International Consultant for Technical Guidance on Youth Engagement in Climate Action, Beijing, China

• Country: Beijing, China
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNICEF
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline: 2023-12-26

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF China is providing technical support to China’s Ministry of Environment and Ecology to develop a technical guidance on youth engagement. The guidance will elaborate recommendatory mechanisms for local governments, schools, universities, organizations and companies to provide opportunities for the youth to meaningfully participant and contribute to climate action and conversation in their schools, universities, workplaces, and communities. Among other things, the technical guidance will be centered on the following pillars:

1. Awareness raising and skills enhancement ensuring China’s youth understand climate change, its causes, impacts and potential solutions, know how to cope with its negative impacts, and are competitive in the emerging green global economy.
2. Resource availability allowing Chinese youth to apply for grants and concessional loans to fund their climate related initiatives including social entrepreneurships.
3. Harnessing ideas through mechanisms for youth to communicate their initiatives to their community leaders, schools, universities, or workplaces. such mechanisms may include:

1. Online platforms that will consolidate and channel such ideas to stakeholders.
2. Establishment of Green Teams in companies and organizations which will engage young
3. employees and be tasked to come up with ideas and plans for
   1. cutting environmental footprint of their office(s), and
   2. transition to low carbon business/operation model.
4. Funds for community initiatives for youths to apply both for rural as well as for urban context

Work Assignments:

1. Desk review of international youth engagement practices and mechanisms.

2. Consultations with stakeholders, including but not limited to government counterparts (Ministry of Environment and Ecology and All China Youth Federation), Local Youth Organizations, UNICEF Staff.

3. Desk review of existing Chinese youth engagement practices and mechanisms on climate change.

4. Preparing the 1st draft of the technical guidance.

5. Obtaining feedback from stakeholders.

6. Incorporating the feedback into the draft.

7. Formulate the final draft of the technical guidance.

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

• Minimum 5 years of experiencing in formulating climate and environment related policies, for governments and/or international organizations
• Experience of working with UN agencies
• China specific experience and understanding of the country context especially in terms of climate change and youth engagement is highly desirable
• Strong desk research, writing, communication, teamwork, time management and coordination skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must

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