- Apprentice I requires a High School Diploma
- Apprentice II requires a High School Diploma and 3-6 Months experience
- Apprentice III requires a High School Diploma and 6-12 Months experience
- Apprentice IV requires a High School Diploma and 12-18 Months experience
- Apprentice V requires a High School Diploma and 18-24 Months experience
- Requires a valid driver's license and must be eligible for the Tribes' vehicle insurance and maintain throughout employment
- Requires knowledge and history of the cultures of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CCT).
- Requires good communication skills and experience following verbal and/or written instructions.
- Requires the ability to work well with fluent elder speakers.
- Requires the ability to participate in traditional and field activities such as root digging, berry gathering. pit cooked, and other cultural activities.
- Requires the ability to take initiative to learn in groups and independently .
- Requires the ability to work with tribal elders in a culturally appropriate manner.
- Requires the ability to collaborate with various departments, partners, or individual members of the CCT.
- Requires the ability to independently perform all of the duties of the position.
- Requires the ability to use computer or be willingly to learn how to use computers.
- Requires the ability to use video, digital and audio recording equipment or willing to learn.
- Require the ability to functions indoors, in an office environment, engaged in a work of primarily a sedentary nature.
- Requires ambulatory ability to sit for extended periods of time, to utilize microcomputers and peripherals equipment, accomplish other desktop work, and to move various and community locations.
- Requires the ability to use near vision to read printed materials.
- Requires auditory ability to to carry on conversations in person and over the phone.
- Requires the ability to retrieve work materials from overhead, waist, and ground level files.
- Requires manual and finger dexterity to write, use a pointing device and keyboard at an acceptable rate that meets department deadlines and accuracy standards, operate microcomputer, and use other standardized office equipment, almost constantly requiring repetitive motions.
- Requires rigorous physical activity such as hiking, lifting/moving heavy objects and digging during cultural outings/activities.
Language Apprentice, Nxa?amxcin Dialect - Nespelem, United States - Colville Tribes
Description
Description
CLOSING DATE: May 16, 2024
POSITION: Language Apprentice, Nxa?amxcin Dialect
SALARY: $20.00
REPORTS TO: Nxa?amxcinLanguage Instructor Sr.
LOCATION: Nespelem, WA
Basic Functions: The Language Apprentice will work under the direction of the Language Instructor and Fluent Elder Speaker(s) to learn Nxa?amxcin at a proficiency level to successfully obtain teaching certification. Apprentice will be engaged in daily language lessons and eventually transitioned to assist in language instruction in some capacity either in early childhood, K-12, or post-secondary level.
Qualifications
Education and Training:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: