Volunteer Online with UN: Gender and Climate Change information briefs

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as UNFCCC is looking for one qualified volunteers to help designing gender and climate change information briefs. Understanding differing needs, priorities, access to resources, roles, power of engaging women and men equally at all levels of climate planning and implementation can ensure more effective mitigation and adaptation outcomes. All constituted bodies are requested to include in their regular reports information on progress towards integrating a gender perspective into their respective processes and the secretariat is requested to produce a biennial synthesis report on progress in integrating a gender perspective into constituted body processes. By developing these information briefs, the secretariat ensures that members of constituted bodies are introduced to gender-related mandates and to the relevance of gender in the context of their work in a consistent and systematic manner. 

Volunteer duration and working hours:

6-10 hours per week for overall one week. 

Eligibility criteria:

1. Candidates should have experience with designing graphics and layout and should have knowledge of common design applications such as InDesign, Illustrator etc. 
2. Ability to communicate in English.

Volunteer duties:

The Gender Team developed a series of information briefs addressed to the constituted body members on gender integration under the UNFCCC process. They explain the mandates, the commonly used terminology as well as the gender and climate change nexus. The task requires the design of a template and layout of 12 different briefs of 5 to 8 pages each. 

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: 

1. A global platform for organizations and online volunteers to connect.
2. An easy-search database of online volunteering opportunities.
3. Tools to manage volunteers’ and organizations’ online collaboration.
4. Access to online volunteering experiences, best practices and lessons learned.
5. The possibility for volunteers and organizations to expand their networks.
6. The advantage of the universal reach and neutrality of the United Nations.

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