Hourly ASL Interpreter (Continuous)

About the role

CSUN strives to be a destination workplace, where everyone understands that they belong to a community that is vital in advancing student success and providing exemplary service to all stakeholders. We foster an environment of success, both for our students and our employees. We have a relentless passion for celebrating diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as being an employer of choice.

Major Duties

• Interpreter I: Provides interpreting services to facilitate communication most often in a classroom or related instruction settings and activities. Assignments may involve technical or specialized subject matter and vocabulary. Individual assignments may vary based on the specific skills of the interpreter and the needs of students or other consumers.
• Interpreter II A/B: Performs more complex assignments requiring a combination of higher levels of training, skills, certification, and experience. Assignments often involve high levels of interactive discussions requiring the interpreter to rapidly switch between spoken English and sign language or manual sign system and vice versa.

Qualifications

• Interpreter I: Any combination of experience and training in voice-to-sign to voice interpreting or transliterating that demonstrates assurance of skills appropriate for the level of the assignment, three years of experience preferred. Such combination of experience and training should be equivalent to those prescribed for certification in one of the following categories: Interpreter Certificate, Transliterator Certificate, Comprehensive Skills Certificate, or one of the Oral Transliterator Certificates.
• Interpreter II A/B: Equivalent to a minimum of two years of paid interpreting experience; three years or 1800 hours preferred. Wide acquaintance with the academic higher education system of instruction through attendance or graduation from a four-year college or university is desirable.

Certification

• Candidate must possess and maintain certification in CI, CT, NIC (National Interpreter Certification), and National Association of the Deaf (NAD).

Pay, Benefits & Work Schedule

Classification: Hourly Interpreter/Realtime Captioner/Computer-Aided Transcriber / 7193 / 0
The anticipated hiring range for Interpreter I is $32.28 - $41.29 per hour, dependent upon qualifications and experience.
The anticipated hiring range Interpreter II A/B is $48.59 - $59.17 per hour, dependent upon qualifications and experience.
The salary range for this classification is: $19.37 - $194.60 per hour.
HOURS: Intermittent, on-call; hours and schedule vary.
Temporary, renewable appointment; annual contract from July through June, subject to annual renewal based on organizational needs.

General Information

• To apply and for more detailed information on the application and hiring process, please visit this link: www.csun.edu/careers