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

UNICEF

2d • Remote

About The Position

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.

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.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Human Rights Law, Political Science, Transitional Justice, Human Rights.
• Advanced professional experience (minimum eight years) in the fields of child rights and migration, with a demonstrated record of progressively responsible roles and substantive technical contributions.
• Strong subject-matter expertise in climate-related displacement and mobility of children, including planned relocation, migration dynamics, and disaster risk reduction (DRR), with practical experience supporting or implementing related programmes.
• Proven ability to design, coordinate, and deliver high-quality capacity-building initiatives, tools, or knowledge products; prior work specifically focused on climate mobility is considered a strong asset.
• Demonstrated experience engaging in policy development, strategic advocacy, and financing discussions related to climate mobility, including the ability to translate technical evidence into policy-relevant recommendations.
• Excellent analytical, drafting, and written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and audience-appropriate materials.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with UNICEF’s mandate, programmes, and operational approaches related to migrant and displaced children is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level