Spanish Interpreter

SOSi; Texas; On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

SOSi in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX is seeking qualified Spanish interpreters to support a call/contact center style environment with interpretation services for LEP individuals.

You will provide consecutive, simultaneous, and sight translations between Spanish and English, including over-the-phone and video remote interpreting. The role emphasizes accuracy, speed, and adherence to judicial terminology.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year interpreting experience in a judicial environment.
• Legal ability to work in the U.S.
• Fluent in English and Spanish in formal, consultative and casual justice contexts.
• Knowledge of English/Spanish legal and criminal justice vocabulary.
• Ability to perform simultaneous, consecutive and sight translation accurately.
• Ability to maintain tone, projection, and delivery pace of the speaker.

Responsibilities

• Provides consecutive and simultaneous interpretation between Spanish and English and vice versa.
• Provides over-the-phone and video remote interpreting for LEP individuals as required.
• Performs sight translation of written documents.
• Performs quality control review of translated documents.

Skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Consecutive & simultaneous

Video remote interpreting

Legal terminology

Pronunciation & clarity

Job description

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SOSi is a private defense and government solutions business specializing in advanced technology systems and mission support. Its capabilities include data science, software development, network engineering, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and logistics.

Job Description

Overview

SOSi is actively seeking qualified, professional, and experienced Spanish interpreters in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX.

The Spanish interpreter will be supporting a broad set of business activities from a call/contact center type environment. Our job is to support our customer’s interpretation needs by providing language interpretation.

• Provides consecutive and simultaneous interpretation between Spanish and English and vice versa.
• Provides over-the-phone and video remote interpreting for limited English proficiency (LEP) individuals as required.
• Performs sight translation, occurring when an interpreter is given a written document in one language and asked to read it aloud in another language.
• Provides quality control review of translated documents as required.
• Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Minimumone (1) year of experience interpreting in a judicial environment.
• Legal ability to work in U.S.
• Highly proficient in both English and Spanish vocabularies typically used in formal, consultative, and casual modes of communication in justice system contexts, including colloquial slang, idiosyncratic slang, and regionalisms.
• Knowledgeable of specialized vocabulary (terminology) in both English and Spanish to legal and criminal justice system terminology and immigration procedures.
• Ability to speak English and Spanish fluently, including high to low levels of language register, regional colloquialisms, and slang expressions, and do so with clear and intelligible pronunciation.
• Ability to perform simultaneous, consecutive, and sight translation in a manner that is factually and conceptually accurate without changes, omissions, or additions.
• Ability to preserve the tone and emotional level of the speaker, as well as manage the delivery, speed, and length of the statement (projection, pace and pausing) of the speaker.
• Ability to maintain appropriate speed and projection while rendering interpretation, and request and incorporate clarification of speaker’s statements only when justified.

Preferred Qualifications

• Video remote and over-the-phone interpreting experience strongly preferred.
• Federal, State, National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT), and/or American Translators Association (ATA) certifications in interpretation.
• Experience providing interpretation for Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) court cases.

Additional Information

• Call/contact center
• Full time, shift-based schedules (40 hours per week)
• Not eligible for remote work

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.