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  "title": "Language Services",
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      "heading": "What We Do",
      "content": "- The Language Services Division of the Corporate Services and Facilities Department (CSF) provides official interpretation and translation services for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\n- Responsible for the maintenance of a multilingual terminology database.\n- Provide multilingual services to facilitate IMF communication with its membership in support of the IMF’s mandates of surveillance, lending and capacity development.\n- Translate IMF documents and/or publications:\n  - From English into Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.\n  - From Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish into English.\n  - Other language combinations are offered upon request.\n- Provide interpretation services in support of all Fund activities worldwide, including:\n  - Hybrid and virtual meetings using remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI) platforms.\n  - The Annual and Spring Meetings.\n  - Seminars, workshops, and training courses.\n  - Missions by staff and short-term technical assistance experts.\n  - Long-term expert and resident advisor assignments in the field.\n- Work locations: Washington, D.C. or anywhere around the globe."
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      "heading": "Who Should Apply",
      "content": "- Experienced language specialists, including:\n  - Interpreters, translators, editors, proofreaders, project coordinators, and language technologists.\n- Required expertise:\n  - Economic and financial translation experience.\n- Language combination requirements:\n  - One or more of the following combinations: English into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian and other languages; and from these listed languages plus other languages into English.\n- Candidate qualifications:\n  - One of the mentioned languages should be the candidate’s native language.\n  - Ability to work under pressure.\n  - Only qualified candidates will be contacted and invited to take written tests.\n- Additional opportunities:\n  - Seeking experienced language professionals (interpreters and translators) in multiple other language combinations in any IMF member country for freelance or short-term contracts."
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      "heading": "How to Apply",
      "content": "- Candidates interested in collaborating with the IMF on a freelance basis are invited to send their CVs to LanguageFreelancers@imf.org.\n- Email subject line instructions:\n  - Use “Freelance translator”, “Freelance interpreter”, “Freelance editor”, or “Freelance DTP specialists” and include your language combination as the subject of your email."
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