The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) is currently looking for interpreters (contractual, occasional, on call work) at its Montreal office.
As an interpreter, you provide interpretation services as an independent contractor as and when needed by the IRB. Your task as an interpreter is to interpret orally all dialogue and, in some cases, short documents submitted before, during or after the proceedings. You will have to interpret both from the language of the person who is subject of the proceedings into English or French and vice-versa, using consecutive interpretation.
The following languages/dialects are needed:
Abbey, Afar, Articulator, Amharic, Assyrian, Azeri, Bafang, Bajun, Bambara, Bamena, Bamileke, Bassa, Baule, Bengali, Benin, Bete, Burmese, Chad, Croatian, Dari, Dendi, Dioula, Edo, Greek, Guere, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Ishen, Jola, Kagoro, Khmer, Kicongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kititela, Krio, Kpelle, Korean, Kurdish, Kurmanji, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mandinka, Moore, Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, Pashto, Polish, Punjabi (India), Roma/Romani, Romanian, Sango, Sara, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Serere, Setswana, Sinhalese, Slovenian, Somalian, Sorani, Soussou, Swati/Siswati, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai. Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tshilumba, Turkish, Turkomen, Twi, Uhrobo, Ukwuani, Yiddish, Zulu.
To Apply
Mandatory criteria:
- Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; indicate your status on your CV.
- Have very good spoken and written knowledge of English or French.
Additional information:
- Please include on your CV all languages and dialects spoken along with a valid email address, if possible.
- An exam will be administered and a security check is required.
- Hourly rate: $27.
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