Language Associate (German) - Parental leave cover

Avaaz is one of the world’s largest online campaigning movements, with nearly 70 million people from every country in the world. 

Our movement launched in 2007 with an ambitious but simple mission: organize citizens of all countries to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.

Our model enables people to channel their individual voices and resources into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological crises to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy. The organization is deeply mission focused, and has achieved a broad range of victories over the last 15 years that you can read about here. 

At this pivotal point in human history, Avaaz is delivering an ambitious 2030 strategic plan to seize key victories in the crucial next decade -  to secure ecological survival, defend democracy and human rights, and build healthy and resilient cultures.

The Avaaz team of around 100 staff are spread across 6 continents, campaign in 21 languages, and is 100% funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, with an annual revenue of $25-30m. 

This is an exciting consultant position that offers a unique opportunity to support large-scale social change efforts. Language Associates bring Avaaz to millions of people each week by localizing and rewriting Avaaz emails from English into key languages. The role requires very strong written communication skills that allow you to capture the heart of Avaaz communication and make it powerful in a new language. 

This full time position is a temporary 1-year cover for parental leave, with the potential for extension.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Member Engagement and Community Petitions teams, and will report to an Avaaz Campaigner. 

• Take Avaaz campaigns in English and turn them into sharp and compelling German language campaigns -- translating/editing all relevant materials, and working on the Avaaz backend interface to create web pages and emails in German. 
• Looking for sources for campaigns -- finding relevant, issue-specific, supporting materials from the press, NGOs, etc.
• Monitor the German Avaaz website for functionality and language errors: typos, grammatical errors, etc.
• Working with campaigners to coordinate materials in German, such as briefings to Campaigns team, press releases, and conducting research.
• Reviewing, managing and supporting the petitions published by German members on the Avaaz Community Petitions website.
• Managing correspondence with Avaaz members in German in a friendly, clear, and efficient way – providing excellent member service to our members, and ensuring that member subscription, donation, and campaign queries are tracked and resolved on a weekly basis.
• Contribute  to campaign development, including drafting and testing. 

• Professionalism, efficiency and results-oriented delivery on short timelines.
• Excellent written and oral communication and translations skills in German and English.
• Passion and commitment to global justice, citizen empowerment and social change.
• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure.
• Creativity for campaign tactics and strategies.
• Proficient in Google Suite and online communication systems (Slack, Zoom, etc).
• Professionally proficient in spoken and written English is required, along with first language-level German (C2).

 

Avaaz is a virtual organization, with most of our work done online. Our staff are based in cities all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the European/MENA/African time zones. 

Salary varies with location and experience, and is highly competitive with leading international nongovernmental organisations.The full-package salary for this position ranges from 41,600 - 53,768 EUR per year. An accurate range in local currency will be provided to candidates.

The development of our employees is paramount. To support this, we include these benefits:

• 5 weeks paid vacation per year
• 10 paid holidays per year
• $3,000 USD for training and development per year
• $1,500 USD for language development per year
• Out-of-Home Workspace Rental

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible. 

As a global organization with millions of members around the world, it’s important to us that our team reflects the diversity needed to lead a movement of people from across the planet, rising to meet some of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced. We believe we can only succeed by building a diverse team full of fresh perspectives and original ideas, and we are committed to creating a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Our team includes native and non-native English speakers, the self-taught and university educated, people with all sorts of professional backgrounds. If doing the job you just read about would make you excited to come to work every day, if you’re talented, hard-working and committed to making a difference - we want you to apply. Avaaz does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, language and accent, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, family/parental or marital status, political affiliation, religion, socioeconomic class, caste, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you have suggestions for us on how to put these values into practice in our hiring process, we’d value your input. Please write to us at recruitment@avaaz.org with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’. We’ll provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities or special needs to participate in the application process, so please let us know if you have such a request when you apply.

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