Senior Translator - Des

Organization: Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal

City: Toronto, ON

Job Term: 1 Temporary (12 months)

Compensation Group: OPSEU

Job Code :
Translator 3

Salary Range : $ 1,569.09 - $ 1,964.16 per week

Hours of work :
Minimum of 36 ¼ hours / week

Language of Position(s): Both English and French

Posting Status: Open

The WSIAT is currently seeking a highly motivated, experienced individual to join the team as a Senior Translator. In this role you will translate documents for the WSIAT including Office of the Chair and other Tribunal departments, consisting of complex legal, medical, financial and technical terminology and other business documents from English to French.

Under the supervision of the Associate Director, IT Engagement & Innovation, the Senior Translator’s duties are as follows:

1.Translating the decisions of the WSIAT and confidential case-related documents, consisting of complex legal and medical terminology

• Providing French language advice to WSIAT officials, including the Chair, Adjudicators and legal teams.
• Maintaining proper style, format, terminology and grammar.
• Ensuring consistency, clarity and accuracy.
• Ensuring that the finished product retains the meaning, feeling and intent of the original document.
• Ensuring that the translated text is consistent with the tribunal terminology, is grammatically and typographically correct and completed within deadlines.
• Maintaining and updating a French Language Lexicon for use by WSIAT staff.
• Providing status updates for work and operate as the point of contact for French Language Services.

2. Translating the Annual Report, Quarterly Reports and other WSIAT official publications

• Utilizing proper legal and medical terminology.
• Maintaining proper style, format, terminology and grammar.
• Ensuring consistency, clarity and accuracy.
• Ensuring that the finished product retains the meaning, feeling and intent of the original document.
• Ensuring that the translated text is consistent with the tribunal terminology, is grammatically and typographically correct and completed within deadlines.

3. Revising, editing and proofreading the Tribunal’s French publications (official public documents)

• Reviewing translation of documents with outside translation agencies to ensure that completed work conforms to Tribunal standards, performing the necessary editing and revisions.
• Authoring and revising the French language HTML pages for the French websites working with ITS to implement any new pages or changes.
• Testing new technical applications for the public website (i.e., Titan File, Glossary, Genie Plus Integrated Library System, etc.) and make translation recommendations for French speaking public users.
• Designated to assist French speaking parties regarding technical issues providing confidentiality of client’s case (i.e. Websites, applications such E-File, etc.).
• Performing periodic check of WSIAT Website and Ontario Workplace Tribunals Library Website to ensure accuracy of translations.

4. Coordinating the translation of documents with outside agencies

• Assigning work to outside translation agencies if it cannot be translated in-house.
• Communicating with agencies regarding expected quality and deadlines of assignment.
• Communicating with authors including Chair’s Office and Adjudicators on confidential matters related to translated or revised texts.
• Checking agencies’ invoices for accuracy before passing to the Manager, Library Services and Finance for approval.
• Acting as a French Language Advisor regarding Accessibility and Accommodations issues.

5. Other duties as required by the Associate Director, IT Engagement & Innovation

• Designation as a Certified Translator by the Canadian…