English Language Checker

English Language Checker

CoE – Council of Europe

Strasbourg, France

Reference: e013/2024
Deadline: 02 April 2024

Do you may have a watch for detecting spelling and stylistic errors when studying paperwork in English? Are you aware how one can enhance the type of a textual content with out altering its content material? Are you able to deal with complicated authorized texts and make sure that they’re clear and understandable? Would you wish to contribute to the actions of an Worldwide Organisation working for human rights, democracy and the rule of legislation? In that case, our job commercial could be the proper alternative for you.

Who we’re

With over 2200 employees members representing all its 46 member States, the Council of Europe is a multicultural Organisation. All of us try in the direction of defending human rights, democracy and the rule of legislation and our three core values – professionalism, integrity and respect – information the way in which we work.

The European Courtroom of Human Rights oversees the implementation of the European Conference on Human Rights within the member States. See the Courtroom’s website for details about its actions.

Your function

As an English Language Checker, your function will concentrate on:

• Finishing up a language verify of specified classes of paperwork, particularly draft judgments and selections, to make sure they’re clear, readily understandable and grammatically appropriate, consulting the creator the place obligatory;
• Figuring out any terminological issues and looking for and analysing the data wanted to resolve them;
• For every doc checked, giving the legal professionals involved the suggestions they should develop their drafting skill in English;
• Offering linguistic help to legal professionals through the drafting course of by giving them opinions and recommendation on an advert hoc foundation;
• Collaborating, on a voluntary foundation, in coaching Registry legal professionals by devising and working language workshops tailor-made to their particular wants in drafting the Courtroom’s judgments;
• Contributing to the linguistic databases managed by the translators;
• Collaborating in divisional terminology conferences; explaining any country-specific difficulties and, the place acceptable, justifying the options proposed.

What we’re searching for

You need to:

• Maintain a higher-education qualification (no less than 2 years of research) in a related area, for instance in languages or legislation;
• Have a minimal of two years of related skilled expertise within the areas of language checking, translation or legislation;
• Have English mom tongue (or command of English of mother-tongue commonplace), good data of French;
• Be a citizen of one of many member States of the Council of Europe and fulfil the circumstances for appointment to the civil service of that state;
• Have discharged any obligation regarding nationwide service (army, civil or comparable);
• Not be the mum or dad, little one, stepchild or grandchild of a serving employees member of the Council of Europe;
• Be below the age of 65 years.

Reveal to us that you’ve the next competencies:

• Skilled and technical experience:
  • Fundamental authorized data, significantly of the Conference system and the Courtroom’s case-law, and talent to develop data on this area;
  • Superior linguistic data and terminology, spelling, syntax, fashion.
• Planning and work organisation;
• Drafting abilities;
• Evaluation and drawback fixing;
• Relationship constructing;
• Teamwork and co-operation;
• Concern for high quality;
• Service orientation;
• Outcomes orientation.

These could be an asset:

• Studying and improvement;
• Communication;
• Adaptability;
• Resilience.

What we provide

In Strasbourg, you’ll obtain a fundamental month-to-month gross wage of €4 107 which is exempt from nationwide earnings tax.

The deadline for purposes is 02 April 2024 (midnight Central European Time).

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