Job Title: Translation Administrative Coordinator

We are looking for a Translation Administrative Coordinator for our Romanian Language Office to perform a variety of administrative and coordination functions to support the Translation and Resourcing teams making sure they are able to deliver high quality results.

If you think of yourself as someone with experience in the translation industry, strong communication and high coordination skills, able to ensure effective resourcing for different translation projects, this opportunity is for you!

The contract is a full-time one (8 hours/day, 5 days a week) and the position is fully 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

 

• Responsibilities:

- Contacts freelance translators using the SDL vendor database to staff translation projects.

- Communicates with manager and/or team on status of requests in a timely fashion.

- Ensures a high level of accuracy in the vendor database by ensuring Supply Chain update essential information (e.g., booking information, availability, contact info, skills, rates/discounts, performance history.)

- Supports project activities such as file analysis and preparation, sending prepared information to freelance translators.

- Delivers Quality, Value, and Results – Ensures qualified resources are identified by clarifying requirements for resources up front (e.g., specific skills, profile, availability.

- Monitors schedules of freelancers and alerts manager/team of potential resourcing conflicts (e.g., holidays, vacations.)

- Highlights new resources and performance histories/skills to team in order to identify the best resource for the project.

- Actively learns about processes, policies and tools (e.g., vendor database) in order to perform his/her work efficiently and effectively.

- Learns strategies to identify the best resources for projects (e.g., understanding skills, search/selection techniques, resource planning.)

- Builds strong relationships with team members by demonstrating strong communication skills (e.g., clarifying requirements, providing timely updates.)

- Works collaboratively with the Supply Chain team to ensure updates to the database. Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism when working with external vendors and freelancers.

 

• Requirements:

- Romanian native speaker

- Good command of English (additional language is a plus!) 

- Degree in English/Romanian philology or equivalent

- Working experience with translation tools

- Strong organizational skills and attention to details

 

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.

 

Thank you very much for your interest. I am looking forward to receiving your application.

For any questions related to recruitment, please do not hesitate to contact Maru Ballesteros (mballesteros@rws.com)

 

*Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we will only be able to reply to the shortlisted candidates.