The Storyteller
Storytellers ultimately work for people who will discover these recordings years from now.
Good archive writing prioritizes clarity, context, and future discoverability.
This role is a good fit for people who enjoy listening closely, finding the thread, and helping important ideas remain understandable over time. The Storyteller helps keep the Zk Av Club archive readable, searchable, and useful across public indexes, archive pages, and metadata records.
What you do
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Coordinate the network of scribes so transcripts are accurate, readable, and delivered on time.
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Listen or watch closely and find the thread. Pull the names, terms, and context that make the recording understandable later.
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Turn that into the text layer that makes the recording usable later: strong titles, clean descriptions, useful tags, and context that still works years later.
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Keep public indexes readable and browsable (workshops pages, archive lists, collections), in collaboration with the Archivist.
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Hand off transcripts and text elements to the Archivist (title, description, tags, quotes, notes, links).
Success means someone discovers the recording years later and can immediately understand what it is and build from it.
You’re a fit if you
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You can listen closely and find the thread in long conversations.
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You can write context that still works years later (not hype, not SEO).
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You can coordinate scribes and raise quality gently.
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You hand off clean text packages so the Archivist can publish without friction.
Tools we like (not required)
Clear writing, comfort working from transcripts, and a good sense for what context will matter later.
Interested in this role?
Applications start with a short form. If there’s a potential fit, we’ll follow up with a small trial task so we can see how you approach real recordings.
The application takes about 10–15 minutes.
If this sounds like your kind of work, we’d love to hear from you.
→ Apply for the Storyteller role
See also: Archivist Wanted: Preserve Open-Source Media – Apply Today!
Note: This is one of the jobs that is being created thanks to Zcash Community Grants (@ZCG) as part of Zcash Community Media Infrastructure & Support | Zk Av Club 2026.
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