:: Jobs at Cactus TEFL

Interns constitute a lively and cosmopolitan part of life at Cactus (please see Work Experience/Internship notes below). We currently have the following intern positions available now from 6 to 12 months:

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 UK evening courses 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 Training Support

A support role within the busy Cactus Tefl Sales Team: The support role includes answering telephone and online enquiries for our department: we therefore require a very advanced level of English. Duties will also include using our in-house admin system to process orders and payments, deal with clients and schools and to gather data from schools to update the website with valuable information and create graphs from stats, as well as regular office tasks: mailings, faxing, and database work and helping out in many other projects as they arise.

If you are ready for any of these exciting roles, please e-mail your CV & covering letter to Richard Bradford: richard.bradford@cactuslanguage.com

Work Experience/Internship Notes:

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.