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Hourly Realtime Captionist
| RECRUITMENT ID: | S404 |
| DEPARTMENT: | National Center on Deafness (NCOD) |
| SALARY/TIMEBASE: | $16.20-134.96 hr./Intermittent (Hiring Range: up to $60.00 hr.) |
| GENERAL INFORMATION: | Temporary - renewable, end date to be determined. This position has previously been announced. The position is posted again to indicate a change in the recruitment ID# and salary range. |
| Duties: | |
| Under direct supervision of the Realtime Coordinator and the Notetaking Specialist, provides Realtime Captioning as a support service. Records classroom lectures, meetings, and conferences verbatim/contextually accurately on stenograph machine with instantaneous translation on portable PC computer for hearing-impaired students and staff; maintains and upgrades technical and academic stenographic dictionaries; reviews and edits transcripts; creates diskettes and printed transcripts of notes; and performs other duties as assigned. | |
| Qualifications: | |
| Realtime experience which provided knowledge and understanding of various modes of communication and needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Minimum of 180 wpm Realtime stenowriting (literary-based text) and 200 wpm general text, with steno-based computer translation experience. Main dictionary of 50,000 entries with fewer than 0.25 percent conflicts. | |
| Knowledge, Specialized Skills, and Abilities: | |
| Working knowledge of Microsoft applications. Ability and specialized skills to: operate IBM-compatible notebook computer and all peripheral Realtime display devices; demonstrated excellence in university-level English and spelling skills with broad-based vocabulary; flexibility in scheduling; and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students and staff. Other specialized skills directly related to the duties of the position may be considered. | |
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