Translation of documents English to Albanian & vice versa; Deadline: April 25

Details

Mission and objectives

CLCI’s mission is to support, aid and provide legal education to the citizens, giving priority to women and girls, so as to increase their access to public institutions, and in particular in the justice system. The objectives of CLCI are: • Offering free and psycho-social legal services for the victims of domestic violence and of other violent acts and for the people in need. • Legal education, with the aim of recognizing and exerting the human rights and freedoms, as provided for by the Constitution, international acts and laws. • Advocacy and lobbying for democratization of the justice system and building of its effectiveness, by studying, monitoring and generalizing the best experience and practice in the justice field. • Undertaking and support of initiatives for improving the legislation and for lobbying for draft-laws and state policies in the field of protection of the human rights, focusing on gender equality, fight against domestic violence, fight against corruption and trafficking of human beings, aiming their full compliance with the best advanced international standards and the European Union acquis.

Context

The volunteer will, to the best of his/her ability, competently and correctly translate the English versions of documents into Albanian and vice-versa. These documents can range from reports, court decisions, international acts on human rights, posts for all social media channels of CLCI, statement, CLCI’s researches, etc., to make the work and information CLCI’s office produces more accessible to a wider audience. The text may contain some professional law & international human rights standards vocabulary. The documents can range from a few short paragraphs to documents up to a maximum of 10 pages in A4 format. The Online Volunteer will have the opportunity to build connections with the Center for Legal Civic Initiatives team and learn about the ways in which the translated product contributes to communication strategy of CLCI with donors, communities, CSOs, beneficiaries, etc.

Task description

CLCI is seeking 1 Online Volunteer graduated in English Language to support the team of the organization by translating different documents from English language to Albanian language and vice versa. To this end the Online Volunteer is asked: - To translate for no more than 10 hours per week; - Ensure the translation is concise, in line with our communications guidelines, and fits the audience The selected Online Volunteer will be provided with the document in the original language (English or Albanian) and will receive guidance if it is necessary.