Federally Certified Spanish Court Interpreter – On-Site Denver

Global Impact Group LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Training & development

Job summary

Global Impact Group LLC, doing business as Global Language System, seeks a Federally Certified Spanish Court Interpreter for a full-time, on-site federal government assignment in Denver, Colorado.

The selected linguist will provide Spanish-English interpretation, translation, transcription, and linguistic support for federal criminal investigations, prosecutions, attorney case preparation, witness and victim communications, hearings, and trials.

Qualifications

• Current Spanish-English Federal Court Interpreter Certification.
• Native or near-native fluency in Spanish and English.
• Experience providing simultaneous and consecutive legal interpretation.
• Experience performing sight translation.
• Experience translating legal, criminal-justice, or court-related documents.
• Experience transcribing and translating Spanish-language audio or video recordings.
• Strong knowledge of legal terminology in both languages.
• Ability to produce accurate, complete, and professionally formatted written deliverables.
• Ability to work independently in a high-security legal environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain all required Government background, suitability, security approvals.
• Ability to work full time and on site in Denver, Colorado.
• Ability to provide documentation verifying Federal Court Interpreter Certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide simultaneous and consecutive Spanish-English interpretation.
• Interpret during attorney-client meetings, witness interviews, proffers, debriefings, trial preparation sessions, hearings, and other legal proceedings.
• Perform sight translation of legal, investigative, evidentiary, and administrative documents.
• Translate documents from Spanish into English and English into Spanish.
• Translate legal correspondence, affidavits, complaints, indictments, motions, orders, plea agreements, subpoenas, warrants, discovery materials, emails, text messages, medical records, financial records, and other case-related materials.
• Transcribe and translate Spanish-language audio and video recordings.
• Prepare verbatim transcripts with timestamps, speaker identification, overlapping-speech notation, and inaudible markers.
• Produce bilingual, side-by-side, or line-aligned transcripts when requested.
• Review and proofread translations and transcripts for completeness, accuracy, terminology, grammar, and formatting.
• Evaluate translations and transcripts prepared by other linguists and document any discrepancies.
• Maintain case-specific terminology lists and glossaries.
• Explain regional dialects, slang, idiomatic expressions, cultural references, tone, and linguistic nuances.
• Protect confidential, law-enforcement-sensitive, grand-jury, sealed, attorney-work-product, and personally identifiable information.
• Maintain accurate assignment records, status reports, and deliverable logs.
• Use Government-approved equipment, systems, and secure information-handling procedures.

Skills

Legal interpretation

Spanish-English fluency

Simultaneous interpretation

Consecutive interpretation

Sight translation

Legal translation

Transcription

Confidentiality

Independent work in high-security env

Education

Federal Court Interpreter Certification

Job description

Global Impact Group LLC, doing business as Global Language System, seeks a Federally Certified Spanish Court Interpreter for a full-time, on-site federal government assignment in Denver, Colorado.

The selected linguist will provide Spanish-English interpretation, translation, transcription, and linguistic support for federal criminal investigations, prosecutions, attorney case preparation, witness and victim communications, hearings, and trials.