Job Description
Overview:
SOSi is actively seeking a highly motivated, professional and skilled Yemeni- Arabic Linguists to join our team supporting all duties assigned to communicate and translate within our customer's requirements.
Responsibilities:
- 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) such as Trados Studio as needed.
Qualifications:
- Existing TS/SCI clearance (with CI Poly).
- Proven proficiency in English and the foreign language at ILR 3 or higher.
- Expertise and thorough knowledge of specialized terminology in military, scientific, information technology, social, legal, and/or socio-economic matters/events domains as needed.
- Proven experience in language services, linguistics, or language-enabled analysis supporting U.S. Government agencies.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Microsoft Word at minimum).
- Willing to undergo Government-administered foreign language testing.
- Willing to undergo an audiometric exam by a licensed medical doctor (at no personal cost).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Evidence of proficiency testing in English and the foreign language and at ILR 3 or higher within the past three (3) years.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Working Conditions:
- Normal office environment.
Job Tags
Full time, Work at office,