Mapping and Analysis of Member State Positions in United Nations processes

ACT Alliance seeks online volunteers to map Member State positions across United Nations processes. Volunteers will research statements, voting records, resolutions and negotiations; identify groupings, sponsors and influential states; maintain a shared database; and produce reports that strengthen advocacy, coalition building and government engagement on climate, gender, migration and peace.

• Research United Nations intergovernmental processes and negotiations
• Track official statements, voting records and public positions
• Map sponsors, facilitators, penholders and political groupings in resolutions
• Identify Member States leading progressive or opposing positions
• Capture information in an agreed database
• Produce analytical narrative reports when requested

• Experience in multilateral affairs, United Nations policy processes, diplomacy, political analysis or advocacy
• Knowledge of United Nations General Assembly and ECOSOC processes
• Understanding of Member State dynamics and negotiation practices
• English

• Knowledge of French or Spanish
• Familiarity with humanitarian, development, climate, peacebuilding or human-rights issues

• Political analysis
• Stakeholder mapping
• Desk research
• Policy research
• Database management
• Report writing

• Microsoft Excel

• Online volunteer assignment reporting to ACT Alliance representatives in New York and Geneva