Greek Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Greek Sports Localization Specialist (Football) based in Spain.** This role is an opportunity for a football enthusiast with exceptional Greek-language skills to shape sports content for a global audience. You will review, translate, localize, fact-check, and adapt football-related content for Greek-speaking audiences. The position combines linguistic expertise with deep football knowledge, cultural awareness, and strong editorial judgment. You will work primarily with audiovisual content and ensure that localized material feels natural, accurate, and engaging. Market research will be an important part of the role, helping you identify relevant terminology, content trends, and audience expectations. You will also provide detailed feedback to strengthen the quality and consistency of localized content. This is a strong opportunity for a linguist, sports journalist, copywriter, or editor who wants to contribute to an international localization environment. ### 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. ### **Requirements** - 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. ### **Benefits** - 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.