Veterinarian Translator for Editorial book

LocalEyes; United States; Remote; USD 45,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

STAR7 seeks a veterinary editor/translator to translate a clinical pathology book for small animals from English into German. This is a remote freelance role with strict adherence to project instructions, glossaries, and style guides.

The candidate will ensure accurate meaning, terminology consistency, and proper formatting across chapters. Required is a veterinary medicine degree, native German, excellent English, and experience in veterinary translation or proofreading.

Qualifications

• Degree in Veterinary Medicine.
• Native German speaker.
• Excellent command of English (reading and writing).
• Experience in translation and proofreading in veterinary field (preferred).
• Comfortable with technology and learning new tools.
• Linguistic and cultural competences in source/target languages.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• GDPR awareness and data handling rights.

Responsibilities

• Ensure target text accurately reflects the source meaning.
• Use translation memory, glossaries, and style guides per project instructions.
• Maintain high grammatical accuracy and key terminology; fix inconsistencies.
• Correct formatting, tagging, punctuation, and country-specific terminology per guidelines.

Job description

This is a remote position. Veterinary Editorial book translator with German Field of expertise: Veterinary Language Combination: English into German Location: Remote Employment type: Freelance

In STAR7 () we support our customers throughout the product information and content life cycle. STAR7 started its activity as a Language Service Provider more than 20 years ago. We are specialized in localization and internationalization. STAR7 Group is recruiting a veterinarian to be part of our growing teams that could support with the translation of a book about clinical pathology for small animals, from English into German.

In this role you will:

• Ensure target text correctly reflects the meaning of the source
• Perform linguistic tasks as per project instructions and other references (translation memory, glossary, style guides, etc.)
• Ensure high-grammatical accuracy while maintaining key terminology, spotting inconsistencies and incorrect cultural references
• Correct formatting/tagging, punctuation, country specifics, terminology, style, fluency as per guidelines

Requirements

• Degree in Veterinary Medicine.
• Native speaker in German language.
• Excellent command of the English language in both comprehension and writing.
• Preferred experience in translation and proofreading specialized in veterinary field.
• Comfortable with technology and open to learn to use new tools.
• Linguistic and cultural competences of both source and target language.
• Adaptive to fast‑paced work environment with multiple changes of project priorities.
• Ability to maintain professionalism under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Problem solving and decision‑making skills.
• GDPR: In compliance with the REGULATION(EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons (GDPR), applying to this vacancy you will hereby authorise the recipient of your application to use and process your personal details for the purpose of sending you projects and job offers, recruiting, selecting staff for 10 years and you confirm to be informed of your rights. Please refer case of questions and in case you may wish us to delete your personal data.