Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University invites application for the position ISL Expert Interpreter
Number of Positions: 4+
Duration of Project: 2 years or TBD
Educational Qualification (Required): Applicants are required to have a minimum of|
1. High School Diploma or equivalent
2. Diploma in Indian Sign Language Interpretation-DISLI
Certification: ISL Certification is a must. It is important that the applicant is certified by a National sign language interpreter body
Fresher/Experienced: Experienced
Years of Experience : > 2 year
Languages: English, Malayalam (Speak, Read, Write),Hindi (nice to have)
Area of Work: Deaf Accessibility and Indian Sign Language- Signing and Interpretation
Mandatory Skills:
1. Excellent communications and interpersonal skills to communicate in Sign Language
2. They should be well versed with the ISL gestures corresponding to everyday terms, and other specific glossaries published ISL dictionary
3. They should be able to capture and communicate both the technical and intended meaning, taking into account style, tone, slang and figurative communication with emotions and face expressions
4. They should have a good knowledge of the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics of ISL grammar
5. Given an English sentence, they should be able to convert it to ISL grammar
6. They should be able to video record the vocabulary of ISL words and sentences with the required constraint environment
Salary: TBD