Language Services
Language Services Division of the Corporate Services and Facilities Department (CSF) is a team of dedicated language professionals, including interpreters, translators, editors, project coordinators and language technologists.
What We Do
The Language Services Division provides official interpretation and translation services for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We are responsible for the maintenance of a multilingual terminology database.
We work in Washington, D.C. or anywhere around the globe to facilitate communication between the IMF, its member countries, and the general public. The multilingual services we provide are to facilitate the IMF in its communication with its membership as it carries out its mandates of surveillance, lending and capacity development. We translate IMF documents and/or publications from English into Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, and from those languages into English. Other language combinations are offered as well upon request.
We also provide interpretation services in support of all Fund activities worldwide, including meetings and conferences: hybrid and virtual meetings using remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI) platforms; the Annual and Spring Meetings; seminars, workshops, and training courses; missions by staff and short-term technical assistance experts; and long-term expert and resident advisor assignments in the field.
Who Should Apply
We are looking for experienced language specialists, translators, editors, proofreaders, interpreters with expertise in economic and financial translation. Candidates must have one or more of the following language combinations: English into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian and other languages; and from these listed languages plus other languages into English.
Candidates should have one of the mentioned languages as their native language; and they must have the ability to work under pressure. Only qualified candidates will be contacted and be invited to take written tests.
We are also looking for experienced language professionals (interpreters and translators) in multiple other language combinations in any of the IMF member countries to work under freelance or short-term contracts.
How to Apply
Candidates who are interested in collaborating with the IMF on a freelance basis are invited to send their CVs to LanguageFreelancers@imf.org. Kindly use “Freelance translator”, “Freelance interpreter”, “Freelance editor”, or “Freelance DTP specialists” and your language combination as the subject of your email.