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The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development projects around the world. Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement, and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations. With over 6,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical, and management knowledge they need, where they need it. By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.
Background Information – Job-specific
With presence and experience in Ukraine since 2016, UNOPS has provided management and procurement services to support Ukraine’s national reform and sustainable development agenda, take environmental and climate action, strengthen the rule of law, improve energy and healthcare solutions, as well as address economic and governance institutional weaknesses.
The Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has caused a severe and highly complex humanitarian emergency with global impact not witnessed in Europe for over 70 years. The international response has been significant, with exceptional support provided by many donor countries and organizations. UNOPS, with its ability to add considerable value in its core areas of infrastructure, procurement, and project management services, is part of the response to the ongoing emergency and is expanding its capacity in the country to be able to provide robust and timely support over the long term, through the recovery and reconstruction phases.
Recognizing the enormity and complexity of the challenges ahead, UNOPS established a dedicated Ukraine Country Office (based in Kyiv), from where its operations will be planned, resourced, implemented, managed, and controlled in the months and years ahead, with the support of the UNOPS Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (based in Geneva) and UNOPS HQ (Copenhagen).
The UNOPS Ukraine Country Office is looking to strengthen its communication function, particularly in aspects that relate to cross-cultural bilingual communication. In this context, it is looking to recruit an in-house full-time Translator/Interpreter. The Translator/Interpreter will work as a cross-cutting expert, providing linguistic and communication support to all UNOPS Ukraine personnel, as required. He/she will be central to the Country Office’s translation and interpreting quality management architecture and will work under the supervision of the Communication Analyst to help ensure that UNOPS Ukraine’s linguistic needs are adequately met.
Effective interpretation in support of office functions.
The Translator/Interpreter delivers effective interpreting services at meetings, site visits, negotiations, and other stakeholder engagement formats.
The Translator/Interpreter ensures the full and precise delivery of bi-directional English – Ukrainian/Russian verbal communications between UNOPS personnel and other stakeholders as and when required for the purposes of UNOPS projects, as well as finance, HR, administration, communication, or partnerships functions.
In consultation with relevant stakeholders, the Translator/Interpreter selects the appropriate mode of interpreting (consecutive or simultaneous) and, where necessary, coordinates interpreting with any external providers involved.
The Translator/Interpreter is available to go on official travel to project sites and meeting locations within Ukraine upon reasonable notice.
Effective translation, recording, and retention of information relevant to office functions.
The Translator/Interpreter delivers translations, as well as records and retains information relevant to office functions.
With support from the Communication Analyst, the Translator/Interpreter establishes a system to receive translation requests from UNOPS personnel, perform translation, and ensure product quality and cross-document continuity, maintaining glossaries and terminology bases as necessary.
The Translator/Interpreter effectively coordinates translation work where external providers are involved.
The Translator/Interpreter records information in the form of meeting minutes and similar products, as well as contributes to the office’s information retention systems.
Support to the office team in high-quality communication with stakeholders and partners.
The Translator/Interpreter supports the office team in high-quality communication with stakeholders and partners.
The Translator/Interpreter produces and contributes to products that include but are not limited to briefs, updates, reports, media publications etc. This work may require researching and retrieving background and analytical data from internal and external sources as assigned by the Communication Analyst.
The Translator/Interpreter undertakes/supports meeting organization and coordination, drafts/contributes to background materials, talking points, and other meeting-related products, as well as performs other tasks related to stakeholder communication as instructed by the Communication Analyst.
Reporting on performed work and analysing key trends/challenges.
The Translator/Interpreter reports at agreed intervals to the Communication Analyst on the work performed, key trends and challenges identified.
With support from the Communication Analyst, the Translator/Interpreter develops solutions and products to continuously improve translation/interpreting quality and continuity.
Knowledge building and knowledge sharing.
The Translator/Interpreter provides sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice by synthesising lessons learnt and disseminating best practices in translation/interpretation.
The Translator/Interpreter collects feedback, ideas, and internal knowledge about processes and best practices and utilises these productively.
The Translator/Interpreter may be required to perform additional tasks as requested by the Communication Analyst.
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education
Experience
Fluency in Ukrainian, Russian, and English is required.
Contract type: ICA
Contract level: Local ICA Support
Contract duration: Ongoing ICA – ‘Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.’
For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link:
https://www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx
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