Spanish Interpreter

Overview

SOSi is actively seeking qualified, professional, and experienced Spanish interpreters to join our team. The Spanish interpreter will be supporting a broad set of business activities. Our job is to support our customer's interpretation needs in the immigration courts giving respondents a voice.

Essential Job Duties

• Provides consecutive and simultaneous interpretation between Spanish and English and vice versa.

• Provides in-person, over-the-phone and video remote interpreting for limited English proficiency (LEP) individuals as required.

• Performs sight translation, occurring when an interpreter is given a written document in one language and asked to read it aloud in another language.

• Provides quality control review of translated documents as required.

• Performs other duties as required.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum one (1) year of experience with both simultaneous and consecutive interpreting. Experience within a judicial environment (can be volunteer, criminal, civil, etc.)

• Highly proficient in both English and Spanish vocabularies typically used in formal, consultative, and casual modes of communication, including colloquial slang, idiosyncratic slang, and regionalisms.

• Knowledgeable of specialized vocabulary (terminology) in both English and Spanish with both legal and criminal terminology.

• Familiarity with the the U.S. Immigration System.

• Ability to speak English and Spanish fluently, including high to low levels of language register, regional colloquialisms, and slang expressions, and do so with clear and intelligible pronunciation.

• Ability to perform simultaneous, consecutive, and sight translation in a manner that is factually and conceptually accurate without changes, omissions, or additions.

• Ability to preserve the tone and emotional level of the speaker, as well as manage the delivery, speed, and length of the statement (projection, pace and pausing) of the speaker.

• Ability to maintain appropriate speed and projection while rendering interpretation, and request and incorporate clarification of speaker's statements only when justified.

• Legal ability to work in U.S.

Work Environment

• Fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

• On site in courts, with remote flexibility around court schedule.

• Open to up to 50% travel.