Editor

Edits specialised and technical United Nations documents for ESCAP in Bangkok, ensuring accuracy, clarity, cohesion and compliance with editorial standards. The editor will rewrite and restructure text where needed, verify facts and references, advise authors on policy and practice, apply language technologies, develop terminology and contribute to data analysis.

• Edit specialised and technical documents for accuracy, clarity and conformity with United Nations standards
• Rewrite, abridge and restructure documents for readability and logical sequence
• Research ambiguities and verify facts, figures, references and quotations
• Advise authors on editorial policy and documentation preparation
• Use language technologies and submit new terminology for approval

• First-level university degree
• Successful completion of the relevant United Nations competitive examination for editors
• At least 2 years of United Nations editing experience
• Experience with web-based applications and electronic editing tools
• Perfect command of English as the main language
• Knowledge of at least two other official languages

• Experience editing in-session documentation
• Experience delivering client training or outreach

• Editing
• Proofreading
• Terminology management
• Fact checking

• Electronic editing tools
• Reference systems
• Language technologies