Senior Level Translators - Multiple Languages

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Senior Level Translators - Multiple Languages

Languages:
- Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Modern Standard and dialects), Armenian (Eastern and Western), Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian (Khmer), Chamorro, Cebuano, Chechen, Cantonese, Chinese-Fukien/Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese/Wu, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Ewe, Finnish, Flemish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Kissi, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nepali, Norwegian, Punjabi, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu.

Location and pay:
- Remote. Pay: $0.10–$0.20 per word of translation. Reports to a Task Manager.

Responsibilities:
- Translate, transcribe and summarize foreign-language text, audio and video into English while meeting designated style and quality standards.
- Translate complex, abstract, idiomatic, technical and colloquial material, preserving nuance and socioeconomic context and using appropriate domain terminology.
- Post-edit machine translations for accuracy and completeness.
- Use and develop glossaries, style guides, translation memories and other reference materials; review other translators’ work.

Basic qualifications:
- Ability to pass a translation performance test at ILR 4 to 4+ and advanced professional source-language reading and listening proficiency at ILR 4/4+.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, internet research, computer-assisted translation (CAT) and adaptive machine-translation tools.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.

Preferred qualification:
- In-depth knowledge of source-language regionalisms, slang, colloquialisms and dialects.