ICRS - SECC Translation Sub-Committee Application 2026
The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) Student & Early Career Chapter (SECC) is a community dedicated to providing support and resources for students and recent graduates in transitional roles within coral reef science. We are proud to be a diverse international network comprised of 51 Students & ECRs representing 25 countries! We are committed to continuing to expand the diversity of our chapter (and ICRS) through several avenues, including increasing awareness of issues surrounding equity, diversity, and inclusion, expanding our team of translators who translate our communications materials, and providing career development resources and opportunities.
We are currently seeking individuals to join the Translation sub-committee within our chapter, with a focus on recruiting currently underrepresented languages. The Translation Team focuses on translating existing ICRS content, official communications, and website materials into widely spoken languages to expand the reach of ICRS’s mission and activities.
We are looking for enthusiastic and diverse students, post-grads, post-docs, and other early career individuals who are involved in the coral reef community. We particularly encourage those from historically marginalized communities to apply.
To see more about what we do, check out our pages: https://linktr.ee/icrssecc
Deadline: April 8th @ 11:59 PM UTC!
Applicants will be informed of decisions by early May.
If you have any questions please write to us at icrs.students@gmail.com
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Please note that although these are volunteer positions, chapter members are expected to contribute equally to their sub-committee tasks and maintain their position for 2 years. The time commitment required will vary depending on the current activities of each sub-committee throughout the year.
Translation Sub-Committee Member - As a chapter, one of our aims is to promote ICRS chapter diversity and inclusion by providing content in multiple languages. Our Translation Team translates various chapter content including, but not limited to, Reefbites articles, social media posts, infographics, and webpage content.
We have capacity to translate content into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. We are looking for additional translators in these languages to assist and new, under-represented languages (for example: Chinese, Indonesian and Arabic) to become translators in our team and expand the mission and activities of the ICRS-SECC.
As a translator, you would translate SECC content from English to another language that you are fluent in, review other individual's translations, and attend regular Translation Team meetings.
Your contributions as translators are a valuable part of the Student & Early Career Chapter’s work.
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