Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Position
Language Access Specialist - Urdu
Job Number: 40795
The Agency You’ll Join
The NYC Mayor's Office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and
enforces all city, state, and federal laws within New York City. New York City’s Mayor, Eric Adams is
head of the executive branch of New York City's government. Mayor Adams has served the people of
New York City as an NYPD officer, State Senator, and Brooklyn Borough President. The Adams’
Administration is leading the fight to make New York City’s economy stronger, reduce inequality,
improve public safety, and build a stronger, healthier city that delivers for all New Yorkers. As an
agency, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these
values. For current job opportunities visit our careers page.
The Team You’ll Work With
MOIA’s Language Services Team ensures that materials are translated, and events are accessible to
limited English speakers with the support of in-person interpreters, and city agencies’ staff have access
to telephonic interpretation 24/7.
The Language Access Specialist role is a new unique exciting opportunity for an individual who is
looking to engage with the Urdu-speaking immigrant community and who enjoys the challenges
involved in translation. The Language Access Specialist will play an important role ensuring that the
Office of the Mayor fulfills its goal of improving language access across New York City.
The Problems You’ll Solve
Reporting directly to the Language Services Manager, you will spend part of your time in the office
translating a variety of documents into Urdu. Another important part of this role requires attending a
variety of offsite community events to support MOIA’s engagement and learn about language access
needs.
- Translating into Urdu a vast range of communication materials, working with Computer-
Assisted Translation (CAT) tools. Materials include, but are not limited to, website content, fact