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Translator, French / English at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

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Posted 5 months ago

Job Title: Translator, French / English

Role Overview
Under the supervision of the Director of Administration and Finance, the translator shall be responsible for performing the following tasks:

  • The incumbent shall perform translation services from French into English of correspondences, Mutual Evaluation Reports -MERs), Follow-Up Reports (FURs) sometimes under very tight deadlines, for the institution involving the frequent use of terminologies relating to law, crime prevention, rule of law and other terminologies on money laundering and financing of terrorism.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the promotion of the use of coherent and uniform terminologies in GIABA documents.
  • Ensure planning, coordination and control of the activities of the translation unit when requested by the head of the Unit;
  • Ensure the timely revision of documents translated from French into English;
  • Identify changes, trends, inconsistencies and linguistic variations in the various areas of terminology used in the fight against money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism;
  • Conduct linguistic research and documentation of multi-lingual terminology publications (bulletins, glossaries, vocabularies, notes and related materials);
  • Ensure the maintenance and update of data bases and linguistic terminology materials;
  • Efficiently use computer-assisted translation to deliver translation services as may be needed from time to time;   
  • Undertake, independently, specific missions at the request of the Head of Language Servies;
  • Perform any other task that may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor

 Academic Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in translation degree from a recognized university;
  • 5 years of experience in translation and technical writing;
  • Proven knowledge of computer-assisted translation tools, machine translation tools and on-screen editing
  • tools;
  • Sound knowledge of the structure and content of language including the meaning and spelling of words,
  • rules of composition, grammar and history.  
  • Excellent drafting skills in English
  • Age: The minimum age for recruitment is 24 and the maximum age is 50.  Age limit is not applicable to internal candidates
  • Language: Candidates must have a strong command of the English language and very good level in French

Salary
P3 : UA 43,414.62 ($68,499.59) / P4 : UA 50,354.45 ($79,449.26)

Application Closing Date
29th January, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their correctly filled Job Application Form, CV and Motivation Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
OR
Click here to apply online

Click here to download the application form (Docx.)

Note

  • Assessment of qualified candidates may include a written exercise and a competency-based interview.
  • This position is subject to local requirement pursuant to staff rule article 9.3 of the ECOWAS Staff Regulations (revised 2022). All staff in the General Service and related categories shall be recruited in the country or within commuting distance of the GIABA Secretariat, irrespective of their nationality and of the length of time they may have been in the country. A staff member subject to local requirement shall not be eligible for the allowance or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
  • Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for the interviews.

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