About This Role
Translating and interpreting for educational settings is the core of this role, ensuring effective communication between school staff, students, and parents. The role involves converting written or spoken language, often Spanish, for public school environments and supporting communication of academic, family, social, and cultural needs.
Responsibilities
- Translate all school-based documents to Spanish
- Provide consecutive interpretation for parents and students during parent-teacher meetings, intervention meetings, child and family team meetings, IEP meetings, retention meetings, and any type of meeting requested by the school or parents
- Develop relationships with the Spanish-speaking community to increase comfort in approaching their children's schools for available help and services
- Be available (either by work cell phone or office phone) to be contacted directly by parents when they need to communicate a message to their children's school
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the principal
Requirements
- Basic understanding of public school functions preferred
- Basic understanding of NC student accountability standards preferred
- Experience with public speaking
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Ability to speak in Spanish and English to convey or exchange information, including giving instructions, assignments, and/or directions
- Ability to read a variety of correspondence in English and Spanish
- Ability to prepare routine and technical documents
- Ability to write, using standard conventions, in English and Spanish
- Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, and to follow oral and written instructions in English and Spanish
- Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
- Ability to be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress
- Ability to be sensitive to cultural differences among individuals and groups of persons
- Ability to talk and hear (expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words, perceiving nature of sounds by ear)
- Ability to communicate via telephone
Important Details
- Physical demands: light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force; substantial time spent standing and/or walking
- Work environment: indoor and outdoor environments, direct contact with ABSS staff, students, and the public
About the Company
NCDPI and NC public school translator positions involve ensuring effective communication for educational settings.
