Consultancy: Climate Environment Energy & Disaster, Programme Division, NYHQ - Req.#583327

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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 S