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Manara is a social impact startup whose mission is to unlock the human potential of the Middle East & North Africa, uplifting the region's economy and ersifying the global tech sector. We focus especially on Palestine and women. We are experienced founders, operators, and technologists with leading investors (including Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Stripe, Y Combinator, Seedcamp) and advisers from Andela, Lambda School, and Honeypot.

This region has a rapidly growing population and a highly educated, erse population. But nobody has cracked the puzzle of employment: college graduates face the highest youth unemployment in the world. Women are particularly impacted: in Palestine, 52% of computer science students are women, but 83% of them are unemployed. We run an entirely remote solution to identify the top talent, familiarize them with interviewing approaches, vet them, and find them amazing jobs (whether remote or on-site). It works: at Google 71% of our referrals in our last batch were hired. 

We don't stop at job placement. Our vision is to build the top tech talent community in this region and support them at each stage in their lifecycle: how to get a promotion, become a manager, be the first woman engineer on a team, etc. The community is driven by a tech product that facilitates connection, shared learning, and motivation.

To achieve our ambitious vision, we're seeking several freelance resume writers & coaches. Each software engineer in our program is required to have a stellar resume by the time they graduate. We use these resumes to refer them to jobs. The process of writing the resume is also a great learning opportunity for the engineer to improve their own job hunting skills.

You will join our team for 20 hours/week for the next 3 months to help our participants directly with improving their resumes. You will read & edit many resumes asynchronously to verify if they meet Manara standards. If they need a significant overhaul, you'll meet directly with the participant via Zoom to learn more about their background and figure out how to write it effectively.  

As Manara grows, we may discover that we need more support of this type. If so, we may consider turning this into an ongoing part-time role at 20 hours/week or a recurring freelance opportunity (e.g., every fall and spring for 3 months).

This role is also often a stepping stone to join our team full-time as a Talent Success Manager/Career Coach.

Note: Diverse candidates often screen themselves out of job applications if they don't have all the qualifications. Please apply if you're excited about the role - we'd love to see your application!

• Detail-oriented: No typo makes it past you. You pay lots of attention to formatting. Each resume you submit is stellar.
• Fluent English: You write English at a native speaker level, beautifully editing the English of our non-native speaker participants.  
• People/service-oriented: You provide excellent customer service (and maybe even coaching!) People love meeting with you directly to work on their resumes. You follow up with them diligently as needed, on Slack or via email.
• Enthusiasm for tech/software engineers & ability to grow technical recruiter expertise: You will be supporting software engineers with their resumes. Thus, you should love spending time with software engineers and be capable of quickly learning the skills that technical recruiters need. For example, you will need to learn what technical skills are similar (e.g., Javascript and Typescript) so that you can list them in the correct order on a resume.
• Execution/project management: As a small startup, we depend heavily on each person to be reliable and effective. You get A LOT of things done efficiently and accurately, with little need for supervision. If our project management systems are not set up effectively to manage a large load of resumes, you take it upon yourself to set them up.

• Collaboration/team player: You can work effectively with other people at Manara. For example, you communicate closely with the teams that train our engineers and also with the teams that place them into jobs.
• Growth mentality: You love learning, are open to feedback, and can quickly learn new things.
• Remote: You have experience working on effective remote teams & thrive in such environments. You work well across time zones (e.g., you communicate effectively via asynchronous oral & verbal channels).

Knock our socks off:

These are not critical, but are pluses if you have them.

• Tech recruitment/talent industry: You have experience in the tech recruitment/talent industry and can thus hit the ground running and grow our own team's expertise in this area.
• MENA expertise: You speak Arabic or are familiar with the Middle East & North Africa
• Passion for Manara's mission of creating a community that unlocks the full potential of top tech talent in MENA (with a focus on Palestine & women)

We are a fully remote team, so you can be located anywhere.  Our team is based mostly in California, so you will need to make sure you can overlap with us enough to get training and to attend occasional meetings. Our participants/engineers are based mostly in the Middle East (e.g., Palestine, Egypt); because they have full-time jobs or school, they tend to be most available during their weekends and evenings. Thus, you should expect to be online either Mon-Thu 8am-12pm PT, or two weekdays and 1 weekend day.