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Literary Translator (Intern/Trainee)

Job Title	Literary Translator (Intern/Trainee)
Employer	Poetic
Adress: Country	Nepal
Address: City	Jawlakhel
Work type	Flexible
Expected Salary	168829 NPR
Posting Date	Tue Jun 10 2025
End Date	Sun Jun 29 2025

Description:

We’re looking for a motivated Translator Trainee to join our team and help bridge the gap between languages in digital environments. You’ll help translate documents, website content, emails, subtitles, and short-form materials between two or more languages. We’ll teach you how to keep translations short, consistent, and intuitive — so they fit design without losing clarity. We’ll guide you through the process of maintaining consistent tone, voice, and terminology across projects. Expect to work on YouTube videos, interviews, podcasts, courses, and short-form content that needs to be understood across languages. Expect to work with localization tools and learn how strings, keys, and placeholders are handled in modern software. We’ll guide you through character limits, subtitle rhythm, line breaks, and how to keep things readable on screen. You’ll also gain experience adjusting tone, catching cultural references, and translating jokes, idioms, and metaphors accurately. You’ll gain editing skills by comparing source and target versions side by side and spotting gaps in meaning or tone.

Basic Qualifications:

• Translate written materials from one language to another while preserving tone, meaning, and context.
• Translate captions, UI elements, documents, and everything in between as needed.
• Review and revise translations to ensure clarity, accuracy, and flow.
• Maintain consistency in terminology, style, and tone across large or recurring projects.
• Follow client or brand guidelines to ensure translations align with tone and voice.

Preferred:

• Interested in ongoing language development and staying updated with industry trends.
• Values precision, cultural sensitivity, and consistency in every translation project.
• Open to collaboration with editors, project managers, or localization engineers.
• Comfortable working with bilingual spreadsheets, PDF files, or CMS exports and re-imports.
• Wants to grow into roles like Localization Specialist, Copy Editor, or Multilingual Content Manager.

Benefits:

• You’ll handle content that travels across borders — websites, books, apps, subtitles, legal docs.
• You’ll work with meaning, not just words — tone, nuance, emotion all matter.
• Respectful project managers who plan ahead — no chaos, no ghosting, no guilt-tripping.
• Recognition for quality, punctuality, and style — not just speed.
• We don’t treat you like a machine — we know what human translation brings.

We’ll introduce you to concepts like context-aware translation, internationalization constraints, and space limits. You don’t need to be technical — but you’ll learn how interface copy connects to design, logic, and code. You’ll also help improve existing translations, fix awkward phrasing, and bring more humanity into digital interactions. This is perfect for detail-oriented bilinguals who care about tone, space, and making tech feel native everywhere. We value clarity, emotion, and accuracy — and we’ll teach you how to balance all three in translation. We’ll support you with reviews, reference materials, and walkthroughs from experienced localization specialists. You’ll leave this role with sharper language instincts and the experience to take on freelance or agency projects. If you’re ready to learn the art of clear, human, high-quality translation — we’re ready to train you.