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Volunteer Project Officer Intern – WikiProjectMed

Language Services – Remote

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Kindly note that this vacancy is for MIIS (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) students only. 

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Hours: 15-20 hours per week 

Location: home-based 

Travel: none 

Reporting to: Language Services Partner Coordinators/Project Officers 

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools, and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

Background

This is a joint project with Wiki Project Med Foundation to make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice, online and off. Read more.

Objectives

The objectives of the project are to:

• Translate 50 articles into 5 core languages (adjustable based on capacity).
• Develop and pilot a framework to engage with other volunteer PO in this project and complete specific objectives.

The project will end when the objectives have been achieved or at the end of the contract period (whichever happens first).

The role 

To support the Language Services Team in coordinating translation projects, ensuring they are completed efficiently and within the expectations of CLEAR Global management and Wiki Project Med Foundation. Coordinate collaboration among translators on specific tasks, providing engagement, appropriate levels of translation quality and turnaround. 

Responsibilities

• Manage specific language service projects as assigned by Partner Coordinators and Project Officers;
• Upload and download project files, run pre- and post-production checks;
• Track project progress and delivery, keep project trackers up-to-date, and provide regular status updates to Partner Coordinators and Project Officers;
• Maintain an organized project environment across platforms, maintaining project records, files and databases as assigned;
• Assist with building and managing translator teams, as well as general translator recruitment, as requested by Project Officers;
• Maintain effective communication with translators throughout the project, ensuring that translators remain engaged throughout the project and have a clear understanding of project expectations;
• Carry out translator communications around translation quality and turnaround, replying to translators’ messages, ensuring task pick-up, flagging issues, etc;
• Handle other project management tasks as assigned;
• Act in the best interest of the organization during the project period.

These roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications 

• Excellent command of English. Knowledge of other languages is an advantage;
• Previous experience in translation and/or interpreting (internships and volunteering are considered valid experiences) is desirable;
• Previous experience working with non-profit organizations is desirable;
• Strong writing skills in English;
• Knowledge of CAT tools is a plus.

Requirements 

This position is very dynamic. The right person is an energetic team player who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and can work remotely while interacting regularly with the international team. 

• Self-starter;
• Strong organizational skills;
• Analytical thinker able to transform ideas into tangible actions;
• Understands that communication in the right language is key to improved humanitarian response;
• Team player, collaborative, adaptable and self-motivated;
• Interest in acquiring translation project management  experience;
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn new skills quickly;
• Attention to detail

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year. 

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.

Volunteer Quality Intern

Kindly note that this vacancy is for MIIS (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) students only. 

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Hours: 15-20 hours per week 

Location: home-based 

Travel: none 

Reporting to: Language Services Senior Quality Officer

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools, and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

Background

This role offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience within an international non-profit organization, assisting in building the Quality Community Working Group for the Language Services Team.

Objectives

The objectives of this role are to:

• Pilot the community working group for key language pairs working in machine translation post-editing projects, i.e.

• pilot community-driven quality spot checks program in production,
• prepare a use case with up to 3 process improvement recommendations.

• Engage top community contributors in a new quality initiative.
• Prepare support materials, such as tasks instructions, golden standards, checklists.

The role 

To support the Language Services Quality Officer to ensure CLEAR Global is providing quality language services to its non-profit partners, work on tasks pertaining to the daily quality operations of the Language Services Team, and assist in the quality monitoring and control tasks.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, testing, and implementing quality operations programs, in particular by piloting community-driven quality spot checks initiative;
• Report quality issues, underdelivering areas, and process improvement needs;
• Collaborate with members of the larger Language Services Team in tasks related to quality and process management;
• Carry out administrative tasks, data entry, and data collection;
• Track pilot progress and delivery, keep pilot documentation up-to-date, and provide regular status updates to the LS Senior Quality Officer;
• Maintain an organized pilot environment across platforms, maintaining records, files and databases as assigned;
• Actively participate with building and managing community working group, as well as community recruitment, as requested by the LS Senior Quality Officer;
• Maintain effective communication with community members throughout the pilot, ensuring that they remain engaged and have a clear understanding of quality program’s expectations;
• Carry out community communications around tasks’ assignments, quality and turnaround, replying to community members’ messages, ensuring task pick-up, flagging issues, etc;
• Handle other quality operations tasks as assigned;
• Act in the best interest of the organization during the project period.

These roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications 

• Excellent command of English. Knowledge of other languages is an advantage;
• Enrolled in or recently graduated from a University degree program (preferred degree in translation, communication, or a related field);
• Previous experience in translation and/or interpreting (internships and volunteering are considered valid experiences) is desirable;
• Previous experience working with non-profit organizations is desirable;
• Knowledge of CAT tools, Machine Translation, and Quality Management basics is a plus.

Requirements 

This position is very dynamic. The right person is an energetic team player who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and can work remotely while interacting regularly with the international team. 

• Self-starter;
• Strong organizational skills;
• Analytical thinker able to transform ideas into tangible actions;
• Understands that communication in the right language is key to improved humanitarian response;
• Team player, collaborative, adaptable and self-motivated;
• Interest in acquiring translation project management experience;
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn new skills quickly;
• Attention to detail.

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year. 

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.

Volunteer Terminology Intern

Kindly note that this vacancy is for MIIS (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) students only. 

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Hours: 15-20 hours per week 

Location: home-based 

Travel: none 

Reporting to: Terminology Officer

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools, and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

Background

CLEAR Global is seeking a volunteer intern to develop terminology training. This is a key area of work for the organization, and building capacity in our diverse community is vital to delivering high-quality products and services to partner organizations.

The course will be open to any community member and will be available via the TWB Learning Center.

The Role

The role involves designing and developing a self-paced, on-demand training on terminology for the TWB Learning Center. They will draw on best practices to develop an effective online training course based on TWB’s training framework.  

Responsibilities

• Interview with key stakeholders in the organization
• Develop an initial course proposal and curriculum design based on existing template documents and needs assessment.
• Develop course content, including learning materials, activities, multimedia resources, handouts, and other alternative content as necessary.
• Collaborate with the testing and feedback process to validate the content.
• Develop a small number of participant handouts to have as sharable resources.
• Combine online training content, participant handouts, and evaluation tools into one easy-to-follow self-study package.

These roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications

• Background in developing and delivering training for remote audiences.
• Background in terminology management.
• Excellent command of English. Knowledge of other languages is an advantage;

• Previous experience in translation and/or interpreting (internships and volunteering are considered valid experiences) is desirable;
• Previous experience working with non-profit organizations is desirable;
• Strong writing skills in English;
• Command of online training tools, learning management systems, and other relevant e-learning technologies (Moodle and H5P a plus).

Requirements 

This position is very dynamic. The right person is an energetic team player who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and can work remotely while interacting regularly with the international team. 

• Self-starter;
• Strong organizational skills;
• Analytical thinker able to transform ideas into tangible actions;
• Understands that communication in the right language is key to improved humanitarian response;
• Team player, collaborative, adaptable and self-motivated;
• Interest in acquiring translation project management  experience;
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn new skills quickly;
• Attention to detail

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year. 

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.

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