Chief, English Translation and Editorial Section

vor 1 Woche

Wien, Österreich United Nations Vollzeit

Org. Setting and Reporting
- Responsibilities
- Within delegated authority, the Chief of Section will be responsible for the following duties: - Manage the editorial, translation, and related activities of ETES to ensure prompt delivery in English of documents of appropriate quality and quantity; and ensure that all editing proceeds on schedule in accordance with the needs of intergovernmental, expert bodies and with the schedule for other services within CMS. - Oversee the day-to-day and long-term planning of work in the light of workload projections, including the appropriate recruitment of temporary staff; organize teams for editors and translators to be assigned to special projects. - Supervise, monitor and evaluate the performance of all regular and temporary staff in the Section; manage, guide, develop and train staff under her/his supervision. - Ensure that documents are prepared in accordance with established policy and practice; review and clear for release, as necessary, texts processed in the Section. - Make recommendations to the Chief of Service on policy matters relating to the Section, including appointment, promotion and training. - Adjudicate between competing demands on the Section’s services, where necessary. - Liaise with other sections and units to ensure optimum coordination. - Encourage the introduction and use of modern technologies with a view of enhancing the efficiency of the documents’ workflow, as appropriate. - Lead team members efforts to collect and analyse data and provide insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensure that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need. - Act as final arbiter on matters of editing, language and terminology. - Implement editorial guidelines for the Unit and provide expertise and advice on editorial policy to UN Secretariat bodies based in Vienna. Participate in regular meetings of United Nations editorial and translation chiefs, and contribute to the establishment of Secretariat-wide editorial policy at the request of, or in consultation with the Chief of editorial and translation services at Headquarters. - Serve on examination boards for the recruitment of editors and translators.
- Competencies
- Education
- An advanced-level university degree (Master’s Degree or academic equivalent) is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Having passed the combined United Nations Language Competitive Examination for Translators/Précis-writers, Editors, Verbatim Reporters and Copy Preparers/ Proofreaders/ Production Editors in English or any United Nations language competitive examination in English held before 2017 is required.
- Job - Specific Qualification
- Work Experience
- A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in translation, précis-writing, editing, self-revision, verbatim reporting, copy preparing, proofreading or production editing and/or in the provision of language or language-related services within a multilingual setting is required. Experience in the use of standard computer-assisted-translation (CAT) tools is required. Significant language-related management experience in international, regional or national institutions is desirable. Experience in data analytics or related areas is desirable.
- Languages
- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, a perfect command of English, which should be the incumbent’s main language is required. An excellent working knowledge of at least two other official languages of the United Nations is required, as tested by the relevant United Nations competitive examination.
- Assessment
- Special Notice
- United Nations Considerations
- No Fee
- THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.

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