United Nations Children's Fund
JOB DESCRIPTION
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, Opportunity
How can you make a difference?
- Conduct capacity assessment of the Lesotho Country Office in designing, planning, and implementing climate, environment, and sustainability actions.
- Evaluate current staff skills and competencies related to climate, environment, and sustainability and identifying areas for improvement and training needs.
- This involves reviewing existing programmes, internal structures and processes related to climate, environment, and sustainability; interviews and surveys among staff to assess their awareness and engagement in climate and environmental initiatives; examine past and ongoing projects and initiatives related to climate and environment to identify lessons learned and areas for improvement; Review the strategic plans and frameworks of UNICEF Lesotho to assess the integration of climate and sustainability considerations; evaluate the office’s ability to incorporate climate change adaptation and mitigation into its programmatic planning; conduct a workshop to enhance planning skills and strategies for climate and sustainability actions; assessing their alignment with the CLAC findings, and identifying new opportunities for impactful interventions.
- Based on the CLAC and capacity assessment findings, develop a comprehensive climate, environment, and sustainability strategy and roadmap (2025-2029) for the Lesotho Country Office.
- Summary of the CLAC;
- Strategic objectives for Lesotho CO;
- Detailed action plan for the different Lesotho CO’s programmes (health & nutrition, HIV, education, WASH, ECD, Social Policy , PME, and child protection, operations), with initiatives to enhance children’s resilience to climate impacts and to reduce environmental degradation outlining timelines, and responsible parties;
- Youth awareness raising plan & community and stakeholder engagement;
- Identified necessary systems and structures to integrate and implement climate, environment, and sustainability strategies within the Lesotho Country Office, with a focus on scalability;
- Monitoring and evaluation components (including key indicators)to track progress, to assess outcomes and impact following the integration of climate, environment, and sustainability strategies. Through:
- desk review of the existing policies, action plans, strategies, UNICEF/UN initiatives related to sustainability and climate changes in Lesotho, key players and existing initiatives.
- SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in climate, environment, and sustainability efforts.
- office-wide workshops as part of the strategy formulation process.
- workshops or consultations to gather input from key stakeholders (government bodies, donors, civil society organizations, the private sector, communities, and youth themselves) for strategy development.
- Produce a 10-page advocacy brief based on the CLAC report for external stakeholders to highlight key findings, actionable insights, and recommendations for climate and environmental sustainability efforts
Work Assignment Overview:
| Tasks/Milestone: | Deliverables/Outputs: | Timeline (period/deadline) | Payment structure (% of the total fee) |
| Development of the inception report including stakeholder engagement plan, working methodology/approach to achieve the tasks, detailed time schedule, milestones, checklist to incorporate feedback provided by UNICEF program specialists and stakeholders | Inception Report | 3 days |
10% (remotely) |
| Internal assessment of UNICEF Lesotho Country Office | Staff capacity development plan | 7 days |
2days (remotely) 5 days (In country) |
| Develop a comprehensive climate, environment, and sustainability strategy and roadmap (2024-2029) for the Lesotho Country Office based on the CLAC, capacity assessment findings and internal/external consultations. | Draft strategy and roadmap | 20 days |
30% (In country) |
| Seek feedback from internal and external stakeholders to refine and finalize the strategy | Final Strategy Document (report, PPT presentation) | 5 days |
20% (In country) |
| Orient Lesotho CO on the Strategy and roadmap. | One day workshop and orientation report | 1 day | |
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Development of final report Develop a 10-page CLAC Advocacy Brief for External Stakeholders |
Final report with recommendations 10-page CLAC Advocacy Brief |
2 days |
40% (Remote) |
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in environmental sciences, environmental management, public policy, international development, international relations, social sciences, or related fields.
- A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience in disaster risk management, climate change, international development, and humanitarian assistance experience, preferably in the UN system, is required. Field experience is an expected asset.
- 6 years’ experience in program assessment, strategy development, advocacy, resource mobilization, and partnership building with international donors, bilateral and multilateral.
- Proven experience in the analysis and development of climate change systems and policies related to environment sustainability and climate change.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
- Specific experience in working/liaising with donor groups at the HQ or field level is desirable.
- Knowledge and working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Middle East region as well as experience in public-private partnerships are also assets.
- Proven knowledge of policy and budgetary decision-making processes in the Government of Lesotho.
- In-depth experience with the UN processes, inter-governmental and member states negotiations.
- Fluency in English (verbal and written).
- Positive performance record on drive for results and teamwork.
- Proven capacity to quickly absorb new information and techniques and work under tight deadli
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
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