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Translation & Language QA Lead
Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative (AIDHealth Inc.)
About this role
Role involves leading translation and language quality assurance for Hausa-English content at a humanitarian health organisation. It targets a native Hausa speaker with substantial experience in translation, especially in research or media contexts.
What you would do
- Build and maintain the bilingual Hausa-English project termbase.
- Review quotes in deliverables for accuracy, tone and register.
- Run blind back-translation on a sample of quotes and on priority alerts to achieve 95% meaning equivalence.
- Transliterate Ajami content into Boko before translation and add cultural notes.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Linguistics, Translation, Hausa Studies or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional Hausa-English translation experience, ideally for research or media.
- Native Hausa speaker with excellent written English.
- Preferred: Ajami literacy.
- Experience in translation work on gender, health or religious content.
- Precision and cultural sensitivity; ability to meet tight review deadlines.
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