Overview
The role involves copy editing Emergency Appeals and related documents to ensure quality and consistency for fundraising purposes.
Key Responsibilities
- Edit documents electronically in MS Word format with tracked changes.
- Review Emergency Appeal, Operational Strategy, revised Emergency Appeal, and revised Operational Strategy documents.
- Ensure coherency and relevance of narrative and structure.
- Propose modifications to text for clarity and readability.
- Shorten documents if requested, ensuring coherency and relevancy.
- Ensure content and format follow IFRC standards.
- Ensure correct and consistent spelling, grammar, syntax, acronyms, punctuation, style, terminology, bibliographies, headings, and gaps in text.
- Ensure proper section headings, tables, picture captions, page numbering, running headers and footers, and referencing, applying the IFRC style guide.
Required Experience
At least three years of experience in similar roles (copy editing).
