Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is seeking to fill the position of Portuguese Translator.
ECOWAS is a 15-member regional group with a mandate of promoting economic integration in all fields of activity of the constituting countries.
Responsibilities
- Translate documents from either one or two of the other official community languages (French and English) into Portuguese
- Assist in compiling and building a body of terminologies peculiar to and useful in the work of parliament
- Assist with consecutive interpretation during staff and management meetings
- Translate a wide variety of texts documents for ECOWAS conferences and meetings, working papers, scientific articles, speeches, programme statements, web materials, reports, correspondence, etc
- Perform the terminological and conceptual research required in order to produce high-quality translations of scientific, technical, legal, and administrative texts
- Assist in providing support for terminology and style
- Respond to queries about terminology, nomenclature, translation, and writing posed by staff
- Conduct linguistic research and assist in the maintenance of glossaries
- Contribute to the establishment of accurate terminology and promote the terminology data base
- Assist in review of external translators for the ECOWAS roster
- Provide translation support in emergencies, including working under tight deadlines and quick turnaround of translated documents
- Provide feedback for machine translation dictionaries
- Participate in professional forums, conferences and seminars
- Share knowledge and practices with translators of other international organisations
- Keep abreast of specialised terminology and best translation practices
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Translation or equivalent from a recognised institute or university
- Five years, minimum, of experience in translation and revision and technical writing
- Proven knowledge with computer-assisted translation tools, machine translation tools and on-screen editing tools
- Knowledge of the structure and content of language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, grammar, and history
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