Editorial Support for 2025 UNDP Funding Windows Annual Report

Established in 2016, the UNDP Funding Windows (FWs) are UNDP thematic, flexible, non-core funding mechanism that provide a strategic opportunity for partners to contribute to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development. In line with the UN Secretary-General's Funding Compact 2.0, UNDP's FWs are a critical complement to UNDP's regular resources. There are four thematic Windows aligned with UNDP Signature Solutions contained in the Strategic Plan: - Poverty and Inequality window - Nature, Climate and Energy window - Governance, Peacebuilding, Crisis and Resilience window (and its sub-windows: Democratic Governance; Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace; Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery; Crisis Response) - Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment window. Thematic flexible funding is critical to accelerate sustainable development in times of complexity and uncertainty, through: - Flexibility: Allowing UNDP to act at speed and scale, including in countries in fragile and crisis contexts. - Integrated programming and policy coherence: Through its global network and country-level expertise, UNDP delivers integrated multi-country and multi-sectoral interventions – driven by UNDP Flagship initiatives - that facilitate cross-country learning and enhance coherence across country, regional, and global levels. - Catalytic innovation: They generate proof of concept to test innovative ideas, technologies, business models and others to deliver lasting impact. - Investment leverage: Every $1 invested in pooled resources mobilizes additional contributions from a variety of partners including governments, partners, UN agencies, and IFIs - enabling co-financing from the Global South and blended finance models. - Partner visibility and oversight: Aligned with the Funding Compact, Funding Windows ensure effective oversight, results-based reporting, and enhanced visibility for partners

Established in 2016, the UNDP Funding Windows are thematic, flexible, non-core pooled funding mechanisms that enable partners to contribute strategically to implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 2025 Funding Windows Annual Report is an important accountability and communications product that presents the results achieved through these resources during the previous year. It highlights evidence of change, UNDP’s added value, and the contribution of Funding Windows to advancing integrated development solutions, innovation, partnerships, and support to countries, including in fragile and crisis contexts. The report is a key tool for engaging donor partners and other stakeholders, and will be disseminated widely through digital channels, including a PDF report and an accompanying microsite. The publication includes narrative and financial sections, stories of change, thematic results, and forward-looking analysis in the context of the new UNDP Strategic Plan. Within this context, the Online Volunteer’s support will help ensure that the report and related web content are accurate, coherent, reader-friendly, and aligned with UNDP’s editorial and communications standards.

We are looking for one Online Volunteer who, under the guidance of the Funding Windows Manager and in close collaboration with the Funding Windows Results and Reporting Specialist and relevant communications colleagues, will support the finalization of the 2025 UNDP Funding Windows Annual Report by providing editorial and proofreading support for content prepared for publication in both PDF and online formats. The PDF report is expected to be approximately 30 designed pages. In particular, the Online Volunteer will review and edit draft narrative content for clarity, structure, logical flow, consistency and readability; proofread text for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and adherence to the latest UNDP editorial style and communications standards; identify overlaps, inconsistencies, and areas where arguments and transitions can be strengthened; and provide light copy-editing support for selected microsite write-ups that complement the annual report. The editor is expected to proofread the Word version of the PDF report as well as the microsite write-ups. Subsequently, the editor will proofread the final designed PDF report for any remaining typos and copy-paste errors. The Online Volunteer will work on content intended for a broad external audience, including donor partners, stakeholders and the wider public. This assignment will contribute to improving the quality and accessibility of a flagship corporate publication that showcases results achieved through UNDP Funding Windows across thematic areas including poverty and inequality, nature, climate and energy, governance, peacebuilding, crisis and resilience, and gender equality and women’s empowerment. The Online Volunteer will also have the opportunity to gain exposure to UNDP results reporting, corporate communications standards, and the preparation of high-visibility knowledge products.