The part in the middle

I was trained as a translator before I was anything else. Four years at Beijing Language and Culture University on Chinese–English translation and interpreting, one of them on exchange at the University of Birmingham. That year is where I stopped reading British institutions from the outside and started working inside one.

Everything since has been a version of the same job: getting something to land with an audience that does not share the sender's assumptions. At China Daily that meant international relations copy that had to survive the crossing between two languages and two readerships. At the University of Leeds Art Gallery it meant an archive of feminist campaign material and a student body with no particular reason to care about it yet. In the engineering faculty it meant two hundred students from a dozen countries who sat in the same building and did not talk to each other.

Now it means a British university's recruitment in China, run from Beijing: offer-holder events in four cities, and a Rednote account that has to read as though it were written by someone who lives here — because it is.

I am looking for UK roles where that combination is the point rather than a footnote. International recruitment, communications, partnerships, market development. The part I am useful for is the part in the middle.