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Hourly Interpreter
| RECRUITMENT ID: | S 405 |
| DEPARTMENT: | National Center on Deafness (NCOD) |
| SALARY/TIMEBASE: | $16.20-134.96 hr./Intermittent |
| GENERAL INFORMATION: | Temporary - renewable, end date to be determined. This position has previously been annnounced. The position is posted again to indicate a change in the recruitment ID# and salary range. |
| Duties: | |
| Under general supervision, facilitates the integration of hearing-impaired persons into the regular classroom or other instructional settings by using sign language or oral transmitting by interpreting the spoken or signed communication. The least difficult positions require the translating of lectures or ordinary conversational vocabulary into oral transmitting which can be understood by a lip reader. The most difficult positions may employ sign to voice interpretation to assist students to participate fully in academic and student activities. Other difficult assignments may involve the following: technical or specialized subject matter, concepts, theory, and vocabulary requiring special signs, serving several hearing-impaired persons, and involving some persons who speak very rapidly. | |
| Qualifications: | |
| Any combination of experience and training in voice to sign to voice interpreting or transliterating which demonstrates assurance of skills appropriate for the level of the assignment. Such combinations of experience and training should be equivalent to those prescribed for certification in one of the following categories: Interpreter Certificate, Transliterator Certificate, Reverse Skills Certificate, Comprehensive Skills Certificate, or one of the Oral Interpreter Certificates (either Comprehensive Skills Certificate, Spoken to Visible, or Visible to Spoken). | |
| Knowledge, Specialized Skills, and Abilities: | |
| Depending on assignment, positions will vary in kinds and extent of knowledge and abilities required, but typically include: knowledge of American Sign Language, or other sign system required by the student or the assignment; knowledge of the methods and techniques used in communicating with hearing-impaired persons; and knowledge of the vocabulary used in the courses to which assigned. Ability to: hear spoken language communication; use American Sign Language or other sign systems; interpret spoken English at a rate appropriate to assignment; vocally express for hearing-impaired signers; and interpret or transliterate for a group of hearing and hearing-impaired persons. | |
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