Legal Translator - 6 month contract

Job Description

Legal Translator – 6-month

Riyadh – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Legal Translator to join the team in our Riyadh office, supporting our Business Development activity by translating legal documents, client materials, and internal reports from Arabic to English and vice versa.

This role is offered on an initial 6-month contract, to start immediately, with a view to potentially extend, based on role and business performance.

Our standard working hours are 8.30am-5.30pm Sunday to Thursday, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Applicants must be a Saudi National.
• Have exceptional Arabic and English language skills, including verbal and written.
• Experience in translating complex documents (ideally legal) from Arabic to English and vice versa.
• Experience supporting bilingual proposals, presentations, and communications, assisting in adapting content for local market needs.
• Able to ensure accuracy and consistency in terminology and firm style
• Experienced in liaising with internal teams to gather context and ensure high-quality outputs
  
  
  

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

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