Junior Officer, Climate and Emergency Information Management

Crisis & Emergency Response Environment

Overview

Support UNICEF's climate and emergency information management efforts.

You have:

• Demonstrated interest or experience in environmental empowerment.
• Demonstrated interest or experience in climate action.
• Demonstrated interest or experience in information management.
• Demonstrated interest or experience in youth empowerment.
• Experience in collaboration with governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The climate crisis is not just changing the planet – it is changing children.

From the moment of conception until they grow into adulthood, the health and development of children’s brains, lungs, immune systems and other critical functions are affected by the environment they grow up in. Geography does not protect against climate change; it is affecting children everywhere even in in high income countries and the world is not doing nearly enough to protect them.

Virtually every child on the planet is already affected by climate change. Natural disasters, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss can devastate agriculture, cutting children off from nutritious foods and safe water. They can lead to dangerous environments and disease outbreaks, and destroy the safe shelter, quality health care and education systems children need to survive and thrive. As humanitarian action falls short of addressing the climate crisis, children and young people are bearing the brunt. They make up half of the world’s population, but are least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and other hazardous practices harming our environment.

The climate crisis is changing children. It is robbing them of their ability to grow healthy and happy, and can ultimately cause illness, disease and even death. Efforts to sustain a liveable planet must not only account for the unique needs and vulnerabilities of young people; they must also include them in the solutions.

Delivering results cannot be achieved by UNICEF alone. Our Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan 2023-2030 galvanizes a global commitment to ensure a sustainable world and to protect the most vulnerable children from the worst impacts of a changing climate and degrading environment. It outlines UNICEF’s organizational response to this crisis as well as focus areas for action and partnerships.

It is for this reason that the UNICEF Country Office in El Salvador is committed to incorporating and mainstreaming the CEED approach into its cooperation programme so that the different areas of the CO can integrate CEED actions into their strategic planning. Another of its priorities is to support public institutions to include youth empowerment and participation in climate action as one of their main approaches.

In addition, UNICEF is an agency that, according to the Global Humanitarian Architecture, leads 3 sectors in emergencies, including WASH, education and nutrition, and co-leads the health and Child protection sectors. Its contribution at country level is to lead preparedness, pre-positioning and response actions to humanitarian assistance in these areas, all in close coordination with strategic country partners (governmental and non-governmental) to ensure safe, protective and life-saving humanitarian assistance, without harm or leaving anyone behind. UNICEF also supports sectors to develop humanitarian needs assessments and sectoral response plans to respond in a timely manner to people in need in emergencies or crises.

The Junior Office will contribute to responding to this context in close coordination with the WASH Officer, as well as the other programme areas, focusing on the supports listed below.

2022-2030 Strategy available to see how UNICEF plans to create a liveable planet for every child by 2030.

•Support the design of a strategy for mainstreaming the climate change and DRR agenda into UNICEF programming based on CLAC analysis, annual work plans and the country programme document. •Provide technical support in identifying potential donors, opportunities, and strategies for CEED funding. •Supports the collection and systematisation of relevant country information (policies, laws, regulations, data, relevant statistics etc) on the water, sanitation and hygiene situation, climate change, climate action, environment and others relevant to the pro-gramme. •Provide technical support to identify national youth platforms to advocate for youth climate empowerment and climate action. •Support the planning and development of WASH, climate change and DRR projects for ongoing and new programmes related to CEED. •Support advocacy on CEED with government institutions and UN agencies in the country in coordination with the WASH Officer. •Provide information management support to UNICEF-led emergency sectors at country level once the humanitarian programme cycle has started. Support sector leaders in developing needs assessments and response plans for WASH and other sectors as required. •Provide ongoing support to the team as needed on ongoing and emerging work on CEED.

•Accountability •Adaptability and Flexibility •Commitment and Motivation •Commitment to Continuous Learning •Communication •Ethics and Values •Integrity •Knowledge Sharing •Leadership •Professionalism •Respect for Diversity •Self-Management •Technological Awareness •Working in Teams

Demonstrated interest or experience in: •Dialogue processes with different governmental and non-governmental •Environmental empowerment •Climate action •Information management (Help to collect, manage, preserve, store and deliver information) •Youth empowerment •Stakeholders

El Salvador is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean.

El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2023 was estimated to be 6.5 million and uses US dollar as its currency. It has a tropical weather with only two marked seasons, dry and rainy season. El Salvador ranks 124th among 189 countries in the Human Development Index. As of 2019 economic improvements had led to El Salvador experiencing the lowest level of income inequality among nearby countries. Among 77 countries included in a 2021 study, El Salvador had one of the least complex economies for doing business

The political framework of El Salvador is a presidential representative democratic republic with a multiform, multi-party system. The president, currently Nayib Bukele, is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Legislative Assembly. The country also has an independent judiciary and Supreme Court. It was ranked the 5th least electoral democratic country in Latin America and the Caribbean by V-Dem Democracy Report.

The country has a long history of violence and high rates of crimes, however the current government has successfully reduced it by maintaining a prolonged state of exception since March 2022.

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