Volunteer Opportunities for the COVID-19 Pandemic Response from the United Nations

The United Nations is offering a volunteer opportunity under the “Volunteers for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response”. UNV invites skilled professionals to support the UN system’s response as national UN Volunteers. Join efforts to mitigate the economic, social and health impacts of this crisis, and to safeguard progress made towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. International UN Volunteers may telecommute or be deployed once travel restrictions are lifted.

About the Program:-

• Duration: from 3-12 months (with possibility of extension)
• Starting date: many will require candidates to be available at short notice (1-2 weeks)

Requirements:-

Candidates need to:

• Have at least two years of professional experience,
• Be at least 22 years old for national UN Volunteer assignments, and at least 25 years old for International UN Volunteer assignments.
• Your profile should highlight any prior experience in health-related emergencies.

Benefits:-

• Monthly living allowance to cover housing. 
• Basic needs and utilities. 
• Settling-in-grant. 
• Life, health and permanent disability insurance. 
• Return airfares (if applicable).

Required Specializations:-

• Health professionals

  • Medical

    • Intensivists.

    • Respiratory Physicians.

    • Pathologists.

    • Radiologists.

    • ICU/Anesthetic Nurses.

    • Infection Control Nurses.

    • Psychologists (with experience in trauma/stress counselling).

    • Biomedical/Medical Laboratory Technicians.

    • Physiotherapists.

  • Public Health

    • Epidemiologists.

    • Public Health Specialists (other).

    • Health Statisticians.

    • Health Surveillance Specialists.

• Non-health professionals

  • Emergency & Crisis management.

    • Health Emergency Managers.

    • Child Protection Specialists.

  • Programme Management.

    • Monitoring & evaluation Specialists (related to health and/or emergencies). 

    • Reporting.

    • Gender-based Violence Project/Programme Specialists.

  • Health systems

    • Logisticians.

    • Health Procurement Specialists.

    • Health Supply Chain Specialists (pharmacist, equipment, cold chain).

  • Sanitation & Hygiene.

    • WASH (with a focus on hygiene) Specialists.

    • Medical Waste Management Specialists.

  • Communications & Data management.

    • Communications for Development Specialists.

    • Information Management Specialist (with experience in health emergencies).

    • Data Collection & Management Specialists (related to health).

  • Statistics & others.

    • Socio-economic & Health Assessment Specialists.

    • Economic Development Specialists.

    • Livelihoods Specialists.

    • Anthropologists.

    • Sociologists.

About UN Volunteers:-

The United Nations Volunteers programme is a United Nations organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for recognition of volunteers, working with partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing an increasing number and diversity of volunteers, including experienced UN Volunteers, throughout the world. UNV embraces volunteerism as universal and inclusive, and recognizes volunteerism in its diversity as well as the values that sustain it: free will, commitment, engagement and solidarity.

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