Job Description

The Speech to Text Provider will join a dedicated team of accessibility professionals in Harvard University Disability Resources (UDR). UDR provides leadership to University efforts to ensure an accessible, welcoming working and learning environment for individuals with disabilities while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. UDR serves as a central resource on disability-related information, procedures and services for the University community and provides expertise in the development, implementation, and acquisition of standard disability-related University practices, procedures, and resources.

Job-Specific Responsibilities

Reporting to the Associate Director of Harvard UDR, the Speech to Text Provider position that provides real-time meaning for meaning captions or transcriptions for students and other Harvard affiliates with disabilities in classes, academic activities, and at University events. The Speech to Text Provider also liaises with third-party agencies to schedule and coordinate additional captioning services such as Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) to facilitate the provision of accommodations for the University community. This is a 2-year, benefits-eligible, seasonal appointment following the academic year (August-May).

This primarily on-site position will work on-site across classrooms and meeting spaces of Harvard University's campuses located in Cambridge and Boston, MA and the surrounding area. Some aspects of the role, including the scheduling and coordination of additional captioning services, may be done remotely.

The Speech to Text Provider position will also involve education of community members on the speech to text provider role and how to work effectively and appropriately with captioners. It will include coordinating with faculty and teaching staff to obtain materials necessary to prepare for captioning/transcribing content.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.

• Two (2) years of experience providing Speech to Text services.
• A certificate verifying successful completion of a C-Print®, TypeWell, or CART captioning training program.
• Proficient use of a laptop and captioning/transcription software to provide real-time meaning-for-meaning captions/transcriptions of spoken English into text in academic settings.
• Working knowledge of or the ability to learn the vocabulary, terminology, and basic information in a variety of subjects commonly found in a university environment.
• Administrative, coordinating and recordkeeping skills.