The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (immi.gov.au) operates Australia’s Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National). TIS is currently looking to recruit interpreters and translaters; TIS wants people with good language skills in various community languages as well as English to provide interpreting services to clients.
TIS National is currently advertising on seek.com.au, and is
interested in recruiting people who can interpret from the following languages [see list below] into English and who are accredited by the National Authority for the Accreditation of Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).
Here’s a list from the TIS ad on Seek which I’ve augmented with details relevant to 3ZZZ and training in community languages:
- Albanian 3ZZZ
- Bengali: Please contact Warren or Jo at Radio 3ZZZ for information on the next free radio training course
- Burmese: 3ZZZ needs more Burmese trainees. Please contact Warren or Jo at Radio 3ZZZ for information on the next free radio training course
- Dinka: Peter (Deng to his friends) and others from southern Sudan are currently part of 3ZZZ’s Starting Out training; Peter alternates with trainees from Ghana, on air Wednesday 7-8am
- Hindi (check out 3ZZZ’s Indian program)
- Hmong 3ZZZ: many Hmong moved to Australia from China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, after the Laotian civil war in the mid 1970s
- Indonesian 3ZZZ
- Khmer: 3ZZZ has a Cambodian program
- Kurdish 3ZZZ
- Macedonian 3ZZZ
- Nepali
- Sihalese 3ZZZ
- Somali 3ZZZ
- Tamil
- Urdu (a language based on Persian and Sanskritic dialects of spoken in North India)
TIS is also interested in recruiting interpreters in the following languages which are not currently accredited by NAATI:
- Kirundi (a Bantu language spoken by some 6 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda. 85% of the speakers are Hutu, 15% are Tutsi.)
- Nuer (an African people from the Upper Nile region of Sudan)
- Rohingya (spoken by some Muslims from Western Burma) [& see wikipedia]
- Swahili (a widely spoken Bantu language; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania)
