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Looking for a few brave souls
MTS is looking for fresh talent again! But unlike previous years, we're looking for something a bit different this time. Specifically, we are looking for
staff members to plan, coordinate, and run community events and outreach. Creative? Love contests and challenges? Have fresh ideas for themes? Enjoy problem solving and working with a team and getting stuff done? This might just be the place for you!
- You will be in charge of making community events happen. This will include all stages, from coming up with ideas to organizing to running events to handing out stickers etc at the end.
- You will also manage community outreach. This will include exciting new things we have planned! Things like writing regular posts with gameplay tips and interviewing creators about their process for articles.
- You will be full-fledged staff members. This is not a site helper role.
- You will be working with a motivated team of volunteers. We need people who play well with others, but who are also capable of getting things done without being micromanaged.
Though, to be honest, this position is a new one for us. So the specific tasks involved might change a bit as all of us learn what works best for everyone. Additionally, depending on the skills of the applicants, we may ask people to:
- Create graphics for banners, stickers, and site announcements
- Finding and creating content to post on the MTS Tumblr.
- Moderate gameplay challenges
What won't this involve?- Moderating uploads
- Moderating the discussion forums
We are looking for people who:
- Are enthusiastic about community events. This is probably obvious, but just making that clear.
- Have strong English-language proficiency. Perfection is not required, and you do not need to be a native English speaker, but this will involve a lot of writing and reading in English, including in a live chat situation.
- Will be able to be around fairly consistently. You don't need to spend hours and hours every day on MTS, but most staff members do some stuff for the site at least 5 days a week. If you will regularly be unable to be present for multi-day stretches, this will likely be problematic.
First, reread this post! Once you've done that, fill out
this form. It is a fairly brief questionnaire which should only take around 5 minutes to complete for most people.
After we have had a decent number of applicants, we will close the form and begin looking through the responses. I will post in this thread when that happens, to keep people updated. Once we select our "longlist" of candidates, we will ask each one selected to come chat with us in the
MTS Discord chat, so we can get to know everyone better and so you can get to know us and ask any questions you may have.
After those chats are complete, the staff will look over all of the longlist candidates one more time and decide who we want to bring on as trainee moderators. Trainees are real staff members, with staff powers, but they will work closely with more experienced staff as we teach them the ropes and guide them through everything. The trainee stage varies in length. Most trainees are trainees for at least two months, though this varies on the individual.
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