Freelance Interpreters for On-Site assignments in State of Washington
Spokane, Washington, United States of America
Freelance
5 hours ago
Key skills
Communication
About this role
Based in the Metro Washington DC area, Piedmont Global
is a strategic partner for enterprises and public sector organizations, helping clients navigate cross-cultural operations with ease and effectiveness. Our network of professionals offers expertise in over 200 languages, including regional dialects. We provide advisory services, language and cultural expertise, workforce and learning solutions, and tech-enabled platforms, all tailored to meet each client’s needs. Our goal is to reduce risk, improve readiness, and support global expansion with confidence.
Piedmont Global
is looking for freelance Interpreters to provide on-site (OSI) language interpretation services in Lacey, Toppenish, Moses Lake and Spokane, WA.
Languages in highest demand include: Marshallese, Spanish, Russian, Karen, Burmese, Pashto, Dari, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Haitian-Creole, Swahili, Vietnamese, Arabic, Ukrainian, Tigrinya, Turkish, Mandarin, Chuukese, Punjabi, Bosnian, Amharic, Albanian, Thai, Laotian, Tagalog, and Portuguese.
Interpreter Functions:
- Serve as an Interpreter between a wide range of people with diverse voices, accents, speaking tempos and personalities.
- Provide parties with clear interpretations of verbal communication with no additions or omissions.
- Provide interpretations of questions, answers, statements, arguments, explanations, and other forms of verbal communication
- Impart thought, purpose, spirit, emotions, and tone of speaker from source language into target language, and vice-versa.
- Inform relevant parties of any factor that may hinder your performance.
- Comply with applicable ethics and standards.
Requirements
- Fluent in speaking/listening, reading/writing in both English and foreign languages.
- Hold a valid driver’s license, or any government-issued valid form of identification.
- Ability to commute to assigned location.
- Preferably based in the above-mentioned area.
- Access to a mobile phone.
- Certified Interpreter preferred, but not required.
- Interpreting experience, paid or as a volunteer
- Two (2) relevant professional references that can vouch for the candidate’s work as an interpreter OR one (1) relevant professional reference and one (1) relevant professional letter of recommendation
- Proficiency in English and target language.