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Consultancy Title: Climate Information Services Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Climate Environment Energy & Disaster, Programme Division, NYHQ

Duration: November 15, 2025 - December 15, 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote 

Purpose of Activity/Assignment: 

Disasters, climate change, and environmental degradation present significant and escalating threats to the well-being of children globally. In 2021, UNICEF released the groundbreaking Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), the first child-centered climate and environmental risk analysis. The CCRI found that, today, over a billion children are exposed to severe risks from climate and environmental hazards such as heatwaves, floods, and cyclones, with the worst impacts yet to come. However, as these threats continue to mount, decision makers require comprehensive risk data to prepare for and respond to them effectively and efficiently. As such, UNICEF is committed to ensuring the unique risks, needs and vulnerabilities of children are accurately captured in up-to-date climate risk data and analysis. 

Child-centered risk data is used to support many workstreams, including, but not limited to adapting to the impacts of climate change, reducing children’s disaster risk and improving preparedness planning and informing climate and environmental policy development. For UNICEF, foundational climate risk data and evidence provides country offices with the necessary support they need to integrate sustainability, low-carbon development and climate and disaster resilience throughout programming, operations and advocacy. Furthermore, demonstrating increased capacity and readiness to fulfill this mandate is increasingly essential for securing climate finance, which enables UNICEF to maximize the impact of our work in protecting the rights and wellbeing of children. Through the development of more granular and accurate child-centered risk data and an increased capacity to effectively operationalize it, we can continue to protect the lives, health and well-being of children, the resilience of their communities and the sustainability of essential social services they depend upon.

Given the urgency of adverse climate impacts, it is crucial that UNICEF and national governments have the necessary data and evidence to respond to chronic and emerging climate and environmental threats. As the foremost organization on child specific climate UNICEF is committed to ensuring that the data decision makers rely on is reflective of the local context and encapsulates the needs of children, especially the most vulnerable. To further consolidate its global positioning and offer on climate risk analysis and data, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support for UNICEF programming, operations and advocacy to scale results for children. Specifically, the consultant will support the application of data from the global hazard database, the Children’s Climate Risk Index-Disaster

Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) and Climate Landscape Analysis for Children (CLAC) reports.

1 Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: Monitor the progress and status of the organization’s various risk analysis and data initiatives, identifying potential bottlenecks and areas for improved efficiencies, and developing a repository of easily accessible information through consistent reporting for integration in larger financing opportunities

2 Expansion and Outreach: Maintaining and advancing synergies between data initiatives within the organization and supporting efforts to further develop strategic partnerships with key stakeholders, including governments, private sector entities and international organizations.

3 Technical Support and Delivery: Strengthening the organization's capacity to integrate and roll out data in programmes and initiatives. This involves developing and executing an action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to enhance their understanding of risk analysis use and communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the consultant will work in collaboration with country offices and headquarters to build organizational capacity in using climate risk analysis for CEED programming.

The consultant will have the following responsibilities:

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: Identifying Bottlenecks and Improving Efficiencies

- Maintain the overall monitoring, reporting and evaluation of UNICEF risk analysis initiatives, including the CLACs, the CCRI-DRM and CEED activities related to the Children’s Climate Risk Report (CCRR) and Global Hazard Database

- Identify bottlenecks in risk analysis development and use in translating to programming to improve organizational efficiency

- Maintain a compendium of readily, internally accessible risk analysis use cases and examples to track effectiveness and impact

- Support strategic initiative decision making with evidence and data from programme and advocacy monitoring and results

- Identify organizational gaps and needs, as aligned with UNICEF organizational targets

Expansion and Outreach: Advancing and Maintaining Strategic Collaborations

- Assist in the identification of strategic partnerships for advancing child- and youth-sensitive climate risk analysis data

- Support the development of multi-sector and data-specific proposals, concept notes, and investment cases for public and private audiences

- Develop partnerships with data organizations and investors to integrate UNICEF data across existing external initiatives

- Identify and support external advocacy efforts with public and private sector entities

- Maintain internal and external online hubs with up-to-date guidance and resources for relevant climate risk analysis initiatives

- Consolidate and present evidence from climate risk analysis action integration to inform relevant stakeholders and explore avenues for collaboration

- Support research and knowledge generation efforts

- Assist in the facilitation of capacity-building sessions (workshops, trainings, etc.) for internal and external audiences

- Develop and execute an action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their understanding of climate risk analysis, data integration, effective data communication, etc. 

Technical Support and Delivery: Applying Risk Analysis to Inform Strategic Programming and Advocacy

- Integrate climate risk analysis solutions across UNICEF sectoral and cross-thematic programming

- Identify and support new opportunities for innovative approaches to developing and using climate risk data

- Provide technical review of climate risk analysis data and synthesize key takeaways for technical and nontechnical audiences

- Provide technical review of data activities, programmes, and implementation plans for CO and RO developed funding proposals

- Provide technical advisory on the development of new climate risk and data analysis initiatives

- Assist country offices developing subnational CCRI-DRMs in coordination and technical model development

- Support the management and oversight of the CCRI-DRM initiative and CLAC development 

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

1 Monitoring and evaluating ongoing climate risk analysis initiatives

- Maintain the overall monitoring, reporting and evaluation of UNICEF risk analysis initiatives, including the CLACs, the CCRI-DRM and CEED activities related to the CCRR and Global Hazard Database

- Identify bottlenecks in risk analysis development and use in translating to programming to improve organizational efficiency

- Maintain a compendium of readily, internally accessible risk analysis use cases and examples to track effectiveness and impact

- Support strategic initiative decision making with evidence and data from programme and advocacy monitoring and results

- Identify organizational gaps and needs, as aligned with UNICEF organizational targets

Deliverable 1: Establish and maintain a consolidated Excel tracker of UNICEF’s CEED data and evidence initiatives, updated monthly over the duration of the consultancy to reflect new activities, progress, and key contacts. 15 December 2026

Deliverable 2: Design and establish a centralized internal hub (e.g., SharePoint or Teams site) to display results and highlights from recent climate risk analysis initiatives, including standardized templates for updating and reporting. This includes the hub structure, one populated version with current content, and guidance for monthly updates. 31 January 2026

Deliverable 3: Conduct a review of CEED initiatives to identify bottlenecks across the monitoring cycle, including consultations with focal points, analysis of documentation, and synthesis of findings. Deliver a report summarizing key challenges and proposed actions to improve efficiency, accompanied by a presentation and a set of actionable recommendations. 28 February 2026

2. Expansion and Outreach

- Assist in the identification of strategic partnerships for advancing child- and youth-sensitive climate risk analysis data

- Support the development of multi-sector and data specific proposals, concept notes, and investment cases for public and private audiences

- Develop partnerships with data organizations and investors to integrate UNICEF data across existing external initiatives

- Identify and support advocacy efforts with public and private sector entities

- Maintain internal and external online hubs with up-to-date guidance and resources for relevant climate risk analysis initiatives

- Consolidate and present evidence from climate risk analysis action integration to inform relevant stakeholders and explore avenues for collaboration

- Support research and knowledge generation efforts

- Assist in the facilitation of capacity-building sessions (workshops, trainings, etc.) for internal and external audiences

- Develop and execute an action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their understanding of climate risk analysis, data integration, effective data communication, etc.

Deliverable 4: Three investment cases or fundraising pitches with climate risk analysis integrated developed to support resource mobilization. 30 April 2026

Deliverable 5: An ecosystem mapping of organizations and potential partners engaging in climate risk analysis. 30 June 2026

Deliverable 6: A brief on UNICEF’s comparative advantage and niche within climate risk analytics, including recommendations for future directions and initiatives. 31 July 2026

Deliverable 7: Three internal webinars building UNICEF staff capacity on using climate risk data. Potential topics include how to understand climate data, how to effectively communicate technical data information, how to effectively integrate data into reports and applications, etc. 31 Aug 2026

Deliverable 8: A toolkit for UNICEF staff outlining UNICEF’s various climate risk analysis, including when to use each resource, the strengths and limitations of each tool and linking them with broader UNICEF programming. 30 Sept 2026

3. Technical Support and Delivery

- Integrate climate risk analysis solutions across UNICEF sectoral and cross-thematic programming

- Identify and support new opportunities for innovative approaches to developing and using climate risk data

- Provide technical review of climate risk analysis data and synthesize key takeaways for technical and non-technical audiences

- Provide technical review of data activities, programmes, and implementation plans for CO and RO-developed funding proposals

- Provide technical advisory on the development of new climate risk and data analysis initiatives

- Assist country offices developing subnational CCRI-DRMs in coordination and technical model development

- Support the management and oversight of the CCRI-DRM initiative and CLAC development

Deliverable 9: Prepare a report detailing the progress status of all countries involved in the CCRI-DRM initiative, including technical support provided.

This includes synthesizing inputs from country offices, reviewing subnational CCRIDRM development, and identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement across the monitoring cycle. 28 November 2026

Deliverable 10: Deliver four quarterly summaries capturing technical support activities related to integrating climate risk analysis into UNICEF programming, policy, and advocacy. This includes advisory inputs on data initiatives, proposal reviews, synthesis of climate risk data for diverse audiences, and support for CLAC and CCRI-DRM oversight. 15 December 2026

Qualifications

Education

Advance university degree (Masters) in environmental studies, data management, climate change, sustainable development, or relevant technical field.

Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in the above areas.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

- Expert knowledge in climate risk analysis integration in programming, communication, advocacy required

- Minimum 2-3 years’ work experience in developing, supporting, and implementing climate risk analysis related initiatives

- Excellent project management, coordination, and communication skills

Requirements: 

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

- Upload copy of academic credentials

- Financial proposal that will include/ reflect:

• the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
• travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
• Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
• Indicate your availability

- Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.

- At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

- Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

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