Responsibilities

• Under the supervision of the Secretary to the Governing Bodies, the Individual Contractor will be responsible for the following duties:
• Edit complex or politically sensitive material, normally without revision, to ensure accuracy, clarity, cohesion and conformity with United Nations standards, policy and practice.
• Carry out more extensive editing where required, including rewriting, abridging and restructuring texts for greater readability and better logical sequence.
• Carry out research to clarify ambiguities and rectify substantive errors.
• Draw up guidelines for editors and determining desk-top publishing standards and practices.
• Draft and review background papers, relevant documents, talking points, reports, speeches and other correspondence.
• Review and edit reports, pre-session and post session documents
• Draft, edit and review correspondence as needed for various purposes from the Organization.
• Review and edit summary of minutes from the Working groups and the Bureau
• Development and review of surveys including analysis of survey results.
• Conduct research, compile and prepare summaries of background materials for use in the preparation of reports, briefs, and speeches.
• Review and update information on the relevant websites for ease of access to Member States

Qualifications/special skills

• Degree in social sciences, communication, international relations or any related field
• Five years of experience in report writing in Government related meetings and inter-governmental meetings is required.