Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

UNICEF is scaling up efforts to protect children from the increasing impacts of climate change, environmental degradation, and disasters.

Under Strategic Plan Impact Area 5, UNICEF aims to ensure 500 million children are better protected from disasters and climate and environmental risks, including:

• 300 million children benefiting from climate-resilient water, sanitation, health, and education infrastructure and services.
• 200 million children reached by solutions that reduce the risks of climate disasters and environmental hazards.

The Climate Resilience Centre of Excellence for Children (CoE) will serve as UNICEF s global hub for technical assistance, knowledge generation, financing, and partnerships to strengthen the resilience of services and systems for children.

Within this context, UNICEF is scaling up its work on child-responsive Early Warning Systems (EWS), including through the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative and the 100,000 Climate Resilient Schools initiative. At the same time, a growing number of UNICEF country offices (COs) are requesting support on EWS design, implementation, and integration into sectoral programming.

This consultancy will provide flexible technical, strategic, and programmatic support across approximately 20 countries, as well as at the global level, to strengthen UNICEF s work on child-responsive EWS. This includes support to EW4All engagement, country-level technical assistance, proposal development, and key initiatives across global, regional, and country levels.

Desired Candidate Profile

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Marster s in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change, Environmental Sciences, Environment and Development, Environmental Economics, Social Protection, or a related field.
• Work Experience: Minimum 5 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience in early warning systems, disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and/or implementing early warning systems and/or anticipatory action programmes, preferably in multiple country contexts.
• Experience in at least one of the four pillars of early warning systems (risk knowledge; monitoring and warning services; dissemination and communication; preparedness and response capability), with strong understanding of system integration across pillars.
• Proven experience in providing technical advisory support to governments and/or international organizations, including coordination with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in proposal development and/or climate finance processes (e.g., GCF, Loss and Damage Fund) is an asset.
• Skills : Strong skills in knowledge management, analytical work, and development of technical guidance and learning materials.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English, including drafting of reports, briefing notes, and technical documents.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with UNICEF teams, governments, and partners in multicultural and multidisciplinary environments.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.