Turnitin is your partner in education with integrity. Turnitin’s originality checking and authorship investigation services ensure academic integrity, promote critical thinking, and help students improve their authentic writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K., Utrecht, Netherlands, Melbourne, Australia, Seoul, Korea and throughout Latin America.

We are searching for people who demonstrate a passion for education and technology, are collaborative and entrepreneurial in spirit, and who can contribute to our continuing success and growth. In return, Turnitin offers a great benefits package and provides challenging and inspiring work.

Overview:

The Localisation Coordinator will support every stage of the localisation process within the APAC timezone. Overseeing translators, editors, designers, developers and proofreaders to keep requests and projects on track and on budget. Partnering with Localisation Project Manager to prioritize projects, continuously improve the asset library and localisation processes with internal and external partners. 
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Localisation Project Manager to identify priority items to localize.
• Preparing glossaries and briefs for the translators
• Responsible for overseeing and project managing localisation vendors and proofreaders to ensure we deliver on time and on budget.
• Implement internal processes regarding onboarding, localisation processes and management, proofreading and use tools efficiently to save on admin tasks. 
• Conduct translation reviews and audits, eliciting feedback and taking steps to rectify any bad or poor translations. 
• Maintain localisation quality control and work with internal teams to drive high quality output from localisation vendors across all languages. Ensuring they keep on top of our product knowledge and strategies.
• Execute on the agreed localization budget for your projects managing delivery time and quality.  
• Acting as the go-to contact for advice concerning company standards and processes, within the context of localization. 
• Work with official internal proofreaders and provide them with training and tools so they can save time supporting Marketing, pes, sales and ops.
• Build and maintain a network within the company to stay informed of developments relevant to the Marketing Strategy and products. 
• Maintain Translation Memory and content glossaries as required.
• Actively progress in personal development.

Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge / Experience:

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Knowledge of CRM systems

Desirable

• Familiarity with technology products in the Education environment considered a plus 
• Experience managing translation projects for Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese or Malay.
• Ability to develop processes and document them in an easily understandable and consumable format
• Ability to develop and deliver training

Personal attributes

• Personable / Approachable
• Attention to detail
• Assertive
• Process driven
• Organised
• Flexible
• Committed
• High degree of personal ownership
• Entrepreneurial
• Self-motivated with the proven Ability to work independently.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Equality Statement

Turnitin LLC and all related Group and Subsidiary Companies are committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to it programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veterans status.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.
• Accountability- Holds oneself responsible for required actions, and ensures that team members/colleagues/ peers also own responsibility for their designated tasks while meeting collective team and company goals. All in service of creating a high performing environment
• Collaboration & Influencing- Effectively communicates and cooperates with peers, partners, leaders & customers to achieve outcomes. Builds relationships and creates an environment wherein people can naturally work together for the good of the company and our customers.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfil 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!  

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veterans status, domestic partner status, AIDS or HIV status, height, weight, or association with members of a protected class.