LUDP Intern - MIIS

Kindly note that this vacancy is for MIIS (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) students only. 

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Hours: 15-20 hours per week 

Location: home-based 

Travel: none 

Reporting to: LUDP Product Manager

MIIS Students may be eligible for the Experiential Learning Fund (ELF). For more information please visit: https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/immersive-learning-study-abroad/funding 

Are you a MIIS student with a unique internship idea based on your area of interest and expertise? Apply to any open MIIS internship posting, upload your resume, and outline your proposal in your cover letter.

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools, and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

Background

CLEAR Global is a nonprofit organization helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak. As part of this mission, CLEAR Global maintains the Language Use Data Platform (LUDP), a data platform that aggregates and standardizes language and geographic data to support humanitarian and language-access initiatives globally.

As LUDP expands into additional countries and languages, CLEAR Global is piloting and refining workflows for identifying, processing, validating, and publishing multilingual datasets. This internship will support the testing and documentation of these operational processes to help ensure they are scalable, accurate, and sustainable.

Objectives

The objective of this internship is to support a pilot implementation of the “Adding a Country” workflow for LUDP. The intern will help test and document the feasibility, clarity, and timing of the process by working through real country-level language datasets and supporting data preparation, validation, and reporting activities.

The role

The MIIS Intern will support the LUDP Team in piloting workflows related to language dataset acquisition, processing, quality assurance, and publication. Working closely with CLEAR Global staff, the intern will contribute to testing operational procedures, documenting findings, identifying gaps or inefficiencies, and helping improve internal guidance and processes for future country expansion efforts.

Responsibilities

• Support the identification and acquisition of country-level language datasets from public and institutional sources.
• Prepare and standardize datasets for integration into the LUDP environment.
• Assist with data cleaning, formatting, and metadata verification.
• Run and document data processing workflows using existing tools and templates.
• Support quality assurance and validation activities, including cross-referencing linguistic and geographic information.
• Document workflow challenges, ambiguities, timing estimates, and process improvement recommendations.
• Assist in drafting update reports and maintaining process documentation.
• Collaborate with CLEAR Global staff to refine operational guidance and workflow materials.
• Undertake other quality operations tasks as assigned.
• Act in the best interest of the organization during the project period.

These roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications 

• Current graduate student at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS), preferably in Translation & Localization Management, Localization Project Management, TESOL, Language Technology, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow structured processes.
• Comfort working with spreadsheets and structured datasets.
• Interest in language data, multilingual technology, humanitarian technology, or localization workflows.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Requirements 

This position is very dynamic. The right person is an energetic team player who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and can work remotely while interacting regularly with the international team. 

• Self-starter; 
• Strong organizational skills; 
• Analytical thinker able to transform ideas into tangible actions; 
• Understands that communication in the right language is key to improved humanitarian response; 
• Team player, collaborative, adaptable and self-motivated; 
• Interest in acquiring translation project management experience; 
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn new skills quickly; 
• Attention to detail.

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 200,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year. 

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.