What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tagalog Linguist/Cultural Analysis Support position at JMark Services Inc.?
Job Title: Tagalog Linguist/Cultural Analysis Support
Location: Honolulu, Hi
Clearance: Active Secret Required
Employment Type: Contingent on contract award.
Position Summary
This task requires Tagalog language-related analytical services including translation, transcription, interpretation, and monitoring capabilities in support of intelligence collection, and other operational missions. Task performance requires high-level Tagalog language abilities to include CAT III proficiency, meeting the minimum criteria of Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Level 3 and proficiency in Web 2.0 and open source research. Knowledge of how Tagalog interacts with other languages and their associated cognitive processes, experience in diplomatic and military arenas and global intelligences services. Research the origins of a source language and how it is spoken in various regions. Analyze documents and texts and translate complex information into simple language. Discover phonetic patterns of a source language. Find similar words and expressions between English and the Tagalog language. Review audio/video material and accurately transcribe information. Provide clean Tagalog translations to various clients.
Primary Duties
- Perform Tagalog translation in a wide variety of complex texts that may contain idiomatic, scientific and colloquial writing from multiple types of media, to include but not limited to documents, video, radio, social media and news reports;
- Capture subtleties, nuance, tone and register;
- Convey commentary reflecting specific culture and real world cultural dynamics and translator can capture the meaning of socio-cultural elements embedded in Tagalog text;
- Understand the essentials of all speech between two native speakers in a standard dialect and have broad enough Tagalog vocabulary to require little to no assistance for paraphrasing or explanation;
- Follow accurately the essentials of conversations between educated native speakers;
- Understand radio broadcasts, news stories similar to wire service reports, oral reports, some oral technical reports, and public addresses on non-technical subjects and;
- Understanding of Expression or nuance which reflects native Tagalog usage
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- Interpret at virtually all levels, including complex or highly complex idiomatic speech with a very high degree of accuracy;
- Proficiently comprehend one or more national and/or regional Tagalog dialects;
- Successfully render expressions specific to a culture, and convey almost all subtleties and nuances appropriately to include colloquial and slang terminology and;
- Reviews audio materials, writes/transcribes information from target language into English with a high degree of accuracy and expression
Monitoring:
- Perform document exploitation, scan, research, and analyze Tagalog language documents and websites for key information;
- Analyze, review and integrate intelligence data from a variety of sources;
- Provide specific skills and understanding of the regional media environment and the different technologies/platforms utilizing in that environment;
- Provide translation and cultural perspective on critical communications of ideological significance within the AOI;
- Act as Quality Control for all Tagalog translations on websites, weblogs, and any media summaries distributed to staff;
- Track and map key communicators within defined media spaces;
- Track penetration and resonance of quotes and statements to measure short and long-term effectiveness of themes and messages;
- Use predictive analysis to identify trends in the media space as they begin to emerge and;
- Provide notes, proposals, information papers, and reports as needed
Assessment:
- Provide oral and written assessment of content contributors, to include assessed origin, intent, and bias;
- Provide oral and written assessments of emerging themes and narratives of groups or persons within assigned areas of expertise;
- Provide oral and written assessments of regional traditional and social media responses to US Government actions and activities;
- Provide oral and written assessments of the implications of observed publicly available information content in conjunction with traditional intelligence data, plans, or systems on US Government operations;
- Provide initiative-based oral and written assessments of observed content in order to highlight events or information that may necessitate, facilitate, complicate, or prevent the use of US Government information related capabilities within the assigned area of focus;
- Integrate information from a variety of sources into various systems; ensures proper systems interface and;
- Develops and submits draft and finished products, which highlight significant events in the environment, provide assessed impact, and provide recommended actions to exploit or mitigate the situation as appropriate.
Qualifications:
- Analyze and integrate intelligence data, plans, or systems, leveraging proficiency in Tagalog
- Analyze, review and integrate intelligence data from a variety of sources;
- Utilize intelligence systems and intelligence analysis systems;
- Provide analysis of threat and makes recommendations;
- Identify/extract information components meeting military information requirement list criteria and;
- Utilize the following media to conduct collection: print, internet, radio, television and local populace;
- Develop estimates and makes recommendations for deficiencies;
- Collects data for analysis and develop products resulting from analysis
