Sign Language Interpreter/Tutor - Certified

Douglas County School District

10d • $29 - $49 • Onsite

About The Position

As a related service provider, this role facilitates communication between users and non-users of sign language in the educational environment. This environment includes the classroom, field trips, assemblies, and any other sites used by the school system for educational purposes. The position also involves developing and promoting good community relations among various community and school clientele.

Requirements

• Educational Interpreter-Sign Language (PSE/ASL) - CDE certification
• Associate's Degree: Education of the Deaf
• Frequent standing, sitting, repetitive hand and arm movements
• Occasional bending, squatting, kneeling, stooping

Nice To Haves

• A minimum of one (1) to three (3) years of sign language interpreting/transliterating preferred

Responsibilities

• Maintain appropriate records related to services provided.
• Serve as a liaison between DHH students using sign language and other DHH students, peers, parents, and all school personnel to promote positive rapport among the DHH department, various community and school clientele.
• Assist in development and delivery of deaf awareness orientation in schools related to sign language.
• Respect confidentiality and adhere to students’ Individual Education Plan (IEP), adjusting learning activities accordingly.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
• Provide sound-based environmental information to DHH students using sign language. Interpret/Transliterate from spoken English to sign language and from sign language (with or without voice) to spoken English in the educational environment in order to provide access to auditory environmental information.
• Collaborate with DHH and classroom teachers in order to provide optimum educational and general services to DHH students using sign language.
• Procure sufficient knowledge for successful sign language interpreting/transliterating.
• May provide tutoring services for DHH students using sign language under the direction of a certified teacher in order to assist with content clarification and process to optimize the educational experience.
• Participate in appropriate staffing and professional development activities.

Benefits

• health insurance
• vision insurance
• dental insurance
• health savings account (HSA)
• flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• short and long-term disability
• critical illness and accident voluntary insurance
• employee assistance program (EAP)
• voluntary 401(k)
• 403(b)
• 457 retirement plan options
• paid sick and personal time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree