Interpreter Assistant

• Country: Accra, Ghana
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A
• Organization: UNHCR
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-01-12

Duties
– Interprets and/or translates from newspapers, written reports, magazines etc.
– Interprets oral conversations, discussions and interviews especially when attending meetings with high ranking officials, diplomats and others.
– Travels with international staff on their missions to the field for interpretation and other assistance, as needed.
– Arranges meetings, both internal and external, some involving high-ranking officials and takes minutes/notes.
– Meets official personnel at the airport and facilitates immigration and customs formalities.
– Responds to queries relating to the area of responsibility.

– Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
– Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level
For G4 – 1 year relevant experience with High School Diploma; or Bachelor or equivalent or higher

Field(s) of Education
Not applicable.

Certificates and/or Licenses
Business Administration Secretarial
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Relevant Job Experience
Essential
Frequent contacts involving the exchange of a wide range of information, some of which may be complex.

Desirable
Not specified.

Functional Skills
IT-Computer Literacy
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Language Requirements
For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.

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