About Scratch
Scratch is a creative programming language and the world’s largest online coding community for children and teens. Children around the world use Scratch and ScratchJr to create their own interactive games, stories, and animations -- and share their creations with one another. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Last year, more than 30+ million children and teens around the world created projects with Scratch.
As an organization, we’re focused on centering our work on supporting creative learning for youth from communities impacted by systemic inequities, investing in our online community, developing our team, scaling our infrastructure, and improving data privacy, interoperability, and in-school experience. We’re looking for a diverse pool of applicants to join our team of nearly 70 educators, designers, and engineers, and help us steward our community through this work.
To learn more about Scratch, please visit: https://www.scratchfoundation.org/ and https://scratch.mit.edu/
About this role
Passionate about online communities, internet culture, and cultivating a safe and collaborative online space for kids? We're seeking full-time Community Moderators to work with the Scratch Team. Scratch Moderators help keep Scratch a safe, trusted, and friendly environment.
Millions of children (ages 8 and up), from around the world, create and share thousands of projects in the Scratch community each day. Moderators will gain valuable experience working online with youth in a creative, interest-driven setting while serving alongside an enthusiastic, diverse, and inclusive team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
PROTECT THE SCRATCH COMMUNITY (80%):
- Investigate reported users, projects, studios, and comments for appropriateness on the Scratch website and take action based on Moderation Guidelines and good judgment
- Monitor online behavior and social interactions to uphold online trust and safety and reduce risk through appropriate action
- Escalate urgent safety risks to the Community Moderation Manager, authorities, and schools when warranted
- Work with young people to help them understand what they did that breaks our Community Guidelines and help them learn how to be safe, inclusive, and appropriate online
- Determine when a person is or isn’t likely to be able to participate constructively in the Scratch online community
- Work in a variety of special bespoke projects as needed:
- Assist in appeals
- Assist in Forum moderation
- Assist in filter management
- Assist the Community Team in triaging security issues and escalations
- Assist in training and shadowing new moderators
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & PARTICIPATION (20%):
- Promote the values and core ideas of Scratch such as inclusiveness, creative expression, equitable opportunities, playful engagement, collaboration, and progressive improvement
- Participate in Moderation Team-wide discussions involving community trends, policy, and best practices
- Participate in additional Community Team meetings
- Participate in regular one-on-ones with the Community Moderation Manager
- Participate in continuous training to grow your moderation and community engagement skills
EXPERIENCE
- Active participation in online communities, forums, or social media
- Previous moderation and/or customer engagement experience in online communities, forums, or social media is a plus
- Working with kids in the digital space or offline
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Thrives while working methodically in a high-volume and task-oriented environment
- Able to make quick and accurate assessments of online behaviors and situations
- Able to be competitive with yourself, but not others – be willing to grow in your moderation abilities
- Comfortable sifting through potentially inappropriate, traumatic, offensive, explicit, negative, and/or disturbing content
- Comfortable learning to use new software and websites
- Strong online research skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Able to use good judgement while making quick and accurate assessments of online behaviors and situations – considering issues from multiple perspectives
- Able to put aside personal, political, religious, views and opinions to make unbiased moderation decisions
- Able to work well independently, manage your time well, and stay focused while working remotely
- Able to work well as part of a team and participate in group discussions
- A magic mix of empathy, patience, ethics, resilience, adaptability, trust & integrity
Nice to have, but not required
Ability to read and write in multiple languages
Languages most needed: English, Japanese
BENEFITS
Starting pay is $21.29/hr, and this remote position comes with incredible perks and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, and more) and can be done 24/7, with a set schedule that fits your life.
All candidates must be at least 18 years old and have authorization to work in the United States.
The Scratch Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We especially encourage historically marginalized identities to apply.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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