Remote Cantonese Interpreter - Night Shifts, Work-From-Home

TP; Kampar; Remote; MYR 67,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Translation and Interpretation Services Company seeks a night-shift Interpreter based in Malaysia to work from home. You will provide consecutive interpretation for live doctor-patient conversations, banking, and client calls, typically 8 hours per shift and 40 hours weekly.

Key duties include accurate interpretation while remaining neutral, following client instructions, and applying appropriate industry terminology across healthcare, finance, government, and general business scenarios.

Qualifications

• Excellent listening, retention and note taking skills to maintain a high level of accuracy.
• Ability to concentrate, stay detached from the conversation, and always remain neutral and objective.
• Ability to quickly establish personal credibility.
• Ability to follow client's instructions closely.
• Ability to explain certain cultural concepts to avoid miscommunication with the permission or at request of the client.
• B2 CEFR English Level bilingual with other required languages.
• Able to work from home on a permanent basis.

Responsibilities

• Provide language interpretation from one language to another for individual with language barrier to understand and communicate to each other.
• Handling telephone or video calls on demand and renders meaning of conversations in the consecutive mode of interpretation between speakers of English.
• Processes information quickly and concisely, recognizes sensitive cultural differences, and is always professional and courteous.
• The interpreter will use appropriate industry terminology and understand common industry procedures and practices.
• The calls may involve simple or complex, non-technical or technical subjects in Healthcare, Government, Insurance, Finance, Utilities, Travel and Hospitality, 911 emergency services, Law Enforcement, Courts, and General Business.

Skills

Active listening

Note taking

Concentration

Neutrality

Credibility

Instruction following

Cultural explanation

B2 English

Remote work

Job description

Translation and Interpretation Services Company seeks a night-shift Interpreter based in Malaysia to work from home. You will provide consecutive interpretation for live doctor-patient conversations, banking, and client calls, typically 8 hours per shift and 40 hours weekly.

Key duties include accurate interpretation while remaining neutral, following client instructions, and applying appropriate industry terminology across healthcare, finance, government, and general business scenarios.