Remote Opportunity: UNICEF Hiring Consultant for Social Protection and Climate Change for 2025
Remote Opportunity: UNICEF Hiring Consultant for Social Protection and Climate Change for 2025
- Job no: 585296
- Consultancy: Social Protection and Climate Change Consultancy
- Duty Station: Global Programme Division, Gender Equality
- Duration: 1 November 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Home/ Office Based: Remote
- Duty Station: New York
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: United States
- Categories: Social Policy
- Advertised: 22 Oct 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
- Deadline: 30 Oct 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
Join UNICEF as a Consultant for Social Protection and Climate Change within the Programme Group, Social Policy and Social Protection Section. This remote, NYHQ-based role supports UNICEF’s mission to build climate-resilient social protection systems worldwide. The UNICEF Social Policy and Social Protection Programme Team is seeking a short-term consultancy to accelerate progress in the implementation of the Global Accelerator on jobs and social protection for just transitions. This includes: Undertaking a synthesis of literature on the effectiveness of social protection in supporting climate change adaptation outcomes for those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change ie children and young people, those living with disabilities, women and girls, and children on the move. identify the most salient evidence gaps; and Developing the implementation roadmap and action plan for the USP2030 financing group led Sevilla Platform for Action (SPA) initiative on financing social protection.
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Responsibilities
- Inception report outlining the methodology and the theory of change/impact pathways.
- Draft of synthesis of global evidence summarizing findings on the questions outlined above. This includes the review of the validated outcome and impact measures (with aligned concepts and relevant TOCs (can be presented in the annex). Summary ppt.
- Final synthesis report of the global evidence (approx. 15 pages), including a short summary (max 2 pages) and an accompanying ppt
- Prepare a technical note and other communication products to highlight the role of social protection in strengthening the adaptation capabilities of households and individuals.
- Implementation Roadmap and Action Plan for the USP2030-led SPA initiative on financing social protection, aligned with the Sevilla Commitment. This document will outline key milestones, stakeholder engagement strategies, to guide the initiative’s rollout over the next 12–18 months.
- Progress Update Report summarizing activities undertaken, key achievements, challenges encountered, and recommendations for next steps.
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Requirements
Education:
Post-graduate degree (doctoral degree is preferred) in academic disciplines relevant to synthesis and analysis of evidence relevant for the assignment (e.g. economics, public policy, political science, development studies etc.)
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
- Over 5 years of research or evaluation experience leading and contributing to synthesis of literature and evidence gap mapping in social protection, social policy, child poverty, public finance or related fields with understanding their linkages with climate change or other forms of crises.
- Knowledge of and demonstrated research experience on social protection in climate change, humanitarian or fragile contexts.
- Expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods used for identifying and measuring impacts and answering complementary evaluation questions e.g. What works and why? For whom? At what cost?
- Familiarity with UNICEF programme portfolio on child poverty and social protection, including in humanitarian and fragile contexts
Competencies
- Delivering outputs with tight deadlines and multi-stakeholder consultative process.
- Excellent abilities in presenting technical information to a non-technical audience, including excellent drafting and presentation skills in English.
- Proficiency in English is required.
Language Proficiency:
- Fluency in English, & another UN language preferred
