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Career Opportunities for Interpreters

TIS National is experiencing a period of rapid growth and is currently recruiting interpreters to meet this demand for interpreting services.

We are interested in recruiting people who have been accredited as interpreters by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) in the following languages:

Albanian Bengali German
Hindi Hungarian Indonesian
Khmer Lao Macedonian
Malay Pashto Punjabi
Russian Sinhalese Somali
Spanish Tamil Thai
Turkish Urdu  

We also would like to speak with individuals who have an interest in working as interpreters who have good language skills in English and one or more of the following languages where NAATI accreditation is not currently available:

Acholi Chin (Burmese) Fullah
Hakka (Chin) Hakka (Timorese) Hakka (Burmese)
Kirundi Kurdish Madi
Nepali Nuer Oromo
Rohingya Romanian Tigrinya
Tongan    

In addition, due to the considerable growth of demand in our five highest demand languages, we are interested in recruiting interpreters who have achieved accreditation as professional interpreters (formerly known as Level 3) by NAATI in the following languages:

Arabic Cantonese
Korean Mandarin
Vietnamese  

We are particularly interested in NAATI professional (ie Level 3) interpreters for onsite coverage in the following states and languages:

  • Vic.: Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese
  • NSW: Cantonese and Mandarin
  • WA: Italian, Japanese, Somali, Spanish, and Turkish
  • Qld: Mandarin
  • SA: Arabic and Cantonese.

If you are interested in a career as an interpreter, or know someone who is interested in a career as an interpreter, please telephone one of our service provider managers.
Telephone: 1300 132 621
See:Translating and Interpreting Service