Fully Remote, USA
260 days ago
Arabic Freelance Interpreters
**Overview** SOSi is actively seeking qualified, professional, and experienced Arabic interpreters. Our job is to provide over the phone interpretation services on a continuous basis (24/7/365) to support its disaster and other designated humanitarian/special campaigns during normal steady state of activity and surge call volume spikes during disaster situations and humanitarian/special campaign efforts. **Essential Job Duties** + Provides over-the-phone consecutive interpretation between Multiple Languages and English and vice versa between Government representatives and low English proficiency individuals as required. + Performs sight translation, occurring when an interpreter is given a written document in one language and asked to read it aloud in another language. + Provides quality control review of translated documents as required. + Performs other duties as required. **Minimum Requirements** + Possess one (1) year of training, education, and/or related experience in interpretation. + Highly proficient in both English and Target Language, ILR scale of 2+. + Ability to speak English and Target Language fluently, including high to low levels of language register, regional colloquialisms, and slang expressions, and do so with clear and intelligible pronunciation. + Ability to preserve the tone and emotional level of the speaker, as well as manage the delivery, speed, and length of the statement (projection, pace and pausing) of the speaker. + Ability to maintain appropriate speed and projection while rendering interpretation, and request and incorporate clarification of speaker’s statements only when justified. **Preferred Qualifications** + Federal, State, National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT) / Judiciary Interpreters and Translators Certification Examination (JITCE), or American Translators Association (ATA) certification in interpretation. + Experience providing interpretation for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster and/or humanitarian relief efforts. **Work Environment** + Remote work only. + Work is on an as-needed basis.
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