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Analytical Linguists - North Carolina and South Carolina

JTG is currently seeking Analytical Linguists to support a federal law enforcement customer. The Analytical Linguists monitor, translate, transcribe, and interpret communications in English and one of the following languages: Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Haitian Creole, or Jamaican Patois.

Locations: In-person onsite work in normal office working conditions in offices across North Carolina and South Carolina including Columbia, Greenville, Charlotte, Asheville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, Florence, Charleston

Status: Independent Contractor

Timeline:

• 30 days at a time, with potential extensions of 60 to 90 days or more.
• Requires periods of non-traditional hours including consecutive nights or weekends when necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring: Listening to or reading foreign language communications, lawfully intercepted, and performing immediate verbal summaries, then subsequent written or typed summaries, into English.
• Transcribing: Rendering the spoken word of a language into the written form of the same language, then saving the result on a computer storage device and/or in printed format.
• Translating: Rendering the spoken or written word of one language into the written form of another language, then saving the results on a computer storage device or other storage media and/or in printed format. The translation will be predominantly spoken or written foreign language to spoken or written English. The register, style, and tone of the source language should be conserved.
• Interpreting: Translating orally either consecutively or simultaneously from one language to another.
• Validating: Reviewing another individual's translation or transcription or providing quality control of a specified work to attest to the accuracy of the final work.
• Summarizing: Providing a typed, concise, and accurate synopsis of oral or written communications intercept that contains the identity of the speakers or correspondents, and all locations and events mentioned that pertain to the subject of the communication.

Founded in 1995, JTG is an Employee-Owned Company that is specialized in language services, training, and analytics.