Mandarin Document Translator (Onsite)

Job Description

This position is on-call, short-term, as needed.

Program Overview

Since the events of September 11, 2001, the United States Government (USG) has an increased need for translation services from and into foreign languages that far exceeds the capacities of individual agencies, departments, and organizations engaged in support of intelligence priorities and law enforcement. To address this need, the National Virtual Translation Center (NVTC) provides linguistic support to the mission of the Intelligence Community (IC) and other federal government agencies. The FBI serves as the Executive Agent for the National Virtual Translation Center (NVTC) in matters pertaining to the administration and support of this requirement. NVTC is an element of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) created by Congress with oversight provided by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

Position Description

Process documents and media in various formats to include hand-written, hard copy, digital text, audio, and video providing interpretation and language support to Human Language Technology (HLT) projects. The source material contains a variety of language genres and domains for which the FBI has jurisdiction, and the IC, and/or other government agencies have an interest. This may include military, scientific, and technical subject matter. Must be able to electronically access, receive, send, scan, and translate documents and audio/video contents on an as-needed basis throughout the term of this effort, and use HLT tools in all cases possible to process work assignments.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen and be able to produce a U.S. Birth Certificate or a Naturalization Certificate.
• Must reside in Washington, DC metro area and be willing to perform all work on-site at our Chantilly, VA location (not a remote position). You are not required to work a 40-hour work week onsite but you must be available a few days per week while working on a project.
• Professional level fluency in the target language and English (minimum ILR 3 in both languages).
• Ability to translate/transcribe a variety of technical topics to include but not limited to expository, formal and informal discourse, legal, business, public administration, historical, geographical, sociological, political, military and scientific content, and other content within scope. The scientific area may include advanced technology, chemical, physical, cyber, and/or nuclear terminology.
• The specialized terminology used to express concepts in any of the given subject areas varies considerably from everyday usage in any of the source languages. As such, thorough knowledge of term specific vocabulary is required, as are quality review and editing capabilities and capacities.

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.