(Offre en anglais) Mercy Corps recrute un Humanitarian Access Team (HAT) Assistant and Translator عودة إلى الفرص

Position Title:  Humanitarian Access Team (HAT) Assistant and Translator

Primary Location:  Tunis , TunisiaPosition Status:Full time

Salary level: 3A

Area of Operation: Tunis, Tunisia

Employment Period: Four months extendable

Current Team Member: New position

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: No Responsibility

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within.

Now, and for the future.

Program / Department Summary

The Humanitarian Access Team (HAT) supports Mercy Corps programs throughout Libya in four key areas: assessing access, developing operational and programmatic strategies, crafting advocacy messages, and security.  The HAT focuses on conflict, both individual incidents and trends, both present and forecasted, and then links this with its respective impact on the local population. The HAT analytical unit monitors social media, communicates with partners, validates data through primary sources, and interfaces with relevant international organizations in order to gather and collate relevant conflict, access, and stakeholder information.   The HAT therefore looks not only at violence, but also at those underlying factors that trigger conflict and displacement such as governance and service provision, war economy dynamics, past displacement patterns, local, regional and international politics, social identity and intercommunal relationships, and Libyan modern history.  The HAT also serves as a real-time information hub; vets potential partners; assesses programmatic, partner, and operational risk; identifies and maps stakeholders; and maintains a mapped database displaying program locations, and disaggregates this data by donor and risk threshold.

GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:

The HAT translator will be responsible for timely and accurate translations of field reports, as well as facilitating conversation between HAT Arabic speakers and HAT english speakers to ensure accurate understandings of the tasks at hand and the context being discussed.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Main responsibilities:  

• Translate HAT reports from Arabic to English (and at times English to Arabic)
• Provide interpretation of conversation between HAT team members as needed.
• Translate in meetings as needed
• Keep notes of all HAT meetings and objectives

ACCOUNTABILITY:

• REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Humanitarian Access Adviser
• WORKS DIRECTLY WITH: HAT team

SUCCESS FACTORS:

The successful HAT Assistant and Translator should be flexible, patient, and persistent. S/he will work collaboratively with other members of the team. The most successful Mercy Corps staff members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and changing environments and make effective written and verbal communication a priority in all situations.

LIVING /ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:

The position is based in (Tunis, Tunisia).

Mercy Corps team members represent the agency both during and outside work hours when deployed in a field posting or on a visit/TDY to a field posting. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.