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# Somali Operational Language Analyst Level 3

- **Company:** A2 Federal Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Signals Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9011502/somali-operational-language-analyst-level-3

## About the Role

The Level 3 Operational Language Analyst shall demonstrate the skills of the lower levels plus the following cryptologic language processing skills:

 * Scanning and sorting/categorizing foreign language materials
 * Performing quality control review of translations and/or transcripts of complex and sophisticated written and/or spoken material
 * Bachelor of Arts (BA)/Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, or equivalent from other countries
 * Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level 3 in Audio Translation Performance and/or Translation Performance from the required language(s) into idiomatic, standard American English. Scores from the NSA Civilian Language Test of Record, valid at the time of resume submission, may be used as acceptable validation for text translation and audio translation skill level(s). ILR skill level validation shall be documented within two (2) years prior to resume submission
 * In lieu of the Bachelor's Degree , an additional four (4) years of directly related, applied, practical work experience may be substituted for a total of fourteen (14) years' experience
 * At least three (3) of the six (6) years' experience in the required language(s) shall be in translating and/or transcribing, and gisting
 * At least one (1) of the six (6) years' experience in the required language(s) shall be in performing quality control review of ILR level 3 audio translations and/or text translations
 * For no more than three (3) of the required ten (10) years' experience, reporting shall be the primary duty
 * One (1) of the six (6) years of experience in the required language(s) shall be within six (6) years of resume submission
 * One (1) year of experience typing on an English keyboard

## Description

The Operational Language Analyst performs tasks required to process voice and/or graphic language materials in support of SIGINT Operations.


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