Working in support and responding to the Practitioner Network, the consultant will collaborate with relevant HQ divisions, field, country and regional offices, partners and extender/facilitators themselves to collect and synthesize information on the current use of programme facilitators/extenders by UNICEF country offices. This includes examining and documenting the purpose and scale of this modality, as well as operational aspects such as hiring, training, support, and oversight guidance within specific contexts.
Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist - GBViE, the consultant will be responsible for completion of the following deliverables:
1. Support CCS resource package dissemination;
2. Support the next phase of the CCS resource package development;
3. Contribute to the development and dissemination of UNICEF GBViE technical resources.
The consultancy will be home-based with travels to emergency-affected contexts relevant to the above tasks, as feasible.
to seek professional, consultancy services to support with coordination, communication and advocacy efforts for community health and the Community Health Delivery Partnership (CHDP). The target audience includes governments, key private and public sector audiences, implementing partners and donors, and UNICEF regional and country offices. This workstream is closely linked with the broader goals and objectives of the CHDP and contributes to UNICEF’s renewed vision for community health and corporate priority on community action for better health and nutrition outcomes for vulnerable populations especially women and children.
This work is essential to advancing community health and nutrition related priorities by effectively documenting and communicating impact, advocating for countries’ priority needs in advancing and scaling community health and nutrition and showcasing UNICEF’s efforts to support countries in these efforts and protecting children’s right to health. As such, the consultant will produce communication and advocacy materials, enhance the visibility of countries’ and regional priorities for resource mobilization by developing fact sheets and keeping existing resources and materials up-to-date, and coordinate advocacy and communication work. She/he will also work in coordination with other teams/units in the MNCAH section to ensure complementary of efforts and linkages across workstreams and liaise with regional and country offices as well as external partners to ensure there is robust visibility around UNICEF’s work and that of the CHDP related to community health and nutrition.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will:
1. Increase awareness and uptake of the new suite of GBV / Education technical resources;
2. Contribute to advance the GBV Risk Mitigation Institutionalization agenda;
3. Provide in-country and/or remote technical support on GBViE .
The consultancy will be home-based with potential travel to emergency-affected contexts relevant to the above tasks, as necessary.
The consultant will support the Maternal Newborn Adolescent Health Unit on advancing UNICEF’s school and adolescent health agenda under supervision of the Health Specialist (Adolescents, School, Mental Health).
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF’s Education in Emergencies (EiE) team in knowledge management, reporting, programme monitoring and evaluation, grant management, data management, communication/advocacy, and resource mobilization to reinforce UNICEF’s commitment to ensuring uninterrupted education for children affected by humanitarian crises.
This consultancy will drive regional expansion, partnership development, and resource mobilization in EAP, supporting select global priorities and accelerate the scale-up and sustainability of GenU in the East Asia and Pacific region by delivering targeted partnership and fundraising outcomes, strengthening country-level engagement, and supporting regional strategy and knowledge exchange.
Under the guidance of the Lead for the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future (PLF) and in collaboration with the PLF Secretariat, UNICEF divisions, and the Health Environments for Healthy Children Team, the Consultant will create and aggregate best practices and technical tools through a central knowledge and resource hub to support country-led efforts.
Under the supervision and guidance of the CEED programme specialist, this consultant will work in collaboration with country offices, regional offices, and headquarters to advocate for increased sustainable energy commitments in investments, as well as child sensitive commitments in energy programming.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert guidance on the development of a research and thought leadership agenda on the debt crisis and its impacts on children. The consultant will support the shaping of the research direction, advise on the production of key outputs, and contribute to the delivery of a flagship publication. This includes identifying and engaging contributing authors, facilitating research activities, supporting coherence across outputs, and advising on the preparation of a final book that synthesizes findings and policy insights.
UNICEF Czech Republic Refugee Response Office (RRO) is looking for a qualified International Consultant to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) of the Czech Republic in drafting a comprehensive child protection and family support law aimed at unifying and strengthening the national child protection system.
**This is a re-advertisement in order to expand the candidate pool. Previous applicants need not reapply as their original application will be duly considered.**
UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) is looking for a qualified Regional Administrative Data Consultant to provide strategic advice to governments and UNICEF on maximizing the use of administrative data for children.
Under the direct supervision of the PG SPSP HCT team data manager, and in close collaboration with the ICTD Core Solution Unit IT Manager, the consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:
1. Complete the front end and backend HOPE refactoring coupling within one Docker, Move from Graph QL to Django Rest Framework, ensure Code Coverage ~95%
2. Implement technical measures to pull out grievances’ modules from HOPE stack in order to benefit from independent maintenance across modules.
3. Support the development of a biometrics solution for registration/deduplication and beneficiary authentication, utilizing Voice and Face Photo information.
4. Support the Development of the Country workspace, a system enabling the manipulation of registration data before uploading into HOPE.
5. Refactor deduplication by removing data husband elastic search and enable programme specific deduplication rules
6. Complete Country Report features to allow users to have granular access to HOPE data
7. Achieve HOPE distributed architecture by defining and implementing a technical solution to have different databases (e.g.: per group of time zones) to optimize maintenance time slot and performance
UNICEF seeks to engage an experienced individual consultant to drive the work of designing and establishing the platform to better attract, structure and consolidate funding flows to UNICEF’s global Education Programme, and to create joint ownership and accountability for achieving global goals. It is anticipated that this new approach will attract and leverage new partnerships by aligning with donor priorities and deploying creative financing models to maximize the impact of every dollar invested. The Consultant will also support partner sensitization, strategic communication to position and promote aligning with donor interests and launch of the platform.
The consultant will help define the architecture of the platform, and pathways to operationalize it. This will include the launch of a new partnership platform that enables coordinated and equity-focused allocation of resources together with partners. The platform promotes joint ownership and accountability.
Under the direct supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (Immunization) in the Data and Analytics Section (DAPM), the consultant will focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of immunization and related health databases. This includes expanding and integrating databases to incorporate additional health indicators and environmental factors that may affect immunization coverage. The consultant will also develop and implement a robust BCU monitoring methodology to assess data quality, analyze trends before and after BCU activities, and evaluate performance at national and subnational levels.
The objective of this assignment is to provide comprehensive advisory support to DAPM digital systems by collaborating with concerned units to conceptualize and develop new digital modules and platforms, analyze help desk support systems for efficiency and better user experience and identify opportunities for performance improvements across digital platforms. The consultant will facilitate stakeholder engagement, produce analytical reports, and support the development and rollout of existing and new systems. Additionally, the consultant will coordinate efforts to maximize efficiency, reduce redundancies and enhance overall systems management within DAPM.
Working in support and responding to the Practitioner Network, the consultant will collaborate with relevant HQ divisions, field, country and regional offices, partners and extender/facilitators themselves to collect and synthesize information on the current use of programme facilitators/extenders by UNICEF country offices. This includes examining and documenting the purpose and scale of this modality, as well as operational aspects such as hiring, training, support, and oversight guidance within specific contexts.
Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist - GBViE, the consultant will be responsible for completion of the following deliverables:
1. Support CCS resource package dissemination;
2. Support the next phase of the CCS resource package development;
3. Contribute to the development and dissemination of UNICEF GBViE technical resources.
The consultancy will be home-based with travels to emergency-affected contexts relevant to the above tasks, as feasible.
to seek professional, consultancy services to support with coordination, communication and advocacy efforts for community health and the Community Health Delivery Partnership (CHDP). The target audience includes governments, key private and public sector audiences, implementing partners and donors, and UNICEF regional and country offices. This workstream is closely linked with the broader goals and objectives of the CHDP and contributes to UNICEF’s renewed vision for community health and corporate priority on community action for better health and nutrition outcomes for vulnerable populations especially women and children.
This work is essential to advancing community health and nutrition related priorities by effectively documenting and communicating impact, advocating for countries’ priority needs in advancing and scaling community health and nutrition and showcasing UNICEF’s efforts to support countries in these efforts and protecting children’s right to health. As such, the consultant will produce communication and advocacy materials, enhance the visibility of countries’ and regional priorities for resource mobilization by developing fact sheets and keeping existing resources and materials up-to-date, and coordinate advocacy and communication work. She/he will also work in coordination with other teams/units in the MNCAH section to ensure complementary of efforts and linkages across workstreams and liaise with regional and country offices as well as external partners to ensure there is robust visibility around UNICEF’s work and that of the CHDP related to community health and nutrition.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will:
1. Increase awareness and uptake of the new suite of GBV / Education technical resources;
2. Contribute to advance the GBV Risk Mitigation Institutionalization agenda;
3. Provide in-country and/or remote technical support on GBViE .
The consultancy will be home-based with potential travel to emergency-affected contexts relevant to the above tasks, as necessary.
The consultant will support the Maternal Newborn Adolescent Health Unit on advancing UNICEF’s school and adolescent health agenda under supervision of the Health Specialist (Adolescents, School, Mental Health).
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF’s Education in Emergencies (EiE) team in knowledge management, reporting, programme monitoring and evaluation, grant management, data management, communication/advocacy, and resource mobilization to reinforce UNICEF’s commitment to ensuring uninterrupted education for children affected by humanitarian crises.
This consultancy will drive regional expansion, partnership development, and resource mobilization in EAP, supporting select global priorities and accelerate the scale-up and sustainability of GenU in the East Asia and Pacific region by delivering targeted partnership and fundraising outcomes, strengthening country-level engagement, and supporting regional strategy and knowledge exchange.
Under the guidance of the Lead for the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future (PLF) and in collaboration with the PLF Secretariat, UNICEF divisions, and the Health Environments for Healthy Children Team, the Consultant will create and aggregate best practices and technical tools through a central knowledge and resource hub to support country-led efforts.
Under the supervision and guidance of the CEED programme specialist, this consultant will work in collaboration with country offices, regional offices, and headquarters to advocate for increased sustainable energy commitments in investments, as well as child sensitive commitments in energy programming.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert guidance on the development of a research and thought leadership agenda on the debt crisis and its impacts on children. The consultant will support the shaping of the research direction, advise on the production of key outputs, and contribute to the delivery of a flagship publication. This includes identifying and engaging contributing authors, facilitating research activities, supporting coherence across outputs, and advising on the preparation of a final book that synthesizes findings and policy insights.
UNICEF Czech Republic Refugee Response Office (RRO) is looking for a qualified International Consultant to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) of the Czech Republic in drafting a comprehensive child protection and family support law aimed at unifying and strengthening the national child protection system.
**This is a re-advertisement in order to expand the candidate pool. Previous applicants need not reapply as their original application will be duly considered.**
UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) is looking for a qualified Regional Administrative Data Consultant to provide strategic advice to governments and UNICEF on maximizing the use of administrative data for children.
Under the direct supervision of the PG SPSP HCT team data manager, and in close collaboration with the ICTD Core Solution Unit IT Manager, the consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:
1. Complete the front end and backend HOPE refactoring coupling within one Docker, Move from Graph QL to Django Rest Framework, ensure Code Coverage ~95%
2. Implement technical measures to pull out grievances’ modules from HOPE stack in order to benefit from independent maintenance across modules.
3. Support the development of a biometrics solution for registration/deduplication and beneficiary authentication, utilizing Voice and Face Photo information.
4. Support the Development of the Country workspace, a system enabling the manipulation of registration data before uploading into HOPE.
5. Refactor deduplication by removing data husband elastic search and enable programme specific deduplication rules
6. Complete Country Report features to allow users to have granular access to HOPE data
7. Achieve HOPE distributed architecture by defining and implementing a technical solution to have different databases (e.g.: per group of time zones) to optimize maintenance time slot and performance
UNICEF seeks to engage an experienced individual consultant to drive the work of designing and establishing the platform to better attract, structure and consolidate funding flows to UNICEF’s global Education Programme, and to create joint ownership and accountability for achieving global goals. It is anticipated that this new approach will attract and leverage new partnerships by aligning with donor priorities and deploying creative financing models to maximize the impact of every dollar invested. The Consultant will also support partner sensitization, strategic communication to position and promote aligning with donor interests and launch of the platform.
The consultant will help define the architecture of the platform, and pathways to operationalize it. This will include the launch of a new partnership platform that enables coordinated and equity-focused allocation of resources together with partners. The platform promotes joint ownership and accountability.
Under the direct supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (Immunization) in the Data and Analytics Section (DAPM), the consultant will focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of immunization and related health databases. This includes expanding and integrating databases to incorporate additional health indicators and environmental factors that may affect immunization coverage. The consultant will also develop and implement a robust BCU monitoring methodology to assess data quality, analyze trends before and after BCU activities, and evaluate performance at national and subnational levels.
The objective of this assignment is to provide comprehensive advisory support to DAPM digital systems by collaborating with concerned units to conceptualize and develop new digital modules and platforms, analyze help desk support systems for efficiency and better user experience and identify opportunities for performance improvements across digital platforms. The consultant will facilitate stakeholder engagement, produce analytical reports, and support the development and rollout of existing and new systems. Additionally, the consultant will coordinate efforts to maximize efficiency, reduce redundancies and enhance overall systems management within DAPM.