TS/SCI with active polygraph requiredDESCRIPTION:The Somali Operational Language Analyst - Native (OLAN) performs tasks required to process voice and/or graphic language materials in support of SIGINT Operations.NATIVE CAPABILITYLevel 2
- Must have learned the required language since birth and have been formally educated in, and via, for a minimum of ten (10) years in a country where the language is an official, national, or commonly spoken language.
- Exception: If the language/dialect is not an official or national language and formal education is not conducted in the language/dialect.
- Must have learned and used the required language/dialects since birth.
- Must have used the language for at least fifteen (15) years in a region where the language(s)/dialect is commonly used among a historically rooted population of resident speakers who employ the language/dialect in social, cultural, employment, economic, or other public sphere interactions beyond immediate family/household use.
Level 3
- Must have learned the required language since birth and have been formally educated in, and via, for a minimum of ten (10) years in a country where the language is an official, national, or commonly spoken language.
- Exception: If the language/dialect is not an official or national language and formal education is not conducted in the language/dialect.
- Must have learned and used the required language/dialects since birth.
- Must have used the language for at least fifteen (15) years in a region where the language(s)/dialect is commonly used among a historically rooted population of resident speakers who employ the language/dialect in social, cultural, employment, economic, or other public sphere interactions beyond immediate family/household use.
Level 4
- Must have learned the required language since birth and have been formally educated in, and via, for a minimum of ten (10) years in a country where the language is an official, national, or commonly spoken language.
- Exception: If the language/dialect is not an official or national language and formal education is not conducted in the language/dialect.
- Must have learned and used the required language/dialects since birth.
- Must have used the language for at least fifteen (15) years in a region where the language(s)/dialect is commonly used among a historically rooted population of resident speakers who employ the language/dialect in social, cultural, employment, economic, or other public sphere interactions beyond immediate family/household use.
SKILLS REQUIRED:The Somali Operational Language Analyst - Native shall demonstrate the following cryptologic language processing skills:Level 2
- Ability to comprehend written and/or spoken standard and substandard contemporary forms of the required language including complex grammar and syntax.
- Ability to comprehend material in the required language that includes idioms, colloquialisms, subtleties and nuances, emotions, and attitudes.
- Ability to produce accurate translations of complex material from the required language(s) into idiomatic American English.
Level 3
- Ability to comprehend written and/or spoken standard contemporary forms of the required language.
- Ability to produce accurate translations into idiomatic American English which reflect the author's/speaker's style and conveys subtleties and nuances.
- Ability to correctly convey information about interpersonal relationships and attitudes, abstract concepts, and complex grammar and syntax.
- Ability to comprehend material in the required language that includes idioms, colloquialisms, subtleties and nuances, emotions, and attitudes.
Level 4
- Ability to fully comprehend cultural, social, economic, and political references in the required language and explain their significance in the given context.
- Ability to produce accurate translations of complex and abstract materials, including complex grammar and syntax, from the required language into idiomatic American English.
- Ability to preserve the author's/speaker's style and convey explicit and implicit meaning, subtleties, and nuances when rendering translations and gists into idiomatic American English.
- Ability to edit and perform quality control reviews of language products (translations, transcripts, gists) generated by other language professionals, including those based on abstract and complex topics.
- Ability to comprehend highly sophisticated written and spoken material in the required language.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:Level 2
- Two (2) year degree or experience in lieu of degree
- Equivalent of two (2) years of full-time experience performing translation of materials from the required language(s) into idiomatic, standard American English.
- One (1) year of experience typing on an English keyboard.
Level 3
- 4 years full-time experience translating at ILR 3 in target language or 8 years without degree.
- Bachelor's degree or 4 additional years of work experience.
- ILR Skill Level 3 in Audio or Graphic.
- 1 year experience typing on an English keyboard.
Level 4
- 8 years full-time experience translating at ILR 3 in target language or 12 years without degree.
- Bachelor's degree or 4 additional years of work experience.
- ILR Skill Level 3 in BOTH Audio and Graphic.
- 4 of 8 years in crypto language processing in target language
- Crypto Language Processing: scanning, recovering EEIs, gisting, translating/transcribing, compiling working aids and databases, QC'ing, mentoring, and drafting intel reports.
- 3 or 4 years primary duty: translating, transcribing, and/or gisting.
- 2 of 4 years has to be within 4 years of resume submission.
- 1 year experience typing on an English keyboard.
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