Consultancy - Climate Mobility Consultant - Child Protection NYHQ (Remote/Home-based) #592079

Contract Duration: 11 months

Working arrangement: Home-based

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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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.

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If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference here:   ToR Consultancy-Climate Mobility Consultant TMS.pdf