Productive Playhouse Hiring for Amharic to English Translator at Remote Full Time

Join Productive Playhouse as an Amharic to English Translator

Productive Playhouse is seeking Amharic to English translators to participate in a large-scale translation project with short turnaround times.

We are looking for translators and interpreters with near-expert knowledge of English and solid experience either in consecutive translation or written translation with short turnaround times. The candidates must have solid English grammar skills and must be able to follow a set of given format guidelines to produce the end document.

What We Do:

Productive Playhouse offers extensive language services, including transcription, translation, and audio collection in a wide variety of languages around the world. We have been expanding our client roster and the services we provide and now need to expand staff in many areas.

Some details about the work itself:

This project consists of translating videos from Amharic to English with between 6 to 24-hour turn-around times. Start times may vary, including overnight if you are overseas. Videos may contain sensitive content and employees may opt out from translating/watching at any time.

Project volumes will vary, and we are not able to guarantee a minimum amount of work. As part of this team, you would indicate your availability for certain times, during which you may receive a request for work. We expect to have a number of different assignments over the coming months, and we hope you’ll consider becoming part of our special projects team!

Benefits:

• Paid training
• Ability to work remotely
• Competitive pay: $32 per hour

Requirements:

• Professional translation and interpretation experience strongly preferred
• Solid computer / Internet skills
• Solid grammar/orthography and punctuation of the English language. You will be required to take a test
• Responsiveness/access to email
• Web search skills
• Ability to onboard within two weeks
• If you are located in the US, these are the states that we currently cannot hire from: Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Please submit your resume to [email protected]

Productive Playhouse is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Productive Playhouse prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Productive Playhouse conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary

Pay: $32.00 per hour

Schedule:

• On call

Application Question(s):

• We cannot guarantee or provide an estimated workload for this role. Workload is determined by project needs. With this in consideration, would you still like to apply?

Experience:

• Translation: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• Amharic (Required)

License/Certification:

• understanding that we only connect @productiveplayhouse.com (Required)

Work Location: Remote