Language Practitioner: Sign Language at Gauteng Department of Sports Arts Culture and Recreation

Requirements :

• The successful candidate should have a Grade 12 Certificate plus a three-year National Diploma (NQF level 6)/ Degree (NQF level 7) in Language Practice specialising in South African Sign Language (SASL) Interpreting/ Linguistics or any relevant Language qualification.
• 3 years relevant experience with at least 2 years as a South African Sign Language interpreter. An experience in language Development programs and Translations will be an added advantage. PFMA, Legislation, prescript,
• Skills: Research, Administration, planning and organization, problem solving, formulating and editing, facilitation, interpersonal relationship. Analytical thinking, Maintain discipline, project management, reporting, Policy development and analysis, supervising, budgeting, financial management, conflict management, verbal and written communication and leadership and computer literacy.

Duties :

• Interpreting during official sessions. Prepare and conduct research on the topic and the type of audience. Provide simultaneous and consecutive interpreting. Edit document. Submit edited documents to the supervisor for quality assurance. Discuss and effect changes proposed by supervisor. Record new terminology/ language problems with possible solutions for future reference. Record and file edited documents.
• Conduct research and provide professional advice and support to interpreters and clients. Participate in the development of language awareness campaigns. Undertake language awareness campaigns. Develop, populate and maintain sign language databases. Undertake research on new sign language developments.
• Coordinate and conduct literature writing workshops. Facilitate literature writing competitions. Establish and support reading and debating clubs. Provide guidance to budding (emerging) writers and act as a link between the writers and publishers. Editing documents of newly coined terms.
• Develop and maintain database on projects and programmes with regard language issues. Provide administrative and technical support regarding language programmes. Monitoring the implementation of approved sign language programmes.