Interpreter-Contractual

Under general supervision, provides foreign language interpreting and translation services.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Facilitates effective communication between BCPS staff, students, parents, and the public by providing high-quality spoken language interpreting services. Supports multilingual families by ensuring accurate and culturally sensitive interpretation in various educational settings.

Key Responsibilities:

Interpret spoken communication between parents, students, and school personnel from the target language into English and vice versa.

Provide interpretation services for:

Infants and Toddlers Program

Child Find Program

Special education meetings and assessments

Parent-teacher conferences

School events and assemblies

Attendance and suspension hearings

Perform sight translations of short written texts as needed.

Act as a cultural broker, offering context and clarification to bridge cultural gaps between schools and multilingual families.

Maintain confidentiality and professionalism in all interactions.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Education, Training and Experience:

Possession of a high school diploma or equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of a foreign language. Knowledge of the educational process and system.

Skill in fluently speaking, reading, and writing a foreign language. Skill in translating written documents from a foreign language into English and from English to a foreign language.

Ability to work effectively with BCPS families, students, teachers and program staff. Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships the families of students, school staff, the public, and others.

Physical and Environmental Conditions:

The work of this class will include travel to schools throughout the system.

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Salary: $ 37.42 per hour (contractual)

Citizenship, residency or work VISA in United States required

Application Instructions

Please read and carefully follow the instructions provided below.

Applicants are required to have a completed application on file for employment with Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). Each time an applicant applies to a job with BCPS, the application must be resubmitted. If an applicant started an application with BCPS in the past and at a later date decides to apply for additional positions, it is the applicant's responsibility to review the entire application and ensure that all data is up to date (for example, the applicant may need to add additional schooling or certifications, an additional work experience, or provide updated references). The applicant must remember to review the entire application each time for accuracy and submit each time for a new or different vacancy.

Professional references must be submitted to complete your application. Examples of professional references include current and former principals, supervisors, managers, mentor teachers and university/college supervisors. Personal references from colleagues, friends, community members, etc. will not be accepted. Applicants should notify their reference proactively to inform them they will receive a form via email through a MAILBOT email address from Baltimore County Public Schools. Applicants should also inform their reference(s) of the job they are applying to.

Be sure to account for all periods of employment and unemployment, including student teaching and internship experience, and include names, addresses, and telephone numbers of employers.

Be sure to answer all criminal background questions. If you answer "yes" to any of the criminal background questions you must provide a written explanation. A criminal offense does not necessarily exclude an applicant from employment with BCPS. Factors such as passage of time since the offense, the nature of the violation, and the extent of rehabilitation will be taken into consideration.

Conditions of Employment:

Pre-Employment Requirements:

All persons employed by the Baltimore County Public Schools, regular and temporary, are required to be fingerprinted and have a criminal background investigation (State of Maryland, Senate Bill 315, effective October 1, 1986) completed. The fee charged for fingerprinting is $109.00. An identification card will be issued which must be shown prior to employment.

Anyone offered employment is required to provide proper identification and documentation of eligibility for employment in the US.