Job Description

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Terminologist to join our team on a newly awarded, multi-year contract based in the Northern Virginia area. This multi-year contract needs you to fill Human Language Translation (HLT) positions such as Desktop Publishing Specialists, Language Data Analysts, Localizations Engineers, Terminologists, and Translation Workflow Specialists. As a Terminologist, you support terminology projects through writing of term definitions in English, specifying associated metadata and values, reviewing data quality, and providing terminology-process guidance to users.

RESPONSIBILTIES

• Work with project team, writers, and translators to build an enterprise terminology program
• Manage the workflow process of all new term entries for the client, coordinating with stakeholder to post the term entries in a way that is compliant with applicable rules and standards
• Prepare regular metrics presentations describing the state and progress of the terminology workflow
• Monitor user suggestions for new source terms and feedback on existing source terminology
• Train new product team users and source contributors to enable them to author data in the terminology management systems, and delegate tasks to product team users as appropriate
• Author concise concept definitions following standards set by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and/or client standards by collaborating with project managers and engineers
• Improve the terminology concept system by writing definitions for new concepts to fill in gaps in the existing terminology database
• Answer questions about terms posed by internal and external translators
• Provide translators, transcribers, and interpreters with domain-specific glossaries, translation memories, segmentation rules, and style guides as requested
• Learn the client\'s terminology-management tools and train others on these tools

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Minimum of a bachelor\'s degree in language, linguistics, translation, or related field. Understanding of terminology management theory, principles, and methods, and expertise in terminology management tools/systems, including integration with authoring and localization platforms
• Experience in terminology management
• Attention to detail
• Technology tool savvy

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.

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