Job Description: English into French Translator & Proofreader (Life Sciences)

Position Overview

Welocalize is seeking an experienced English into French freelance translator and proofreader with a specialization in the Life Sciences field. This is an ongoing, remote position for a project involving multiple leading pharmaceutical providers. The primary focus will be on translating and proofreading investigator-facing, patient-facing, and pharmacy-related documents.

Project Details

• Location: Remote
• Expected Volume: 2,000 to 5,000 words per week
• Start Date: ASAP
• Employment Type: Freelance/Independent Contract
• Task Type: Translation, Proofreading, and Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE)
• Content Types: Investigator-facing, Patient-facing, and Pharmacy documents
• CAT Tool: XTM

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Minimum of two years' experience translating and copyediting content in the following subject matter areas:
  • Investigator-facing material
  • Patient-facing material
  • Pharmacy material
• Excellent knowledge of both English and French languages.
• Proven experience using CAT tools.
• Educational Background:
  • Translation degree; OR
  • If another degree, a minimum of 2 years of translation experience; OR
  • If no degree, a minimum of 5 years of translation experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate and proofread English source content into French for investigator-facing, patient-facing, and pharmacy documents.
• Ensure accuracy, clarity, and cultural appropriateness of translated content.
• Utilize CAT tools effectively for translation and quality assurance.
• Adhere to project-specific guidelines and terminology.

Company Information

Welocalize is a trusted global transformation partner that accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them.

Learn more at: www.welocalize.com

Application Instructions

If you are interested in this ongoing freelance opportunity, please apply to this job posting.

Additional Notes

This is an ongoing collaboration, offering the potential to be involved in more projects and grow your collaboration with Welocalize over time. This is just one of many interesting projects available for English into French linguists. No minimum volume capacity is required, as we are happy to collaborate based on your availability.