EN/FR Translator

Location: Hybrid, Canada

Company

The hirify.global is a not-for-profit organization supporting people and communities in Canada and around the world during times of need and helping strengthen resilience.

What you will do

• Translate general and specialized content between English and French while preserving meaning, intent, tone, style, and cultural nuance.
• Collaborate with internal clients, subject matter experts, and translators to clarify requirements, validate terminology, and ensure accuracy.
• Create and maintain terminology databases and client-specific glossaries through research and consultations.
• Edit and proofread internal and external translations against quality, terminology, style, and brand standards.
• Use translation memories, terminology databases, CAT tools, and machine translation with appropriate post-editing while protecting confidentiality.
• Provide language and cultural guidance, manage multiple assignments, and meet productivity, quality, and turnaround-time expectations.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of relevant work experience and a 3-year college diploma or university degree in translation or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Expert proficiency in both English and French, with excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to recognize nuances, meaning, tone, style, cultural subtleties, and idioms and tailor translations to the intended audience.
• Experience with CAT tools such as Phrase, Trados, memoQ, Smartcat, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and SharePoint.
• Strong attention to detail, quality focus, workload prioritization, deadline management, confidentiality, discretion, diplomacy, empathy, and communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to frequent and urgent priority changes, make decisions under pressure, handle dissatisfied clients, and resolve complex client issues.
• Willingness to participate in a rotating on-call schedule and respond during unusual hours, including evenings or weekends, when supporting emergency responses.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada. Selected candidates must successfully complete pre-employment screening, including a satisfactory Enhanced Police Information Check (E-PIC).

Nice to have

• Professional accreditation such as OTTIAQ, ATIO, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of inclusive writing and plain-language principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.
• Office-like working setting with significant concentration and mental processing requirements.
• Unpredictable work pace, time pressure, and potential long hours during emergency responses.
• Work involves supporting managers, colleagues, beneficiaries, customers, volunteers, donors, external partners, and communities in Canada and around the world.