Position Summary:
Sign Language Interpreters provide interpreting services and manage interoffice and interagency projects such as reasonable accommodations and corporate accessibility.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Sign Language Interpreter for CIA, you will work alongside and support seasoned intelligence professionals with depth of knowledge in a range of topics, including specific geographic regions, technology, proliferation, and terrorism, among others. Due to the variety of positions held by the Agency’s Deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, you must be flexible when it comes to assignments, have a diverse vocabulary, and display a strong commitment to customer service. In addition to providing interpreting services, you will manage interoffice and interagency projects of varying levels of complexity in support of related programs such as reasonable accommodations and corporate accessibility. In the part time position, candidates would work 24 – 32 hours a week.
Required Education & Experience:
- National sign language interpreter certification.
- Federal reasonable accommodations training or work experience.
- You must successfully complete a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview, and a comprehensive background investigation.
- Strong understanding of ASL and Deaf culture.
- Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation.
- Broad knowledge of technical and human resource vocabulary.
- Federal disability program management training or experience.
- Strong signing and voicing skills.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- You must be willing to move to the Washington, DC, area.
- You must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years of age (dual-national U.S. citizens are eligible).
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
- You must apply online, while in the United States.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to work within a changing schedule.