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,

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