The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for:
- Support Staff – closing 27 January 2016 UTC
- Translation Volunteers – closing 27 January 2016 UTC
We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don’t see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.
All applications generate a confirmation page and an auto-reply to your e-mail address. We encourage you to read the confirmation page and to whitelist volunteers -(at)- transformativeworks -(dot)- org in your e-mail client. If you do not receive the auto-reply within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then contact us.
If you have questions regarding volunteering for the OTW, check out our Volunteering FAQ.
Support Staff
The Support team is responsible for handling the feedback and requests for assistance we receive from users of the Archive. We answer users’ questions, help to resolve problems they’re experiencing, and pass on information to and from coders, testers, tag wranglers and other teams involved with the Archive.
Applications are due 27 January 2016
Translation Volunteer
Translators and translation betas help make the OTW and its projects accessible to a wider international audience. We work on translating all sorts of content throughout the OTW and its projects: site pages, news posts, AO3 FAQs, AO3 Support tickets, and any inquiry that reaches a committee or volunteer group in languages they can’t translate themselves. Most of our work consists of translations from English to another language, though we also need to do the reverse on some occasions.
If you are fluent in one language (or more!) other than English, if you enjoy working collaboratively, if you like having flexible deadlines, if you’re passionate about the OTW and its projects, and want to help it reach more fans all around the world, working with Translation might be for you!
We really need volunteers who speak Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Norwegian, Slovenian, Turkish and Vietnamese—but help with other languages would be much appreciated.
(Please note that our Brazilian Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish and Spanish teams are not accepting new members at this time.)
Applicants may be asked to translate and correct short text samples as part of the selection process.
More information can be found on the Translation Committee page.
Applications are due 27 January 2016