English into Japanese Medical Translators (Remote)

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize 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. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Welocalize is looking for English into Japanese freelance translator and proofreader with experience in the field of Life Sciences for an ongoing translation and proofreading project for multiple leading pharmaceutical providers.

This is an on-going freelance and remote position with an expected weekly words volume of 5k. No minimum volume capacity is required as we are happy to collaborate together depending on your availability.

Job Title: English into Japanese Medical Translator

Location: Remote

Expected Volume: +5000 words per week

Start date: ASAP

Employment Type: Freelance/Independent Contract

Task type: Translation, Copy Edit, MTPE

Content types: Investigator-facing, patient-facing and pharmacy

CAT Tool: XTM

Main Duties

• Translate and edit content from English into Japanese with original meaning conveyed in a manner that is readable and understandable to target audience.  
• Content types: Investigator-facing, patient-facing and pharmacy
• CAT Tool: working with "XTM, Phrase". Welocalize will provide the credentials without any cost.

Required Skills

• Minimum 2 years' experience translating and editing content in the specified subject matter;
• Proficient in all areas of expertise: Investigator-facing, patient-facing and pharmacy
• Excellent communications skills in Japanese and English;
• Degree in linguistics, translation or equivalent experiencer;
• Able to communicate effectively the rationale behind their translation skills;
• Able to both translate and copy edit.