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English to French Translation of UN Documents

CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITATFUNCTIONAL TITLE:  English to French translation of UN documents DURATION:Timeframe: 6 working months. The consultancy will commence on October 15th 2014 and end on April 14th 2015. Renewable depending on availability of funds CLOSING DATE:****10 October 2014 There are 863 million slum dwellers globally and if no serious action is taken, the number is projected to rise over the next 30 years to about 2 billion. Unless radical efforts are made to provide a range of affordable housing options and legal and secure land at scale, cities will be host to hundreds of millions of new slum-dwellers. The situation is critical and unprecedented. In response, UN-Habitat aims to mobilize a global coalition of partners to address the challenge of unsustainable urbanization. UN-Habitat’s vision is “to help create by 2013 the necessary conditions for concerted international and national efforts to stabilize the growth of slums and to ...

English Language Programs Manager

Reports to: Cultural Orientation Coordinator Department:  Cultural Orientation Salary:  $36,500 Status: ExemptRSC Africa The Resettlement Support Center (RSC) Africa operates a US refugee resettlement program in sub-Saharan Africa through a Cooperative Agreement with the Department of State/Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. RSC Africa is responsible for the preparation of refugee case files for adjudication by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers, as well as the out-processing and cultural orientation of all approved cases. RSC Africa is administered by the Church World Service Immigration Refugee Program (CWS/IRP) and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.Benefits CWS Global and RSC Africa offer a total compensation package. The total compensation package includes a housing stipend, company life insurance, comprehensive health insurance, vision coverage, a non-participatory 5% retirement contribution, 22 vacation days a year, 3 personal days per calendar year, 1 ...