English Copy Editor
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Copy-editor adapting Grade 2–8 mathematics textbooks for Vietnamese ESL students at TransPerfect. Editing English language, cultural accuracy, consistency, and translation-ready content.
Responsibilities:
- Carry out copy-editing tasks for school mathematics textbooks intended for ESL students in Vietnam, from Grade 2 through Grade 8
- Adapt textbook language to a level understandable by students
- Support alignment with Vietnam’s national curriculum and global learning outcomes
- Perform substantive editing for cultural sensitivity, accuracy, artwork logs, and translation tagging
- Edit for sense and consistency, including errors, cross-dependency consistency, headings, key terms, unit features, activities, questions and answers, and glossary
- Deliver tracked-changes manuscript files
- Deliver clean manuscript files
- Copy-edit artwork logs
- Complete and action query logs before manuscript submission
- Complete the client brief checklist and provide notes for the typesetter or proofreader when required
Requirements:
- Native or native proficiency in English
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Minimum of 3 years' experience teaching English to young learners
- Minimum of 3 years' experience with copy-editing
- Knowledge of the corporate business environment
- Knowledge of Vietnamese
- Availability for 6–8 hours a day during the specified project weeks
Benefits:
- Freelance contract
- Remote work in the EMEA region
- Flexible weekly availability of 6–8 hours per day on selected weeks


















