2024 Urban Connections
Host Organization: Urban Connections Co., Ltd.
Website: https://urbanconnections.jp/en/
Organization Profile: We focus on providing effective communication services to our clients, serving as a bridge across the linguistic and cultural gaps that they face.
For over three decades, we have been serving Japanese and global companies, international organizations, and Japanese government entities, meeting their unique needs including but not limited to: translation, interpreting, editing, content creation, and international conference support.
Our Tokyo-based team of 30 full-time staff work in tandem with our expansive network of translators, interpreters, writers, and designers to tailor solutions to meet the communication needs of our clients across various mediums.
City: Tokyo
Internship format: In-person
Internship Department: Sales Division
Work description: Our company handles large volumes of translation, interpreting, editing, and content creation work, used by our clients for both internal and external communications. In addition, we support meetings and conferences by dispatching interpreters and summary writers.
Main task for the intern: Interns would be expected to support ongoing and incoming projects that require strong writing and communication skills. Such support could include taking on editorial work including English proofreading, editing, audio transcription, and summary writing of meetings. There may also be opportunities for interns to get involved with video editing and subtitling projects.
Since we work across a wide range of industries, interns may be able to contribute to projects that align with their interests, and depending on their language abilities, they could have chances to support translation work. Interns would be placed in a team where they will be best suited to leverage their existing skills while gaining experience.
Number of Opening(s): 1 or 2
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (9-6pm five days a week. Flexible dates from mid-June to mid-September 2024 for a minimum of 8 weeks)
Work Attire: Formal
Local Language: Japanese
Local Language level needed: Basic reading, writing, and speaking (one-year level at Stanford)
Additional desired intern qualifications: We are seeking positive and driven candidates who are hungry to learn about completely novel topics and flexible to adapt to new work as the chances arise.
Higher levels of Japanese fluency (including native fluency) not required but welcome.
Other highly encouraged skills and competencies:
- Fluency in other non-English languages.
- Translation or interpreting experience (formal or informal).
- Strong interests in any of the following areas: politics, economics, diplomacy, defense, environment, finance, IT, law, manufacturing.
- Design experience (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Video editing experience (Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, etc.)
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