Vacancy Announcement P2020

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Position title (Grade) Translator-Reviser (P.4)
Organizational unit French Translation Section
Language Service
Administrative Support Services and General Assembly Affairs
Application deadline December 01, 2009
Date for entry on duty As soon as possible after closing date
Duration of appointment Initial period of two years, renewable, subject to satisfactory performance. No fixed-term appointment or any extension hereof shall carry with it any expectancy of, nor imply any right to, (further) extensions or conversion to a permanent or continuing appointment.
Duty station Geneva
Post number L585
CCOG code 1.O.06


Main duties

Under the supervision of the Head of the French Translation Section, the incumbent performs the following duties:

  • translation into French, with self-revision, of important, complex or urgent documents dealing with legal, administrative and technical matters, from English, Spanish and Russian;
  • revision of translations produced by other translators and revision of documents translated by translators of a lower grade or external translators;
  • participation in other translation and editing work carried out by the Section, in particular during conferences, as well as in terminology work;
  • advice to less experienced French-language translators;
  • perform other related duties as required.

Date of issue of the vacancy announcement: October 22, 2009

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