Linguist Translators- Krio / Luganda / Lingala at Digital Divide Data (DDD Kenya)

Our Transforming Talent program provides learning opportunities to multilingual people, who will be leading the in-country team of linguists, facing clients, and owning the quality of his/her language.

Job Description

• Perform mostly translations in the client-owned translation tool
• Translate various types of content, including marketing, help and UI
• Master or learn the tools associated with translation work (e.g. tools for creating queries or checking the live UI elements)
• Precisely follow the established translation process, e.g. always raise queries when there is a need to
• Learn the style guide and overall client’s requirements, e.g. stylistic preferences
• Improve based on the corrections made by the senior team members as well as the client reviewers
• Keep track of personal error statistics and work on the weak spot
• Take part in the internal trainings and the ones organized by the client
• Participate in the error arbitration process
• Meet the productivity KPIs

Qualifications

• University degree preferably in Linguistics, Journalism or Mass Communication
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken, in a wide range of registers)
• Fluent in the local language of translation (with an understanding of what the conversational and easy-to-read is, plus excellent spelling and grammar of standard  Krio/Luganda /Lingala
• Passion for languages, specifically in English / Krio- kri t / Luganda (lg)/ Lingala (ln)
• Passion for the world of technology
• Passion for reading and writing in Hausa, creative writing, poetry
• Should complete the application on the link provided below