Somali Operational Language Analyst; OLA – Native

Summary

CTC Group is seeking Somali Operational Language Analysts – Native Capability
, levels 1-4, to provide native language and cultural expertise while performing tasks required to process voice and/or graphic language materials in support of SIGINT Operations.

Responsibilities

• Ability to comprehend written and/or spoken material in the required language that includes references and vocabulary related to common social situations and everyday life in countries where the language is widely spoken
• Sufficient English skills to render the main points of straightforward, factual materials in the required language into English with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
• 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 into idiomatic American English.
• Analyze and interpret language materials to identify relevant intelligence information.
• Render translations and/or transcripts based on straightforward, factual written and/or spoken material.
• Translating and/or transcribing complex and sophisticated written and/or spoken material.
• Gisting complex and sophisticated written and/or spoken material.
• Performing quality control review of translations and transcripts of complex and sophisticated written and spoken material.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance
• One (1) year experience typing on an English keyboard.
• Native Capability is defined for the purpose of this labor category as having learned the language since birth; and having been formally educated in, and via, the language for a minimum of ten (10) years, in a country where the language is an official, national or commonly spoken language.
• Exception:
  In the case of a language/dialect that is not an official or national language and formal public education is not conducted in the language/dialect, Native Capability is defined as having learned and used the language/dialect since birth; and having used the language for at least fifteen (15) years in a region where the language/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 1 Qualifications

• High School Diploma, General Equivalency Diploma (GED), or equivalent.
• Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level 2 in Audio Translation Performance and/or Translation Performance from the required language(s) into standard American English.
• Scores from the MPO Civilian Language Test of Record, valid at time of resume submission, may be used as acceptable validation for text translation and audio translation skill level(s).
• ILR skill level validation shall be documented within two (2) years prior to resume submission.

Level 2 Qualifications

• Associate of Arts (AA)/Associate of Science (AS) degree, or equivalent from other countries.
• In lieu of the Associate’s Degree, two (2) years’ experience performing translation of materials (minimum ILR Level
  3) from the required language(s) into English may be substituted.
• Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level 3 in Audio Translation Performance and/or Translation Performance from the required language(s) into idiomatic, standard American English.
• Scores from the MPO Civilian Language Test of Record, valid at time of resume submission, may be used as acceptable validation for text translation and audio translation skill level(s).
• ILR skill level validation shall be documented within two (2) years prior to resume submission.

Level 3 Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts (BA)/Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, or equivalent from other countries.
• In lieu of the Bachelor’s Degree, an additional four (4) years of directly related, applied, practical work experience may be substituted for a total of eight (8) years’ experience.
• Four (4) years full-time experience…