Posts in Volunteers & Recruiting
The OTW is Recruiting for the Board Assistants Team, Fanlore, TWC, Support, Internal Complaint and Conflict Resolution, and Volunteers & Recruiting
Are you detail-oriented and passionate about supporting meaningful work behind the scenes? Do you have an interest in preserving fannish history, wiki editing, or writing help documentation? Do you know your way around the platforms where fan studies conversations happen? Are you a senior PhD student (ABD) or an early career scholar? Would you like to help your fellow fans use AO3? Are you fluent in Spanish? Do you have experience with mediation, arbitration, or conflict resolution? Are you good at administrative tasks and working with people? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for: Board Assistants… Read more
The OTW is Recruiting for Social Media Moderators, Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteers, Software Developers, Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers, and Tag Wrangling Volunteers
Are you a developer who has submitted pull requests to the otwarchive GitHub repository? Want to help shape the future of the OTW in a flexible, collaborative role? Are you interested in following checklists to administer personnel related tasks? Would you like to wrangle AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Portuguese to English? Can you read and translate from Chinese to English? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for: Communications Social Media Moderator – closing 25 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 60 applications Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteer – closing 25 February 2026… Read more
IVD 2025 Volunteer Q&A—Volunteers & Recruiting Spotlight
Last November we asked the community to submit questions to our OTW volunteers in celebration of International Volunteer Day. In this series of posts we will spotlight some of our committees’ responses. The Volunteers & Recruiting committee (VolCom) is in charge of inducting, retiring, and placing volunteers on hiatus. They handle personnel records and tool access, as well as assisting with the formation of new committees, subcommittees, and workgroups. We asked VolCom for replies to your questions, and received a lot of feedback! Below you can find a selection of their answers: Volunteers & Recruiting Committee Specific Questions Question: Sometimes I want to help the… Read more
The OTW is Recruiting for Translation Translators, Fanlore Graphic Designers, Open Doors Import Assistants, and User Response Translation Translators
Are you fluent in a language other than English? Do you have graphic design skills and enjoy creating social media content? Are you interested in the rescue and preservation of fanworks? Are you fluent in a language other than English, passionate about AO3, and want to help us better reply to users all around the world? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for: Translation Translators – closing 29 October 2025 at 23:59 UTC Fanlore Graphics Designer Volunteer – closing 29 October 2025 at 23:59 UTC or after 40 applications Open Doors Import Assistant – closing 29… Read more
Five Things corr Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with corr, who volunteers in the Volunteers and Recruiting Committee. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? As a Volunteers & Recruiting (VolCom) volunteer, I help keep the OTW running from an organisational point of view. We run recruitment, offering many recruitment rounds each year so every committee has enough volunteers for… Read more