Spanish Resource and Translation Intern Fall 2024

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• Submit your application for consideration
• See below for details on the internship.

We're looking for dedicated and passionate interns to join our Spanish Resource and Translation Team for Fall 2024!

We are InReach, a trans-led tech nonprofit building the world’s first open source platform matching LGBTQ+ people facing persecution or discrimination with safe, verified resources. Our free platform offers instant access to critical services such as housing, medical and mental health care, legal help, trans-focused services, meal assistance, education, employment, translation, community, and spiritual support. Available on web, iOS, and Android, InReach lists thousands of services across North America, with new verified services added daily by trained volunteers. We aim to be a comprehensive digital one-stop-shop for the intersectional LGBTQ+ community, serving LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugees, and other immigrants, BIPOC communities, the TGNC community, youth and caregivers, and more.

As an InReach Spanish Resource Team Intern, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and expanding our platform. You will use your online research, community outreach, data entry, and translation skills to help InReach connect thousands more:

• LGBTQ+ families fleeing hostile states to safe relocation assistance, housing, mental health support for caregivers, and gender-affirming care options.
• LGBTQ+ young people experiencing homelessness or facing family or community rejection due to their identity to safe housing, food and hygiene items, drop-in centers, and affirming spiritual support.
• LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugees, and other immigrants to verified, affirming legal services, translation and interpretation assistance, language classes, trauma-informed mental health care providers, and more.
• TGNC people to lifesaving gender-affirming care, support groups, safe housing, hygiene necessities, and legal providers with expertise in working with TGNC clients.

This is an exciting opportunity to be on the front lines of growing and maintaining the free InReach platform. We’re looking for meticulous, hard-working students who are passionate about LGBTQ+ rights, trans justice, and refugee rights.

• Fall 2024 Internship Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 6, 2024
• Required Hours Per Week: 10 hours (*interns can select their own hours-Monday through Friday-based on their schedule/time zone; all interns will use InReach\'s volunteer management system to log their hours for accountability)
• Note: This internship is remote and unpaid. InReach staff is happy to submit forms on behalf of interns who would like to earn academic credit from their universities for this internship. Please specify what forms are required by your university in your application.

• Report to our Resource Coordinator staff.
• Complete a comprehensive virtual training program designed to enhance interns' knowledge of global and national LGBTQ+ rights, LGBTQ+ terminology, intersectionality within the diverse LGBTQ+ community, and the double marginalization of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and other LGBTQ+ people facing persecution.
• Conduct online, phone, and email research in Spanish to ensure resource information is accurate and up to date for the communities we serve.
• Extract information about nonprofit and social services from websites, social media, and other online sources.
• Use Crowdin, a third-party translation system, to translate text from English into Spanish.
• Proofread translations done by other volunteer, contract, or external translators.
• "Accept" or "decline" Crowdin machine-produced and human-created translations. Translations you "accept" will appear on the InReach platform.
• Provide helpful feedback to other Spanish volunteer translators when needed.
• Collaborate with the InReach translation team via Discord when any translation questions arise.
• Other translation, community outreach, vetting, and data entry tasks as needed.

• Obtained or pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
• Professional proficiency in Spanish.
• Available for at least 10 hours per week (Monday - Friday).
• Comfortable using online communication tools (e.g., G Suite, Discord, Zoom, POINT volunteer management system).
• Ability to follow instructions and work independently in a remote environment.
• Reliable, meticulous, and appreciate the value of deadlines.
• Willingness to learn in-depth about the free InReach platform and our tailored service provider vetting process.
• Previous experience in the social services sector and translation is a plus.

• Use your Spanish language skills for good!
• Access to an extensive virtual training program where interns learn in-depth about the state of global and national LGBTQ+ rights, LGBTQ+ terminology, intersectionality, and the double marginalization of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and other LGBTQ+ people facing persecution.
• Opportunity to increase resource access in your community by contributing to InReach’s Local Community Reviewer (LCR) program.
• Hands-on experience working with a national NGO and directly communicating with direct service providers on the ground.
• Connection to organizations across North America working in the fields of LGBTQ+ rights and immigrant justice.
• Enhanced understanding of the social services sector.
• Practical experience in LGBTQ+/TGNC rights, refugee/forced migration, and the human rights sector.
• Opportunity to receive a letter of reference from InReach upon successful completion of the internship.