Intern opportunities at Bible.org

Job 1- Graphics Artist
Job description: A graphics artist, capable of making web graphics for articles on the site that we can use on facebook and other places to attract people to the article. Review the series of articles and the graphical representation to attract people to the topic series of the article. We will select articles that would make good e-books.

Candidate Description/ Qualifications: graphical and artistic abilities and the ability to communicate to various age generation.

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Job 2- Develop Spiritual maturity model so we can classify material to help Christians grow in their spiritual journey to maturity "A yellow brick road"

Candidate Description/ Qualifications: Persons with a good grasp of scripture teaching on spiritual maturity so they can make the model and describe attributes that can be use to classify material on bible.org and the web.

description : An improvement we need to make to the site:
General problem:
1. we have 10,000+ articles on the site that are only tagged by topic and verse. They are not tagged with spiritual maturity level for an example.
2. People come to the site with differing levels of maturity and perceived needs and we do not tell them that this article is aimed at maturity level X (ie. new Christian/ journeyman Christian/ or post seminary Christian) in spiritual discipline Y. This task will not address spiritual assessment as that is a separate task. The question of what spiritual level am I in spiritual discipline xyz will be handled in a separate task. The spiritual disciplines will be defined in this task.

3. We are about Bible studies that help people mature in the Lord and we would like to describe the spiritual maturity journey ("A yellow brick road" ) with at least the following attributes (the skills, knowledge and actions that characterize each maturity step).
o Having done item 3 we will then build a tool that a person can use to help them classify each article on the site as to what step it is most appropriate for which would help them advance to the next maturity step

Proposed description of effort

Develop a set of attributes of each spiritual discipline composed of the skills/knowledge/actions matrix for differing maturity levels in the Christian life and a methodology for analyzing content on bible.org and assigning each article a score on the top 5 criteria.

• The object of this task is to build a “yellow brick road” for people wanting to take the next step in their faith and mature in their walk and relationship with Christ.

• To make progress on this task, we need to develop characteristics and what discriminates “a baby” in maturity to “a mature believer” capable of handing the “meat” of the word. One who demonstrates spiritual fruits in their life so they make non-Christians jealous and wanting what they demonstrate towards others.

Possible example steps in maturity:
1. non believer looking to understand what Christianity is all about
2. brand new believer (one who just accepted Christ and wants to begin the relationship with the living God)
3. level 1 Christian (describe the attributes for this level)
4. level 2 Christian;
5. level N one who has reproduced a new discipler of Christians

Job 3- (Draft)- Develop a rating system for staff and users to understand the thrust of an article/study and how useful it is to the readers

Staff review section
- We need to develop guidance about what should be in the staff review eg.
- This article addresses the passage scripture found at ______ or
- This article addresses the topic ___________ and topic ________
- This article backs up its arguments with scripture or not……..
- It is well footnoted with material it uses……
- Need to say something about its orthodoxy ( this may be hard and we may need some guidance)

User comments section
          o We need to develop guidance about what should be in the users review
          o One thought is that we have “picks” with a limited vocabulary to keep someone from spamming us and giving us commercial ads.
                + rate 1-5 stars This is the best article I have read on topic _______
                + rate 1-5 starsThis article was very practical
                + rate 1-5 stars this article impacted my life
                + rate 1-5 stars I told someone about this article
                + rate 1-5 stars I like this author and I will read more of their material
                + rate 1-5 stars other ideas………..

Example seen on some sites:
Was this article helpful? Rate it!
1-5 stars
Leave a comment using a limited vocabulary...

Job 4- Develop material for children’s ministry http://bible.org/children

1. From the thousands of articles on the site or Bible stories or bible characters Develop lessons that are appropriate for teachers to use for Children.

2. Openings for Heartprints blogging as a volunteer. Must be active in a children's ministry or seeking education in this field; have references and sample blogs that teach spiritual principles and/or ideas for children's ministry.

Job 5- Intern with Bible.org Women

NEEDS: The Women's Leadership Team of Bible.org needs different kinds of help, so we would welcome different students to contribute a variety of abilities as they are able.

We need someone to produce woman-friendly graphics to make our section of the Bible.org website warmer and more attractive.
We need someone with website back-end abilities to format and upload articles; this person does not need to already be a techie, but an ability to learn quickly and handle technical details competently is necessary.
And finally, we would like to start developing some short, simple videos to help equip women leaders worldwide, and we need some media help for that.

Skills Required

Graphics, media arts and a desire to gain a ministry portfolio
Willingness to do behind-the-scenes "grunt work." Some degree of web-savvy; knowledge of HTML is very helpful but not necessary. Familiarity with video equipment and editing software. Ability to work independently. Since this is a web ministry, it's a matter of working from a computer with internet access and not a location such as the Bible.org offices.
Skills in communicating ministry truths is a plus

Job 6 - Translation

One of our goals is to reach two billion people with the word of God. How can you help us with this?

Is your native tounge different than English?
Do you speak another language flunently?

If you answered YES to either question then you can assist us with translating some of the thousand of articles and material that we have within our site. Contact us for more information on which languages we are looking for and what we have to be translated.

Job 7 - Web Developer

Bible.org is looking to expand some of its services and requires interns with a strong technical background and web experience.

    •    At least 2 years of hands-on experience with PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS.
    •    Experience with MS SQL an or databases is a plus
    •    Knowledge of Drupal would be a huge advantage
    •    Positive attitude and strong work ethics, ability to multi task is a must
    •    Ability to program to specification
    •    Willingness to learn
    •    Attention to detail
    •    Effective time management skills
    •    Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    •    A sharp mind with the ability to grasp concepts quickly and work out complex logic problems
    •    A demonstrated ability to learn by doing and taking initiative to "figure things out"
    •    A heart and passion to share the "Good News" though the Internet

for additional ideas see our volunteer task descriptions at

http://users.bible.org/groups/site_volunteers_tasks_and_collaboration

If you have interest in this and would like to know some more information Please contact us.