Arabic Linguist
Location: IRAQ
Job Code: VA-1
# of openings: 1500
Description

About Global Linguist Solutions: DynCorp International and McNeil Technologies have teamed and combined their core competencies to form a new company, Global Linguist Solutions (GLS), to offer the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) an innovative management services solution to the INSCOM Linguist Program (ILP).

GLS is currently accepting resumes for: Arabic Linguist (Gulf dialect)

Job Description:

1. Provide operational contract linguist support to U.S. Army operations in various locations worldwide.
2. Provide general linguistic support for military operations and interpret during interviews, meeting, and conferences.
3. Interpret and translate written and spoken communications.
4. Transcribe and analyze verbal communications.
5. Perform document exploitation. Scan, research, and analyze foreign language documents for key information.
6. Translate and review foreign language documents. Identify and extract information components meeting military information requirement list criteria. Provide input to reports.
7. Linguists are required to work 12-hour shifts and in excess of 60-hour weeks in order to provide continuous contract linguist support that this 24 x 7 operation requires.
8. Linguists must be available for worldwide deployment as the mission dictates.

Background and Experience:

(a) Minimum required: An excellent command of Arabic (Gulf dialect), as well as strong verbal and written American English skills (grammar, vocabulary, idioms, spelling) because linguist work products are prepared in English.

* Must hold a current U.S. passport. (or apply as soon as accepted into the program). Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
* Must be willing to travel/work in various locations worldwide, specifically Iraq. Ability to deal unobtrusively with the local populace. Familiarity with and ability to conduct oneself in accordance with the local culture and customs.
* Willingness to work shifts and extended hours in support of 24 x 7 Operations. Must be able to live and work in an austere environment.

(b) Desired:

* A pre-existing SECRET security clearance. (not required, but highly desirable. If candidate does not have clearance, one will be provided after security screening) A thorough knowledge of cultural, economic, geopolitical, and military issues of the Mid East and Arab speaking countries within that region.
* An ability to operate standard and specialized office automation equipment to process foreign language material.

Required Skills

* All applicants will undergo background investigation, oral and written skills language examination, medical examination and counterintelligence screening as conditions of employment on this contract.
* Must be a U.S. citizen or a green card holder who speaks the Iraqi dialect to qualify.