Job description
Join Lumen Language Solutions as a full-time Interpretation Specialist in New York City. We partner with multinational corporations, healthcare providers, legal teams, and conference organizers to deliver precise, culturally aware interpretation services.
In this client-facing role, you will interpret English and your language pairs in meetings, conferences, webinars, and remote sessions. You will maintain confidentiality, manage terminology databases, and support event planning.
We offer competitive compensation, flexible scheduling, ongoing professional development, and clear paths to senior roles within our growing team.
Responsibility
- Provide consecutive and simultaneous interpretation in meetings, conferences, webinars, and remote sessions between English and target languages.
- Prepare and maintain glossaries, terminology databases, and client-specific memory banks for accuracy and consistency.
- Adapt interpretive style to audience, sector, and cultural nuances while preserving meaning and tone.
- Collaborate with clients and event organizers to ensure smooth flow and optimal room setup and technical requirements.
- Maintain strict confidentiality and adhere to ethical standards and data protection laws.
- Participate in pre-event briefs, post-event debriefs, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in interpretation, linguistics, translation studies, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Certification from AIIC, ATA, NIC, or equivalent, or eligibility to pursue certification.
- Native-level fluency in English and at least one other language (oral and written).
- Proven experience with interpretation in corporate, healthcare, legal, or conference settings.
- Excellent note-taking, memory, listening, and public-speaking skills; ability to manage rapid turnarounds.
- Proficiency with remote interpreting platforms (Zoom, Interprefy, WebEx) and interpretation equipment.
- Strong interpersonal skills, professional appearance, and client-service orientation.