Climate and Health Knowledge Management Consultant, Programme Group, CEED, Remote - Req 591186

Consultancy Title: Climate and Health Knowledge Management Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Programme Group, Climate Environment Energy & Disaster (CEED)

Duration: 06 April 2026 to 05 June 2027

Home/ Office Based: Remote

About UNICEF –

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The purpose of this consultancy is to support research, knowledge management and technical assistance in the climate and child health component of the Healthy Environments for Healthy Children programme.

Scope of Work:

The last three decades have witnessed huge progress in the reduction of poverty-related environmental risks to children’s health. With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, the global community made a promise to all children: to safeguard the gains made on child survival and to ensure that every child has the chance to thrive and fulfil their potential. However, climate change and environmental degradation are seriously jeopardizing these precious gains and our promise to the world’s children.

Children’s environmental health has been a longstanding priority across the world and among many global organizations. However, it has lacked global coordination across issues, borders, sectors and partners to drive a lasting impact for children that is holistic. Comprehensive solutions are needed everywhere, especially in in low-and-middle income countries.

UNICEF launched is global programme on Healthy Environments for Healthy Children in 2021. To improve the salience of children’s environmental health, UNICEF has put together a Global Collaborative. The collaborative will advocate for change, broker knowledge and catalyze action by engaging governments, industry and civil society. The Global Collaborative will promote similar multi-stakeholder and multisectoral collaborations at the country level. It will also draw attention to a range of ‘spotlight risks’ on children’s environmental health, including those related to climate change, pollution and built environments.

This consultancy will support the climate and health knowledge management component for Healthy Environments for Healthy Children (HEHC) programme, including the Global Collaborative. The Global Lead for Healthy Environments for Healthy Children programme based in Climate and Environment CoE will be the contract manager supervising the consultant.

The consultant will collaborate with colleagues in the HEHC team, the broader Climate and Environment CoE, PG-Health, Division of Communications, Public Partnerships Division, Private Fundraising and Partnerships, UNICEF NatComs and relevant UNICEF Regional and Country Offices. Additionally, the consultant will be working closely with partners involved in the proposed Global Collaborative.

Under the supervision of the global lead and based on the review/inputs of stakeholders, the consultant will:

 

1. Develop and update the technical content on climate and child health, including an up-to-date global situation analysis on climate and child health, based on new global research, participation and hosting of global knowledge management initiatives/networks. This includes the development and updating of external and internal facing technical briefs on thematic issues, training packages, advocacy messages, human interest stories, investment cases/proposals, videos and e-learning modules.
2. Develop and maintain the ‘climate and child health’, including air pollution technical components on the global collaborative portal. This includes a) organizing a technical webinars series on climate x health and air pollution,  b) the drafting of web pages, newsletter stories, events and announcements, c) maintenance of resource library on ‘climate and child health’, and d) engagement with partner collaborators on  ‘climate and child h