About this role
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
• Evaluates the quality of translation work completed by internal and external translation providers. Continually confirms that translations meet the standards established by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve by the means of thorough linguistic quality analysis. Provides training regarding the policies and practice of translation, with special reference to the scriptures, temple, and music materials for the Church. Seeks feedback from native-speaking members to certify language acceptability. • Engages with external and internal translation providers for the purposes of recruitment, onboarding, training, relationship management, and performance management. Develops skilled translation providers who will later be overseen by area translation leadership after scripture translation is completed. Supervises and ensures progress for all translation work for the assigned languages and projects, including organizing work amongst internal and external translation providers, and providing direction to ensure timely completion of jobs. Typically supervises the work of up to 6 separate translation teams, plus up to 6 ecclesiastical review teams–the equivalent of 6 languages. • Develops and maintains linguistic tools and resources for assigned languages, including key terminology, translation memories, and translation style guides. Acts as a linguistic or cultural consultant for each assigned language. • Although acting independently in standard supervision and project work, seeks and receives the guidance and mentoring of a more experienced sacred materials translation supervisor in applying internal policy, process, and linguistic resources, and in verifying translation quality against internal standards. • Performs in-office and in-country research regarding language usage and conventions. Establishes linguistic and translation standards for use by translation teams as the Church matures and additional materials are translated. • Coordinates resolution of financial, technical, and legal needs for contract and volunteer team members in the assigned languages, including recruitment, onboarding, executive committee approvals, conflict resolution, etc. When this role supervises the work of other employees, it contributes to performance reviews, but does not have responsibility for hiring, recruiting, performance ratings, etc.—these functions are performed by the manager. • Performs other duties as assigned by the manager. • Non-responsibilities – Responsibilities of this role do not include:Translating documents. Overseeing projects not of a sacred or critical nature.
• 8 years of any combination of related experience or progress towards or completion of a relevant university (post-secondary) degree or an industry-recognized certification in translation, linguistics, or a related field, to include:4 years of experience in translation, linguistics, or a related field, including supervising the work of others, preferably translation teams. • Proven skills in public speaking, interpersonal communication, team leadership, coaching, time management, project management, problem solving, and the ability to work under pressure. • Ability to exemplify a compassionate leadership style. • Native-level proficiency in spoken and written English and the candidate’s native language, along with working knowledge of one additional language, including its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and syntax. • Ability to gain working knowledge of additional languages, as needed. • Capability to translate well in at least one language pair. • Sound understanding of Church doctrine, policies, and ecclesiastical organization. • Sound understanding of ancient and modern scripture. • Solid knowledge of linguistic theory. • Understanding of and ability to identify literary figures and devices. • Broad knowledge of countries, history, culture, current events, customs, and values in the countries associated with the languages being translated. • Ability to navigate through translation and business management tools, web interfaces, reading briefs, and instructions, including entering data and downloading and uploading files. • Ability to provide basic technical support to translation and business management systems users. • Strong computer skills, including proficiency with operating systems and Microsoft Office. • Knowledge of computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools preferred. • Ability to travel internationally multiple times a year.