How to Join
Apply to join by accessing our application form. Your application must be followed up by posting in certified copies of relevant qualifications to the address on the form.
Applicants for membership of NZSTI must live and work in New Zealand, or retain significant existing links to New Zealand.
We will confirm receipt of your application which is then submitted to the membership committee for consideration and recommendation.
Once approved, we will send you relevant documentation and an invoice for the fees due. Once your fees are received in full your membership will be activated.
If you wish to download and print off an application form click here - when completed, please post to the address on the form.
Language direction and Translator Membership:
Translator membership is language direction specific. Translation direction will be into the mother tongue unless qualifications have been obtained in both directions.
This rigorous system of qualification approval and colleague endorsement ensures high performance by any Member.
Membership Types:
Each application for membership is considered on an individual basis by the national council of the NZSTI, and results in admission to any one of the following three classes of membership.
Members (or ordinary members) are those members with any one or more of the following:
- have an approved degree in translation or interpreting, or
- have passed a National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) translator or interpreter Level examination (formerly Level III) or
- have successfully completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Translation Studies or Master of Professional Studies from the University of Auckland with an average grade of B or better, and B+ in the Advanced Translation Practice paper.
- other equivalent qualifications and/or experience, e.g. published translation work may be considered.
Affiliates are those persons whose qualifications do not qualify them for ordinary member status. Generally Affiliates will have attended part-time training courses to obtain qualifications in translation and/or interpreting studies. Any one or more of the following qualifications shall qualify applicants for Affiliate status:
- NAATI Para-professional examination, (formerly level II) as the overall benchmark;
- One-year part-time interpreting/translation studies at an educational institute recognised by NZSTI
- Certificate of Advanced Interpreting, Auckland University
- The Auckland University Postgraduate Diploma of Translation Studies or Master of Professional Studies, with pass grades below the grade required for Membership.
- A three-year language degree with a certified significant translation component, equivalent to part-time translation studies.
- Other courses deemed to be equivalent in the assessment of the Council.
Observers are those persons who have an interest in the society and profession, without having a qualification in either interpreting or translation.
To request further information about the application process, or request additional information about the society itself, please contact the national secretary (click here)
