Canada Summer Jobs 2024
Foreign Language Website Editors
Pathfinders, an online learning agency, is hiring website editors with priority foreign language skills for summer positions funded by Canada Summer Jobs. The successful applicants will have written fluency in one or more of the languages listed below as well as be conversant in English. The jobs will require proof-reading, fixing, and editing WordPress website articles that have been translated into the priority language using an AI translation system.
Successful applicants will be trained in WordPress and the tasks will require him or her to format webpages, check and edit hypertext links, embed A/V content into webpages, update menus, develop downloadable PDF documents – all in their native language. Working as part of an online team with others providing technical support they will also develop Google Ads and edit YouTube video subtitles in their specific language. Applicants will be expected to attend weekly coaching sessions, report on their work process and track hours and tasks completed.
Work Term: 8 or 16 weeks in the April – August period.
Location: The project is remote-based so work can be done from any location within Canada.
Wages: Minimum wage rate in province of residence
Canada Summer Jobs: These positions are funded by Canada Summer Jobs, which limits eligibility to applicants between 15 – 30 years of age who are Permanent Residents, Citizens of Canada or those with refugee status. International Students or those with foreign work permits are not eligible.
About Pathfinders: Pathfinders leads a networked coalition of local affiliates and non-profit charities spread across Canada. Our mission at Pathfinders is to enable people to process their life journey through conversation, sharing life stories, exploration of meaning, discovery of ancient Bible texts and inter-faith dialogue.
Job applications will be given equal consideration regardless of religious background.
How to apply: Please send CV and any enquiries about these positions to [email protected]
Priority Language List: If you are proficient in any of the following languages we would love to hear from you (applicants with skills in a language not specifically on this list or English-only applicants will also be considered):
| Afrikaans | Hausa | Mongolian |
| Armenian | Hawaiian | Myanmar (Burmese) |
| Azerbaijani | Hindi | Nepali |
| Basque | Hmong | Pashto |
| Bengali | Hungarian | Polish |
| Bosnian | Icelandic | Punjabi |
| Bulgarian | Indonesian | Romanian |
| Catalan | Irish | Samoan |
| Cebuano | Japanese | Serbian |
| Chichewa | Javanese | Sindhi |
| Corsican | Kannada | Sinhala |
| Croatian | Kazakh | Slovak |
| Czech | Khmer | Slovenian |
| Danish | Kurdish (Kurmanji) | Somali |
| Dutch | Kyrgyz | Sundanese |
| Estonian | Lao | Swedish |
| Filipino (Tagalog) | Latvian | Tajik |
| Frisian | Lithuanian | Tamil |
| Galician | Macedonian | Telugu |
| Georgian | Malagasy | Turkish |
| German | Malay | Uzbek |
| Greek | Malayalam | |
| Gujarati | Maori | |
| Haitian Creole | Marathi |