Coordinator for Interpretation Services

Job Summary

Towson University (TU) fosters a respectful environment that supports the intellectual and personal growth of its community. The Coordinator of Interpretive Services plays a crucial role in ensuring effective communication for deaf, deafblind, and hard-of-hearing individuals at TU.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct interpreting services support (voice to sign and sign to voice) for Towson University faculty and staff, including ASL interpretation in classrooms, workshops, department, college, and university service and professional meetings, telephone calls, on and off-campus Towson University sponsored events, and other required job-related activities.
• Cook with vendors to schedule/facilitate communication services e.g. interpreting, transcription, and captioning services for faculty, staff, and visitors for campus events as needed; manage vendor contracts for interpreting, transcription, and captioning services and ensure invoices are paid promptly; track the university interpreting services budget for faculty, staff, and visitor services.
• Facilitate arranging other communication-related requests, such as assistive learning devices (ALDs).
• Facilitate effective communication between deaf faculty and program coordinators, directors, chairpersons, and university offices and departments; create systems with consultation from deaf faculty to assure communication access needs for and with deaf faculty.
• Cook with deaf faculty in research collaborations, department, college, and university service. Facilitate communication access between deaf faculty and students for advising, and meetings.
• Collect and report faculty and staff assessment data about interpreting services and make changes as appropriate.
• Strive to further knowledge and skills through participation in workshops, professional meetings, interaction with professional colleagues, and reading of current literature in the field by virtue of professional membership, certification, and ethical practices.

Qualifications and Skills

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree, five years of interpreting experience, RID, NAD IV and above or BEI certification in good standing.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience interpreting in higher education settings, experience working with Deaf professionals.

Salary and Benefits

The targeted hiring range is $80,000 - $90,000, and full University benefits include 22 days of annual leave, up to 17 holidays, personal and sick days; excellent health, life, and retirement plans; and tuition remission. TU also offers a variety of great perks and discounts.