Medical Interpreter – Temporary – Libyanjobs – موقع التوظيف الليبي

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Job Overview

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that provides medical aid to populations in distress, victims of natural and manmade disasters and victims of armed conflict, regardless of race, religion and political beliefs.

For more information, visit our website http://www.msf-me.org/ar.

Purpose :

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.

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 and radio calls 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 language(s).
Keep record of all translated documents.
Look after all equipment provided, i.e. dictionaries or other books that belong to MSF
Ensure confidentiality and medical secrecy.

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Able to become familiar with specialized topics such as a psyco-education, psychological first aid and health education.
Able to be respetful to fellow collegues and benificaries.
Ensure neutaility and acccuracy when translating.
Insures confidenciality
Flexiable to work in all areas including disembarkation points, detention centres, outreach mobile clinic and PHCs.
Able to be on call

Requirements
Education	Essential secondary education, university degree desirable, health knowledge advisable.
Experience	Not essential.
Languages	Essential, bilingual in English, Arabic and French.
Competencies	• Results. • Teamwork. • Flexibility. • Commitment. • Service. • Stress Management.

Application

Interested candidates should submit their applications in English before 28 February 2021 with a CV, motivation letter and supporting documents (certificates, diplomas, etc.) to Médecins Sans Frontières, via E-mail tripoli-jobs@oca.msf.org

The subject line of the email must state ‘your name _ Medical Interpreter – Temporary Application’ in English in order to be accepted