Cactus is a leading internet-based language training agency,
and as such we are constantly looking for new academic staff,
language holiday advisors, creative heads, interns, teachers
& researchers. Our Head Office is located in the heart
of Brighton, in beautiful offices and with a multilingual
international staff. From October 2007 we also have a US office
based in Manhattan, New York.
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Entry-level Web developer(PHP/MySQL)
Cactus is a worldwide language training organisation with offices in Brighton (HQ) and an office in New York.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an entry level Web Developer to join our team at Cactus. You will be based at our Brighton office, located on North Street. The right candidate will have a genuine passion and the right attitude to join the well-established company.
The candidate will be responsible for:
- Updating existing websites, working on improving the search engine performance of our portfolio.
- Developing and sending newsletters to clients.
- Work closely with creative, accounts and project management staff to ensure successful rollout of projects.
- Make relevant contribution in brainstorms, team meetings and company meetings on a technology level.
- Contribute to company technology strategy, including the identification of tools, platforms and programming languages that may benefit the company or its clients.
Essential:
- Full competence with Dreamweaver and knowledge of X/HTML and CSS.
- Knowledge of PHP & MySQL
- Knowledge of at least one of the following programming languages: .Net, C#, Java.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
The successful candidate must be following, or have completed a relevant IT degree and have good design competence and layout skills, excellent communication skills, an interest in keeping up to date with all the latest web technologies and developments. Previous experience of developing websites is desirable. Further requirement is a genuine interest in languages.
Salary and benefits:
£18,000 – 20,000
To apply please email us your CV and letter of application.
Closing date for applications:
26 June 2009.
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DIRECTOR OF STUDIES
Cactus Worldwide Ltd is one of the UK’s leading global language training providers. We provide
language training to a wide range of corporate clients, private individuals and organize foreign
language evening courses across the UK. You will be based in the Head Office in Brighton, UK.
As Director of Studies at Cactus Language Training, you will be working with a wide range of
freelance teachers of many languages to ensure that the language courses we deliver are of a
consistently high quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Teacher recruitment, induction, development and retention
- Course design, writing and development
- Relationship building with partner schools and corporate training departments
- Maintaining strong academic standards across the Cactus Group
Qualifications/experience:
- DELTA or equivalent
- 5 years’ classroom teaching experience
- Teacher-training experience
- Online teaching/learning environments
- Computer literate (Word, Excel, Outlook) & web literate
Qualities:
- Energy, enthusiasm, initiative
- Innovative, open-minded, flexible
- Excellent admin, people & time-management skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Speaker of more than one language advantageous
- Excellent spoken & written English
Salary and benefits:
£25-30K + benefits, depending on experience
To apply please email us your CV and letter of application.
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OPERATIONS MANAGER
Cactus Worldwide Ltd is one of the UK’s leading global language training providers. We provide
language training to a wide range of corporate clients, private individuals and organize foreign
language evening courses across the UK. You will be based in the Head Office in Brighton, UK.
As Operations Manager at Cactus Language Training, you will be working with a wide range
of companies, private individuals, and freelance teachers of many languages to ensure that the
language courses we deliver are of a consistently high quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Teacher recruitment and assignment
- Client account management
- Managing course logistics
- Processing payments to trainers and negotiating rates
- Sourcing and working with international partners schools
- Maintaining high standards across all the courses we run
Qualifications/experience:
- Academic Recruitment experience
- Account Management experience
- Customer service experience
- Teaching experience advantageous
- Computer literate (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Qualities:
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Resourceful
- Excellent time- and people-management skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Speaker of more than one language advantageous
- An interest in language and culture
Salary and benefits:
£19K + benefits
To apply please email us your CV and letter of application.
Closing date for applications:
June 8th 2009
Start date
mid-July
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CLIENT LIAISON/COURSE ADMINISTRATOR
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE EVENING COURSES UK
Cactus Worldwide is a worldwide language training organisation
with offices in Brighton (HQ) and an office in New York.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Client Liasion/Course Administrator
to join our team! You will be based at our Brighton office,
located on North Street. The right candidate will have a genuine
passion and the right attitude to join our well-established
company.
You will be working on the foreign language evening courses we currently
organise across the UK. We organise courses in 34 centres across the UK in over 20
languages (www.languagecoursesuk.co.uk).
We have over 12000 students per year on our courses.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing an excellent customer service on the phone and by email
- Advising clients on language courses
- Processing internet & phone bookings
- Helping administrate language courses across the UK
- Contributing to marketing campaigns
Qualifications/experience:
- Considerable customer service experience
- Supplier-side account management experience
- GCSE level/equivalent or above
- Computer (Word, Excel, Outlook) & web literate
Qualities:
- Energy & enthusiasm
- Strong admin & time-management skills
- Excellent spoken & written English
- A speaker of more than one language and an interest in language learning and travelling
Salary and benefits:
£17K + benefits
To apply please email us your CV and letter of application.
Closing date for applications:
June 8th 2009
Start date
ASAP
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Foreign Language
Teachers
Cactus provides language training throughout the UK and we are always on the lookout for qualified language teachers to work for us on a freelance basis.
Due to increased demand for our foreign language courses, Cactus Language Training are recruiting qualified foreign language teachers for our evening classes.
We are currently recruiting for our 10-week evening courses in London starting in July. If you are available to teach any of the following languages in London then please complete the online application form.
- Arabic
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- French
- Hebrew
- Croatian
- Mandarin
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Spanish
- Swedish
To apply please fill in our
Online
application form.
We are looking for teachers with bags of enthusiasm and experience in locations across the UK including: London, Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, Exeter…. We are also looking to recruit language teachers in New York, following our expansion to the USA.
Highly competent, qualified teachers only need apply.
Pay negotiable depending on experience.
There are always many positions available across the UK so apply now!
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Part-Time Language Teachers
We are currently seeking part-time foreign language teachers
in any language. You must be competent, qualified and experienced
and able to teach both groups and individuals - anywhere in the UK.
Please fill out our Online Language Trainer Application.
(Do not send a CV)
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Intern Positions
- Available from 1-12 Months
Interns constitute a lively and cosmopolitan part of life
at Cactus (please see Work Experience/Internship notes below).
We have positions available on an ongoing basis, both in our
UK Brighton office and our US New York office.
If would you like to be considered as an intern in any area
of Cactus, in the UK or the US, please email us your CV &
covering letter.
Positions available now from 1 to 12 months:
Admin Support to Managing Director
This support role involves working alongside the Managing
Director on a number of ongoing projects. A near native level
of English, both written and spoken, is required, as well
as good attention to detail and proficiency in Excel. Daily
tasks will involve liaising with partner schools, collecting
stats and helping out in other departments or projects where
needed.
Finance Department - Work Experience
A support role within the Cactus Finance Department.
This is an exciting role giving the candidate an insight into
how a finance department operates. You will be trained in
various areas such as banking, foreign currency purchasing,
sales margin reporting and debtor analysis. Your experience
will culminate with an understanding of the broader financial
picture of a business.
Cactus Language Support
A support role within the busy Cactus Language Sales Team.
The support role would include answering the telephone
for our department and directing calls to other members of
staff. We therefore require a near native level of English.
Duties will also include using our in-house admin system to
process orders and payments and to assist in responding to
some basic customer enquiries. Daily tasks will also involve
gathering data from schools, updating the website with valuable
information, collecting stats and helping out in other departments
or projects where needed.
Cactus Language Training Support
A support role within the busy Cactus Language Training Sales
Team. The support role would include emailing clients for
feedback and responding to their emails; collating feedback
for the websites; collating statistics from feedback forms;
sending confirmation emails to FLUK clients; printing &
binding books; burning CDs; sending course materials to clients
/ teachers; helping to source teachers; other bits and bobs
as required. You will need to have a near native level of
English, good attention to detail, good written English, be
proficient in Excel, intelligent & amiable.
Cactus TEFL Support
A support role within the busy Cactus Tefl Sales Team. The
support role would include logging download information on
a spreadsheet and creating a report and graphs at the end
of each month; emailing clients who have downloaded TEFL course
application forms but not yet submitted them; phoning and
emailing schools to check course spaces; faxing applications;
calling schools to confirm which clients have started courses,
and amending the status on the backend; contacting schools
for their 2007 dates & contacting potential applicants;
contacting schools to find out which Taster Day clients went
on to book courses. You will need to have a near native level
of English
* Please note that interns working for less than 3 months will not be paid.
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Paid/Unpaid Work Experience/Internships
We sometimes offer general office positions for foreign students
(non-native English speakers). You may be involved in many
or all areas of the business, depending on your experience.
You must speak and write excellent English (Upper Intermediate
or above) and be ready to work for a minimum of 2 months.
If you are from outside the EU, you may be required to combine
this internship with a paid English course.
Please note that interns working for less than 3 months will
not be paid. For those working for longer than 3 months, you
will be paid £200 per calendar month. However you will
need to be able to cover your own accommodation and expenses.
If we are unable to place you in our company, we may find
you an alternative internship in another British company.
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| General Vacancies
We are especially interested in people who:
- are comfortable with computers and the Internet
- have travel experience
- are fluent in English (spoken and written)
- speak other languages
- are ready to move to Brighton
We also occasionally have freelance positions
for:
- travelling journalists to research new destinations
- web designers
- web researchers
If you are interested in our company, please email us
us your CV and covering letter (please send your CV as a Word or PDF Attachment).
Cactus (Cactus Worldwide Ltd) is an equal opportunities
employer.
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