• 14Nov

    THE GERMAN CULTURAL CENTRE  IN MELBOURNE REQUIRES A PART-TIME ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT

    You should be self-motivated, willing to acquire new skills and work reliably in a small team.

     Responsibilities include:

    • Processing of enrolments for language courses, conferences and seminars
    • Invoicing and controlling
    • Assistance with event and language class organisation
    • Administration of intern program
    • Administration of scholarship and language assistant program
    • Management of database
    • Answering general enquiries
    • Advising clients on language courses in Australia and overseas

     What you need to fulfill to qualify for this role:

    • Minimum 3 years experience in administration
    • Fluency in spoken and written English and German
    • Advanced Microsoft Office skills
    • Excellent organizational skills
    • Strong customer focus

     

    Note on Residency: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have an appropriate Australian work visa (no work & holiday visa please!)

     Hours: 4 days with a total of 26 hours per week

    Salary: in accordance with experience

    Starting date: 11 January 2011

    Contract period: 12 months

    Applications close: 25 November 2010 

    For further information and application please contact

    Petra Franz petra.franz@melbourne.goethe.org 

    Applications and enquiries by email only please

     The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution, operational worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. We also foster knowledge of Germany by providing comprehensive information on its culture, society and politics. www.goethe.de

     

      

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  • 17Jul

    Of course the purpose of visiting art galleries is to appreciate weird and wonderful works of art, but at the current exhibition of European Masters at the National Gallery of Victoria,  my family and I were also in for a pleasant linguistic surprise.  Apart from trying to figure out the  German and French titles of the Staedel Museum’s collection without the aid of the English translations, my grandsons, whose LOTE is German,  particularly enjoyed the  language activity that was incorporated in the display.  Selected works were accompanied by questions to engage the younger generation, and these were labelled from A to Z, each letter linked to an English word and then its German equivalent, e.g.  L for lonely – einsam,  which expressed a feeling in Max Klinger’s painting of a woman on a rooftop in Rome.

    The exhibition opened on 19th June and runs to 10th October, 2010, so there’s still plenty of time to enjoy this cultural experience and to get some basic German lessons as a bonus. 

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  • 27Mar

    (Updated 28-03-2010)

    Join our wonderful team!

    The German Australian Playschool in Canberra is looking for a German-speaking teacher and assistant teacher to join us for 3 days a week, starting in February 2011.

    Approx 20 hours per week, Wednesdays to Fridays.

    Email Lisa on spielwelt@homemail.com.au

  • 13Feb

    One of the presentations at last year’s seminar on raising bilingual children at Melbourne University discussed Languages Activism and the different ways in which parents can contribute to enhancing language learning in the wider community.  Kimmba Bilingual Learning Playgroups are an outstanding example of such an initiative, and here is the story of the person behind its success.

    Marisha Theeboom is an experienced, trained Mandarin teacher and volunteer community worker since 1987. She has worked with a variety of ages, cultures and in different continents whilst involved with a large charitable organisation that spans Taiwan, America and South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree from University of Cape Town, R.S.A.,1996.

     She married an Australian Pilot in 2000, migrated to Melbourne and has three daughters. As a migrant herself, she is aware of the difficulties involved in settling within the local community. Thus she has turned her love of teaching and community work into establishing Kimmba Bilingual Learning Playgroup Inc. Kimmba has been established for migrants and local residents to be able to gather together and understand each other through a fun and loving playgroup environment. In doing so, she hopes the establishment of Kimmba Bilingual Learning Playgroup enables more migrants from differing cultures to benefit by retaining their self-identity and at the same time develop proficiency in English language skills.

     Marisha has developed her own bilingual education program for young children, called Jo Jo Bilingual Education Program and started the first Mandarin bilingual learning playgroup at Taiwanese School of Melbourne in July 2006. She has further studied and obtained a Certificate in the Professional Development Program in Second Language Teaching Methodology for Teachers in Ethnic Schools (Chinese Phase I) from RMIT University November, 2006.

     This year Marisha is expanding Kimmba so that more children and families can be exposed to wide range of languages and cultures. She is opening a new Center in Prahran that will be available for students ranging from 0-6 years old to come from 1 hour- 15 hours a week to learn either Mandarin, German or Spanish. The Prahran center is set up as an early learning center with two fully qualified and trained teachers in every room. This center is hopefully the first of many to come as Marisha is passionate about exposing children and families to different languages and cultures to help build positive relationships with everyone in the community.    

    To find out more , please visit  http://www.kimmba.com.au/

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  • 11Nov

    Enjoy a holiday immersion into the German language and culture
    12-22 JANUARY – Hobart/Tasmania
    For details, contact the Goethe Institut at
    www.goethe.de/australien

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