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EFPSA | Say again?: Scientific writing and publishing in non-English speaking countries

The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) is the UN headquarters in Africa and the?
representative office of the Secretary-General. We support programme implementation of the?
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Human Settlements?
Programme (UNHABITAT) globally, as well as other UN offices in Kenya, by providing?
Administrative, conference and information services (www.unon.org). This post is located in?
UNON,? Division of Conference Services at the Nairobi duty station.?Responsibilities?Under the supervision of the Chief of Chinese Language Unit, the incumbent will perform the following:?
1.Translates and revises documents from two other UN official languages than English into the language of the Unit texts including summary records covering a broad range of subjects dealt with by the United Nations.?
2.Attends meetings as part of a team, takes notes either directly from statements delivered in the languages of competence or from the interpretation and subsequently uses the notes to produce draft summary records, subject to revision.?
3.Identifies new terminology material and submits it for consideration of the revisers.?
4.Counsels in-house and contractual translators with a view of refining skills and performance and solving particularly difficult problems which require specialized knowledge, linguistic insight and political judgement and helps maintain uniformity of terminology in the unit.?
5.Performs other related duties as required.

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The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) is the UN headquarters in Africa and the?
representative office of the Secretary-General. We support programme implementation of the?
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Human Settlements?
Programme (UNHABITAT) globally, as well as other UN offices in Kenya, by Providing?
administrative, conference and information services (www.unon.org). This post is located in?
UNON, Division of Conference Services at the Nairobi duty station. Under the supervision of the Chief, Translation and Editorial Section, the incumbent will perform the following:?Responsibilities?1. Plan and oversee the management of activities undertaken by the Spanish Language Unit; Programme daily and long-term work of the Unit.? 2. Supervise and monitor the performance of all staff under his/her supervision; Counsel and assist Revisers and Translators/Pr?cis-writers, as required; Coordinate the work of external translators, including quality control and performance monitoring; Train junior language staff; Monitor the quality of in-house and contractual translations.?? 3. Organize all activities of the Unit to ensure maximum efficiency.? 4.? Provide policy guidance to the Chief of Section on conceptual development strategy and management of the Unit with regard to both Operational and Human Resource matters; Support the Chief of Section in the preparation of terminology materials and instructions; Select text for United Nations competitive examinations, marking candidates? scripts and evaluate results.?? 5. Revise translations and original summary records and translate texts dealing with subjects of an exceptionally sensitive, complex or technical nature.? 6. Direct the conduct of terminological research within the Unit.?? 7.? Serve as officer-in-charge in the absence of the Chief of Section.? 8. Perform other related duties as required.

N?crologie : le professeur Maurice Tadadjeu n?est plus

Le professeur?Maurice Tadadjeu, n? en 1950, ?a succomb? ? un accident cardio vasculaire, avons-nous appris dimanche matin de sources autoris?es.

Maurice Tadadjeu ,?linguiste?de renomm? et panafricaniste ?engag? est un acteur majeur du d?veloppement du Cameroun. Il a beaucoup ?uvr? pour la promotion des langues nationales au Cameroun, et s??tait engag? ces dern?res ann?es ? lutter contre le ch?mage des jeunes en cr?ant successivement l?Institut Mgr Albert Ndongmo, pour la formation aux emplis techniques, et l?Institut d?Afrique Unie qui forme en m?decine et pharmacop?e d?une part et en langue nationale d?autre part.

??En plus, il avait mis en place la radio communautaire de la Menoua,?Radio Yemba, pour vulgariser la langue yemba et contribuer ? l??mergence de cette langue et de la culture de cette unit? linguistique.

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