Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story listed locations in Alabama that were not specified by the FBI but by the third-party website Adzuna.
Adzuna is a search engine for job advertisements that manufactures specific locations for job postings that are open to applicants nationwide.
The Haitian Creole translators' positions with the FBI have been open since March 19, 2018.
1819 News regrets this error.
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The FBI is seeking contract workers across the country to translate Haitian Creole.
The state of Alabama has seen an influx of Haitian migrants, likely leading to the need for the positions. Haitian Creole is difficult to translate and has caused issues for law enforcement in places with larger numbers of migrants.
The jobs are full-time positions, paying $38 to $42 an hour. The FBI website states that applicants must be U.S. citizens.
“The FBI is seeking individuals proficient in Spanish, Persian-Farsi, Pashto-Afghani, Arabic, Ukrainian, French, Haitian Creole, Somali, and Hindi who are interested in being contract linguists,” the job description states. “Contract linguists are self-employed and provide valuable services, though they are not employees. At the FBI, contract linguists use their foreign language and culture expertise to support investigations into counterintelligence threats, corruption cases, espionage, cybercrime, human trafficking, and other offenses. Your work could provide valuable intelligence that might help prevent terrorist activity and save American lives.”
It is unclear if each city would have its own linguist or if one linguist would cover multiple cities.
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