UNV Climate Change Officer - Jordan

UN Entity: UNICEF, Jordan

Assignment Context:
This UNV assignment is part of UNICEF’s regional accelerator on Climate Change and will focus on the roll out of the new UNICEF Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) and in particularly the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) related aspects of it. The UN Volunteer will work within the WASH and Climate Change team at the UNICEF Regional Office.

Task description:
Under the direct supervision of Climate Change Regional Advisor, the UN Volunteer will:

• Support the implementation and monitoring of the UNICEF global Sustainability and Climate Change Plan at the regional level, including, among other actions, providing technical support to Country Offices (COs) in the region.
• Provide technical support to COs in the region on climate, DRR, humanitarian nexus.
• Provide support to COs as they roll out the global plan in line with the CO level Climate Landscape Analysis for Children documents developed with specific country-level actions in all CO UNICEF sections (WASH, nutrition, health, child protection, social policy, supply education, and SBC) involved.
• Support in the development of climate-related funding proposals within the region.
• Support knowledge management actions around climate change and DRR issues within the MENA region and make the linkage to the humanitarian operations.
• Coordinate UNICEF regional and global advocacy points and inputs into the annual climate and DRR related conferences.
• Support the documentation of evidence, best practices, and lessons learned within the region.
• Additional deliverables will be decided upon discussions with the UNV upon arrival, based on the expertise and interest of the UNV and the evolving needs of the Climate Change team.

Required experience:
5 years of experience in areas related to climate change and DRR and emergencies at the country or international levels.
• Desirable: Understanding of global and national government climate and DRR political landscape, global and national frameworks and financial landscape.
• Language skills: Fluency in English required, Arabic language skills is an advantage.
• Familiar with children's rights, gender, and disability in the context of climate change.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development.
• Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel.

Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required
Arabic, Level: Working knowledge, Desirable

Inclusivity statement:
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements
In addition to duty station-specific vaccine requirements, appointments are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the appointment. It does not apply to UN Volunteers who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts.