Linguistic Project Contractor

Job Description:

The FBI is seeking individuals proficient in Spanish, Persian-Farsi, Pashto - Afghani, Arabic, Ukrainian, French, Haitian Creole, Somali, and Hindi who are interested in being contract linguists. Contract linguists are self-employed and provide valuable services, though they are not employees. At the FBI, contract linguists use their foreign language and culture expertise to support investigations into counterintelligence threats, corruption cases, espionage, cybercrime, human trafficking, and other offenses. Your work could provide valuable intelligence that might help prevent terrorist activity and save American lives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Render written or spoken content from another language into English.
• While conducting interviews, training sessions, or hosting visits from foreign dignitaries, it is important to convey meaning accurately to ensure effective communication.
• By offering cultural perspectives, I can help investigators understand the context within which individuals operate and the influences that may have shaped their actions.
• Elaborate on the measures put in place to maintain the confidentiality of the documents.
• Aid intelligence officers in carrying out various types of interviews.
• The place of work will be a field office, but there may be cases where travel to other field offices or legal attachs is necessary to assist with ongoing cases.

Key Requirments:

The contract linguist job opening has a list of qualifications that need to be satisfied before applying:

• Prove your proficiency in languages by achieving suitable scores on the FBI's Foreign Language Test Battery.
• The prerequisite for this position is to be a natural-born citizen of America.
• It is essential that the employee is capable of obtaining Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Clearance.
• Accepting of traveling based on the demands of the job.
• Meeting the FBI's Employment Eligibility criteria is necessary to be considered for a job with the agency.

The Department of Justice recognizes the importance of promoting diversity within our workforce, and we actively encourage applications from individuals belonging to a variety of communities, beliefs, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds.