• Country: New York, USA
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNICEF
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline: 2024-01-03

How can you make a difference?

Programme Support and Development:

• Support the development of UNICEF’s programmes with a primary focus on biodiversity, identifying strategic action areas that leverage the organization’s collaborative advantage.
• Shape UNICEF’s advocacy and policy work to emphasize biodiversity protection and integrate it within wider climate, energy, and environmental strategies, including disaster risk reduction.
• Establish monitoring frameworks to specifically evaluate the outcomes and impacts of biodiversity conservation efforts within the broader sustainability and climate programming.

Policy Advocacy and Coordination:

• Support the integration of biodiversity objectives in organizational multi-sectoral and multi-regional policy initiatives, particularly through the SCAP implementation.
• Organize and deliver policy presentations, workshops, and seminars that focus on promoting UNICEF’s agenda for biodiversity conservation, engaging relevant key stakeholders.

Research and Analysis:

• Conduct research and provide data to guide policy and programming decisions with a specialized focus on biodiversity and its critical role within the climate and environmental sectors.
• Gather and analyze evidence to build compelling investment cases for funding initiatives that prioritize biodiversity alongside UNICEF’s sustainability and climate objectives.

Communication and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Create platforms and initiatives that bring attention to biodiversity as a central theme in climate and environmental discourse, especially from the perspective of children and youth.
• Strengthen communication strategies and knowledge management to highlight children’s unique insights and needs in biodiversity conservation within environmental policies and programmes.
• Actively participate in internal and external meetings, contributing insights and advocating for biodiversity conservation to be a core consideration in all discussions pertaining to UNICEF’s environmental, climate, and sustainability agendas.

 To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• A university degree in climate change, environmental science, engineering, disaster management, International Development, International Relations, Government, Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Policy or other relevant disciplines is required
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience in areas related to sustainability, international development, disaster management, environmental issues, public policy, social policy, and children’s health and wellbeing is required
• Specific experience in policy/programming support, implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation related to climate change, environment or disaster risk reduction is required preferably in a developing country context
• Knowledge on climate, environment, and DRR impacts, assessments, and adaptation solutions required
• Familiarity with children’s rights in the context of climate change, environmental degradation and disaster risk reduction
• Experience in developing tools, and providing training, particularly as part of a global/regional role in support of other country offices will be considered an asset.
• Experience working on CEED issues within UNICEF or other international development agencies is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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