Closing date: 31 Oct 2015
Translators without Borders, a US 501(c) 3 non-profit with an operations centre in Kenya, was founded in 1993 to provide volunteer translations to non-profit organizations. In 2010, the organization started a virtual platform to better coordinate these resources. In the last five years we have translated over 25 millions words of life-saving and life-changing content in over 100 languages. Our latest activations around the Ebola crisis and Nepal earthquake have won widespread praise from the international community.
Although we remain a volunteer-driven organization with a small team, we have now secured funding to hire three key personnel, with the aim of taking the organization to a new level of professionalism, developing our extensive network of partnerships, and further developing our strong technology platform.
The Executive Director Role
The Executive Director (ED) is the Chief Executive Officer of the organization, and will bring to the role extensive international management experience with humanitarian organizations. The ED reports to the Board of Directors, and is responsible for the organization's consistent achievement of its mission and financial objectives.
The ED will assure that the organization executes on its strategy, which promotes and achieves its mission to provide local language content for stricken or disadvantaged populations. The role will focus on providing leadership in developing program, organizational and financial plans with the Board of Directors and staff, and carry out plans and policies authorized by the Board. Given the strong role of volunteers to our work, a priority will be to promote active and broad participation by volunteers in all areas of the organization's work.
In communications, the Executive Director will further develop the strong relationships with the major international non-profits we work with. The ED will work to create a high profile for the organization, its programs and goals, as well as ensuring that the board is kept fully informed on the condition of the organization and all important factors influencing it.
The ED will work closely with the experienced Deputy Director, who has been in post for 5 years, and will lead the process for the recruitment, employment, and release of personnel, both paid staff and volunteers.
The Executive Director will be responsible for developing and maintaining solid financial planning and ensuring that the financial targets in both spending and revenue are met.
Core Values
Translators without Borders employees and volunteers are made of people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. Translators without Borders’ mission and organizational spirit are made up of the core values established in its strategic framework:
Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, Translators without Borders is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
Integrity: Translators without Borders believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
Empowerment: Translators without Borders believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
Innovation: Translators without Borders recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
Sustainability: Translators without Borders recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.
Organizational Background
Translators without Borders envisions a world where knowledge knows no language barriers. The US-based nonprofit provides people access to vital knowledge in their language by connecting nonprofit organizations with a professional community of volunteer translators, building local language translation capacity, and raising awareness of language barriers. Originally founded in 1994 in France as Traducteurs sans Frontières (now its sister organization), Translators without Borders translates millions of words per year, provides rapid response teams for crises and trains community and professional translators in places where translation is not well established. For more information and to volunteer or donate, please visit: http://www.translatorswithoutborders.org or follow on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/TranslatorsWB
How to apply:
Qualified candidates should send CV and cover letter to info@translatorswithoutborders.org; closing date is 31 October.