The European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking to appoint a Lawyer-Linguist with English as his/her main language to work in its Legislation Division, which is part of the Directorate General Legal Services.

The Legislation Division is responsible for preparing the ECB’s legal acts in the official EU languages, for drafting legal documents and reviewing legal texts for legal, linguistic and terminological consistency, and for maintaining a legal terminology database. It is also responsible for publishing and disseminating the ECB’s legal framework and other legal publications.

The successful candidate will be part of a team of lawyer-linguists responsible for drafting and editing ECB legal texts in English, translating legal texts from other official EU languages into English and for revising translations of such texts provided by external suppliers. The documents relate to both central banking and banking supervision.

See here for further information on the opportunity and how to apply (please note: you may need to wait a few seconds for the vacancy to appear). Closing date for applications: Thursday 14 July 2016.

Disclaimer: The above does not contain all details of the job opportunity and is provided as a heads-up only. Please refer to the ECB website for all information.