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Abunai! is recruiting! Do you have what it takes to become part of our staff?

Organising Abunai! is a lot of work. We work whole year round to present the convention to our visitors. Staffmembers are responsible for a part of the workload, creating this convention together. We are looking for commited people who want to help improve the convention and do not mind spending a few hours each week working towards creating a great event for our visitors. If you are enthousiastic about helping us then look at the profile below and see if it fits you.

Are you:

• Interested in promoting Japanese culture
• Able to spend a few hours a week working on the convention
• Willing to help with promotion and visit staff meetings
• Willing to participate in discussions on how to improve Abunai!
• Able to work with deadlines
• Committed; Abunai! is more then just a hobby, it is a voluenteer job!
• Able to show initiative
• Communicate in a team
• Enthousiastic
• Able to speak and write correct Dutch and English would be nice, but is not mandatory for all functions.

Then you are the one we might be looking for!

We are not looking for people who just like to be in the staff for the heck of it. Each staff member has a responsibility for certain parts of the organization of the convention and is expected to show enough serious effort and motivation for the tasks they are responsible for.

If the above is a bit too much for you but you still want to help out, please read the following to see how.

Besides people to join and strengthen Abunai!'s core staff, we're also looking for people who want to help out the Abunai! convention, but may find themselves bound by restraints of time or other obligations. Are you good at DTP'ing? Or a superior spellchecker? Are you a webdesigner, or knowledgable about rules and regulations, or know everything about catering? Do you want to offer your services to Abunai!, but are you unsure that you can donate the time required for it? Apply anyway!

We're building up a whole database of volunteers who are enthousiastic about Abunai! and want to offer their services when they're needed. This way you can help out our organisation without having to join our staff, yet at the same time our volunteer database might just as well be a stepping stone to joining our team somewhere in the future, when circumstances are more favorable.

So do you think you have what it takes to join our staff or do you want to help out otherwise? Read on and find out how to apply...

How to apply:

Send an email to info@stichtingabunai.nl with a application letter and a resume in Dutch or English. We will contact you about an interview within two weeks. This may be face to face or over the phone. If you are accepted, you will start in a trial period to see how you fit within our team. This all sounds really official, but don't let this stop you from applying. We have a team of very nice people and organising Abunai! is a lot of work but at the same time it's very fun and rewarding!

Job Openings:

Besides looking for staff members and support in all sections within Abunai! (see above), we're sometimes also looking for people to fulfill some very specific jobs. These you will find over here as well. At present we only have one very specific job opening, namely:

Design Manager

For Abunai! we're looking for someone who not only has skill and experience in designing, but who also will be capable of managing a group of designers. Your tasks will include design jobs and contacting and staying in contact with print shops, however also include asignments such as designing flyers and the layout for our convention booklet.

Requirements:

• Able to create various types of designs in Japanese anime/manga style, ranging from posters and t-shirt designs to small sketches and illustrations;
• DTP experience required (ie. InDesign);
• Able to work independently based on requests from within the Abunai! organisation;
• Good communication skills with both the rest of the staff and external parties;
• Able to delegate and coach and control other designers;
• Involved with Abunai! as a organisation;
• Able to prepare and finalise designs according to specifications by print shops;
• Affinity with the Japanese culture;
• This concerns a position for multiple convention years.

Being able to present a portfolio is mandatory.

Like everybody at Abunai! you'll be working on a volunteer basis. You'll join a fun and social team and the experience gained will look good on your resume as well.