City and County of San Francisco

Under general direction, the 977U Multilingual Community Translator, SFUSD, provides translation services for students and their families to improve and increase parent and community involvement in the San Francisco Unified School District; promotes interaction with school staff and other community members by ensuring dissemination of multilingual information at school sites, remotely, and in writing; provides support for multilingual meetings, events, and parent-teacher conferences, and performs related duties as required.

The 977U Multilingual Community Translator, SFUSD is distinguished from class 9977 Parent and Community Involvement Coordinator by the former’s primary focus on providing translation services, while the latter focuses on parent involvement strategy, workshops, investigations, reports, and providing technical assistance.

According to Civil Service Commission Rule 109, the duties specified below are representative of the range of duties assigned to this job code/class and are not intended to be an inclusive list.

1. Provides translation services for K-12 students when they are interacting with school staff, students, and their families.
2. Respond to requests for telephone and on-site translation services at school meetings, events, and parent-teacher conferences.
3. Translates written documents for dissemination from English to the various languages spoken by the SFUSD student population. Examples include but are not limited to Individualized Education Programs (IEP’s), psychological reports, speech language reports, and contracts.
4. Provides language assessment services for the SFUSD Educational Placement Center when evaluating students for proper placement and counseling.
5. Attends school and community meetings to inform staff, parents and the community on district activities; contacts individuals and groups to disseminate information on district programs and activities; and responds to questions and requests from school sites, parents, organizations and community groups.
6. Provides information to parents in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog or other languages in order to improve home-school communications between the targeted schools and the community and to promote and enhance integration efforts.

Education:
Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience:
Two (2) years of professional experience in administering an employee benefit program.

License and Certification:

Substitution:
Additional qualifying work experience may substitute for up to two years of the required education on a year for year basis (30 semester/ 45 quarter units equals one year).

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The work environment is an office setting with extensive direct public contact.

PROMOTIVE LINES
From: 1212 Benefits Analyst, SFUSD

ORIGINATION DATE: 02/19/19
AMENDED DATE:
REASON FOR AMENDMENT To accurately reflect the current tasks, knowledge, skills & abilities, and minimum qualifications. BUSINESS UNIT(S): SFUSD