Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring an Arabic (Levantine) Linguist to join our team working in Reston, VA. You will be responsible for supporting a government agency and your office with translation, transcription, and/or interpretation services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Linguists will provide essential language skills exeperience, knowledge and expertise.Linguist witll provide translation, transcription and interpretation services from one (or more) language to English and vice versa. Candidate must have native-level language skills along with a good understanding of culture, dialect and slang in both written and spoken mediums. Linguist shall be required to travel 25%.

  REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

• Linguist must be proficient in the Levantine dialect

• Bachelor’s degree required.  Master’s degree desired.

• Interpretation between source language and English

• Transcription into English

• Translation into English

• Language Training

• Summarizing/Gisting while drawing upon linguistic or cultural expertise

• Translation Related Services (TRS)

• Subject Matter Expertise in areas of Counterterrorism and Sponsor Operations/Targeting

  PREFERRED SKILLS

• Preference will be given to candidates who can engage in casual, informal written or verbal conversation with native speakers

• Monitoring  published, online and broadcast media while identifying relevant content

• Terminology Management

• Writing Reports

• Transcription into source language

• Translation into source language

  Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

  ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.

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