Job Description

Title: Interpreter

Reports to: Interpreter Coordinator

Position Summary:

Performs duties necessary to facilitate communication between hearing and hearing-impaired persons in classes using a manual sign system such as American Sign Language (ASL), Signed Exact English (SEE), Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE), or Pidgin (PSE) to translate spoken language into a form which can be understood by hearing-impaired persons, or to translate from the language system used by hearing-impaired persons into oral spoken language which can be understood by hearing persons.

Primary Duties:

1. Interpret/transliterate in classes, tutoring sessions, faculty/student conferences, meetings on campus, and university-related activities.
2. Participate in area workshops.
3. Perform all duties in a manner which follows the Code of Ethics.