Consultant Climate Change, Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), 150 working days in 12 months, REMOTE, Req: 567988

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, CLEAN WATER 

Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a world alliance of over 200 nationwide governments, donors, civil society organizations and different growth companions working collectively to catalyse political management and motion, enhance accountability and use scarce sources extra successfully. The last word aim of the Partnership is to attain common entry to water provide and sanitation.

UNICEF hosts the Secretariat of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership, which is answerable for supporting the Chair and the Steering Committee (SC) in addition to different members of the Steering Committee and organizes the bi-annual international Excessive Stage Conferences and Partnership Conferences.

SWA has confirmed to be extremely profitable and the work of the Chief Govt Officer and Secretariat has change into progressively extra demanding. For instance, it has been recognized that SWA international multi-stakeholder partnership can play a key position in connecting SDGs 6 and 13, whereas recognizing that the power to satisfy these SDGs instantly impacts and is affected by virtually the entire different SDGs, together with poverty, meals, gender and inequality. Moreover, because the partnership is rising its focus at nation stage, SWA can contribute to the success of the Paris Settlement by offering companions with a strong background on why and the way international locations can combine mitigation and adaptation interventions associated to sanitation and water.

The work of the Chief Govt Officer and Secretariat is enhanced by excessive stage recommendation from skilled and educated specialists within the WASH coverage sector to deal with particular points that come up once in a while and to analyse alternatives to attain the aims of the partnership. Particularly, local weather change is a precedence theme within the context of the SWA Strategic Framework 2020-2030 and cuts throughout its three strategic aims to:

• Construct and maintain political will to get rid of inequalities in water, sanitation and hygiene
• Champion multi-stakeholder approaches in direction of reaching common entry to providers
• Rally stakeholders to strengthen system efficiency and entice new investments

Subsequently, the extra assist of a guide will probably be certainly key to provide continuity and advance the work round local weather change integration into key SWA initiatives, present inputs to local weather platforms to which SWA has change into associate, signify SWA Secretariat at key local weather occasions, present technical assist to the SWA Local weather Job Workforce, present technical assist to international locations, do a observe up evaluation of local weather commitments made by companions to the SWA Mutual Accountability Mechanism, assist communications associated to local weather motion, and to assist useful resource mobilization with deal with local weather.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

Assist the SWA Secretariat with advocacy and growth of information administration merchandise on local weather change, offering technical recommendation on useful resource mobilization, the coordination and administration of local weather change capability constructing initiatives, notably at nation stage; preparation for, and doubtlessly, illustration of SWA in local weather associated occasions and different key occasions the place local weather change inputs are wanted.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

The guide will present technical experience to SWA Secretariat and broader partnership on local weather change associated points of advocacy, information administration, capability constructing, strategic useful resource mobilization, and preparation for key occasions and processes.
Particularly, the guide will:

• Develop 4 local weather financing case research to feed the preparations of the Funds Ministers conferences in Latin America and Caribbean, and in Asia.
• Present local weather change technical inputs to 4 draft nation compacts associated to Heads of State Initiative.
• Take part in month-to-month conferences, together with offering technical inputs to the next local weather initiatives: UNFCCC Excessive Ranges Champions Race to Resilience; Local weather Resilience Sanitation Coalition; COP28 Initiative on City Water Resilience; Nairobi Work Programme; and Water Initiative for Web Zero (WINZ)
• Take part within the month-to-month or bimonthly COP29 Water Pavilion Steering Committee, develop COP 29 WASH key messages and briefings for delegations, facilitate international advocacy classes, coordinate technical classes in at the least 2 regional local weather weeks, observe up chosen local weather negotiations tracks, attend to Bonn intersessional conferences in June 2024 and put together at the least 3 classes at COP29 by the top of 2024.
• Present technical recommendation to SWA Local weather Motion Job Workforce, together with drafting technical inputs for session of the duty crew, coordinate local weather motion amongst SWA constituencies, handle associate consultations.
• Present technical recommendation on local weather motion, in coordination with SWA Regional Coordinators, to chose international locations (anticipated 5 international locations minimal) upon request.
• Analyze local weather commitments made by way of the SWA mutual accountability mechanism and supply assist to at the least 2 companions with its implementation.
• Develop local weather updates to be featured on SWA web site and social media, in addition to inputs to at the least 2 op-eds by SWA Chief Govt Officer.
• Map bilateral donors offering assist to local weather resilient WASH and develop a mobilization technique; present technical inputs to funding proposals, and be part of conferences with potential donors when requested.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in environmental research, engineering, worldwide growth, geography, or different associated discipline. 
• A minimal of 10 years of related skilled expertise in the areas of coverage and technique growth or strategic planning, with a core competency in methods to mitigate in opposition to, adapt to local weather change.
• Ideally, the guide ought to have WASH sector expertise at international stage and information of key sector developments, international coverage course, analysis and finest practices – together with within the areas of water, sanitation, hygiene promotion, WASH in Colleges, environmental programming and/or programme integration with well being and training. Expertise of coverage points in different associated sectors (well being, training, atmosphere and many others.) can be fascinating.
• Expertise at nation stage in offering coverage recommendation to authorities or programme administration is an asset. Expertise in a couple of continent is taken into account particularly priceless.
• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset. 
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset. 

For each Little one, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

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The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.