Chinese Mandarin Operational Language Analyst- I-IV

Position Summary

The Chinese Operational Language Analyst will be located at Fort Meade, Maryland and will perform tasks such as recovering essential elements of information from foreign language audio and graphic materials, preparing and updating operational working aids and databases, transcribing and translating complex and sophisticated foreign language audio and graphic materials, scanning and sorting/categorizing foreign language materials, and performing quality control reviews of translations and/or transcripts.

Responsibilities

• Recover Essential Elements of Information from foreign language audio and graphic language materials.
• Prepares and updates operational working aids and databases.
• Transcribes and translates complex and sophisticated foreign language audio and graphic language materials into good grammatical English.
• Prepares and updates databases of translated source material.
• Gist complex and sophisticated audio and/or graphic foreign language material.
• Scan and sort/categorize foreign language materials.
• Perform quality control review of translations and/or transcripts of complex and sophisticated audio and/or graphic foreign language material.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must possess native or near-native proficiency in the foreign language, typically a 3/3 on the DLPT.

Junior Language Analyst

• Junior Language Analyst must have a minimum of two (2) years of full-time transcription, translation or other language-related cryptologic experience.
• High School Diploma, General Equivalency Diploma (GED), or equivalent.
• Performance at Level 2 in Chinese listening and reading as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) or Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is required.

Intermediate Language Analyst

• Must have a minimum of four (4) years of full-time transcription, translation or other language-related cryptologic experience, with two (2) of those years within the last four (4) years.
• AA degree/AS degree or 2 years of additional related experience is required.
• Performance at Level 3 in listening or reading as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) or Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is required.

Senior Language Analyst

• Must have a minimum of ten (10) years of full-time transcription, translation or other language-related cryptologic experience.
• Two (2) of the four (4) years of experience within the last four (4) years.
• Performance at Level 3 in listening or reading as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) or Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is required.
• Must have a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent (In lieu of the bachelor's degree, an additional four (4) years of experience may be substituted).
• One (1) year of experience performing quality control review of ILR 3 audio and/or graphic foreign language material.

Expert Language Analyst

• Must have fifteen (15) years of full-time transcription, translation or other language-related cryptologic experience.
• Three (3) years of experience performing quality control review of ILR 3 audio and/or graphic foreign language material.
• Performance, within the last two (2) years, at Level 3 in listening AND reading as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) or Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is required.
• Must have a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent (In lieu of the bachelor's degree, an additional four (4) years of experience may be substituted).
• One (1) year of experience performing quality control review of ILR 3 audio and/or graphic foreign language material.