Background Information:
Always Reading Caravan (ARC) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization to promote the joy of reading and learning among children with and without disabilities in Thailand. Our missions are:
• to promote reading for pleasure,
• to provide equal reading opportunities for children from various background, and
• to encourage children with and without disabilities to mingle with one another to remove mental barrier between them.
We run weekend mobile library activities in Bangkok and surrounding area. In the north, we have a small permanent library with mobile library services in Phrao, Chiangmai. Also, we are running Sunshine Kids Center, a small early learning center for Akha children in Wiang-pa-pao, Chiangrai.
For more details, please visit our website at
http://www.alwaysreadingcaravan.org
or our Facebook page (more up-to-date information with photos)at
www.facebook.com/arcbookworm
You can also follow us on Twitter at @arcbookworm.
Job description for volunteers:
Since we are a small organization with only 2 full-time staff, social media has become a crucial tool in order for us to send our message across. We have quite active Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/arcbookworm
and not too active account at
www.twitter.com/arcbookworm
They are in English and Thai language, and we would love to add Japanese, as we have a lot of supporters in Japan. So we are looking for someone to translate existing contents in these social media contents either from Thai or English into Japanese, and also be active in posting new contents himself/herself.
The main tasks of the Japanese social media coordinator include:
Translate the contents of Facebook page into Japanese, including both existing and new postings.
Help us prepare Japanese contents for our new website.
Possibly doing some fundraising in collaboration ARC supporters in Japan.
Qualifications:
As a Japanese social media coordinator, you are expected to:
Have excellent writing skill in Japanese.
Have very good communication skills in either English or Thai. (Prefer English).
Have good access to Internet on daily basis.
Are familiar (or are ready to get yourself familiarized) with such social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin.
If you are interested, please send an email with your CV at
volunteer@alwaysreadingcaravan.org
or call for inquiry at Ms. Yoshimi Horiuchi in either Thai, English, or Japanese at
+66 (0) 83-542-7283
Thank you for reading, and we, all staff at ARC, are looking forward to hearing from you!