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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.

Essential Job Duties

• 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.

Minimum Requirements

• 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).

Work Environment

• Remote. Candidates must be US-based.