What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Time Intern - Editorial Spanish position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
Are you a detail-oriented individual with a passion for language and flawless Spanish grammar? We’re looking for an intern to join our team and contribute to producing high-quality, polished Spanish content. Join a fun, tightknit, and highly functional team tasked with creating, reviewing, and publishing excellent written content. Our job is to inspire people around the world to engage in family history and help them make fun family connections.
This position is primarily for educational or religious purposes and should be used for providing valuable educational experiences for the Intern. It is to give the Intern an opportunity to see how principles and practices learned in their educational institutions are applied in actual work setting. Under general supervision, the Intern performs work as assigned by the department.
Responsibilities
Interests and Skills to Be Developed:
Necessary Experience Includes:
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
Are you a detail-oriented individual with a passion for language and flawless Spanish grammar? We’re looking for an intern to join our team and contribute to producing high-quality, polished Spanish content. Join a fun, tightknit, and highly functional team tasked with creating, reviewing, and publishing excellent written content. Our job is to inspire people around the world to engage in family history and help them make fun family connections.
This position is primarily for educational or religious purposes and should be used for providing valuable educational experiences for the Intern. It is to give the Intern an opportunity to see how principles and practices learned in their educational institutions are applied in actual work setting. Under general supervision, the Intern performs work as assigned by the department.
Responsibilities
Interests and Skills to Be Developed:
- Editorial Support in Spanish and English: Edit copy’s for FamilySearch Spanish social media pages, review text on arts, edit blog article drafts and research topics, as assigned, to support blog articles and creatives. May write content as assigned.
- SEO. Learn how to do keyword research to find high-use terms and phrases and use them to develop a content strategy for blog articles and landing pages.
- Project Management. Take ownership of article projects, ensuring they move from ideation to editing, fact checking, review, and publication as needed. Prioritize content with deadlines.
- Online Publishing Support. Help find images to support the blog and newsroom that follow the FamilySearch style guide. Put articles into the Brightspot publishing platform. Keep track of needful image copyright information for intellectual property reports and coordinate approvals and fixes.
- Tracking and Reporting. Assist in maintaining needful documentation and filing systems required to support productive workflow and reporting.
- Latin America Team Support. Assist with team projects and other needs. May include developing, writing, editing, and preparing content for online publishing. May also include answering and managing comments. Help volunteers and service missionaries understand the purpose of the work they're doing and sense the meaningful nature of their contributions.
Necessary Experience Includes:
- Fluent Spanish Speaker.
- Proofread and edit a variety of documents to ensure grammatical accuracy and consistency.
- Strong interest in or knack for keyword research pursuant to online content creation.
- Experience with a WYSIWYG editor or CMS system a plus (Wordpress, Brightspot, etc.).
- Familiarity with SEO analytic tools a plus (Adobe Analytics, Searchlight, SEMRush, Google Adwords, etc).
- Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and previous image editing experience a plus.
- Bachelor’s (or near completion) in Marketing, Editing, PR, Journalism, Spanish or related field. Must be a current or recent (within a year) student.
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
