English, Editor

Within delegated authority, the Editor will be responsible for the following duties:

- Edits documents, including texts of a specialized or technical nature, to ensure accuracy, clarity, cohesion and conformity with United Nations standards, policy and practice, including by correcting spelling, punctuation and grammar and ensuring that terminology is correct and style is appropriate to the readership, while meeting required workload standards and deadlines.
- Carries out more extensive editing where required, including rewriting, abridging and restructuring texts for greater readability and better logical sequence.
- Consults with author departments and carries out research to clarify ambiguities and rectify substantive errors, including by verifying the accuracy of facts, figures, references and quotations.
- Provides authors with information on specific aspects of editorial policy and practice and assists them in the preparation of documentation.
- Makes effective use of relevant language technologies and tools and suggests improvements.
- Identifies new terminology material and submits it for approval.
- Actively seeks to learn from feedback and develop own skills and knowledge relevant to the job, especially through self-study.
- Undertakes cross-assignments to perform other language functions, increasingly without requiring guidance, if required.
- Collects and analyses data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting, as required.
- Performs other related duties as required.