Volunteer Online with UN: Supporting the expansion of the multilingual content of the Education for Justice website - Arabic

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as Doha Declaration Global Programme is looking for one qualified online volunteer to support the work of the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative, a component of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration.

The E4J initiative (www.unodc.org/e4j) was developed as a result the adoption of the Doha Declaration by the 13th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in 2015. The Declaration recognizes the fundamental importance of universal education for children and youth, for the prevention of crime, terrorism and corruption, as well as to promote sustainable development. E4J aims at empowering the next generation to become socially responsible global citizens with a sound moral and ethical compass who are prepared to tackle the world’s challenges related to the rule of law. It seeks to prevent crime, promote a culture of lawfulness, help educators teach on rule of law issues and encourage students to actively engage in their communities and future professions in this regard. To achieve these objectives, different age-appropriate educational tools and activities for the primary, secondary and tertiary education levels have been developed by E4J together with partners. The E4J team is now looking for online volunteers to support the expansion of the multilingual content of the initiative’s website to reach a worldwide audience.

Volunteer duration and working hours:

20+ hours per week for 15 weeks.

Eligibility criteria:

• Arabic native speaker, with proficiency in English.
• Experience with text processing and formatting as well as attention to detail and accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar is required. 
• Experience with content management systems is an asset. 
• The online volunteers must be willing to work in a team, be responsive and strictly respect the deadlines. 

Volunteer task:

• In particular, they will support the rolle-out of E4J’s University Module Series on nine rule of law related topics (https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/tertiary/index.html) by making these resources available to a multilingual, global audience of lecturers.
• The online volunteer's task will be to prepare webpages for selected modules in one Arabic language.
• The webpages will be created in UNODC’s website content management system.
• The volunteer will be expected to upload 2 modules/week (approximately 40 web pages).

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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