4. United Nations Volunteers

UN Volunteers are engaged to provide operational and substantive support to entities in various fields such as human rights, electoral processes, community development, information and communications technology, administration and logistics, health, and humanitarian relief and for specialized functions for which the required skills and expertise are not available in the Organization. UN Volunteers are not to be used as a substitute for staff or perform any supervisory functions.

Types of volunteers:

1. International Volunteers: Typically deployed outside their home country in specialized technical functions, both in substantive and support/logistical functions, but also for capacity building/transfer of knowledge.
2. National Volunteers: Typically deployed inside their home country for community outreach, grassroots action, where knowledge of local language, culture, terrain and networks are needed.
3. On-line Volunteers (effective 1 January 2019): This is an alternative for unstable/expensive settings, eliminates time and location constraints as they can provide the support on line from their home locations. They serve under no contract and there is no remuneration, nor any kind of stipend paid to the on-line volunteers. Their assignment is governed by the Terms of Use (ToU). The online volunteers are engaged in functions which can be done remotely through a computer, such as: social medial campaigns, writing blog content, drafting communication strategies, designing promotional public information material, research, media monitoring, data analysis, survey administration, drafting grants or projects proposals, logo/graphic design, web design of infographics/maps, video editing, captioning, dubbing, designing of training material, developing e-courses, teaching class online, IT support, software development, programming apps, database development, translations, proofreading, editing, etc.
4. UN Youth Volunteers (international and national) are between 18 and 29 years old and work with UN agencies on the frontlines of political, developmental and humanitarian operations.

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