Technical Editor, French – Enabling Farmers for Agricultural Transformation (EFAT) Project

  • Salary:
    negotiable / YEAR
  • Job type:
    FULL_TIME
  • Posted:
    6 days ago
  • Category:
    Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Language and Writing Services, Project Management
  • Deadline:
    28/09/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

Objectives

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

Please provide a writing sample in French with your resume and hourly rate and submit to efat@winrock.org.

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