International Consultant – English Editing

Job Description

Under the overall supervision and guidance of Communications for Development Officer and in close consultation with the relevant programme officers, the Consultant will be responsible for providing professional English editing services of office documents and reports. The scope of work requires substantive experience and an in-depth understanding of gender equality and empowerment of women, results-based management (RBM), and excellent writing and analytical skills. The detailed scope of work and responsibilities of the assignment are as follows:

• Substantive/language editing, to ensure internal coherence and robustness of the document.  In this connection, the Consultant will: (a) ensure that content ambiguities, vagueness, redundancy, deficiencies, and inconsistencies are resolved, (b) language errors are eliminated, (c) overall structure of the document is strengthened, and (d) the general readability and appeal of the manuscript/documents are enhanced.
• The responsibilities include thorough proofreading in conformity with the UN Editorial guidelines.
• Copyediting to ensure accuracy in language, structure, and rhetoric expressions.
• As part of copyediting, ensure (a) precision in word choice; (b) conformity of style with UN standard; (c) correctness of sentence structure; (d) clarity and comprehensibility of messages; (e) correctness of terminologies; and (f) fine-tuning of articulations to achieve high-quality native English expression.
• Provide technical expertise and advisory services on effective communication of results.
• Compile words used to enhance the readability of the document, provide them with corresponding meaning/s and share them with the staff to expand their vocabulary in English writing/reporting.

Expected deliverables.

• A professional, accurate, and deadline-compliant proofreading and editing service of English documents and reports by ensuring accuracy in language, structure, and rhetoric expressions in accordance with the above-mentioned scope of work and responsibilities.
• Documents delivered (preferably) in Microsoft Word in three versions:  clean copies, copies with changes track marked, and third versions with comments of edited English text. The edited documents ensure content ambiguity is resolved, language errors are eliminated, the structure is improved, and the overall comprehension of the manuscript is enhanced.
• The Consultant is also required to reflect in her/his comments and corrections the principles upon which such corrections were done. This is consistent with the continuous learning approach that underlines the capacity building efforts of the UN Women Nepal Country Office.

Required Qualification & Experience

How to Apply

DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications: All documents should be submitted in one PDF file.

• Expression of interest explaining why you are interested in this position and what professional skills and experiences you have to support your interest are strong.
• UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded: http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment
• A separate page of the financial proposal including the fee of the consultancy per page and/or per day. Please also mention the additional percentage of the rush fee if requested service for less than one day.
• A sample of original writing produced within the last three months where the applicant is the lead author.