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.
The Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) plays a central role in enhancing UNICEF’s decision-making, organizational learning, and results for children. Within DAPM, the Data & Analytics Team (DAT) leads the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of high-quality, globally comparable data on children and women—positioning this data as a global public good through platforms such as data.unicef.org.
As UNICEF prepares its Strategic Plan for 2026–2029, the integration of planning, monitoring, data, and analytics (PMDA) will be critical to advancing the organization’s goals. Data communications is a core enabler of this effort—translating complex data into actionable insights that inform decision-making, support internal alignment, and drive external advocacy with Member States and partners.
This consultancy sits within the Data Communications and Advocacy team, UNICEF’s specialized function for primarily digital data visibility, advocacy, and audience engagement. The consultant will serve as an executor of the team’s digital strategy—supporting content production, innovation, digital optimization, and technical delivery across data platforms and technical outreach channels. This role is essential to ensure that UNICEF’s data is not only accessible but influential, shaping programming, partnerships, and global discourse around children’s rights.
The “Knowledge at UNICEF (K@U)” platform (https://knowledge.unicef.org) provides UNICEF offices with an external UNICEF branded web publishing platform which allows them to easily share UNICEF technical knowledge products and makes it easy for UNICEF partners to access them and engage around them. The platform has been developed to help position UNICEF as a global knowledge leader for children, and ensure that UNICEF as an organization manages, documents, shares knowledge effectively. The platform allows finalized technical content that is already stored on UNICEF’s internal Enterprise Content Management system in SharePoint to be shared publicly through the K@U site ensuring a single source of truth with consistency between internal and external versions of a document.
The platform has been live since January 2023, and pilots are already underway.
The assignment for this consultancy is to assist the KM specialist with the management and rollout of the platform with country and regional offices, and global thematic groups.
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products reports to the Chief CSD for general guidance and direction. The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for providing technical support to the Ministry of Health for the quantification of drugs at the national level and for the ordering as well as planning of the supply and distribution of drugs to targeted Health districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination of the activities of the European Union project and to maintain contact between the Ministry of Health and the EU project implementing partners in the 7 targeted Health Districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination between the Ministry of Health, the health regions, the health districts and the implementation partners in terms of drug supply management. He will work strategically to plan and formulate actions to sustain the national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm and to protect their rights to survival, development, and well-being, as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for establishing the action plan and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable UE project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
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.
As part of our team, you will actively contribute to the Programme Group’s efforts to advance youth-led climate action in some of the world’s most vulnerable urban communities. By supporting the rollout of Green Rising in slums and informal settlements, you will help ensure that young people are empowered to drive environmental change where it matters most.
The consultant will work and consult closely with UNICEF’s nutrition team and engage with key government stakeholders and development partners. The general process, methodology and various tools are available from the MQSUN+ Toolkit on Multisectoral Planning for Nutrition, which will guide this assignment and will be adapted to suit the Tajik context.
This consultancy will provide critical support to the continued roll-out of the MRMIMS+ system to situations where it is most needed, building on its existing use in 15 situations included in the Secretary General’s annual report on CAAC. Beyond expanding access, the consultancy will focus on strengthening user support, refining tools and guidance, and enhancing system functionalities to ensure the MRMIMS+ is used effectively. By providing technical assistance to both new and existing users, this work will help optimize the system’s efficiency, enabling colleagues to better document, analyze, and report on grave violations against children in armed conflict and other complex emergencies. Additionally, it will contribute to the development of analytical reports to inform global advocacy efforts on child protection in armed conflict.
We are looking for a Human Resources Associate who will support the ICTD HR team with onboarding, protocol and admin activities for new hires and relocating staff from co-located division in Valencia, Spain.Â
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the preparation and analysis of education administrative data, with a particular focus on linking administrative sources to household survey data for deeper insight into education system performance. The consultant will work closely with the Technical Working Group and country teams to acquire and clean administrative datasets, build workflows to standardize and integrate EMIS data, and develop reproducible scripts using R.
As part of this assignment, the consultant will support the creation of a linked database across six countries, enabling joint analysis of administrative and household survey data. This will involve producing country-specific factsheets, exploring econometric approaches to respond to national policy questions, and contributing to the validation and finalization of outputs. All scripts and documentation will be maintained on GitHub to ensure transparency and facilitate future updates by teams and country partners
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to build a workflow for processing education data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). The education team maintains a repository of key education indicators by harmonizing MICS surveys, and moving forward, the team seeks to update the workflow in R by building on the existing systems with the support of a consultant. This work will involve leveraging both past and forthcoming MICS data to develop a system for microdata harmonization that produces education indicators. In addition, the consultant will support the country validation exercise, working closely with country offices to validate recent education estimates.
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.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the development and implementation of a streamlined, reproducible workflow for the production of MICS-EAGLE factsheets. These factsheets provide countries with accessible, data-driven insights on key education indicators derived from MICS data. The consultant will enhance and automate the existing R-based workflow to generate standardized factsheets across multiple countries, covering eight core topics and producing over 50 charts per country.
In addition to workflow development, the consultant will work with up to six countries to produce customized factsheets, ensuring that estimates are validated against official sources and aligned with national priorities. The consultant will be responsible for writing per-country scripts, maintaining the GitHub repository, and supporting the publication process in collaboration with country offices and ministries of education. All code and documentation will be prepared to ensure long-term scalability and reproducibility of the process.
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.
The Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) plays a central role in enhancing UNICEF’s decision-making, organizational learning, and results for children. Within DAPM, the Data & Analytics Team (DAT) leads the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of high-quality, globally comparable data on children and women—positioning this data as a global public good through platforms such as data.unicef.org.
As UNICEF prepares its Strategic Plan for 2026–2029, the integration of planning, monitoring, data, and analytics (PMDA) will be critical to advancing the organization’s goals. Data communications is a core enabler of this effort—translating complex data into actionable insights that inform decision-making, support internal alignment, and drive external advocacy with Member States and partners.
This consultancy sits within the Data Communications and Advocacy team, UNICEF’s specialized function for primarily digital data visibility, advocacy, and audience engagement. The consultant will serve as an executor of the team’s digital strategy—supporting content production, innovation, digital optimization, and technical delivery across data platforms and technical outreach channels. This role is essential to ensure that UNICEF’s data is not only accessible but influential, shaping programming, partnerships, and global discourse around children’s rights.
The “Knowledge at UNICEF (K@U)” platform (https://knowledge.unicef.org) provides UNICEF offices with an external UNICEF branded web publishing platform which allows them to easily share UNICEF technical knowledge products and makes it easy for UNICEF partners to access them and engage around them. The platform has been developed to help position UNICEF as a global knowledge leader for children, and ensure that UNICEF as an organization manages, documents, shares knowledge effectively. The platform allows finalized technical content that is already stored on UNICEF’s internal Enterprise Content Management system in SharePoint to be shared publicly through the K@U site ensuring a single source of truth with consistency between internal and external versions of a document.
The platform has been live since January 2023, and pilots are already underway.
The assignment for this consultancy is to assist the KM specialist with the management and rollout of the platform with country and regional offices, and global thematic groups.
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products reports to the Chief CSD for general guidance and direction. The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for providing technical support to the Ministry of Health for the quantification of drugs at the national level and for the ordering as well as planning of the supply and distribution of drugs to targeted Health districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination of the activities of the European Union project and to maintain contact between the Ministry of Health and the EU project implementing partners in the 7 targeted Health Districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination between the Ministry of Health, the health regions, the health districts and the implementation partners in terms of drug supply management. He will work strategically to plan and formulate actions to sustain the national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm and to protect their rights to survival, development, and well-being, as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for establishing the action plan and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable UE project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
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.
As part of our team, you will actively contribute to the Programme Group’s efforts to advance youth-led climate action in some of the world’s most vulnerable urban communities. By supporting the rollout of Green Rising in slums and informal settlements, you will help ensure that young people are empowered to drive environmental change where it matters most.
The consultant will work and consult closely with UNICEF’s nutrition team and engage with key government stakeholders and development partners. The general process, methodology and various tools are available from the MQSUN+ Toolkit on Multisectoral Planning for Nutrition, which will guide this assignment and will be adapted to suit the Tajik context.
This consultancy will provide critical support to the continued roll-out of the MRMIMS+ system to situations where it is most needed, building on its existing use in 15 situations included in the Secretary General’s annual report on CAAC. Beyond expanding access, the consultancy will focus on strengthening user support, refining tools and guidance, and enhancing system functionalities to ensure the MRMIMS+ is used effectively. By providing technical assistance to both new and existing users, this work will help optimize the system’s efficiency, enabling colleagues to better document, analyze, and report on grave violations against children in armed conflict and other complex emergencies. Additionally, it will contribute to the development of analytical reports to inform global advocacy efforts on child protection in armed conflict.
We are looking for a Human Resources Associate who will support the ICTD HR team with onboarding, protocol and admin activities for new hires and relocating staff from co-located division in Valencia, Spain.Â
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the preparation and analysis of education administrative data, with a particular focus on linking administrative sources to household survey data for deeper insight into education system performance. The consultant will work closely with the Technical Working Group and country teams to acquire and clean administrative datasets, build workflows to standardize and integrate EMIS data, and develop reproducible scripts using R.
As part of this assignment, the consultant will support the creation of a linked database across six countries, enabling joint analysis of administrative and household survey data. This will involve producing country-specific factsheets, exploring econometric approaches to respond to national policy questions, and contributing to the validation and finalization of outputs. All scripts and documentation will be maintained on GitHub to ensure transparency and facilitate future updates by teams and country partners
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to build a workflow for processing education data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). The education team maintains a repository of key education indicators by harmonizing MICS surveys, and moving forward, the team seeks to update the workflow in R by building on the existing systems with the support of a consultant. This work will involve leveraging both past and forthcoming MICS data to develop a system for microdata harmonization that produces education indicators. In addition, the consultant will support the country validation exercise, working closely with country offices to validate recent education estimates.
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.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the development and implementation of a streamlined, reproducible workflow for the production of MICS-EAGLE factsheets. These factsheets provide countries with accessible, data-driven insights on key education indicators derived from MICS data. The consultant will enhance and automate the existing R-based workflow to generate standardized factsheets across multiple countries, covering eight core topics and producing over 50 charts per country.
In addition to workflow development, the consultant will work with up to six countries to produce customized factsheets, ensuring that estimates are validated against official sources and aligned with national priorities. The consultant will be responsible for writing per-country scripts, maintaining the GitHub repository, and supporting the publication process in collaboration with country offices and ministries of education. All code and documentation will be prepared to ensure long-term scalability and reproducibility of the process.
