Minimum age: 22 years old. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

• Act as the main focal point between the core communications team and programme clusters.

• Provide support on the drafting of minutes, reports, speeches, talking points, success stories, press statements, newsletter and website articles.

• Coordinate, organize and facilitate meetings; Prepare agendas, minutes, and follow-ups with relevant partners.

• Assist with production of English language donor materials such as briefing notes, "thank you letters", and donor visibility materials.

• Act as the focal point for supporting the fast and efficient follow up with partners (Donors, Vertical Funds, Government, IFI's, Private Sector, Foundations and UN agencies)

• Maintains the Donor database and support the production of concept notes and proposals for potential new partners.

• Support coordination of Government counterparts and maintains the Government counterpart database.

• Liaise with projects to ensure a cooperative approach towards communications and partnership.

• Support the CO with national and international media engagement and mobilization.

• Develop sustainable relationships with representatives of the press at the local, national, and international levels.

• Ensure facilitation of knowledge building and management by regularly organizing trainings to project staff on communications and partnership.

• Support design and implementation of the CO communication strategy based on the corporate communications strategy.

• Support the CO and UNDP projects in the design and branding guidelines of other outreach-oriented print materials.

• Increase visibility of UNDP's mandate and goals through contributing to the public website and social media use.

• Produce high-quality photography, videography and other digital media products for CO and the programme pillar, as required.

• Pitch UNDP successes to the media and manage dissemination of information to the public; including oversee the development of TV spots and radio announcements.

• Support Country Office communications unit in designing and developing publications when required.

• Translate English material translation to Pashto and Dari and vice-versa.

• Support event planning to promote UNDP messages among partners, beneficiaries and other.

• Coordinate with online UNVs to support the CO written materials.

• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Candidate age: between 18 and 29 throughout the entire duration of their assignment. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

During deployment, the duties may be modified, based upon the technical needs of the Programme.

Reporting to the Team Lead, Data Analytics and Knowledge Management, and working closely with counterparts at the respective Regional Office and HQ, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Coordinate health information communication with countries, partners and other stakeholders
• Develop advocacy plans for the WHO Regional Office for Africa on its technical work in health information, including for the Africa Health Observatory
• Facilitate development of research products based on the work in health information for the WHO African Region
• Review and support strengthening of the legal and regulatory environment for health information in the WHO African Region

Minimum age: 25 years old. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

Under the direct supervision of Protection Officer, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Through relationships with persons of concern, authorities and network of partners stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to senior management.
• Ensure that the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the persons of concerns are reflected in the protection strategy, planning processes and operations plan addressing the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, minority groups such as sexual minorities and persons living with HIV/AIDS;
• Utilize the IDPs footprint during the planning process;
• Coordinate the promotion of international refugee law principles and standards and also IDP legislation or policies ensuring that all sectors and clusters fulfill their responsibilities mainstreaming protection;
• Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of programmes ensuring that identified protection needs, including an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) approach, are adequately addressed;
• Provide policy guidance and operational support to UNHCR and partners on all protection related issues;
• Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to internal and external interlocutors; ensure legal assistance is accessible to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documents to persons of concern (civil documentation, in particular birth certificates);
• Monitor, and assist with the intervention in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents through working relations with governments and other partners;
• Assist in the coordinated implementation and oversight of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities;
• Ensure that durable solutions through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement are sought and provided to the largest possible number of persons of concern;
• Ensure through direct action and advocacy with more senior protection staff that the necessary resources are allocated to enable protection activities to identify and address protection and assistance gaps;
• Support a consultative process with government counterparts at local levels, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement integrated strategies that address the key protection priorities, including, for example, child protection, education and SGBV, and solutions approaches;
• Promote confidence building and conflict resolution among populations of concern, authorities and host communities;
• Maintain protection presence through regular field missions and reports, making direct contact with persons of concern, host communities, local authorities and partners. In operations applying the humanitarian cluster system, contribute to ensuring that the response of the Protection Cluster is grounded in an AGD-compliant strategy which covers all assessed and prioritized protection needs of the affected populations;
• Contribute to the Protection team's information management component which: provide disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems; researches, collects and disseminates relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide technical advice if necessary;
• Ensure participatory, community-based protection and AGD approaches are included in, strategies and plans in the country operation;

Support persons of concern to develop structures that enhance their participation and protection.