Chinese Linguist

What Impact You'll Have:

Chinese Linguist providing linguistic and cultural context analysis. Offering expertise for research and report generation per customer identified subject matter and customer directed objectives. GRVTY is seeking a Chinese Linguist possessing language skill with in-depth knowledge of the relevant geopolitical, regional, ethnic, and cultural landscape of the subject geographical language area. A successful candidate must be able to or have working experience in processing and analyzing large amounts of raw information in subject language.

What You'll Be Owning:

* Chinese Linguist position provides considerable responsibility and autonomy. The Chinese Linguist will work with multiple/various teams and projects to provide linguistic and cultural support as needed.

* All work will be performed in corporate office spaces, with occasional travel to offices within the Washington Metropolitan Area as needed to participate in meetings and/or exchanges.

* Conduct research in Chinese language on wide ranging topics and large aperture geographic region consulting open-source materials, including primary and secondary sources, and social media derived data.

* Leverage language capability to process then convey meaning and significance with high accuracy from large amounts of unorganized data

* Process and translate information and material in support of ongoing mission focus

* Provide ad hoc subject language assistance to the customer as needed

* Convey commentary reflecting specific culture and "real-world" cultural dynamics while conveying and recording the meaning of socio-cultural elements embedded in text

* Provide awareness of and draw customer attention to data derived from customer resources related to the subject area

* Identify, capture, incorporate, and combine information from multiple database and repository holdings and assessments, into finished products providing value in source and subject language, to produce polished, well-organized analytic products

* Be willing and capable of learning new tools (COTS / GOTS)
· Capable of working independently as well as in a team environment.

* Provide and demonstrate the ability to identify and derive requirements, develop clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution.

* Provide proactive response to language and cultural based challenges or constraints within a project and seek to manage them accordingly.

What You Must Have:

* Security Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a poly

* Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) score of 3

* Strong critical thinking and analytic skills

* Capable of translating in real time

What Would Be Nice to Have:

* DLPT score of 3+

* Experienced in writing reports

* Experienced in Chinese deep-dive research

* Trained and proficient in data collection, analysis and integration

* Insert desired qualifications