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Freelance Translator

  • Translation, Localization, Interpretation Jobs
  • Banking, Finance, Insurance, Accounting and Trade jobs

Description

1. Serves as interpreter at seminars, speeches, meetings, teleconferences, and symposia, providing consecutive or simultaneous translation between languages.
2. Listens to complete statements in one language, translates to second, and translates responses from second into first language; expresses either approximate or exact translation, depending on nature of occasion.
3. In simultaneous interpreting, renders oral translation of material at time it is being spoken.
4. Receives briefing or prepares through reading and study on subject to be discussed prior to interpreting session.
5. May participate in establishing specialized contacts for the university.
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Hard Skills

  • Advanced language knowledge
  • Advanced writing skills
  • Proofreading and editing skills
  • Audio translating experience
  • Document interpretation
  • Simultaneous translations experience
  • Consecutive interpreting expertise