Climate and Energy Consultant, Climate Resilience COE Section, 1 year, Bangkok, Thailand, (Internationals only) Home based with Travel

Contract Duration: 1 year

Working arrangement: Home Based

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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to protection.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF’s new Strategic Plan 2026-2029 and its Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan 2023-2030 places great importance on climate and environmental resilience for children. The goal is to ensure that 500 million children are better protected from disasters and climate and environmental risks by 2029. As global financing for development is under increasing pressure, transformative and innovative work is needed to protect and empower children using a child-centered and multi-sectoral approach to building climate resilience and contribute to mitigation efforts.

UNICEF has set the foundation for strengthening its expertise and extending its reach to support children around the world in a more coordinated way by developing climate programme proposals for some country offices. These build on locally viable solutions and explore new technologies, climate financing, behavioural change of children, and climate skills development of young people. To support UNICEF country offices to adopt the climate change solutions in these proposals, there is an urgent need to identify different opportunities for resource mobilization and to explore the application of innovative solutions in much needed areas such as climate-proofing social service delivery. It is also important to ensure that these are done in an inclusive and equitable approach, in line with UNICEF’s mandate support for those most vulnerable and marginalized, including girls and children with disabilities, and without compromising on the social and environmental issues.

Sustainable energy adoption is one such solution, where its use around the world continues to increase, particularly in times of economic uncertainty and more frequent and unpredictable climate change impacts. This directly mitigates climate change but also builds climate resilience of vulnerable communities such as children and women when life-saving social services such as healthcare facilities and schools have continued access to electricity as the climate changes. With the newly established Centre of Excellence for Climate and Environment, a Sustainable Energy Strategy will be developed to guide UNICEF on its support to governments to scale the use of sustainable energy, such as solar, for better quality and reliable social service delivery.

A consultant for the CoE with expertise and experience in both climate and energy will be needed to provide technical support to the expansion of the sustainable energy work as aligned to the new Sustainable Energy Strategy, and to support UNICEF country offices to use the climate programme proposals for resource mobilization, programming and advocacy for climate change adaptation and mitigation for children.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: External ToR TMC0007640.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education:
• Master's degree in Climate change, sustainable development, energy, environmental management, development studies, development management, economics, political science
• Work Experience:
• 10 years' experience working in international development organizations on related matters, including project management, and sustainable energy, climate resilience
• Language Requirements:
• English
• Knowledge/Expertise/Skills:
• Climate change adaptation, sustainable energy and environmental management
• National policy development, local development planning processes, M&E
• Desirables:
• Inclusion and equity integration, children and youth engagement

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template) : Financial proposal TMC0007640.docx