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Captioner - FS (Fixed Schedule)

Position Specifics

• Set schedule of five eight-hour work days per week, including one weekend shift
• Schedule consists of 20 hours/week of local news captioning + standby coverage
• Schedules rotate quarterly
• Limited, regular programming
• Guaranteed payment bimonthly via direct deposit.

Compensation and Benefits

• Target earnings range from a minimum of $50,000 to $59,000
• Competitive Benefits Package includes:
• medical,
• vision, dental
• long-term disability
• life insurance, and
• employee-directed 401(k) plan.
• short-term disability
• health and childcare flexible spending accounts
• Standard VITAC leave package:
• two weeks of paid vacation to start,
• personal and sick leave benefits.

Technical Support and Training

• Captioner never sees a phone bill. VITAC assumes cost of all phone line installations and monthly charges.
• Hardware, software, dictionary conversion and full engineering and IT support provided free of charge.
• Paid Training Period, including one week of technical training at VITAC’s Canonsburg headquarters and continued at-home support.

Qualifications:

• Captioning Experience is preferred
• Will consider highly skilled realtime writers who have trained in some capacity in realtime captioning and whose dictionaries support a full range of programming, including news, sports, entertainment and finance.
• Accuracy Rate: no less than 98%