United Nations Global Service Centre
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Objectives
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To engage a skilled consultant to edit and format a 60-page technical document in French, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and adherence to Winrock’s style guidelines
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Tasks
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- Improve clarity and readability by streamlining the flow, simplifying wording, revising awkward phrases and sentences, fixing grammar errors, and changing passive verbiage to active voice, where appropriate.
- Enhance efficiency/save space by removing duplicate information, removing filler words and revising unnecessarily complicated sentences/paragraphs.
- Revise text to meet character limits.
- Improve organization by reordering sentences within paragraphs and/or suggesting solutions to identified organizational issues.
- Revise as necessary to ensure intended meaning of sentences is clear (querying Winrock representative if needed).
- Use consistent styles for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc., in accordance with the Winrock style guidelines.
- Verify all citations and references for completeness and accuracy according to the specified Chicago citation style.
- Formatting: As needed, according to Winrock’s style guide and/or other provided templates.
Submission Requirement
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Please provide a writing sample in French with your resume and hourly rate and submit to [email protected].
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