How to join the staff?

School Idol Tomodachi is made by fans for fans. It's important for us to stay community-driven, that's why we want to get our community members involved as much as possible!

Open Staff Positions

Basic requirements

• Previous experience as an admin, moderator or middleman in the LLSIF community or similar
• A good knowledge of LLSIF and the collections of cards
• A bit of time to spend being a staff every week
• A Twitter that accepts direct messages, a Facebook messenger or an email address that you read on a daily basis
• A serious sense of responsibility: never leave for weeks without telling us
• A profile on School Idol Tomodachi
• Good English writing skills (mostly informal/friendly, but spell/grammar checked)
• Positivity, optimism: the community is full of love and joy and we want to keep it that way, so that's a big part of the staff's jobs!

Community Managers

Twitter Community manager [1 needed]

Keep yourself updated with the latest LLSIF news and post tweets on our Twitter account: @schoolidolu. Read the full role description here.

Requirements:

• Be a very active Twitter user with strong knowledge of communication on Twitter
• Graphic design skills appreciated (see Graphic Designer)

Tumblr Community manager [1 needed]

Keep yourself updated with the latest LLSIF news and post on our Tumblr: sukutomo. Read the full role description here.

Requirements:

• Be an active Tumblr user with strong knowledge of communication on Tumblr
• Strong knowledge of the Tumblr community (kind of people, latest trends)

External Community manager [1 needed]

• Post news about School Idol Tomodachi on various other communities (see Community manager detailed roles). Shouldn't be more than 1-2 per week!

• LLSIF subreddit

• Facebook group

• Otonokizaka Forum

Graphic Designer [3 needed]

Design banners and various images asked by the Community Managers above.

Requirements:

• Graphic design software (Photoshop, Gimp, Paint.NET, Pixlr or you name it)
• Work fast (some things need to be announced within the next hour!) - but don't worry, we'll do our best to ask you most images in advance

Japanese speaker [3 needed]

Language barrier leads the site to lots of lost opportunities, so we need you to interact with the Japanese members of the community and help the site grow in Japan by translating our community posts, contest names/banners, and contact Japanese communities to start partnerships and help fulfill their needs as well.

Requirements:

• Speak and write in Japanese at a friendly yet grown-up level

Verifications

Silver Verifications [0 needed]

Give a cute little silver star to School Idol Tomodachi community members. Compare in-game screenshots with a School Idol Tomodachi account and add/remove cards if necessary.

Requirements:

• A large screen (> 1200px)

Bronze Verifications [0 needed]

Allow our high ranked players to set their rank above 200 and join the leaderboard without getting a visible sign of verification. Enter their friend ID in your own game account to check if the account exists and the rank is correct.

Requirements:

• Must also take care of either Silver verifications or Gold verifications
• An active account on SIF in your device to be able to enter friend IDs in game

Gold Verifications [0 needed]

Give an epic little gold star to School Idol Tomodachi community members. Enter their transfer code to check their rank, friend ID and cards, add/remove cards (in School Idol Tomodachi) if necessary, generate and send them a new transfer code.

Requirements:

• At least one actual device (Android or iOs) with SIF installed in JP or EN without any active account (only used for verifications, not to play)

Moderation

Active Moderator [5 needed]

• Check the events ranking and report any wrong event participation (score or position)
• Go through the list of high ranked players (verified or not) and report fake accounts (verified accounts may lose their verification status if they add too many cards or jump ranks suspiciously)
• Follow School Idol Tomodachi on Disqus and report spam or negative comments

Requirements:

• Lots of time and patience

Decisive Moderator [1 needed]

Go through the list of things reported by community members or Active Moderators, contact members for proof when necessary and accept or reject reports. Read moderated comments and delete spam or negative comments.

Requirements:

• An active account in the game to check ranks and event participations
• An account on Disqus

More

Database Maintainer [2 needed]

Keep cards/songs/events/idols data up to date on various external resources to update the School Idol Tomodachi database.

Requirements:

• Access to large LLSIF database (whale account or game decrypter)
• An account on LL Wikia, LLSIF Wiki, Japanese Wiki (optional), Google Drive

Translator [∞ needed]

Translate the website and the mobile app in other languages than English.

Requirements:

• Native or excellent speaker of another language than English
• Good writing skills in that language, informal/friendly tone, grammar/spell check

Developer [∞ needed]

• Create your own tools/pages
• And/or fix bugs, implement features asked by the community

Requirements:

• Know a web or mobile programming language/framework
• Preferably Python/Django for the backend and JQuery for the front-end, but we accept everything

Community Artist [∞ needed]

• Draw chibi characters for the idols example
• And/or draw comics, fun story, fun images related to what's happening in LLSIF or School Idol Tomodachi

Note: You don't have to submit the form below if you want to join the Community Artists._

Read all the details to submit your artworks

F.A.Q

Can I get multiple roles?

Yes, that's actually what most staff do!

Is this a paid job?

It's a community/fan based website, made by fans for fans, so there's no money involved for any member of the staff.

Also, we're broke and can't even pay for our servers, and though donations help, they don't cover the full expenses :(

Who are the current staff?

You can see all the members of the staff on our about page.

Apply

Send us an email, a DM on Twitter or a private message on Facebook with the following info:

Username on School Idol Tomodachi: 
Timezone: 
Roles wanted: 
How active can you be as a staff?: 
References: 

References is the most important part of your application, so make sure you write lots about you. What are your previous/current experiences as an admin, moderator or middleman in the LLSIF community or similar? Provide links supporting your experiences. Anything else that proves you are trustworthy should be here as well.

Also note that we might do a little training on Google Hangout (with voice + screen share) or equivalent before you can start your new staff tasks~