Translator engagement terms

You are engaged by muhubiri as an independent contractor, not an employee. You are free to accept or decline any task offered to you, to work for other clients, and to set the hours you work. Nothing in these terms creates an employment relationship, partnership, or agency.

Your pay rate is a per-hour rate in Kenyan shillings, agreed with muhubiri when you are onboarded onto a language pair. You report the hours you actually worked on each task when you submit it; your pay for that task is your hourly rate multiplied by the hours you reported.

When a church requests human-validated dubbing, a task is assigned to you with the original transcript and the machine translation. You listen to the source audio, correct the translation line by line, and submit it along with the hours you worked.

Your submission goes to the church for review. The church may accept it, at which point the corrected translation is voiced and published, or reject it with notes explaining what is wrong. Rejected work goes to a second review by muhubiri: if the second review upholds the church's rejection, the work is deemed defective; if it does not, the task returns to the church for a further look.

You are paid only after all three of the following have happened: (1) the church has accepted your work, (2) the dubbed sermon has actually been published/broadcast, and (3) a 72-hour complaint window has passed from publication without a valid complaint being upheld against it. Work sits as "payable pending" during that window and moves to payable once it clears — this protects both you and the church from paying out before anyone has had a fair chance to flag a real problem with what went live.

If a second review upholds a church's rejection of your work as defective, that task is unpaid — you do not receive the hourly pay you would otherwise have earned for it. A pattern of defective work, or work found to be fraudulent (for example, reporting hours you did not work, or submitting a translation you did not actually review), is grounds for muhubiri to end your engagement on the platform. This mirrors how we protect churches from being billed for work that was never actually checked properly: it has to run both ways.

Sermon audio, transcripts and translations you access as a validator belong to the church that uploaded them and are confidential. You may use them only to complete the task assigned to you. You may not copy, redistribute, publish, or reuse church content for any other purpose, during or after your engagement with muhubiri, except where the church has itself published that content publicly.

Payable tasks are grouped by translator and totalled in Kenyan shillings (hours worked multiplied by your agreed hourly rate). muhubiri pays out via M-Pesa; each payout is recorded against the M-Pesa transaction receipt at the time it is sent, and you can see which tasks a given payout covers. If a payout amount ever looks wrong, tell us the affected task and payout date — we keep the underlying task and payment records to check it against.

Either you or muhubiri may end this engagement at any time, for any lawful reason, effective on notice. Tasks already payable at the time of termination are still paid out on the normal schedule; tasks still inside the 72-hour complaint window at termination are paid once that window closes cleanly, on the same terms as if you were still active.

These terms are governed by the laws of Kenya. Any dispute arising out of or relating to your engagement that cannot be resolved informally will be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration seated in Nairobi, Kenya, conducted in English, with the arbitral award being final and binding on both parties.

Questions about a task, a payout, or these terms: write to hello@muhubiri.com.