Call for Applications: Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World

March 17, 2019

The Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) is recruiting two new members for the Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World for a two-year term of mandate.

CCUNESCO Is Now Accepting Applications for the Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World

The Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) is recruiting new members for the Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World.

The Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World is responsible for ensuring the overall management and supervision of the program. It:

• recommends entries to both the International Register and the Canada Memory of the World Register to CCUNESCO’s Executive Committee which will approve them;
• recommends delisting to the Executive Committee if documentary heritage is destroyed or if the custodian fails to preserve and protect it;
• coordinates Canadian proposals for registration, and in the case of the International Register, recommends to CCUNESCO’s Executive Committee and Secretariat submitting them to the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme;
• fosters, receives and evaluates applications to the Registers as approved documents, and creates and updates the Canada Memory of the World Register;
  increases awareness of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and ensures its promotion in Canada;
• decides on the frequency, number and deadline for receiving submissions for the Canada Memory of the World Register;
• works closely with the Secretariat of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO;
• presents its annual report to the CCUNESCO’s Executive Committee at its Annual General Meeting.

Expertise

Members of the Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World are appointed among qualified experts in the fields of history, archival sciences, library studies, museology, and cultural heritage. The selection procedure respects diversity, gender, and equitable geographical representation.

Duration of the mandate

The members of the Canadian Advisory Committee for Memory of the World are appointed for a 2 year term, renewable once.

The Committee could hold 2 teleconferences and up to 3 face-to-face meetings a year at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO located in Ottawa, Ontario.

New perspectives

CCUNESCO fosters inscriptions related to the less represented communities or in line with international calendars. For example, the 2015-2025 International Decade for People of African Descent, and the Acadian and French-speaking communities outside Québec are of special interest for the composition of the Advisory Committee.

Please submit your application form (attached) along with your résumé before May 31th, 2019 to thierry.ntakirutimana@ccunesco.ca.

For more information on the Committee, please contact Yadollah Parmoun, Communication and Information Program Officer at yadollah.parmoun@ccunesco.ca or 1 800 263-5588 ext. 4095.

(Via Canadian Commission for UNESCO)