Language consultant for the Department of Education, Culture, Sports and Church

We are looking for a competent language consultant for our management secretariat. You will play a central role in the work with translations. The tasks include quality assurance, proofreading, and translation. You will be part of a team that supports both political and administrative management as well as professional departments within education and culture.

About the position

Language consultant for the Department of Education, Culture, Sports, and Church. We are looking for a competent language consultant for our management secretariat, which is part of the legal department. Do you have an eye for linguistic precision and a sense for detail? Then you might be the new colleague we are looking for in our team in the management secretariat.

As a language consultant, you will have a central role in our work with translations. Your tasks will include quality assurance, proofreading, and translation, depending on needs and priorities.

The department handles tasks such as drafting regulations, presentations, response notes, press releases, speeches, etc.

Your work tasks will include: Performing translation tasks

Proofreading and linguistic processing of translated texts

Quality assurance of translations

Coordination and follow-up on translation tasks

You will be part of a team that supports both the political and administrative management as well as professional departments within education and culture. You will report directly to the office manager of the management secretariat.

We expect that you have most of the following qualifications and competencies:

•    Education as a translator, interpreter, or other relevant linguistic or communicative background

•    Experience from similar positions or work environments is an advantage

•    Confident user of MS Office and with good general system understanding.

•    Good linguistic skills in Greenlandic and Danish – and preferably also English, although the latter is not a requirement.

•    Personal qualifications: You work independently and manage to maintain an overview – even in pressured situations

•    You have a sense of order and work structured and carefully

•    You have strong communicative abilities – both written and oral

•    You have a pronounced service-oriented approach in collaboration with colleagues and partners

•    You are a team player who actively contributes to a good and collaborative work environment

We would like to see that:

•    You have a relevant higher education at least at the bachelor's level.

•    You have experience from a similar position or from a position within self-government.

•    You have an overview and can work under time pressure.

•    You have good knowledge of Greenlandic society and culture, and possess linguistic skills in Greenlandic and Danish.

We offer:

•    A job that is close to the political decision-making process.

•    An informal work environment with short command lines and engaged colleagues who take pride in maintaining a high professional level.

•    Personal and professional development.

Further information

More information about the content and scope of the position can be obtained by contacting acting office manager Inaluk Kleist at inkl@nanoq.gl or +299 34 50 00
 

Salary and employment conditions
Salary - and employment conditions, including the right to relocation and moving expenses, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement applicable at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.
For an applicant with the right documentable competencies, employment can occur as a special consultant, chief consultant, or senior advisor in accordance with the applicable collective agreement

Housing
No staff housing is provided for the position. If an applicant already has staff housing through employment in the Self-Government, the right to assigned staff housing is retained. The staff housing is tied to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon termination of the employment relationship.

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