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We are constantly seeking experienced translators to complement our team of professional freelance translators. We are keen to hear from you if you have one or more of the following:

• a recognised translation qualification (e.g. NAATI);
• a higher education qualification and a minimum of two years' translation experience;
• at least five years' professional translation experience.

AND have linguistic competence in English and at least one of the following languages:

Amharic Armenian Assyrian Azeri Bengali Bosnian Cook Islands Maori Danish Dari Estonian Fijian Finnish Georgian Greek Hindi Icelandic Jawi Kazakh Khmer Kurdish Lao

Lithuanian Malayalam Marathi Marshallese Mongolian Niuean Norwegian Oromo Pashto Serbian Somali Swedish Tagalog Tamil Telugu Tibetan Tigrinya Tokelauan Tuvaluan Uzbek

If you are interested please contact us on +64 (0)4 816 4011 or 0800 872 675 or translate@dia.govt.nz for an application form and translation test.
Please note that if your application is accepted, you will be required to provide a police clearance certificate or to authorise us to access a copy of any criminal record information.

• Payments for freelance translators are normally processed weekly. Please note that no tax is deducted from the amount we pay you. We will send you a letter at the end of each financial year to inform you how much you have earned during the tax year in question.
• If you are GST registered you will forward us invoices for the agreed fee plus GST.
• Payments to translators based in New Zealand will be directed credited to a nominated account.
• Payments to translators outside of New Zealand will be made via Travelex, on receipt of invoice.