Senior Expert, Children’s Environmental Health Consultant, GPD – HEHC Programme, Climate and Environment CoE, Bangkok, Thailand, Remote with travel, 19.5 months,

Senior Expert, Children’s Environmental Health Consultant

GPD – HEHC Programme, Climate and Environment CoE, Bangkok, Thailand

Remote with travel

19.5 months

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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.

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For every child, the right to health

How can you make a difference?

The purpose of the consultancy is to provide scientific leadership, rigorous quality assurance, and high-level policy engagement to embed child-specific vulnerabilities into global environmental and climate policies and normative guidance

Scope of Work

The UNICEF Strategic Plan has elevated action on climate change and environmental degradation as an organizational priority, to be integrated throughout UNICEF programmes. To concretize this, UNICEF HQ is implementing its global Healthy Environments for Healthy Children (HEHC) programme framework. The Framework explicitly recognizes that protecting children requires more than governmental policy; it demands a fundamental transformation in how the private sector operates, produces, and engages with communities. To mobilize collection action, UNICEF convenes a Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative to protect child health and development from the impact of climate change and environmental degradation.

To support these efforts, UNICEF requires a senior expert in Children's Environmental Health. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide senior scientific advisory, technical leadership, and normative quality assurance to advance UNICEF’s Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) agenda globally. Leveraging decades of foundational expertise in pediatric environmental epidemiology, regulatory policy, and inter-agency multilateral guidance, the consultant will serve as an authoritative scientific arbiter. Responsibilities center on ensuring gold-standard methodological rigor, clinical validity, and primordial prevention framing across UNICEF's flagship reports, high-level policy briefs, and normative technical guidance packages addressing issues such as toxic chemical exposures, air pollution, climate and disasters and the built environment.

In addition, the consultancy aims to drive strategic technical engagement and policy diplomacy across health, environment, and climate sectors. The consultant will mobilize global and regional clinical bodies, professional pediatric societies, and multilateral partners to position child-specific physiological vulnerabilities at the core of national policies and international environmental governance. By leading high-level technical dialogues, delivering keynote interventions at key global convenings, and bridging scientific evidence with actionable policy, this assignment supports UNICEF in establishing CEH as an urgent priority for governments and international financial institutions to review technical content, strengthen technical collaboration and expand capacity development initiatives for a global audience.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: ToRTMC0006891.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Master’s or PhD or a medical degree (MD) in public health, environmental health, pediatrics, epidemiology, environmental science, or a related field.
• Work Experience: A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in the field of children’s environmental health, with a strong focus on research, policy, and programme implementation.

• Demonstrated experience in developing high-quality technical content, such as training curricula, published articles, guidance documents, and policy briefs (a portfolio of work may be requested).
• Proven track record of working with international organizations, academic institutions, and government bodies.
• An established network of contacts within the global CEH community is highly desirable.
• Experience working on issues relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
• Previous experience of working with UNICEF and the UN is desirable.

• Skills: Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of partners and stakeholders.

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex tasks to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a remote team

• Language Requirements: Exceptional writing, editing, and analytical skills in English

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 TMC0006891.docx