Asl Interpreter

ASL Interpreter

Phoenix, AZ (in person service)

$28/hour + $4.57 (health and wellness) = $33.71/hour

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited college or university with a major study in a field related to either interpretation or American Sign Language (ASL) studies

CERTIFICATION:

Interpreters need to be nationally certified by either NAD (National Association of the Deaf), RID (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf), ASLPI (American Sign Language Proficiency Interview), or an equivalent certification program.

MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Must have minimum of 5 years’ experience proficiently interpreting for Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing employees, customers, or applicants.
• Ability to Interpret Voice to Sign Language
• Ability to Interpret Sign Language to Voice.
• Possess strong listening, research, memory, and American Sign Language skills.
• Ability to sign in many various situations, including but not limited to meetings, small groups, large groups, and one-on-one.
• Ability to perform in a challenging, creative, formal, and virtual working environment.
• Ability to sign in a work training environment involving various technical terms and acronyms specific to this government agency.
• Excellent customer service skills. Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships (to include but not limited to) veterans, leadership, stakeholders, and peers.

POSITION OVERVIEW

• Interpreter must provide, at a minimum, interpreting services in American Sign Language (ASL) for meetings, training, and other events to interpret spoken English into signed English and American Sign Language (ASL) and ASL or signed English back into spoken English
• Must be able to interpret/transliterate fluently and understand the continuum of sign communication.
• The interpreter will provide sign language and other communication services between people who are deaf or hard of hearing and people who listen to interpret and translate and are familiar with vocational rehabilitation counselors and dialect and signing styles in Arizona.
• Must work or training environment in an office setting, classroom training environment, and designated work settings.
• Interpreter will provide interpreting services from American English as spoken language to American Sign Language using the mode or means of communication style most appropriate for the deaf/hard of hearing employee(s) in the following way: simultaneous interpretation. The primary responsibility will be to translate the spoken word into sign language.
• Must be able to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment and stay within the role of interpreter