Open vacancies

We need volunteers who can, individually or as part of a team, translate texts (website, reports, books, video subtitles, etc.) from English into their native language. The scope of the role is beyond translation – it involves becoming knowledgeable in Political Islam and CSPII Methodology, understanding how we communicate, and thus protecting CSPII style, quality and reputation.

Education or experience in translation, writing or editing is a bonus, but not required.

Skills Needed

• High level of English
• Native in another required language
• Good translation skills, especially from English into your language, but also from your language into English may be needed
• Attention to detail

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion
• Ability to work with existing specialized glossary, and to expand this when necessary with research in your language
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve

Hard requirements

• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset
• Ability to write objectively and unemotionally, and with great precision (texts must be translated as they are, without modifications)
• IT basic skills (Google Docs, Excel, editing shared documents)

Benefits

• Will make CSPII texts available in your language
• Will become expert in Political Islam and the CSPII Methodology
• Will learn to use Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools

We need volunteers who can, individually or as part of a team, translate texts (website, reports, books, video subtitles, etc.) from English into their native language. The scope of the role is beyond translation – it involves becoming knowledgeable in Political Islam and CSPII Methodology, understanding how we communicate, and thus protecting CSPII style, quality and reputation.

Education or experience in translation, writing or editing is a bonus, but not required.

Skills Needed

• High level of English
• Native in another required language
• Good translation skills, especially from English into your language, but also from your language into English may be needed
• Attention to detail

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion
• Ability to work with existing specialized glossary, and to expand this when necessary with research in your language
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve

Hard requirements

• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset
• Ability to write objectively and unemotionally, and with great precision (texts must be translated as they are, without modifications)
• IT basic skills (Google Docs, Excel, editing shared documents)

Benefits

• Will make CSPII texts available in your language
• Will become expert in Political Islam and the CSPII Methodology
• Will learn to use Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools

We are looking for someone who is interested in researching publicly available data online.

Skills needed:

• Ability to understand the technical form of writing used by international organizations
• Ability to coordinate projects
• Ability to compose short research papers
• Able to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve
• Readiness to give and receive constructive feedback
• Good writing skills

Benefits:

• Will learn to work with scientific methodology and develop writing skills

We are looking for someone who is interested in researching publicly available data online.

Skills needed:

• Ability to understand the technical form of writing used by international organizations such as the UN and the EU.
• Ability to coordinate projects.
• Ability to compose short research papers.
• Able to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.
• Readiness to give and receive constructive feedback.
• Ability to read and understand one or some of the languages: English, modern Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Turkmen, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Albanian, Malay, Swahili, Hindi, Bengali, French, Russian, Ewe, Kabiye, Dutch, Krio, Somali, Italian, Kurdish, Portuguese, Comorian, Kyrgyz, Kipchak, Uyghur, Kazakh, Fula, Maldivian or Berber.
• Good writing skills.

Benefits:

• Will learn to work with scientific methodology and improve one’s writing.

We are looking for someone who is interested in researching open source financial data.

Skills needed:

• Ability to understand the technical form of writing used by international organizations such as the UN and the EU.
• Ability to coordinate projects.
• Ability to compose short research papers.
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.
• Readiness to give and receive constructive feedback.
• Ability to read and understand one or some of the languages: English, modern Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Turkmen, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Albanian, Malay, Swahili, Hindi, Bengali, French, Russian, Ewe, Kabiye, Dutch, Krio, Somali, Italian, Kurdish, Portuguese, Comorian, Kyrgyz, Kipchak, Uyghur, Kazakh, Fula, Maldivian or Berber.
• Good writing skills.

Benefits:

• Will learn to work with scientific methodology and improve one’s writing.

We need a software engineer that would be able to develop small-scale functionality and to fix bugs in Nextcloud Server or in some of its apps. Alternatively, the position would involve investigation of issues and corner cases and their proper documentation upstream.

Skills Needed

• Setting up the test environment for the Nextcloud ecosystem
• Ability to produce PHP code that satisfies the project community's standards
• Debugging and investigation skills.
• Project: https://github.com/nextcloud/server

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion.
• Ability to work and to improve existing projects rather than designing own solutions from scratch.
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.

Hard requirements

• Open-source development model, Git, Pull Request workflow.
• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset, ability to think strategically.

Benefits

• Working on true open-source projects - you learn from the community feedback.
• Ability to include the work in one's portfolio

We need a "professional fan" - a person who would know what's going on in the community, what is the new cool stuff, and what is a pain in the project.

Skills Needed

• Ability to read mailing lists / forums / Github channels to know what's going on in the community.
• Willingness to communicate downstream issues to the upstream channels.
• Provide assistance when it comes to reporting issues and helping those who resolve them.

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion.
• Ability to work and to improve existing projects rather than designing own solutions from scratch.
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.

Hard requirements

• Open-source development model, Git, Pull Request workflow.
• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset, ability to think strategically.

Benefits

• Working on true open-source projects - you learn from the community feedback.
• Ability to include the work in one's portfolio

We need a software engineer that would maintain and extend the Python API for the Nextcloud project. The position would involve occasional development of new features, addressing of issues reported by the project's community, and implementation of one's own ideas for improvements.

Skills Needed

• Development and testing of REST APIs in Python.
• General knowledge of LDAP / SAML
• Project: https://github.com/EnterpriseyIntranet/nextcloud-API

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion.
• Ability to work and to improve existing projects rather than designing own solutions from scratch.
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.

Hard requirements

• Open-source development model, Git, Pull Request workflow.
• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset, ability to think strategically.

Benefits

• Working on true open-source projects - you learn from the community feedback.
• Ability to include the work in one's portfolio

We need a software engineer that would be able to fine-tune functionality of Rocket.Chat and to fix bugs in there as well. Alternatively, the position would involve investigation of issues and corner cases and their proper documentation upstream.

Skills Needed

• Development of server-side and client-side TypeScript/Javascript applications.
• General knowledge of LDAP / SAML
• Project: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion.
• Ability to work and to improve existing projects rather than designing own solutions from scratch.
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.

Hard requirements

• Open-source development model, Git, Pull Request workflow.
• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset, ability to think strategically.

Benefits

• Working on true open-source projects - you learn from the community feedback.
• Ability to include the work in one's portfolio

We need a data engineer that would be able to retrieve data from public registries. Filter it by certain criteria. Transform it. And store it in a database.

Skills needed

• Programming language (Python preferably)
• Parsing XML, HTML, CSV, JSON
• Desired: Web scraping (tools, libraries, how not to get blocked)
• Desired: SQL

Soft requirements

• "Marathon perk" - conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week) in a long-term fashion.
• Ability to work and to improve existing projects rather than designing own solutions from scratch.
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community, desire to learn and to improve.

Hard requirements

• Open-source development model, Git, Pull Request workflow.
• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset, ability to think strategically.

Benefits

• Working on true open-source projects - you learn from the community feedback.
• Ability to include the work in one's portfolio

We are looking for volunteer HR Specialist to screen and process applicants, and assist in day-to-day HR operations. Must commit to implementing, maintaining, and embodying CSPII values to support a functioning, joyful, and secure organization. This is a virtual Opportunity that can be performed from anywhere.

Skills needed

• Good level of English
• Attention to detail
• Excellent analytical skills to examine resumes and find the best-suited candidates

Soft requirements

• Attendance at regular meetings regarding HR-related issues
• Conditions to work regularly (couple of hours every week)
• Ability to collaborate within a team or a project community
• Desire to learn and to improve
• Capacity to interview candidates and process data during the onboarding process
• Leadership abilities to train new members

Hard requirements

• Proactive approach, quality-focused mindset
• Ability to keep the high standard of the onboarding process
• Act as a point of contact and gatekeeper for CSPII Principals on all recruiting processes - providing updates on job postings, applicant pool, applicant status, recruiting websites, and intro interview performances
• Ability to work independently and report progress and results to a team
• Excellent HR and project management skills
• IT basic skills (Google Docs, Excel, editing shared documents)

Benefits

Possibility to work in a professional way with a group of dedicated people with common view about Political Islam and develop the vision of CSPII while becoming part of it.