UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each child, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means quit.
Disasters, local weather change, and environmental degradation current vital and escalating threats to the properly-being of youngsters globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in child survival and growth. Over a billion kids are uncovered to extreme dangers from local weather and environmental hazards corresponding to heatwaves, droughts, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it’s crucial for nations to ascertain local weather-resilient, low-carbon social providers encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, schooling, vitamin, social safety, and child safety to sort out present threats and put together for more and more extreme impacts.
In alignment with our dedication to guard kids and younger folks worldwide, UNICEF launched its Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP) 2023 – 2030. The SCAP prioritizes pressing local weather motion by means of systematic partnerships with private and non-private sector establishments to prioritize the wants of youngsters and younger folks and construct their resilience to the local weather threats at hand. The SCAP strives to mainstream sustainability and local weather motion each internally and externally, by means of defending the lives, well being and properly-being of youngsters and their communities; empowering kids with developmental alternatives and expertise; and lowering emissions and the environmental footprint inside UNICEF..
For each child, life freed from poverty….
Join UNICEF because the Programme Specialist (Climate Change Adaptation) and play a key function in shaping international resilience efforts! As the group’s technical point of interest, you’ll lead the event of excessive-high quality local weather change adaptation proposals and handle technical and programmatic interactions with multilateral local weather funds, together with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). With a profitable observe document in designing and implementing local weather finance initiatives, you’ll present professional steering and guarantee high quality management for proposals that meet the rigorous eligibility and requirements of main local weather funds. You will work carefully with UNICEF Regional and Country Offices to assist the design and implementation of GCF initiatives whereas guaranteeing compliance with monitoring, analysis, and reporting necessities. In this function, you’ll additionally oversee institutional contracts and consultants, driving impactful local weather finance programming. If you’re enthusiastic about leveraging technical experience to handle local weather challenges and make a long-lasting affect on kids’s futures, that is the chance for you!
How are you able to make a difference?
Technical Focal Point for Multilateral Climate Funds
The Programme Specialist will function UNICEF’s technical point of interest for interactions with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and different local weather funding mechanisms, partnerships, and platforms. This consists of staying knowledgeable on the most recent eligibility standards and programmatic necessities of those funds, offering recommendation to UNICEF administration, regional places of work (ROs), and nation places of work (COs). The Specialist will current UNICEF initiatives at Board conferences and different platforms, guaranteeing the group stays strategically positioned throughout the local weather finance panorama. Collaborating with the Public Partnerships Division (PPD), the function entails fostering productive relationships with GCF Secretariat workers and different multilateral local weather funds, figuring out alternatives for collaboration in thought management, proof era, and advocacy for child-focused local weather adaptation.
Developing and Managing a Project Pipeline
The Specialist will lead the event and administration of a strong pipeline of multilateral local weather finance initiatives. Responsibilities embrace implementing a challenge scoping system to stability high quality challenge concepts throughout UNICEF’s thematic sectors and areas, reviewing challenge eligibility, and guaranteeing compliance with standards from local weather funds. The function will oversee the creation and upkeep of steering, documentation, and communication instruments, corresponding to newsletters and group platforms, to assist GCF-associated actions. Additionally, the Specialist will put together monetary and technical stories, updates, and briefings for senior administration whereas contributing to occasions and discussions on local weather financing.
Ensuring Technical Quality and Compliance
A key duty is to supervise the technical high quality management of GCF proposal growth, guaranteeing compliance with particular guidelines and laws of the funds. The Specialist will monitor the programming of GCF funding inside UNICEF, guaranteeing well timed and environment friendly funding flows aligned with accredited plans. Collaboration with inner groups, together with Legal, ESS, and Partnerships, will guarantee complete assist for funding proposals and handle rising challenges. The function additionally entails offering technical recommendation to nation places of work throughout the design and implementation of initiatives whereas sustaining high quality management for monetary and technical reporting, in addition to monitoring and analysis processes.
Advancing Climate Change Adaptation in UNICEF’s Work
The Specialist will present technical enter on local weather change adaptation inside UNICEF’s company methods, stories, information administration, and advocacy efforts. This consists of integrating local weather adaptation into UNICEF’s established thematic sectors and representing the group in inter-company platforms to reinforce its management in child-responsive local weather motion. Additionally, the function will contribute to information-sharing processes, highlighting profitable initiatives, classes realized, and greatest practices in child-focused local weather change adaptation. The Specialist may additionally undertake different duties as essential to assist UNICEF’s local weather adaptation agenda.
The following minimal necessities:
Education:
Advanced University diploma with expertise and coaching/programs in a number of of the next disciplines: Climate science, catastrophe danger administration, growth research, environmental sciences, engineering, or a subject associated to local weather and catastrophe danger discount.
Work Experience:
- At least 8 years publish graduate, progressively accountable work expertise designing and/or implementing nationwide or group stage interventions specializing in local weather change adaptation.
- At least 3 years of demonstrated work expertise creating and/or implementing local weather-particular initiatives in creating nations.
Desirables/Assets
- Proven observe-document creating profitable funding proposals for multilateral local weather funds
- In-depth information of the challenge cycle, insurance policies and processes of the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Working information of one other UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is taken into account an asset.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
- Nurtures, Leads and Manages People
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-consciousness and moral consciousness
- Drive to attain outcomes for affect
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or some other private attribute.
We supply a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all kids.
All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background check.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station is required for IP positions and can be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice can be canceled.
Remarks:
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government staff who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities should not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing payment at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account data.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the publish within the related purposeful space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Programme Specialist – Climate Change Adaptation (P-4), FT, PG CEED, New York HQ # 00131564
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