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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Consultancy – Sustainable Energy Consultant

Station: Climate, Energy, Environment & DRR( CEED )- Programme Group - NYHQ

Duration: 15 January 2024 – 15 February 2025

Home/ office Based: REMOTE

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

Climate change and environmental degradation present significant and escalating threats to the well-being of children globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in child survival and development.

Given the urgency of adverse climate impacts, it is crucial to transition our energy systems to carry out effective climate change mitigation. Climate change mitigation projects can play a crucial role in saving children by addressing the underlying causes of climate change and its adverse impacts on their health, well-being, and future. Electricity is a critical enabler that dramatically improves the quality, accessibility and reliability of education, health care and WASH services for children.

The global gap in access to energy for these critical services threatens a child’s ability to survive and thrive.

Decentralized sustainable energy solutions are becoming increasingly financially and technically viable. They enable uninterrupted essential services and power healthcare, water, and educational facilities. They also contribute to reducing GHG emissions and pollution, promote local employment, increase the retention and recruitment of staff, and can be more resilient in the face of disasters.

UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with implementation, training, and policy-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes the development of an action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and battery storage solutions that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.

Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have the following responsibilities:

1. Providing policy guidance to ensure that children’s issues, needs, and perspectives are represented in energy policies and that sectoral policies (including Health, Education, and WASH) include sustainable energy commitments essential for children

2. Enhancing UNICEF’s sustainable energy programming and advocacy capacity and outputs at all levels; including support to all market landscape and demand aggregation ongoing for selection regions and countries, and

3. Engaging with key UNICEF partnerships and networks, with a focus on advancing work on sustainable energy

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision and guidance of the CEED programme specialist, this consultant will work in collaboration with country offices, regional offices, and headquarters to advocate for increased sustainable energy commitments in policy, as well as child-sensitive commitments in energy policies. The consultant will have the following responsibilities:

Provide policy guidance:

• Review and consult on ongoing policy initiatives to assess their inclusion of child-sensitive sustainable energy commitments.
• Evaluate the impacts of existing multisectoral policies, programmes, and advocacy efforts and identify opportunities for greater inclusion of energy and sustainability commitments.
• Support the development of recommendations for new and existing sustainable energy policies, plans, and programmes for children and young people.

Enhancing UNICEF’s sustainable energy programming and advocacy capacity

• Consolidate and present evidence from sustainable energy action integration to inform relevant stakeholders and explore avenues for collaboration.
• Support research and knowledge generation efforts, including market assessments for sustainable energy at the global and regional scales.
• Support the identification of strategic entry points UNICEF into the sustainable energy market.
• Assist in the facilitation of capacity-building sessions (workshops, trainings, etc.) for internal and external audiences.

Engaging with key sustainable energy partnerships and networks:

• Assist the identification of strategic partnerships for advancing child- and youth-sensitive sustainable energy action.
• Consult on and support child and youth engagement opportunities, including capacity- and skills-building sessions.
• Prepare sustainable energy updates and advocacy materials for internal and external audiences.
• Identify and support external advocacy efforts.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Deliverable 1: A mapping of existing sustainable energy programming and advocacy, including gaps and recommendations for improvement.

By 15 Feb 2024

Deliverable 2: A compendium of the latest sustainable energy reports and advocacy statistics to promote the inclusion of children and young people in policy and highlight UNICEF’s activities.

By 15 Mar 2024

Deliverable 3: Conduct a mapping and analysis of NDCs for Sustainable Energy for Health, Education and WASH (SE4HEW) commitments and development of recommendations to address the gap

By 15 Apr 2024

Deliverable 4: A PowerPoint presentation detailing UNICEF’s sustainable energy programming and competitive advantage.

By 15 May 2024

Deliverable 5: A reference guide of UNICEF positions on sustainable energy policies and high-level talking points for staff engaging with key stakeholders.

By 15 June 2024

Deliverable 6: A mapping of external initiatives and organizations that present opportunities for collaboration and expansion of UNICEF’s policy advocacy programming.

By 15 July 2024

Deliverable 7: A report outlining efforts and actions taken towards supporting sustainable energy market assessments.

By 15 Dec 2024

Deliverable 8: Three investment cases developed to support resource mobilisation to close the sustainable energy gap for the Health, Education, and WASH (HEW) sectors

By 15 Dec 2024

Deliverable 9: Platform established to support the operations, maintenance, and tracking of all ongoing SE4HEW ongoing initiatives

By 15 Jan 2025

Deliverable 10: A platform for supporting young people on SE4HEW developed

By 15 Jan 2025

Deliverable 11: An external report detailing key UNICEF sustainable energy initiatives and progress.

By 15 Feb 2025

Qualifications

Education:

• Masters degree/ University degree in Renewable energy, climate change, sustainable development, or relevant technical field.

Work experience:

• Minimum 4-5 years’ work experience in developing, supporting, and implementing sustainable energy related initiatives
• Specific experience as a product manager for users in emerging markets.
• Experience preferably including GBV programming in humanitarian contexts.
• Progressively responsible professional work experience in communication, technology fields, youth participation and gender, some of which should be in an international setting.
• Experience in managing projects with strong technology components.

Competencies/Knowledge:

• Expert knowledge in sustainable energy programming, policy, advocacy required
• Excellent project management, coordination, and communication skill

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include/ reflect:
  • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at Here

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment

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. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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

Remarks: Individuals engaged under a consultancy will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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