Internship

The intern will gain practical experience in linguistic support and multilingual documentation production in an international organization. The internship includes experience in multilingual publishing, desktop publishing, translation, alignment, terminology, and machine-translation workflows within WMO.

Responsibilities

• Proofread and finalize documentation, correspondence, reports, publications and other materials prepared in Chinese, following established templates, guidelines and procedures.
• Support the production of documentation and publications by preparing the layout of final products using desktop publishing software for print and/or electronic dissemination.
• Improve Chinese results in WMO’s computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool by pre-aligning English and Chinese publications (and other language pairs, as required), validating aligned segments and correcting them, as necessary.
• Identify new terminology material and submit it for the consideration by the Chinese linguist.
• Translate, as required, occasional session documents, correspondence or other materials from English into Chinese.
• Support the cleaning and preparation of Chinese bitexts and terminology lists for retraining LSP’s customized machine-translation engine.
• Perform other related tasks as required.

Requirements

• Higher education degree (Bachelor or higher) in publishing, graphic design, language studies or another field relevant to multilingual publishing and document production.
• Applicants are not required to have professional work experience for participation in the internship programme.
• Sense of responsibility and initiative; ability to work autonomously and as part of a team; attention to detail; good written and oral communication skills.
• Some knowledge of the activities of WMO or other United Nations organizations would be an asset.
• Chinese as mother tongue.
• Excellent knowledge of English (both oral and written).
• Knowledge of other official languages of the Organization (Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish) would be an advantage.

Skills

• Multilingual Publication Design
• Document Production
• Desktop Publishing
• Translation
• Terminology Management
• Machine-Translation Workflows
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication

Languages

Chinese, English