Loss and Damage & Climate-Resilient Education Consultancy, PG CEED, NYHQ remote Req# 584635

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 fordeveloping 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.

 

Consultancy Title: Loss and Damage & Climate-Resilient Education Consultant  

Division/Duty Station: PG CEED NYHQ

Duration: October 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote

 

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.

The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:

1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.

The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.

Scope of Work:

Under the joint supervision of the Global Technical Director for Climate Resilience and the Senior Advisor (EiE), and in close collaboration with the Senior Climate Policy Consultant and the Programme Officer for Disaster Risk Reduction, the consultant will support the following workstreams:

Loss and Damage

• Develop evidence, tools and knowledge products on child-specific climate risks and losses
• Advance UNICEF’s institutional strategy, provide country-level guidance, and support responses to technical assistance requests (e.g. Santiago Network, Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD))
• Support policy engagement in UNFCCC processes, technical submissions and donor proposals.
• Strengthen and sustain collaboration with key academic partners on climate risk and L&D for children.
• Contribute to the development of funding proposals, donor engagement materials and key messages.

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate-Resilient Education

• Provide technical support and guidance on climate-resilient education and DRR in education programming.
• Develop toolkits, capacity-building sessions, funding materials, and education-focused climate rationales to mobilize climate finance for education.
• Track child-sensitive elements in DRR and education policies, in alignment with the 2026-2029 Strategic Plan.

Education in Emergencies (EiE)

• Strengthen linkages between EiE, DRR and climate action
• Support advocacy through GADRRRES and other networks.
• Develop knowledge products and provide technical assistance to country offices.

Cross-cutting

Contribute to knowledge management, evidence dissemination, and internal coordination across UNICEF divisions and partners.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

1. Loss and damage 

-  1x literature review on assessing non-economic loss and damage (NELD) in child-critical sectors, and 1 x mapping of research collaborators 

30 Jan 2026

-  Support 8 x meetings with academic partners (eg. UCL, IPCC) and other stakeholders (agenda, concept note, joint work plan inputs)

15 Dec 2026

-  Technical review for 8 x UNICEF L&D reports, external L&D studies and/or L&D funding proposals.

15 Dec 2026

-  Develop 1x L&D internal “primer” on loss and damage, outlining key concepts, mechanisms, UNICEF’s programmatic offer and