Internship (INTERNSHIP/2026/LSP/HRCS-1)
Organizational Context
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation in meteorology and operational hydrology. This internship offers practical experience in linguistic support and multilingual documentation production within an international organization.
Job Purpose
To provide support to the Linguistic Support and Production (LSP) unit in proofreading, finalizing, and producing documentation and publications in Chinese, and to improve the Chinese language resources within WMO's translation tools.
Responsibilities
['Proofread and finalize documentation, correspondence, reports, publications, and other materials prepared in Chinese, adhering to established templates, guidelines, and procedures.', 'Support the production of documentation and publications by preparing the layout of final products using desktop publishing software for print and/or electronic dissemination.', 'Enhance Chinese language results in WMO’s computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool by pre-aligning English and Chinese publications (and other language pairs as needed), validating aligned segments, and correcting them.', 'Identify new terminology material and submit it for consideration by the Chinese linguist.', 'Translate occasional session documents, correspondence, or other materials from English into Chinese, as required.', 'Assist in the cleaning and preparation of Chinese bitexts and terminology lists for retraining LSP’s customized machine-translation engine.', 'Perform other related tasks as required.']
Work Experience
Applicants are not required to have professional work experience for participation in the internship programme.
Skills
Sense of responsibility and initiative; ability to work autonomously and as part of a team; attention to detail; good written and oral communication skills. Some knowledge of the activities of WMO or other United Nations organizations would be an asset.