About this role
Translation & Language QA Lead
Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative aka (AIDHealth Inc.) is a non-religious, not-for-profit organization officially registered with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2024. AIDHealth was founded by a visionary coalition of Nigerian healthcare professionals, public health experts, development practitioners, and diaspora leaders...
Translation & Language QA Lead
- Job Type Remote
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 5 years
- Location Nigeria
- Job Field Art / Crafts / Languages
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the bilingual Hausa–English project termbase.
- Review every quote used in a deliverable for accuracy, tone and register.
- Run blind back-translation on a sample of quotes, and on all quotes used in priority alerts, against a target of 95% meaning equivalence.
- Transliterate Ajami content into Boko before translation and add cultural notes.
Requirements
- 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 experience:
- Ajami literacy.
- Translation work on gender, health or religious content.
Skills and attributes:
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Precision and cultural sensitivity in translation.
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Ability to work to tight review deadlines
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