Court Reporter (Portuguese) at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice

The Community Court of Justice was created pursuant to the provisions of Articles 6 and 15 of the 1993 ECOWAS Revised Treaty as the principal legal organ of the Community. The Court’s main Mission is to “discharge and promote its judicial function of interpreting and applying Community texts as well as to ensure the protection of human rights in an efficient, timely and cost-effective manner with the support of well-trained and motivated staff.” The Court imbibes Independence, Impartiality, Integrity and Accessibility as its core values.

To effectively carry out its mission, the Court seeks applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the underlisted position:

Job Title: Court Reporter (Portuguese)

Job Code: ECW/CCJ/CRP/013
Location: Abuja (FCT), Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Grade: P2 / P3
Status: Permanent
Department: Registry
Divsion: Verbatim Report
Institution: Community Court of Justice
Line Supervisor: Senior Court Reporter (Portuguese)

Role Overview

• Under the supervision of the Head of Division Verbatim Report, the Court Reporter (Portuguese) shall be responsible for ensuring that all court proceedings are electronically recorded and faithfully transcribed, and verbatim reports produced in Portuguese are also available in the other two official working languages of ECOWAS.

Roles and Responsibilities

• S/he shall attend all court sessions.
• Ensure that recording equipment is functional and in position for all court sessions.
• Make full and accurate record of the court proceedings in Portuguese Language.
• Produce accurate and timely verbatim transcripts. In Portuguese Language.
• Submit monthly reports of all court sessions and the status of the verbatim report of each proceeding.
• Prepare a summary of judgements in Portuguese.
• Performs any other official task as may be assigned by supervisor.

Academic Qualifications and Experience
Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Translation, Interpretation, or equivalent from a recognized university.

Experience:

• 3 years of experience in translation, revision, and technical writing.
• Proven knowledge with computer-assisted translation tools, machine translation
  tools, and on-screen editing tools.
• Knowledge of the structure and content of language including, meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, grammar, and history.
• Ability to proofread and review the translation of complex technical terms to ensure accuracy and consistency using simultaneous translation equipment (e.g.
  headphones, translation sets, etc.).

ECOWAS Key Competencies:
P3-02-01 - Leadership:

• Ability to execute tasks, contact colleagues, and contribute as needed towards decision-making to ensure tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• The ability to respect the chain of command in an appropriate manner.
• Ability to guide your own work by setting and monitoring goals with strong personal initiative and commitment to ECOWAS.
• Ability to model and advocate for compliance, good work ethics, flexibility, and persistence to get the job done, coupled with an ability to influence positive teamwork and cooperation.
• Ability to work in teams to carry out semi-routine work, including assigning work, training, and checking work.

P3-03-01 - Client Service Orientation:

• Excellent interpersonal skills to engage with clients in positive exchanges that establish mutual expectations and understanding and reduce uncertainties and conflicts.
• Ability to keep clients informed on matters of relevance to expectations, establishing “bring forward” systems and introducing other procedures /techniques to ensure that service standards are maintained.
• Ability to make decisions based on guidelines, procedures, and precedents and maintain confidentiality and discretion with clients.
• Good judgement and demonstrated ability to be assertive – rather than passive or aggressive when interacting with clients.
• Well-developed problem-solving, critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.

P3-04-01 - Multicultural Sensitivity and Advocacy:

• Ability to perceive the moods and feelings of others and to understand the attitude, interests, needs, and perspectives of others.
• Well-developed ability to relate well with people from varied backgrounds, open to understanding diverse cultural differences especially within West Africa.
• Ability to listen attentively to people’s ideas, requests and concerns and to explain to others the need for diversity management in everyday workplace practices.
• Ability and responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work.
• Ability to factor in diversity when providing services, responding to requests, recognizing and releasing preconceived notions and stereotypical views of certain groups and individuals.

P3-05-01 - Knowledge of ECOWAS:

• Basic understanding of the ECOWAS organization mandate and its functions.
• Ability to explain the functional area assigned to and the contributions it makes to the organization and its mandate.
• Knowledge of ECOWAS semi-routine procedures, processes and practices as it relates to assigned responsibilities and information systems.
• Ability to apply ECOWAS standards in emailing, reporting, correspondence, etc. and to contribute to implementing associated changes as directed.

P3-06-01 - Analytical and Critical Thinking:

• Ability to carefully review and check the accuracy of information in work reports provided by management, management information systems or other individuals.
• Good knowledge of office monitoring indicators of relevance to own work and ability to provide brief reports or updates.
• Ability to edit, check, track, and review documents prepared by others and reorganize data or information according to instructions using the latest technology.
• Efficiently retrieves, inputs, edits, formats, transmits and links electronic file data used for analysis and understands data management operations.
• Ability to condense information and/or produce concise summary notes to help others with decision-making, problem solving and/or assessment of work.

P3-07-01 - Communication:

• Demonstrated computer skills to communicate using tools, to write and format documents appropriately for presentation, the web, proposals, reports and other documents.
• Ability to proofread, edit and revise documents to ensure they follow standard conventions for punctuation and mechanics and formatted in accordance with ECOWAS communication standards.
• Ability to relay/redirect complete and accurate messages to appropriate persons/departments.
• Proficiency in information communication technologies (ICT).
• Fluency in oral and written expressions in one of the ECOWAS official languages of the Community (English, French & Portuguese). Knowledge of an additional one will be an added advantage.

P3-08-01 - Planning and Implementation:

• Ability to organize information and materials for others, solving minor problems and checking for completeness and compliance with standards and instructions.
• Knowledge of techniques to prioritize tasks in fast paced workplace with frequent
• interruptions and moving deadlines and adaptability/ flexibility to meet work expectations.
• Understanding and adherence to the policies, procedures, and guidelines required to support the ECOWAS planning cycle at the individual and organizational level.
• Good initiative with an ability to identify what needs to be done and act in a proactive manner.

Eligibility:

• Must be a citizen of an ECOWAS Member State.
• Must not be more than 50 years of age at the time of recruitment. This does not apply to internal candidates.

Annual Basic Salary
USD 31,191.47 - USD 45,109.22

Application Closing Dates
25th April, 2025. (Internal Candidates)

6th June, 2025. (External Candidates)

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their complete Application Documents to: corept_25int@courtecowas.org (Internal Candidates), corept_25ext@courtecowas.org (External Candidates) using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Click Here To Download Application Form (MS Word)

Application Documents
Applicants who meet the requirements must submit:

• An ECOWAS job application form
• An updated Curriculum Vitae,
• A signed motivation letter.

Note

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.
• Offers of employment will be subject to a satisfactory background check.
• Candidates must be ECOWAS citizens
• Candidates must be under 50 years. (This condition does not apply to internal candidates)
• The documents submitted shall not be returned. Only short-listed candidates shall be contacted.
• Offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory background check and official documentation attesting nationality.