Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

The Global Programme Division is seeking to establish a roster of National Consultants for Loss and Damage. This initiative aims to strengthen national reporting and monitoring systems, integrate age-disaggregated data, and promote child-sensitive indicators related to loss and damage. The work is intended to inform and be informed by the intergovernmental process.

Responsibilities or duties

To ensure this work is informing and informed by the intergovernmental process.

Work to strengthen national reporting and monitoring systems, integrating age-disaggregated data sources and systems and child-sensitive indicators. This includes leveraging the Global Children Hazard Database and promoting its uptake with governments and embedding within national loss and damage policies.

Contribute to trainings and knowledge-sharing sessions for UNICEF staff and partners, including regular updates to UNICEF HQ, CoEs and COs.

Loss and Damage interventions are highly context-specific and require a country-led, country-owned approach. For this reason, locally based consultants are best positioned to deliver this support, leveraging their knowledge of national systems, priorities, and languages to facilitate a bottom-up process for FRLD proposal development.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

BA/BSc/HND

Experience needed

Experience

Any other provided details (e.g., benefits, work environment, team info, or additional notes)

• Ensure this work is informing and informed by the intergovernmental process.
• Work to strengthen national reporting and monitoring systems, integrating age-disaggregated data sources and systems and child-sensitive indicators.
• Leverage the Global Children Hazard Database and promote its uptake with governments and embedding within national loss and damage policies.
• Contribute to trainings and knowledge-sharing sessions for UNICEF staff and partners.
• Provide regular updates to UNICEF HQ, CoEs and COs.
• Facilitate a bottom-up process for FRLD proposal development, leveraging knowledge of national systems, priorities, and languages.

• Knowledge of national systems, priorities, and languages.
• Understanding of loss and damage interventions.
• Ability to integrate age-disaggregated data and child-sensitive indicators.
• Training and knowledge-sharing facilitation.
• Proposal development.

• BA/BSc/HND