The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) is currently looking for interpreters at its Central office
(Toronto and GTA).
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:
- Afar
- Arabic (Chad)
- Arabic to French
- Bajuni
- Balouchi
- Baluchi (West Pakistan, East Pakistan)
- Barawa
- Bassa
- Bengali (Sylheti)
- Cebuano
- Chakma
- Dagbani
- Ewe
- Fanti
- Farsi Sign Language
- Fulani
- Fuzhou or Fuqing
- Ga
- Guyanese
- Hausa (Ghana, Nigeria)
- Hindi
- Igbo
- Ika
- Ilocano
- Ilongo
- Kazakh
- Kikuyu, Gikuyu
- Kirundi
- Konkani
- Krio
- Kurdish-Kurmanji
- Kurdish-Northern, Kurmanji
- Luganda, Ganda
- Luo
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Malgache, Malagasy
- Mandingo (West Africa)
- Mayan Yucatan
- Ndebele
- Nuer
- Otjiherero
- Pidgin English (Cameroon)
- Pidgin (Nigeria)
- Romani
- Rukiga
- Russian Sign Language
- Sarahuley
- Shona
- Singhalese
- Soninke
- Spanish to French
- Swahili
- Swahili (Tanzania)
- Tajiki (specifically from Tajikistan)
- Telugu
- Tibetan (Pema Koe, Pemako or Medog)
- Turkmen
- Twi
- Tzotzil
- Visayan
- Wolof, Oulof
- Zapotec
- Zaza
The Central Region is also in regular need of Interpreters fluent in the following languages/dialects
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 apply
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.