• Country: Brazil
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A
• Organization: UNV
• Gender: Both
• Deadline:  2024-01-29

Details
Mission and objectives
socialprotection.org is <https://socialprotection.org/> an online, member-based, knowledge-sharing and capacity-building platform on social protection. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Brazil hosts and implements the initiative, which is financially supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ).

Social protection is key to the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal 1, ‘to end poverty in all its forms everywhere’, via the implementation of universal, national social protection floors, to ensure no one is left behind. Therefore, socialprotection.org is committed to generating and sharing knowledge for the promotion of innovative and effective social protection policies and programmes, with the ambition of contributing to inclusive growth and sustainable development.

The Platform´s Programmes feature <https://socialprotection.org/discover/programme> provides easy, friendly and accessible information of social protection programmes from around the world. Each Profile features detailed information on the Programme’s design, targeting, implementation and other key aspects.

Context
socialprotection.org (UNDP)

socialprotection.org is an online, member-based, knowledge-sharing and capacity-building platform, open to social protection practitioners, policymakers, and experts, as well as academics and students. The platform was launched on 12 September 2015, answering to a recommendation from the G20 Development Working Group in the aftermath of the triple crisis of the late 2000s to foster global knowledge-sharing on social protection policies. Thanks to the contributions of its members, collaboration with stakeholders, and the dedication of the socialprotection.org team, it directs access to the most up-to-date and comprehensive content on social protection, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Through these endeavours it has established a global interactive community of social protection practitioners. Since its launch, socialprotection.org has garnered more than 12,600 members and amassed over 9,000 publications. It has organised multiple webinars and events in cooperation with a wide range of partners, and hosts dozens of Online Communities.

It provides free access to a plethora of interactive features, such as searchable databases of social protection publications, audio, slides, infographics, videos, photos, online tools, and legal and policy frameworks—as well as blog posts, news, events, jobs, programmes, and country profiles. Members can connect in the social space and join Online Communities dedicated to prominent social protection topics. They can also access innovative learning tools, such as online courses, webinars, livestream events, and be informed of the latest academic opportunities available in the field, as well as podcast episodes produced by socialprotection.org. In addition, the platform allows for members to upload social protection-related content via the ‘share’ feature.

Task type
Research

Task description
All selected volunteers will be guided by the socialprotection.org team and will focus on the following key tasks:

• Volunteers will be assigned up to 10 programme profiles each. It is expected that each volunteer updates 2 programme profiles per week.
• Volunteers must be attentive in case they come across new programmes that are not mapped yet (in this case, they will be required to annotate the name of the programme and country, and save the link where the information was found.

NOTE

• Apart from the above-mentioned tasks, throughout the programme, volunteers may be asked to participate in meetings scheduled by the socialprotection.org team.
• The online volunteer will work remotely at a time and location of their convenience, subject to the deadlines set.
• Those who successfully conclude the reviewed programme profiles will receive a UNV certificate. Note that the socialprotection.org team will conduct quality checks.
• The deadline for completing all tasks will be 6 weeks counting from the day that the socialprotection.org team initiates the activities.

Requirements
Required experience
IT IS REQUIRED

• Fluency in English
• Background in social sciences, international relations, development studies, political science, or related areas
• Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office – Excel, Word)
• Independent and reliable internet and laptop access

IT WILL BE CONSIDERED ASSETS

• Knowledge of social protection policies and programmes
• Background in research
• Fluency in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and in languages spoken in South Asian countries.

Languages
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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