Consultant for Developing and Piloting a Nature Positive AI Toolkit for Policymakers (SHS)
On site
Paris, France
Freelance
19-03-2025
Job Specifications
Overview
Parent Sector : Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS)
Duty Station: Paris
Job Family: Social and Human Sciences
Type of contract : [[Contract Type]]
Duration of contract : From 7 to 11 months
Recruitment open to : External candidates
Application Deadline (Midnight Paris Time) : 31.03.2025
UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, Professionalism
Background
UNESCO has the mandate to promote the development of science and technology from an ethical and human rights approach. Under this framework in November 2021, UNESCO developed the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which the 193 Member States adopted by acclamation at the 41st session of its General Conference, and spearheading its implementation by the Member States through innovative tools and methodologies, such as the Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) and the Ethical Impact Assessment (EIA). Through the application of these tools, UNESCO is changing the business model that drives AI, going beyond principles to develop a range of concrete and practical solutions to ensure fair, inclusive, sustainable and equitable outcomes of AI.
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) has played a pivotal role in supporting UNESCO’s efforts to position ethics as the cornerstone of building AI governance. Through the implementation of two projects (2023 and 2024), UNESCO has facilitated a multistakeholder process of evidence gathering through national consultation and the deployment of RAM in Brazil, Chile, Morocco and Senegal in the first phase and in the ongoing phase in Argentina, India, Indonesia, Tanzania and Turkey. The partnership also advances key knowledge products that will further reinforce capacity-building efforts on the ground and empower stakeholders to navigate the complex AI landscape.
The goal of the new project—Scaling Inclusive, Human Rights-Based Ethical AI Governance (2025)—is to consolidate the results delivered to date, build on the achievements made, expand the reach and depth of diagnostic and policy development efforts, and deploy globally the tools, methodologies, knowledge and experiences from the recent efforts of building AI governance ecosystem. The actions will be organised around three main pillars/expected outcomes: a. empowering civil society, b. expanding and deepening engagement with countries for ethics of AI through RAMs and other tools; c. producing new knowledge on AI governance.
Later this year, Brazil will preside over the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém. As the world marks the tenth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, there is a heightened sense of urgency about global warming, which has morphed from a future threat into a present emergency. Acknowledging the urgency of the challenges and opportunities in the nexus of Climate, Biodiversity, and AI, UNESCO took the pioneering step of including an environmental policy chapter in The Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. This set a transformative precedent for the global AI community, urging a shift to a broader vision of AI’s role—not only in reducing the environmental impact but also in actively enhancing ecosystem health and community resilience.
There is great optimism that COP30 will mark a pivotal moment for climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives. Following the completion of the global stocktake at COP28—enabling countries to see where they’re collectively making progress toward meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement and where they are not— and the finalisation of the Paris Agreement rulebook at COP29—setting the implementation guidelines to execute the Agreement—the primary focus in Belém will be to accelerate the execution of current agreements. Our goal at COP30 is to redirect global efforts to create conditions at the international level that facilitate and accelerate national efforts. The aim of this consultancy is to develop and pilot a Nature Positive AI Toolkit for Policymakers to help countries achieve these agreed goals. The policy chapter on Environment and Ecosystems of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI is to be the basis of this Toolkit.
Overview Of The Functions Of The Post
The Consultant will work under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences Sector (ADG/SHS) and under the direct supervision of the Head of Ethics of AI Unit at UNESCO Headquarters.
The consultant will 1) lead the production of a report compiling guidance and good practices to address these gaps in the format of a toolkit for policymakers and 2) lead the piloting of this toolkit through at least two use cases to identify from the 61 countries conducting the RAM.
The outputs and activities the Consultant will engage in are:
Output 1. Producing a Nature Positive AI Toolkit for Policymakers:
Develop research design and methodology for producing the Nature Positive AI Toolkit for Policymakers.
Identify key themes, trends, challenges, tools and good practices in Nature Positive AI, including reviewing findings from the Benchmark Report to Guide the Strategic Development of UNESCO’s Global Action Towards Nature Positive AI developed within the Ethics of AI Team and including the discussions from the 2025 AI Action Summit.
Engage and collaborate in the production of this research with the leading institutions and networks partnering with UNESCO on the implementation of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (AI Experts without Borders, Women for Ethics of AI platform, Global Network of Civil Society Organizations).
Conduct interviews with competent authorities, experts and other relevant stakeholders for input into the research if needed.
Draft the report as a toolkit and in a modular format for easy dissemination and uptake among national stakeholders in every country. Ideally, the report should have a structure that could easily be implemented as an online tool.
Integrate findings from the pilots into the report.
Integrate report findings into the Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory in consultation with the Ethics of AI team.
Integrate inputs of the Ethics of AI team as needed and contribute to dissemination, communication and briefing outputs as necessary.
Output 2. Piloting the Nature Positive AI Toolkit for Policymakers:
Identify the most important sections in the Nature Positive AI Toolkit that must be piloted as a priority and identify at least two use cases from the 61 countries conducting the RAM accordingly.
Lead on the agreement, logistics and work needed to conduct the pilots.
Produce dissemination material to inform of the pilots' results using a format that could be standardised for future pilots.
Integrate pilots' findings into the Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory in consultation with the Ethics of AI team.
Contribute to dissemination, communication and briefing outputs as necessary.
Output 3. Contrib...
About the Company
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable indicators, methodologies and standards for the Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4) and key targets related to science (SDG 9), culture (SDG 11) and communication. We work directly with national statistical offices, line ministries and international organizations around the world to collect data while developing a wide array of methodologies and standards to produce the internationally-comparable indicat... Know more
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