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UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge - Online Volunteer

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location:
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development Goals
    • Maritime
    • Innovations for Sustainable Development
    • Volunteerism
    • Sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources
  • Closing Date: Closed

Details

Mission and objectives

The Ocean Innovation Challenge (OIC) is a unique new mechanism that has been designed to accelerate progress on SDG14 by identifying, financing, advising and mentoring truly innovative, entrepreneurial and creative approaches to ocean and coastal restoration and protection that sustains livelihoods and advances the 'blue economy'. The OIC seeks innovations that are transferable, replicable and scalable in order to achieve maximum catalytic impact. The goal of the OIC is to accelerate progress on SDG14 by catalysing replicable and scalable innovations - including technical, policy, economic and financial - that can be sustained and contribute directly to delivery of one or more SDG14 targets.

Context

The Online Volunteer assignment is an extraordinary opportunity to further enhance partnerships building and donor-relations skills, and to gain exposure to the UNDP’s work on sustainable development through the Water and Ocean Governance Programme. The select online volunteer will be part of a team of face paced researcher, able to identify key opportunities for support and investments in some of UNDPs most exciting and ambitious efforts. This will include the UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge, UNDP Water and Ocean Governance Programme, UNDP Small Island Developing State (SIDS) Offer – Rising Up for SIDS, and the UNDP Plastics Offer.

Task description

The online volunteer will provide support and assistance to the UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge (OIC) Secretariat, with the following deliverable: • Work closely with the UNDP Ocean Advisor/OIC Manager and OIC Team in mapping potential new funding opportunities for specific themes, researching and articulating potential European country-partner engagement strategies, and identifying high profile foundations, and corporate partners, etc. for specific ocean and water related themes

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