Volunteer Online with UN: Country stories focused on good practices / lessons learnt
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, to join UN Development Coordination Office (DCO) supports the UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams in 131 countries, who support the governments effort in achieving the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The Online Volunteer will support us with a writing and editing task by collecting information nuggets produced by UN Country Teams and their regional offices.
The DCO is committed to identify, surface and make available emerging good practices and innovative approaches across the 131 UN country teams covering 162 countries, and to provide a forum for experts to connect and learn from each other.
Volunteer duration and working hours:
1-5 hours per week for 10 weeks.
Eligibility criteria:
- Professional writing / editing experience in English, including for social media (e.g., websites, blogging platforms),
- knowledge/ interests in various topics on sustainable development;
- ability to work with people from diverse background;
- willingness to learn new things.
Volunteer task:
- Volunteer will be extracting good practice and innovative approaches, and producing short written pieces (1-2 pieces per week), in collaboration with the DCO units and the UN staff in the country offices
- Written pieces the Online Volunteer produces will be featured on the internal knowledge platform, and support peer-to-peer learning across UN Country Teams on the ground.
About UN Volunteers:
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program contributes to sustainable human development through volunteerism worldwide.
Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device. Online volunteering is fast, easy – and most of all, effective.
Through the Online Volunteering service, UNV offers:
- A global platform for organizations and online volunteers to connect.
- An easy-search database of online volunteering opportunities.
- Tools to manage volunteers’ and organizations’ online collaboration.
- Access to online volunteering experiences, best practices and lessons learned.
- The possibility for volunteers and organizations to expand their networks.
- The advantage of the universal reach and neutrality of the United Nations.
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