Volunteer Online with UN: Mapping Environmental Organizations

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as Association for Community Awareness (ASCOA) is looking for 5 online volunteers to help with Mapping Environmental Organizations.

The Association for Community Awareness (ASCOA) is a humanitarian non-profit organization with headquarters in Cameroon, West Africa, and offices in the USA and Kenya. ASCOA has a goal to enhance the quality of life of underserved communities and promote sustainable development in Africa and the world at large. ASCOA’s efforts range from fostering environmental protection with special focus on plastic pollution and marine littering to increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS and combating related stigma, engaging in women empowerment, child support, peacebuilding, and taking care of the displaced population

Volunteer duration and working hours:

6-10 hours per week / 8 weeks.

• The volunteer will need to search for potential organizations that can join ASCOA's environmental network and communicate with them in order to register them as members.
• Such members could be NGOs, Educational Institutions or Private Companies working in the Environmental field or Clean (Renewable) Energy sector.
• There is need for 5 volunteers for the following regions: - Central Europe - Central Asia - Oceania - Central Africa - Eastern Africa In each of these regions, the assigned volunteer will work over 8 weeks on bringing in 10 organizational members.

• a success track record of developing strong relationship with member organizations and/or prospects/stakeholders
• strong interpersonal skills
• excellent written and verbal communication.
• Required language: 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: 

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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