With MIREMS, you will enjoy a unique job that makes a difference. A career with MIREMS impacts the actions of decision makers, involves great responsibility and a strong set of professional ethics, and provides meaningful results that change the communications landscape on local, provincial and national levels. MIREMS consultants are part of a growing multilingual team, and who want a flexible schedule with an opportunity to work from home.

Media Monitor Consultants

MIREMS is a team of people with a wide range of skills: writing and editing, multilingual translation, journalism, research and analysis, marketing and communications. We hire top talent multilingual professionals to our roster of consultants ready to track ethnic media (print, radio and TV stations in languages other than English) from the US and abroad. We are always looking for bright talent and are currently accepting rolling applications for our Media Monitoring Consultant Roster. We are working towards having a large network of language specialists available for on-demand work.
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Oportunities for multiple languages: Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese (Mandarin and/or Cantonese), Eritrean, Farsi, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu. We accept submissions from speakers of other languages and will consider them based on client demand. Please contact us for more information.

Responsibilities:

• Perform intermittent scans of ethnic media resources in search of news stories, editorials, interviews and opinion pieces on a variety of topics based on client requests. 
• Assess, research and analyze stories, and provide translated summaries to be edited and collected into client reports. Consultants specialize on media sources in their language(s) of competence and are expected to have regular access to those sources.
• Promptly respond to short notice and possibly short term projects as they occur.

​Requirements:

• Be autonomous, reliable, accountable self-starters
• Have a personal computer with 24/7 Internet access, as this is a ‘work-at-home’ position
• Be able to monitor specific print media, radio or television programs in their language of competence in a timely and targeted manner
• Have very good listening and reading comprehension and be able to translate from one or more of the languages listed above into English
• Have a good command of written English, with the ability to summarize stories
• Be available for quality control follow up
• Have a self-directed work ethic and adhere to deadlines
• Be comfortable in working in a virtual team environment
• Be able to work occasionally on Sundays and Public Holidays
• Be able to legally work in the US.
  

Note: Our jobs do not qualify an applicant for immigration to the United States of America.

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