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Knowledge Management Associate

UNV - United Nations Volunteers Lao National

Application deadline: April 12, 2026

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Summary by Impactpool

The Knowledge Management Associate will support the UN Resident Coordinator's Office (RCO) in enhancing internal knowledge management systems and ensuring effective information sharing among UN agencies. This role involves organizing and updating digital resources, managing communications materials, and producing media monitoring summaries. The associate will also assist in the transition to a new Cooperation Framework by reorganizing SharePoint folders and maintaining an inventory of communication materials. This position offers hands-on experience in UN coordination and internal communication processes.

Candidate Requirements:

Experience in knowledge management or information organization

Familiarity with SharePoint or similar digital platforms

Strong communication and organizational skills

Ability to synthesize information and produce summaries

Understanding of UN operations and development goals

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Mission and objectives

The ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires bold changes across the United Nations. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is imperative for a safe and secure future of prosperity, opportunity, and human rights for all. SDGs are universal, interlinked, and indivisible and demand that the UN System reinvents itself to better serve the Member States and people. The Resolution on the UN Development System Reform agreed by all 193 countries on 31 May 2018 (A/RES/72/279) provides the mandates required for the UN Secretary-General (SG) and the UN System and its Agencies, Funds and Programmes (AFPs) to take forward their collective responsibilities to make the UN fit for purpose to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Resolution calls for a new generation of coherent and more integrated UNCTs to deliver shared and impactful policy advice, programmatic and operational support to sustainable development at the country level. In line with the UN Development System Reform, this new generation of UNCTs is to rely on the repositioned and strengthened UN Resident Coordinator System, that ensures greater cooperation and collaboration across the resident and non-resident AFPs, as well as enhances joint/cross-cutting strategic planning, programme implementation, communications, and business operations, which are more accessible and more attuned to the needs on the ground. UN Resident Coordinator’s Offices across the world act as the secretariat to the UN Resident Coordinators and UNCTs. Drawing on the expertise and experience of the entire UN System and its AFPs, UN RCOs provide organizational, advisory, and management support and promotes information exchange, cooperation, and collaboration.

Context

As the UN Country Team prepares for the transition to the next UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (CF), the RCO is strengthening internal knowledge management systems to ensure continuity, accessible institutional memory, and timely information-sharing across RCO members and UN Agencies. In parallel, RCO aims to maintain a structured overview of key developments and public information relevant to the UN’s work in Lao PDR, including daily media coverage and scanning of emerging development trends. Within this context, the Knowledge Management Associate will support the RCO’s day-to-day efforts to strengthen the organization, accessibility and usability of internal knowledge resources, and to synthesize timely information that informs communications products, coordination messages and reporting. This role is designed to support capacity development through hands-on experience in UN coordination support, digital knowledge organisation and internal communication processes.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of UN Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO) Head of Office or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the management of Resident Coordinator remarks and speeches, ensuring doc-uments are properly archived and uploaded.

• Assist with the transition and reorganization of SharePoint folders in preparation for the new Cooperation Framework (CF)

• Organize and update SharePoint files, including Cooperation Framework focal points and Sub Working Groups (SWGs)l to strengthen internal knowledge management.

• Maintain and regularly update the communications materials inventory.

• Produce concise media monitoring summaries to support partnership visibility and report-ing.

• Regularly identify and share new publications, reports, programme launches, and key ini-tiatives from the UN system and development partners relevant to Lao PDR.

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Summary by Impactpool

The Knowledge Management Associate will support the UN Resident Coordinator's Office (RCO) in enhancing internal knowledge management systems and ensuring effective information sharing among UN agencies. This role involves organizing and updating digital resources, managing communications materials, and producing media monitoring summaries. The associate will also assist in the transition to a new Cooperation Framework by reorganizing SharePoint folders and maintaining an inventory of communication materials. This position offers hands-on experience in UN coordination and internal communication processes.

Candidate Requirements:

Experience in knowledge management or information organization

Familiarity with SharePoint or similar digital platforms

Strong communication and organizational skills

Ability to synthesize information and produce summaries

Understanding of UN operations and development goals

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