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As a LANGUAGE SPECIALIST at the GS-1040-13 level some of your typical work assignments may include:
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Conditions of employment
This position has INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL Requirements for the (1040) series:
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- the appropriate foreign language from an English-speaking college or university, English from a college or university in the other country, or translating or interpreting where English and the foreign language were prerequisites.-OR- General Experience: Knowledge of both English and the appropriate foreign language are required. This knowledge may be demonstrated through education, experience, or a combination of the two for entry level positions as listed below:
English
The following are examples of work in the required language that may have provided the required abilities: translator; interpreter; librarian or information specialist required to make abstracts, screen, index, and scan material; intelligence; writer or editor; international organizational work, such as the Peace Corps, World Bank, United Nations, business, or other organizations; or professor, teacher, or instructor work at the high school or college level that required use of the foreign language.
Agencies may test applicants for foreign language proficiency on a pass/fail basis prior to appointment. Agencies must document the connection between the level of proficiency required and the duties of the position to be filled. Test material for applicants for the same position or grade level should be equally difficult, and should be selected from typical work-related documents.
You may qualify at the GS-13, if you fulfill the following qualifications:
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
This position has INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL Educational Requirements for the (1040) series:
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- the appropriate foreign language from an English-speaking college or university, English from a college or university in the other country, or translating or interpreting where English and the foreign language were prerequisites.
English
Additional information
Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA): To be eligible for a VEOA appointment under Merit Promotion procedures, the veteran must be a preference eligible or a veteran separated after 3 years or more of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs: This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications. and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. For more information: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ .
Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities: For more information on noncompetitive appointment authority eligibility requirements:
Persons with Disabilities - Schedule A
Special Hiring Authority for Veterans
Special Hiring Authority for Certain Military Spouses
Other Special Appointment Authorities - Subpart F
Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/register/ )
The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews, and once the selection is made, you will receive a notification of the decision.
NOTE: Declining to be interviewed or failure to report for a scheduled interview will be considered as a declination for further consideration for employment against this vacancy.
Selective Service Requirement: Please visit http://www.sss.gov for more information.
For more information, please visit
https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DoDGenAppInfo%2012-1-2020.pdf?ver=ECNbdsHtGilTd3OENN4A0Q%3d%3d Re-employed Annuitant: This position Does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF?ver=LQ7feWw-8-5DI2tceUpmgA%3d%3d
Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level).
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As a LANGUAGE SPECIALIST at the GS-1040-13 level some of your typical work assignments may include:
- Providing written and oral sight translations of head-of-state communiques.
- Preparing, formats, dispatches, receives and processes head of state communiques via multiple communications links.
- Developing and presenting briefings to foreign dignitaries, military officials. and numerous high-level delegations at the CJCS/SECDEF level.
- Developing and coordinating an authoritative US Government policy/position for bilateral technical-expert's meetings with representatives from the Presidential Communications Directorate of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense.
- Serving as one of three translators in rotating shifts in order to provide rapid or time sensitive oral, sight, and written translations of political communiques, military and other technical, scientific or general translations to the President and designated select Executive Branch (NSA/Director White House Situation Room, etc.) or Senior DoD officials (SecDef, CJCS).
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Conditions of employment
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
- Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
- Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
- Work Schedule: Full Time - Rotating Shifts (Holidays, weekends, day/night )
- Overtime: Occasionally
- Tour of Duty: Flexible
- Recruitment Incentives: May Be Authorized
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
- Financial Disclosure: Not Required
- Telework Eligibility: This position is NOT telework eligible
- This is a drug testing designated position
- Employee must obtain/maintain a Special Sensitive (Top Secret/SCI) security clearance
- Incumbent is expected to complete a 10-to-12 week training course conducted at the Defense Language Institute- Washington, within 12 months of employment to improve the incumbent's knowledge of both the Great Russian and the English languages.
- The position is designated as an essential position meaning that the incumbent will usually be required to perform regularly scheduled work even in the event of furlough, inclement weather, or other events that result in government closure.
- The incumbent is subject to occasional travel.
This position has INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL Requirements for the (1040) series:
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- the appropriate foreign language from an English-speaking college or university, English from a college or university in the other country, or translating or interpreting where English and the foreign language were prerequisites.-OR- General Experience: Knowledge of both English and the appropriate foreign language are required. This knowledge may be demonstrated through education, experience, or a combination of the two for entry level positions as listed below:
English
- Three years of work experience requiring considerable use of English.
- A full 4-year course in a college or university in any subject where the instruction was primarily in English.
- Experience in speaking English where English was the second language in the high school system of a non-English speaking country.
- Experience in speaking or writing in the language because it was the language (a) in which the applicant was educated (through the high school level), (b) of the household, or (c) in which the applicant worked for a long period of time, including service in the Armed Forces.
- A full 4-year course in an accredited college or university in a country where the foreign language required for the position to be filled is the native language.
The following are examples of work in the required language that may have provided the required abilities: translator; interpreter; librarian or information specialist required to make abstracts, screen, index, and scan material; intelligence; writer or editor; international organizational work, such as the Peace Corps, World Bank, United Nations, business, or other organizations; or professor, teacher, or instructor work at the high school or college level that required use of the foreign language.
Agencies may test applicants for foreign language proficiency on a pass/fail basis prior to appointment. Agencies must document the connection between the level of proficiency required and the duties of the position to be filled. Test material for applicants for the same position or grade level should be equally difficult, and should be selected from typical work-related documents.
You may qualify at the GS-13, if you fulfill the following qualifications:
- Advanced Russian-to-English Translation: Demonstrated mastery of Russian and English syntax, grammar, and spelling to independently produce finished, high-fidelity translations and associated documents.
- Specialized Domain Knowledge: Proven application of in-depth knowledge of U.S. and Russian affairs, including intelligence, political, military, legal, treaty, scientific, technical, ecological, and nuclear matters, within the context of translation and analysis.
- Senior-Level Quality Assurance: Experience in reviewing, editing, and validating the complex translation work of other senior professional translators and military linguists to enforce stylistic and terminological continuity.
- Secure Communications Systems Operation: Proficiency in overseeing the operation of secure communication systems, specifically Data Control Language (DCL) circuits and the Moscow/Washington Emergency Communications Link (MOLINK), including managing all related issues and coordinating with flag/general officers and representatives of the Executive Branch.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
This position has INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL Educational Requirements for the (1040) series:
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- the appropriate foreign language from an English-speaking college or university, English from a college or university in the other country, or translating or interpreting where English and the foreign language were prerequisites.
English
- A full 4-year course in a college or university in any subject where the instruction was primarily in English.
- A full 4-year course in an accredited college or university in a country where the foreign language required for the position to be filled is the native language.
Additional information
Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA): To be eligible for a VEOA appointment under Merit Promotion procedures, the veteran must be a preference eligible or a veteran separated after 3 years or more of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs: This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications. and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. For more information: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ .
Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities: For more information on noncompetitive appointment authority eligibility requirements:
Persons with Disabilities - Schedule A
Special Hiring Authority for Veterans
Special Hiring Authority for Certain Military Spouses
Other Special Appointment Authorities - Subpart F
Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/register/ )
The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews, and once the selection is made, you will receive a notification of the decision.
NOTE: Declining to be interviewed or failure to report for a scheduled interview will be considered as a declination for further consideration for employment against this vacancy.
Selective Service Requirement: Please visit http://www.sss.gov for more information.
For more information, please visit
https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DoDGenAppInfo%2012-1-2020.pdf?ver=ECNbdsHtGilTd3OENN4A0Q%3d%3d Re-employed Annuitant: This position Does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF?ver=LQ7feWw-8-5DI2tceUpmgA%3d%3d
Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level).
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