Young People in Humanitarian-Peacebuilding Consultant
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them reach their full potential from early childhood through adolescence. We are committed, passionate, and proud of our work, viewing the promotion of every child's rights as a calling. UNICEF fosters diverse career development opportunities.
Job Purpose
This consultancy aims to strengthen UNICEF's support for adolescent and youth programming in humanitarian action, peacebuilding, social cohesion, disaster risk reduction, and recovery, especially in crisis-affected and fragile contexts. It will provide technical assistance and capacity building to UNICEF country/regional offices, youth-led organizations, and partners to implement the IASC Youth Guidelines and Young Humanitarians Handbook. The role will advance the Youth, Peace, and Security agenda and promote meaningful youth engagement in humanitarian, resilience, and peacebuilding programs. It also involves supporting UNICEF's coordination within inter-agency mechanisms, such as the Capacity Strengthening Working Group of the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action and engagement with the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace, and Security.
Responsibilities
The consultant will provide technical assistance and capacity strengthening to UNICEF country and regional offices, youth-led organizations, and partners to operationalize the IASC Youth Guidelines and Young Humanitarians Handbook, advance the Youth, Peace, and Security agenda, and integrate meaningful youth engagement into humanitarian, resilience, and peacebuilding programming. This includes supporting UNICEF's leadership and coordination within key inter-agency mechanisms, such as co-leading the Capacity Strengthening Working Group of the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action and engaging with the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace, and Security. A significant part of the assignment will focus on knowledge management, research, and reporting. The consultant will support ongoing annual, donor, inter-agency, and high-level UN reporting on UNICEF’s work with adolescents and youth in humanitarian action, peacebuilding, and resilience. Additionally, the role will contribute to research, case studies, analysis, and other knowledge products to document results and lessons learned, informing programming, learning, and advocacy. This includes leading annual donor reporting and knowledge management for the Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation, documenting and disseminating implementation progress, results, and learning.
Work Experience
A minimum of five years of professional experience in youth programming, humanitarian action, peacebuilding, or related fields. Experience working with UN agencies or international organizations is highly desirable. Proven experience in knowledge management, research, and reporting is essential.
Skills
Youth engagement strategies, Humanitarian action principles, Peacebuilding frameworks, Social cohesion initiatives, Disaster risk reduction, Capacity building, Knowledge management, Research and analysis, Report writing, Project coordination, Inter-agency collaboration, Adolescent programming