Language Associate; Dutch

About Avaaz

Avaaz is an international campaigning and advocacy organisation that provides its global membership of almost 70 million people with opportunities to make our world a better place.

We’re one of the world’s largest online global campaigning movements, with people from every corner in the world taking action to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. This includes protecting human rights worldwide, supporting indigenous struggles, saving our planet from climate change and other threats, and fighting to stop disinformation and other cyber threats from undermining our democracies.

Our model enables people to channel their voices into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological collapse to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy.

Avaaz is funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, no big money from governments or corporations. This keeps us independent and allows us to keep a laser focus on doing what the world needs.

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 translating Avaaz campaigns from English into key languages and rewriting them to be fitting to local contexts. This role requires strong written communication skills and cultural awareness that allow you to capture the heart of Avaaz’ campaigns and powerfully translate them into Dutch language.

The successful candidate for this part-time position (20 hours/week) will work closely with the Dutch language lead and with the Member Engagement and Community Petitions teams, and they will report to an Avaaz staffer. Please note that this position is on a freelance/independent contractor basis.

• Translate Avaaz campaigns from English to Dutch to turn them into strong, emotive, and compelling campaigns to send out in The Netherlands and Belgium, and to Dutch-speaking members around the world.
• Hands-on technical support for campaign development, including setting up email blasts and landing pages in the Avaaz website backend interface, and supporting the drafting and testing of campaigns.
• Looking for sources for campaigns -- finding relevant, issue-specific, supporting materials from the press, NGOs, etc.
• Monitor and enhance the Dutch Avaaz website and other tools for functionality and language errors, supporting clear and effective communication with members.
• Support the Dutch campaign team to write and edit excellent campaign materials such as briefings, advocacy letters, and press releases. Translate and/or edit other materials as necessary:
  Media material, content for social media etc.
• Reviewing, managing, and supporting the petitions published by Dutch members on the Avaaz Community Petitions website.

• Excellent written and oral communication, and translation skills in Dutch, combined with creative thinking to craft engaging texts.
• Excellent communication skills in English, the Avaaz team’s working language.
• Professionalism, efficiency, and results-oriented delivery on short timelines.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to (somewhat) varying weekly workloads.
• Passion and commitment to global justice, citizen empowerment, and social change.
• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative culture, and a hierarchical team structure.
• Proficient in Google Suite and online communication systems (Slack, Zoom, etc).
• Ideally: cultural and linguistic understanding of regional differences (e.g. the Netherlands and Belgium), to guarantee Avaaz content can be understood across Dutch-speaking regions.

This is an independent contractor role, paid at an hourly rate of €25,- depending on experience and location. Contractors are responsible for their own taxes and statutory contributions in their country of residence.

Avaaz is a virtual organization, with most of our work done online. Our staff and contractors are based in locations all…