NOTICE OF OPEN COMPETITIONS

EPSO/AST/113-116/11

LANGUAGE EDITORS (EN/IT/MT/SV)

(2011/C 147 A/01)

Are you interested in working for the European institutions?

Does your profile meet our criteria?

Why not apply?

Give yourself a chance to succeed.

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is organising open competitions, based on qualifications and tests, to constitute a reserve from which to recruit

ASSISTANTS (1) (AST 3)

to prepare and check the linguistic quality of texts for the Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice

EPSO/AST/113/11 — LANGUAGE EDITORS WITH ENGLISH AS THEIR MAIN LANGUAGE (EN)

EPSO/AST/114/11 — LANGUAGE EDITORS WITH ITALIAN AS THEIR MAIN LANGUAGE (IT)

EPSO/AST/115/11 — LANGUAGE EDITORS WITH MALTESE AS THEIR MAIN LANGUAGE (MT)

EPSO/AST/116/11 — LANGUAGE EDITORS WITH SWEDISH AS THEIR MAIN LANGUAGE (SV)

The purpose of this competition is to draw up reserve lists from which to fill vacant posts in the institutions of the European Union, in particular the Court of Justice.

Before applying, you should carefully read the guide published in Official Journal of the European Union C 184 A of 8 July 2010 and on the EPSO website.

This guide is an integral part of the competition notice and will help you to understand the rules governing the procedure and how to apply.

CONTENTS

I.   GENERAL BACKGROUND

II.   DUTIES

The Directorate-General for Translation of the Court of Justice is responsible for preparing the texts to be published in the Court Reports. In this context, proofreading teams directly attached to the translation units perform the following tasks in particular:

The proofreading team is also responsible for monitoring linguistic developments and changes and keeping the lawyer-linguists in the unit up to date. The language editors are responsible for training outside (freelance) staff and checking the quality of documents proofread by them. They work in a computerised environment. They participate actively in the terminology work of the unit and play an essential part in the quality control of translations of the judgments of the Court, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal.

A perfect command of the language of the competition is essential. Also required are the ability to fit in well as part of a team, a sense of responsibility, the ability to adapt to a multicultural working environment, and the ability to cope with peaks in the workload.

For operational reasons, language editors must have satisfactory knowledge of French.

The general profile of candidates sought by the institutions is described in point 1.2 of the guide to open competitions.

III.   ELIGIBILITY

On the closing date for online applications, you must fulfil all the following general and specific conditions:

IV.   ADMISSION TESTS

Admission tests will be organised only if the number of candidates applying exceeds 500 per competition. In this case you will be informed via your EPSO account.

V.   ADMISSION TO THE COMPETITION AND SELECTION BASED ON QUALIFICATIONS

1.   Procedure

Initially, compliance with the general and specific conditions will be checked on the basis of the information given in your online application.

The selection board will then draw up a list of candidates in the order of the points awarded. The number of candidates invited to the assessment tests (2) will, for each competition, not exceed four times the number of successful candidates indicated in this competition notice and will be published on EPSO's website (www.eu-careers.eu) before the admission stage.

2.   Verification of information given by candidates

Following the assessment tests, and in the light of the results, EPSO will verify the information given by candidates in their online applications for compliance with the general conditions and the selection board will do the same as regards the specific conditions and selection criteria. In assessing qualifications, supporting documents will be taken into account only to confirm the information already given under the ‘Talent Screener’ tab. If verification shows that the information given is not borne out by the appropriate supporting documents, candidates will be disqualified.

Applications will be verified for candidates with the highest aggregate marks, and at least pass marks, in tests (d), (e), (f), and (g), in descending order. These candidates must also have obtained pass marks in the aptitude tests (a), (b), and (c). Verification will continue until the number of candidates who can be placed on the reserve list and who actually fulfil all the conditions for admission reaches the threshold. The files of candidates below this threshold will not be examined.

3.   Selection criteria

For the selection based on qualifications, the following criteria will be taken into consideration by the selection board:

VI.   OPEN COMPETITION

VII.   RESERVE LISTS

VIII.   HOW TO APPLY

(1)  Any reference in this notice to a person of the male sex must be deemed also to constitute a reference to a person of the female sex.

(2)  Candidates who have not been invited to the assessment tests can obtain the results of their assessment and the weighting assigned to each question by the selection board by submitting a request within 10 calendar days of being notified that they will not be admitted to the competition.

(3)  Where a number of candidates tie for the last available place, they will all be invited to the assessment tests.

(4)  For organisational reasons, the reasoning tests may be organised in test centres in the Member States and/or in Brussels, separately from the other assessment tests.

(5)  Where a number of candidates tie for the last available place, they will all be placed on the reserve list.