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Photo: National UN Volunteer Haya Al-Jamal (standing), participates in an event for World Children's Day in Jordan. She is a Field Monitor with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Jordan. Haya supports the agency’s flagship Makani programme, through site visits, multi-sector referral services and feedback collected from refugee and Jordanian students. The referrals and feedback helped UNICEF reach malnourished and refugee students with a history of trauma.

© UNICEF, 2019

Host a UN Volunteer

UN entities mobilize UN Volunteers in support of their peace, development and humanitarian interventions and delivery. The added value of UN Volunteers to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is unrivalled.

In this section, we provide host entity representatives with guidance on hosting UN Volunteers, including our UNV solutions, recruitment, financial arrangements and management resources.

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What are the steps to host a UN Volunteer?

To host an on-site UN Volunteer, the UN partner should contact your UNV field or regional office. The first steps in the recruitment process are for the UN partner to:

 

  1. create your own Description of Assignment (DOA) that attract the best candidates (see standard DOA templates),

  2. confirm funding arrangements for the UN Volunteer assignment by providing a financial authorization to UNV, and

  3. participate in interviewing submitted candidates and inform us of your selection (use our simplified candidate assessment form).

 

For further guidance for UN partners on the recruitment process and on UN Volunteer supervision, kindly visit sections on Recruitment, Managing and Transition.

What categories of UN Volunteers are available?

UNV enables flexible talent solutions to the needs of UN entities, offering different categories of UN Volunteers through well-establish legal and administrative framework of the Unified Conditions of Service. UN partners can mobilize different categories of UN Volunteers together to gain maximum benefit from their combined experience and expertise.

Role and Responsibilities of Host Entities

Please see a summary of host entity role and responsibilities in hosting UN Volunteers during the various stages of their assignment. (EN)