UNAIDS Staff Development and Performance - French Translation Assignment

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Staff Development and Performance Division (SDP) has launched a series of onboarding microlearning courses that specifically cater to the needs and skillset of different UNAIDS departments, practice areas, and essentially all staff members.

These onboarding courses act as an introduction to UNAIDS to new staff, or staff being relocated into a new role. They range from various skillsets essential to staff across the organization, including from Practice Areas overviews to Basics of HIV and UNAIDS work activities.

As the online courses have been launched primarily in English language, we are looking for motivated volunteers to help the Staff Development and Performance team in translating the course contents into French. In doing so, you will also learn a lot about the work of UNAIDS and the expertise of various staff members. As such, these onboarding courses act as an introduction to UNAIDS to new staff, or staff being relocated into a new role. They range from various skillsets essential to staff across the organization, including from Practice Areas overviews to Basics of HIV and many more.

The courses consist of micro-learnings that vary from 5–10-minute lessons or 10-15 slides per lesson. Most courses are between 1-1.5 hours, though some may be longer depending on the topic covered. Since they have already been translated by AI, this will drastically cut the work time needed from the volunteer. However, a minimum of 2-3 hours of time spent reviewing the translations per course may be expected. As such, the volunteers will be needed for around 15-20 hours per week, depending on how many, and which courses they feel comfortable to review.

Fluent in French and English – either Mother tongue or C1 level certified Good editing and writing skills in French and English Some experience in international organizations preferred