Overview
The English Editor will be responsible for editing texts of a specialized or technical nature to ensure accuracy, clarity, cohesion, and conformity with United Nations standards, policy, and practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Edits texts of a specialized or technical nature in order to ensure accuracy, clarity, cohesion and conformity with United Nations standards, policy and practice.
- Carries out more extensive editing where required, including rewriting, abridging and restructuring texts for greater readability and better logical sequence.
- Consults with author departments and carries out research to clarify ambiguities and rectify substantive errors, including by verifying the accuracy of facts, figures, references and quotations.
- Checks his/her version against the language of the original draft, redrafts incorrect or unclear passages and inserts any passage that has been omitted.
- Provides authors or others submitting documentation with information on specific aspects of editorial policy and practice and assists them in the preparation of manuscripts.
- Makes effective use of relevant language technologies and tools and suggests improvements.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Required Experience
A minimum of two (2) years of experience in English editing is required. A minimum of two (2) years of experience in a broad range of subjects dealt with by the regional commission: social, economic, financial, administrative, scientific and technical) with a recognized specialization in a particular substantive, technical or administrative area is required. A minimum of two (2) years of experience in editing within the United Nations is desirable.
Qualifications
A first level university degree from a university or institution of equivalent status is required.
