Freelance Senior Linguist-Marketing & Life Sciences-Afrikaans (South Africa)

Welocalize; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A global language services company is seeking Freelance Language Experts to assist with translation and copy editing tasks. Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years' experience in relevant subject areas and be native Afrikaans speakers. Familiarity with various CAT tools and MS Office applications is essential. This role offers the chance to collaborate across multiple accounts and programs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in translating and editing.
• Professional level understanding of English.
• Native level expertise in Afrikaans.

Skills

Translation

Copy editing

Cultural nuances understanding

CAT tools

MS Office applications

Education

Translation degree or equivalent experience

Tools

XTM

Phrase

Trados

Jira

Smartling

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.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years\' experience in translating, copy editing content in the specified subject matter areas or verticals: Investigator facing, Patient facing and/or Pharmacy material, Marketing, Help and UI content
• Professional level understanding of English (US/GB)
• Native level expertise of Afrikaans as Target Language with core understanding of cultural nuances.
• Candidate should be well versed with various CAT tools like XTM, Phrase, Trados, Jira, Smartling etc.
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications like MS Word, MS Excel.
• Desirable: Translation degree or, if other degree, 3 years of translation experience or, if no degree, 5 years of translation experience

We are building a team of Freelance Language Experts who can collaborate with us on multiple accounts and programs.