Project Assistant required

  • Part-time

Company Description

Appen develops high quality speech and language technology solutions namely used in car navigation systems, mobile phones, word processing packages, directory assistance, speaker verification tools and hand-held machine translation devices. Our staff comprises Linguists, IT professionals and Project Managers who collaborate to produce quality work in over 100 different languages for many of the world’s leading companies.

Job Description

Project:
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Duration: Approximately  6 weeks depending on the progress of the project
- Payment: AUD$24.66 p/h incl. superannuation. Negotiable in the case of candidates with exceptional experience⁄qualifications in translation or linguistics.

The work will involve assisting in the management and supervision of a project classifying bad words in various languages.
- The role will involve communicating with a team of freelancers (2-3 native speakers per language) to deliver a set of 'Badwords list' projects correctly and timely.
- The person needs to handle massive amount of communication with remote participants.
We’re looking for a switched-on, well-organised person in Sydney.

Requirements:
Project Information:
The successful candidate would be able to work full-time, Monday to Friday during business hours at our Chatswood office.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Good working knowledge of English
- Efficiency and attention to detail
- Good computer and typing skills, and experience with Microsoft Excel
- Australian work rights

How to apply:
Please use the below link to apply:

https://erec.appen.com/sap/bc/erecruiting/posting_apply?param=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9MDA1MDU2ODA3Qjk5MUVFNUJGRUYzMUI5RjI4OTgwQjkmY2FuZF90eXBlPQ%3d%3d&sap-client=300


Qualifications

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
-Translation/linguistic experience or background