# Somali Translator/Linguist

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Other

**Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Reston-VA/Somali-Translator-Linguist_R-00160423?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_499f5aa7-095

## Description

We are currently seeking a highly skilled Somali Linguist to join our mission-driven team. This position requires a language professional capable of performing a wide range of complex linguistic tasks with precision and cultural insight.

You will provide professional-level linguistic support across translation, interpretation, transcription, and gisting, including but not limited to:

- Accurately translate materials from Somali into English and vice versa, capturing subtle nuances, cultural references, and abstract concepts with contextual accuracy.

- Provide consecutive interpretation, and occasionally simultaneous interpretation, maintaining high fidelity and fluency, demonstrating understanding of regional dialects and cultural context.

- Listen to audio or review internet-based content and transcribe accurately and efficiently, producing high-quality English-language reports based on audio/visual materials.

- Identify and summarize key facts and abstract concepts accurately, prioritizing and extracting critical information from large datasets.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. A translation and/or interpretation degree is highly desired, and HLT experience is a plus.

The pay range for this position is $73,450.00 - $132,775.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Somali
- English
- translation
- interpretation
- transcription
- gisting
- Microsoft Office Suite

### Nice to have
- Arabic
- French
- HLT
- multiple languages

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