What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chinese Linguist position at LIS Solutions, Inc.?
Job Description
Chinese Linguist
Program Overview
LIS Solutions is seeking experienced linguists to support the Health and Human Services (HHS) contract providing refugee support to unaccompanied minors in need of interpretation and translation services. Linguists shall interpret / translate information to and for Care Staff and other individuals, as appropriate. Linguists serve as Communication Liaisons to ensure accurate, impartial, and confidential interpretation is available in a variety of settings. Services shall be rendered in-person primarily (preferred); and via telephone, videoconference, or other virtual means available 24x7 if necessary.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide in-person, onsite interpretation at Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) programs and service sites.
- Provide remote telephonic and / or video interpretation for ORR programs and service sites.
- Relay important deadlines, instructions, questions, and other communication from Support Care Staff to UC / UAM / URM in their native or preferred language.
- Assist UC / UAM / URM in communicating any concerns, questions, or other information to staff when UC / UAM / URM are not fluent or comfortable speaking English or the language spoken by Care Staff.
- Provide translation / interpretation services to aid in orienting UC / UAM / URM to community resources as requested.
- Translate documents from English into the preferred and primary language spoken by the ORR-eligible recipient and vice-versa, as requested; at times, the vendor may need to translate into the preferred and primary language from a source language other than English. Source documents may come from ORR or come from the ORR-eligible recipient him or herself.
- Assist staff with building rapport and understanding the cultural context of the ORR populations they serve. The linguist does not replace the role of the program(s) case manager or clinician, but rather serves as a person with which the UC / UAM / URM can build a cultural connection. To the extent possible, conversations must remain lighthearted to alleviate stress and anxiety in children.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
About LIS Solutions, Inc.
Equal Opportunity Employer : LIS Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to providing employees with a work environment that is free from discrimination and where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. All employment decisions at LIS Solutions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
LIS, a Woman Owned Small Business, was founded in 1994 as an advanced innovative language service provider. Since then, we have organically expanded into Cyber Security, Intelligence Analysis and Information Technology to support our customers with their rapidly evolving global enterprise-wide requirements.
Whether sources are hostile, friendly, or neutral, it is LIS’ mission to provide our customers with relevant and effective intelligence data that incorporates the full spectrum of the intelligence life cycle. LIS enhances our industry, government and military partners’ situational awareness through the collection, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination of source data.
