JAB Extra: Face Licks And Poo
JAB Extra: Face Licks And Poo
Vacancies, Leads, Links, Inspiration & Ideas For Working Abroad, Volunteering & Taking A Gap Year
Not everyone advertises their vacancies in the Jobs Abroad Bulletin, but rather than be sore about it we share vacancies we find in other publications here every month. We have an international readership but please be aware that not every job is open to everyone and official pieces of paper may be required.
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Greek Island Retreat Volunteer
GREECE > Skyros Holidays is Europe’s leading provider of holistic course based holidays for solo travellers. The holidays, based in Greece, are community based; relaxed, informal and friendly. To create this, they need a team that believes in the ethos of Skyros, namely a sense of community, development of the true self and pride in everything they do. They are looking for go getting, hard working people that will assist in housekeeping, bar and kitchen and be enthusiastic to join and create a temporary community.
Full details at https://www.jobsabroadbulletin.co.uk/volunteer-at-greek-island-retreat/.
Billabong Harry, crepe jobs, ladders, cows, sailing, ski jobs in Australia, Costa Rica, €1 rent, wildlife & more…
⭐️Wildlife and Nature Conservation Opportunity
UK & SOUTH AFRICA > The Wildlife For All Trust run a massive nature reserve in South Africa. They are looking for a few individuals to join their team and make a genuine difference. Previous conservation experience isn’t needed. They provide all the necessary training to be part of their highly successful work, starting at their nature reserve in Sussex, England. Applicants must have right of residence in the UK.
⭐️Paid Internships In Costa Rica
COSTA RICA > Outward Bound Costa Rica is hiring three people for three month paid internships in Costa Rica.
⭐️Childcare Assistants
GREECE & PORTUGAL > Straight after we posted the last issue of JAB, Scott Dunn placed an ad in Season Workers for experienced childcare staff to join their kids club team in Crete and Portugal. Applicants will need to have an EU passport, or the existing right to work in the relevant country.
⭐️Working Under Or Over Sail
GREECE & BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS > Help make a real difference to someone’s holiday through your winning personality and exceptional customer service by joining Sunsail’s flotilla team in Greece. Applicants must have the right to work in the EU. Or, check out this position with their sister brand in the Caribbean if you happen to be a qualified sailmaker with experience in industrial sewing machines.
⭐️Summer Fitness Instructor
GREECE > BeyondBeach is looking for an individual who has a passion for an active lifestyle and the ability to live and work in a small team to be their next summer fitness instructor. Flights are among the perks.
⭐️Ship Mates For Caribbean Cruising
CARIBBEAN > A Danish schooner is looking for mates for her voyage around the Caribbean. Previous experience with sailing ships and with traditional rigging work is required. The ship will pay your bunk money and common expenses. The ship has a cat named Mindelo.
⭐️Culture Moves In Europe
EUROPE > Culture Moves Europe is a new EU mobility scheme that offers grants to artists, cultural professionals and host organisations in all Creative Europe countries who work in the sectors of architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design, literary translation, music, performing arts, and visual arts. The grant is composed of a travel allowance between €350 to €700 and a daily allowance of €75. Apply by March 31.
⭐️Face Licks And Poo
THAILAND > Are you heading to Thailand and can handle daily face licks, lots of belly rubs and, erm, perhaps a few bags of poo? Then you will love volunteering at Muttlands in Rayong.
⭐️The Freelance Writing Network
REMOTE > Well versed in experiencing the great migration in Kenya and Tanzania? Have a gripping story idea about an underreported issue concerning LGBTQIA+ persons in India? Or are you a Singapore based writer, photographer or content creator? These are just some of the writing opportunities in a typical issue of
.⭐️Assistant Language Teacher - Autumn 2024 And 2025 Starts
JAPAN > Native level English speakers resident in Denmark, Finland, France, Kenya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe can apply with Interac to be an assistant language teacher in Japan.
⭐️Au Pair Positions In Australia
AUSTRALIA > Au Pair Care Australia have been merrily spending some of their advertising budget with Backpacker Job Board, listing positions in Melbourne, Western Sydney, close to Canberra, Townsville and Toowoomba.
⭐️Paid Shift Work Study
AUSTRALIA > The CQUniversity’s Appleton Institute is seeking volunteers to participate in a study that will look at the effect of light exposure during simulated night shifts on sleep and the body clock. They are looking for healthy men and women aged between 18 and 45 years who do not take any sleep medication, who have not undertaken any shiftwork and/or travelled overseas in the last three months. Participants will have their own private bedroom and bathroom and all meals will be provided. Compensation for participating is $1,350.
⭐️South Island Work Exchange
NEW ZEALAND > The Barn Cabins and Camp, a semi offgrid home to both explorers and beach holiday seekers at the start of the Abel Tasman Coast Track, is offering a work exchange tidying up and doing odd jobs around the place.
⭐️Become A Volunteer And Support The Ukrainian Welcome Centre
UK > The Ukrainian Welcome Centre is looking for volunteers who can support them digitally and in their physical locations in London and across the UK.
⭐️Chocolate Tour Guide
UK > Share the joys of chocolate with visitors from the UK and around the world as a chocolate tour guide at one of Edinburgh’s newest attractions, the Land of Chocolate The Chocolatarium. The role particularly suits actors or anyone with a performing background, teachers or activity leaders with an interest in becoming an expert in all things chocolate! As a bonus, we not only found another chocolate focused role, but a chance to join a mission to lead the future of snacking via this apprenticeship listed on Not Going To Uni.
⭐️Antipodean Ski Jobs
AUSTRALIA > Ready to carve out a winter wonderland career? Victoria’s Mt Baw Baw employs staff in a wide variety of positions including guest services officers, operations officers, food and beverage officers, guest services officers, resort entry and chain fitting, shuttle drivers, retail, snow sports instructors, ski patrollers, housekeeping, lift operators, snow grooming and more. Mt Buller is another option. In New South Wales, Perisher employs 1,200 winter staff.
⭐️Boat Food Makers Wanted
AT SEA > A temp head chef and a temp 2nd chef are wanted for, respectively, a boss trip in the Caribbean and an Atlantic crossing to the Med.
⭐️Digital Nomads Can Rent A House In Sardinia For One Euro
ITALY > In exchange for sharing their knowledge and experience, professionals and entrepreneurs, artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and academics can enjoy an almost free stay for up to a month in Ollolai.
⭐️Kite And Wing Foil instructors
SPAIN > One more kite instructor and a wing foil instructor are still needed by Flag Beach Watersports Fuerteventura for the summer season. You will need to have an EU passport and speak English and another language. Other jobs are listed on their website.
⭐️Surf And Yoga Retreat Volunteers
PORTUGAL & SPAIN > Surf & Yoga Retreats is listing three volunteer positions (private group): a head of good flow, a foodie expert and a yoga teacher.
⭐️Wildlife Internships
USA > Think Wild, a non profit wildlife hospital and conservation centre in Bend, Oregon, is currently publicising a couple of hotline internship positions. While unpaid, a $1,000 stipend is provided to cover living expenses. Free and/or discounted housing options may be available. More internships are listed on their website.
⭐️Big Love In South Wales
UK > Whether you’re creative, technically skilled or just enthusiastic, if you’re available in mid July applications are open for volunteers to help organise and run the fun not for profit Big Love Festival in Monmouthshire.
⭐️Crepe Festival Jobs
UK > Love sleeping in a tent, a lack of hot showers, mud, and sometimes very loud music? If yes, you’ll need camping gear, a dependable vehicle, physical strength and stamina, and a sense of humour to join The Lush Creperie as they travel to events and festivals of all sizes and types: Glasto, Womad, Shrewsbury Folk, Pilton Party and more. They are looking for staff to work May to September with a couple of weekends off along the way. Anna Mae’s Mac N Cheese is another festival caterer looking to hire.
⭐️Housekeeping And Other Hospitality Jobs Under Varied Structural Architecture
USA > International applicants aren’t accepted for these Under Canvas seasonal housekeeper roles in upscale, safari inspired accommodation (tents) across the US, but they are for these ones under walls with Habor 360 Hotel in Alaska. At another numerically named business, 320 Guest Ranch in Montana, the walls are made of logs and they also accept applications from abroad.
⭐️Calling Sunshine Chasing VanLifers
USA > Looking for a fall and winter gig? If you're a VanLifer chasing the sunshine, San Francisco Holiday Lighting has got an exciting opportunity involving ladders beginning in September. Applications from outside the US are not accepted.
⭐️Butterfly House Attendant
USA > Sales, answering questions, some cleaning and taking care of butterflies are the main duties at this retail shop and live exotic butterfly exhibit on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, Ohio. Housing is offered to over 18s but over 16s are welcome to apply. Enthusiasm is a plus.
⭐️Rimba Resort Latest
MALAYSIA > Last issue we shared Rimba Resort’s Facebook post looking for a bartender/ front of house member. They’ve since advertised the position on our website.
⭐️Upcoming Peace Boat Deadline
AT SEA > March 25 is the last day to get onboard the Peace Boat as a volunteer English or Spanish teacher for its 118th voyage. Here is a video to entice us into using our language teaching skills to help build a global culture of peace while seeing the world at the same time.
⭐️Experienced Horseback Riding Instructor
USA > If you are ready to take your passion for horseback riding instruction to the next level and are comfortable working with children and adults, meeting the needs of students with a wide variety of riding goals, North Carolina’s Folklore Farm may have a position for you.
⭐️Billabong Harry
AUSTRALIA > Billabong Harry, the official mascot of Billabong Ranch in Echuca, Victoria, has been stomping away at the keyboard in the Backpacker Jobs in Australia Facebook group (private) trying to hire an experienced horse rider and someone to work in their cafe.
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⭐️Strawberry Picking
FINLAND > A farm in Suonenjoki, about 50 km from Kuopio, is in the market for seasonal strawberry pickers for the 2024 harvesting season, approximately from late June to mid August. At the farm, for a small fee, there is accommodation available with shared kitchen facilities, showers, toilets, sauna and wifi. It is possible to borrow a car for shopping trips and leisure activities.
⭐️Kitchen Positions
SPAIN > Las Casitas Bar in Playa Blanca is looking for both full time and part time cooks to join them in Lanzarote.
⭐️Try Again Next Year
UK > Cara Young was looking for a couple to help out on her small petting farm in John O'Groats, in the far north of Scotland, but has since filled the positions. Anyone interested in volunteering there next year (private group) is welcome to send her a message.
⭐️Travel Blog Money
REMOTE > Many established travel bloggers we know make a decent living from Mediavine. For growing websites, they have launched Journey, a new ad management solution for sites starting at around 10,000 monthly sessions.
⭐️Calf Rearer
NEW ZEALAND > A large scale dairy farm is seeking someone with high standards of animal care to train and feed heifers, beefies and bobbies. Wellies are provided.
⭐️Summer In Morzine
FRANCE > Alptitude Chalets is calling out to auto-entrepreneurs to join them (private group) in Morzine for summer 24 and beyond.
⭐️Summer Camp Jobs Are Still A Thing In March
USA > We’re seeing the SEO loving American Summer Camps and UK based Skilled Summers, to name but two organisations, are still putting out calls for summer camp staff.
⭐️Study Scholarships In Slovakia
SLOVAKIA > The Government of the Slovak Republic is handing out scholarships to international students, PhD students, university teachers, researchers and artists to attend higher education institutions and research organisations in Slovakia.
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