love being in front of a camera.
⭐️Finance Brand Casting Call
UK > Street Cast models are currently looking for real people - in this case, male 57 to 65, and female 33 to 38 - across the UK to be filmed in a podcast style interview for a social first campaign. It is for a well known finance company and is well paid for just two or three hours filming in London at the end of this month.
⭐️Do You Really Want To Be A YouTuber In 2026?
THAILAND > How to be a YouTuber in Thailand in 2026? Don’t bother, that’s how, says Bangkok Pat, before covering the topic in more depth and, with the help of other Bangkok based YouTubers, offering some useful tips on avoiding making the same crappy videos on the same topics just for clicks. In his own video, Paddy Doyle, a YouTuber long established in the country, shares his earnings for the past year.
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