**Job no**: 564048**Contract type**: Consultant**Duty Station**: Kuala Lumpur**Level**: Consultancy**Location**: Malaysia**Categories**: InnovationUNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.And we never give up.**For every child, **_hope_**Together with the Malaysian government and others who are truly passionate about child rights, UNICEF works in Malaysia to ensure every child has the opportunity to grow healthy and happy; live safely; and achieve their full potential.With the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the 12th Malaysia plan as our guides, we endeavor to change minds, change policies, and in turn change the lives of all children in Malaysia.**Purpose of Activity/Assignment**:Climate change and environmental degradation are some of the biggest threats affecting the world's children, undermining many of the gains achieved in child survival and development. Children are the least responsible for climate change and environmental degradation, yet they stand to bear the most significant burden of its impact. UNICEF is committed to achieving societal transformation necessary for children to live in a sustainable, clean and safe environment.UNICEF's climate and environmental sustainability strategy stresses the need for ambitious programming to protect children from the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation by increasing the resilience of essential services and reducing emissions and pollution. It also recognizes that children and youth are not merely passive victims but right holders and active agents of change, and that our only hope is empowering future generations to choose an environmentally sustainable path.Under the joint supervision of the Climate and Environment Specialist (UNICEF) and the Youth Environment Living Lab (YELL) Project Manager, the YELL Coordinator will lead the day-to-day coordination of YELL and will ensure the efficient delivery of the programme. The YELL Coordinator will support UNICEF's efforts to make children and young people a focus of climate change strategies and to empower children and young people with knowledge and skills to participate in climate and environmental action.YELL is a joint programme by UNDP Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei Darussalam and UNICEF Malaysia, supported by Amanah Lestari Alam (ALAM) to reimagine youth participation in climate and environmental action, in Malaysia. With a focus on moving from awareness to action, empowering young people with the knowledge, skills and networks to address sustainability issues, YELL has two objectives:- To localize climate narratives and emphasize local and indigenous perspective on nature and environment so that they are more relevant and compelling to young people in Malaysia, and- To strengthen the ecosystem of actors to support and hold the space for youth to engage as agents of change in environmental policy- and decision-making and in environmental actions.YELL's objectives will be achieved through three programmatic pillars: the 'Exploraction' programme, the 'Conservocation' programme, and the YELL Network Resource Hub. YELL is expected to enable children and young people aged 7-30 to act on climate and environmental issues with structured entry points through the three programmatic pillars.- For more information on YELL, please refer to the yell.my website.- The YELL Coordinator (consultant) will work on the YELL project and will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the project, and for providing technical support to the successful and timely implementation of activities under this project.**How can you make a difference?**- 1. Project coordination- Lead the coordination of YELL's day-to-day work, and is accountable for YELL's project outputs and activities- Directly supervise the YELL team of Environment Community Facilitators, Communications Officer and Interns- Coordinate experts and service providers to assist with the delivery of outputs, reports and knowledge products- Support output & activity-level planning and implementation- Ensure the timely and effective implementation of project activities, providing technical support to the implementation of the activities, reviewing and contributing to all outputs and deliverables produced under the project- Coordinate the planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of project activities- Coordinate the collection of output/ activity level data and stories- Develop partnerships with youth-led and youth-centered organizations, environmental NGOs/CBOs, local communities, government ministries & agencies- Coordination of stakeholder inputs, project meetin
