18.484, Jobs: Various Languages & English: Translator, Hablamos Juntos - UCSF

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Subject: 18.484, Jobs: Various Languages & English: Translator, Hablamos Juntos - UCSF

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Date: 12-Feb-2007
From: Gretchen Straker < gstraker at fresno.ucsf.edu >
Subject: Chinese, Mandarin; Russian; Spanish; Vietnamese; & English: Translator, Hablamos Juntos - UCSF; Fresno, CA, USA 

	
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:02:34
From: Gretchen Straker < gstraker at fresno.ucsf.edu >
Subject: Chinese, Mandarin; Russian; Spanish; Vietnamese; & English: Translator, Hablamos Juntos - UCSF; Fresno, CA, USA 
 

Organization: Hablamos Juntos - UCSF 
Web Address: http://hablamosjuntos.org
Job Rank: Translator  
Specialty Areas: Translation 
Required Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                      English (eng) 
                      Russian (rus) 
                      Spanish (spa) 
                      Vietnamese (vie) 

Description:
Health organizations need practical tools to assess the quality of materials
developed for populations unable to read English. Bilinguals, language
professionals and professional translators, with advanced/superior proficiency
in Spanish, Chinese, Russian or Vietnamese interested assessing the quality of
translated materials are invited to submit a resume and complete a required
application.

Current approaches for assessing the quality of translations enjoy limited
success and applicability. Researchers and practitioners agree divergent
definitions of quality and a lack of consensus hinder progress in this area. 
This project draws on current theories of translation quality assessment, the
experience of translators of health materials and applies lessons from studying
translation errors to develop a tool to assess the quality of translated
materials. Raters are needed to test a prototype Translation Quality Assessment
(TQA) tool.  

Availability:	
2-3 Weeks in March or April 2007

Position:
Hablamos Juntos, a project funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and
administered by UCSF Fresno, Center for Medical & Education Research is seeking
bilinguals, language professionals and professional translators with
advanced/superior proficiency in Spanish, Chinese, Russian or Vietnamese.

Project Requirements:	
- Participate in scheduled telephone conference calls
- Read orientation manual and participate (by conference call) in an orientation
and practice session to learn how to use the tool
- Rate 5-8 translated documents and complete rating tool per instructions
- Participate in rating feedback sessions via conference calls

Who May Apply:	
- Educated bilinguals 
- Professional translators
- Academics, linguists, language teachers (language professionals who are
not professional translators)

Application Deadline: 09-Mar-2007 

Contact Information:
	Gretchen Straker 
	Email: gstraker at fresno.ucsf.edu 

Apply on-line at: http://hablamosjuntos.org/is/training/default.training.asp#pos





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