Job Requirements
1 - 3 years of experience
Skills
Job description for Translation Editor at CaptionCube
Job Description:
- Be part of the core team in upholding quality and standards in the work delivered to the clients
- Manage projects and liaise with clients and freelancers to meet deadlines and requirements
- Produce English and Chinese translation/translated subtitles with breaks at appropriate words or pauses with the use of subtitling software
- Vet, proofread and/or edit final copies of freelancers’ work to ensure clients’ requirements are adhered to and deliver high-quality captions
- Identify and correct spelling, punctuation and grammatical mistakes
- Identify local slangs, colloquial speech or informal words/sentences and restructure the sentences as required
- Work with the rest of the operations team to improve overall efficiency and quality of operations process
Job Requirements:
- Pass CaptionCube’s translation assessments
- At least 1 year full-time experience in written translation
- Editing of English and Chinese subtitles for TV programmes and corporate videos. Proficiency in English and Chinese are a must.
- Able to write fluently in Mandarin and experienced in using written Mandarin as a working language due to work requirements
- Possess a keen awareness of nuances in the Mandarin language used in different regional contexts e.g. China and Taiwan
- Strong in both Chinese and English
- Possess a keen awareness of grammar rules (e.g. modals, tenses, conjunctions), idiomatic expressions in UK English language and commonly misused Chinese characters
- Meticulous and carry out necessary research/checks to ensure the correct use of words
- Committed to timelines and reliable
- Good project management skills, good team player, proactive, communicates and works well with the rest of the team, clients and freelancers to get work delivered on time
- Resourceful and self-motivated to learn and grow
- Able to learn new software tools quickly and devise actions for improvement
- Candidate must be based in Singapore
- Pass CaptionCube Translation assessments