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Piedmont Global • Buford, GA

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About The Position

Piedmont Global is expanding its network of professional interpreters to provide consecutive and simultaneous interpretation in on-site, video remote, and over-the-phone settings. Assignments depend on customer needs and may support a wide range of individuals and organizations. Interpreters of Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Korean, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Farsi, and Mandarin are especially encouraged to apply. These are 1099 independent contractor positions.

Interpreters convey verbal communication accurately and completely between source and target languages, preserving the speaker’s thoughts, intent, meaning, emotions, and tone. The role may also include sight translation of written materials. Interpreters must follow professional ethics, standards, and confidentiality requirements, and communicate factors that may affect service quality.

Requirements

• Hold a valid driver’s license or another valid government-issued form of identification.
• Have access to a laptop or desktop computer with at least 4GB of RAM and a broadband, high-speed internet connection.
• Have access to a mobile phone as a backup device.
• Have access to a wired headset that connects to the computer or phone; wireless headsets are not accepted.
• Have a quiet workspace or home office without distractions.
• For non-medical interpreting: at least two years of interpreting experience, paid or volunteer.
• For non-medical interpreting: provide two relevant professional references, or one relevant professional reference and one relevant professional letter of recommendation.
• For non-medical interpreting: native-level proficiency in English and the other language(s).
• For medical interpreting: certification from a 40-hour medical interpreter program or equivalent, such as CHIT Community Healthcare Interpreter Training.
• For medical interpreting: at least two years of interpreting experience in a healthcare setting, paid professionally or as a volunteer.
• For medical interpreting: provide two relevant professional references, or one relevant professional reference and one relevant professional letter of recommendation.

Nice To Haves

• University degree in Interpretation.
• Certificate of professional interpreter training with at least 40 hours of training.
• Proof of certifications, test results from other organizations, or other language assessment results, if available.

Responsibilities

• Interpret for people with diverse voices, accents, speaking styles, tempos, and personalities.
• Provide clear, accurate, and complete interpretations of verbal communication without additions, omissions, or alterations.
• Interpret questions, answers, statements, arguments, explanations, and other forms of verbal communication.
• Provide sight translation of documents and other written materials as needed.
• Accurately convey the speaker’s thoughts, intent, meaning, emotions, and tone between the source and target languages.
• Communicate factors that may hinder or affect the quality of interpretation services.
• Adhere to applicable professional ethics, standards, and confidentiality requirements.

Benefits

• Consideration for assignments aligned with the interpreter’s language, location, qualifications, and availability.
• Access to on-site and remote interpreting opportunities as client needs arise.
• Opportunity to build experience supporting a variety of organizations and communities.
• Membership in an established language network supporting more than 200 languages and regional dialects.

What This Job Offers

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