General Information
Type of contract
Fixed-term contract which may be converted into a permanent contract after three years subject to individual performance and organisational needs
Who can apply?
EU nationals
Salary
F/G (bracket 1 - step 1) full time monthly net salary: €5,438 plus benefits, for further information see
what we offer.
Role specialisation
Law and Linguistics
Working time
Full time
Place of work
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Closing date
05.02.2021
Your team
You will be part of the Legislation Division in the Directorate General Legal Services. Our Division has approximately 40 staff members and is responsible for preparing the ECB’s legal acts in the official EU languages, for drafting legal documents and ensuring their legal, linguistic and terminological consistency and for publishing and disseminating the ECB’s legal framework and other legal publications.
In your role as Lawyer-Linguist with Estonian as your main language, you will be primarily responsible for translating ECB legal acts and other legal texts from English into Estonian and for revising translations of such texts provided by external suppliers. The legal acts and texts relate to both central banking and banking supervision. You will work closely with other lawyer-linguists and legal counsels in the Directorate General Legal Services and with staff in a number of the ECB’s other business areas.
The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply, irrespective of your gender, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability or other characteristics.
Your role
As a Lawyer-Linguist with Estonian as main language you will:
- translate draft ECB legal acts and other legal texts from English into Estonian;
- revise Estonian translations of ECB legal acts and other legal texts;
- translate legal texts from Estonian into English for internal working purposes and revise Estonian to English translations of national laws, documents related to court proceedings and other legal texts;
- contribute to the drafting of ECB legal acts;
- liaise with counterparts within the ECB, Eesti Pank and other relevant EU and national institutions;
- engage in Legislation Division projects related to the development and modernisation of the ECB lawyer-linguist function, such as knowledge management, technology, etc.
The position offers you excellent opportunities to contribute to the quality of ECB legal acts. You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:
- a mastery-level command (i.e. native-speaker standard) of Estonian;
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a master’s degree in law or equivalent obtained at a university in Estonia (click
here for details on degree equivalences);
- in addition to the above, at least two years’ proven professional experience in translating legal, financial or economic texts from English into Estonian.
Desired:
- proven professional experience in drafting and/or translating legal acts or litigation-related documentation or working as a lawyer-linguist, preferably with another EU institution;
- a good knowledge of EU, financial and supervisory law;
You engage collaboratively with others. You pursue team goals and learn willingly from other people’s diverse perspectives. You signal any need for change by explaining it and proposing alternative solutions. You analyse complex information effectively and can evaluate different views to arrive at solutions. You know and anticipate stakeholder needs.
You are aware of your strengths and areas for development and know what motivates you to perform at your highest level.
You are motivated to be part of our team and to use your skills and competencies to achieve the objectives of this position.
Working modalities
To enable the Section to maintain its business continuity capability, you will occasionally be expected to perform work during non-standard working hours and work at the ECB’s standby sites.
Application and selection process
For further information on how to join us,
read more.
The recruitment process for this position will include a written exercise, a presentation and interviews.
