Spanish Digital Translations Associate

Who We Are:

Zearn is the nonprofit educational organization behind Zearn Math, the top-rated math learning platform used by 1 in 4 elementary-school and more than 1 million middle-school students nationwide. Zearn Math supports teachers with research-backed curriculum and digital lessons proven to double the learning gains of a typical year of instruction. Our instructional materials – including 450+ hours of digital math learning – are free for teachers and families. Zearn also offers school and district- and statewide licenses and professional development to support implementation.

Everything Zearn does is driven by the belief that every kid can be a math kid. Learn more about us at https://about.zearn.org/.

We are looking for a talented, multi-tasking Spanish Digital Translations Associate who has experience translating instructional content and a passion for making education accessible to every student.

In your role, you will support the Spanish Translations Manager in executing high-quality Spanish translations of all our digital lessons. This role is part of our new Customizations team, tasked with ensuring high-quality Spanish digital lessons that will meet the needs of multilingual learners in U.S. classrooms. The core team includes: our Spanish Translations Manager, Spanish Video Production Manager (who ensures high-quality production of Spanish digital lessons), Spanish Operations Manager (who leads our Content Management System work), and our State Program Manager (who leads project management).

What This Role Will Do:

• Help the team achieve customization goals on time
  • Assist in maintaining Spanish translations calendar, understanding intermediate and milestone deadlines, mobilizing resources accordingly
  • Ensure daily operations run smoothly
• Prepare digital lessons for Spanish translation
  • Assist Spanish Translation Manager and external translation vendor in maintaining and updating Spanish Translation Style Guide and Master Glossary, among other translation reference tools, taking into account the needs of K-8 students
  • Ensure that the most up-to-date English source files are ready for Spanish translation
  • Manage pre-translation needs, including: file prep, analysis of CMS and digital lesson videos, and identifying other components that need to be included in translation workflow
• Support efficient communication and collaboration with external translation vendor(s)
  • Assist Spanish Translations Manager in allocating workload across, and establishing efficient communication with translation, pre and post production vendor(s) to achieve Spanish translation deadlines
• Support the quality assurance and review processes of Spanish translations
  • Under direction of the Spanish Translations Manager, support the quality assurance (QA) process as needed to ensure that vendor translations meet the needs of K-8 multilingual students in U.S. math classrooms (taking into account both the digital lesson translation and the existing Spanish translation student notes). This can include:
    • Review of post production video and audio, including gathering, compiling, and submitting feedback to vendors
  • Support Spanish Translation Manager with internal review processes for each Spanish independent digital lesson (IDL) from start to finish
• Support continuous improvement of Spanish content creation processes and collaborate on special projects as they arise
  • Translate content from EN to ES-US for all components of the Spanish digital lessons on an as-needed basis
  • Update and maintain internal Spanish Translation Reference Tools
  • Ensure consistency and accuracy in translations and across content based on existing and established translations; branded terms; and relevant reference tools (i.e. Style Guide and Master Glossary)
  • Engage in constant dialogue with Spanish Translation Manager, translation vendors, and other stakeholders to align on content development and translation needs and problem-solve as needed when issues arise

What You’ll Bring To The Role:

• Fluent in English and Spanish, and knowledgeable of ES-US dialect (written and spoken)
• 2+ years translation experience in the K-12 education space (from English to Spanish)
• 2+ years of K-8 math experience in the education space
• 2+ years of experience in project management, ideally within technology or education setting
• Track record building deep product knowledge; excitement to understand and learn an existing and comp