Bourse de talents pour assistant de rédaction financée par l’Union Internationale des Télécommunications(UIT) basé à Genève, Suisse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT

The Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) fulfills the objectives of the Union relating to telecommunication standardization, by providing secretariat support to groups studying technical, operating and tariff questions and facilitating the adoption of Recommendations in these areas with a view to standardizing telecommunications and information technology on a global basis. In order to achieve these objectives, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau works in accordance with the instructions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assemblies (WTSA), Telecommunication Standardization Study Groups and the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group. TSB, headed by an elected Director, provides the technical, administrative and logistic support for the assemblies and for the meetings of the groups mentioned.

The Operations and Planning Department (OPD), is responsible for coordinating and planning support for the activities of the Telecommunication Standardization Sector. It does this through managing the Bureau’s activities for organization and planning of assemblies and logistical support to meetings. The Department oversees document processing and provides IT services and solutions for electronic working methods and the development of ITU-T databases. The Department also provides administrative and secretarial support for intellectual property matters and manages the technical editing and final production of ITU-T recommendations and publications as well as ISO/IEC common texts.  The Department collaborates closely with the Departments of the General Secretariat and the Bureaux which are responsible for providing support services.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Under the direct supervision of the TSB Engineer-Editor, the consultant will:

  • Copy-edit in English ITU-T publications of a specialized and technical nature, mainly ITU-T Recommendations, and take all possible measures to improve the quality of the text.
  • Check that the texts satisfy the editing norms established by ITU-T (Author’s guide, English style guide and other rules for the presentation of ITU texts).
  • Check the presentation and layout of textual and graphical material and indicate the corrections required to bring it into line with established presentation norms.
  • Check consistency and language, and suggest improvements for badly constructed passages.
  • Ensure the correct use of upper and lower case and other typographical conventions and, in general, correct faults which impede readability, or points them out to the Engineer Editor.
  • Ensure that the typographical characters and symbols used in tables, figures, formulas and other parts of the text are legible.
  • Seek to obtain any clarification through consultation on ambiguities, technical inconsistencies, or other matters that require clarification.

CONCRETE DELIVERABLES

The assigned documents copy-edited according to the editorial guidelines and agreed workload. Examples of edited documents can be found at Link

COMPETENCIES

  • Functional Competencies: Analysis, Judgement and Decision-Making, Client and Service Orientation.
  • Technical Competencies: Comfortable using Windows computers and email applications.
  • Experience in the use of email and teleconferencing systems, and interacting with remote facilities (e.g. using Remote desktop, MS Teams and SharePoint libraries).
  • Ability to work remotely in a team, while maintaining effective contact with the services concerned.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

Education:

Technical or University degree in the electrical, electronic, telecommunication field or in English editing, translation or communication.

Experience:

At least two years of experience in the editing or drafting of technical telecommunication documents in English.

Proven experience in copy-editing ITU-T Recommendations and other ITU-T deliverables using the ITU editorial guidelines in English would be an advantage.

Languages:

Advanced knowledge of English (minimum equivalent to the C1 level of the European framework).

Application deadline (Midnight Geneva Time): 30 November 2023

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