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Job description for CaptionCube Pte. Ltd - Operations Executive (English and Malay content) at Startup Talent Factory (Earn & Learn Programme)
Are YOU:
- a dynamic fresh poly graduate?
- keen to experience start-up life and earn a competitive starting salary?
- planning to take a gap year after poly to explore your options?
Here’s your chance to take the first step towards you dreams in this flexible 9 to 12-month work & study programme.
We are a social enterprise that provides premium video captioning, subtitling, transcription and translation services to content owners including clients from the media sectors.
Job Description:
· Be part of the core team in upholding quality and standards in the work delivered to the clients
· Proficient in English and Malay
· Possess a keen awareness of grammar rules (e.g. modals, tenses, conjunctions), idiomatic expressions and spelling in UK English language
· Meticulous and sharp in identifying spelling, grammar and formatting errors
· Produce English closed captions with breaks at appropriate words or pauses with the use of subtitling software
· Vet, proofread and/or edit final copies of work to ensure clients’ requirements are adhered to and deliver high quality captions
· Identify and correct spelling, punctuation and grammatical mistakes in scripts
· Improve the accuracy of the language in the captions without deviating substantially from the original content
· Identify local slangs, colloquial speech or informal words/sentences and restructure the sentences as required
· Manage ad-hoc projects which requires transcriptions or subtitles in Malay
· Manage freelancers and work with the rest of the captioning team to improve overall efficiency and quality of operations process
· Organise, refine and update subtitling house rules
· Assist and take part in any other learning opportunities, events and projects
· 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
Requirement:
· Fresh polytechnic graduate with a recognized diploma qualification (Background in language studies, translation and/or relevant work experience would be a plus)
Interested? Drop us your CV for the following role today!
For more information on the company, please visit www.captioncube.com.
Eligibility Requirements for Startup Talent Factory Programme:
1. Fresh local polytechnic graduate from any discipline*
2. Singapore Citizen / Permanent Resident
* A fresh polytechnic graduate is a candidate who has graduated from a local polytechnic within 3 years (from Nov 2017 onwards) of the Startup Talent Factory course start date (1 Nov 2020). As for NS men, you are required to have ORD-ed within 3 years of the course start date (1 Nov 2020).
Closing date: 23 October 2020 (Friday) Only eligible & shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Visit startuptalentfactory.sg for more information.