CHF 1,500 a Month Chinese Publishing Internship

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations agency for weather, climate and water, has opened an internship for a native Chinese speaker in its Linguistic Support and Production unit in Geneva. The intern proofreads and lays out Chinese documents and publications, translates occasional texts from English into Chinese, and prepares English and Chinese material that trains WMO's translation tools and machine-translation engine. WMO pays interns recruited in Geneva a stipend of CHF 1,500 a month.

What you get:

• A stipend of CHF 1,500 a month, WMO's rate for interns recruited in Geneva
• Practical experience in multilingual publishing and desktop publishing inside a UN specialized agency
• Training on WMO's computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, terminology resources and reference materials, with hands-on exposure to translation, alignment, terminology and machine-translation workflows
• Experience working alongside linguists, publishing assistants, authors and administrative staff in a multilingual team
• 2.5 days of leave per month; health and accident insurance is mandatory in Switzerland, you enrol yourself, and WMO adds the cost to your monthly stipend

What you'll do:

• Proofread and finalise documents, correspondence, reports and publications prepared in Chinese, following WMO's templates, guidelines and procedures
• Lay out final documents and publications in desktop publishing software, for print and electronic release
• Pre-align English and Chinese publications in WMO's computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool, then validate and correct the aligned segments
• Identify new terminology and submit it to the Chinese linguist for consideration
• Translate occasional session documents, correspondence and other materials from English into Chinese
• Clean and prepare parallel Chinese texts and terminology lists used to retrain the unit's customised machine-translation engine

Key dates:

• Vacancy posted 7 September 2026
• Applications close 7 October 2026 at 23:59 Geneva time; WMO's portal shows the Apply Before time converted to your own device's timezone
• Start date and length are not stated on the vacancy; WMO internships last between three and twelve months

More information:

• WMO Internship Programme page, with stipend, duration, leave and insurance: https://wmo.int/jobs/wmo-internships
• The same page in Chinese: https://wmo.int/zh-hans/jobs/wmo-internships
• WMO recruitment FAQ: https://wmo.int/jobs/faqs
• Applications go only through WMO's e-recruitment portal, never by post or email. Your candidate profile is created with your first application and nothing is saved until it is submitted, so plan to finish it in one sitting

• Chinese as mother tongue
• Excellent English, oral and written; knowledge of Arabic, French, Russian or Spanish is an advantage
• Higher education degree (Bachelor or higher) in publishing, graphic design, language studies or another field relevant to multilingual publishing and document production
• No professional work experience required
• Responsible, shows initiative, works well alone and in a team, attentive to detail, with good written and oral communication; some knowledge of WMO or other UN organizations is an asset
• WMO Internship Programme: for students approaching the end of their studies or who need an internship to complete them, and recent graduates aged 21 to 35, with less than two years of relevant work experience
• Minimum age for any WMO vacancy is 18
• Open to applicants from around the world; no nationality restriction is stated
• Shortlisted candidates may be asked to sit a written test, an interview, or both