School translator career description
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In this
post, you can ref career description of School translator in details. A
complete career description concludes School translator key
duties/responsibilities, School translator career qualifications
(knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones
such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job
functions/purpose…
I.
List of School translator duties:
- One year experience working in an educational setting and/or service oriented agency that works with language minority families
- Ability to interact and develop working relationships with professionals, staff, children and their families using positive interpersonal, oral and written communication in English and second language
- Ability to maintain cultural sensitivity when relaying concepts and ideas between languages
- Ability to work flexible hours
- Must be self-motivated and reliable
- Must have basic computer skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Facilitate oral communication between language minority persons and district staff by interpreting telephone conversations, conference calls, in-person conversations, etc. during school hours, for parent/teacher conferences, after school activities, IEP meetings, and other school functions
- Translates school-home communications and system-wide documents from English to the target language
- Uses technology in English and the target language appropriately to format, translate, save and retrieve work
- Clarifies content and terminology
- Reviews and evaluates documents
- Edits work of other translators and responds to editing suggestions of other
- Assumes responsibility for quality of translation work submitted by reviewing, editing, and revising own work and quality of interpretation by clarifying ideas and messages to assist with understanding
- Learns new translations
- Performs all other job-related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor
II.
List of School translator qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- Ability to speak, read, and writer fluently in English and second language.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to read and analyze and interpret general professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, general curriculum and learning theories, correspondence, and protocols.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators, staff, parents, students, and the general public.
- Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program; ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents and community; ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.
