Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Age at least 18 years

• Rohingya Dialect speaking is essential.
• Similar experience in other NGO/ INGO is desirable.
• Result driven
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment to MSF Principles
• Service oriented
• Stress Management

Responsibilities & Context

Job Context:

Verbal interpretation, in person or remotely, during daily medical activities (medical round, consultations, interviews, meetings, etc.) and written translations, from the mission language to local language(s) or vice versa, in order to ensure accurate, respectful, fluent and confidential communication between medical staff and local population.

Job Responsibilities:

• Inform medical staff about important cultural nuances to consider during a meeting, medical consultation or interview with local people.
• Participate in staff trainings and meetings as an interpreter.
• Provide face to face interpreting, as well as during telephone or other telecom devices, when necessary.
• Adapt communication to any circumstances, using appropriate language registry as well as diplomatic and courtesy manners.
• Translate MSF internal / external documents into local languages/English.
• Keep record of all translated documents.
• Ensure confidentiality and medical secrecy.
• Use appropriate language registry as well as diplomatic and courtesy manners to adapt communication to any situation.
• Maintain a record of all translated documents.
• Maintain all provided equipment, such as MSF-owned books and documents.
• Provide accurate translations among English, Rohingya, and Bangladeshi upon request.
• Support the supervisor or manager for any given ad-hock non-medical responsibility, such as temporary intervention(s) or collaboration with other NGOs or actors.