TOR: French Interpreter (Remote, Hourly Consultant) - Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia

ABOUT INKOMOKO

Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in order to improve livelihoods, create jobs, and help communities thrive.

In 2025, Inkomoko was listed by the Financial Times as the 8th fastest-growing company in Africa, supporting entrepreneurs across East and Central Africa to grow thriving businesses and build inclusive, resilient economies.

Founded in 2012, Inkomoko has worked with more than 100,000 entrepreneurs, including thousands of refugee entrepreneurs. Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change. We are the largest investor to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa.

Inkomoko has 750+ staff in 40 offices across Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Through Inkomoko's 2030 strategic plan, we are adding 3 additional countries to serve more than 550,000 entrepreneurs and growing our $30M loan fund to impact 7M lives.

1. Background

To support effective cross-language collaboration, Inkomoko is hiring a professional French Interpreter to provide live remote simultaneous and/or consecutive translation between English and French during internal meetings, training, and workshops, primarily through remote platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet.

- Position Title: French Interpreter (Remote)
- Duration: Through end of year, possibility to extend
- Location: Remote (East Africa time zone preferred)
- Reports to: Head of Talent Development

2. Objective of the Assignment

The purpose of this role is to provide accurate, high-quality real-time interpretation between English and French for Inkomoko meetings, workshops, and communications to ensure smooth collaboration among multilingual teams, specifically to support effective communication and collaboration between our growing team in Chad and our other country teams.

3. Scope of Work

The French Interpreter will be responsible for:

• Providing live interpretation (English ↔ French) during virtual or in-person meetings, workshops, and trainings.
• Supporting simultaneous interpretation for group events and consecutive interpretation for smaller discussions or interviews.
• Preparing in advance by reviewing meeting materials, agendas, or presentation content shared beforehand.
• Ensuring confidentiality, accuracy, and neutrality in all communications.
• Providing language and cultural clarification as needed to enhance understanding.
• Occasionally translating short written content (e.g., meeting notes, chat summaries, or materials) as requested.

4. Deliverables

• Accurate and timely interpretation for all assigned meetings or events.
• Availability for pre-meeting briefings when required.
• Professional communication and conduct consistent with Inkomoko's values.
• Submission of a brief monthly activity summary (list of sessions interpreted, duration, feedback).

Requirements

5. Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Translation, Languages, Communication, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in French-English interpretation, ideally in development, business, or NGO settings.
• Demonstrated experience providing remote simultaneous interpretation using Zoom or similar platforms.
• Excellent command of both English and French (native or near-native fluency).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Familiarity with East African or Francophone African contexts is an advantage.

6. Duration and Level of Effort

• The consultant will work on an as-needed basis, with an estimated workload of 5-10 hours per month.
• The schedule will depend on upcoming Inkomoko meetings and events.
• Contract duration: Through end of year with the possibility to extend.

7. Reporting & Collaboration

The Interpreter will report to the Head of Talent Development and will coordinate closely with the P&C, Operations, and Office of CEO to plan for interpretation needs.

Benefits

8. Payment Terms

• Payment will be made per hour or per session based on an agreed rate.
• The interpreter will submit an invoice at the end of each month listing dates and durations of services provided.
• Rates will be determined based on experience and Inkomoko's consultant fee schedule.

TO APPLY

If you're excited about this role, please submit your CV including at least two professional references and a cover letter highlighting relevant experience by Friday, October 31st 2025.

Inkomoko is committed to justice, diversity, equity and inclusion. As we seek to reflect the communities we serve, refugees and women are strongly encouraged to apply. As a company we have policies that ensure fair treatment in the application process.

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Employment is conditional upon successful background checks and other verification as needed.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and background screening checks. Inkomoko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants' previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, fraud, or abuse. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.