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Work remotely at UNICEF as a Climate Innovation Management Consultant: Apply Now!

Ednah Carrick March 17, 2026

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Closing Date: 23 March 2026

Work remotely at UNICEF as a Climate Innovation Management Consultant: Apply Now!

Climate Innovation Management Consultant (Remote, International)

Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Stockholm
Level: Consultancy
Location: Sweden
Categories: Innovation
Working arrangement: Remote/home based

About

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. UNICEF is committed, passionate, and proud of what they do for as long as they 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. UNICEF offers its 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. UNICEF welcomes everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Overview

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovation for children. UNICEF believes that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives. The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. UNICEF sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.

Under the guidance of the Initiatives Team Lead, the Climate Innovation Management Consultant will provide operational leadership and coordination for UNICEF’s priority climate innovation initiatives. The role focuses on ensuring timely delivery of agreed workplans, maintaining momentum across complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, and supporting effective collaboration across UNICEF divisions and partners.

The focus of the assignment is execution and delivery:

Ensuring agreed plans for innovation initiatives are completed in a timely manner
Maintaining momentum across complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives and partner conversations
Driving accountability, risk management, and measurable progress across team contributing to climate innovation
Preserving alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and Sustainability and Climate Action priorities in close coordination with the UNICEF Center of Excellence for “Children and Climate”

The consultant will help drive accountability, track progress, and ensure alignment with UNICEF’s climate priorities in close coordination with the Centre of Excellence for Children and Climate.

Scope of work:

1. Climate initiatives oversight Lead and coordinate the execution of agreed climate innovation priorities and annual workplans, ensuring structured tracking of milestones, performance indicators, risks, and dependencies. Maintain clear oversight of progress toward expected country-level outcomes, prepare timely governance documentation and decision briefs, and proactively identify when course correction or escalation is required to safeguard delivery and impact.

2. Cross-divisional coordination with key climate stakeholders
Serve as the central coordination focal point across Programme Group, Regional Offices, Supply Division, ICTD, and other relevant divisions, ensuring innovation efforts are embedded within core delivery systems rather than operating as standalone pilots. Maintain structured, proactive engagement with key internal stakeholders to align priorities, strengthen collaboration, and drive coherent implementation.

3. Team leadership & management
Act as a coordinator between consultants and technical contributors within the climate initiatives team, ensuring clarity on deliverables, timelines, and accountability. Monitor performance and quality of outputs, proactively manage dependencies, and address bottlenecks to maintain momentum and high standards of delivery.

4. Partnership & external engagement continuity
Maintain and steward existing partner and donor relationships, ensuring continuity of engagement on previously agreed collaborations. Support high-quality reporting, briefings, and strategic communications to sustain alignment, confidence, and momentum across partnerships.

5. Learning & documentation
Capture implementation insights and lessons learned across climate innovation initiatives, strengthening evidence building and performance tracking in collaboration with the OOI MEL team and key internal and external partners.

Minimum requirements:

Education*: Master’s degree in Social sciences, Engineering, Environmental Science, Business development or other relevant fields to sustainability and climate action. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree
Work experience: A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience in the development and humanitarian sector.
Knowledge of the UN system is required.
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergencies is required.
Language requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal (Talent Management System):