Planning Unit - Post B: Presidency and Plenary Translation Request Service

The Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) provides the European Parliament with translation services for its written or electronic communication in all official languages of the European Union.

Our mission is:

• to make available in all official languages all documents relating to Parliament’s role as co-legislator and one of the two arms of the budgetary authority, in order to ensure the legitimacy and transparency of the legislative and budgetary process of the European Union;
• to enable the European Parliament to meet its commitment to the policy of multilingualism, designed to ensure the equal treatment of languages and permitting all citizens of the European Union to communicate with the institutions and have access to the documents of those institutions in their own language;
• to support the Members of the European Parliament and its administration in their multilingual communication with citizens by providing high-quality, modern, multilingual services in text, audio and video and ensuring that content is clear and in all the official languages of the EU;
• to ensure that all these services are supplied as efficiently and effectively as possible.

As a trainee in the Presidency and Plenary Translation Request Service of the Planning Unit within the Directorate-General for Translation, you will have the opportunity to be a contact point for, and to liaise with, translation requesting services throughout the European Parliament, with special focus on clients pertaining to the organisation of plenary proceedings, on one hand, and translation-providing services (Translation Units), on the other. Trainees in the Planning Unit are allocated a certain range of requesting services and document types in order to process translation requests in terms of, inter alia, approving admissibility, format and length requirements, and negotiating deadlines, depending on political priorities and translation capacity in Translation Units.

You will work under the supervision of a mentor who will guide you and teach you the current administrative and translation workflows, and act as your back-up when needed. Through your traineeship you will have the opportunity to learn how the translation workflow of the most multilingual international and European institution works, and to benefit as much as possible from being part of it.

As a prospective trainee:

• You have an in-depth knowledge of English; knowledge of other languages will be considered an asset;
• You have sound negotiating skills and a sense for diplomacy;
• You are proactive, flexible, enthusiastic and adaptable;
• You possess strong team-working and communication skills, which will enable you to work as part of an international team;
• You are IT-literate (MS Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) and eager to learn to use the European Parliament’s IT tools.

If you are interested, please upload a CV and a motivation letter in English summarising your educational background and your motivation for applying. The motivation letter should not be longer than 400 words. The motivation letter and the supporting documents are to be uploaded as a single PDF file.