Bilingual Admin Support Officer
Your main duty will be to provide admin support to run the interpretation section of Kirklees Community Languages Service which will include receiving and recording bookings of interpretation assignments; locating interpreters; confirming bookings to customers by making effective use of databases and other IT programmes; processing interpreters claim forms and ensuring that the resources available are used to best effect.
You will have experience in a customer service environment with administration, clerical and reception duties. With effective written and verbal communication skills in English, you will also be able to speak fluently in one of the main minority ethnic languages of Kirklees, namely Pahari-Potowari, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kurdish, Arabic, Polish or Hungarian.
Knowledge and understanding of the cultural and linguistic needs of asylum seekers, refugees and black and minority communities is desirable.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Abid Hussain on 01484 223232.
If you are internal and want to apply for this job as a secondment you must be a substantive employee of the Council with over 6 months continuous service and have successfully completed your probation period.
Applications for secondments will only be accepted if approved by your manager, you will be asked to confirm on your application form that you have the relevant permission. If you are refused permission to apply for a secondment, please contact HR Recruitment to register the refusal.
13 December 2020, 11:55 PM
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