Senior Communications Associate (Translator) G7 - Sana'a

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Assisting 91.4 million people in around 83 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving Lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

In 2019, WFP is scaling up its Yemen operations aiming to provide 12 million people with monthly food assistance through direct food distributions, vouchers or cash and nutritional support to nearly 3 million pregnant and nursing women and children under 5.

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Senior Communications Associate (translator) will play a key role supporting WFP’s emergency response in Yemen by leading the translation unit to provide high-quality translation and interpretation services from English to Arabic (and vice versa).

1. Support the management of a team of translators to provide high quality translation and interpretation services to the Country Office, including the planning and management of skills development, staff rota.
2. Ensure the quality of translation of WFP internal documents, including messages, minutes, circulars, SOPs, reports, texts for bulletins, UN rules, regulations and guidelines, any other internal texts as required. The translated text to be delivered in MS Word, PowerPoint or Excel files, as required.
3. Ensure the quality of translation of WFP external documents including letters, press releases, media advisories, publications, reports, and official correspondence with authorities. These texts could be for print publications, broadcast or web. The translated text to be delivered in MS Word, PowerPoint or Excel files as required.
4. Provide simultaneous interpretation for senior management and visiting senior officials for high level meetings and field visits, including during evenings, weekends and other holidays.
5. Ensure that all translated texts are technically, linguistically and grammatically correct and error free and completed to the highest standards, and support more junior staff to produce high quality translation work.
6. Oversee and perform terminology research to ensure accurate and appropriate translations. Support the development of guidelines and style guides to ensure consistent use of language and phrases in English and Arabic. Compile information, such as technical terms used in legal settings into glossaries and terminology databases to be used in translations.
7. Complete the work within the agreed timeline and submit the final translation in both soft and hard copy.
8. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to support WFP with quick feedback in the delivery of tasks.
9. Maintain strict confidentially of all translation work and support more junior staff with queries to this end.
10. Provide advice and guidance within area and level of expertise, in order to ensure that all translated materials meet desired standards of consistency, quality and impact.
11. Support translation activities that enable informed decision making and ensures consistency of information presented to the media and other stakeholders.
12. Liaise and interact with WFP staff and external counterparts to support aligned activities and a coherent approach to communications within WFP.

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.

Experience: Six or more years of progressively responsible support work experience in general administrative work or other related field.

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language. Fluency (level C) in Arabic language

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
•  Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
•  Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
•  Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfill the needs of internal and external partners.

• SC holders are eligible only if they have minimum cumulative 1-year experience in WFP
• SSA holders are not eligible to apply
• WFP staff who are still under probation period are not eligible to apply for another FT position.
• WFP staff on FT contracts must have completed one year in the current position to be eligible to apply for another FT position.
• The applicant should either be a Yemeni national or have a valid Yemeni Residence/work permit at the time of application.
• Only candidates who are short-listed will be contacted
• By submitting your application, you have read the Terms of Reference for this position and agree that any false, wrong or incomplete information might lead to your disqualification in this recruitment process
• Applications must be submitted online with:

1. Use English language only
2. Indicate all your job TOR
3. Indicate clear years of experience with each job (month/Year)

30 June 2020

WFP never uses external recruitment agencies and recruitment is always is free of charge. WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. The selection of staff are made on a competitive basis and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance. Only applicants whose profiles meet the advertised job requirements will be considered and only within the announced deadline.
 

لا يقوم برنامج الأغذية العالمي بالاستعانة ابداً بأشخاص او بوكالات خارجية في التوظيف، علماً بان عملية التوظيف دائماً مجانية. يبحث برنامج الأغذية العالمي عن مرشحين من أعلى درجات النزاهة والكفاءة المهنية والذين يتقاسمون مبادئنا الإنسانية. يتم اختيار الموظفين على أساس تنافسي ونحن ملتزمون بتعزيز التنوع والتوازن بين الجنسين. سيتم النظر فقط للمتقدمين الذين تفي ملفاتهم الشخصية بمتطلبات الوظيفة المعلن عنها، وفقط خلال الموعد النهائي المعلن

Qualified female applicants are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.