CDT/02/2024 Head of Language Section A.I._C

nature of the tasks

You report directly to the Head of Translation Department. Selected candidates will be responsible for performing the following tasks:

1.                   People management:

-          You aim to get high engagement levels of the people in your Section. Knowing that communication is a two-way process, you ensure ample opportunities are available to interact with your staff on both individual and collective basis; you ensure availability to your team members to address any issues they encounter promptly and effectively;

-          You involve staff in ongoing projects and welcome their input, where appropriate facilitating their ideas become reality;

-          You ensure the workload is fairly spread among staff;

-             -          You identify training needs and collaborate with other sections to organise annual training sessions across various work areas to enhance your team members’ skills.;

-          You take action to empower as much as possible colleagues in your team;

-        Your in-depth knowledge of your team members allows you to guide them in their mid- and long-term career plans, identify talent, and foster their ongoing career development; 

-       You set clear objectives and expectations in terms of output, behaviour and competency in the appraisal exercise and provide an equally individual performance appraisal; 

-          You act as an ambassador for CdT’s values, by showing exemplary behaviour;

-          You deal in the appropriate way with underperformance, conflicts or any other staff issues.

2.                   Management of projects, processes and change:

-          You actively contribute to translating the organisational goals into practical projects, by:  

o   Gathering ideas and proposals to achieve strategic objectives (e.g. increasing efficiency, enhancing quality, ….) by involving staff, peers and relevant colleagues in other Departments (e.g. TraSup, Quality, Finance, IT, HR);

o   Designing relevant project proposals;

o   Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of projects;   

o   Monitoring your team performance and workload, providing indicators to identify areas for improvement.

-          You keep yourself and your team up-to-date about new technological possibilities and actively seek for possibilities to implement relevant possibilities;  

-          You encourage change by involving a maximum of people, try experimental and creative ideas while allowing room for mistakes and failure.

3.                   Communication and collaboration:

     -         You advise your Head of Department and the Director on actions to take in your Section; 

     -          You ensure positive communication channels are maintained with all relevant stakeholders (staff, peers, key colleagues in other Departments…);

     -          You actively contribute to fostering a constructive and collaborating atmosphere within your Sector and with other Sections and Departments; 

     -          You encourage staff in your team to take initiatives and implement projects that help to achieve Departmental and organisational objectives; 

-          4.                   Miscellaneous                     

    -         You contribute to strategic documents such as the SDP, CAAR, quality and performance management; 

    -          You contribute to the development of the strategic objectives of the Centre in the areas of workload allocation and resource optimisation by suggesting process optimisation actions; 

   -          You act as back-up of peer Heads of Language Section and/or the Head of Department;

   -          You perform any other task assigned by the Head of Department.