Associate Translation Coordination Officer

The Associate Translation Coordination Officer supports the Translation Officer in ensuring timely delivery of high-quality transcription and translation services for OTP operations, focusing on situation languages. The role involves coordinating tasks, selecting freelance translators, conducting training, and implementing quality assurance mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Support the Translation Officer in ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality, fit-for-purpose transcription and translation services for OTP operations, mainly for situation languages.
• Proactive planning, prioritising requests, determining feasibility, and coordinating task assignments to staff transcribers and translators and external freelancers.
• Identify, test, evaluate and select freelance translators and translation staff to meet OTP translation requirements, with a focus on situation languages.
• Support the Translation Officer in overseeing and conducting induction and training for new translators, primarily in situation languages.
• Assist in developing and implementing quality assurance mechanisms to ensure consistency and accuracy of translations.
• Contribute to the development, update, and implementation of translation guidelines, procedures and workflows—particularly those related to situation languages.
• Support the Translation Officer in monitoring workload levels and in preparing budget and human resources plans and recommendations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in languages, linguistics, translation, or any relevant field is required.
• A first-level university degree combined with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.
• A minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience (four (4) years with a first-level degree) in translation, linguistics, language service provision, or any relevant field is required.
• Experience using CAT and MT tools is required.
• Experience within an international organisation is highly desirable.
• Excellent organisational, analytical, planning skills.
• Leadership, managerial and coaching skills.
• Ability to understand complex linguistic issues and translation matters.
• Sound knowledge of relevant computer software, specifically CAT (such as MemoQ) & MT tools, office suites, and electronic document management systems.
• Interpersonal, listening, and oral/written communication skills.
• Negotiation, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work flexibly and effectively under pressure and tight deadlines with evolving priorities.
• Ability to work effectively and constructively as part of a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.
• Ability to keep strict standards of confidentiality.
• Openness to skills development.
• Proficiency in one of the working languages of the Court (English or French) is required.
• Working knowledge of the other is desirable.
• Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish) or a situation-related language (such as Ukrainian, Burmese, Dari, Pashto, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hebrew or Swahili) is an asset.

Skills

• Translation
• Linguistics
• Language Service Provision
• CAT Tools
• MT Tools
• memoQ
• Electronic Document Management
• Office Suites
• Translation Coordination
• Freelance Translator Selection
• Training Delivery
• Quality Assurance
• Organizational Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Planning Skills
• Leadership
• Management Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Negotiation
• Problem Solving
• Decision Making
• Confidentiality Management

Languages

English, French