Senior Translation Officer

Role ID: 202916

Location: Flexible

Grade/Salary range: 06: £42,662 - £46,662

Working pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week

Working hours: 37

Contract type: Fixed-Term Appointment (FTA)

Contract end date: 12/11/2027

Welsh Language level: C2 – Higher proficiency level

Closing date: 11/10/2026

The role

Are you passionate about the Welsh language? Do you have excellent creative language skills and enjoy helping others with their Welsh language needs?

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Translator to join our busy Translation Team.

Reporting to the Translation Team Leader, you will join a small team of professional translators and play a key role in shaping how NRW communicates with customers, stakeholders and the wider public through clear, accurate and engaging Welsh.

As Senior Translator, you will help ensure that high-quality Welsh language content is delivered consistently, creatively and to the highest professional standards, within tight timescales. You will play a pivotal role in the team’s function to provide expert linguistic advice and support, helping to protect and enhance NRW’s reputation while supporting the Welsh Government’s ambition of reaching one million Welsh speakers by 2050.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled translator who is passionate about language quality, terminology development and delivering an excellent bilingual service that makes a real difference to the people and communities of Wales.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

Interviews will take place through Microsoft Teams on 23/10/2026.

This post is fixed term until 12 November 2027.

About us

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is the principal environmental body for Wales. We work to protect and enhance Wales’s natural environment, helping people, communities and businesses benefit from the sustainable management of our natural resources, now and for future generations.

This role sits within the Translation Team, part of the Communications, Customer and Commercial Directorate. The directorate plays a vital role in shaping how NRW communicates and engages with customers, partners and stakeholders, helping to build trust, strengthen relationships and deliver excellent services. It is central to delivering NRW’s corporate ambitions, including our commitments to transparency, customer focus and digital transformation.

As part of the Translation Team, you will contribute to ensuring Welsh is at the heart of our communications. Through the delivery of high-quality translation and language services, the team supports colleagues across NRW to communicate clearly, consistently and effectively in both Welsh and English, helping us meet the needs of the people and communities we serve throughout Wales.

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.

1. Extensive experience of working as a translator.
2. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and translation memory software.
3. Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
4. Full membership of Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru or a willingness to work towards full membership.
5. Knowledge of the Welsh Language Standards and related Welsh language policy
6. Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal.
7. Awareness of the Welsh Language Standards and related Welsh language policy.
8. Understanding and knowledge of NRW's remit, roles, policies and priorities
9. 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.