UN Community Volunteers Coordinator

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.

This UNV assignment is envisaged under the joint UN project titled Sustaining peace and social cohesion in Bosnia and Herzegovina through enhanced inter-municipal and inter-entity cooperation on local services (SPSC), implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in partnership with eight local governments in the western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project supports interventions to strengthen social structures and services, with the aim to provide needs-based and quality improved service delivery to men, women and youth in the target communities. To that end, the project will focus on services delivered at the community level, as well as on counselling services targeting families, children, young people, the elderly, people with mental and physical disabilities, the poor and other disadvantaged individuals and families. To support the development of a rapid assessment of availability, accessibility, and quality of social care services in target local governments, the project will engage some 20 young women and men through the UN Community Volunteers modality, while other 20 will be engaged to support improvement of the social service offer.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the UNDP Project Coordinator, UN Community Volunteers Coordinator will support UNDP throughout the volunteer management cycle to ensure effective identification, selection, deployment, learning, and reporting. UN Community Volunteers Coordinator has a support role, while responsibility for the inclusive and transparent outreach, identification, selection, and inclusion of the UN Community Volunteers to the UN Security Management Systems Framework lies with the UNDP.

Specifically, UN Community Volunteers Coordinator will ensure the coordination of UN Community Volunteers in supporting community engagement and awareness-raising efforts, increasing community participation in decision-making, and contributing to the increased ownership and satisfaction of communities with the provision of social services.

Outreach activities to meet the demand for Community UNV candidates
• Assist in developing and implementing context-appropriate outreach, advertisement techniques and selection processes • Support with promotion and launch a call for applications in targeted project communities, including advertisement in local websites, newspapers, and other social media platforms, as applicable • Promote and support inclusive and transparent outreach

Candidate registration and selection • Support candidates to enter applications in Unified Volunteering Platform (UVP) • Support candidate profiles’ creation in UVP due to technical or language constraints • Support UNDP to assess candidates (desk review, written test, interview, other)

Volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and assignment management • Support selected candidates to upload required documents in UVP, such as education credentials, identity information, beneficiary form, and other • Support facilitation of mandatory UN and UNV courses • Support bank accounts opening • Ensure that each UN Community Volunteer has read, understood, and accepted their UN Volunteer offer and contract in UVP • Support UNDP to design and provide context-specific, pre-deployment training related to project • Maintain UN Volunteer files including leave information • Capture lessons learnt on volunteer identification and project success stories and share with UNDP and UNV • Support UN Community Volunteer reporting in relevant UNV systems • Under the guidance of a Project Coordinator, coordination of the UN Community Volunteers’ fulfilment of specific tasks elaborated in the project and their ToR which includes liaison with stakeholders, identification of the type of support required by the institution from the UN Community Volunteers, supervision and coordination of the UN Community Volunteers’ involvement in the activities leading to awareness raising and improved provision of public services, etc.

• Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organizing • Professionalism • Self-management

• Experience in activities and projects of civil society organizations will be considered an advantage • Excellent oral and written communication skills in the official languages of BiH • Working knowledge of English language is considered as advantage • Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or similar is considered as advantage • Ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners including grassroots community members • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in Microsoft Excel • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines

UN Community Volunteers are expected to be recruited locally and work within their community, they are therefore not expected to travel to the duty station and are not eligible for a settling in grant. In addition, UN Community Volunteers should not require reintegration back into their locales upon completion of their service. Therefore, there is no entitlement to a resettlement allowance. The applicable volunteer living allowance is provided monthly to cover housing, utilities and normal cost of living expenses. Life, health and permanent disability insurance are included. https://www.unv.org/