⚓ Location: Fully remote, you can be based anywhere in the world

⏱️ Hours: Flexible, project-based delivery

💰 Fee: Contracts from £1,500, depending on volume of work

🗓️ Duration: Early-July to mid-August 2026 (ideally someone who can start as soon as possible)

👤 Reporting to: Head of Survivor Services

🕰️ Deadline: Tuesday 16 June 2026

We’re looking for Native Arabic speakers - activists, educators and content creators - to present our Bloom content on trauma and gender-based violence in Arabic.

Your brief

Our Bloom content was originally written in English and we now offer it in French, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Turkish. We are now rolling Bloom out in Arabic!

It's important to us that the content be presented in a way that is accessible, warm, and intelligible to Arabic speakers with a variety of national, cultural, and personal backgrounds.

You will be presenting Bloom sessions on a variety of topics, including:

• Image-based abuse
• Healing from sexual trauma
• Understanding the trauma response
• Healthy relationships
• How gender-based violence is connected to systemic forms of oppression

The content for these resources was originally written in English and translated into Arabic by our translation team.

This role will be one of a small team of 3 people presenting and recording the scripts in Arabic. You will need to deliver:

• Natural, conversational audio that sounds like you're speaking directly to a friend or someone you know
• Warm, empathetic delivery that centres the survivor's experience
• Clear pronunciation that is accessible across diverse Arabic-speaking regions
• Professional-quality audio recordings (we will provide you with any equipment you need!)

All work will need to implement our trauma-informed design principles. All recordings are audio-only, with the exception of one short video where you will introduce yourself.

Scope of work

The presenting and recording work includes:

• Approx. 27 audio-recorded scripts (around 25 minutes each when recorded)
• Short video introduction to yourself as a presenter (2-3 minutes)
• Quality-checking audio files and captions
• Ensuring audio matches the scripts after recording

Each presenter will be assigned a portion of this work. We will have three audio presenters who will divide the 27 sessions, allowing us to bring together diverse voices and regional perspectives that make the content accessible across different Arabic-speaking communities. Each session is a conversation between two people, so you’ll be recording ~18 sessions.

Your biggest challenge

Presenting trauma-informed content on gender-based violence and trauma requires more than just reading a script! We need you to have the ability to convey warmth and safety through your voice, and the skills to make sensitive content feel conversational rather than clinical. You’ll need to sound natural and authentic while covering difficult topics, ensuring survivors feel supported and not judged.

The challenge is to deliver content that feels personal and relatable to survivors across Arabic-speaking countries and diasporas, without it feeling like you’re reading from a script or acting.

Your profile

We're looking for one native Arabic speaker to bring our team to 3 presenters. All presenters have experience working in gender-based violence, survivor support, or mental health. You don't need to be an experienced audio presenter or voice actor for this work. We want to work with people who understand trauma-informed approaches, who align with our ethos, and who can authentically communicate with survivors of gender-based violence.

Working with multiple presenters per language allows us to capture diverse voices and perspectives that make the content accessible across different Arabic-speaking communities.

Essential

• Native-level fluency speaking and writing in Arabic. The sessions are mainly in Fusha, with some regional edits.
• Fluency reading and speaking in English
• Natural, conversational speaking style—ability to deliver scripts warmly and authentically
• Background or work experience in:
  • Violence against women and girls organisations or social rights activism
  • and/or psychology, counselling, and/or mental health
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Attention to detail and agile working pace
• Access to a quiet recording environment with stable internet connection
• Ability to commit to presenting/recording 18 sessions across 5 weeks

Desirable

• Prior experience with podcast presenting, audio narration, or voice-over work
• Familiarity with audio recording equipment
• Experience with audio editing — please indicate in your application if you have experience in this area
• Experience in working remotely
• Passion for digital technology
• Understanding of mental health terminology in both English and Arabic

It’s important that all team members have an understanding of intersectionality and systems of oppression and an affinity with Chayn’s aims and organisational values which can be found here.

Process

Please read this document and give it some thought before applying to work with us.

To apply, send us:

• Your portfolio and/or CV demonstrating your relevant experience
• Audio sample (2-3 minutes) of you reading a script or presenting audio content in Arabic (the easiest way is to send a Google Drive link)
• A brief cover letter (maximum 1 page or 3-minute audio/video) outlining:
  • Why you're interested in this work
  • Your relevant experience in gender-based violence, mental health, or related fields (and/or audio presenting experience if applicable)
  • Your approach to working with content relating to gender-based violence and trauma
  • Your availability across early-July to mid August 2026
  • An indication of how many sessions you would be able to commit to during this timeframe

Our offer

This is a freelance, project-based contract and you can be based anywhere in the world. We're looking for someone who can commit to delivering the full scope of work in the stated timeframe.

We are unable to sponsor visas. Chayn is a fully remote organisation.

• You'll work flexible hours to suit your schedule, with the expectation of regular check-ins with the Survivor Services team
• We estimate this work will require flexible commitment of approximately 10-20 hours per week across the project period
• Recording equipment will be sent on loan to the successful candidate for the duration of the project if they do not already own it

Fee breakdown

All fees are inclusive of VAT where applicable. We do not pay per word or per hour. We know people work at different paces, and we have based our timeframes on what was accomplished for other languages for these courses.

Core session fees

• £30 per session to:
  • Review and adapt the script into a presentation-ready tone.
• £60 per session to:
  • Record session alongside another presenter (approximately 25 minutes of audio)
  • Review and re-record any sections if needed, based on feedback

Additional fees

• £60 per session to edit each recorded session using Riverside (in case you do audio editing)

One-off fees

In addition to the main sessions, we pay a flat fee of £150 to all audio presenters for the following:

• Recording two short video introductions (one individual and one group)
• Training and onboarding

Minimum commitment and availability

We ask that all presenters commit to recording at least 18 sessions.

We are looking for candidates who can have availability and flexibility across a five-week starting as soon as possible.

This role requires us sending equipment to a provided address at the start of the process. Due to this and the nature of presenting work, we require you to have a stable, fixed background and strong internet access while recording. This means we are unable to work with presenters across this time period who may be traveling or in unsuitable environments for the purposes of recording.

There will be three presenters on the project, which allows us to bring together diverse perspectives and voices that make the content accessible across different regions and cultural contexts.

About Chayn

Chayn is a global nonprofit making healing accessible for all survivors of gender-based violence. By reimagining technology, we create online resources that are trauma-informed, multilingual, and feminist, supporting survivors to heal at their own pace, wherever they are.

Chayn started in 2013 to provide survivors of abuse with accurate, diverse and accessible information. Since our beginnings, over 700,000 people have accessed our award-winning work online, generating 1.2 million page views. Up to 70% of our volunteers are survivors of abuse, which means not only are our projects user-centred; they are user-led.

We are experts in trauma-informed work, and have developed trauma-informed design principles that we apply at every level of the organisation, from HR to user research and UX/UI. We are one of only a few feminist technology organisations tackling gender-based violence while creating and maintaining openly-licensed products and code.

While we’ve been going for over 10 years, Chayn was entirely volunteer-led until 2020 when we started to grow our team of paid staff. We are now a core team of 11, with up to 10 supporting contractors and a team of contributing volunteers, working together remotely from all over the world.

Our products

Research and thought leadership

📖 Orbits: A guide on how we can design interventions to tech abuse that are intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed. Co-created with thinkers, practitioners, and survivors from around the world, the guide focuses on three areas that are vital for effectively tackling tech abuse: technology, research, and policy. It explores how systems are failing survivors and how we can advance a different approach that leaves no survivor behind.

📖 Trauma-informed design: One of the many write-ups of our design principles and the accompanying white paper.

Resources and services for organisations

🌺 Bloom for Bumble and Badoo service is an industry-first partnership where we provide a customised version of our remote trauma support service Bloom for the Bumble and Badoo community.

🪔 Diya is our bespoke vicarious trauma training for organisations and their teams, geared towards humanitarian workers, frontline gender-based violence groups, customer support staff and content moderators.

Changing media narratives

Our CEO, Hera Hussain, is a media spokesperson and regularly talks to broadcast and print media about stories connected with gender-based violence and online safety. You can see some examples here: LBC, BBC News, HuffPo, BBC, Vice and Forbes.

Inclusion

At Chayn, inclusion and accessibility are at the core of our work. We welcome applicants from all walks of life. Given the nature of our courses and our audience, we encourage applications from those who grew up in the Global South (or Majority World).

We also encourage applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people (we are a trans-inclusive organisation), people with disabilities, and people who have experienced other exclusion or marginalisation. Up to 70% of our team members are survivors of abuse so if you are one too and are thinking to apply, know that you will be in a safe and affirming space.

We have tried to make this recruitment process as accessible as possible, but know that there might be more that we can do, particularly if you have experienced exclusion, disadvantage or discrimination, or if you have particular accessibility needs. We would be happy to provide any further support that you may require—please get in touch with us at jobs @chayn.co, and we can think together about how to make this process easier for you.