Overview
Provide technical leadership and programme guidance to operationalize the Clean Air for Healthy Children agenda by delivering air-quality monitoring and data expertise, exposure and health-impact assessment, a maintained global knowledge library, direct Country Office support, and coordination of cross UN reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide sustained technical leadership to standardize methods, ensure scientific quality, and provide rapid authoritative inputs to programmes, proposals and interagency products.
- Translate global standards into locally appropriate monitoring and programmatic approaches; prioritize and deliver direct technical support to Country Offices.
- Provide expertise on monitoring strategy, sensor QA/QC, data governance, emissions inventories, source attribution and exposure/health impact assessment.
- Broker specialist inputs from universities and technical partners, and act as UNICEF’s primary focal point for cross‑UN agency report generation on air pollution and child health.
- Maintain and expand a global knowledge library, produce accessible technical resources, and deliver targeted capacity building for COs and partners.
Required Experience
Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible and relevant work experience entailing technical assistance to governments. Proven experience in drafting programmes and strategies, research and policy advocacy.
Qualifications
Master's university degree in engineering, environmental management, environmental health, technology, sciences or economics, or a related area.
