# Farsi Instructor

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Farsi Instructor to support a critical national security mission. As a Language Instructor, you will deliver 3–5 hours of daily instruction in courses ranging from ILR levels 0–3. You will also complete training and become a certified language tester, with expectations to conduct 3–4 language proficiency assessments weekly.

Responsibilities Include:

- Deliver high-quality language instruction to students

- Conduct language proficiency assessments

- Develop class materials and training aids to meet customized student needs

- Instruct students in speaking a foreign language and understanding the culture of the area or country

- Work under the direction of experienced senior trained instructors

- Receive specific sponsor training focusing on foreign language teaching and foreign language testing

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in education, foreign language, or linguistics with 8–12 years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 2–10 years of prior relevant experience

- Minimum of 10 years of adult teaching experience

- Team Teaching experience a plus

- Must score 90% or higher on the English test

- Must score Senior level

- Degree must be obtained either in the U.S. or in a country where the target language is natively spoken

- Proficient in MS Office and basic internet research

- Excellent communication and presentation skills in both English and the foreign language

- Travel 0-10%

Language Proficiency Requirements:

- Must pass a LEIDOS/accepted commercial testing vendors-administered translation test with a score of 4 or higher

- Must achieve a minimum of 5/5/5 in speaking, listening, and reading on standard ILR scale

Security Clearance Requirement:

- An active TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience within the U.S. Intelligence Community, military, or law enforcement

- Ability to communicate fluently and professionally in multiple languages is highly desirable

- Prior exposure to cryptologic or national security environments a plus

- Linguists who are proficient in multiple languages are strongly desired

## Skills

### Required
- Farsi
- foreign language instruction
- adult learning methodologies
- language testing
- MS Office
- internet research

### Nice to have
- multiple languages
- U.S. Intelligence Community
- military
- law enforcement
- cryptologic or national security environments

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