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Overview
Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Experts specialized in football with exceptional writing skills to join our localization team. You’ll review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt football-related content so it resonates with audiences in your market.
Project Details
Language Pair: English (US) → Dutch (Netherlands)
Task Type: Quality Control, Translation, Copy Edit, MTPE
Assessment: Grammar + SME knowledge
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 in your market
Provide feedback on written content
Required Skills
BS/BA and/or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or in 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 the target language
Excellent grammar and writing skills in the native language
Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in the native language
Tech savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers and mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets
Owning licensed version of MS Office apps
Ability to work independently and remotely
Bonus If You Have
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.