Arabic Life Sciences Translator

Welocalize; Saudi Arabia; Remote; SAR 120,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading language services company is seeking a freelance translator and proofreader for English into Modern Arabic with expertise in Life Sciences. This remote role involves translating and editing documents for pharmaceutical providers, with an expected workload of 2k-5k words weekly. Candidates should have at least two years of relevant experience and strong knowledge of CAT tools.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years' experience translating investigator and patient-facing materials.
• Excellent knowledge of English and Modern Arabic languages required.
• Experience using CAT tools necessary.

Responsibilities

• Translate and proofread pharmaceutical documents.
• Collaborate on an ongoing freelance basis.
• Edit machine-translated content as needed.

Skills

Translation and copyediting

Knowledge of English and Modern Arabic

Experience with CAT tools

Education

Translation degree or equivalent experience

Tools

XTM/Phrase

Job description

Overview

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Main Purpose of the Role

Welocalize is looking for an English into Modern Arabic freelance translator and proofreader with experience in the field of Life Sciences for an ongoing translation and proofreading project for multiple leading pharmaceutical providers. The project main focus will be on investigator-facing, patient-facing and pharmacy related documents. This is an on-going freelance and remote position with an expected weekly words volume of 2k-5k. No minimum volume capacity is required as we are happy to collaborate together depending on your availability.

Project Details

• Location: Remote
• Expected Volume: 5000 words per week or more
• Start date: ASAP
• Employment Type: Freelance/Independent Contract
• Task type: Translation, Copy-editing and Machine translation post editing
• Content types: Investigator-facing, patient-facing and pharmacy
• CAT Tool: XTM/Phrase (we provide license)

Requirements

For this role, we are looking for someone with the following requirements:

• Minimum two years' experience translating and copyediting content in the specified subject matter areas or verticals: Investigator facing, Patient facing and/or Pharmacy material
• Excellent knowledge of English and Modern Arabic languages
• Experience using CAT tools and knowledge with the Track Changes function of Word
• Translation degree or, if other degree, 2 years of translation experience or, if no degree, 5 years of translation experience