Analytical Linguists - New England

Analytical Linguists - New England

JTG is currently seeking Analytical Linguists to support a federal law enforcement customer. The Analytical Linguists monitor, translate, transcribe, and interpret communications in English and one of the following languages: Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Haitian Creole, or Jamaican Patois.

Locations: In-person onsite work in normal office working conditions in offices across New England including Portland, Manchester, Springfield, Hartford, Providence, Cape Cod, New Bedford, New Haven, and Bridgeport

Status: Independent Contractor

Timeline:

• 30 days at a time, with potential extensions of 60 to 90 days or more.
• Requires periods of non-traditional hours including consecutive nights or weekends when necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring: Listening to or reading foreign language communications, lawfully intercepted, and performing immediate verbal summaries, then subsequent written or typed summaries, into English.
• Transcribing: Rendering the spoken word of a language into the written form of the same language, then saving the result on a computer storage device and/or in printed format.
• Translating: Rendering the spoken or written word of one language into the written form of another language, then saving the results on a computer storage device or other storage media and/or in printed format. The translation will be predominantly spoken or written foreign language to spoken or written English. The register, style, and tone of the source language should be conserved.
• Interpreting: Translating orally either consecutively or simultaneously from one language to another.
• Validating: Reviewing another individual's translation or transcription or providing quality control of a specified work to attest to the accuracy of the final work.
• Summarizing: Providing a typed, concise, and accurate synopsis of oral or written communications intercept that contains the identity of the speakers or correspondents, and all locations and events mentioned that pertain to the subject of the communication.

Basic Qualifications:

• Government Security Clearance.
• Minimum of three years of translation experience; a bachelor's degree from an accredited U.S. institution in lieu of experience may be accepted.
• Ability to pass credit and criminal background investigation.
• Willingness to undergo random polygraph testing.
• Computer literacy and ability to type a minimum of 40 WPM.
• Excellent command of English and the ability to produce clear and concise oral and written work.
• Ability to pass a language evaluation in both the source language and English at level 3 or higher on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale.
• Understanding of slang and colloquial expressions in the source language, and ability to translate them into English.
• Proficiency with a variety of storage media including audio cassettes, video cassettes, digital media).

This position reports to the Program Manager.

Founded in 1995, JTG is an Employee-Owned Company that is specialized in language services, training, and analytics.