Freelance Interviewer

LifeBook Memoirs; Norfolk (NE); On-site; USD 551,040 - 688,800; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Meet remarkable people

Family legacy

Job summary

LifeBook Memoirs seeks an interviewer to guide authors in telling their stories in a structured, compassionate way. You will conduct 12 interviews over six months, visiting authors at home and recording all sessions for the ghostwriter.

The role includes preparation, team communication, and post-session uploading of files, with a focus on confidentiality and project discipline. You will be trained to master both technical and soft skills, ensuring a respectful, empathetic approach to capture

Qualifications

• Must have excellent listening and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Visit authors in their home for 12 meetings over six months.
• Conduct meetings of 90 minutes (11 sessions) and one 120-minute session for scanning photos.
• Record all meetings digitally and keep notes for ghostwriter input.
• Prepare for sessions, coordinate with the team, and upload audio files.
• Review author amendments and provide materials to the ghostwriter after sessions.
• Complete full seven-month project with confidentiality and schedule discipline.

Skills

Active listening

Verbal communication

Empathy

Patience

Confidentiality

IT skills

Flexibility

Team collaboration

Schedule management

Story gathering

Tools

Recording equipment

Scanner

Online database uploads

Job description

As a LifeBook Memoirs interviewer, you will help guide the author to tell their story in a logical, methodical manner. You will draw out the details, personality, and emotion of the stories, which will then be transformed into a beautifully crafted autobiographical book by a ghostwriter.

You will visit the author, usually in their own home, for a series of 12 meetings held over a six-month period. Of these, 11 meetings will last for 90 minutes, and one meeting will last for 120 minutes, to allow time for scanning the author’s photographs. All meetings will be digitally recorded. You will be required to spend time preparing for these interview sessions, communicating with the team, uploading the audio recordings, and scanning the author’s amendments for the ghostwriter after the sessions.

You will be given full training to cover the technical and soft skills required for this position.

Requirements

• Living within approximately 10 miles or 30 minutes’ travel time of the author
• Active listening and strong verbal communication skills
• Empathy, patience, non-judgmental attitude, and open manner
• Good IT skills, with the ability to learn how to use a recording machine and a scanner and to upload files to our online database
• Commitment to the full seven-month project duration
• Flexibility to meet the author’s schedule
• Interest in social history and people’s stories, from the everyday to the exceptional
• Ability to work as part of a virtual team, meet agreed timescales, and follow procedures
• Commitment to confidentiality at all times
• Appreciates the entrepreneurial journey and can capture the vision, challenges, and achievements behind it

Whilst the role is remunerated, there are additional benefits, including:

• Meeting incredible people with extraordinary stories to tell
• Taking pride in helping create not just a personal autobiography but a family legacy

LifeBook Memoirs is the world’s leading private memoir service. Since our inception in 2012, we have been entrusted by people of all ages in more than 40 countries to preserve their unique experiences and memories in artisanal-quality LifeBooks. We have enabled more than 12,000 people to read the life stories of the people they love.

Any job offer will be subject to satisfactory references and a criminal record assessment.