Website Central Intelligence Agency
Position Summary:
Foreign Language Instructors provide intelligence professionals with the foreign language skills and cross-cultural awareness needed to live and work abroad or to perform other language-related duties.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Foreign Language Instructor, you will deliver programs that provide intelligence professionals with the foreign language communications skills and cross-cultural awareness they need to live and work abroad effectively or to perform other language-related duties. Foreign Language Instructors apply the latest instructional methodologies to meet highly customized student needs and conduct language proficiency testing in reading, speaking, and understanding for skills evaluation. In addition, you may be asked to provide a variety of language support services worldwide.
Required Education & Experience:
- Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the respective area’s history, culture, politics, and economy.
- Native-like fluency in one of the languages listed above, as well as advanced English proficiency (applicants will be required to take proficiency tests in their claimed language).
- You must be willing to move to the Washington, DC, area.
- Experience teaching language skills to adult learners, taking them from beginner to the general professional proficiency level in an intensive setting.
- Experience living, working, and/or studying abroad.
- Ability to use the latest technology and teaching techniques.
- At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale.
- You must successfully complete a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview, and a comprehensive background investigation.
- You must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years of age (dual-national U.S. citizens are eligible).
- You must apply online, while in the United States.