Head of Unit, Documentation, Translation and Interpretation – (International Position)

General Background

The OEC: The Organisation of Educational Cooperation (OEC) is an international intergovernmental organisation, founded in January 2020 by countries from across the Global South, to “contribute to the equitable, just, and prosperous social transformation of societies by promoting balanced and inclusive education, in order to attain the fundamental rights to liberty, justice, dignity, sustainability, social cohesion, and material and immaterial security for the peoples of the world”.

GALM: The Bureau of General Assembly and Logistics Management functions are:

• Provide logistical and documentation support to the General Assembly, the Council of Member States, and the Conference of Associate Members in their ordinary and extraordinary sessions.
• Support the President of the General Assembly in the discharge of their duties.
• Provide logistical and documentation support to the conferences and international meetings convened by the Secretariat.

Duties

Under the supervision of the Assistant-Secretary-General for GALM, the incumbent of this position is to:

• Plan the work of the Unit and ensures that the regular tasks are carried out efficiently and timely.
• Ensure that staff in the Unit who manage translation, interpretation, meeting assistance, document distribution, management and archiving, institutional memory maintenance, perform their tasks and responsibilities to the best of their abilities.
• Support team members to acquire new skills and/or improve their existing skills.
• Supervise and manage the work of the team.
• Ensure that the meetings are closely followed up, recorded, translation / interpretation services are provided,
• Run an efficient system of document distribution, referencing and archiving.
• Provide technical support for all OEC bodies meetings such as the General Assembly, the Council of Member States, the Conference of Associate Members and other organs and their respective presiding officers, as well as Departments/Bureaus of the Secretariat.
• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or technical qualification is translation, documentation, knowledge management or a related field.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in a similar position in multilingual organisations, IGOs, INGOs and similar

Language Requirements

• Excellent command and fluency in English, and at least one other OEC official language (Arabic, French, Spanish).