Job Description:

Employee Type
Classified 9-Month

Education: Completion of an accredited Interpreter Training Program or related Associate’s Degree is required. Experience performing the duties of the job may substitute for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.

Qualifications: RID Certification or other nationally recognized certification.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Provide sign language interpreter services for deaf or hard-of-hearing students.
Provide interpreting for school functions outside the classroom during regularly scheduled school hours.
Serve as a liaison to promote good public relations between students who are deaf or hard of hearing and their peers, staff, faculty members, and parents.
Participate as part of the instructional team to provide continuity of instruction for students as identified in their Individual Education Plan (IEP) or as assigned by the teacher of the deaf or hard of hearing.
Confer with general education classroom teachers and the teacher of the deaf or hard of hearing in order to better prepare for interpreting services.
Assist with the collection and correlation of materials used in both the general education and the deaf or hard of hearing classroom work.
Exhibit an interest in self-improvement in signing ability, interpreting skills, and understanding of the educational process.
Attend in-service programs to improve skills necessary to work with students in the deaf or hard of hearing program.
Assist in maintaining hearing-related equipment used in the classroom.
Must be able to drive between schools to serve students.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Work Environment and Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and occasionally to walk and stand. The employee must be able to hear and see in order to communicate effectively, and communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing. The employee must maintain effective audio/visual discrimination and perception to the degree necessary for the successful performance of assigned duties, and maintain mental capacity allowing for effective interaction and communication with others. The employee may occasionally need to lift up to fifty (50) pounds and perform reaching, standing, walking, carrying, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, sitting, and/or crawling within the classroom.

Base Pay
$26.51 - $32.87 / Hour