Winter 2026 - Student Opportunities in Translation

Salary:  $23.27-$37.77

Closing date: 2025-04-27

Reference number: RF-13312

About CSE

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security. Learn more about our mission.

Student positions at CSE are unlike most others. We offer both practical and developmental work experience and allow students to be part of meaningful, exciting, projects, with the hope that they will want to join us full-time following their studies.

CSE is committed to fostering a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. This isn’t just an ideal, it’s crucial to our mission. Find out about our workplace culture, including our diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Become part of our team and you’ll understand why CSE is the most important organization you’ve never heard of.

Job summary

CSE Student jobs are unlike most others. We offer both practical and developmental work experience, as well as attractive salaries. What's more, our students can be involved in exciting projects that contribute to CSE’s mission.

The CSE’s Linguistic Services team, whose work consists mainly of translating technical and administrative documents from English to French, intends to offer students the opportunity to pursue a full-time career in translation within the organization upon completion of their studies if their profile matches our needs.

We’re looking for passionate students from a diverse range of backgrounds, who will thrive working in an open-minded environment and value the different perspectives of others.

As a student member of CSE’s Linguistic Services team, your responsibilities may include:

• Analyzing documents in the source language to comprehend their meaning and translating the content into the other official language.
• Offering routine translation services for information and ensuring the maintenance of the statistics database. This entails communicating with clients regarding deadlines, conducting searches for translations, and documenting the search results, alongside other team members, to build the terminology database.
• Consulting specific reference materials to gain a deeper understanding of text meanings and providing linguistic advice in both official languages to clients throughout the organization.
• Assisting in drafting content in both official languages for various organizational needs.
• Working collaboratively with communications colleagues in the Creative Services, Web Design and Marketing teams.

Salary

To find out more about our student salary scale visit the Compensation page on our website.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens.

 

Location

Ottawa, Ontario.  All jobs require onsite presence in one of our two accessible facilities.

Learn more about where we work.

Conditions of employment

A valid Enhanced Reliability Status (ERS) or an Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

For more information about our hiring process, visit our hiring process and security page on our website.

Essential qualifications

In order to be considered, your cover letter must clearly explain how you meet the following education and experience requirements.

Education

You must be registered as a full-time student in a recognized post-secondary program* in Canada in translation.

 

Note: The educational program must be recognized in Canada, and you must be able to provide a transcript from your most recent term. Students graduating prior to, or during, the work term are not eligible to apply.

Competencies

The following technical, behavioural and leadership competencies will be assessed at a later date. You do not need to include information about them in your application. 

Technical competencies

Technical competencies will vary depending on the job family you select upon application submission.

Behavioural competencies

• Cognitive thinking skills
• Service

Leadership competencies

• Achieving results
• Collaboration

How to apply

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “Apply” at the top or bottom of this page.

If you cannot apply online or have a disability preventing you from applying online, please inform us by email at students-etudiants@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this selection process.

Important information

The process will be conducted in the official language of your choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to the following designated employment equity groups: women; Indigenous peoples, including First Nations who are status, or registered and non-status, or non-registered, Inuit and Métis; persons with disabilities, including people with a mental health condition and neurodivergent people; and persons from racial or ethnic groups. 

Please note the Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures you require to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates during our processes. Information you provide will be addressed confidentially.

All communications with CSE relating to this process, including email messages and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.