Professional Interpreter
Job Description
Job Skills & Qualifications
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in communications or related field
• Proficiency in the Arabic language
• Written and verbal fluency in at least one non-English language as mentioned.
• Interpersonal skills
• Strong understanding of written and oral communication
Preferred:
• 3-10 years of educational study and interpretation experience in another language
• Familiarity with using technology for translation
Responsibilities Duties:
• Translate messages, live speeches, voice recordings and documents into another language, with careful attention to providing proper context, meaning, tone and technical wording
• Collaborate with colleagues to compile helpful information, including terms and definitions, into an organized glossary for regular reference during the translation process
• Honor outlined ethical codes to ensure sensitive and confidential information remains secure and protected
• Identify terms and words with conflicting meanings to determine which alternative provides clarity and reflects the original purpose of the message
• Verify, modify and edit translations to compensate for discrepancies in technical terms and to guarantee that the final content is consistent with original material
• Consult dictionaries, encyclopedias and terminology compilations to remain educated and current with the meaning of words and phrases
• Analyze audience members and listen to debriefings on what materials will be translated, to best assess how to present interpreted data
• Document changes to translated materials, and maintain an orderly method for filing data for reference later on
Language pair is from Arabic to one or more of the following: Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Ethiopian, Telugu, Kanda, Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Cambodian, Lao, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Albanian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Slovak, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and vice versa.