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About the Role

Provides temporary assistance as needed by offering sign language interpreting services for students, faculty, and staff who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

Responsibilities

• Provides sign language interpreting services for students, faculty, and staff that are Deaf or hard of hearing.
• Prepares for assignments by reading textbooks and conferring with students, instructors, and/or other interpreters.
• Reports student no shows and class cancellations to the Interpreter Services Office.
• Adheres to the policies and procedures in the Austin Community College (ACC) Interpreter Services Handbook.

Requirements

• One year sign language interpreting work experience or completion of an Interpreter Preparation Program Internship.
• Pass an ACC in-house interpreter assessment.
• Employees are required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment.
• Employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes.
• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Skills

• Proficiency in American Sign Language, sign language interpreting, and Deaf culture.
• Providing sign language interpreting/transliterating services in classrooms, meetings, student registration, and testing, tutoring, and counseling environments.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills including tact and diplomacy.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Effectively working with a multicultural student body.
• Sign language interpreting and transliterating services provided in educational environments.
• Interpreter Services policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of ACC Administrative Rules, Policies and Procedures, and/or Ellucian Colleague software.

Location

• Austin, Texas

Work Type

• Temporary
• Part-time

Experience Level

• One year sign language interpreting work experience
• One year work experience sign language interpreting in a post-secondary educational environment

Education Level

• High school diploma or educational equivalent
• Associate degree

Salary/Compensations

• $69.30/hour
• Up to 19 hours per week

About the Company

• Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.
• We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.
• We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
• As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching, is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities, cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities, is focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes, welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others, and engages with the community both within and outside of ACC.

Equal Opportunity

• As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes.
• Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.