Freelance opportunities for language interpreters - CHICAGO ONLY

Cross-Cultural Interpreting Services of Heartland Alliance is looking for language interpreters for Chicago-based assignments. All of our interpreter work is offered through an independent contractor arrangement.

If you are interested in being a language on-site interpreter, we require proof of medical interpreter training of at least 40 hours. Send a copy of your training certificate and resume to ccis@heartlandalliance.org.  If you have not completed this level of training, we offer this service. For more information about our interpreter training program, visit: http://www.heartlandalliance.org/ccis/training/

All individuals interested in employment with Heartland Alliance
must complete an online application.  

View our Job Board to review open positions and submit your application.  Be prepared to enter or cut and paste information about your educational background, employment history, and other job qualifications during the application process.  

It's more than a job. It's a purpose.

We invite you to consider a career at Heartland Alliance, a nationally recognized service-based human rights organization. Multicultural and multifaceted, staff members are drawn together by one common factor – a deep and often passionate commitment to the organization’s mission. Heartland Alliance is a dynamic and exciting place to develop your career.

Our Human Capital

We currently have more than 925 staff with expertise in areas such as community development, property management, medical care, mental health, dentistry, social work, law, education, and public policy. We also have more than 1,200 volunteers contributing more than 107,000 hours of service annually and play important roles as mentors, therapists, pro bono attorneys, and more.  

Employees at Heartland Alliance commit to act with integrity in a professional and service-oriented manner; and demonstrate respect for divergent opinions, beliefs, lifestyles, and cultural traditions.

Many of our positions are part of a collective bargaining unit (union). These positions are represented by United Human Services Workers - a unit of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320, AFL-CIO. These positions have pre-determined hiring ranges as indicated on the postings and incumbents will be required to pay union dues/fees.

All candidates must complete an online application, which is available on our Job Board.

 You've applied online, now what happens next?

Heartland Alliance's job board provides a central point of access for applicants seeking employment.  Each position, however, is managed by an individual hiring manager, and the interview and selection process varies by type of position, location, specialty area, population served, etc. 

If you've submitted your application online and you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, your application is in process.

As much as we'd like to personalize this process, we are limited by time and resources and the fact that there is much work to do in advancing human rights.

Know that we very much appreciate your interest!

Heartland Alliance makes all hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight or HIV infection, in accord with the Agency's AIDS Policy Statement of September 1987.

Employee Benefits

Heartland Alliance offers various benefit programs to eligible employees.

Service opportunities

You can also support our mission by being a volunteer or intern at Heartland Alliance. We make every attempt to match interested individuals with appropriate programs or departments.