Coordinator: Interpreting Services (post level 10): Academy for Multilingualism (Job ID: 6557) at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities:

• Coordinate Interpreting Services across the UFS campuses.
• Oversee the provision of high-quality interpreting services for Deaf students as requested in academic lectures, tutorials, assessments, meetings, and other institutional activities.
• Coordinate interpreters’ schedules and class timetable.
• Plan, coordinate and organise interpreter training and capacity building workshops.
• Develop South African Sign Language (SASL) terminology in collaboration with departments, internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate mentorship of junior and intern interpreters.
• Monitor and evaluate interpreters.
• Ensure compliance with institutional accessibility and inclusion commitments.
• Serve as a primary liaison between Deaf students, interpreters, academic departments, and relevant support services to ensure equitable access to teaching, learning and university life.
• Technical assistance with online classes/resources/meetings for both interpreters and lecturers.
• Preparation and conversion of online classes/resources to more accessible mediums for students with hearing impairments (SASL video/subtitling/captioning/transcription).
• Report to line manager.

Inherent Job Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree or a B-Tech degree or Advanced Diploma on NQF Level 7 in the field of South African Sign Language, with a minimum of two (2) years of South African Sign Language Interpreting in higher education teaching and learning

or

• Another relevant South African Sign Language qualification other than the qualifications stipulated above, with a minimum of six (6) years of South African Sign Language Interpreting in higher education teaching and learning. 
• A minimum of two (2) years of coordinating interpreting services in a higher education context.

Recommendations:

• In addition to a knowledge of South African Sign Language (SASL) interpreting, a knowledge of interpreting across three or more of the following South African spoken languages (Sesotho/ Afrikaans/ isiZulu/ Setswana/IsiXhosa/English/Sepedi).
• A relevant postgraduate degree.