Médecins Sans Frontières en Suisse
Context
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent humanitarian organization providing medical aid to victims of man-made or natural disasters, armed conflicts, epidemics, and endemics. Its Operational Centre in Geneva (MSF OCG) manages medical assistance programs in 26 countries for a total staff of over 9000 people.
Responsibilities and tasks
As native Arabic speaker you are in direct contact and provide support to L&D project officer with translation projects in order to guarantee a high-quality and human-reviewed translation, you:
- Discuss the precise scope of work and any specific expectations for each document to be translated
- Assessment and review of document prior to translation to estimate the work load (when necessary)
- Provide support with translation and editing of MSF’s L&D documents, publications and eLearnings
- Ensure high quality of translation, accurately reflecting the meaning found in the original source language (most often English) and rendering that meaning in the translated work
- elaborate a glossary with technical and MSF terminology specific to the course
- Thorough proof-reading of translation provided by external company or Tembo
- do a technical accuracy review, including confirmation of technical terms
- Edit and adapt translation and use the MSF vocabulary when necessary
- Support the L&D team with quality checks of commissioned translations by external providers
- Support project manager with final check and sign off of translation
- Implement translated text in Rise or equivalent files
- Track and communicate design adjustments to accommodate differences between languages, including increased word count, reversal of text flow (e.g. for Arabic), script and stylistic differences, and other changes
- Support with design testing of courses translated into Arabic by using the provided Tembo Design testing sheet
- Implement updates in Rise or equivalent files
Your Profile
Education
- Tertiary degree in writing, translation or equivalent
Experience
- Field experience with MSF is a plus
- Experience in writing and editing documents, reports, etc.
Languages
- Native Arabic
- English, French. Ability to speak and write fluently
Personal Abilities
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to work on different projects at the same time. Result oriented.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills and creating links with various stakeholders.
- Flexibility
- Team spirit
Skills/ Technical competencies
- Excellent writing skills and proof-reading
- methodology in bibliographic research
Terms of Employment
- Full-time position 100% (40h/week)
- Open-ended contract
- Working place : Geneva,
- Ideal start date: As soon as possible
- Gross annual salary: from CHF 84’814.- to CHF 97’650.- (salary commensurate with equivalent experience and internal salary grid)
How to apply
Candidates submit their application following the requirements: CV 2 p. max. – letter of motivation 1p. max. – in French or English.
Deadline for application is November 20th, 2022
The applications will be treated confidentially.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together for the social mission of MSF to create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.
We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.