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The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
We are looking for a dynamic, detailed-oriented, fast-paced professional to work as a quality control translation officer. In the Translation and Documentation Section in the Office of the Secretary. This team is responsible for producing translations of registered documents for the Boards of Governors and Boards of Executive Directors of the IDB and the IIC (including all their committees), as well as for the MIF Donors Committee. Additionally, the Translation and Documentation Section (SEC/TRD) is responsible for classifying, registering, and processing documents sent to the IDB Group's executive decision-making bodies and Management. SEC/TRD retains the IDB Group's registered documents, and all documentation related to the activities of the executive decision-making bodies, until officially archived. It provides reference services related to the distribution of documents and terminological use to Management and the IDB Group. It organizes the Translation and Documentation services for the Bank's Annual Meetings.
What you'll do:
Under the supervision of the Chief of the Translation and Documentation Section, your objectives will be the following:
- In direct coordination with the assigned reviser, prepare draft translations of recurrent documents for review and final completion.
- Cross-read and proofread IDB Group translations produced by staff translators, inhouse contractuals, and freelance translators under SEC/TRD.
- Perform detailed quality control of translations of the IDB Group's documents per SEC/TRD guidelines to ensure accuracy and consistency in the Group's four official languages prior to the distribution to the decision-making bodies.
- Standardize terminology, query inconsistencies, fill in segments as identified in other documents translated by the Section, extract relevant terminology for future use, and carry out the final quality control of the finished product.
- Contribute to special Section projects, including in-house terminology and technical glossaries, the IDB Style Manual, and reference materials.
- Align documents using translation memory software. Update the translation memory and terminology databases as needed.
- Utilize the appropriate software programs to prepare the layout of IDB Group translations in final form in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, according to SEC/TRD standards, as necessary.
- Provide guidance and training to new peers and contractuals, helping them understand and develop insight into this functional area.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, workflows, tools, and methodologies in technical area, and propose innovative and insightful solutions based on a compelling business case.
- Participate in the dissemination and implementation of policies and procedures.
What you'll need
- Education: You have a master's degree in translation, languages, or a language-related field. role.
- Experience: You have 2 years of relevant professional experience working with languages, translation, quality control, proofreading, or editing of documents, preferably in an international setting. You are familiar and comfortable using standard automated office systems, CAT tools, databases, and web technologies.
- Languages:
- Proficiency in English, spoken and written, is required.
- Proficiency in Spanish, spoken and written, is required.
- Additional working knowledge or proficiency in French and/or Portuguese is preferable.
You must be available to take a written test to assess your ability to demonstrate language fluency, translation aptitude, and quality control skills.
Key skills
- Learn continuously
- Collaborate and share knowledge
- Focus on clients
- Communicate and influence
- Innovate and try new things
Requirements
- Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. We may offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
- COVID-19 considerations: the health and safety of our employees are our number one priority. As a condition of employment, IDB/IDB Invest requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Type of contract and duration
- International staff contract, 36 months initially, renewable upon mutual agreement.
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee's life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation package
- Leaves and vacations: 24 days of paid time off 8 personal days sick leave gender- neutral parental leave
- Health Insurance: IDB Group provides employees and eligible dependents with a robust medical benefits program which covers medical, dental, vision, preventive care, and prescription drugs.
- Pension plan: pre-defined pension plan that provides financial security and support employees in planning for their future.
- We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family, when it applies.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules
- Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for employees.
- Development support: We offer tools to boost your professional profile such as mentoring, 1:1 professional counseling, training and learning opportunities, language classes, mobility options, among others.
- Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, Spouse Career Program, and others.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
Our culture
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, the IDB is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB also conducts cutting-edge research and provides policy advice, technical assistance and training to public and private sector clients throughout the region.
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