UNICEF International Consultancy to provide Technical Assistance on Nutrition and Climate Change Jobs 2022 – Kenya NGO Jobs. UNICEF Kenya looking for “International Consultancy to provide Technical Assistance on Nutrition and Climate Change”. Applicants with a University degree may apply on or before 15 January 2023.
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UNICEF International Consultancy to provide Technical Assistance on Nutrition and Climate Change Jobs 2022
The UNICEF has published a job vacancy announcement on 14 December 2022 for qualified Kenya’s to fill in the vacant post of International Consultancy to provide Technical Assistance on Nutrition and Climate Change to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
| Recruiter | United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) |
| Position | International Consultancy to provide Technical Assistance on Nutrition and Climate Change |
| Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Country | Kenya |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | University degree |
| Experience Required | At least eight years |
| Application Deadline | 15 January 2023 |
UNICEF Job Vacancy 2022
Responsibilities and Tasks:
Under the direction of the Nutrition Advisor, and in close coordination with other members and technical specialists of the Nutrition Team and other sections as appropriate, responsible for / support the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of climate change and nutrition programming, the expert will:
- Support to country Office activities focused on resilience of nutrition services to children in the context of climate change, and environment and natural resource degradation. These might include technical assistance to field level staff for the implementation of specific activities.
- Develop capacity within ESARO and country offices to analyse and interpret the relation between nutrition and climate change. This will include developing risk assessment methodology, and training materials and toolkits.
- Provide technical nutrition input to documents focusing on resilience in the context of climate change
- Support the development of innovative approaches to improve elasticity of health systems for surge response during climate induced nutrition emergency like drought, cyclones and floods.
- Provide technical review for nutrition components to diverse documents on resilience and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- Produce a document framing nutrition as a core element to be included within the strategies, plans and proposals to be funded with climate financing – e.g. Green Climate Fund, funding commitments arising from the COP-27 conference to support low income countries address the impacts of climate change, and identify opportunities for country offices to include nutrition
- Support the nutrition advisor and team members by providing data, information and knowledge and expertise on nutrition aspects of resilience building especially in the context of climate change, including risk assessment and mitigation against humanitarian disasters resulting from climate change.
- Support UNICEF regional office in development of tools to identify entry points, policy recommendations and programmatic actions to address climate change as a driver of malnutrition.
- Provide surge support to countries in nutrition emergencies as needed
- Perform other duties as required.
Qualification & Experience:
- An advanced degree or higher qualification in Nutrition, Public Health, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, earth and environmental sciences, geography, or a related field. Degree in human nutrition is an asset.
- At least eight years of relevant experience in programme and/or policy support in the area of nutrition and climate change or natural resource management or humanitarian response.
- A professional work experience in the UN or other international organizations, national governments or the private sector is an asset.
- Knowledge and proven analytical skills and experience in experience in public health nutrition and/or emergency nutrition project development, drafting, implementation, monitoring, reporting and verification.
- Knowledge and experience in climate change risk analysis, adaptation and mitigation, and climate financing.
- Background/familiarity to approaches for development, implementation and management of nutrition program approaches to disaster risk management and reduction, resilience building, and linkage with health, WASH, social protection and food security programming.
- Ability to design mapping, landscape analyses, programme reviews etc and apply knowledge from contemporary research in the field of nutrition/DRR/climate change, and translate this into programming strategies for different contexts (humanitarian, urban slum, etc.)
- Fluency in English (verbal and written). knowledge of another UN language an asset.
Other Details
- Job no: 557901
- Contract type: Consultant
- Level: Consultancy
- Categories: Nutrition
How to Apply UNICEF International Consultancy to provide Technical Assistance on Nutrition and Climate Change Jobs 2022
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
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The Closing Date: 15 January 2023
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.unicef.org |
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