Project 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 UN Volunteer will assist the Communications and Public Engagement Division and support the Partnership and Resource Mobilization Division of the UNESCO Regional Office for South Asia in the implementation of its programme in South Asia to achieve the above stated Organization’s mission and objectives

Under the overall authority of the Director of UNESCO Regional Office for South Asia and supervision of the Communications and Public Relations Officer, the UN University Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Assist in preparation for communication and social media campaigns.
• Maintaining and improving the website’s content management system (Drupal).
• Preparation of press briefings, sending of press releases and updating of mailing lists for efficient external media relations.
• Participate in shooting and post-production at UNESCO events.
• Provide editorial and technical assistance on publication projects.
• Contribute to projects linked to promoting the UNESCO brand.
• Support the Partnership and RM officer in maintaining effective coordination between technical program teams to identify and prioritize key problem statements for designing innovative concepts
• Coordinate the management of agreements with New Delhi and HQ team to ensure that donor agreements are compliant with UNESCO policies and procedures, and that corporate systems for tracking non-core resources are kept up-to-date
• Facilitate the drafting, consolidation and review of donor proposals, ensuring that proposals are high-quality
• Support in improving the visibility of the UNESCO programme, in close collaboration with communications colleagues
• Edit draft speeches and other documents received by the Director from the various programme sectors
• Prepare short monthly work reports and an end of the volunteering contract

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 Volunteer Day);
• Contribute to building 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.