Under the general supervision of the Chief, Meeting Programming and Documentation Service, will be responsible for the translation and revision of a wide range and variety of documents including important papers involving commitments on the part of the Organization and/or FAO Members, difficult documents involving considerable research and urgent documents from English and French or Spanish into Russian. In particular, the incumbent will:
act as team leader during special assignments such as official meetings outside FAO Headquarters;
revise translations produced either internally or by contract translators and review official correspondence at high diplomatic level;
revise and check the translation of texts which, because of length and urgency, must be shared among various translators so as to ensure a reasonable degree of consistency in terminology and style throughout the text;
collaborate with and assist translators/revisers and contract translators in solving difficulties such as technical and drafting obscurities in original texts;
in consultation with technical experts, make difficult decisions on terms in subject areas where vocabulary and semantic usage are still evolving;
contribute to the linguistic research activities of the Translation Service and to the building up of terminological data bases and useful reference materials;
identify translators suitable for inclusion in the Organization’s roster of acceptable contract workers;
assist in training of translators as needed;
ensure the adoption of new office automation technology, such as computer-assisted translation, for implementation and the timely updating of software in Russian used in the Group;
perform other related duties as required.