Female Medical Interpreter

Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

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Summary

• Vacancy: 01
• Age: 18 to 59 years
• Location: Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)
• Minimum Salary: Tk. 39000 (Monthly)
• Experience: At least 1 year
• Published: 8 Apr 2025

Requirements

Education

• Higher Secondary

• Essential: Minimum Higher Secondary education,
• Desirable: University degree in the field of English Language, Healthcare or Interpreting.
• Desirable: Certified medical interpreter (CMI) or health care interpreter (HCI)

Experience

• At least 1 year

Additional Requirements

• Age 18 to 59 years

Experience:

• Desirable: Minimum 1 year experience as a medical interpreter in a healthcare setting.
• Desirable: Knowledge of basic health terminology.

Language:

• Essential: English C1 level and Bengali native level
• Essential: Excellent speaking and understanding of Chittagoinan dialect and/or Rohingya language.

Competencies:

• Results and Quality Orientation L1
• Teamwork and Cooperation L1
• Behavioral Flexibility L1
• Commitment to MSF Principles L1
• Stress Management L2

Responsibilities & Context

Accountabilities:

• Inform medical staff about important cultural nuances to consider during a meeting, medical consultation or interview with local people.
• Participate in staff trainings 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 Accountabilities:

•     Accountabilities related to translation:

–         providing verbal and written translation services to facilitate clear, respectful, and confidential communication between medical staff and the local population during daily medical activities.

–         Providing support to the medical team by ensuring neutral and accurate interpretation.

–         Declare if any words requiring translation are unknown to the translator prior to translation to ensure accuracy of translation.

–         Collaborate in the collection of data required to develop the knowledge of the local language.

–         Participate in the creation of documents regarding the improvement of general knowledge about beneficiaries’ specific ways of verbal and non-verbal expressions of health concerns and health seeking behavior.

–         Flexible in the working areas and able to work in any or all MSF ongoing activities.

–         Maintain utmost confidentiality of the patient information’s and other relevant information’s of one-to-one conversations at all time.

• Accountabilities related to Outreach Activities:

–         Assist Internationally mobile and locally hired staff in everyday activities of the project including traveling to the project sites, clinic activities, and community-based patient interviews / home visits, and meetings with authorities and community groups.

Compensation & Other Benefits

Compensation and other Benefits:

• This is a Temporary Position
• Salary per month according to level three (3) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 39,000/- gross). Salary is not negotiable. Income tax deduction from salary will be applicable based on the current income tax rule.
• Two (2) annual leave days per month worked.
• Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on Health Care Policy- Locally Hired Staff (LHS).

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Full Time

Gender

Only Female

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)

Job Highlights

Verbal interpretation, in person or remotely, during daily medical activities (medical round, consultations, interviews, meetings, etc.) and written translations, from Rohingya to Bangla and Bangla to English tor vice versa, in order to ensure accurate, respectful, fluent and confidential communication between medical staff and local population.

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