Intercultural Interpreters for Somali (hourly wage) / limited to 1 year
Stiftung Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS)
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:27 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
HEKS employs over 1500 staff in 35 countries, impacting millions. Join a diverse team dedicated to social justice and global improvement.
Tasks
- Interpret in hospitals, schools, and social institutions.
- Ensure communication between professionals and immigrants.
- Understand and explain cultural differences and structures.
Skills
- Native Somali speaker with strong German skills (B2).
- Cultural knowledge and awareness of both communities.
- Technically skilled with devices and reliable internet.
Is this helpful?
HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS operates with 290 programs and projects amounting to around 144 million Swiss francs. In 2024, HEKS reached around 16 million people with its work.
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural livelihoods are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural livelihoods are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Intercultural Interpreters for Somali (hourly wage) / limited to 1 year
HEKS Linguadukt Interpreting Service is a placement agency for intercultural interpreting in over 70 languages and dialects. Linguadukt sees itself as a language bridge between professionals and their foreign-language clients. HEKS Linguadukt - intercultural interpreting service performs oral interpreting tasks in various institutions in the health, social, education, and asylum sectors.
We are looking to complement our team at the Zurich city location immediately or by arrangement for intercultural interpreters for the language: Somali
These are your main tasks:
- Interpreting in conversations in hospitals, schools, and social institutions
- Ensuring communication between professionals and migrants with different cultural backgrounds
- Recognizing, understanding, and explaining social and cultural differences as well as structures, institutions, and ways of life
- Commitment to ongoing training (wide variety of internal, free offers)
Ideally, you bring the following:
- The language is your mother tongue
- You have very good German skills (at least B2 with certificate)
- You have a good general education and diverse life experience
- Advantage: You have the INTERPRET certificate or are in training
- Advantage: First experience in interpreting
- You bring very good knowledge of both cultures
- You are a balanced and stable personality
- You are very skilled with your smartphone and mobile internet
- You have good technical equipment: PC/laptop with current firewalls and camera, stable internet connection
You can expect from us:
- A recognized activity in an exciting environment
- Good, free training opportunities
- An exciting part-time job (assignments hourly on request)
- Regular exchange with colleagues
Would you like to join the HEKS team? Then we look forward to receiving your application via our application tool. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.
More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.
More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.
