Greek Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

Accountabilities

• Review, localize, fact-check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, with a primary focus on football, while following established writing style guides and localization guidelines.


• Perform quality control on content translated from English (US) into Greek, ensuring linguistic accuracy, consistency, fluency, and cultural relevance.


• Adapt audiovisual and multimedia content so that terminology, tone, style, and messaging feel natural and engaging for Greek-speaking audiences.


• Conduct market-specific research into local content, football terminology, product language, audience preferences, and localization trends.


• Apply strong football subject-matter expertise to validate facts, references, terminology, and contextual details.


• Proofread and edit Greek-language content to ensure excellent grammar, readability, clarity, and consistency.


• Provide constructive and actionable feedback on written content to support continuous quality improvement.


• Adapt voice and style where appropriate to reflect football fan culture, contemporary audiences, and pop-culture trends.


• Manage assigned weekly workloads while maintaining high standards of quality and meeting project expectations.

• Bachelor’s degree and/or 2+ years of professional experience in linguistics, translation, sports journalism, copywriting, copy-editing, or a related field.


• Extensive knowledge of sports, particularly football, with a strong understanding of football terminology, competitions, players, teams, and fan culture.


• Experience translating and localizing multimedia or audiovisual content; familiarity with machine translation and linguistic evaluation is an advantage.


• Native-level fluency in Greek, with excellent grammar, writing, proofreading, and editing skills.


• Strong English-language comprehension to accurately understand and adapt source content from English (US).


• Excellent creative writing, proofreading, and editorial skills, with the ability to produce natural localized content rather than relying on literal translation.


• Strong cultural awareness and sensitivity to language choices, terminology, and content preferences relevant to Greek-speaking audiences.


• Tech-savvy, with strong practical knowledge of computers, mobile devices, word-processing applications, and spreadsheets.


• Access to a licensed version of Microsoft Office applications.


• Strong attention to detail, organization, reliability, and the ability to work independently.


• Preferred: Published sports-related work for platforms such as ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or comparable publications.


• Preferred: Experience working with sports media platforms, live-score applications, sports streaming services, or similar digital products.


• Preferred: A strong ability to adapt tone and voice for Gen Z audiences, football communities, and contemporary pop-culture contexts.

• Opportunity to work on international football and sports localization projects.


• Exposure to audiovisual and multimedia content localization and quality-control workflows.


• Opportunity to combine professional language expertise with extensive football knowledge.


• Expected weekly workload of approximately 2,000 to 5,000 weighted words, depending on project requirements.


• Exposure to evolving localization technologies, including machine translation and linguistic evaluation.


• Opportunity to contribute market-specific insights and feedback that directly improve content quality.


• International collaboration within a multicultural localization environment.


• Flexible working structure that supports independent project execution.


• Opportunity to develop further expertise in sports localization, editorial quality, and multilingual content adaptation.

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