What are the responsibilities and job description for the Localization Coordinator position at David C Cook?
The Localization Coordinator will help advance Cook Media Global’s vision of creating simple, scalable, and sustainable discipleship resources for the global Church. This role exists to coordinate the translation, localization, and production workflow of curriculum, training materials, media, and digital resources into multiple languages and cultural contexts.
The individual will work closely with translators, designers, regional ministry leaders, and internal teams to ensure resources are culturally adaptable, visually accurate, and delivered with excellence. The ideal candidate is highly organized, collaborative, detail-oriented, and passionate about helping equip the Church globally.
This is a part-time, 20-25 hours a week part-time position that is located in our Franklin, Tennessee office. Some international meetings may require outside “office hours,” so schedule can fluctuate according to need. The ideal candidate enjoys managing projects, working across cultures, communicating with multiple teams, and helping create scalable systems that equip the global Church.
Why You'll Love This Role
You'll coordinate the day-to-day execution of localization projects, ensuring translated resources are produced accurately, reviewed appropriately, and delivered on schedule.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
The individual will work closely with translators, designers, regional ministry leaders, and internal teams to ensure resources are culturally adaptable, visually accurate, and delivered with excellence. The ideal candidate is highly organized, collaborative, detail-oriented, and passionate about helping equip the Church globally.
This is a part-time, 20-25 hours a week part-time position that is located in our Franklin, Tennessee office. Some international meetings may require outside “office hours,” so schedule can fluctuate according to need. The ideal candidate enjoys managing projects, working across cultures, communicating with multiple teams, and helping create scalable systems that equip the global Church.
Why You'll Love This Role
- This role offers a unique opportunity to help make discipleship resources accessible to churches and ministry leaders around the world. If you're passionate about global ministry, cross-cultural collaboration, and bringing high-quality content to diverse audiences, you'll find purpose and impact in this work every day.
- Work for a mission-driven organization where operational excellence helps equip churches with resources that make a lasting impact.
You'll coordinate the day-to-day execution of localization projects, ensuring translated resources are produced accurately, reviewed appropriately, and delivered on schedule.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Managing localization projects from initiation, editing to final delivery.
- Coordinating communication and workflows between translators, editors, designers, reviewers, and ministry partners.
- Preparing and managing translation files using Adobe InDesign and other Adobe Creative Suite tools.
- Providing project updates, tracking milestones, and maintaining schedules to ensure deliverables remain on target.
- Supporting formatting, proofreading, and quality assurance processes for translated curriculum and ministry resources.
- Coordinating linguistic, theological, and cultural reviews prior to publication.
- Organizing digital assets, translation files, and version control systems across multiple projects.
- Managing WhatsApp communication groups and facilitating collaboration among regional trainers, translators, and ministry partners.
- Identifying opportunities to improve localization workflows, increase efficiency, and support scalable resource development.
- Participating in collaborative planning efforts and contributing to global resource development strategies and departmental initiatives.
Salary : $23 - $29