Female Medical Interpreter

Job Description

Title: Female Medical Interpreter

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: 01

Age: 18 to 59 years

Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Minimum Salary: Tk. 39000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ At least 1 year

Published: 8 Apr 2025

Education:
∎ Higher Secondary

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 18 to 59 years
∎ Education:
∎ Essential: Minimum Higher Secondary education,
∎ Desirable: University degree in the field of English Language, Healthcare or Interpreting.
∎ Desirable: Certified medical interpreter (CMI) or health care interpreter (HCI)
∎ Experience:
∎ Desirable: Minimum 1 year experience as a medical interpreter in a healthcare setting.
∎ Desirable: Knowledge of basic health terminology.
∎ Language:
∎ Essential: English C1 level and Bengali native level
∎ Essential: Excellent speaking and understanding of Chittagoinan dialect and/or Rohingya language.
∎ Competencies:
∎ Results and Quality Orientation L1
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation L1
∎ Behavioral Flexibility L1
∎ Commitment to MSF Principles L1
∎ Stress Management L2

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ 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.
∎ Accountabilities related to translation:
∎ Accountabilities related to Outreach Activities:
∎ Accountabilities:
∎ 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.
∎ MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:
∎ Accountabilities related to translation:
∎ -         providing verbal and written translation services to facilitate clear, respectful, and confidential communication between medical staff and the local population during daily medical activities.
∎ -         Providing support to the medical team by ensuring neutral and accurate interpretation.
∎ -         Declare if any words requiring translation are unknown to the translator prior to translation to ensure accuracy of translation.
∎ -         Collaborate in the collection of data required to develop the knowledge of the local language.
∎ -         Participate in the creation of documents regarding the improvement of general knowledge about beneficiaries’ specific ways of verbal and non-verbal expressions of health concerns and health seeking behavior.
∎ -         Flexible in the working areas and able to work in any or all MSF ongoing activities.
∎ -         Maintain utmost confidentiality of the patient information’s and other relevant information’s of one-to-one conversations at all time.
∎ Accountabilities related to Outreach Activities:
∎ -         Assist Internationally mobile and locally hired staff in everyday activities of the project including traveling to the project sites, clinic activities, and community-based patient interviews / home visits, and meetings with authorities and community groups.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ This is a Temporary Position
∎ Salary per month according to level three (3) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 39,000/- gross). Salary is not negotiable. Income tax deduction from salary will be applicable based on the current income tax rule.
∎ Two (2) annual leave days per month worked.
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Hired Staff (LHS).
∎ Compensation and other Benefits:
∎ This is a Temporary Position
∎ Salary per month according to level three (3) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 39,000/- gross). Salary is not negotiable. Income tax deduction from salary will be applicable based on the current income tax rule.
∎ Two (2) annual leave days per month worked.
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Hired Staff (LHS).

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

Gender:
∎ Only Female

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Job Highlights:

Read Before Apply:

Only online applications via the link below will be accepted. Please apply through the following link by 16/04/2025 with updated CV, cover letter, and other relevant documents i.e. NID, Experience Certificate, degree and training certificate. “Only Female candidates can apply”. Application Link: https://ee.msf.org/x/Qsm9SHzV

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Company Information:
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Address::
∎ 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Application Deadline: 16 Apr 2025

Category: NGO/Development