Mohamed BEN SAID

• Providing simultaneous interpretation, consecutive or liaison as required during meetings and/or mission assignments at duty stations or field missions.
• Resolving problems and providing professional services and support in a dynamic work environment.
• Demonstrating respect to cultural diversity and eagerness to continuous learning as well as technological awareness and resilience
• Preparing and sharing of glossaries among colleagues.
• Acting as team leader and/or programming officer when assigned.
• Interviewing and candidates for recruitment and promotions and evaluating junior and FL interpreters when required.
• Evaluating training needs and organizing seminars and lectures.
• Participation in international UN conferences and major summits when assigned both at UNOG, UNHQ, UNON, UNOV as well as to Human Rights field missions.

. Evaluated RSI platforms during COVID and provided required services within the UNHQ Business Continuity scheme while remaining alert to impact on health and performance.

. Served as TL, STL, OIC and PO/chief of mission when as assigned and drafting of reports with conclusions and recommendation upon closing of sessions.

. Screened candidates, organized training and provided coaching and evaluation to trainees, freelancers and subordinates.

. Undertook training and outreach activities as required.

. Served as President of the Sectoral Assembly of the Interpretation Service at UNOG and ensured continuous direct communication with AIIC to deal with issues of common interest.

. Provided interpretation services at meetings held at the duty-stations or elsewhere on missions.

. Prepared and shared glossaries and supporting tools among peers among colleagues.

. Acted as team leader and/or programming officer when assigned.

. Organized training session as appropriate as per diagnosed needs.

. Served as President of the Sectoral Assembly of the Interpretation Service at UNOG and ensured continuous direct communication with AIIC to deal with issues of common interest.

. Participated to the satisfaction of supervisors and clients in major summits and multilateral UN fora.

• Provided conference interpreting during meetings held at the duty-stations or elsewhere on missions
• Prepared and shared glossaries and learning support within the service.
• Acting as team leader and/or programming officer or officer in charge when assigned.
• Assumed duties as first Arabic interpreter to accept appointment at UNON within the initial core team of interpreters at a time when Nairobi was still classified as a hardship duty station.
• Participated to the satisfaction of supervisors and clients in several international UN conferences both in Kenya and in other duty stations and elsewhere.

• Translated documents from French and English to Arabic and from Arabic into French and English.
• Wrote speeches and prepared presentations for the SG in Arabic for major events and conferences.
• Drafted, designed and published glossaries, outreach documents and compendium of activities for ICDO member states.
• Recruited FL translators and interpreters as per arising needs and made sure that flow, style, and overall meaning of original language were properly replicated.
• Supervised dissemination activities through publication of leaflets in 6 official UN languages.
• Recruitment of freelance translators and interpreters for the day to day work of the organization, for the training workshops, as well as the General Assembly and Executive Board meetings.
• Translation and / or publication of glossaries, guidelines about prevention and mitigation of natural and man-made disasters.
• Raising awareness about the ICDO and contribution into the revival of Arabic as an official language in the organization.
• Translation and publication in Arabic of (Vademecum for Natural and Man-made Disasters, 459pp)

• Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
• Gained extensive knowledge in data entry, analysis and reporting.
• Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
• Developed strong organizational and communication skills through coursework and volunteer activities.
• Provided consecutive and simultaneous interpretation at high level meetings between ICRC officials and national authorities in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon.
• Provided consecutive and liaison interpretation during confidential interviews with persons detained and during ICRC institutional dissemination of International Humanitarian Law.
• Translation of confidential reports and correspondence.
• Analysis of conditions of detention, security and other matters relating to the ICRC's mandate.
• Contributed to the repatriation and exchange of POW of the Iran/Iraq war while securing confidential debriefings in camps in Iran: Qom, Mashaad, Aspahan...
• Visited detainees in places of deprivation of liberties under control of the then KDP/UPK rival Kurdish parties in Dohuk, Sulaymaniah, Erbil, Aqra... as well as Abugharib prison in Baghdad...
• Inspection of sites bombarded by the then "allied" forces on Iraq...