Jobs & Internships

The Church History and Doctrine Department is looking for a student editor who can apply their knowledge of editing and appropriate English language usage in a professional setting. They will be involved in technical communication, book publishing, and scholarly publishing processes. They will develop and apply general professional skills through effectively initiating and completing projects, development of professional relationships and successful teamwork, effective written communication and data analysis and research used to meet professional objectives. This position will start fall semester 2024 and will be 10 hours a week. If you are interested in applying, send Mary Jane Woodger (mjw5@byu.edu) an email with an attached resume.

Sally Port Magazine is an independent (and family friendly) fantasy fiction magazine offering great stories and solid writing for mid-grade, YA, new adult, and general fantasy audiences. They focus on family friendly fiction and non-fiction while building better writers and editors with how-to and in-the-life articles about making great fiction happen. They are looking for editing interns who can proofread, design pages, market, and have basic design skills.

To qualify, interns need to have finished ELING 350, be interested in fantasy fiction, be organized, and be able to work with a schedule virtually.
More information about Sally Port MagazineSally Port Magazine is a publication of Forever Mountain Publishing. For internship application/information, contact Forever Mountain Publishing at ForeverMountainPub@gmail.com.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is looking for a computational linguist to help with AI and machine learning to improve language learning at the MTC. They will be asked to work with TALL Embark and evaluate 3rd party apps for use in missionary language learning. Applicants should have 1 year of experience or education in computational linguistics and should have proficiency in GIT command line tools and Python.
Learn more and apply.

The Marriott School of Business is looking for a temporary editor. They will be hosting a resume workshop on September 13th from 9:30-10:45am and they need an editor. This is a one-time event and you will earn $50 in the hour and a half. If you are interested or want more information, contact Ben Iverson (biverson@byu.edu).

The BYU Translation Research Group is looking for fluent or near-fluent speakers of Chinese or Arabic to assist with their research in a paid position. They need participants who can help digitize and document translation pairs with annotated errors. This work involves transcribing handwritten text in English and the target language, as well as using their specialized software to identify and categorize translation errors. This is a remote and hired position working under the direction of Dr. Daryl Hague from the Spanish and Portuguese Department.
More information.

The "Come Back Podcast" highlights the stories of people from a variety of backgrounds who had once left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but have since returned. Housed in the Language Department at BYU-Idaho, the podcast is run by a team of volunteers, and they need help editing transcripts in English to ease the translation process into French and Spanish (no foreign language experience required).

For more information or to apply, please contact Cami Scotland at cami.scotland@gmail.com.

Amilee Selfridge is seeking an editing intern. Here are the details of the internship:

• The intern will help with editing non-fiction publications including: various editions for The Bad Day Book Series (Humor Anthologies), various editions for The Story of Our Jesus Series (Christian Anthologies), and content for The Author's Online Playbook (Book, Guides, and Social Media Content for authors).
• Although this is an unpaid internship, the intern will receive an editor listing in the copyright of the books they help with, not only an acknowledgement, but actual credit to go on their resume. They will also receive free copies of any books they help with. 
• Amilee will pay for them to attend the LDSPMA conference in October.
• The intern should have completed E350 prior to applying.
• Please email Amilee (publisher@thebaddaygroup.com) with a cover letter and resume.

Entertainment Linguistics is looking for dialect coaches who have background in sociolinguistics, phonetics, and/or language teaching.
More information.

The nonprofit association Latter-day Saints in Publishing, Media, and the Arts (LDSPMA) is looking to hire two part-time staff:

• Conference Manager (35-50 hours/month) - See job posting
• Operations/Communications Manager (40-60 hours/month) - See job posting

The skillsets of an editing or communications major relate directly to both of these jobs.

All work is remote except for attending their annual conference in Utah each October. Both positions start at $23-$25/hour. The deadline to apply is Saturday, September 14.

Come and learn more about the Disney College Program—a paid internship at Walt Disney World! You can pursue this opportunity while you are currently attending BYU, or after you graduate. All majors are welcome! Information on program requirements, housing options, working environment, and how the Disney College Program can benefit your future will be shared in our information sessions and other events around campus!

SpeakOn School is looking for a part-time English Teacher. This position is remote and will include communicating with adults at a B level or higher through WhatApp voice notes, providing them with detailed feedback on their speaking skills. It will also include 1 or 2 live virtual classes per week, focusing on group conversation practice and interactive learning. Applicants can be undergraduate students and will be asked to work 5-10 hours per week with a $15 per hour pay. If you have questions or would like to apply, email Jorge Zamudio (jorger.zamudiob@gmail.com).

Dr. Hartshorn is looking for an RA to help him with his linguistics research this semester. It will be 10-12 hours per week at $18.00 per hour.
The work may include:

1. Generating example sentences that illustrate how specific words may be used in academic writing including appropriate uses of collocations.
2. Identifying errors in writing texts for research purposes.
3. Basic research to gather relevant references on a variety of topics associated with second language writing development.
4. Light editing.

Preferred skills:

1. Good command of academic writing in English.
2. General understanding of English grammar.
3. Organized, detailed, and with good research skills.
4. Willingness to work 10-12 hours per week.

Application:

Those interested should send an email to Dr. James Hartshorn (james_hartshorn@byu.edu) expressing interest and a brief description of how their background qualifies them to do this kind of work.

BYU Alumni Relations is looking for a writer and editor to work with writing for Y Magazine and doing Alumni social media. It can be considered for an internship with flexible job hours and opportunities to be published and mentored in writing and social media.
Learn more and apply.

Lauryn Wilde is looking for research assistants to join her WordCruncher research team for 10+ hours starting at $15.25/hour. The team is working to identify real and meaningful stories of Church members: stories of those who have supported their leaders through conflict and trial. We need your help to find these stories. Your work will involve searching texts like Church News to identify the best ones. This is also a great opportunity to work closely with other research assistants and faculty in the religious education department and the humanities. Please send your resume to Lauryn Wilde at lauryn.wilde@byu.edu.