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Posting # 1190
Posting date: December 6, 2023
Closing date: Open until filled
Starting date: Immediately
Location: Sioux City area
Region:
Overview
Northwest AEA provides visionary leadership and quality, student-centered services through relationships with families, schools, and communities. In short, our focus can be summed up in these four words: Inspiring Learning. Changing Lives.
Our vision is to be the first contact for timely and ongoing support to improve the performance outcomes and well-being of all learners.
About the Agency
Northwest AEA provides special education and school improvement services to 34 public school districts and 32 accredited, non-public schools. The agency serves 45,000 students and more than 5000 educators in a 10-county area of Northwest Iowa (Lyon, Osceola, Sioux, O'Brien, Plymouth, Cherokee, Woodbury, Ida, Monona, and Crawford).
Our headquarters is located across from the Morningside College campus in Sioux City with regional offices in Cherokee, Denison, Le Mars, Onawa, and Sioux Center.
Why Northwest AEA?
Our vision, mission, and anchors guide our actions. Staff at Northwest AEA believe that what they do inspires learning and leads to changed lives for the students, staff, and families we serve. Our work is anchored in building positive, professional relationships with stakeholders and with one another. We embrace responsiveness in how we serve so that students, staff, and families can see improved results.
Qualifications:
● Licensed by the Iowa Department of Public Health
● Two-year (or more) interpreter training program and/or experience involving extensive contact with the deaf and hard-of-hearing community (Preferred)
Job Purpose: Interpret between spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL) or another signed or visual system.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
● Interpret as delineated by the student's IEP, using the district's communication policy as a guide, including lectures, announcements, discussions, assemblies, etc.
● Interpret for school-sponsored functions outside of the classroom during regularly scheduled school hours
● Serve as a multidisciplinary team member at IEP meetings
● Assisting with classroom modifications when appropriate, as determined by the IEP, educational team, or in consultation with other direct service personnel
● Maintain confidentiality
● Seek professional development opportunities and attend district-sponsored professional development opportunities as appropriate
● Serve as liaison to promote rapport between general education and deaf education classrooms, students, the school, and the deaf community
● Review text, lesson plans, etc. in preparation for the day
● Provide Sign Language instruction in all instructional settings, as requested
● Provide in-service training to new teachers regarding interpreter roles and responsibilities.
● Other duties as assigned
Working Conditions:
● Occasionally exposed to dust, noise, odors, and other workplace irritants.
● Normal stress associated with work pace and pressure.
● Work in close proximity with learners who may engage in intensive behaviors that may require the use of physical strategies to maintain the safety of the learner and others.
If you are an internal candidate interested in this position you must complete the application process associated with this position.
It is the policy of Northwest Area Education Agency not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy, please contact Jerome Schaefer, Equity Coordinator, 5800 Discovery Blvd., Sioux City, Iowa, 51111, 712-222-6114.
