Freelance Interviewer

LifeBook Memoirs; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 758,000 - 1,212,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Meeting incredible people

Family legacy impact

Job summary

LifeBook Memoirs seeks an interviewer to guide authors in telling their life stories in a structured, engaging way. You will conduct interviews in the author’s home across 14 sessions over seven months, with sessions recorded for the ghostwriter.

You’ll prepare for each session, coordinate with the team, and upload audio files and scanned amendments. The role requires confidentiality, empathy, and strong listening skills.

Qualifications

• Living within approximately 10 miles or 30 minutes’ travel time of the author.
• Strong listening and verbal communication skills.
• Empathy, patience, non-judgmental attitude, and open manner.
• Good IT skills and ability to learn recording machines, scanners, and uploading files.

Responsibilities

• Guide the author to tell their story in a logical, methodical manner.
• Conduct 14 interviews over seven months (home visits by the interviewer).
• Prepare for sessions and communicate with the team.
• Upload audio recordings and scan amendments for the ghostwriter after sessions.

Skills

Active listening

Verbal communication

Empathy

Confidentiality

IT literacy

Project commitment

Flexibility

Interest in social history

Team collaboration

Discretionary handling of sensitive情報

Tools

Recording equipment

Scanner

Online database upload

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 14 meetings held over a seven-month period. Of these, 12 meetings will last for 90 minutes, and two meetings 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 proceduresCommitment to confidentiality at all times

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.