Pacific Area: Sacred Materials Language Coordinator

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Pacific Area: Sacred Materials Language Coordinator

Tonga (No Local)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

Job Description The Communication and Publishing Department (CPD) is seeking a Sacred Materials Language Coordinator based in any country within the Pacific Area. This is a permanent, full-time position reporting to the Area Translation Manager in the Pacific Area and HQ teams. This role manages projects and resources for temples, scriptures, and sacred music translation and recording proiects. It serves as the key link between Headquarter and Area Translation teams, supporting translators and ecclesiastical reviewers across multiple languages.

The focus is on aligning internal and external resources to meet goals for quality, efficiency, and cost in delivering sacred materials worldwide. The role emphasizes project management, using translation tools and technologies to coordinate tasks and timelines. It also supports HQ and Area Language Supervisors in strengthening team capabilities and ensuring successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Communicates with language offices to determine resource availability for temple translation and production, as well as for other scripture and sacred music translation projects
• Makes location and travel arrangements for temple translation and production teams in multiple areas
• Assists sacred materials supervisors with document creation, job assignments, job tracking, and resource management
• Uses standard processes to ensure the timely completion of projects, including managing communication, project expectations and payment with translation team members
• Creates and administers surveys for Sacred Materials projects
• Typically coordinates sensitive, confidential, high-profile projects
• Travels internationally, including to other Church Areas, to assist with project and resource needs
• Other duties as assigned by the Sacred Materials Coordination Team Lead or the Area Translation Manager

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (preferably in business, linguistics, translation or a related field) or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience with a high degree of expertise (typically seen in a professional translator with at least 8 years of experience) in translation and skill in writing, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and syntax of one or more non-English languages). Plus 3 years of experience in project management or a related field.
• Mastery of spoken and written English and at least one other language, including vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and syntax.
• Broad knowledge of history, political and economic circumstances, cultural differences, and localization needs in a globalized world.
• Proven skills in project management, time management, interpersonal communication, coaching, problem solving and the ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to interact with external and internal resources in a way that ensures projects are completed in a timely manner and according to client specifications.
• Ability to navigate through translation and business management tools, web interfaces, reading briefs and instructions, including entering data and downloading and uploading files.
• Ability to provide basic technical support to translation and business management systems users.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with operating systems and Office 365 applications.
• Knowledge of Church doctrine, policies, and ecclesiastical organization.
• Knowledge of word processing, graphic production and language recording best practices.
• Familiarity with computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools.

Only candidates who have legal work eligibility to hold employment in countries within the Pacific Area should apply.

• Job Identification 369820
• Job Category CM - Communications, Public Relations & Marketing
• Posting Date 08/11/2025, 08:46 PM
• Locations Liahona High School, Nuku'alofa, TO (No Local)
• Apply Before 08/24/2025, 10:00 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Worker Type Employee
• Number of Openings 1
• Anúncio/Mais informações Please note that this job posting may close at any time without prior notice. Find out more about the many benefits of Church Employment at https://careers.churchofjesuschrist.org.

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