English Editor - Cape Town, South Africa - Bell's Consulting

Bell's Consulting
Bell's Consulting
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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English Editors (Trainees)


Be part of building innovative solutions to service our media and entertainment clients and help us meet their content distribution needs.

Join us if you're passionate about entertainment, innovation and customer service excellence


About the job:

Shifts:
We are hiring for English Editors to works as follows:
Tuesday
  • Saturday & Sunday
- Thursday (5X8 hour shifts)

  • Day shift
  • Swing shift
  • Night shift


  • Wednesday

  • Saturday & Sunday


  • Wednesday
(4X10 hour shifts)

  • Day shift
  • Swing shift
  • Night shift

Requirements:


  • Responsible for creation of English closed captions, SDH, English templates, Transcripts and dialogue list scripts.
  • Annotate key English phrases to high quality of our translation products.
  • Maintain quality standards for accuracy and speed.
  • Must be punctual, dependable and flexible, and possess a team attitude and willingness to adapt to lastminute changes to programming and industry.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Degree or Diploma in preferably in English, Journalism, Language, Linguistics or Entertainment and Media.
  • Knowledge of professional scripting, subtitling, and audio software is highly desirable but not a requirement we will train you from the ground up
  • Comfortable with computers, Microsoft Office and using different software.
  • Excellent reading skills, spelling/vocabulary and grammar.
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks while focusing on a high amount of attention to detail.
  • Ability to perform under pressure with changing priorities.

Testing process

Training


Successful editors will be given training by our experienced team and approved by a specialist before beginning work on live projects.

Once we have established the groundwork through a probation period, permanent positions will be made available to all editors able to meet the performance requirements.

Training takes roughly 8 weeks, with a further 4-8 weeks of live work before being considered fully trained.


Salary:
From R12,500.00 per month


Education:


  • Diploma (required)

Experience:

- editing, proofreading: 1 year (required)

Application Deadline: 2023/04/03

Expected Start Date: 2023/04/10

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