# Chinese Mandarin Linguist/Instructor

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $52,000.00 - $94,000.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Chinese Mandarin Linguist/Instructor to provide translation services in a variety of forms, primarily global and cryptologic language training to military personnel.

The successful candidate will work with the unit Language Program Manager to develop and integrate language training materials, technologies, and methods in existing training programs.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

- Provide global language, cryptologic, language, and cultural training to military forces and civilian personnel via traditional classroom instruction, written materials, technology-based instruction, and distributed learning services.

- Help to develop and integrate new global and cryptologic training materials, curriculum, and courseware for approval of US Government.

- Adapt instructional methods to meet student language proficiency goals, learning styles, and time constraints.

- Advise Language Manager and military representatives on assessment, placement, and training needs of students.

- Track student progression and report effectiveness of training to Language Manager and military.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Requires an active TS/SCI security clearance.

- Interagency Language Round Table (ILRT) level 3 or higher in Chinese Mandarin and an advanced working proficiency in English (ILRT level 2+).

- Bachelor's Degree in Chinese Mandarin language/Applied Linguistics/language teaching preferred.

- 2-4 years of military or intelligence experience.

- 1-3 years of language-related experience.

- 1 or more years' experience in producing translation and language-related services.

- 1 or more years' experience providing language or relation instruction.

- Strong knowledge of Chinese Mandarin to include speaking, grammar, phonology, linguistic functions, etc.

- Familiarity with various phases of intelligence cycle such as collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities.

- Must be willing and able to travel approximately 20–25% to support 1–3 classes per year.

- Must be flexible with work hours to accommodate the online training schedule due to different time zones for the units.

**Pay Range:** $52,000.00 - $94,000.00

## Skills

### Required
- Mandarin
- English
- Linguistics
- Language Teaching
- Intelligence Cycle
- Cryptologic Language Training

### Nice to have
- Military Experience
- Intelligence Experience
- Language-Related Experience
- Translation Experience
- Instructional Experience

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