Freelance Senior Linguist-Marketing & Life Sciences-Somali (Somalia)

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

Job summary

A global translation company is seeking experienced Freelance Language Experts for collaboration on several projects. Candidates should have at least 3 years of translation or copy editing experience, with a professional understanding of English and native expertise in Somali. Knowledge of various CAT tools like XTM, Trados, and MS Office applications is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in translation or editing.
• Professional understanding of English.
• Native expertise in Somali with cultural understanding.
• Proficient in CAT tools and MS Office applications.

Skills

Translating

Copy editing

Cultural understanding

Familiarity with CAT tools

MS Office skills

Education

Translation degree

Tools

XTM

Phrase

Trados

Jira

Smartling

Job description

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.

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 Somali 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 team of Freelance Language Experts who can collaborate with us on Multiple accounts and programs.