CSIS Jobs For Foreign Language Communication Analysts Are Open & You Can Make Over $100,000

People who can speak Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Urdu, Spanish or other languages are wanted. 🗣️

​Government of Canada office building in Ottawa.

Government of Canada office building in Ottawa.

Senior Writer

There are Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) jobs available all over Canada for people who know foreign languages and the salary reaches over $100,000!

For these government of Canada jobs, CSIS wants to find people to work as Foreign Language Communications Analysts in regional offices across the country.

Those locations are Burnaby, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.

The salary for this position ranges from $84,050 all the way to $102,250.

Per the job summary, "as a Foreign Language Communications Analyst, you will read or listen to foreign language material and determine its relevance and importance," then you'll "produce translations and draft reports based on the intelligence value in the material, to generate leads for investigations."

So, you must be able to translate one or more of the foreign languages identified by CSIS into English or French.

Those languages are Arabic, Somali, Farsi, Mandarin, Kurdish, Sorani, Russian, Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Spanish.

To get the job, you need an undergraduate education plus experience working in a team environment and using computer applications, tools and social media apps.

It's also required that you be proficient in any of the languages and have two years of experience in research, analysis and report writing.

If you get this government of Canada job, you must complete the Foreign Language Communications Analyst Training Course in Ottawa.

The closing date for the position is December 30, 2022.

Foreign Language Communication Analyst

Salary: $84,050 to $102,250

Company: Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)

Who Should Apply: Someone with an undergraduate education along with experience working in a team environment, using computer applications, tools and social media apps, and researching, analyzing and writing reports.

You also have to be proficient in either French of English, as well as one or more of the foreign languages that CSIS has identified, which include Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Urdu and Spanish.

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  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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