Job Description
The FamilySearch Global Community Team is made up of missionaries, volunteers, and employees assigned to work with various FamilySearch community segments, tools, and projects crossing multiple languages and divisions. One of the Global Community Team’s assignments is to expand the reach of English content to a broader multilingual audience.
Under the direction of the Global Community Team, the Community Projects Intern coordinates many community projects, oversees the work of volunteers and the development and management of the program to make it successful.
Responsibilities
- Communication with team members and volunteers/missionaries
- Organize, and train multiple language teams remotely of volunteers and missionaries
- Crowd-source, recruit, manage, and motivate a team of volunteers via the web
- Coordinating projects with a high amount of traffic
- Engage in efforts to recruit new volunteers and form new language teams
- Help find and fix website translation errors and give translation feedback to volunteers
- Other assignments as needed
Qualifications
- Interns are qualified while enrolled in an educational institution and for one year following graduation. They must sign a Paid Internship Engagement Letter.
- Sensitive to cultural differences and linguistic issues
- Strong computer and technical skills with e xperience using Microsoft products and Google docs/sheets
- Problem-solving skills
- Outstanding online and offline communication skills
- Ability to work as a key part of a multi-functional team
- Ability to quickly learn and master software platforms
- Familiar with CAT Tools (preferred)
- Experience working with remote international teams (preferred)
- Experience recruiting, training, and/or managing volunteer initiatives (preferred)
- Online community/social media management experience (preferred)
- Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.