MY WORLD YOUTH ADVOCATE | |
Location : | New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
Application Deadline : | 15-Mar-13 |
Type of Contract : | Internship |
Post Level : | Intern |
Languages Required : | Arabic English French Russian Spanish Chinese Portuguese |
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) | 22-Mar-2013 |
Duration of Initial Contract : | 5 months |
Expected Duration of Assignment : | 5 months |
Background |
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration was
adopted in 2000 by world leaders, committing their countries to a new
global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out time-bound
goals on meeting the needs of the world’s poorest. These goals, to be
achieved by 2015, formed the basis for what are now known as the eight
Millennium Development Goals, which have been broken down into 21
quantified targets that are measured by 60 indicators.
As
was outlined in the report of the Secretary to the general Assembly in
September 2011, the UN system’s process of developing a new frame work
post 2015 is likely to have the best development impact if it emerges
from an inclusive, open and transparent process with multi-stakeholder
participation. UN Millennium Campaign has for the last 8 years led UN
efforts to build partnerships with civil society, private sector and
citizens to contribute to the achievement of the MDGs. This has been
done through the use innovative communications campaigns, advocacy,
social mobilization and policy dialogue. The focus has been to seek to
influencing policy, the generation, allocation and effective use of
resources, ways of working and the democratic governance environment to
accelerate the progress toward MDG achievement.
In
this regard, the UN Millennium Campaign is taking the lead in designing
and implementing a strategy for outreach to stakeholders; both within
and outside the UN including key leaders across civil society. Our
Post-2015 outreach is an attempt to bring the voice of citizens, civil
society and the myriad of other stakeholders directly into the debates
and conversations that will shape the development agenda.
MY
World, a global options survey, has been designed and developed to ask
citizens what would make the most difference to their lives and that of
their families. It will be disseminated through different channels to
ensure both scale (to create political and media traction) and
representativeness (for credibility of the results). The outcome of the
Phase I will be to present regular analyses of the results to the High
Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to inform their work. It
is envisaged that MY World will continue to 2015 and help to develop an
engaged constituency to strengthen accountability for the next
development agenda.
The UN Millennium Campaign
is therefore creating a multilingual team of interns who, as youth
advocates, will provide support on the My World campaign. Building on
the expertise of the UNMC and as part of the Youth advocate team, the
intern selected is expected to develop an outreach strategy to Civil
Society Organizations (CSO) to raise awareness of the platform and
provide guidance to peer partners to promote its use, allowing as many
users as possible contributing to express their top priorities for My
World [ myworld2015.org ] and the World We Want [ worldwewant2015.org ].
Applicants
should have a background in CSO outreach, student mobilization and/or
social media engagment. The candidate is expected to be active on social
media and motivated in providing substantive support to the
campaign. The candidate is expected to have an excellent knowledge of
English and be fluent in one or more of the following languages: Arabic,
Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish and French. Any other language will be
consider as an asset.
At least a total of 25 hours per week of work is required.
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Duties and Responsibilities |
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Functions / Key Results Expected:
The Youth advocate will be the focal point of a region:
Deliverables:
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Competencies |
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Core competences:
Functional competences:
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Required Skills and Experience |
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Education:
UNDP may accept interns provided the following conditions are met:
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce
diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from
minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are
equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the
strictest confidence.
Source: http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=36056
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Internship opportunity: My world youth advocate
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