English Copy-Editor position

TransPerfect is looking for experienced copy-editors or linguists to carry out copy-editing tasks to school mathematics textbooks intended for ESL students in Vietnam between Grade 2 & Grade 8. The aim of the project is to support teachers in Vietnam who must teach both the national curriculum and align with global learning outcomes. The assignment is a part of an overall project to adapt core textbooks where the language level is too high to bring the level of the English text down to be understood by the students, and translate certain sections of the instructional content into Vietnamese.

Materials supplied

• Manuscript files (in MS Word)

• Artwork and photo logs

• Previous edition PDFs

• House style guides

• Query log template

• Bilingual approach spreadsheet

• Primary and Lower Secondary feature briefs

Principal tasks: 

• Substantive editing (cultural sensitivity, accuracy, artwork logs, tagging for translation)

• Editing for sense and consistency (errors, cross-dependency consistency, headings, key terms, start- and end-of-unit features, activities, questions and answers, glossary)

Deliverables:

• A copy of the manuscript files with track changes left on

• A clean copy of the manuscript files

• Copy-edited artwork logs

• Copy of the final query log with responses (all should be actioned on the manuscript prior to submission) 

• A copy of client brief with completed checklist and notes for the typesetter/proofreader if required.