Manager, Translations and Interpretations

Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2025-02-19

Location:Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy

INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for

performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.

Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

 

Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Director, Multilingual Compliance and Assessment
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Band: 14
Compensation: $ 63,240. - $ 88,536.


The Translations and Interpretations Manager is a central office-based position and will work closely to achieve, supervise, and uphold the CMSD Translations & Interpretations Policy set forth. The Translations Manager leads to improving and maintaining the accuracy and manages the school-level translations and interpretations as they pertain to legal matters. The manager will also be responsible for supervising translation and interpretation specialists as well as managing the translations and interpretation budget.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

THIS ROLE WILL:

• Assist the Executive Director in coordinating the development, managing, overseeing, and upholding CMSD’s Translations & Interpretations Policy
• Respond to inquiries from Principals, Teachers, Special Education, Hearings and Appeals and Multilingual Program Managers
• Assist with the Departmental and Building level Professional Development and other events
• Check the reliability, validity, and accuracy of data submitted by school staff
• Supervise the entire translations subdivision within the Multilingual Department, including but not limited to overseeing and evaluating between 3-6 translators/interpreters on staff, budgeting and negotiating contracts with outside sources to serve in the capacity of translating for low-incidence languages
• Make decisions on the subdivision translators/interpreters on their work assignments and daily duties and responsibilities
• Assist the Executive Director in allocating resources for the translations subdivision and stay compliant with the Office of Civil Rights mandates
• Monitor the completion of translation/interpretation documentation including IEP / ETR Conferences, Progress Reporting, Discipline Hearings, IEP/ETR & other type of formal written documentation, etc.
• Work with the compliance requirements from the Ohio Department of Education and LEP Assistance Plan
• Share information on Translation/Interpretation development and completion in the District approved system
• Verify and keep data log on the completion of oral interpretations and written translations for accurate submission to the Ohio Department of Education
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