• Country: Brazil
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNV
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-02-15

Details
Mission and objectives
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.

Context
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.

Among the platform’s features, programme profiles are a major source of information about social protection programmes in the Global South, and it is necessary to ensure information on programmes is kept up-to-date and provides practicioners with relevant data.

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 update programme profiles in the Latin America and Caribbean Region for the socialprotection.org platform.
– Volunteers will also be expected to be attentive in looking for new programmes or programmes that had not been previously mapped in order to include the information that is found.

NOTE

• 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.

Requirements
Required experience
REQUIRED
– Fluency in English
– Background in social sciences, international relations, development studies, political science, or related areas
– Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
– Independent and reliable internet and laptop access

WILL BE CONSIDERED ASSETS
– Knowledge of social protection policies and programmes
– Background in research
– Fluency in Spanish and/or French

Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required
Spanish, Level: Fair, Desirable
French, Level: Fair, Desirable

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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