ENTRY LEVEL TRANSLATORS-MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

JTG inc • Remote (Reston, Virginia, United States) • $54.03k - $96.03k / year • 1w ago

Primary Level Translators-Multiple Languages Nationwide

JTG is currently seeking Primary Level Translators in the following languages:

Afrikaans (Dutch, Flemish), Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Modern Standard and all dialects), Armenian (Eastern and Western), Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian (Croatian, Serbian), Bulgarian (Macedonian), Burmese, Cambodian (Khmer), Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chinese-Cantonese, Chinese-Fukien/ Taiwanese, Chinese-Mandarin (all dialects not listed as separate languages), Chinese-Shanghai/Wu, Croatian (Bosnian, Serbian), Czech (Slovak), Danish, Dari, Dutch (Afrikaans, Flemish), Estonian, Ewe, Finnish, Flemish (Afrikaans, Dutch), French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo (Ibo), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Kissi, Korean , Kurdish, Lao, Latvian (Lettish), Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian (Bulgarian), Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mixteco, Moldovan (Romanian), Mongolian, Montenegrin (Serbian), Ndebele, Nepali, Norwegian, Panjabi (Punjabi), Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Romanian (Moldovan), Russian, Serbian (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin), Shona, Sindhi, Slovak (Czech), Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili (Kiswahili), Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yoruba, Zulu.

Location: remote

Responsibilities:

Provide accurate translations, transcriptions, and summaries of foreign language text, audio and video material into English
Communicate fluently in English orally and in writing
Translate in accordance with designated style and quality standards
Apply a translation methodology to translate a wide variety of complex texts that contain difficult, abstract, idiomatic, highly technical, and colloquial writing
Post-edit Machine Translations for accuracy and completeness
Translate abstract language and nuance and capture Socio-Economic elements in text
Use domain-specific technical terminology
Use and develop reference materials such as glossaries, style guides, and translation memories
Review the quality of other translators' work

Basic Qualifications:

Able to pass translation performance test at ILR 3 to 3+.
Proficient in reading, listening to, and comprehending foreign languages at an advanced professional capability of ILR 3/3+ in the source language
Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office and the Internet
Human Language Technology (HLT) Skills including Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) and adaptive machine translation tools

Preferred Qualifications:

In depth knowledge of source language regionalisms, slang, colloquialisms, and dialect

Education:

Bachelor's degree minimum or equivalent in years of experience

This position reports to the Task Manager.

Founded in 1995, JTG is an Employee-Owned Company that is specialized in language services, training, and analytics.