Result of Service

Under the supervision of the Regional Coordinator for Environmental Crime Programme, the incumbent will be responsible for providing editorial services for the English version of the national and regional documents and guidelines, including technical publications on criminal justice and crimes that affect the environment, such as wildlife and forest crime. The consultant will be responsible for content/copy editing approximately a total of 562 pages of several publications and support the drafting of 6 web stories to be produced by UNODC Environment Team in Southeast Asia during 2023.

Work Location

Home-based

Expected duration

01.06.2023 to 29.02.2024

Duties and Responsibilities

UNODC Global Programme on Crimes that Affect the Environment (GPCAE) assists Member States to prevent and respond to crimes that affect the environment such as wildlife and forest crime, crimes in the fisheries sector, illegal mining, and trafficking in precious metals and waste.

UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ROSEAP) focuses on crime and drug challenges that are best addressed through a coordinated approach at the regional level. The Regional Programme is focused on six areas of work: Addressing the Drug Problem; Countering Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking; Anti-Corruption; Terrorism Prevention; Criminal Justice; and Crisis Responses.

Under the Global and Regional Programmes, one of the areas of UNODC’s technical assistance to the member states include providing up-to-date information, and most recent evidence-informed scientific recommendations to handle specific issues under the UNODC mandates. To fulfil this, UNODC produces a wide variety of quality, high-impact advocacy materials, reports, publications, and studies capturing the main areas under the programme, to inform policy makers and programme managers from countries in the region.

In view of ensuring quality of materials used for awareness raising, advocacy and public dissemination, UNODC seeks to hire one or more English Editor Contractor to provide timely and quality editing of UNODC documents and publications, covering criminal justice issues and crimes that affect the environment, including waste trafficking and wildlife and forest crime.

Qualifications/special skills

The contractor(s) should have the following technical qualifications:

High school diploma or equivalent is required. A first level university degree in Communication, Linguistics, English literature, Journalism or other associated fields or an advanced university degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Management, Development Studies, Political Science, or International Relations is desirable.

A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in writing, editing, proofreading and publishing is required and professional training in journalism/editing and excellent publication drafting skills are required.
Experience working with UN editorial guidelines is desirable.
Experience with writing for the UN or other international organisations, preferably on topics related to UNDOC’s mandates, is desirable.
Experience or familiarity with legal and technical terms related to criminal justice and crimes that affect the environment is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations Secretariat language is an advantage.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.