Hiring a language access coordinator

This language access quick guide will help you navigate the process of hiring one of the most critical contributor’s to your department’s language access plan.

Language access coordinators are critical contributors for improving, assessing, and acting on behalf of your department’s language access plan. The coordinator’s role may vary based on the scale of your outreach initiatives, access to translation vendors, and expected workload. Language access coordinators usually organize work processes for creating, translating, and distributing election materials. They implement new changes, and refine language access services according to community needs. They may also represent the elections office to the public at community meetings, conferences, or other events.