Translator / Interpreter

General overview of the position:

• Job title: Translator/Interpreter
• Location: Egypt
• Line manager: Country Representative
• Main functional relationships: Asmae’s international staff members at the local office.

General background:

Asmae is a French international solidarity NGO specialized in child development. Independent, non-religious and non-political, it is opened to everyone.

Created in 1980 by Sister Emmanuelle following her experience with scavengers in Egypt’s slums, Asmae keeps on respecting its founder’s values and methods: listening and proximity, pragmatism, respect of the differences, professionalism and reciprocity.

Asmae’s action aims to support vulnerable children and their families through providing tailor-made and long lasting support to local stakeholders working on child education and protection.

Its vision, “A fair world which guarantees that children can live and grow with dignity within their environment, to become free women and men who contribute to society”, is broken down into four missions:

• Stimulate child development through a global approach. To do this, Asmae also works on family support by taking their environment into account;
• Build the capacity of local stakeholders involved in child development, boost cooperation amongst them and maximize their social impact;
• Stand up for children by raising awareness and advocating;
• Experiment, disseminate and share practices.

Asmae supports education and protection projects through 53 local organizations in Burkina-Faso, Egypt, France, India, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali and Philippines. Furthermore, in France, Asmae also directly manages a mother and childcare center.

Asmae in Egypt background:

• Asmae is registered under the Ministry of Solidarity since May 2015 under the number 105/5015. Asmae promotes child education and care within two areas of intervention: the prevention of school drop-out and underperformance and the support to children with disabilities. Asmae is currently supporting eight Egyptian associations working in informal areas of Greater Cairo, in Alexandria and Arment (Luxor governorate). Asmae Egypt’ team is based in Cairo with one Country Representative, one Project and Partnership Manager, one Finance and Administration Officer and one National Office Assistant. Recruitments are under processing for one Project Officer, a Special Education Technical Adviser and Child Development Technical Adviser.

Mission:

• Under the supervision of the country representative, the translator / interpreter is responsible for translating and interpreting all Arabic (Egyptian) / English / Arabic (Egyptian) documents produced by Asmae and its partners. He/she is the official Interpreter of Asmae in meetings, workshops, trainings, visits with external partners. Through his behavior, he/she represents the values of Asmae.

Responsibilities:

Interpretation/Translation of documents produced by Asmae and its partners:

• Translates documents at the Country Representative request
• Translates documents at the Head Office request
• Translates documents produced by partners for Asmae
• Translates documents related to Asmae’s activities in compliance with the originals contents and form
• Translates discussions between Asmae members and its interlocutors
• Ensures that the recipients correctly understand messages transmitted by the members of Asmae

Interpretation/Translation for Asmae expatriate staff during trainings, network meetings, workshops, meetings and visits:

• Translates documents from English/Arabic (Egyptian) to Arabic (Egyptian).