Consultancy - Sustainable and Blended Finance Specialist, Carbon Credit Projects & Climate Finance Models , Office of Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 months (remote)

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.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we 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. We offer our 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. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, the right to innovate

UNICEF 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.

The Sustainable and Blended Finance Specialist (the Specialist) will bring their expertise in support to the Senior Adviser Sustainable Financing (SF) to offer expert advice and guidance around the Sustainable Finance work of WASH Hub in development and humanitarian contexts.

More specifically, there is a need for the Specialist to provide expert guidance to UNICEF WASH and to support the development of carbon credit projects and climate financing models and tools to support SF application in WASH, with potential for scaling up and strategies for leveraging SF approaches to provide catalytic funding for innovative WASH approaches.

To operationalize this opportunity, UNICEF requires specialized expertise in:

• Evaluating carbon project eligibility and methodologies