Science Program Associate

UNESCO is an intergovernmental organization committed to fostering intellectual and moral solidarity for peace through cooperation in education, culture, the sciences, and communication and information. The organization is headquartered in Paris, France, and has a network of over 50 regional, cluster, and national field offices.

UNESCO New Delhi is presently designated as a Cluster Office and is a platform for delivery of activities in all areas of UNESCO’s competence, namely, education, the natural and social sciences, culture, communication and information.

It implements a biennial Cluster programme that is aligned with the overall goals of the Organization as defined in its quadrennial programme and budget, and medium-term strategy. The implementation of the cluster programme is undertaken through a fundamental operating principle - consultation and consensus with the National Commissions of the Member States, Regional Bureaus, civil society representatives, and other stakeholders and partners.

The New Delhi Office is now mandated to cover six countries of South Asia -- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

The UNV will support numerous activities related to climate science literacy exhibitions, climate literacy radio programmes, environmental science seminars, as well as exhibitions, events, and publications related to blue carbon ecosystems

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of the Natural Sciences Unit, the UN University Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
1. Assist organizing seminars in a series called ‘Roots to resilience’, co-organized by UNESCO & UNEP, with multiple partners.
2. Assist identifying stakeholders for climate-science-literacy exhibitions, and the utiliza-tions of these exhibitions and associated guidelines, in schools, public places, univer-sities, government agencies and elsewhere.
3. Assist spreading climate-science-literacy radio messages into rural places of India, as well as into Nepal, and Kathmandu, and into the Maldives, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
4. Assist identifying stakeholders for ‘Blue Carbon Ecosystem’ related meetings; events; conferences, and advancing publications on the same subject.
5. Assist mobilising extra-budgetary resources for climate-literacy and blue-carbon is-sues/activities.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for in-stance in events that mark International Days, such as World Environment Day, World Mangrove Day, International Day of Blue Skies for Clean Air; World Biosphere Reserve Day);
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;
• Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities;
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publica-tions/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.