Director of language services
| Highest | $15,000 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 8+ yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 4 years Bachelor + 1–2 years Master + 15 years experience |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
What does the day look like?
A director's day is centered on management rather than translating. Roughly 80% to 90% of the time is devoted to administration: workload planning across 6 official languages, assigning documents to in-house teams and contractual translators, quality control and revision policy, terminology coordination, recruitment through language examinations, staff appraisals, budget preparation, and reporting. Hands-on language work, such as revising sensitive texts, occupies only about 10% to 20% of the day. Core working systems include eLUNa (the United Nations computer-assisted translation tool), the UNTERM terminology database, gDoc and gText workflows, alongside standard CAT and terminology tools like SDL Trados Studio and MultiTerm for outsourced workflows.
Hours are office-based, but major conferences and General Assembly peaks require deadline-driven overtime. Night and weekend on-call coverage exists during high-level diplomatic weeks in Geneva and New York. O*NET work-context data shows that 92% of respondents rate exactness as extremely important, 88% rate team contribution as extremely important, 72% face daily time pressure, and 74% use email every day.
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