Publishing and Localization Project Coordinator (Localization)

Location: Cardiff, UK or The Hague, Netherlands. Hybrid working, with 1 day per week onsite preferred; other 20-hour working patterns may be considered.

Salary: £21,763–£27,204 or €28,738–€35,922 for 20 hours per week, negotiable depending on experience; full-time equivalent ranges are £40,806–£51,007 and €57,475–€71,844.

Company

The hirify.global provides educational services and multilingual documents to more than 6,000 schools across 160 countries.

What you will do

• Organize collaborative team meetings and define the scope of publishing, translation, and localization projects.
• Gather and analyze stakeholder and computer-assisted translation information, providing advice on translatability, cultural sensitivity, and language policy.
• Develop project approaches, plan milestones, commission tasks, manage risks, and build timeline buffers.
• Monitor delivery, coordinate queries, report delays, and renegotiate deadlines when required.
• Track forecast and actual costs, process freelance invoices, and identify budget discrepancies.
• Support content authoring departments with publishing and translation planning, status reporting, service-level agreements, version control, project closure, translation memories, and project reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in translation management, languages, or a related field.
• More than four years of experience coordinating translation projects, including some professional translation experience.
• Excellent command of English; professional command of French and/or Spanish is desirable.
• Practical experience using computer-assisted translation tools.
• Confident use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and the ability to work with a range of software packages.
• Excellent communication, time-management, organizational, prioritization, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently in a global environment.
• Sensitivity to cultural, language, and social differences.

Culture & Benefits

• Fixed-term, part-time role until 30 June 2028, working 20 hours per week.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working patterns; core hours are 10am–12pm and 2pm–3pm for UK employees, and 10am–3:30pm for Netherlands employees.
• UK benefits include a flexible benefits allowance, 10% employer pension contribution, family-friendly benefits, annual leave, life assurance, volunteering leave, and professional development.
• Netherlands benefits include relocation support and work permit sponsorship, a flexible benefits allowance, annual leave, pension and insurance benefits, bicycle scheme, travel and work-from-home allowance, health insurance allowance, and professional development.
• Respectful, diverse, compassionate, and equal-opportunity working environment.

Hiring process

• Applications close at 23:55 GMT on 10 November.