Educational Interpreter, D​/HH Lead

GRADE: G25 (Hourly Range/Step 1 - Step 8: $33.28 - $42.05)

MINIMUM HOURLY RATE: $33.28

STANDARD HOURS PER WEEK: 40

FTE: 1.0

MONTHS PER YEAR: 9

JOB CODE: 1202

POSITION TYPE: REPLACEMENT/PERMANENT

LOCATION: THORNTON, CO

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom.

Accurately and effectively communicate information through sign language interpretation/transliteration, between students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and other individuals who use spoken communication in a variety of K-12 educational settings. Uses the mode of communication specified by the student's individual Education Plan (IEP).

Provides administrative support work in assisting district administrators in planning, coordinating, monitoring, and facilitating administrative actions and processes.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Interpret and/or transliterate all academic instruction, films, assemblies, conferences, student meetings, individualized education plan meetings, field trips, extra-curricular activities and support services in and out of the classroom for Deaf/Hard of Hearing student(s). When voicing for Deaf/Hard of Hearing students(s), exhibit a good range of sophisticated vocabulary, native like expression, and infrequent use of circumlocution. Use clear articulation with consistent pronunciation, intonation, and affect to sound like native speaker.
  
  Have strong command of grammatical structure and evidence of command of complex instruction for complete comprehension. Speech is effortless and smooth; rate and production approach that of a native speaker comfortably.
• Coordinates work schedules and agency/district assignments of interpreters in the district corresponding to the educational and communication needs of students. Coordinates and monitors educational interpreter coverage at school sites. Arranges for interpreter coverage for District activities. Participates in the interview process. Coordinates and monitors interpreter intern placements within the District. Maintains records of services requested, provided and coordinated for a variety of needs (staffing, billing, and district data).
  
  Develops and maintains accurate record keeping systems as the needs arise. Facilitate meetings to provide or clarify information, facilitates processes.
• Tutor Deaf/Hard of Hearing students (under the supervision of coordinating Teacher of the Deaf), both in and out of the classroom individually or in small groups by reinforcing concepts taught in the mainstream classes; assisting with missed assignments; modeling language; reinforcing vocabulary, study skills and life skills; assisting in learning variations of sign systems; developing of language concepts; changing CASE/PSE into written English;
  
  and teaching students the role of the interpreter, students' rights and responsibilities in how to use an interpreter.
• Maintains records of services requested, provided and coordinated for a variety of needs (staffing, billing, and district data). Develops and maintains accurate record keeping systems as the needs arise. Attend meetings to provide or clarify information, facilitate processes.
• In collaboration with a certified teacher, may adapt and/or create spoken and written classroom material (e.g., tests, quizzes, worksheets and homework assignments) to meet the student's learning level, including changing vocabulary and sentence structure, simplifying, and/or expanding information and repeating essential information at the student's language level.
• As an interpreter for district IEP teams, and/or a member of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing student's education team, communicate with the team (e.g., mainstream teachers, teachers of the Deaf and support staff) to give and receive appropriate information/progress/problems that may impact a student's performance or learning, including, but not limited to, mode of communication, tutoring strategies, educational goals of student, curriculum content, classroom goals and student educational rights and services.
  
  May be asked to support instructors on monitoring behavior during class and extra-curricular activities; follow through with behavior programs established for individual students; use various equipment, augmentative communication systems or adaptations, any OT/PT requirements set forth in student I.E.P. (individual educational plan) and any medical conditions that require…