Project Coordination Consultant for the Children’s Climate Risk Index – Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) subnational risk assessment Initiative. Req.

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Consultancy Title: Challenge Coordination Guide for the Youngsters’s Local weather Threat Index – Catastrophe Threat Mannequin (CCRI-DRM) subnational threat evaluation Initiative

Part/Division/Responsibility Station: WASH Crew – Programme Group /NYHQ

Length: 15 Sept 2023 – 15 December 2024 – Distant/Dwelling primarily based.

About UNICEF

In case you are a dedicated, artistic skilled and are keen about making a long-lasting distinction for youngsters, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group want to hear from you. Over 75 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 international locations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety and improvement. UNICEF helps baby well being and vitamin, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of youngsters from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded solely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments.

BACKGROUND

Objective of Exercise/Project:

Disasters, local weather change, and environmental degradation current important and escalating threats to the well-being of youngsters globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in baby survival and improvement. Over a billion youngsters are uncovered to extreme dangers from local weather and environmental hazards reminiscent of heatwaves, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it’s crucial for international locations to ascertain climate-resilient, low-carbon social companies encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, schooling, vitamin, social safety, and baby safety to sort out present threats and put together for more and more extreme impacts.

With a view to shield the lives, well being and well-being of youngsters and the resilience of their communities to adapt important social companies to a altering local weather, extra frequent/excessive disasters and a degrading atmosphere, complete child-centred threat evaluation (i.e. taking account of the views / vulnerabilities of youngsters and their communities) together with information techniques and insurance policies that work throughout improvement and catastrophe administration to determine and prioritize probably the most weak youngsters and companies are wanted. This information can be utilized to tell a number of functions: catastrophe threat discount and local weather change adaptation, preparedness planning, and wider improvement agendas. By systematizing and prioritizing youngsters’s wants and investing at scale, primarily based on child-centred information/proof, working with nationwide and subnational companions to ascertain multi sectorial threat evaluation data to tell programming and coverage making, we will actually scale back the impacts of disasters on youngsters.

UNICEF and america Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs is scaling up a partnership initiative “ which additionally builds on UNICEF’s earlier groundwork from the preliminary Youngsters’s Local weather Threat Index (CCRI) and goals to determine most weak youngsters to and the (lack of) capacities of probably the most important companies (WASH, healthcare, vitamin, schooling, social safety, baby safety) to face up to the impacts of pure hazards (particularly, however not restricted to, local weather change exacerbated hazards) at a subnational degree by way of obtainable information, evaluation of knowledge gaps,  and combine these findings into main present world / regional /nationwide platforms, to help baby delicate prevention, preparedness and response.

Transferring into its subsequent part, the “Youngsters’s Preparedness and Threat Discount Data Partnership (CPR-RIP) STAGE II: Youngsters’s Local weather Threat Index – Catastrophe Threat Mannequin (CCRI-DRM) subnational threat evaluation” will construct on work performed in Stage I and can add between 5 to seven extra international locations to the initiative.

UNICEF is in search of a devoted, proactive advisor to : (1)  Present challenge steerage and path for this particular challenge that’s time delicate to ship; (2) contribute to world follow(s) of local weather change, atmosphere, power, and DRR (CEED) and positioning of UNICEF globally; and (3) help on useful resource mobilization and it’s monitoring.

Scope of Work:

The advisor is anticipated to carry out the next duties:

1. Present challenge steerage and path for this particular challenge that’s time delicate to ship:

• Monitor and draft standing updates and experiences on this grant and challenge supply throughout all seven international locations and join sources, networks, and merchandise amongst initiatives.
• Present technical backstopping to the supply of the grant at CO degree
• Join initiatives’ outcomes to wider UNICEF uptake by way of numerous channels (e.g. Group of Observe, KM hub) and different initiatives/initiatives throughout UNICEF (e.g. At the moment and Tomorrow Initiative, Enterprise for Group Resilience (BCR) and EMOPs-led preparedness/ anticipatory motion initiatives)

2. Present challenge steerage and path for this particular challenge that’s time delicate to ship, and contribute to world follow(s) of CEED and positioning of UNICEF globally:

• Conduct all monitoring and draft standing updates / experiences on this grant/challenge supply; technical backstopping to the supply of initiatives/grants at CO degree; connecting of initiatives’ outcomes to wider UNICEF and different initiatives/initiatives throughout UNICEF

3. Present closing part of challenge administration/oversight help for this particular challenge and its funds which are time delicate to ship and useful resource mobilization and monitoring:

• Last monitoring and standing report on substantive grant and challenge supply
• Draft/refine/gather inputs for numerous idea notes, donor energy factors, outreach supplies, and many others., together with for subsequent phases of present grant, but in addition for brand new sources

Phrases of Reference / Deliverables/Deadlines

Deliverable 1: detailed challenge plan and timeline developed which incorporates preliminary wants evaluation By 31 Oct 2023

Deliverable 2: native governance construction and theoretical framework in every of seven international locations established; information assortment framework and methodology for every nation established; templates and tips for information assortment and reporting developed. By 30 Nov 2023

Deliverable 3: Protocols for information high quality assurance and management established; Knowledge evaluation initiated, and preliminary findings recognized. By 31 Dec 2023

Deliverable 4: Interim progress report of adaptation and development strategy of the CCDRM in every nation and associated steerage and help offered enter into donor template. By 31 Jan 2024

Deliverable 5: Preliminary evaluation of the CCDRM information throughout all seven international locations performed, and key traits and patterns recognized inside. By 29 Feb 2024

Deliverable 6: Six-month replace and progress report which incorporates validation and verification on the accuracy of the collected information (by way of coordination with native challenge groups) performed and formatted inside donor reporting template. By 31 Mar 2024

Deliverable 7: Seven experiences ready which embody

1. A abstract of the technical backstopping to ROs/COs that has been offered.
2. evaluation and interpretation of ongoing information for every nation, and technical inputs to sector-specific world instruments underneath improvement,
3. useful resource mobilization updates, and replace on linkages (if any) with UNICEF’s company agendas
4. abstract notes of communication with nation workplaces and HQ groups, and on knowledge-sharing occasions, workshops, or webinars to disseminate challenge findings and finest practices coordinated (inc. for COP28/COP29).

By 30 Nov 2024

Deliverable 8: Last challenge report, together with complete information evaluation finalized for every nation and, an total challenge analysis with data-driven suggestions for future initiatives. By 15 Dec 2024

Deliverable 9: Presentation with preliminary findings and suggestions for challenge stakeholders.

By 15 Dec 2024

{Qualifications}

(1) Training

Grasp’s in Public Local weather change, catastrophe threat discount, improvement, atmosphere, worldwide relations or different related fields

(2) Work expertise

• Challenge administration expertise and minimal 5 years’ expertise delivering profitable initiatives on local weather, power, atmosphere or catastrophe threat discount.
• Expertise with UNICEF sectors required.

(3) Competencies

• Wonderful writing and communication expertise.
• Superior degree of experience in resilience, DRR, local weather change required.
• Further languages thought-about an asset (French, Spanish, Russian).

Necessities:

• Accomplished profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system
• Add copy of educational credentials
• Monetary proposal that can embody:

• Prices for every deliverable and whole all-inclusive (lump sum) charges for the entire task.
• Journey prices and day by day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR
• Some other estimated prices: visa, medical insurance, and dwelling prices as relevant.
• Point out your availability

• Any emergent / unexpected responsibility journey and associated bills will probably be lined by UNICEF.
• On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical insurance protection.
• Fee {of professional} charges will probably be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the advisor.

U.S. Visa data:

Apart from the US Residents, G4 Visa and Inexperienced Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside in america underneath a distinct visa, the advisor and his/her family members are required to alter their visa standing to G4, and the advisor’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was approved to work underneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.  

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

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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently endure 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 supply extra data to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “workers members” underneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on 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 straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts.