Skills
42 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Essential knowledge
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Essential skills / competences
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Optional knowledge
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Optional skills / competences
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Overview
Interpretation agency managers run the delivery of interpreting services, coordinate interpreter teams and keep agency administration, budgets and service quality on track.
In job descriptions, look for interpreting modes, language strategy, confidentiality, quality assessment, client relationships, team leadership, project management and consecutive or simultaneous interpretation.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
The role keeps interpreting assignments moving: matching interpreters to spoken-language needs, planning projects, checking service quality, handling agency administration and protecting confidentiality.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes interpreting modes, consecutive and simultaneous work, language rules, client relationship management, budgets, team leadership and reports on service delivery.
Salary context
Salary context depends on agency size, language portfolio, budget responsibility, client contracts, interpreter team scope, quality control duties and whether the manager still handles complex interpreting assignments.
Career paths
Development can lead toward larger language-service operations, translation strategy, account management, quality management, public-service interpreting coordination or broader professional-services management.
Good to know
Check whether the vacancy is about running an agency, supervising interpreters, selling language services or delivering interpretation personally. Strong adverts name languages, interpreting modes, clients, quality checks and scheduling responsibility.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Alternative labels
language translation agency director
language translation agency supervisor
translation service manager
language interpretation service manager
language interpreter
language translation service manager
language interpretation agency supervisor
language interpretation agency director
translation agency manager
interpretation agency director
interpretation agency supervisor
language translation agency manager
language interpretation agency manager
language translator
Occupation group
Professional services managers not elsewhere classified (1349)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7d7ea936-a1c6-499d-9aa7-054e943b019b |
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| ESCO code | 1349.15 |
| ISCO group | 1349 |
| Concept type | Occupation |