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Specialist for Terminology & Acquis Management
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Full Description
**Job Highlight**
The Specialist provides technical expertise to North Macedonia’s national authorities to design and establish sustainable governance structures, workflows, and coordination mechanisms for the legal revision and terminology management of the EU acquis.
**About the Region**
The Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECR), based in Geneva, is responsible for the effective management, coordination and oversight of UNOPS operations across the region. The ECR region spans the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Türkiye, where UNOPS works with partners to achieve sustainable impact in health, education, environmental management, housing, rule of law, good governance, economic development, and social inclusion. With a wealth of experience in procurement, infrastructure, project and grant management, UNOPS in the region directly implements projects, provides technical advisory services and capacity building to advance the Sustainable Development Goals in support of national governments.
**About the Country/Multi-Country Office**
The UNOPS South East Europe Multi-Country Office (SEEMCO) supports sustainable development in Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based in Belgrade with strong field teams, SEEMCO delivers project management, procurement, infrastructure, HR, and technical assistance to governments, donors, and international financial institutions. Partnering with national institutions, local authorities, civil society, and media, it contributes to sectors such as infrastructure, socio-economic development, social cohesion, rule of law, environment, healthcare, education, digitalisation, energy transition, and governance. Since 2000, SEEMCO has advanced the EU integration agenda, national priorities, and the Sustainable Development Goals. It also provides emergency response, recovery support, and capacity building for institutions. Funders include the EU, European Investment Bank, governments of Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro, as well as UN agencies such as UNHCR and UNEP.
**Job Specific Context**
The Project “Support to European Integration of North Macedonia” supports North Macedonia’s EU accession negotiations and strengthens the country’s capacity to manage the overall European Union (EU) integration process. The Project is funded by Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and the Ministry for European Affairs, and is implemented by United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
The Project’s goal is to enhance the country’s preparedness for EU membership by strengthening institutional capacities, coordination mechanisms, good governance, and public engagement in the EU reform process. In this context, the Project supports the Government to further strengthen its institutional, technical, and administrative capacity to advance EU accession priorities.
The Project will support the preparation of the national version of the EU acquis through institutional, technical, and capacity-development support including analysing regional and European practices and developing recommendations for coordination of translation, legal and expert revision, and terminology management. It will also help define institutional arrangements for verifying translated texts and strengthen capacities, tools, and systems to ensure a more efficient, consistent, and sustainable acquis preparation process.
**Role Purpose**
Under the supervision of the Project Manager, the Specialist for Terminology & Acquis Management will provide expert technical assistance to the national authorities of North Macedonia, primarily the Ministry for European Affairs (MEA), in designing and establishing effective coordination mechanisms for legal and expert revision and terminology management within the process of preparing the national version of the EU acquis.
The assignment will support the development of governance structures, methodologies, workflows, and institutional arrangements for the various phases of this process, with a particular focus on the terminology management and expert guidance on the use of legal terminology to ensure that the legal terminology used in already translated acquis texts accurately reflects the original document. The role is intended to strengthen system-level coordination and institutional capacity, rather than to undertake individual translation or revision tasks. It will contribute to the establishment of sustainable mechanisms that ensure consistency, and quality in terminology management and in the use of legal terminology across the acquis preparation process, including by providing expert guidance to help ensure that translated acts accurately reflect the meaning and intent of the original text.
**Functions / Key Results Expected**
1. Research and Technical Support for Comparati
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