Translations Project Coordinator II - Portuguese Specialist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist • Boston, MA

12d • $66,108 - $85,941 • Remote

About The Position

This position arranges for the translation of materials involving a variety of languages and a wide variety of formats (including oral interpretation, for example). The Translations Project Coordinator works with a variety of clients and vendors to ensure that accurate translations occur. Translations Project Coordinators also participate actively in the Translations Group – a Board-mandated team established to consider translation issues and to propose standards and policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or its foreign equivalent, in language studies, linguistics, or translation studies or relevant specialized studies and/or experience in these fields.
• Fluency in one or more non-English languages is required - Portuguese required.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Adobe Acrobat, Gmail, Google docs and Internet skills are required.
• Strong aptitude for learning new software is required.
• Membership in The Mother Church and Primary Class instruction, and a thorough knowledge of Christian Science terminology and metaphysics are required.

Nice To Haves

• A Master’s degree is preferred.
• Three years of professional experience in coordinating and project management or in translating is preferred.
• Previous TMC/CSPS work experience a plus.
• Membership in the American Translators Association strongly encouraged.
• The ability to work with Macintosh systems, Asana and InCopy software is preferred.
• Past/present branch church experience is strongly encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Administers workflow: Prepares jobs for translation to send to vendors (freelance translators, reviewers, proofreaders, agencies), tracks and monitors their progress through to completion.
• Formats translations to be published per client request, whenever possible.
• Proofs final copy per client request and enters final payment.
• Helps regularly evaluate workflow processes and their effectiveness, and suggests adjustments as needed.
• Interacts with client departments: Involves OLS in translation and interpreting jobs from preliminary planning stages.
• Serves as liaison with clients, including consulting on how to best prepare and process each job and educating clients as to the nature of the translation work and cost/time options involved.
• Works to resolve translation and other issues between clients and translators, especially navigating correct translation of Christian Science concepts.
• Helps all departments of the organization to build consensus in finding the best terminology pertaining to TMC and CSPS.
• Prepares estimates at clients' request to meet their particular needs.
• Participates in and helps plan meetings to develop multilingual projects.
• Interacts with vendors: Works with translators, reviewers, proofreaders, interpreters, outside agencies.
• Researches terminology to find the best options to use for TMC and CSPS.
• Negotiates and resolves issues that arise during the translation process.
• Translations Group Member of the multi-departmental Translations Group (TG). Member contributes to work on translation issues from inception to completion.
• Participation in each meeting of the TG, and contribution in creating the agenda.
• Research and policy development: Researches translations issues, prepares background documents, and monitors policy development.
• Participates in setting the tone and shares responsibility for problem-solving, implementing vision for team, maintaining clarity of objectives, and establishing translation procedures.
• Assists in preparing bi-weekly reports to Accounting for vendor payments.
• Keeps abreast of changes in translation industry, including attending annual professional meetings, international summits and events and educational webinars or classes.
• Offers language support in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, 123Formbuilder, InCopy.

Benefits

• The pay ranges disclosed in our job postings are the compensation ranges the Church reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for a given position at the time of posting.
• The offered salary will be determined by factors such as the applicant’s relevant education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities; and benchmarking, work location, and internal equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level