Joining NRW means becoming part of an organisation that values expertise, collaboration and innovation, while making a meaningful contribution to the future of Wales's environment and the Welsh language.

What You Will Do

• Help to deliver a customer-focused high-quality Welsh language translation and proofreading service.
• Translate and proofread a wide range of documents to a very high standard to meet the requirements of our Welsh language policy and our house writing style.
• Lead on ensuring adequate quality assurance of NRW external service, monitoring for consistency and adherence to house style.
• Communicate effectively with customers to provide high levels of service and effectively manage expectations.
• Contribute to workflow planning to ensure a smooth and consistent service.
• Apply rigorous attention to detail in order to maintain professional standards.
• Maintain an efficient record-keeping system in order to track demand and costs.
• Build relationships internally and externally in support of delivering better bilingual services.
• Provide specialist translation advice to other members of staff, using sound judgement and your professional skills, in particular in terms of consistency and use of existing terminology.
• Mentor and support other members of the team and proactively seek ways to improve ways of working in the wider team.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development and that of your staff through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Required to take part in incident response activities.
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

• Extensive experience of working as a translator.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and translation memory software.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
• Full membership of Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru or a willingness to work towards full membership.
• Knowledge of the Welsh Language Standards and related Welsh language policy
• Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal.
• Awareness of the Welsh Language Standards and related Welsh language policy.
• Understanding and knowledge of NRW's remit, roles, policies and priorities
• Ability to make sound judgement calls, in particular regarding decisions on terminology and use of Welsh language.

Welsh Language level requirements

Essential: Level C2 - Higher proficiency level

Welsh language levels

Please note If you do not meet the Welsh language level requirements for this role your application will not be shortlisted.

Additional Information

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Although we hold a Skilled Worker visa sponsorship licence, it applies only to specific roles that meet both the eligibility criteria and salary requirements set out by the UK Government under the Skilled Worker visa route.

Benefits

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
• generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
• commitment to professional development
• health and wellbeing benefits and support
• weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose

See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

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We're passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.