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Translation and Transcribing (Spanish to English)

Details


1095753


UCL


28/04/2025


1 Month


Variable; part time 10 - 20 hours per week on average. (Exact number of hour per week has not been included as it's up to the candidate to decide how many hours they will complete each week within the assignment time frame.)


Not Applicable

Pay


£21.68


£4.06

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Translation and Transcribing (Spanish to English) role. This is a part-time role at around 10 - 20 hours per week. This role is for an April 28th start date and has a projected end date of May 31st 2025. Payment is set at £21.68 per hour + holiday pay. This role will be fully remote working from home.
 
The postholder will be part of a research team led by Prof. Ayona Datta (PI), for a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant - funded project, “Regional Futures: The territorial politics of digitalization-as-urbanisation in the global south”. 
 
The project is conducting research in peri-urban municipalities of three rapidly growing metropolitan regions. It examines how digitalisation produces new territories for metropolitan urbanisation and how state and non-state actors are assisting, contesting and disrupting these regional futures. The project builds new theories and detailed empirical evidence of urbanisation as both a product and a producer of the ‘information revolution’ in the global south.

Duties and responsibilities

The work involves translating and transcribing around 43 audio files of interviews in Spanish. The interviews are between 1-2 hrs each and include both interviewee and interviewer voices. The Interviewees are state officials in a Mexican city and some others are lawyers, professional consultants and experts (all speaking in Spanish). The interviewers speak mostly in Spanish and sometimes in English. Sometimes there are multiple voices. The final output will be required in English word doc. A detailed instruction sheet will be provided for the transcription/translation. AI enabled translation/Transcription will not be accepted.

For each hour of audio tape translated the post holder will be paid 4 hours at the rate quoted, pro-rated to minutes. The entire work must be completed by 31 May 2025. Although there is some flexibility in this deadline, the postholder will not be paid extra if the work takes more time to complete. The person will need to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement before commencing the task.

Skills and experience

  • The postholder must have Fluency in Spanish and English and experience in transcription and translation. 
  • They should have strong attention to detail and accuracy and preferably familiarity with human/digital geography themes.
  • They should also be open to feedback and revise the work to complete it to standards required. 
  • The candidate selection will be based on completing an English Translation from a 5 min audio sample in Spanish.

Location
UCL; fully remote working from home

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Wednesday April 23rd. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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