Medical Interpreter
Job Description
Title: Medical Interpreter
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Essential secondary education, university degree desirable, health knowledge advisable.
∎ Skills Required: Interpretation
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Inform medical staff about important cultural nuances to consider during a meeting, medical consultation or interview with local people.
∎ Participate in staff training 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 Accountability
∎ Showing flexibility in terms of working in an emergency set up to deal with COVID-19.
∎ Being able to adapt to stress precipitated by unknown circumstances as a result of an outbreak. Willing to work extra hours and days when asked by the manager, beyond the normal working hours.
∎ Willing to work in different shifts; Night and Day shifts and also long 12 to 14 hour shifts.
∎ Being flexible to work in different areas of MSF’s COVID-19 facility and making sure to care for patients as required.
∎ Being prepared to relocate to Ukhyia district while working for the COVID-19 response.
∎ Work well and coordinate with the medical team in terms of dealing with high number of patients.
∎ Able to speak the local dialect in addition to the dialect spoken by the Rohingya.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 18 years
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience: Not essential.
∎ Languages: Essential English, Rohingya & Bangla
∎ Competencies: Results, Teamwork, Flexibility, Commitment, Service & Stress Management.
Application Deadline: May 6, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Address : 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in many 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.
Category: NGO/Development
Read Before Apply: • All incomplete applications or those not clearly labelled will be rejected.• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews/testing.• Application documents are non-returnable; please do not submit original documents.• No applications will be accepted after the deadline.• Only Bangladesh citizens will be considered for this position.• No monetary, goods or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruitment process. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts and will stop collaboration with any workers involved in such acts.
