Climate Change Officer

Details

Mission and objectives

UNICEF was established in 1946 to supply emergency relief to millions of children suffering in the aftermath of World War II. The organization still functions to ease the suffering of millions of children in emergency situations across the world. UNICEF also focuses on the protection and promotion of child rights, working for the survival, protection, education and healthy development of every child. UNICEF has worked in Jordan since 1952 to promote and protect the rights of children. In the following decades, significant progress has been achieved for children. Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2013, UNICEF has significantly increased its operation to respond to the challenges faced by both refugee children and those in the communities where they live. Building on the lessons learned from this emergency response, UNICEF Jordan moved to a vulnerability approach in 2018 - supporting interventions that target the most vulnerable children in the country, regardless of their nationality.

Context

This UNV assignment is part of UNICEF’s regional accelerator on Climate Change and will focus on the roll out of the new UNICEF Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) and in particularly the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) related aspects of it. The UN Volunteer will work within the WASH and Climate Change team at the UNICEF Regional Office.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Climate Change Regional Advisor, the UN Volunteer will: • Support the implementation and monitoring of the UNICEF global Sustainability and Climate Change Plan at the regional level, including, among other actions, providing technical support to Country Offices (COs) in the region. • Provide technical support to COs in the region on climate, DRR, humanitarian nexus. • Provide support to COs as they roll out the global plan in line with the CO level Climate Landscape Analysis for Children documents developed with specific country-level actions in all CO UNICEF sections (WASH, nutrition, health, child protection, social policy, supply education, and SBC) involved. • Support in the development of climate-related funding proposals within the region. • Support knowledge management actions around climate change and DRR issues within the MENA region and make the linkage to the humanitarian operations. • Coordinate UNICEF regional and global advocacy points and inputs into the annual climate and DRR related conferences. • Support the documentation of evidence, best practices, and lessons learned within the region. • Additional deliverables will be decided upon discussions with the UNV upon arrival, based on the expertise and interest of the UNV and the evolving needs of the Climate Change team.