National Advisor - Climate Resilient Programme at United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Abuja

Profile

UNICEF Nigeria aids the Government of Nigeria at national and sub-national levels in offering equitable, maintainable, and climate-resilient water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to children and their families, through the design and execution of projects at the national and sub-national levels.

Objective of Task

Nigeria is one of the top ten most climate adjustment at risk countries in the world. UNICEF in partnership with government governing bodies and FCDO in Nigeria possesses conceptualize an creative project ‘Climate Resilient Structure for Basic Solutions’ (CRIBS) that goals to scale a model for evaluating climate risks and vulnerabilities of primary healthcare facilities (PHCs) and primary schools and subsequently recognizing and executing interventions to make those facilities more resilient. The first stage of the CRIBS project (2024-2025) successfully designed and tested an approach for evaluating facility level climate risks and vulnerabilities, recognizing interventions to reduce those risks and executing those interventions in primary healthcare (PHC) facilities and schools in Kano and Jigawa states. UNICEF executed climate resilient interventions in more than 39 PHCs and 45 primary schools in Kano and Jigawa states. In the CRIBS second stage (CRIBS II), UNICEF intends to work alongside the government of Nigeria at the national and state levels to scale the CRIBS approach to several states in Nigeria.

 Scope of Work

• The advisor is essential to assist the UNICEF team in Abuja and Site Workspaces (Bauchi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, and Katsina), in organizing, supervising and documenting execution advancement, emerging concerns and lessons learned in execution of CRIBS project stage II.
• S/he will offer high level assist to State and LGA governing bodies and school/PHC management teams in CRIBS concentration LGAs.
• This will broadly encompass the facilitation of advisory sessions, involvement in applicable UNICEF and participants’ sessions, on-site visits for supervising and tracking of advancement, and evaluation and synthesis of evidence to generate documentation, evaluation and generation of premium quality documentation, PowerPoint slides and documents. These are as follows:
• Assist project organizing and supervising
• Assist risk mitigation strategy
• Assist synchronization and information exchange
• Execution assist
• Advancement status updates

Outputs/Result

• An inception documentation with CRIBS achievement organizing record
• A strong Monitoring and evaluation structure, instrument for CRIBS advancement tracking and a information exchange and visibility strategy conceptualize in meeting with Health, Education and Information exchange teams
• Advancement, emerging concerns and endorsed actions collected from CRIBS team at FOs and Country Workspace and divided on a on a weekly basis basis
• Every quarter logical documentation collected on FCDO document structure and divided with associates
• Program states and LGAs visited to explain concerns, mentor local teams and accelerated advancement– complete site purpose documentation conceptualize with pictures of CRIBS advancements, concerns and lessons.
• Inputs offered to CRIBS teams on various concerns which includes CRIBS advancement practices versus organizing, risks, risk reduction measures etc

At least Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Building Management, Development Studies, Economics, Community health, Public health, Public Management, Engineering, Environment, Climate Adjustment and any other relevant field. Some expertise in climate adaptability work would be in-demand.
• Applicable professional background can be assessed as a substitute for a higher academic qualification.
• The advisor shall possess at least 7 years’ expertise in climate resilient infrastructures development in rural situations.
• S/he should also possess a reliable logical and skilled in writing in English language, with evidence of possessing done similar kinds of work at the national and sub-national level. Samples of documented work could be questioned for, if needed. Verbal abilities in Hausa language would be beneficial.
• Fluency in English (verbal and documented) is essential. Fluency in Hausa language is an asset, and a desirable asset.