English into Canadian French Translator

Id Job: 316a344

🏢 On-site

💼 Alpha CRC Ltd.

📍 Cambridge, East of England, England

🕒 1 day ago

💰 23450 – 29185 GBP ANNUAL

Job Description

Do you have a passion for translating from English to Canadian French?
Do you love working on a wide variety of source materials and for different international clients?
Do you know how to adapt translations to different brand tones of voice?
Do you enjoy working with translation technologies and have strong organizational skills?

If you can answer “yes” to all of the above, this position as an English to Canadian French translator at a world-leading localization provider could be for you.

The opportunity

Our lovely team is looking for a new colleague: a dedicated translation professional, an all-rounder who can competently handle a variety of linguistic tasks such as translating user interfaces, web content, Q&A documents, product descriptions, corporate communication, mailings, press releases, instruction manuals, brochures and subtitles for videos.

If you have copywriting talent as well, you might be writing blogs for our clients, not just translating them. Successful candidates will be passionate about translating, have good time management skills, and be interested in IT, technology and the world.

Tasks

Main tasks

Translate a variety of text types and subject matters
Transcreation
Review and post-edit machine-produced translations
Conduct terminology research
Create and maintain translation memories and Termbases
Create and maintain style guides
Participate in occasional meetings with client contacts
Make occasional visits to clients for product demos or briefings

Requirements

Key requirements

Translators must master Canadian French at mother-tongue level
Excellent grammar and fluent writing style
Translation qualification and a minimum of three years’ experience
Willingness to learn new things and to go the extra mile
Ability to review work of others, edit and provide feedback
Ability to work under pressure without impacting quality
Good time management and versatility
Professional approach and commitment to quality
Able to work autonomously as well as within a team
Good eye for detail and ability to pay attention to multiple references
Cultural awareness
Client-orientated and a team player
Optional skills
Familiar with MemoQ, Trados, Smartling, Memsource and other CATs
Ability to translate/transcreate marketing-type messages
Experience translating for the ecommerce and finance sector
Subtitling videos

Benefits

About Alpha CRC

Alpha has been at the forefront of the translation, localization and now globalization industries since 1987, and is now a global top-ten localization provider. We’ve built an in-house production model for the world’s most demanding companies.

Alpha is a warm, lively and welcoming firm with over 30 nationalities represented in its 18 offices. Every individual adds their own personality to our culture, and allows us to paint a bright, vivid and multi-faceted picture of the world, in micro, in each place. In the end, being part of the team is about more than work. We have activities ranging from paintball to cookery contests, or book exchanges to film watching, which take place across all our 15 countries.

We service an impressive range of internationally known clients in various sectors.

For successful candidates, unless you already have the right to work in the UK, Alpha will act as your sponsor. You will need to obtain a visa before entering the UK; this is a relatively straightforward process.

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