Sign Language Interpreter

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Interprets in a variety of settings involving deaf/hard of hearing employees and hearing persons who are not familiar with sign language and the interpreting process. Simultaneously and consecutively interprets/transliterates, with equal facility in rendering from American Sign Language (ASL), Contact Variety Sign (CVS), and Manually Coded English (MCE) to English and from English to the aforementioned sign languages. Uses oral forms of communication to provide communication access for oral deaf or hard of hearing individuals and uses tactile forms of English, ASL, CVS and MCE to interpret/transliterate for individuals who are deaf-blind as needed. Interprets/transliterates for deaf/hard of hearing employees