Media Across Borders symposium, Roehampton, 9 June 2012

Readers interested in audiovisual and related forms of translation might like to know about this event taking place at Roehampton on 9 July 2012:

Media Across Borders: 

The First International Conference on the  Localisation of Film, Television and Video Games

This is the launch conference of the AHRC-funded Media Across Borders network. The programme looks extremely interesting; it brings together film and media scholars and translation scholars, and it includes round table discussion as well as conventional papers.Topics include games localisation, remakes, adaptation, social media and subtitling.

The conference fee is £15 for students and £30 for non-students.

games translators (DE and FR mother tongue)

Just received from Miguel Bernal at Roehampton: 

Universally Speaking is looking for German and French mother tongue translators with an interest in video games and interactive media.More information at http://www.usspeaking.com/jobs.asp. You can write directly to Loreto LSanzFueyo at usspeaking.com with your CV for further details.

in-house positions

I've seen a few interesting-looking jobs advertised round recently, mostly due to Uwe Muegge, who apparently never sleeps... :) See also retweets at http://twitter.com/#!/MATSnews.

In order of increasing distance from Portsmouth:

There's a company in Buckinghamshire looking for a biochemistry graduate with excellent German and native English for an in-house job with full training given.

LTC in Kingston-on-Thames is looking for a German to English translator for a full-time permanent in-house position. A company in London is looking for a French native speaker translating from English or German. Xerox in Welwyn Garden City are also looking for a French native speaker for a 12-month temporary contract.

Amazon's Seller Help and Education are hiring a project manager to look after localization and translation, based in Cork. Also in Ireland, Google is looking for a localization product team lead in Dublin.

SAP are hiring an English to German translator for a temporary full-time position in their Finance and Insurance department in Walldorf, Germany. Transline in Reutlingen, Germany, are hiring a German to English technical translator.

Amazon.eu in Luxembourg are also hiring in-house translators, native speakers of French, English or German, to contribute to the expansion of product selection on their European websites. Appointed candidates will be responsible for: 

    * Download of product detail page information from internal Amazon systems
    * Use of CAT tools to generate translation
    * Translate according to specific guidelines to make it in-line with Amazon's internal standards for product detail pages
    * Upload product content using internal Amazon tools
    * Work in close contact with country-specific product departments
    * Contribute to the overall efficiency of the translation process with suggestions for improvement
    * Take ownership of specific tasks within the translation team

[Syntactic apologies; I spent a few minutes trying to design a main clause that could govern all those bullet points but had to give up - Ed.]. 

It's a 1-year contract with a possibility of extension based on performance. See all Amazon job openings on http://amazon.co.uk/careers. Please indicate the language pairs you are able to provide translation for (source / target language).

Qualifications:

    * Native speaker in at least one of the following languages: French, English, or German
    * Translation degree or at least 2 years of experience in the translation field
    * Strong writing and editorial skills
    * Ability to work under time pressure
    * Goal oriented and able to meet performance metrics for output and quality
    * Strong focus on details, accurate
    * Professional attitude, enhanced team spirit 

People who are interested in shoes will have a competitive edge [only partly joking here - Ed.].

Blizzard Entertaiment in France are hiring an English to Castilian Spanish games localiser. No mention of shoes here but a passion for heroic fantasy is a plus. Blizzard Entertainment also have an interesting-looking internship programme though there is no explicit mention of translation/localisation.

Amazon are hiring a technical writer for the Kindle team in Seattle. 

Twitter are hiring a 'community manager' based in San Francisco to work with their volunteer translators. 

A couple of jobs in Japan for Japanese to English translators and proofreaders here (part-time post) and here.

As always, no recommendation is made in respect of any of these companies, which aren't personally known to me (except Twitter. And Amazon I suppose. And, er, Google...). Good luck to any readers who apply!

jobs in games localisation

For any enthusiastic gamers reading this blog, Testronic Laboratories in the UK are advertising for localisation game testers with a wide range of languages (must be native speakers): German, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese, Brazilian Mexican (a new one on me - possibly Brazilian Portuguese and Mexican Spanish? or has gaming in the Americas developed interesting new transnational articulations??), Czech, Polish and Japanese. They are also looking for a Japanese translation lead technician.