Programme Assistant

Volunteering Programme & Policy

Overview

Assist in project implementation and coordination of sustainable development initiatives.

You have:

• Experience in project management and implementation.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge in women's empowerment and sustainable development concepts.
• Experience in capacity building and community engagement.
• Exposure to rural development and poverty reduction strategies.

Contract

This is a UNV Community Volunteer contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV Community Volunteer contracts.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 targets outlines a grand blueprint for global development to 2030. The UN system fully adopted the SDGs as its compass, advocating and working towards an inclusive, just and green development. In September 2016, Chinese government issued The China’s National Plan on Implementation of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Goals. It sets up the principles of innovation-driven, coordinated-development, green-development, openness and inclusive-development to guide the implementation of the SDGs.

To demonstrate how SDGs can be implemented locally in China, UNDP, China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE), Women’s Federation of Yunnan Province and Yongren County Government jointly launched the project SDG Pilot Village: Women-focused Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development in July 2017. During 2017 to 2021, the Phase I of the project has made remarkable achievements on poverty reduction and women empowerment in Waipula Village, Yongren County, Yunnan Province. Based on the poverty alleviation progress of the Phase I, the project aims to further support Waipula Village to better achieve rural revitalization and women empowerment with integration of SDGs and Rural Revitalization Strategy in the new phase of three years.

The Phase II of this project plans to integrate China’s national rural revitalization strategy with SDGs in order to achieve the following objectives: 1) accelerate entrepreneurship: enhance the capacity of villagers especially women in ecotourism development and raise their income; 2) pro-mote diversity and inclusion: inherit ethnic culture and empower women's development; 3) advance green development: protect natural environment and strengthen environmental awareness.

Under the primary supervision of the PMO director, the UN Volunteers will undertake the following tasks:

• Daily coordination of the project implementation following the annual work plans, and ensure the activities are conformed to the project's expected results and outputs. • Provide technical support to event organization and capacity building activities in the Waipula Village. • Preparing and maintaining technical documents including event brief, project progress re-port, meeting minutes, etc. • Contributing to knowledge products development and communication outreaching • Assisting project monitoring and evaluation, internal and external assessment, sharing experience and lessons learned from project implementation. • Ensuring full compliance of project activities with NIM (National Implementation) policies, rules and regulations.
• Responsible for regular communications with UNDP and CICETE.

Furthermore, UNVs are encouraged to:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities (for in-stance, IVD celebration events);
• Get acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking; • Contribute news and articles on field experiences and submit them to UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UNV volunteers; • Promote online volunteering and encourage individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering Service whenever technically feasible.

Results/Expected Output: (Measurable matrix is encouraged in this section)

The following outputs are expected:
• Strengthened project management • Increased engagement in advocacy and awareness-raising activities • Appropriate data/file and knowledge product management maintained; • Strengthened partnerships with stakeholders

☒ Accountability ☒ Adaptability and Flexibility ☒ Commitment and Motivation ☒ Communication ☒ Creativity ☒ Empowering Others ☒ Knowledge Sharing ☒ Professionalism ☒ Self-Management ☒ Working in Teams

relevant fields and civil society organizations is an asset.

The duty station of the national UN Volunteer is located in Yongren County, Yunnan Province, China, where modest public infrastructure and health services are available.

The National UN Volunteer receives a standard volunteer living allowance (VLA), which is intended to cover their accommodation and basic living expenses. In China the VLA is 3796.08 RMB per month. The National UN Volunteer is entitled to an excellent health, life and disability insurance pack-age. International travel to duty station will not covered by UNV. The National UN Volunteer is entitled to 2.5 days personal leave per month and government official holidays.

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