• Establishes and maintains relations with interpretation universities/schools, identifies and interviews potential candidates, establishes and maintains a roster of eligible interpreters and maintains a calendar of their availability at given dates throughout the year and, for major ITU events within a 24 month period.
  
• Identifies interpreters for the various meetings, establishes a list, contacts them, makes offer of contract and prepares the contract for signature and travel orders when required.
  
• Provides them with information on working methods of the ITU, initiating them with ITU programmes and specific vocabulary.
  
• Attends to the administrative management of interpreters during conferences and meetings; draws up the daily programs of work in consultation of the Conference Executive Secretary and supervises the application of the program; ensures that interpreters receive all documents required to do their work; in consultation with the client, evaluates the performance of the work of the interpreters.
  
• Takes ad hoc decisions when the circumstances requires them (such as hiring an additional interpreter for a meeting held outside Geneva).
  
• Assists in keeping multilingual lexicon on Telecommunications-related technology and advice on language matters.

Qualifications & Experience :

• University degree in interpretation, languages or a related field OR education in a reputed college of advanced education, with a diploma of equivalent standard to that of a university degree in one of the above-mentioned fields.
  
• A qualifying combination of education, university training and experience may be considered in lieu of a university degree in the case where no suitable candidate with a degree is identified.
  
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in related domains including at least two at the international level.
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead and guide interpreters assigned to meetings.
  
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relations with officials at all levels in administrations, national and international organizations, interacting and cooperating with individuals in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

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