Volunteer Online with UN: Write and Edit Climate Change News Stories

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as Universal Versatile Society is looking for 15 volunteers to help in Writing and Editing Climate Change News Stories. Today's world pressing issue is Climate Change, it's consequences are need to be addressed regularly. To facilitate this, we are publishing the 'Weekly World Climate Change News' on our YouTube Channel. We monitor environment related worldwide updates from sources such as United Nations Environment News, UNFCCC Newsroom, UNDP News Center, etc. The Online Volunteers are supposed to extract, edit and compose weekly news from the given raw stories by duly crediting the sources used. Online Volunteers are expected to collect or edit minimum 5 news weekly.

Volunteer duration and working hours:

1-5 hours per week / 20 weeks.

Our objective of this project is in line with SDG 13. We are United Nations Environment Program accredited organization with prime focus on Climate Change awareness and education. Thus, as per our objectives we are dedicated to make the public aware about this emerging issue. We want to utilize the available tremendous potential of young Online Volunteers with a background in journalism to address environmental issues and committed to provide them the international platform to demonstrate their skill. To accomplish this task, Online Volunteers are expected to have basic understanding of climate change and its effects with background education in journalism.

• Candidates are expected to be well-skilled in writing and editing with great command over English.
• Basic understanding of Climate Change and environmental issues is needed.
• Applicants from journalism background is added advantage.

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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