Chinese Language Analyst

Leidos • Bethesda, MD

113d • $72,150 - $130,425

About The Position

Are you ready for a rewarding career challenge? Unleash your potential at Leidos, where we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading! Looking for an exciting opportunity to work with the Department of Defense? The National Security Sector is seeking highly qualified Linguists to join their dynamic team! As a Language Analyst, you'll be appointed with creating summaries, gists, and full translations to support our DoD customer. This position offers the potential to work on specialized projects and/or deploy on worldwide assignments, giving you the chance to gain valuable experience and broaden your horizons. We'll assign you to specific team functions based on your unique capabilities, qualifications, and aptitude, with the direction most conducive to operations, maximizing efficiency and media throughput. Once you've completed a sufficient orientation period and familiarized yourself with project activities, there may be promotion and directed training opportunities to increase your mission-related knowledge, cultural awareness, and linguistic skills. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to make a difference – apply to become a Language Analyst today! Your greatest work is ahead!

Requirements

• Desired primary language: Chinese.
• Desired BA degree and/or 4 – 8 prior relevant experience in lieu of education, or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Achieve a minimum Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) score of 3 in respective foreign language(s) in reading and listening.
• Achieve an ILR score of 3 in English writing, with preference given to a 3+.
• Demonstrated history of working on foreign language into written English translation projects and maintaining the integrity and meaning of the translated material.
• Team player who can communicate effectively with colleagues, addresses tasks quickly and efficiently, and partners on group projects.
• Be proficient in standard MS Office programs and able to learn customer or job-specific software programs including Computer-Assisted Translation tools and standard operating procedures.
• Willingness to work periodic shift work to meet mission demands.
• Sufficient technical aptitude to gain a working knowledge of job-required tools and processes (on-the-job and/or formal training will be provided).

Nice To Haves

• Background or experience in the military, DLI, or intelligence community.
• Proficiency in multiple foreign languages.
• Experience in intelligence reports writing.
• Experience with Human Language Technology tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide exploitation support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence requirements.
• Review general and technical source material in the target language to prepare accurately written gists, translations, and/or transcriptions of foreign language data.
• Scan and process a large amount of material in a foreign language for critical or essential elements of information as defined by the customer.
• Provide input to media exploitation team members in the production of serialized written reports developed from target material.
• Leverage technical automated information system skills to be used in conjunction with written translations, using advanced language software programs and participate in forensic processing.
• Produce serialized reports of exploitation/transliteration.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Health and Wellness programs.
• Income Protection.
• Paid Leave.
• Retirement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees