18 Mar
2023
Full-Time Spanish Interpreter – Johannesburg
Job Description
All items must be effectively translated or adapted by the Translator. Translates website content, marketing materials, in-store communications, and corporate policies and procedures with the assistance of the translator. This profession necessitates a team player who is also meticulous in their work.
Job Title : Spanish Interpreter
Location : Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Salary : $ 26.9 per hour.
Company : New York County District Attorney’s Office
Job Type : Full-Time
Qualifications:
- Conveys important information to parents and students in the form of educational papers such as paperwork and notifications of medical emergencies as well as legal and sensitive information.
- Temporary employee assessment results, hours worked, training status, and other relevant data are stored and maintained in a database.
- Master the utilization of reference resources. To be able to generate written translations and products, you must have computer abilities, including MS Office, as well as basic online research skills.
- When translating medical and technical terms, the translator looks them up in both the source language and the target language to make sure they make sense.
- Textual materials like flyer, social media posts and district-wide announcements/press releases may be accurately translated into any language.
- Re-evaluates the translations done by other members of the District. It aids in the training of district staff and consultants that give translation services to schools.
- Translators must ensure that the original meaning, tone, and aim of a piece of writing have not been altered.
- Generally capable of capturing geopolitical, regional, ethnic, and cultural nuances in writing. The word choice and expression are typically consistent with the target language (TL) norms and modes of expression relevant to the subject area (s) and are sufficiently robust to enable the translator to function progressively in that field.
- Administrative duties include receptionist duties such as receiving phone calls and taking care of general queries; opening and sorting mail; creating purchase order requisitions; and verifying and preparing invoices for payment.
- The interpreter helps parents and teachers talk about their kids’ academics, behavior, medical emergencies, and other sensitive issues at meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and other school events.
Skills:
- As well as an undergraduate degree in translation or foreign language (or a closely related field), the ideal applicant should have shown proficiency in writing and speaking in both written and spoken forms of communication.
- When providing interpreter services in educational and community settings, a driver’s license and willingness to utilize one’s own vehicle are necessary.
- Constituents with poor English proficiency may participate completely since they have the capacity to speak in a specified language above the conversational level.
- To effectively interact with coworkers, students, and others, it is essential to use effective communication techniques.
- Fluency in two languages at an educated native speaker level, as well as an awareness of the culture that underpins each language, is required for this qualification.