Senior Linguist, Marketing & Life Sciences, Zulu
Welocalize
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Senior
About the role
- Collaborate as a freelance language expert across multiple accounts and programs
- Translate and copy-edit content for Investigator-facing, Patient-facing, Pharmacy, Marketing, Help and UI content
- Ensure native-level Zulu translation with appropriate cultural adaptation
- Use CAT tools (XTM, Phrase, Trados, Smartling, Jira) and MS Office for localization tasks
- Contribute to multilingual content transformation and NLP training-data tasks (collecting, annotating, evaluating content)
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 Zulu 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
translationcopy editingcultural adaptationNLP training-data taskscontent annotationcontent evaluation
Soft skills
collaborationattention to detailcultural understanding
Certifications
translation degree