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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

chargé de mission

English translation:

Project coordinator

Added to glossary by Julia Gaillot
Oct 1, 2001 00:49
25 yrs ago
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French term

chargé de mission

French to English Bus/Financial
L'équipe a été renforcée par un nouveau directeur et de nouveaux chargés de mission.

Proposed translations

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Project coordinator

Given the Bus/Financial context, a 'chargé de mission' is someone who is hired for a specific job within an existing structure, or someone from within an existing team, who is assigned repsponsibilité for a given project.

This is usually a fixed-duration mission, rather than a permanent job (often a secondment from another position internally).

As a 'chargé de mission' is usually quite seperate from the general company hierarchy, I would avoid using the term 'manager'. Usually the person is responsible for a specific task rather than a team of people.

Hope this helps
Peer comment(s):

agree Helen D. Elliot (X) : also called "project leader" under which there are "project managers."
3 hrs
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : Absolutely. Perfectly logical and transferabel for all business contexts - just like "chargé(e) de mission"
4 hrs
agree dmwray : also known as 'project leads'
8 hrs
agree Mary Worby : Sounds good to me, too!
13 hrs
thank you everyone!
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6 mins

emissary

or
official representative
or literally:
in charge of a/the mission
Reference:

Norstedts+MW

Peer comment(s):

disagree Julia Gaillot : notin a business context!
13 mins
It's not obvious that it's a business context. Then I think one would use another term.
agree Andrew Race
50 mins
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12 mins

representative

Oxford-Hachette has:

chargé de mission (politique) representative

So this would be OK if your context is political, otherwise, something like 'project manager' might work.

HTH

Mary
Reference:

Oxford-Hachette

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18 mins

CRM - customer relationshop manager

chargé de mission is a very general term.
Where do does people work? IN a company, for an association, for the government?

In business, chargé de mission indicates that the person has contects with clients.

Sales manager?
customer relationship manager
project manager?

representative for chargé de mission is only for officials.
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