Job Title: English Editor

Location: Sheffield, England or Remote

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

RWS Division:

Language Services - recognised as the world’s largest Language Service Provider – helps customers to create, translate, and deliver content across 250+ languages. Our global team of linguists, project managers, subject matter experts and localization professionals work closely with customers to ensure their communications and multilingual content is compelling, accurate and consistent.

 

About The Role:

Do you have excellent English-language skills? Do you have an eye for detail and a passion for grammar? Can you deliver high-quality English across different content types and for a variety of target audiences? Then our English Editor is for you! you will be responsible for delivering a range of projects on time and within budget for our clients.

 

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing a variety of text types in various flavours of English to check spelling, grammar, clarity and style
• Localising texts between different flavours of English
• Transcribing English videos and audio files
• Linguistic checking of files in their final format
• Adhering to style guides
• Working with clients, reviewers and project managers
• Understanding and following SDL’s linguistic processes and procedures
• Managing terminology effectively
• Using translation tools
• Managing your time effectively

 

Requirements:

• A degree in English language/linguistics
• An outstanding grasp of English spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Exceptional proofreading skills and attention to detail
• Good written/verbal communication

• The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Flexibility and a can-do attitude
• Ambition and a desire to learn and progress
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• You must be a native English speaker

 

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 
 

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 
 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

 

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void