Editorial Assistant (Bilingual Cross Checking and Comparison)
Overview
The Editorial Assistant will support the timely delivery of high-quality Arabic and English documents, ensuring linguistic precision, stylistic consistency, and clarity in alignment with United Nations standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Offer support in editorial, and translation work, alongside thorough proofreading and copy preparation across a range of documents.
- Conduct meticulous version comparisons between source and target texts to refine outputs and ensure alignment.
- Ensure continuity of style, strict accuracy of content, and conformity with established United Nations grammar, style, and typography.
- Maintain vigilant and critical oversight in leveraging advanced AI translation tools and computer-assisted translation platforms, ensuring that AI-generated outputs are carefully post-edited and refined to meet rigorous institutional quality standards.
- Utilize online research tools and reference databases to check technical terminology and ensure absolute consistency throughout the text, while performing other related language functions as needed and requested.
Required Experience
A minimum of eight years of experience in language related functions and computer assisted translation: strong background in syntax and morphology; good understanding of programming and linguistics; ability to solve problems in areas related to machine translation, grammar and style checking, document processing and information retrieval, and Computer-Assisted Language Learning is required.
Qualifications
A High School diploma or equivalent is required. A first-level university degree in language, terminology, information management or language technology in combination with qualifying training in web writing and publishing is desirable. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree.