Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist| Reservist - Intermittent

Job Description

Title: CVR Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist| Reservist - Intermittent

Location: Various

Employment Type: Part Time

Pay: $38.09/hr - $49.50/hr

Civil Rights Cadre Focus Overview:
The Office of Equal Rights (OER) External Civil Rights Division (ECRD) is the principal office responsible for compliance and enforcement in connection with FEMA’s Civil Rights obligations under Sections 308 and 309 of the Stafford Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, E.O. 13166 “Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency”, and E.O. 12898, “Environmental Justice”. OER leads FEMA’s efforts to protect the civil rights of disaster survivors, which includes ensuring equal access to FEMA programs, services, and benefits. OER is indispensable in ensuring equal access and inclusion of all people to FEMA’s programs, services and benefits in compliance with applicable civil rights laws.

Job Location: VARIOUS throughout USA & Territories.

Responsibility:
In this position, the Sign Language Interpreter (SLI) will provide interpreting and transliterating services between spoken English and Sign Language (such as American Sign Language, Pidgin Signed English, Manually Coded English, or other forms of signed communication) and/or other visual and tactile communication forms used by individuals who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Deaf-Blind.

Essential Job Duties:
▪ The SLI will work as a team with another SLI or a Qualified/Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI) to ensure that communication between Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing person(s) and hearing person(s) is conveyed accurately.
▪ The SLI will interpret in a wide variety of situations and conditions during disaster response and recovery, including (but not limited to) FEMA staff meetings, briefings, training sessions, conference calls, community meetings, and other events.
▪ The SLI will be required to adhere to all FEMA and Department of Homeland Security policies and procedures as well as understand and adhere to the RID Code of Professional Conduct,
▪ The SLI will be assigned as a reasonable accommodation for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing/Deaf-Blind FEMA staff.
▪ The SLI will work for the Office of Equal Rights - Civil Rights (CVR) Cadre, and as such, could possibly be assigned other programmatic duties in support of the Cadre’s mission objectives in addition to their interpreting assignments while deployed.

Qualifications for this Position

• You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• Travel will be required.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card
• Selective service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59

Apply Today: Send your current resume to fema-cvrcadre-recruitment@fema.dhs.gov and include “Sign Language Interpreter” in the subject line.

FEMA Reservist Program

• What is a FEMA Reservist? FEMA Reservists are incident management responders, hired under the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Reservist employees are on-call and work is available intermittently to help FEMA to perform activities directly related to disasters, emergencies, projects, or activities of a non-continuous nature.
• What does a FEMA Reservist do? Reservists are hired into a position based upon their skills and experience. Positions focus on assisting communities before, during, and after a disaster.

About the Organization

Federal Emergency Management Agency's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards.