Consultant Development & Management

Tracking 26 Initiatives

8 - CiT Training Programs

• Convergence: Wycliffe USA Accelerated (Fast Track) Consultant Development - Bryan Harmelink 
• Seed Company Translation Consultant Development / Residency Program - Dan Jones
• SIL Translation Consultant Development Initiative - Brian Migliazza
• SIL Asia TCDW (Translation Consultant Development Initiative) - Angie Foo
• SIL Americas  SILTEC (SIL Taller de Entrenamiento en Consultoría) - Translation Consultant Development Initiative - Alejandra Guajardo & Rick Floyd
• AFTRAC - Anglophone Africa Training and Consultant Development - Jonathan vd Broek
• DTRAD - Francophone Translation Consultant Development - Drew Maust
• DIU - Graduate Certificate in Translation Consulting - George Payton

5 - MA Training Programs

• CanIL Master’s Training Program for Consultants  (MATS)- Joost Pikkert
• Whole Word Institute (Israel) MA and Consultant Training - Randall Buth
• DIU - MA in Translation Advising - George Payton
• Master of Applied Linguistics for Bible Translation (MALi BT and Mali CT—Consultancy Training), YWAM University of the Nations - Bryan Harmelink
• Dallas Christian College Master of Arts in Language Development & Translation. PBT program - Phil King

3 - Ongoing Professional Development Programs

• Training Consultants in Mentoring - Michael Jemphrey
• NT2OT: Hebrew Training for Translation Consultants - Brian Migliazza
• CBBT-QA : Church Based Bible Translation-Quality Assurance - Phil King

2- Orality Programs

• Equipping Consultants to Serve Oral Translation Projects - Nathan Payne
• Spoken Worldwide initiative for church-centric OBT quality assurance - Brian Kelly

6 - Management & Deployment Programs

• Global Consultant Pool - Viji Mathew
• Consultant Think Tank (Translation) - Phil King
• SIL Asia Area Translation & Consultant Tracking System - Amber Jasa
• Translation Consultant Marketplace - Matt Merritt
• I55 Consultant Tracking - Richard Gravina
• Nigeria Consultant Tracking - Mark Gaddis

2 - Global Tools

• Competency-Based Consultant Certification (CBC) - Bibi Nédellec
• Digital Training Library - Hans Combrink

Articles

• Paul Kimbi and Bibi Nédellec discuss aspects of Rethinking Consultancy: Experts Address a Longstanding Bottleneck

• Paul Kimbi (2023). Translating for Transformation: The Missional Impulse of Translation. EMQ » April–June 2023 » Volume 59 Issue 2. Summary: Missions includes church planting, evangelism, reconciliation, and much more. Bible translation programs aim to do all of these things, yet they can be seen as periphery to real mission work. Does Bible translation have a missional impulse that is essential to long-term transformation of individuals and communities?

Robust Mentoring

• Mentor Training Courses

• Michael Jemphrey  works closely with Robust Mentoring, whose resources are available on the Mentoring Matters website. 

• For more information about Robust Mentoring contact Eszter Ernst-Kurdi or Michael Jemphrey