Join the roster
Bilingual? Help families understand what's happening.
If you're bilingual and curious about whether this work fits, here's the short version: assignments are a mix of on-site visits and video or phone interpretation — so interpreters outside New Jersey are welcome to apply too. Either way, the family on the other end is depending on you to make a decision they actually understand. Onboarding is five steps. We walk you through each one.
Who we are looking for
Three things we ask of you.
Basic computer skills
Email, video calls, light document handling. Nothing complicated.
Weekday daytime availability is a plus
Most Early Intervention evaluations and IEP meetings sit inside weekday business hours — but evening and weekend assignments exist too, and there is no minimum commitment.
Organizational habits
Manage your calendar, respond to texts and emails, and arrive on time for every appointment.
The onboarding
Five steps, start to first case.
Step 01
Apply
Send us your résumé — whatever you have is fine, we just want to know you. Then complete an ETS application through DocuSign, which we will email you right after you reach out.
Step 02
Phone introduction
A 15–20 minute voice call. We walk you through what ETS does, how assignments work, and what to expect day-to-day. You will leave the call with an email of the documents to read before next steps.
Step 03
Paperwork & training
Submit your ETS paperwork and IDs (we go over which on the call). We do not check immigration status and we do not share personal information with anyone outside of Early Intervention. You also complete an online Waste, Fraud, and Abuse training — a federal-funds compliance requirement. Then we walk you through enrollment with your agency — the EI agency that handles your background check and program enrollment.
Step 04
Finalize EI enrollment
Your agency sends a link for the background check, and your information goes to the New Jersey Department of Health for the EI-required training: Introduction to IFSP (the Individualized Family Service Plan — the Early Intervention plan that precedes the IEP) and Procedural Safeguards (parents' legal rights). Fair warning: these two modules are required for everyone working in New Jersey Early Intervention, and they are substantial — set aside real time for them. Everyone gets through; nobody calls them quick. (This step applies to NJ EI casework; we walk non-NJ and K-12-only interpreters through the equivalent for their assignments.)
Step 05
Welcome to the team
We schedule a longer onboarding session at a time that works for you — case assignments, billing, EIMS (the NJ Early Intervention billing portal where you log every visit), video-call workflow. We stay available as you take your first cases so the system never feels like a stranger.
The fine print
What you get back.
You get paid for the training. The background-check fee comes back on your first paycheck; the five hours of post-enrollment training is compensated after you log your first ten hours of service.
Pay rates depend on the language, the assignment type, and the contract holder — we walk you through the specifics on the phone-intro call. Most of our interpreters work weekdays during regular business hours; some take evening or weekend assignments. There is no minimum case commitment: we offer assignments as they come in and you accept the ones that fit your week.
Ready to start
Send us a note and a résumé.
Tell us your name, the languages you work in, and anything you want us to know. Attach a résumé if you have one — whatever you have is fine.