Senior Adviser Environment (P-5), FT, Program Group Leadership Team - CEED, New York HQ (# 00126966)

Contract

This is a P-5 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 208,877 USD and 261,770 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

The position is within the Climate, Energy, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) unit within UNICEF’s Headquarter Programme Group. The CEED unit supports the Director, Programmes in coordinating the implementation of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP), which is the organization’s overall response to the triple planetary crisis (climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity) as it impacts children. Close collaboration is therefore expected to ensure that UNICEF’s approach to environmental protection is closely integrated with the work on climate change, energy, and disaster risk reduction, and that UNICEF’s approach is coordinated across internal operations / supply chain; programming, and advocacy and among headquarter, regional, and country offices..

For every child, fair climate……

The Senior Adviser - Environment supports UNICEF's Global Lead for Sustainability and Climate to develop and oversee the implementation of UNICEF's policies, partnerships and programmes related to environmental protection (including children’s environmental health), and biodiversity.

The Senior Adviser - Environment provides technical oversight and coordination of aspects related to environmental protection, children’s environmental health and biodiversity within UNCEF’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP).

• On advocacy, data/evidence/research, innovation and resource mobilization, he/she works closely with lead Divisions and ensures alignment to organizational priorities.
• On programme policies, strategies and approaches related to environmental protection, he/she provides leadership across the Programme Group and with Regional Offices in support of Country Programmes.

Incumbent will serve as the senior technical adviser for UNICEF on environment and biodiversity issues, convenes organizational coordination platforms, and represents the organization externally to shape global priorities and project thought leadership.

How can you make a difference?

Strategy Development and Management

Sharpen, further develop and oversee the implementation of UNICEF’s policies, partnerships, advocacy and programmes related to environmental protection and biodiversity loss.

Programme Excellence

• Convene Programme Group (PG)teams and Regional Office (RO) and Country Offices (COs) to ensure excellence in programme strategy, design and implementation across all Goal Areas related to mainstreaming for environmental protection and biodiversity loss as well as in areas of programmatic leadership.
• Leverage the Global Technical Team (GTT) develop for the implementation of the SCAP in this regard and to address emerging issues and make effective linkages between data/research/evidence and programme strategies.
• Report on progress and propose solutions to address major gaps.

Senior Management Support and Representation

• Serve as UNICEF’s senior technical adviser issues related to environmental protection and biodiversity loss for the field and HQ.
• Convene organizational coordination platforms on these issues and represents the organization externally to shape global priorities and project thought leadership.

Global Advocacy, data/evidence, research and innovation

• Work closely with lead Divisions to ensure alignment to organizational priorities of the advocacy, data/evidence/research and innovation components of the agenda of the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan as relates to environmental protection and biodiversity loss.
• Using the GTT, effectively coordinate workplans across Divisions for a strategic use of resources.

Mobilization and management of resources

• Provide strategic direction and support for the mobilization of resources for UNICEF’s work relating to environmental protection, children’s environmental health, and biodiversity loss.
• Institute and oversee mechanisms for effective tracking and reporting of results from these funds.
• Working with PPD and PFP, develop investment cases to attract funding (including innovative finance) in support of UNICEF sustainability and climate programming, with a focus on environmental protection and biodiversity.

Partnership, Coordination and Collaboration

• Provide strategic direction and develop partnerships and networks through proactive collaboration with internal and external partners and serve as UNICEF’s external representative on environmental protection and biodiversity loss.
• Partners will include (but are not limited to) key internal stakeholders, other UN and multilateral entities, government representatives, private and non-governmental organizations, academics, business leaders, and individual supporters of UNICEF.

Effectively leading the team

• Support the Global Lead – Sustainability and Climate in establishing a work plan, set priorities and targes, and monitor work progress to ensure results are achieved according to schedule and performance standards.
• Supervise team members by providing them with clear objectives and goals, direction and guidance.
• Ensure duty of care and the respect of CRITAS values in the team.
• Support the convening of the Global Technical Team around relevant time bound sprints to drive the sustainability and climate agenda forward.

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

• Advanced University degree in the area environment, energy or climate change, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field is required.
• A minimum of 10 (ten) years of professional work experience at the national and international in on developing countries, of which 6-8 years focus on areas related to development cooperation in environmental protection, sustainability, climate action, low carbon development, pollution and sustainable energy is required.
• Experience working with and on environmental and biodiversity financing will be considered an asset.
• Experience working for international organizations such as the United Nations is desirable.

Technical Knowledge

In-depth knowledge and expertise in:

• Global policy discourse on environmental protection and biodiversity issues, environmental risk assessments, solutions that protect and enhance environment and biodiversity, especially related to social services such as water/sanitation; health, education; nutrition, child and social protection.
• Children's rights and gender equity in the context of environmental protection and/or natural resources management.
• Environment and biodiversity funding streams, platforms, and major partners.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, French or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability (CRITA), and sustainability

Please click Here to view UNICEF's core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this post are.

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 is committed to promoting 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.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.

Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.