Contract Duration: 11 months
Working arrangement: Home-based
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For every child, health
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Purpose of Assignment:
Guide UNICEF’s global positioning and climate mobility policy engagement under the PROSPECTS programme, and serve as subject matter expert to inform partnership development and resource mobilization. Collaborate with key partners to generate new data and analysis on climate, conflict and displacement and author reports and proposals. Provide technical support and capacity building to UNICEF’s leadership and technical colleagues across sectors, Regional and Country Offices on leveraging new data, preventing and minimizing risk of child displacement and preparing and strengthening climate resilient and inclusive systems for children for children on the move.
Background
Climate change is already a direct challenge to children’s rights and well-being. One billion children – nearly half of children globally – are at ‘extremely high risk’ of its impacts. From wildfires to floods, droughts and cyclones, we know the next decade will see the worst impacts of climate change continue to intensify. UNICEF’s 2021 Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) shows that children and adolescents in many regions are subject to risks of environmental, social and health impacts due to climate change. Across the highest risk regions, strong physical, psychological, and ecological effects of climate change converge with a high number of poor and vulnerable communities, where children are most at risk. Refugee and migrant children – already displaced or pushed to move due to conflict, violence, or other adversity – are particularly vulnerable to exacerbated risks related to extreme weather events.
Building on its Children’s Climate Risk Index, UNICEF partnered with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) to generate new data insights on current and future risks of weather-related displacement of children and to identify climate displacement hotspots where children are most vulnerable. Strengthening UNICEF’s evidence base on climate-related displacement of children in priority regions is already improving governments ability to predict displacement and better prepare children and their communities for mobility.
As UNICEF further expands positioning in the climate mobility field, this consultant will help shape both policy and practice responses to the disproportionate effects of climate change on children – and the intersection between climate, conflict and displacement - in global and regional fora in climate policy and finance. The overall objective is to strengthen UNICEF’s positioning of children affected by climate-related mobility (migration, displacement and planned relocation) within climate security and Loss and Damage policy and financing discussions, with a focus on ensuring resources reach the most vulnerable children and families with the least capacity to cope.
Working in collaboration with the WASH Opportunity Fund project, funded by the Netherlands, the Consultant will support advocacy on these issues and through a WASH systems lens - in the 8 PROSPECTS countries, while engaging in global fora. This will include a focus on Loss and Damage - including engagement with the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage, and Santiago Network, as well as contributing to UNICEF’s advocacy efforts around the Global Goal on Adaptation.
How can you make a difference?
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference here: 
ToR Consultancy-Climate Mobility Consultant TMS.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
Minimum requirements:(QUALIFICATIONS / SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE/ COMPETENCIES)
- Education: Master’s degree in Human Rights Law, Political Science, Transitional Justice, Human Rights.
- Work Experience:
- Advanced professional experience (minimum eight years) in the fields of child rights and migration, with a demonstrated record of progressively responsible roles and substantive technical contributions.
- Strong subject-matter expertise in climate-related displacement and mobility of children, including planned relocation, migration dynamics, and disaster risk reduction (DRR), with practical experience supporting or implementing related programmes.
- Proven ability to design, coordinate, and deliver high-quality capacity-building initiatives, tools, or knowledge products; prior work specifically focused on climate mobility is considered a strong asset.
- Demonstrated experience engaging in policy development, strategic advocacy, and financing discussions related to climate mobility, including the ability to translate technical evidence into policy-relevant recommendations.
- Skills:
- Excellent analytical, drafting, and written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and audience-appropriate materials.
- Knowledge of and familiarity with UNICEF’s mandate, programmes, and operational approaches related to migrant and displaced children is desirable.
- Language requirements: Fluency in English is required.
For every Child, you demonstrate Care
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
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