Position Summary:

The Transcription/Translation Coordinator is in charge of managing all CEN projects related to transcription and translation, mostly from Portuguese to English. The projects primarily involve interviews with participants in our programs in Brazil, and the content of these interviews helps us draft reports and grant proposals.The Coordinator will be working with the existing translation/transcription team members as well as helping to recruit new volunteers to join the team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee the transcription of various interviews of residents from the isolated communities in the Brazilian Amazon where we work. Several of the interviews sound quite interesting, including a rare oral history about one of the communities, and will be source material for our programs, as well as in a variety of marketing materials
• Assign and coordinate transcription and translation assignments to volunteer transcribers and translators located around the world (mostly in the US)
• Work with HR recruiting to screen and build a team of transcribers and translators
• Coordinate with marketing and program staff to establish priorities
• Other responsibilities as they come up

• Effective communication and team management skills
• Demonstrate a high degree of proficiency working with details
• Ability to clearly articulate transcription/translation processes to volunteers and work through problems as they come up
• Demonstrate maturity and reliability
• Knowledge of Portuguese is not a requirement

You must be able to commit to a minimum average of 10 hours a month. This is a "virtual" team opportunity which may be performed from home or another location.

Community Empowerment Network's (CEN) operations are nearly entirely driven by the efforts of volunteers (the only exception is our Field Manager in Santarém, Brazil, who is paid under contract). We are a small organization and so lines of responsibility sometimes overlap, but this provides a terrific opportunity for volunteers to take on a variety of responsibilities and to expand their skills. See How Our Teams Work for more information.

If you are interested, please send your resume and cover note to our volunteer coordinator.