Translation support for e-learning course on biodiversity & gender – UNV jobs in the USA

• Location: USA
• Vacancy No: N/A 
• Salary: N/A
• Organization: UNV
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-03-13
  

Details
Mission and objectives

UNDP’s Global Programme on Nature for Development brings together three different initiatives under one program – the Equator Initiative, the National Biodiversity Initiative, and the Global Forest Initiative – in order to identify, foster, showcase and celebrate nature-based solutions that help achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at local, national and international levels. The work of the Global Programme on Nature for Development contributes to UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017 by charting sustainable development pathways through the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems; and by promoting inclusive and effective democratic governance in the area of natural resources.

Context
The e-learning course “Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and leadership on biodiversity planning, monitoring, and reporting” consists of two lessons that are designed to help learners improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, and leadership. The course is based on a recently UNDP publication (https://www.undp.org/publications/gender-equality-womens-empowerment-and-leadership-national-biodiversity-planning-monitoring-and-reporting) and emphasizes how entry points for gender equality can be applied at the local and regional level for gender-responsive small-scale conservation and sustainable development projects. The course will be launched via Learning for Nature in April 2024.

Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and leadership are central issues to international biodiversity conservation efforts. A new e-learning course will provide governments with tools to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by engaging women, as well as men, as central actors during the planning, monitoring, and reporting on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), the main instrument for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the national-level.

Task type
Translation and Interpretation

Task description
UNDP Nature for Development is looking for online volunteers to proofread the translation of this new course in French and Spanish. The selected volunteers will each review about 30 pages of text that has been originally translated by AI and will correct for errors and improve for a formal e-learning course via Learning for Nature.

Requirements
Required experience
UNDP Nature for Development is looking for translators between English-French and English-Spanish to proofread course room text for a new e-learning course. Ideally, applicants will have experience in translation. Attention to detail and timeliness are also appreciated attributes for this online volunteering position.

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