Language Support Coordinator - TWA

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General Description:

The TWA Language Support Coordinator organizes interpretation, translation, and multilingual family-support services for Family Engagement Workshops and events that serve English Learners and their families. This role coordinates logistics, language-access support, multilingual materials, and event documentation to promote meaningful family participation in supplemental Title III-funded activities. The Coordinator works closely with school and division staff to ensure services are culturally responsive, well-organized, and aligned with Virginia and federal Title III requirements, including documentation of allowable expenditures and adherence to supplement-not-supplant expectations.

Job Description:

Essential Job Functions:

• Organizes language access services and plans and implements interpretation and translation for workshops and events serving English Learners and their families

• Coordinates event logistics and manages the scheduling and physical requirements for multilingual family-support activities

• Provides multilingual materials and oversees the creation, translation, and distribution of resources to ensure information is accessible to all families

• Maintains Title III documentation and ensures all event records, participation data, and expenditure reports meet Virginia and federal requirements

• Adheres to funding guidelines and monitors activities to ensure they follow the ‘supplement-not-supplant’ expectation, ensuring federal funds add-to, rather than replace, local funding

• Tracks allowable expenditures and documents, and verifies that all costs associated with family engagement activities align with Title III regulations

• Collaborates with staff and works closely with school and division personnel to integrate language supports into broader engagement goals

• Ensures cultural responsiveness, and facilitates services and outreach that are culturally appropriate to promote meaningful family participation

• Promotes family engagement and builds support structures that specifically empower families of English Learners to participate in supplemental educational activities

• Performs other duties as assigned

Budgetary Responsibility:

This position has no budgetary responsibilities.

Report Preparation:

Prepares reports as requested

Equipment Operation:

Uses standard office equipment and equipment related to education and the assigned area

Contacts:

Contact with all levels of CCPS personnel, students, parents, as well as outside vendors and the community

Work Direction/Supervision:

Provides support to teachers and staff related to the English Language Learner program and initiatives

Decision Making:

Performs majority of functions independently; seeks supervisor guidance as necessary

Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities:

This position has no formal policy-setting responsibilities.

Physical Demands:

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to use a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear, understand speech and speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly at normal levels indoors and on the telephone. Frequent walking, standing, light lifting up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

Duties are performed throughout division schools and Central Office. Noise levels will vary.

Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of general Title III regulations and of federal and Virginia-specific Title III requirements, including allowable expenditures and the ‘supplement-not-supplant’ provision

• Familiarity with Language Access Laws and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) to ensure meaningful participation for families with limited English proficiency

• Demonstrated knowledge of English Learner (EL) programs and the specific barriers faced by immigrant or multilingual families in a school setting

• Working knowledge of interpretation standards and understanding of professional ethics, protocols, and best practices for community and educational interpreting, and of culturally responsive engagement strategies to build trust with diverse community groups

Additional Job Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree and Interpreter Certification (professional or state-approved credential)

Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Linguistics, Communications, or a related field

Applicants considered for employment must successfully complete the following background investigations/tests:

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal History Investigation

• State Police Criminal History Investigation

• Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation

• Tuberculosis Screening/Test

Compensation

$37.84 per hour

Benefits

Chesterfield County Public Schools offers a wide variety of benefits to employees.  Benefit offerings may differ based upon full-time and part-time employee status.

Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks. This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements.  However, administration reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary.  It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position and does not imply an employment contract.