JOB SUMMARY

Corvus Consulting, LLC is seeking a Mandarin Chinese linguist to provide language-related analytical services to MCIOC in Quantico, VA. This will include translation, transcription, interpretation, and monitoring capabilities in support of intelligence collection, and other operational missions.

This position requires high-level language abilities to include CAT III proficiency, meeting the minimum criteria of Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Level 3 and proficiency in Web 2.0 and open-source research. The ideal candidate will require dedicated and concurrent linguistic/analytical capabilities to support the AORs of Combatant Commands per mission requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Interpretation and translation activities include:

• Perform translation in a wide variety of complex texts that may contain idiomatic, scientific and colloquial writing from multiple types of media, to include but not limited to documents, video, radio, social media and news reports
• Capture subtleties, nuance, tone and register
• Convey commentary reflecting specific culture and real-world cultural dynamics and translator can capture the meaning of socio-cultural elements embedded in text.
• Understand the essentials of all speech between two native speakers in a standard dialect and have broad enough vocabulary to require little to no assistance for paraphrasing or explanation.
• Follow accurately the essentials of conversations between educated native speakers.
• Understand radio broadcasts, news stories similar to wire service reports, oral reports, some oral technical reports, and public addresses on non-technical subjects and expression reflets native usage.

Transcription:

• Interpret at virtually all levels, including complex or highly complex idiomatic speech with a very high degree of accuracy.
• Proficiently comprehend one or more national and/or regional dialects.
• Successfully render expressions specific to a culture and convey almost all subtleties and nuances appropriately to include colloquial and slang terminology.
• Reviews audio materials, writes/transcribes information from target language into English with a high degree of accuracy and expression.

Monitoring:

• Perform document exploitation and analyze, review, and integrate intelligence data from a variety of sources.
• Provide specific skills and understanding of the regional media environment and provide translation and cultural perspective on critical communications.
• Act as Quality Control for all translations on websites, weblogs, and any media summaries distributed to staff.
• Track and map key communicators within defined media spaces.
• Track penetration and resonance of quotes and statements to measure short and long-term effectiveness of themes and messages.
• Use predictive analysis to identify trends in the media space as they begin to emerge and provide notes, proposals, information papers, and reports as needed.

Assessment:

• Provide oral and written assessment of content contributors, to include assessed origin, intent, and bias.
• Provide oral and written assessments of emerging themes and narratives of groups or persons within assigned areas of expertise.
• Provide oral and written assessments of regional traditional and social media responses to US Government actions and activities.
• Provide oral and written assessments of the implications of observed publicly available information content in conjunction with traditional intelligence data, plans, or systems on US Government operations.
• Provide initiative-based oral and written assessments of observed content to highlight events or information that may necessitate, facilitate, complicate, or prevent the use of US Government information related capabilities within the assigned area of focus.
• Integrates information from a variety of sources into various systems; ensures proper systems interface.
• Develops and submits draft and finished products, which highlight significant events in the environment, provide assessed impact, and provide recommended actions to exploit or mitigate the situation as appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

• Current Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance
• BA Degree and 3+ years of relevant experience or a MA Degree with 0+ experience
• Experience conducting open-source research.
• Language Skills of 3,3 or higher
• Must be a US. Citizen

Corvus Consulting, LLC. provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws and offers equal opportunity for VEVRAA Protected Veterans. Corvus Consulting, LLC, will not discriminate against employees and job applicants who inquire about, discuss or disclose compensation information.

Reasonable accommodations that do not cause an undue hardship on the company may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions, as long as that would not hinder or prevent performance of duties or be of a safety concern.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand and walk. The employee may be required to move ten pounds and could occasionally lift or move up to twenty-five pounds.

Disclaimer: The listed duties are not intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all duties performed by all employees in this classification, only a representative summary of primary duties and responsibilities