Tagalog Role Player - Interpreter And Specialized Roles

Threat Tec, LLC is an integrated technology and services company serving defense and commercial customers. We design, deliver, and sustain training, readiness, and mission-support solutions that combine people, process, and technology to improve preparation, decision-making, and operational performance.

About the Role

Threat Tec is hiring fluent Tagalog and English speakers to serve as role players for a U.S. Marine Corps advisor training course at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. Marines in this course are preparing to advise foreign security forces overseas. Over five days of realistic, scenario-based exercises, you will portray partner-nation military and civilian leaders, or serve as an interpreter between Marines and those leaders, so students can practice building relationships, negotiating, working through interpreters, and navigating cultural differences.

We are hiring for two role-player types under this posting:

• Interpreter Role Player: Interpret between U.S. Marines (students) and role players portraying military personnel, public servants, civilian officials, and local nationals, while displaying the real-world interpreter behaviors advisors must learn to manage.
• Specialized Role Player: Portray a scripted military or civilian leader in the scenario country. Roles include military commanders, media professionals (with prop camera and microphone), a doctor, a police chief, and a religious official.

Key Responsibilities

• Study the scenario brief, your role card, and your script before the event, and attend a pre-event read-in and rehearsal.
• Stay in character and in the assigned language for every scenario; mixing languages (for example, Taglish) is not permitted.
• Portray your role authentically, including emotions that fit the scenario such as frustration, pride, suspicion, or grief, within the safety limits set by the Role Player Manager.
• Interpreter Role Players: interpret accurately and naturally between English and Tagalog in face-to-face meetings, negotiations, and key leader engagements.
• Wear the provided military-style uniform or civilian costume and handle inert, non-firing training replicas (mock weapons) according to safety instructions.
• Accept direction, feedback, and on-the-spot corrections from course faculty and the Role Player Manager.
• Provide feedback on student interactions to the Role Player Manager for daily critiques.
• Help lead a Filipino cultural meal on the final day, briefing etiquette, customs, courtesies, and traditional holidays.
• Maintain confidentiality of all scenario materials and follow Threat Tec's code of conduct.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must reside within daily commuting distance of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (Hampton Roads area, including Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton, and Newport News). Travel, lodging, mileage, and relocation are not provided.
• Fluent in Tagalog and English, at Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Level 3, Professional Working Proficiency, or higher in both languages. Proficiency will be assessed during screening.
• Cultural knowledge of and experience with the Philippines or Southeast Asia.
• 18 years of age or older.
• Available for all five event days, Monday 02 November through Friday 06 November 2026, for 8-10 hours each day, plus a pre-event read-in.
• Able to obtain military installation access, including completing the SECNAV 5512/1 base-access form and passing installation background screening.
• Valid driver's license, passport, or other government-issued photo ID, carried at all times on the installation.
• Able to complete Form I-9 employment eligibility verification.
• Comfortable performing under pressure, adapting to changing scenarios, and displaying emotion appropriate to a role.

Preferred Qualifications

• ILR Level 4 or 5 Tagalog proficiency, or higher education completed in Tagalog or the Philippines, for senior commander and civil-leader roles.
• Prior military, law enforcement, medical, journalism, religious, or public-service experience in the Philippines or the United States that supports a specific role.
• Professional interpreting or translation experience (Interpreter Role Players).
• Prior role-player, actor, or military training-exercise experience.
• Familiarity with Filipino customs, holidays, and food traditions.

$150 - $200 a day

Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors including experience, education, certifications, security clearance requirements, internal equity, and customer or contract requirements.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. This job description is subject to change at any time.

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