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Agree and dismissCCHI continuously looks for volunteers to become our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). If you are interested, please download and fill out the SME Application (click the button below), and email it to us along with your full resume to solutions@cchicertification.org. Your application will be reviewed and you will be contacted when CCHI convenes a specific SME panel for a specific project.
Who should apply?
Our goal is to convene several diverse and representative panels of SMEs – item writers and item reviewers. It is important that panelists for any panel to represent our profession in a comprehensive manner. For this reason, we are looking for volunteers who are:
CCHI will provide all the necessary orientation and training via conference calls and online collaboration tools. All tasks will also be performed via virtual/online tools.
Please review CCHI’s Policies for Advisors, SMEs and Volunteers before applying.
If you have any questions about the SME application, contact us at solutions@cchicertification.org.
Thank you for your interest and support!
For each panel of SMEs that participate in a specific test development activity, CCHI strives to ensure diversity based on a number of demographic and professional factors including:
SMEs may participate in more than one panel so that they can help inform new SMEs of the prior work and answer any questions that may arise. However, CCHI strives to have at least two-thirds of panelists for each activity or project to be new or non-involved in other test development activities or project to allow for a broader representation of the profession.
All CCHI’s SMEs must meet the following minimum required prerequisites:
(*This requirement may be waived by CCHI’s TDSC for SMEs representing stakeholders who are not practicing interpreters, e.g. supervisors, university faculty members, interpreters certified in other specialties (e.g. court), healthcare providers, and regulators, whose expertise is important for the validity and quality of the examination.)
(**This requirement may be waived by CCHI’s TDSC for projects/activities not related to item writing, reviewing or rating if such waiver contributes to the panel diversity or enhances the scope of the project/activity).) If SME is a practicing interpreter of another specialty (e.g. court), SME must have a minimal certification existing for that specialty in their language.
CCHI is looking for SMEs to participate in the test development activities in May-July 2021 for the following exams:
More details coming soon. Send your inquiries to solutions@cchicertification.org.
Thank you for your interest and support!
No nominations are open at this time. The information below is for future consideration.
Nominees must represent a stakeholder group of the healthcare interpreting profession, healthcare interpreting industry, or field of language access to health care.
Before nominating, please review the expectations of the CCHI Commissioner and the criteria for selecting Commissioners. Also please read CCHI Policies for Commissioners at http://cchicertification.org/uploads/CCHI_Policies_for_Commissioners.pdf.
You may nominate yourself or someone else. If you nominate someone, prior to submission of the nomination, that individual must agree to the nomination and to serve for a term of three (3) years.
Nominations must be submitted on the Nomination Form (click the button below to download) as an attachment via email with the subject “CCHI Commissioner nomination to: solutions@cchicertification.org.
CCHI is looking for experienced, CCHI certified interpreters, with the prior experience as CCHI SME, for the following rater vacancies:
One or two raters for each language will be hired based on the applicants’ qualifications. Applications are due by March 22, 2021. Hired applicants are expected to start virtual on-the-job training on April 1, 2021.
More details are available here.