Writing and Editing Communication Materials for UNDP Kyrgyzstan

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Mission and objectives

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. UNDP has been supporting the Kyrgyz people in their struggle against poverty since it opened an in-country office in 1993. https://www.kg.undp.org/content/kyrgyzstan/en/home.html UNDP's Strategic Plan (2018-2021) has been designed to be responsive to the wide diversity of the countries we serve. The diversity is reflected in three broad development contexts: eradicating poverty; structural transformations; and building resilience.

Context

Under the guidance of the Communications team and supervision of the direct officers, the Online Volunteers will assist in providing high-quality writing/editing/proofreading of various communication materials and other UNDP materials. - Editing should be done keeping in mind culture, gender, and other diverse sensitivities per UNDP guidelines. - Expected to support in completion of comprehensive editing/proofreading of the material provided by ensuring clarity and correctness while considering the sensitivity of alternative care jargon and respecting the intentions of the writers and experts. - Expected to assist in verification that in the case of longer documents each chapter or section reads well by establishing flowing tones, cohesion, and the proper structure.

Task description

UNDP Country Office in Kyrgyzstan seeks the support of Online Volunteers for writing and editing the communication materials in English. The communication materials will include press releases, stories, concept notes, briefing notes etc. For the duration of 12 weeks, Online Volunteer is expected to review, edit, or proofread the following materials: 10 press releases (approximately 500 words each); 3 blogs (up to 1,000 words); 5 human interest stories (up to 1,500 words); 5 PowerPoint presentations (100-300 words); 5 concept-notes (up to 5,000 words); 5 fact sheets (up to 1,000 words); 5 scripts (up to 200 words); 5 articles (up to 1,500 words). The workload will be equally distributed during the given timeframe.