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Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Posted 10 days ago
On-site Salt Lake City, UT $51 – $66.3/hr Apply by Jul 13, 2026 General Arts And Information INFJINFP
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In this position, you will work as a member of the Civil Rights Cadre. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in providing interpreting and transliterating services as a reasonable accommodation for individuals who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Deaf-Blind in a variety of fast-paced settings. NEW! USERRA now protects the full-time employment of FEMA reservists when they are deployed to disasters, emergencies, and critical trainings on behalf of FEMA. Review the FEMA Crew Act FAQs.
What You'll Do
- →What will I do in this position if hired?
- →In this Interpreter Sign Language Technical Expert (Sign Language Interpreter Expert Specialist)-Reservist position, you will be a member of the Civil Rights Cadre and will provide Sign Language Interpreting services to FEMA staff in order to achieve equal access and effective communication throughout all phases of emergency response, recovery, mitigation and preparedness.
- →Typical assignments include: Interpreting a variety of situations and conditions during disaster response and recovery, including but not limited to, internal FEMA staff meetings, briefings, training sessions, conference calls, community meetings, and other events.
- →Ensure communication between Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing/Deaf-Blind persons and hearing persons is conveyed successfully from the source language into the target language or communication form most clearly understood by the participants.
- →Interact with various other Cadres within FEMA while maintaining collaborative professional relationships with colleagues, senior staff, community organizations, and disaster survivors.
- →Perform additional programmatic duties in support of the cadre's mission.
- →What else do I need to know?
- →At FEMA, our mission to help people before, during and after disasters; so, every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management.
- →Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites.
- →All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description.
- →Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
- →As a Reservist Employee, your role is to support response or recovery efforts.
- →Reservists are intermittent, on-call employees.
- →Please note that this is not a full-time position, and you only are paid when deployed.
Requirements
- ✓To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy.
- ✓To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Public Trust as a condition of placement into this position.
- ✓This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).
- ✓For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.
- ✓Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- ✓You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- ✓Selective Service registration required.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- ✓Travel will be required.
- ✓Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
- ✓This position is temporary and intermittent, and you may be deployed to work during disaster declarations.
- ✓You will be paid only during times of deployment or when attending critical trainings.
- ✓You will be paid sick leave and earn one hour of sick leave for every 20 hours in a pay status, up to four hours each pay period.
- ✓You will be eligible to enroll in Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) within 60 days of check-in to support a disaster.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 41ebf07d-a6e5-43b8-8962-ad166445fedf
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