Interpreters

Background

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces. And we strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity, and to access resources to strengthen their work.

In order to achieve our goals and ensure that our communication material is understood by our international audiences, Fòs Feminista is building its roster of interpreters to convert information from English into Fós Feminista’s spoken working languages are English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Objective

The purpose of this announcement is to facilitate and expediate the process by which Fós Feminista will hire the services of interpreters by inviting them to submit their application to be considered as part of Fòs Feminista’s vetted pool of  interpreters.

Scope of Work

• Serves as interpreter during meetings including board meetings, all teams meetings and teleconferences providing consecutive or simultaneous translation between languages as needed maintaining the style and tone of the original language and keeping in mind culture and diverse sensitivities.

• Ensure full confidentiality in all aspects of assignment and management of information flow.

• Honor outlined ethical codes to ensure sensitive and confidential information remains secure and protected

• Identify terms and words with conflicting meanings to determine which alternative provides clarity and reflects the original purpose of the message

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Significant ability to concentrate and work under deadlines.
• Familiarity with issues relating to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Planning and Organizing: ability to prioritize activities and tasks and reprioritize as needed; ability to allocate sufficient time and resources to complete assignment.

Education and Qualifications

• At least an Undergraduate, postgraduate university degree or Certification in translation, translation studies, technical translation, Linguistics, or related fields with a minimum of 3 years of experience working as a translator preferably in the not-for-profit sector and in the SRHR field.

Price Proposal

Applicants must send a financial proposal based in US$ that specifies their daily fees for simultaneous interpretation and consecutive interpretation.

Evaluation method and criteria

All applicants must submit the following in English:

1. Cover letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how the qualifications and skill set of the candidate are suitable for this position
2. Relevant education qualifications of the candidate
3. Relevant work experience with nonprofits and/ or international development organizations. Please list the languages for which you provide interpreting services
4. Security: what measures do you take to ensure confidentiality of clients’ documents?

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice and dismantling inequities from an intersectional feminist lens.  Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression or identify, health status, history of conflict with the law, migrant status, national origin, parental or pregnancy status, partnership status, political belief, poverty, race, religion, sexual identity of orientation, sex, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state, and local laws.

At Fòs Feminista we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a workforce that is diverse and inclusive of people who are from marginalized or excluded groups.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.