Internship 985

INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 196 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities, and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime. 

Title: Internship - Language Support Unit
Directorate: Finance and Corporate Services 
Sub-Directorate: Protocol, Conference & Language Services 
Duty station: Lyon, France
Duration (in months): 6.00 
Estimated starting date: 1 June 2025
Level of security clearance: Basic
Deadline for applications:17 March 2025

INTERPOL’s Internship Programme welcomes candidates from any of our 196 member countries.
The Programme attracts talented students or recent graduates to the Organization and provides them with:

- A better understanding of the Organization’s goals and objectives and how international police cooperation is organized
- An insight into how an international organization operates
- A framework to enhance their educational experience through practical work assignments, thereby developing skills which are useful for their career and future employment
- Experience of working in a multicultural, multidisciplinary and multi-ethnic environment, contributing to the development of mutual understanding, trust and tolerance

All the relevant information about our Internship Programme may be found on our official web site.

As of 1 January 2025, the internship allowance is EUR 700 and a transport subsidy of EUR 30 per month. An additional housing subsidy of EUR 170 per month will be provided to eligible interns.  

Interns are required to be subscribed to a health insurance coverage for the entire duration of the internship. However, they are eligible to request enrolment in the Organization’s health insurance coverage at no additional cost. 

Candidates are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the conditions of internship and the requirements prior to applying for this internship.

Primary duties

The purpose of the internship is to take part in the daily activities of the INTERPOL Language Support Unit. The intern will gain a stronger perception of multilingual document project management and production tasks, particularly within an international organization. The intern will work under the supervision and guidance of the Head of the Language Support Unit (LSU) and will assist the team in performing the following tasks:

Project preparation

• Support in the verification of  budget codes provided by clients to ensure they can be retrieved from the list maintained by Finance.
• Support in the preparation of charts in Microsoft Excel provided by clients, highlighting only the cells and text that require translation.
• In close collaboration with the four language departments and relevant colleagues within LSU, create perfectly aligned bitexts of reference documents.
• Where relevant and as required, help in the production of pre-translated versions of documents using the aligned reference document bitexts.

Outsourcing to external language service providers

• Provide external language service providers with all necessary documentation (e.g., documents for translation/revision, glossaries, reference documents) and receive completed translations/revisions in accordance with established security protocols.

Production of language versions of notices

• Assist in the validation, coordination, and archive translation requests for notices.
• Assign tasks to the colleague responsible for producing Arabic language versions of notices.

Final verification and release

• Help in proofreading and in conducting a final verification of the project against its specifications before delivery to the client, and archive language versions of press releases, IPCQ messages, and any other documents as required.

Data analysis and reconciliation

• Support in the reconciliation of data between the workflow management tool and the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Working within the Language Support Unit, the selected applicant will:

• Gain hands-on experience in the management and production of multilingual document projects.
• Gain hands-on experience in working with the types of IT tools in use in a translation service: workflow management tools, computer-assisted translation tools, etc.
• Gain experience in working with a multi professional team (language service providers, translators, revisers, proofreaders, project managers, language technology and terminology coordinator).
• Gain knowledge of the authoring–translation–publishing (ATP) chain.
• Understand the lifecycle of documents, in particular legal and statutory meeting documents.

Requirements

All candidates will be assessed on the under mentioned requirements

APPLICATION PROCESS AND ASSESSMENT METHOD

1. Application process

Only applications submitted in response to a specific internship vacancy will be considered. Due to the large number of applications received, we are unable to answer individual queries.

A completed online application is required and should include a cover letter that highlights:

• Your motivation to join the INTERPOL internship programme;
• Your interest in and your assets for this specific internship opportunity;
• Your expectations for this internship.

2. Assessment method

All applications will be assessed against the requirements indicated in this call for internship. Applicants who meet these requirements most closely will be contacted by the hiring manager directly for further consideration and assessment.

INTERPOL does not discriminate on any grounds and candidates will be treated under conditions of equality.

SECURITY CLEARANCE

A confidentiality vetting inquiry will be carried out on behalf of the Organization prior to confirming any selection. By accepting this offer, you give the Organization expressed consent for completing this inquiry.

If selected, you will be required to produce a certificate of non-criminal records (including spent and unspent sentences pronounced by justice) from your country of nationality and from any other country in which you have resided for more than 12 months in the past five years. If you are considered at a further stage of the selection process (interview) we advise you to familiarize yourself with the procedure for requesting such documentation in the concerned countries so that, if accepted, your arrival to the Organization is not unnecessarily delayed.