Current Employment Opportunities

Court Interpreters and Bilingual Positions

(Archived Job Descriptions Pre 2000)

• Court Interpreter Coordinator

• Court Interpreters

• Other Bilingual Positions

Court Interpreter Coordinator

COURT INTERPRETER PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Minnesota State Court Administrator’s Office, St. Paul, Minnesota.  Duties:  develop, recommend, and administer the state court interpreter certification and training program for the Minnesota court system under the direction of the state court administrator and with guidance of the Minnesota court interpreter advisory committee.  Qualifications:  bachelor’s degree, preferably in a foreign language, linguistics, or language studies; strong project management and communications skills, and experience working with non-English-speaking persons/groups.  Highly desirable experience:  working as a court interpreter; and professional experience in the development and administration of policies, practices, testing, and evaluation of personnel working in legal language interpretation or translation.  Desirable experience:  knowledge of and experience with the Minnesota state court system.  No salary range given. (1994)

COURT INTERPRETER COORDINATOR: King County Superior Court, Seattle, Washington. Duties: The incumbent coordinates activities such as scheduling and coordinating court interpreters in courtrooms; facilitating communication and providing services; contacting, assigning, confirming, and coordinating interpreter and translator services; identifying and resolving conflicts, briefing and advising presiding criminal judges; and supervising, orienting, training, and evaluating interpreters.  Qualifications: B.A. degree; three years of court-interpreting experience; a Washington state certification; and considerable knowledge of Spanish as it is correctly written and spoken.  Court interpreting or related experience can be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Salary is $36,085 annually. (1992)

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