Offer summary

Qualifications:

Native speaker/writer of German, Advanced proficiency in English, Ability to identify grammatical features in German, Familiarity with Google Suite (sheets, docs, file sharing).

Key responsabilities:

Assist in improving the interactive reader tool for German language learners

Automate grammar tagging for new German passages

Attend occasional meetings to provide feedback and discuss results

Collaborate with the team on future phases of the project

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, culturally-relevant, leveled passages.

In this remote, contract position you’ll 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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