If you are a translator, interpreter, or skilled multilingual person eager to use your language skills to provide material support to migrants, refugees, and people impacted by language rights violations, please join the Respond Crisis Translation team!

The majority of translating is remote so you can be located in any country or timezone. Fill the form and we will be in touch with you soon:

Adangme
Afrikaans
Akan
Akan (Twi)
Akateko
Albanian
American Sign Language (ASL)
Amharic
Amuzgo
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Azerbaijani

Bambara
Bangla
Belarusian
Bengali
Bissa
Borana
Bosnian
Bulgarian 
Burmese

Cameroonian Pidgin
Cantonese
Cape Verdean Creole
Carinneam Creolese
Catalan
Cataloninan Sign Language (LSC)
Chamoru
Chechen
Chichewa
Colombian Sign Language (LSC)
Crimea Tatar
Croatian
Czech

Dagaara
Danish
Dari
Dholuo
Dutch 

English
Estonian
Ewe
Ewondo

Falam Chin
Farsi
Finnish
French
French Sign Language (LSF)
Fulani

G
Gagauz
Garifuna
Garre
Georgian
German
Gonja
Gourmantche
Greek 
Guarani
Guinean Creole
Gujarati
Guyanese Creole

Hassaniya
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian

Igbo
Indonesian
Italian
Italian Sing Language (LSI)
Ixil

Jakaltek / Popti’
Japanese

K’iche’
Kannada
Kaqchikel
Karen
Kazakh
Khmer
Kmier (Cambodian)
Kichwa
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Kiswahili
Kituba
Korean
Kreyol
Krio
Kurdish
Kusasi
Kyrgyz

Lao
Lingala
Lithuanian
Luganda
Luo

Maay Maay
Macedonian
Malayalam
Malinke
Mam
Mandarin
Mandingo
Marathi
Meta’
MSL (Mexican Sign Language)
Mina
Mixteco
Mixteco Bajio
Mo
Moghamo
Mongolian
More/Mossi

Nahuatl  
Neapolitan
Nepali
Ngemba
Nupe

Oromo

Pashto
Pidgin English
Polish
Portuguese
Pulaar
Punjabi

Q’anjobal
Q’eqchi’
Quechua
Q'eqchi'

Romani
Romanian
Russian
Russian Sign Language (RSL)

Serbian
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
Sipakapense
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Soninke
Spanish
Spanish Sign Language (LSE)
Swahili
Swedish
Sylheti

Tagalog
Tajiki
Tamil
Tektiteko
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Turkish
Turkmen
Tz’utujil

Urdu
Uzbek

Venezuelan Sing Langauge (LSV)
Vietnamese

Wolof

Yoruba

Zaghawa
Zapotec
Zoque

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Staff Role: Apply HERE

  • Bay Area Fundraising/Community Coordinator

    As the need for our work is growing exponentially, we are seeking a paid team member based in the Bay Area, CA. The Bay Area Fundraising/Community Coordinator will provide support with fundraising while also helping to sustain and grow our work with our community of partners and language practitioners both in-person and remotely.

Volunteer Roles: Apply HERE

  • Afghan Languages, English and Spanish Proofreaders

    We are seeking volunteer bilingual proofreaders to review asylum applications and declarations for the following language combinations:

    Afghan Languages ↔ English
    Spanish ↔ English

  • Bangla & Vietnamese Volunteer Project Managers

    We are seeking volunteer PMs interested in coordinating the execution of translation and interpretation projects from start to finish. Common examples of projects include asylum cases, domestic violence police records, educational and Know Your Rights materials, etc. We are looking for support in the following language combinations:

    Bangla ↔ English
    Vietnamese ↔ English

  • Volunteer English Teachers

    We are currently seeking a Volunteer English Teacher to join our team to help talented translators in our network who are seeking to practice oral English skills.

  • Social Media Volunteer

    We need help managing and updating our social media platforms, creating content in collaboration with the team, responding to inquiries, and tracking the effectiveness of our social media efforts.

  • Blog/Newsletter Volunteer

    We are looking for a Blog/Newsletter Volunteer to collect and write stories about language rights violations and interventions, and help create monthly newsletters and blogs to share these insights.