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Captioner - IH (In-House)

Position Specifics

• In-house captioners work a set schedule of five eight-hour work days per week, including one weekend shift.  Within shift hours, captioners caption a 15-hour per week block of programming, choosing incremental on-air hours based on desired schedule and earnings.  
• This position has a minimum requirement of 22 on-air hours per week of captioning.  Captioners average 4.5 on-air hours per day.
• Schedules rotate every two to three months.
• A wide variety of programming.
• Captioners are guaranteed payment biweekly via direct deposit.

Compensation and Benefits

• Paid training salary, and then unlimited earning potential via paid on-air rate commensurate with prior TV captioning experience.
• 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
• 196 hours of available unpaid leave time per year.
• Relocation package available.

Technical Support and Training

• Hardware, software, dictionary conversion and full engineering and IT support provided free of charge.
• In-house captioners may be eligible for captioning additional hours at home with VITAC captioning setup, all telephone line costs paid by VITAC.
• Paid Training Period at VITAC's Canonsburg headquarters for up to 20 weeks of one-on-one personal training.

Qualifications:

• Captioning experience is preferred
• Candidates are realtime writers, prepared to caption, with dictionaries that support a full range of programming and accuracy/verbatim levels of no less than 98%. 
• Will consider qualified recent graduates, who will undergo an extended, high-end training period.