​Community Volunteer Coordination Specialist (16 Days of Activism)

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. We work with partners to integrate qualified, highly motivated and well supported UN Volunteers into development programming and promote the value and global recognition of volunteerism.

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that begins on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and concludes on 10 December, Human Rights Day. Each year, the UNITE Campaign focuses on a specific theme and encourages citizens to demonstrate their commitment to ending violence against women and girls by sharing actions they are taking to create a world free from such violence. The 2025 Campaign highlights digitally facilitated violence.

UNV has launched a Special Programme Initiative (SPI) to engage UN Volunteers in supporting UN entities for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign across Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Türkiye. In addition to this SPI, there are two other SPIs with different UN entities targeting the same countries.

The selected UN Volunteer will assist the cluster of Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Türkiye, in UNV ROECA and other UN entities to engage and empower volunteers in line with the campaign’s objectives and targets of SPIs.

Under the direct supervision of the UNV ROECA Cluster Lead, the UN Volunteer will:
- Support the promotion and launch of the call for applications, including via social media platforms and other channels, in coordination with UN Entities and UNV.
- Assist in the outreach and identification of UN Community Volunteers, in coordination with UN Entities and UNV.
- Support the translation of UNV documents, such as description of the assignments, into local languages, if required.
- Assist selected candidates in creating their profiles on the Unified Volunteering Platform (UVP); and on the actions required to be contracted.
- Support candidates in uploading required documents to UVP, including education credentials, identity information, beneficiary forms, medical clearance, UN mandatory courses, and other relevant materials.
- Facilitate the completion of mandatory UN and UNV courses.
- Ensure that each UN Community Volunteer has read, understood, and accepted their UN Volunteer offer and contract in UVP.
- Support the onboarding of UN Community Volunteers in close coordination with UN Entities and UNV.
- Provide guidance and support to UN Volunteers throughout their assignments, including assistance with reporting.
- Create, update, and maintain accurate records of applicants, shortlisted candidates, and deployed UN Community Volunteers, ensuring data consistency across UVP and other internal tracking tools.
- Capture lessons learned and share them with UNV.
- Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.


Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
- 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 instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day, 5th of December).
- Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
- Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities (for instance at https://vra.unv.org),
- Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/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.