Senior Expert, Children’s Environmental Health Consultant
GPD – HEHC Programme, Climate and Environment CoE, Bangkok, Thailand
Remote with travel
19.5 months
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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide scientific leadership, rigorous quality assurance, and high-level policy engagement to embed child-specific vulnerabilities into global environmental and climate policies and normative guidance
Scope of Work
To support these efforts, UNICEF requires a senior expert in Children's Environmental Health. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide senior scientific advisory, technical leadership, and normative quality assurance to advance UNICEF’s Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) agenda globally. Leveraging decades of foundational expertise in pediatric environmental epidemiology, regulatory policy, and inter-agency multilateral guidance, the consultant will serve as an authoritative scientific arbiter. Responsibilities center on ensuring gold-standard methodological rigor, clinical validity, and primordial prevention framing across UNICEF's flagship reports, high-level policy briefs, and normative technical guidance packages addressing issues such as toxic chemical exposures, air pollution, climate and disasters and the built environment.
In addition, the consultancy aims to drive strategic technical engagement and policy diplomacy across health, environment, and climate sectors. The consultant will mobilize global and regional clinical bodies, professional pediatric societies, and multilateral partners to position child-specific physiological vulnerabilities at the core of national policies and international environmental governance. By leading high-level technical dialogues, delivering keynote interventions at key global convenings, and bridging scientific evidence with actionable policy, this assignment supports UNICEF in establishing CEH as an urgent priority for governments and international financial institutions to review technical content, strengthen technical collaboration and expand capacity development initiatives for a global audience.
Minimum requirements
- Demonstrated experience in developing high-quality technical content, such as training curricula, published articles, guidance documents, and policy briefs (a portfolio of work may be requested).
- Proven track record of working with international organizations, academic institutions, and government bodies.
- An established network of contacts within the global CEH community is highly desirable.
- Experience working on issues relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
- Previous experience of working with UNICEF and the UN is desirable.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple complex tasks to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a remote team
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
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