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Job Description Overview Call for Expressions of Interest Sign Language Interpreters invitation to join our preferred supplier list Tanzania Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Candidates must have the legal right to provide consultancy services in the country where any assignment is delivered. Contract type: Consultant/Consultancy About Sightsavers Sightsavers is an international development organisation working to prevent avoidable blindness, promote equality for people with disabilities and support inclusive development. Through the Mastercard Foundation Digital Futures Programme, Sightsavers is supporting young women and men with disabilities to access digital skills, entrepreneurship opportunities and pathways into dignified and fulfilling work. We are therefore issuing an invitation to qualified sign language interpreters in Tanzania to join our preferred supplier list (PSL). Successful applicants who join our PSL as pre-qualified consultants/consultancies will be contacted for short-term and intermittent assignments as and when the work becomes available. Please know inclusion on our PSL does not guarantee work, a minimum number of assignments, or any minimum level of fees. [...]
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Key
RESPONSIBILITIES
- include: Provide accurate, impartial and professional interpretation between the relevant signed and spoken languages.
- Prepare for assignments by reviewing agendas, slides, technical terminology, participant information and safeguarding or accessibility notes shared in advance.
- Maintain professional neutrality and avoid speaking on behalf of participants except where clarification is needed to support accurate interpretation.
- Work respectfully with Deaf participants, programme participants, colleagues, partners, facilitators, captioners, note-takers, co-interpreters or other accessibility support providers.
- Advise Sightsavers where additional interpretation or accessibility support may be required, including co-interpreters, Deaf interpreters, relay interpreters, captioning, breaks or rotation arrangements.
- Maintain strict confidentiality before, during and after the assignment.
- Raise any concerns relating to accessibility, interpretation quality, safeguarding, wellbeing, conduct, data protection or logistics promptly through the agreed Sightsavers route.
- Comply with Sightsavers’ safeguarding, confidentiality, data protection, code of conduct and professional behaviour expectations.
- Skills and Experience Consultant/Consultancy expertise Knowledge, skills and experience Professional experience providing sign language interpretation in the relevant national sign language and spoken language.
- Strong understanding of Deaf culture, communication preferences and disability inclusion.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- and appropriate conduct when working with children, adults at risk, programme participants or community members.
- Work respectfully with diverse participants, including young people with disabilities, women with disabilities, partners, community representatives and Sightsavers staff.
- Willingness to complete required due diligence checks, safeguarding briefings, references, right-to-work or eligibility checks and any assignment-specific onboarding
REQUIREMENTS
- before starting work.
- Safeguarding and conduct Sightsavers is committed to safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Consultant engagement is conditional on satisfactory completion of relevant checks and agreement to [...]
HOW TO APPLY
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