Volunteer Staff Opportunities

Help bring the magic to life, become a volunteer staffer for Wizards.pro!

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Auror

Responsibilities: This brave soul must thwart the onslaught of stupidity that plagues the comments and forum posts. (On some sites known as a global moderator or the bane of ch47 5p34k.)

Qualifications: Must be level headed, patient, must understand the difference between spam and honest mistakes, must not be an uptight power hungry know-it-all (that last one pretty much covers it).

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Columnist/Editorialist

Responsibilities: This person must maintain a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly column or editorial concerning the Harry Potter books. Subjects need to relate to theories or some type of analysis of the Harry Potter septology. Your articles will appear in the Pensieve section of the site.

Qualifications: We require a sample of your work or better yet a link to your portfolio (you must be able to prove that the work you submit is original).

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Illustrator/Graphic Artist

Responsibilities: Must be a capable illustrator, or graphic artist/designer. Extensive experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, or a similar professional-grade computer graphics application is a must. Will need to design graphics and logos for various sections of Wizards.pro, this position may include some form of compensation depending on the use and quality of artwork.

Qualifications: We require a sample of your work or better yet a link to your portfolio, you must be able to prove that the work in the portfolio is your own.

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Copyeditor

Responsibilities: Check the consistency and accuracy of content presented on Wizards.pro, particularly the encyclopedia.wizards.pro subdomain.

Qualifications: Must be familiar with proofreading and copyediting Wiki articles such as those that appear on Wikipedia.org.

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Content Developer

Responsibilities: As a Content Developer you must create original Harry Potter related content to be used on various section of this site, also you will probably be creating new sections on this site if you are really talented. You must be very creative, and have much free time to devote to the development of original content such as definitions for Harry Potter related terms, actor bios, book summaries, movie facts, etc. If the content you submit is not completely your own work please provide us a list of sources and sufficient documentation which states you are allowed to make derivative works or reproduce the content.

Qualifications: You must have a strong command of the English language. We require a sample of your work, creativity is imperative. A lot of free time is always a must for any position here at Wzards.pro!

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Publicist

Responsibilities: You must advertise the site by various means without spamming or annoying others. You can post the site on forums and chartrooms (when allowed) if you have friends who own web sites get them to link to our site or if you own a website link to Wizards.pro. Remember to tell your friends. If you have any connections with the press, podcasters, or any other form of media please get the word out about Hogwarts Live and Wizards.pro.

Qualifications: Must understand the difference between spam (useless or pointless text) and "spreading the word." Anyone can do this, so there is really no need to apply.

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If you would like to help out in a way not specified above (i.e. CSS development, PHP scripting, content aggregation, etc.) please explain this in the body of your message. To apply for any positions - listed or otherwise - please contact me by owl post or email with the following information:

Real Name: Last name is optional.

Valid Email and Instant Messenger: GTalk, YIM, AIM, MSN IM

Work Experience: Position and description of what kind of work that position entailed.

References: Hogwarts Live or Wizards.pro members who can attest to you being a good person for the job.

Personal Statement: What makes you a good candidate for the job; please include links to work samples here.

Please use the feedback form to send in your application.