Climate, environment, energy and DRR (CEED) Data and Evidence consultant (Remote/Work from home) - Ref#576922

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Consultancy Title: Climate, environment, energy and DRR (CEED) Data and Evidence consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Programme Group, Climate Environment Energy & Disaster, UNICEF NYHQ

Duration: December 23, 2024, to December 23, 2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / 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: 

Provide technical support for UNICEFs climate and environmental foundational data and analysis initiatives.

Disasters, climate change, and environmental degradation present significant and escalating threats to the well-being of children globally. In order to protect the lives, health and well-being of children and the resilience of their communities to adapt essential social services to a changing climate, more frequent/extreme disasters and a degrading environment, comprehensive child-centered risk assessment along with data systems and policies that work across development and disaster management to identify and prioritize the most vulnerable children and services are needed. This data can be used to inform multiple purposes: climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and preparedness planning, and wider development agendas.

Foundational data and evidence provide UNICEF offices with the necessary support they need to integrate sustainability, low-carbon development and climate and disaster resilience into programming, operations, and advocacy. This crucial first step enables teams to optimize their approach and actions to effectively engage in sustainability and climate action. In addition, demonstrating increased capacity and readiness to fulfill this mandate is increasingly essential for securing additional finance, which is crucial for maximizing the impact of our initial investment in sustainability and climate action.

UNICEF is seeking a dedicated, proactive consultant to provide technical support for UNICEFs climate and environmental foundational data initiatives ensuring these are integrated into UNICEFs programming, operations, and advocacy to scale results for children.

This incorporates:

1. Providing monitoring and reporting for the Children’s Climate Risk Index -Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) that is time sensitive to deliver.
2. Providing technical support to Climate Landscape Analysis for Children (CLAC) reports and guidance materials; and support integration of Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) 2.0, CCRI-DRM and NDCs4EveryChild initiative to global CLAC developments; and,
3. Support the expansion of outreach and communication on climate and environment data for action through engagements with key stakeholders, including organizational partners, children and young people.  These activities emphasize both the expansion of access to data and the promotion of practical, action-oriented use of that data.

Scope of Work:

Under the guidance of the programme specialist, climate, energy, environment and disaster risk reduction, the consultant will perform the following duties:

CCRI-DRM Responsibilities

• Maintain the overall monitoring, reporting and evaluation framework, procedures, and tools for the next phase (12 month over 2024-2025) of the CCRI-DRM Initiative, ensuring full alignment with relevant existing UNICEF systems and processes and add minimum burden to the COs.
• Monitor the CCRI-DRM overall progress, activities and expenditures towards achieving the CCRI-DRM goals and outputs.
• Consolidate data/information/reports from the