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Southfield, MI - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

We are looking for enthusiastic German teachers or translators to help us improve our interactive reader tool. This tool helps teach German through reading by presenting language learners with richly annotated culturallyrelevant leveled passages.

In this remote contract position youll help us improve the tools we use to develop new German passages by automating some of our grammar tagging. Your work will mostly involve basic translation and identification of grammatical features (e.g. part of speech person/number/gender etc. with the aid of our guidelines. We will also request that you attend a limited number of meetings to provide feedback and discuss the results with the rest of the team.

We expect this phase of the project to involve about 10 hours of work per week for about 3 months. However this project will have further phases in future and we would love to recruit someone who would be interested in doing similar contracting work with the Mango interactive reading passages in the future.

Position requirements

    • Native speaker/writer of German
    • Advanced proficiency in English
    • Able to identify grammatical features like part of speech case person/number/gender tense etc. in German with the help of some guidelines.
    • Good familiarity with google suite (sheets docs filesharing etc.
    • Able to attend occasional meetings on Google Meets during EST work hours
    • Ability to learn new technologies

Other Desirable Qualities

    • Strong skills in clear communication
    • Ability to meet deadlines consistently
    • Ability to give and receive feedback
    • Readiness to think critically and ask questions
    • Must work well in a team

How to apply

    • Please submit the following:
    • A resume or CV
    • A brief cover letter explaining how your experience is relevant to the job requirements

    • Candidates who do not submit both materials will not be considered. After receiving your application we will reach out to suitable candidates with a brief skills test.

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