Strategic Agenda specializes in helping the international development sector get their message across in any language.

We're growing rapidly and are looking for a Translation Project Manager to manage multilingual translation projects.

A typical day might involve finding high quality translators to translate a guide on nuclear disarmament into Wolof or liaising with designers on the layout of a report on the aftermath of the Ebola crisis.

-   Managing translation projects: setting up projects, assigning tasks, ensuring timely delivery

-   Client management: liaising with clients on translation projects, billing

-   Quality assurance: working with our editors to ensure that translations meet our exacting standards

-   Competitive salary and bonus

-   Good working environment

-   Ability to work from home 1 day a week and to occasionally work from abroad 

-   Opportunities for career development

-   Language learning support

-   Methodical, accurate and highly organized

-   Ability to work under pressure through effective multitasking

-   Mature and responsible and ability to work independently

-   Exceptional attention to detail

-   Effective and confident communicator

-   Creative problem solver

-   Proficient user of CAT tools and ideally memoq / Trados

-   Fluency in written and spoken English

-   At least 1 year of experience as a translation project manager working for a translation agency or corporate language department or NGO

-   Fluency in at least a second language, ideally, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian or Chinese

-   A positive attitude and sense of humour :-)

-   Experience of working with InDesign

-   Excellent knowledge of a third language