Linguist | Washington, DC | TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph
Required Qualifications:
- Process documents and media in various formats to include hand-written, hard copy, digital text, audio, and video of expository, formal and informal discourse, legal, business, public administration, historical, geographical, sociological, political, military and scientific content.
- Render accurate, idiomatic, and grammatically correct translations and/or summaries and gists of source material into the target language, while maintaining the register, integrity, and meaning of material.
- Transcribe and translate audio and text files, interpret material, relate ideas, make inferences, and rarely misunderstand the intent of the speaker(s).
- Scan and process a large amount of material quickly for critical and essential elements of information.
- Understand inferences, emotional overtones, and speech in a standard dialect, and rarely ask for paraphrasing or explanations.
- Write effectively in formal and informal exchanges.
- Follow standard guidelines as outlined in the Government-provided Style Guide.
- Follow existing IC Transliteration Standards for transliterating person names.
- Provide cultural/language/ethnic/contextual of data translated from recorded and written materials.
- Perform quality review and editing as needed.
- Utilize Human Language Technology (HLT) as needed.