Daily CIR Duties?

I was a CIR in a town of around 40,000 people through JET for two years, and now I'm a direct hire CIR in a much larger city.

My typical work as a small town CIR was visiting preschools, planning cultural events for the local international association, writing a monthly column, and the occasional translation (mostly tourism related in my case).

A typical day with a school visit for me could look something like this:

8:30-Arrive at work
10:30-Leave for preschool visit
11:00-13:00-Preschool visit (usually singing a song with the kids or teaching them some English words, playing with them outside, and eating lunch with them)
13:30-17:30-Arrive back at the office, do research/prep for the month's column or event, or work on a translation

My events were mostly cooking classes or cultural events (like Halloween or Christmas parties) for young children. My office gave me free reign to go out and buy supplies, or even do a test run of my recipes for cooking classes at the venue. My second year I also started teaching an English conversation class for local adults in the evening, so I would do preparations for that during my work hours too. I was not super busy in that job, so I would spend a lot of time thoroughly reading up on whatever subjects were relevant for my event/column just to kill time.

My job now is almost entirely native checks and translation, with the occasional English or culture related lecture. A typical Tuesday for me looks like this:

9:00-Arrive at work, check my email, coworkers' schedules, and the city hall-wide announcements if I'm not too busy
10:00-11:00-Team meeting to go over everyone's plans for the week
11:00-12:00, 13:00-17:30-Working on whatever translations or native checks I have (occasionally I get caught up and have nothing, but it's not unusual for me to have 3-4 projects at a time)

Another responsibility I have at this job is giving English speech lessons, mainly for the mayor but occasionally other higher-ups that request it. For this, I native check the speech, make a recording of myself reading it, and then meet with the mayor after they've had time to practice it. The lessons themselves are usually the mayor reading through the speech me pointing out any mistakes/things that can be said more clearly. Occasionally they will have me read it as well to hear my pronunciation.

riko Sorry I'm not the original person who replied to you but I'm a CIR who also has to answers phones here and there. It depends on the office, some offices never allow their CIR to answer the phones, while some will have the CIRs answer the phones. I work in a city tourism office, so we get calls from businesses, tourists, etc. I only answer when my coworkers aren't at their desks as 留守番 (some people might be more proactive than me but I don't really like answering the phones because of the language barrier etc...so to be honest, I try to avoid it. But I have to answer them if nobody is around). Usually it will be someone from a local business/another city hall/kencho etc who is asking to talk with my coworker (who is off at a meeting or something), so I'll take a note of their name/number and have my coworker call them back.

I'm a prefectural CIR, so my duties are fairly different, in a way.
- Translation: this is what I spend most of my time doing. I translate things like speeches, letters, PPT presentations and PR documents.
- Presentations at schools across the prefecture: I do cultural lessons, where I spend an hour or so introducing my country and its culture (etc.) in Japanese. Most of it is for elementary schools, but I usually have one high school a year, and sometimes visit middle schools or community centres. I never do English (or other language) lessons, but I sometimes do cooking. In a usual year, I visit schools a few times a month, mostly from June to February, with the bulk of it in late autumn/early winter.
- One of my preds created a blog, so a few times a year, we'll visit somewhere and write an article about it (unfortunately, the other stuff takes precedence, so often the articles take a while to be done ^^; )
- Interpretation: I will sometimes accompany the governor and interpret for him. So far, it's usually been for casual conversations, like during dinners or when he walks around at conferences.
- PA work: as a prefectural CIR, I'm automatically a PA; this work includes a lot of discussing, help planning orientation and the skills development conference, and well as dealing with JET issues

I suppose that's the main stuff!