Sports Subject Matter Expert (Football) – Localization & Translation (English to Arabic)
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Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Experts specialized in football with exceptional writing skills to join their localization team.
You’ll review, localize, fact-check, translate, and adapt football-related content so it resonates with audiences in your market.
Main Duties:
- Review, localize, fact-check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, mainly football, while adhering to writing style guides and guidelines.
- Conduct market-specific research on local content, product, and terminology trends, and best localization practices for the target audience.
- Provide feedback on written content.
Required Skills:
- BS/BA and/or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing.
- Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football.
- Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content, preferably also machine translations and evaluations.
- Native-level fluency in Arabic (Saudi Arabia - ar-SA).
- Excellent grammar and writing skills in English (US).
- Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in English.
- Tech-savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers, mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets.
- Owning a licensed version of MS Office apps.
- Ability to work independently and remotely.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar.
- Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services.
- A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences.
Expected workload: 2,000 to 5,000 words per week. Assessment will focus on grammar and sports knowledge.
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