Family History Training Content Internships

The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is looking for interns to help them create training/instructional content for employees, missionaries, and for specific geographical areas of the church.

All Church internships require an online application on the Church website. Use the Job ID to find the appropriate listings.

Paid Intern - Part-time FamilySearch Training Content Intern  

Come help FamilySearch develop training for Family History employees and missionaries throughout the world. In your work with us, you will help build a training site to teach others how to use our content management system (CMS).

You will help in all aspects of building the training site. You’ll create web pages, videos, and interactive training modules to help others understand training materials. Along the way, you will gain experience working with content management systems, translation, and governance processes. 

Our best candidates love figuring out how to do new things and teaching others how to have that same experience. They have a knack for turning complexity and uncertainty into simplicity and confidence. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this internship, you will:  

• Create web pages using our CMS. 
• Create video snippets showing others how to use our CMS 
• Collaborate with team members, missionaries, product managers, user experience designers, engineers, editors, and others to gather information, review for accuracy, and coordinate deadlines.  
• Submit content for translation using established processes.  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently enrolled in Academic courses or graduated with a bachelors or post-graduate degree within the last year. Degrees related to learning content are preferred (Instructional Design, Technical Writing, or a related degree). 
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.  
• Excellent English written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. Experience or classwork in technical writing or instructional design highly preferred.  
• Comfortable working on multiple projects at once.  
• Demonstrated ability to grasp new concepts, skills, and technologies quickly.  
• Good team player; able to form good relationships widely through an organization.  
• Self-starter who requires little to no supervision.  
• Attention to detail and well organized.  
• Experience using Microsoft Office products and cloud-based authoring systems.
• Experience with family history and FamilySearch.org a plus.
• Paid Interns are qualified while enrolled in an educational institution and for one year following graduation.  They must sign a Paid Internship Engagement Letter.

Paid Intern for Homeland Operations Content Development Team

PURPOSES

The mission of this position is to help Church members fulfill their divinely appointed responsibility to discover their families through family history methods, submit their names to the temple for saving ordinances, and to help bring souls unto Christ.

This position is one of many focal points for all written and audiovisual training materials for the geographical areas of the church. The incumbent will be fully accountable with supervision to ensure product reliability in instructional content, style, clarity and usability. Products of this section are used worldwide by, employees, church service missionaries and volunteers with diverse skills and in varying cultural environments.

This position is primarily remote. On rare occasions, you may be asked to come into the office, but the majority of your work will be done remotely.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities may vary by assignment depending on department and need. The Intern receives assignments from managing staff. The Manager reviews the Interns work and reviews each assignment as it is completed. The Intern is expected to meet rigid and challenging deadlines, work in harmony with the team, take direction on each assignment, and give full attention to detail. Independence in working, tact, and diplomacy are required. Sound judgment of Church doctrine, history, organization, policy and protocol are also expected.

• Knowledgeable of Family History work
• Experienced with familysearch.com
• Will help develop instructional processes and procedures for systems, Family History tools, soft skills and Outreach initiatives as well as other learning resources as directed.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities and recognize when it’s appropriate to multitask or focus on one particular project at a time.
• Helps to ensure timely support of department of short and long-range projects by adhering to project tracking methods
• Willing to develop professional skills by accepting other opportunities for growth in technical and leadership areas.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Good communication skills, express ideas clearly and efficient in following directions
• Professional and confident with experience in instructional design, adult learning theory or technical writing skills.
• Bi-Lingual preferred but not necessary
• Other assignments and projects as directed.
• Skilled in the following:
  
  • PowerPoint       Canva               SharePoint        Microsoft Word                    
  • Camtasia          Teams              Google Suite     Monday.com           
  • BrightSpot        WhatsApp         Snagit               Video Creation
  • Tech Writing      Web Design      Publisher           Adobe

Paid Interns are qualified while enrolled in an educational institution and for one year following graduation. They must sign a Paid Internship Engagement Letter.