JOB DESCRIPTION

Language Editor – Danish language

The Publications Office of the European Commission

Selection reference: 0P/C0M/2025/1977 Domain: Languages

Where: Unit 0P.B.4 – „Language-Quality Services”, Luxembourg Staff category and Function Group: Temporary agent 2b – Assistant Grade range: AST 1-3

Publication deadline: 17.10.2025 – 12.00 (Brussels time)

WE ARE

The Publications Office of the European Union (OP) is the official provider of publishing services to all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies. As such, it is the central point of access to EU law, and also to publications, data, research results, procurement notices and other official information. The Publications Office therefore plays a central role in informing the public about what the EU does and means for them, and in unlocking the power of data.

Its mission is to support EU policies as a centre of excellence for information, data and knowledge management, and to ensure that this broad range of information is available to the public as accessible and reusable data to facilitate transparency, economic activity and the diffusion of knowledge.

The Publications Office publishes in all the official languages of the European Union and continuously adapts its services to a rapidly evolving technological environment (e.g. data services, cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence).

Unit B4 ‘Language-Quality Services’ is responsible for delivering language-quality services to a wide range of EU institutions and agencies. The Unit provides linguistic quality control of the Official Journal. It also edits and verifies general publications in all EU official languages, often working in tandem with authors to ensure their message is clear. To this end, it suggests improvements before publications are translated into other languages. The Unit also contributes to the development of linguistic reference tools such as the Interinstitutional Style Guide. It deploys automated tools that standardise texts by removing errors and inconsistencies found in the structure and factual references that reduce machine readability, thereby ensuring identical content across all language versions.

WE PROPOSE

 Danish language editor (M/F) responsible for:

• proofreading, from the point of view of language and typography, of all types of publications

produced by the Publications Office, including legislative texts adopted by the institutions;

• subsequent reading of proofs and delivery of the “pass-for-print”;
• checking compliance of the texts with the rules established in the Interinstitutional Style Guide;
• where applicable, checking the consistency of translations with the source language;
• contributing to the development of language-editing tools and language-quality services.

The work is performed primarily on-screen.

WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for a language editor (M/F) with an excellent knowledge of the Danish language. The candidate is expected to have an excellent knowledge of the current office automation tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, Acrobat pro, etc.), as well as the capacity, after internal training, to use automated workflow systems and tools specific to publishing.

A relevant experience in the publishing domain in particular in editorial and proofreading work is essential.

A high sense of responsibility and the capacity to respect strict deadlines are basic requirements for this job.

The language teams within the unit have a high degree of autonomy in their internal organization and to make this function well, teamwork and a strong spirit of collaboration are essential. The main working languages of the unit are English and French.

The ideal profile for the job is at least 2 years of relevant professional experience.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:

1. your CV 2. completed application form.

Please send                                      these documents by the                              publication deadline to 0P-B4-[email protected] indicating the selection reference 0P/C0M/2025/1977 in the subject.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.