# Chechen Linguist/Translator

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Language Services
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

We are currently seeking a highly skilled Chechen 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.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide professional-level linguistic support across translation, interpretation, transcription, and gisting

- Translate materials from Chechen into English and vice versa, capturing subtle nuances, cultural references, and abstract concepts with contextual accuracy

- Perform consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, maintaining high fidelity and fluency

- Transcribe audio or review internet-based content and produce high-quality English-language reports

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

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience

- Translation and/or interpretation degree is highly desired

- HLT experience a plus

- Must successfully complete a Leidos-administered language proficiency test or equivalent at the Primary level or higher

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and basic online research

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience supporting contingency operations as a deployed linguist

- Familiarity with the U.S. Intelligence Community, military operations, or law enforcement environments

- Ability to effectively brief and communicate findings to various stakeholders

- Proficiency in multiple languages is a strong asset

- Short-term TDYs are required, with travel required both OCONUS and CONUS at the discretion of the customer

**Security Clearance:**

- No clearance required to apply

- Able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph (must be fully adjudicated before work begins)

- Leidos will sponsor candidates after passing all required language tests

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary range: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

- Opportunities for professional growth and development

- Commitment to excellence and solving the world's toughest challenges

## Skills

### Required
- Chechen language
- English language
- translation
- interpretation
- transcription
- gisting
- Microsoft Office Suite

### Nice to have
- HLT experience
- multiple languages
- U.S. Intelligence Community
- military operations
- law enforcement environments

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