Translator📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Ajlan & Bros Holding is seeking a Translator to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves accurately translating written content and providing professional interpretation services between English and Arabic, ensuring the preservation of meaning, tone, context, and cultural nuances. The position supports various business functions, including corporate communications, human resources, legal, operations, and commercial activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate a variety of documents, including technical manuals, legal contracts, policies, websites, business correspondence, reports, presentations, and marketing materials from English to Arabic and vice versa.
• Ensure translations are accurate, clear, culturally appropriate, and aligned with the original meaning and intent.
• Review, edit, and proofread translated documents for consistency, quality, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and formatting.
• Conduct terminology research and maintain translation glossaries and terminology databases.
• Provide consecutive and simultaneous interpretation services during meetings, conferences, workshops, training sessions, and business discussions.
• Act as a language bridge between Arabic-speaking and English-speaking stakeholders, ensuring effective and accurate communication.
• Accompany executives, visitors, clients, and business partners during meetings and site visits when interpretation support is required.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive company information, contracts, employee records, and business communications.
• Collaborate with department leaders and project teams to meet language requirements effectively and on time.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Translation, Linguistics, Languages, Interpretation, or a related field.
• Professional certification from a recognized translation or interpretation organization (*, ATA, ITI, CIOL, NAATI) is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 to 10 years of professional experience in translation and interpretation.
• Demonstrated experience providing interpretation services in corporate, governmental, legal, or business environments.
• Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English with an exceptional understanding of linguistic and cultural nuances.
• Experience translating legal, HR, technical, commercial, and business documents.
• Expertise in at least one specialized field such as legal, technical, financial, medical, or governmental translation is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools such as SDL Trados, MemoQ, or Wordfast.

Required Skills

• Strong attention to detail with excellent proofreading and editing skills.
• Ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple assignments within tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, requiring close collaboration with various internal departments and external stakeholders to ensure effective communication across the organization.