General
Description of assignment title: [Legal Identity] Translation (ENG-> FR, ENG-> ESP)
Assignment country: United States of America
Expected start date: Invalid Date
Sustainable Development Goal: 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions
For how many hours per week will the volunteer be required?
11 – 15
Host entity: UNDP BPPS Governance
Type: Online
Duration: 12 weeks
Number of assignments: 2
Details
Mission and objectives
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts The Governance team in BPPS is responsible for supporting UNDP’s work on Governance across the organization including on anti-corruption, legal identity, inclusive political processes, parliamentary development, elections, SDG 16 implementation and monitoring, local development, youth empowerment.
Context
UNDP is recently receiving a lot of request to establish the digital identity system. While there is a focus and excitement on technology, no sufficient attention was paid to its governance system. In order to address human rights issues at the design and implementation of digital ID system, UNDP is finalizing a model governance framework on digital identity. Since UNDP would like to provide opportunities for the Member States to make use of this framework, UNDP would like to translate the existing materials that explain features of the solution in French and Spanish
Task description
Task 1: Translation of communication materials into French and Spanish (We are recruiting 2 online volunteers–one for French and the other for Spanish)
Requirements
Required experience
1) 7 years of experience in translation 2) Fluency in English and French or Fluency in English and Spanish 3) Knowledge on human rights, data protection and privacy, legal framework is a strong asset
Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required Spanish, Level: Fluent, Required French, Level: Fluent, Required
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.
