Open roles

The kinds of work that come up

Work on Jwuma is posted as individual projects rather than permanent roles, so the live list changes week to week as clients start projects. You apply once to join, then choose from the listings open to you.

Types of work

Transcription

Turning recorded speech into accurate text. Includes accented speech, background noise, and conversations with several speakers talking over each other.

Suits: People who listen carefully and can hold a house style in their head.

Worth knowing: The hard part is consistency, not speed. Two transcribers who both hear correctly can still produce work a reviewer scores very differently.

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Translation and localisation

Moving text between languages so it reads naturally rather than literally, including idiom, register and formatting.

Suits: Fluent writers in two or more languages, including regional and less-represented languages.

Worth knowing: Languages with little existing data are where demand is highest and competition lowest. A rarely written language is an advantage here.

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Annotation and labelling

Marking up images, text and audio so a model can learn from them: bounding boxes, categories, sentiment, entity tagging.

Suits: People who are consistent and can follow a long, specific guideline without drifting.

Worth knowing: Guidelines go down to whether a wing mirror counts as part of the car. Reading them properly is most of the job.

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Data collection

Recording speech or photographing scenes to a brief. Usually done on a phone, often outdoors, and paid per accepted submission.

Suits: People with a smartphone who can follow capture instructions exactly.

Worth knowing: Submissions are checked against the brief before payment, so a batch shot slightly wrong is a batch redone. Reading the brief twice is worth it.

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Review and quality assurance

Checking work submitted by other contributors and returning what needs fixing with a reason attached.

Suits: Experienced contributors with a measured accuracy record.

Worth knowing: Not open at signup. Review opens through promotion, which follows measured accuracy on work you have already done.

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Specialist and expert projects

Work needing professional knowledge: medicine, law, finance, software engineering and similar fields.

Suits: Qualified professionals looking for flexible remote work.

Worth knowing: These pay more and ask for evidence of the background. Listings say plainly what they require rather than leaving you to guess.

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What a listing tells you before you accept

The most common way remote work goes wrong is that the terms turn up after the work is done. Here is what is on a listing, and why each part is there.

What a listing tells youSelect a line to see why it is there
Medical audio transcription, EnglishExample

What it pays

The rate is on the listing before you accept, not after you finish. Pay varies by work type, language and how much review the project needs.

An illustration, not a live listing. Real listings and their rates are on the contributor platform once you have an account.

Not sure which to start with

Which work would suit youThree questions, no account needed
What will you work on?
How many languages do you write well?
Which sounds better?

Answer all three and a suggestion appears here.

Applying

You apply once to join Jwuma rather than applying to each listing separately. After your application is approved you take a short course for the work you want, then choose tasks from the listings open to you.

There is never a fee

Jwuma does not charge to join, to train, or for equipment, and never asks for a deposit. Any site asking you to pay to work is not us. Our contributor platform is platform.corpshore.ai, and we are operated by Corpshore AI.