UNICEF Hiring Home-Based Consultant 2025 | Remote Job with Attractive Benefits

UNICEF Hiring Home-Based Consultant 2025 | Remote Job with Attractive Benefits

• Job no: 583787
• Contract type: Consultant
• Consultancy Title: Senior Policy Consultant – Climate Resilience for Children
• Section/Division/Duty Station: Climate Resilience Center of Excellence, Global Programme Division, NYHQ
• Duration: October 27, 2025 to December 31, 2026
• Home/ Office Based: NYHQ/ Remote 
• Duty Station: New York
• Level: Consultancy
• Location: United States
• Categories: Programme Management
• Deadline: 18 Sep 2025 Eastern Daylight Time

UNICEF is actively hiring a Home-Based Consultant for 2025, offering attractive benefits and flexible remote work. This opportunity allows professionals to make a global impact while enjoying career growth and work-life balance. Apply online today! As a recognized climate policy expert, the senior consultant will support the Global Technical Director in the climate resilience CoE in leading UNICEF’s policy engagement, strengthening its offer and influence in shaping national to global climate frameworks, providing technical advice and guidance to the CoE, regional and Country Offices, enhancing internal and external engagement, and UNICEF’s UNFCCC and institutional partnerships on climate change policy.

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Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to integrate children and essential services in national climate instruments (NDCs, NAPs, DRR strategies), aligned with SCAP and Strategic Plan.
• Analyze UNICEF programming and evidence to inform child-responsive climate policy formulation and implementation.
• Develop policy positions, guidance and tools to support climate-focused policy engagement across sectors and levels.
• Strengthen UNICEF’s capacity to influence global climate processes, including UNFCCC negotiations.
• Advance evidence-based, cross-sectoral policy integration within UNICEF and with key partners
• Support regional and country offices via COEs to enhance policy relevance and impact, providing technical backstopping and capacity development.
• Consolidate and communicate evidence on climate policy implementation, identifying opportunities for scale.
• Facilitate knowledge exchange to enhance institutional coherence and policy-to-programme pathways.
• Support UNICEF’s UNFCCC engagement and institutional partnerships with the UNFCCC secretariat and relevant bodies.
• Contribute to UNICEF engagement in emerging global mechanisms (e.g. Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, Santiago Network), in coordination with relevant teams.
• Prepare technical briefs, submissions and materials for negotiations.
• Support coherence with other multilateral frameworks (e.g SDGs, Sendai Framework) and UNICEF’s global climate agenda. 

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Requirements

Education

• Masters degree in public policy, international relations, climate science or a related field is required. 

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• 10+ years’ experience delivering public policy outcomes in climate-relevant sectors
• Strong child rights expertise with proven track record integrating child rights in global and national climate policues, including NDCs, NAPs, DRR strategies, and sectoral frameworks
• Extensive experience in policy formulation, strategic advisory roles, and intergovernmental climate negotiations.
• Demonstrated leadership in convening cross-sectoral partnerships to shape global policy, strengthen capacity, and advance child-responsive climate action
• Proven ability to analyze complex climate, DRR and sustainability policies, translating evidence into strategic, child-rights focused policy positions.
• Strong communication skills, including briefing notes, talking points, and presentations for high-level officials
• Ability to work effectively across cultures and with diverse stakeholders.
• Proficient in English; a second UN language would be an advantage.