Senior Associate, Editorial Services - French

Responsibilities

• Copywriting & Content Development
• Draft and edit high-quality content for stakeholder-facing materials including playbooks, venue guides, factsheets, FAQs, and signage
• Translate select publications, content, and promotional messages from English to French.
• Tailor content to suit different audiences, platforms, and accessibility requirements
• Editorial Support
• Proofread, fact-check, and refine content to ensure accuracy, tone consistency, and alignment with editorial guidelines
• Support the maintenance of editorial templates, style guides, and terminology databases
• Ensure that publications and content needing translation are correctly translated from one language (English) to another (French) and will make sense to LA28 audiences.
• Translations
• Serve as LA28's official French translator for publications, editorial, and promotional content.
• Work with A.I. language models to ensure translated works are culturally relevant and accurate.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work with multiple departments to gather content, confirm accuracy, and manage updates
• Track changes and coordinate version control across teams and publication phases
• Visual Design & Layout
• Collaborate with the design and brand teams to lay out documents and create visually compelling editorial assets
• Ensure all materials meet LA28 visual identity standards and accessibility guidelines
• Project Coordination
• Support the planning and production of print and digital publications, from concept to delivery
• Assist with timelines, file preparation, and vendor coordination for final outputs
• Imagery & Rights Management Support
• Source and manage imagery for editorial use, ensuring appropriate rights clearance and brand alignment
• Background & Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, and / or French required.
• Fluency in French-both written and verbal communication- is required.
• Experience in translating publications from English to French required.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in editorial, publishing, or copywriting.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience editing copy in English and in French.
• Strong writing and editing skills, with demonstrated ability to produce written content for diverse audiences
• Proficiency with design and layout tools such as Adobe InDesign,
• Expectations:
• Creative and detail-oriented, with a strong sense of narrative and visual communication
• Highly organized

Additional Information

LA28 does not provide relocation assistance. LA28 is the independent, non-profit, privately funded organizing committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are on a singular mission to create an Olympic and Paralympic Games that celebrate all that this city and country have to offer, delivering an unparalleled experience for athletes, fans, partners and our community. The 2028 Games mark the return of the Summer Games to the U.S. for the first time in 32 years and Los Angeles' third time hosting an Olympic Games and first time welcoming the Paralympic Games. This presents the unique and exciting opportunity to celebrate our legacy with the Games and push the Olympic and Paralympic Movements forward, writing a new chapter of Games history in Los Angeles. Putting on an Olympic and Paralympic Games is a team sport. To build a Games unlike any the world has seen before, we need the best team in place-a team full of diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise. We are guided by the following set of values and behaviors-optimism, integrity, excellence, inclusion, co-creation and boldness-and look forward to hearing about how your past experiences align with them. Senior Associate, Editorial Services - French : The Senior Associate, Editorial Services (French) supports the development and delivery of all official Games publications and editorial content for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Combining strong copywriting, editorial, and visual communication skills, this role helps ensure that all materials shared with athletes, spectators, media, and other stakeholders are accurate, clear, consistent, and aligned with the LA28 brand. Using their fluency in French, the role will also translate select publications, editorial content, and promotional messaging from English to French. This role reports to the Head of Editorial Services. Editorial Services is a function under Digital Engagement and Marketing, acting as the official content provider across the organization. The successful candidate will drive editorial excellence, cross-functional coordination, and publishing innovation while maintaining alignment with Games protocols, brand identity, accessibility and sustainability standards. The role will become the official translator for French content for publications. This position plays a vital role in producing engaging and accessible content across print and digital formats, contributing to the organization's broader mission to deliver a world-class Games experience.

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