• Country: Peru
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNV
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-01-26

Details
Mission and objectives
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) leads the global fight against illicit drugs and transnational organized crime, with a special focus on wildlife and forest crimes through the Global Program on Crimes Affecting the Environment. Environment (GPCAE). This program provides technical assistance to UN Member States to strengthen their preventive responses and actions in the criminal justice chain related to environmental crimes. Working closely with national and regional agencies, the GPCAE empowers counterparts and promotes the sustainability of initiatives to prevent, investigate and prosecute these crimes. Currently, the GPCAE collaborates with more than 30 countries in the world, prioritizing affected regions such as the countries of the Southern Cone, where great threats are faced by these environmental crimes. UNODC works alongside legal systems and law enforcement agencies of Member States, improving their regulatory frameworks, investigative skills and cooperation at national and international levels, with the aim of achieving more effective action against environmental crime, from the crime scene to the court.

Context
Based on the activities implemented by the Environmental Team, interviews have been recorded with justice operators and authorities in the environmental sector, in order to make the impact of the training visible. In this sense, the support of an online volunteer is required to transcribe them.

Task type
Translation and Interpretation

Task description
The volunteer must transcribe from audio to text the audiovisual material (40 short audio clips) produced for the activities of the UNODC Environmental Team. Likewise, she must translate the text into English and deliver both documents to the communications coordinator of the Environmental Team.

Requirements
Required experience
Ideally a bachelor’s degree in Languages, Translation, Language, Literature, Journalism and/or related careers. If you do not have a degree, experience in transcription and translation is relevant. Use of Microsoft Word.

Languages
Spanish, Level: Mother tongue, Required
English, Level: Fluent, Required

Other information
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

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