Graphic Designer (Volunteer)

Translation Commons is looking for a creative and motivated candidate to take up the volunteer position of Graphic Designer for the Marketing Group. This position requires to work closely with the marketing team to help create digital assets for the website and social media channels. The candidate will help create videos and graphics, and assist with website and social media needs. This is a great opportunity for you to contribute to an international volunteer organization and to share your expertise.

The Marketing Group is responsible for fulfilling the marketing needs of Translation Commons. This includes social media management, market research, SEO consulting, and more.

Through this position, you will learn the inner workings of the marketing department of a non-profit organization focused on languages. This role will help you pursue careers in social media management, marketing localization, marketing research, and multilingual SEO.

This is a volunteer and remote opportunity

Responsibilities include:

• Create graphics and videos for banners, newsletter, social media, web pages, and campaigns.
• Think creatively and develop new design concepts, graphics, and layouts.
• Capture video and perform editing. Convert video to digital format and produce video clips to be used in different social media platforms.

We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications:

• Visionary outlook of the group’s contribution to TC’s mission;
• Able to work on Canva, Adobe Illustrator and/or any similar software
• Ability to identify problems and to use creativity and initiative to solve them;
• Strong project management skills;
• Able to work on Canva, Adobe Illustrator and/or any similar software
• Able to commit about 5 hours weekly
• Being punctual and meeting deadlines
• Good organizational / Communication skills
• Weekly commitment of at least 5 hours per week.

Talent Volunteer Manager (Volunteer)

Translation Commons is looking for a created and motivated leader to take up the remote volunteer position of Talent (Volunteer) Manager. This role will work in conjunction with a second Talent Recruitment Manager to manage a team of Recruiters to fulfill these functions within the Talent Management Group.

The Manager are the first contact for new candidate inquiries for Translation Commons. The Manager will oversee these Recruiters and help them develop recruiting strategy in line with growth, visions and organizational goals. Recruitment Managers will interview new potential Recruiters and motivate and inspire the team.

Through this position, you will learn the inner workings of the Talent department of a non-profit organization focused on languages. This role will help you pursue careers in Recruitment, People Management and HR.

This is a volunteer and remote opportunity.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with the Talent group advisor to develop and improve structure and communication channels for recruitment within the Talent Management Group;
• Creating Recruiter roles that need to be filled within the Talent Management Group and interviewing volunteers to fill these roles;
• Managing and motivating the Recruiters within the Talent Team to ensure that progress is being made;
• Implementing and refining the overall recruitment strategy in line with the growth;
• Working with other Group Managers to create recruitment criteria and delegate recruitment assignments to Team.
• Occasionally meeting with Marketing Team to discuss social media strategy for recruitment campaigns;
• Evaluating and improving TC’s recruitment strategies;
• Maintaining relationships with external networking groups, organizations, or universities to discover new talent pipelines;
• Delegating tasks to Recruitment volunteers to ensure the functioning of the group;
• Making final decisions related to the Recruitment Team;
• Being the central point of contact for all recruitment needs.

We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications:

• Ability to motivate and inspire volunteers;
• Visionary outlook of the group’s contribution to TC’s mission;
• A “go-getter” attitude and the ability to take initiative to develop new goals for the Recruiters within the Talent Management Group;
• Ability to identify problems and to use creativity and initiative to solve them;
• Strong project management skills;
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead meetings;
• Weekly commitment of at least 5 hours per week.

Content Writer (Volunteer)

Translation Commons is looking for intuitive and creative writers to help us create social media posts and blogs for the Language Digitization Initiative. This position will investigate the latest news and information related to the Campaign topic they will be writing under. All content is related to the Language Industry and there are several content campaigns: Endangered Languages, Language and Culture, Terminology in Pop Culture, Translation Industry News, LDI Campaign (a special program made up of several language projects), and Translation Commons News. Content Writers are responsible for creating the content that is posted on the TC blog.

This is a volunteer and remote opportunity.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with the Campaign Manager and other Content Creators in your campaign to come up with creative content and article ideas;
• Research, investigate and discover new and interesting topics that are related to your campaign to write about;
• Carry out interviews when needed depending on the topics being written about;
• Be a source of knowledge about the topic related to your Campaign;
• Be a source of creativity by offering suggestions for new and exciting projects for Translation Commons;
• Work with the Editing Team to review and fine tune written content;
• Create articles and news updates related to the topic of your campaign.

We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications:

• Interest in writing and investigating topics;
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills;
• Weekly commitment of 3 to 8 hours per week;
• Be open to constructive criticism;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Social Media Manager (Volunteer)

Translation Commons is looking for a creative and motivated person to take up the volunteer position of social media manager. This is a great opportunity for you to contribute to an international volunteer organization and to share your expertise.

The social media manager will aid our marketing team with activities in Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Meta, youtube, blogs, newsletters and other marketing content. The team also identifies potential partners and promote our causes and creates a loyal following of supporters.

Through this position, you will learn how a non-profit organization focused on languages uses technology and social media to further their mission and goals.

This is a volunteer and remote opportunity.

Campaigns include:

• Language Digitization Initiative, our biggest program in partnership with UNESCO's International Decade of Indigenous Languages
• Interpreter Commons, specializing in our community's interpreters
• Awareness campaigns targeted to different sectors
• Fundraising campaigns

We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications:

• Familiarity with social media platforms;
• Experience creating and managing ad campaigns preferred;
• Strong project management skills preferred;
• Strong communication skills;
• Community building skills;
• Ability to proactively identify problems and to use creativity and initiative to solve them;
• Weekly commitment of at least 5 hours per week.

Program Manager, Language Digitization Initiative (volunteer)

The Language Digitization Initiative in Translation Commons aims to enable digital support for all the world's languages to ensure all linguists, languages and cultures participate fully on the internet. The team has several projects ongoing, such as creating resources, training material, tools, courses and communities of practice amongst indigenous peoples, academic researchers and professors.

We are looking for Project Managers to help us organize the many projects, liaise with our Advisors and Experts as well as share with our other teams progress and news. Different projects have various responsibilities. Some involve virtual online event organization, some involve writing and social media and some involve technical documentation working with experts. All projects have teams involved that meet weekly or bi-weekly. Weekly commitment required is a minimum of 5 hours.

This is a great opportunity for you to contribute to an international volunteer organization and to share your expertise. Through this position, you will be a liaison between the group advisors, multiple stakeholders and volunteers. This role will help you pursue careers in program and product management.

This is a volunteer and remote opportunity.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with the group advisors to develop and improve frameworks and communication channels for the different processes within the program;
• Being the central point of contact for all experts and contributors within the program;
• Delegating tasks to ensure the functioning of the program;
• Coordinating meetings;
• Acting as owner on all the documentation related to the program;
• Sharing with the Program Management Group Managers updates, challenges and needs.

We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications:

• Experience in program and project management;
• Visionary outlook of the group’s contribution to TC’s mission;
• Ability to identify problems and to use creativity and initiative to solve them;
• Strong project management skills;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to lead meetings;
• Weekly commitment of at least 5 hours per week.