Consultancy: Interpreter

Terms of Reference for Interpreter

Under the Project ‘Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme for Syrian refugees and Lebanese host communities

Oxfam Lebanon Programme

Background

Oxfam is an organisation that works to address the causes of poverty through campaigning and responding to the needs of the poor. In Lebanon, Oxfam works in both development and humanitarian contexts, focusing particularly on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH), Protection and Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods. In responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Oxfam addresses the emergency water needs through WaSH service provision to populations residing in informal settlements; and to those of the Lebanese host communities and local authorities through efforts to improve water infrastructure and management systems.

Under the Joint Humanitarian Development Framework (JHDF) WaSH was identified as a key priority sector for Lebanon. A WaSH consortium that consists of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Oxfam, World Vision International (WVI) and Gruppo di Volontario Civile (GVC) have come together to implement the project “Improving access to safe and affordable water to vulnerable communities” under the EU Madad Trust Fund programme “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme for Syrian refugees and Lebanese host communities”. The project aims to contribute to effective, sustainable and multi-level water governance in crisis affected Lebanon, through empowering local and regional authorities and demonstrating cost effective systems for water service provision.

Under this consortium, OXFAM and Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) are organizing the Lebanon Water Forum.

The conference will be conducted virtually, and the tentative dates are February 23, 24 and 25, 2021 from 12:00 to 14:30.

Scope of work

Qualified supplier will provide the following service:

• Simultaneous interpretation services from English to Arabic and vice versa during the event.

Equipment and materials

The supplier (interpreter) should only have access to a laptop and internet. The supplier will be added as an interpreter to the zoom webinar.

Contract Requirements

• Previous experience virtually event.
• Preferably previous experience working with NGOs.

Coordination:

The selected interpreter will work closely with Oxfam’s Senior media & communication officer and project manager.

Timeframe and Payment

• Payment will be 100% after completion of service.

Modality of Payment

• The “modality of payment” (fresh or regular check/transfer), also state if you have MoF# or not (if yes, please provide legal doc)”

Budget and Assessment

The bidders should submit

• Financial proposal
• The company profile.
• References for similar jobs in the past 1 year.
• Name(s) and CVs or brief summary of the professional background of key personnel to be involved in this task.

Please also state the “modality of payment” (fresh or regular check/transfer) & share MoF# registration document scanned if registered

Deadline is on Friday February 5, 2021

Let the subject of the email be “[Oxfam] Interpretation water forum (23,24,25 February 2021)”