Job Description
Overview:
**This position is contingent upon award of contract**
SOS International LLC (SOSi) is seeking Chinese and Cantonese Linguists to support a US Government Client. Linguists will serve as subject matter experts and leverage Chinese and Cantonese and their cultural expertise to translate materials and documents into English language products.
Responsibilities:
- Gist, summarize, and translate Chinese and Cantonese printed, electronic, or audio/visual material into clear, understandable, and idiomatically correct English.
- Leverage knowledge of culture, media, and language to answer Client questions.
- Adhere to Client style and translation standards to prepare all products.
- Efficiently leverage Client-specific tools and workflows.
- Ability to meet deadlines, including same day.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma and three years of relevant experience.
- Proficiency at least 4/4+ (ILR) level in Chinese and Cantonese. Proficiency will be determined by standardized language exams which must be completed as part of the application process.
- Expertise related to country and surrounding regions where Chinese and Cantonese is spoken natively.
- Experience with open source research and support, product creation and dissemination, collection management and workflow support.
- Experience in open source social media collection, analysis, and exploitation.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Excel, and Word.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to engage collaboratively and effectively in a virtual environment within a diverse team.
- Strong time and task management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Experience supporting the Intelligence Community (IC).
Working Conditions:
- Remote. Candidates must be US-based.
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, Remote job,