Interpreters needed in Eastern Region

​​​​​The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) is currently looking for interpreters at its Eastern office (Montréal and Ottawa).

Interpreters provide interpretation services as an independent contractor as and when needed by the IRB. Your task as an interpreter is to interpret all dialogue during the proceedings. You will have to interpret the language of the person who is subject of the proceedings into English or French and vice-versa, using consecutive interpretation.

Hourly rate: $50/hour

The following languages/dialects are urgently needed:

  • Acholi
  • Arabic
  • Arabic (Chad) to French
  • Arabic (Egypt)
  • Armenian (Lebanon) to English
  • Bajan (Creole from Barbados)
  • Bengali (Sylheti)
  • Bissa (Burkina Faso) to French​
  • Cantonese
  • Dioula
  • Hassaniya
  • Hausa
  • Kabyle
  • Kilongo to French
  • Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
  • Kurdish Kurmanji (Turkish)
  • Kurdish Sorani (Iran)
  • Lango
  • Luo (Ouganda) to English
  • Luvale (Chiluvale, Loyale, Lubale, Luena, Lwena) to English or Portuguese
  • Malgache (Madagascar) ​to French
  • Moore (Moor)
  • Nufi
  • Pashto (Pakistan)
  • Romanian
  • Serere
  • Somalian to French
  • Soninke to French
  • Turkish
  • Twi
  • Vietnamese to French
  • Wolof to English
  • Yoruba to French
  • Zarma
The Eastern Region is also in regular need of Interpreters fluent in the following languages/dialects:
  • Abbey
  • Afar
  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Arabic (Chad) to English
  • Assyrian
  • Azeri
  • Bafang
  • Bajun
  • Bambara
  • Bamena
  • Bamileke
  • Bangwa
  • Bassa
  • Baule
  • Bengali
  • Benin
  • Bete
  • Bini
  • Burmese
  • Cambodian
  • Cantonese
  • Croatian
  • Dari (Afghanistan)
  • Dazaga (Gorane)
  • Deaf articulator
  • Dendi
                     
  • Dioula
  • Edo
  • Fulani
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Greek
  • Guere
  • Gujarati
  • Hausa
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Igbo
  • Indonesian
  • Ishen
  • Jola
  • Kagoro
  • Khmer
  • Kikongo-Kongo
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kirundi
  • Korean
  • Kpelle
  • Krio
  • Kurdish-Kurmanji
  • Laotian
  • Lingala
                     
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
  • Mandika
  • Mixteco
  • Moldovan
  • Mòoré
  • Ngwe
  • Okpe
  • Oshiwambo
  • Otjiherero
  • Pashto
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Angola)
  • Punjabi (India) to English and French
  • Punjabi (Pakistan) to French
  • Romani
  • Romanian
  • Runyakole
  • Russian
  • Sango
  • Sara
  • Serbian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Serere
  • Setswana
  • Sinhalese
  • Slovakian
                     
  • Slovenian
  • Somali
  • Somali (Djibouti)
  • Sorani
  • Soussou
  • Spanish
  • Swahili (Burundi, Rwanda, DRC)
  • Swati/Siswati
  • Tagalog
  • Tamil
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tigrinya
  • Tshiluba
  • Turkomen
  • Twi
  • Tzotzil
  • Uhrobo
  • Uighur/Uyghur
  • Ukwuani
  • Urdu to French
  • Yacouba
  • Yiddish
  • Yoruba
  • Zapoteco
  • Zulu
                     
                     

To be considered, candidates must meet the following criteria:​​

  • be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
  • have a secondary school diploma or equivalent
  • have professional references (minimum of 2)
  • comply with the rules that are set out in the Code of Conduct for Interpreters

Additional information

Various evaluations (interpretation abilities, sight translation and official languages) will be administered by the IRB.

To a​​​​pply

Please note that for an application to be deemed completed, you need to submit a resume and a completed Interpreter Application form (PDF, 368 KB) by email at: irb.National.InterpreterProgram.Programmedesinterpretes.cisr@irb-cisr.gc.ca​.​

Due to a high volume of expected interest, only those individuals who meet the essential qualifications will be contacted.


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