Office Assistant - Spanish Interpreter

General Description of Position

Works to provide complex, correct, and responsible technical and non-technical oral interpretation and written translation work from source language into target language or vice-versa (e.g. Spanish to English) with speed accuracy and correct pronunciation for various meetings, documents, and activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Answers questions and interprets and/or translates appropriately and with correct pronunciation from source language to target language (e.g., English to Spanish) with speed and accuracy for both internal and external parties such as staff, parents, students, and/or public agencies for the purpose of providing information and/or routing inquiries
• Attends a wide variety of meetings, Special Education meetings, hearings and/or interviews for serving as an interpreter of conversations (e.g. English/Spanish)
• Translate Special Education documents from one language to another
• Interprets and translates during various meetings with parents
• Prepares a variety of documents for the Special Services Department (e.g. SPED forms, rights, testing, eligibility reports, psychological, OT, PT, and Speech Summaries reports, and manifestation hearing reports, 504 documents)
• Verifies translations made by others for the purpose of reviewing and editing materials for accuracy, context, readability
• Performs other related duties, as assigned, for ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit

Qualifications

• High School diploma; additionally, a minimum of 60 hours of college credit or a qualifying standardized test score on designated assessment (paraprofessional)
• Experience in both general education and special education settings is preferred
• Arkansas Bilingual Interpreter Credentials in Education is preferred