UNICEF Remote Consultant Job 2025 – Home-Based Opportunity with Attractive Benefits
UNICEF Remote Consultant Job 2025 – Home-Based Opportunity with Attractive Benefits
- Job no: 585039
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: New York
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: United States
- Categories: Social Policy
- Advertised: 15 Oct 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
- Deadline: 23 Oct 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
UNICEF is offering an exciting home-based opportunity for professionals passionate about making a global impact. This remote consultant role provides competitive benefits, flexibility, and the chance to contribute to UNICEF’s mission of improving children’s lives worldwide. The purpose of the Climate Policy and Evidence consultant is to assess the child-sensitivity of national climate policies, strengthen UNICEF’s technical policy support to governments, and contribute to advancing child-focused commitments in climate-related policy frameworks at all levels.
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Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Global Technical Director the consultant will perform the following duties:
Policy Analysis
- Analyze and document the child- and youth-sensitivity of key national climate policies.
- Evaluate and update methodologies for assessing child- and youth-sensitivity in national climate plans.
- Work with country offices to ensure timely updates to UNICEF’s climate policy monitoring tools
Data Generation and Maintenance
- Generate, consolidate, and update evidence on the integration of children and young people’s needs into national climate policies.
- Facilitate and ensure the operational quality of UNICEF’s climate policy data platforms, including uploading new analyses, performing quality control, and coordinating technical updates with developers.
- Support UNICEF teams and offices with policy evidence generation, data use, and analysis.
National Climate Policies Support
- Respond to queries on national climate policies, relevant sectoral policies, and other national climate/environment/DRR policy-related matters.
- Build capacity of country offices and national committees to engage in national climate policy processes, including through monthly National Climate Policies Helpdesk calls.
- Track and summarize technical requests and lessons learned to inform future resources and support.
- Monitor and provide updates on relevant developments/guidance emanating from the UNFCCC as it pertains to national climate and sectoral policies.
- Inform UNICEF’s policy positions and activities in regional and global fora relevant to national climate policies, including UNFCCC negotiations, guidance and dialogues, drawing on country-level engagement, lessons on ‘what works’ in different contexts, and successful examples of policy-implementation pathways.
Capacity Building and Research products
- Develop and revise internal and external capacity building materials and knowledge products to equip stakeholders with relevant knowledge on child- and youth-sensitive climate and environmental policy.
- Contribute to trainings and knowledge-sharing sessions for UNICEF staff and partners.
- Maintain internal knowledge management (e.g. SharePoint) resources on climate policy
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Requirements
Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline
Objective 1: Policy Analysis
1. Develop 1 x 3-5 page summary note on UNICEF national policy support and results for 2025, including lessons learned, examples of good practice, and recommendations for next steps for UNICEF’s national climate policy support and implementation pathways
15 Dec 2025
2. Produce 4 x quarterly policy analysis readouts summarizing:
- The number and type of national climate policies analyzed
- Key findings on child-and-youth sensitivity
- Any updates or refinements to analysis methodologies, with proposed future improvements
15 Dec 2026
3. 3 x updates to UNICEF climate policy monitoring tools designed to track progress, based on information from country offices and national committees, and adjust/refine tools as required
15 Dec 2026
Objective 2: Data Generation and Maintenance
Produce two reports including:
- New policy analyses uploaded to UNICEF’s climate policy data platforms during the period.
- Actions taken to ensure operational quality, including quality control checks and coordination with developers.
- Any issues resolved or risks mitigated.
- Recommendations for future platform enhancements
15 Jul 2026
Objective 3: National Climate Policies Support
Produce two progress reports summarizing:
- Queries and support provided on NDCs, other key climate/environment/DRR policies and/or associated national policy engagements.
- Outputs from monthly helpdesk calls, including agendas, materials, and speakers.
- A log of recurring technical requests and lessons learned to guide the development of future resources.
- Recommendations for strengthening helpdesk support
15 Oct 2026
Monitor and communicate 12 x monthly written updates on relevant global developments/new guidance relevant to national climate policies, including NDCs, and associated implications/requests for country offices and national committees
15 Dec 2026
