Call for Arabic Interpreters

The Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) was established on 29 January 2020 by countries and organisations from across the Global South at the International Summit on Balanced and Inclusive Education – III ForumBIE 2030 – held in the Republic of Djibouti.

As the first intergovernmental organisation of and by the Greater South, the OSC acts as an instrument of intellectual, technical and financial cooperation and solidarity between its Member States as well as its Associate Members in the pursuit of a Third Way of Development – from the South, for Humanity.

About the Institute

The OSC Institute is the Organisation of Southern Cooperation’s capacity-building arm, designed to provide short- and long-term training programmes aimed at building capacities of Member States around balanced and inclusive education, transdisciplinary research, endogenous technology development and transformative economic development. The launch of the Institute took place on 29th January 2024 at the Headquarters of Addis Ababa.

The Institute is aiming to start its second batch of 2-months intensive training in Balanced and Inclusive Education in July 2024.

Objective of 2024 BIE Capacity-Building Programme

The two-month intensive capacity-building programme is focused on achieving the vision and commitments made in the Universal Declaration of Balanced and Inclusive Education (UDBIE) through system-transformation. More precisely, the objective of the programme is to build and reinforce national capacities in Member States to contribute to a Third Way of Development. In particular, the training programme is meant:

• To develop capacities of Ministries of Education in curricula, pedagogy, and assessment transformation aligned with the core principles of BIE;
• To provide needed tools, frameworks, approaches, and instruments to participants to propose and implement transformation in areas of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment;

Who is the Programme for?

• To enable participants to understand the theoretical and pedagogical underpinnings of Balanced and Inclusive Education (BIE);
• To support participants to analyse their education systems through the lenses of BIE; and
• To provide skills and tools for nationally-led systemic educational transformation.

Venue and Modalities for Participation in the Training Programme

• The two-month intensive capacity-building programme shall be conducted at the OSC Institute set up in the Headquarters of the OSC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Assignment

• Interpreters-translators in Arabic are required for the entire duration of the training to undertake simultaneous interpretation as well as translation of materials using the zoom interpretation app.

The interpreters-translators would be responsible for:

• Providing interpretation services during the course of the training of plenary as well as group sessions (9 am to 6 pm)
• Translating teaching - learning materials with respect to the modules as well as the materials generated during the training as well as other relevant materials/ presentations.

Experience and qualification required

• Professional degree in interpretation or translation from a reputed Institute
• Broad understanding of educational concepts. Theories and approaches
• 5 years of experience in translation and interpretation in international organisations