UNDP•Dec 16, 2025

Tech4R Digital Support Volunteer [SPI]

On-site

National

National Community Part time

11. Sustainable cities and communities

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On-site

Armenia

Yerevan

Duration

31 days

Positions

12 Available

Deadline

Dec 30, 2025

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Sustainable Development Goal

11. Sustainable cities and communities

General Information

Description of assignment title

Tech4R Digital Support Volunteer [SPI]

Assignment country

Armenia

Expected start date

Jan 1, 2026

Sustainable Development Goal

11. Sustainable cities and communities

Volunteer category

National UN Community Volunteer Part time

Host entity

UNDP

Type

onsite

Duration

31 days

Number of assignments

Duty stations

Yerevan

Assignment Details

Mission and Objectives

IICPSD supports the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy for inclusive business, facilitation of public-private dialogue and brokering partnerships. IICPSD, established in 2011, is one of UNDP's six Global Policy Centres. It leads UNDP’s global work on private sector and foundations and supports UNDP’s offices all over the world. The Center focuses on four thematic areas: 1. Inclusive Business; 2. Private Sector Engagement in Skills Development; 3. Impact investing; 4. Resilience and Crisis Response. The Center also hosts four global initiatives: Business Call to Action, SDG Philanthropy Platform, Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform and Connecting Business Initiative. Through the Tech Volunteers for Resilience (Tech4R) programme, UNDP mobilizes skilled volunteers worldwide to co-create open-source digital solutions for disaster preparedness and response. This role focuses on leveraging geospatial intelligence and remote sensing for Armenia’s disaster data system.

Context

UNDP Armenia and Tech4R are developing an integrated disaster risk data platform. To ensure it supports effective emergency response, GIS and remote sensing are essential to map hazards, monitor impacts, and visualize risks. Volunteers (GIS team) will contribute to building layered maps, processing drone and satellite imagery, and integrating spatial data into decision-support tools, Dashboard volunteers will form the technical development team, responsible for building and testing these solutions and Data volunteers will support field testing, ensuring usability, data quality, and multilingual accessibility.

Task Description

The volunteers will provide support to their respective teams with: GIS & Remote Sensing team: - Integrate GIS outputs with field-collected data and dashboards. - Provide technical guidance to national GIS officers and emergency teams. The Digital Tool & Dashboard Development Support team: - Integrate AI or automation features and ensure dashboards are user-friendly, multilingual, and accessible to diverse stakeholders. - Conduct functionality testing, troubleshoot bugs, and refine workflows. The Data Collection Support Volunteer will: - Conduct data quality checks, troubleshooting, and basic digital literacy. - Support translation and localization of forms and training materials into Armenian and Russian. This is an unpaid volunteer assignment.

Eligibility Criteria

Age

18 - 80

Required experience

0 years

Nationality

Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.

Assignment Requirements

Relevant experience

0 years

Language Requirements

EnglishPreferred

Working knowledge

RussianPreferred

Working knowledge

Armenian EPreferred

Fluent

Required education level

Secondary education

Competencies and values

• Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organising • Professionalism • Self-management

Skills and experience

- Communication: Clear communication of technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. - Collaboration: Ability to work independently in a diverse, global team.

Area(s) of expertise

Information technology

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Additional Information

Living conditions and remarks

This is a volunteer assignment, not an employment. By sharing your time, energy, and talents, you can support communities in need and become part of something greater than yourself — a global movement for peace, development and humanitarian aid. Volunteering strengthens trust, solidarity, and reciprocity among citizens, and it can promote a sense of belonging and purpose. This is an unpaid volunteer assignment. UN Volunteer entitlement for this assignment: - Private insurance for the duration of the assignment: Health, dental, life and dismemberment (coverage by CIGNA) Other benefits include: - International collaboration and mentorship - Skills development in real world, UN-driven projects - Certificate of Service and exposure to international work Notes: This UN Volunteer assignment will support the Tech4R programme. The Tech Volunteers for Resilience (Tech4R) programme mobilizes skilled digital volunteers to co-create open-source solutions that strengthen disaster resilience. This assignment focuses on building digital tools and dashboards that support real-time decision-making in disaster contexts. UN Volunteers for this particular assignment are governed by the particular conditions set out in their offers and contracts.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity without distinction.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to vaccination requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19), in line with the applicable host entity policy.

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