Volunteer Online with UN: Proofreading of Early Grade Digital Storybooks in Arabic

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as UNESCO, Ramallah Office is looking for two qualified volunteers to help in Proofreading of early grade digital storybooks in Arabic. As it has selected early grade digital storybooks, which will be uploaded by the organization to “Ta3mal” platform. This task will help advance in the effort to provide distance learning education and to increase the national learning outcomes especially for facilitating early age reading.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need for openly available early grade reading resources in languages children mostly use at home. In response to this need, a collaboration between UNESCO, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), ADEA, UNHCR, The Global Book Alliance as well as other partners, has established the initiative ‘Translate a Story’, to help organize the translation and proofreading of openly licensed high-quality early grade reading books into different national languages. This initiative is intended to accompany countries’ efforts in improving the ability of early age reading, particularly during the current COVID-19 pandemic where most of the children are confined at home and therefore need to get reading materials available in local languages and universally accessible through various media. 

Volunteer duration and working hours:

11-20 hours per week for 16 weeks.

Eligibility criteria:

• Candidates should be native speakers of Arabic, fluent in English and have previous experience with editing/proofreading and translating. 
• Candidates are required to include samples of previous edited/proofread and/or translated work, if applicable. 

Volunteer task:

1. To ensure the digital storybooks are written in a concise, clear and good understandable way, we are looking for two experienced volunteers who support us with the proofreading of these early grade digital storybooks in Arabic of around 250 words each.
2. The candidates may be asked also to translate different documents, including concept notes, articles, messages and data from English into Arabic and from Arabic into English.

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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