Junior Linguist - Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa at Digital Divide Data

About the Program

• The localization industry is growing fast, and the need for skilled Yoruba, Igbo, and/or Hausa translators is growing.  We are looking for talents with great language skills in English, Yoruba, Igbo, and/or  Hausa, with the aim to equip them with the necessary competencies to build a career at Digital Divide Data in the exciting Localization industry.
• Our Transforming Talent program provides learning opportunities to multilingual people, who would like to learn how they can become professional translators.
• Digital Divide Data is offering you the opportunity to grow your career in localization starting with a 3-month Localization Fundamentals Learning Program, which will help you learn the basics of the localization industry.
• This learning program combines self-learning, virtual and online classes delivered by a professional trainer, and practice. It will take place in Kano, Nigeria. Once the 3 months training is complete, you will start translating live projects within a dynamic team of linguists supported by localization professionals.

What You Will Do
The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role once the 3-month training will be completed:

• Perform mostly IT-themed and consumer-oriented translations in the client-owned translation tool
• Translate various types of content, including marketing, help, and UI
• Master or learn the tools associated with translation work (e.g. tools for creating queries or checking the live UI elements)
• Precisely follow the established translation process, e.g. always raise queries when there is a need to
• Learn the style guide and overall client’s requirements, e.g. stylistic preferences
• Improve based on the corrections made by the senior team members as well as the client reviewers
• Keep track of personal error statistics and work on the weak spots
• Take part in the internal training and the ones organized by the client
• Participate in the error arbitration process
• Meet the productivity KPIs
• Take part in the internal quality meetings and the quality calls organized by the client for the whole team
• Constantly analyze own gaps and think of what assistance the senior members and the client can provide to help address those

Qualifications

• University Degree preferably in Linguistics, Journalism or Mass Communication
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken, in a wide range of registers)
• Fluent in Yoruba, Igbo, and/ or Hausa (with an understanding of what conversational and easy-to-read Yoruba, Igbo, and/or Hausa is, plus excellent spelling and grammar of standard Yoruba, Igbo, and/or  Hausa)
• Passion for languages, specifically in English, Yoruba, Igbo, and/or Hausa
• Passion for the world of technology
• Passion for reading and writing in Yoruba, Igbo, and/ or Hausa, creative writing, poetry.