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Moonshot Linguist Consultant

Moonshot believes that marginalised people in society including people of colour, minority ethnic, people from working class backgrounds, women, Disabled and LGBTQIA+ people must be centred in the work we do. We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other communities who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. We know a diverse workforce will enable us to understand drivers behind violent extremism and online harms in an in-depth way and do better work to counter them.

About the role:

Moonshot is building a pool of skilled linguist consultants to support our expanding portfolio of research projects. We are specifically seeking professionals with native or near-native proficiency in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, French, Farsi/Dari, Kurdish, Mandarin, Oromo, Pashto, Russian, Somali, Tigrigna, Turkish, Urdu, Ukrainian, Vietnamese combined with excellent English language skills.

In this role, you will contribute your linguistic expertise to critical research initiatives focused on countering violent extremism, organised crime, gender-based violence, disinformation and other online harms.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identification, collection and analysis of information from a range of data sources, including social media, various online spaces and other data sources covered by our in-house tools
• Providing accurate translation and cultural context for content in your specialist language(s)
• Drafting reports to a high standard, delivering valuable findings in a concise and robust manner
• Working to demanding reporting schedules to meet project deadlines
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure linguistic and cultural nuances are accurately reflected in research outputs