The Implementation Research Consultant will provide technical support for the execution of implementation research in countries within the designated region or regions. Specifically, the incumbent will contribute to generating evidence from implementation research embedded in Health programmes to improve coverage and equity in priority countries (e.g., highest child death numbers and rates’ countries, Gavi, GFF, Global Fund). The incumbent will also produce knowledge products from findings from the implementation research projects and deliver capacity building activities within countries in the designated region or regions, within both UNICEF and partners on the methodology and approach to undertake embedded implementation research that leads to timely improvements in programme delivery of MNCAH services. The incumbent will engage with, and solicit inputs from other members of MNCAH Section (PHC-HSS, Child and Community health, Digital Health & Information systems), other Health Section (Immunization, HEPR etc), and other health colleagues, particularly in country offices, as well as partners, in particular Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Eli Lilly, BMGF and with the Global Fund.
Assignment context:
The volunteer is sought to backstop the Health Officer during their six-month leave (June to November). The volunteer will provide professional technical assistance and support for the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of Health and Nutrition program activities in the South of Iraq. Responsibilities include data analysis, progress reporting, knowledge sharing, and capacity-building efforts, in alignment with the objectives of the field office Health and Nutrition work plan and the overall Health and Nutrition program strategy.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Bebbo Drupal CMS Consultant to manage the content management ecosystem and hosting server to ensure effective knowledge management across all implementations.
UNICEF is looking for an Individual International consultant to conduct the capacity building of professionals handling civil court cases on child rights and free legal aid.
UNICEF Bhutan invites proposals from eligible national consultants to develop national communication and advocacy strategy and action plan for public health promotion (2025-2029)
If you are committed, passionate about results for children, we are looking for you! The overall objective of the consultancy is to provide technical support to countries in the region with the implementation of UNICEF standardized energy demand assessment for health facilities.
As part of the implementation of the EU Health Project "Ezaka ho tomady", two types of technical assistants will be recruited at the district level: the National Consultant District Technical Assistant (DTA) and a Technical Assistant assigned to the District Referral Hospital (CHRD). The first, the National Consultant District Technical Assistant (DTA), will provide technical support to health districts, health facilities (HFs), coordination structures, and local authorities responsible for the health sector. Their role will be to strengthen planning, improve service quality, enhance governance, and promote community engagement in health matters. The DTA will offer professional expertise in technical assistance to support health districts and HFs in conducting in-depth and ongoing situational analyses, as well as in developing appropriate solutions. He/she will also support the organization of healthcare services and mobilize local authorities to ensure effective health sector management and equitable access to care for all. Meanwhile, the Technical Assistant assigned to the CHRD will be responsible for supporting the hospital’s technical and clinical teams in organizing and ensuring the quality of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC), training various categories of health professionals involved, monitoring and ensuring the functionality of technical platforms (including the availability of inputs), and organizing referral and counter-referral systems.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support for supply chain strengthening using drones in hard-to-reach areas as part of the ongoing development of routine immunization programs and emergency response. Additionally, it aims to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and equity of immunization programs by leveraging geospatial technology for data-driven decision-making.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultancy is for a period of 198 days spread over 9 months.
The consultant will be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands for the entire contract period (9 months) with frequent in-country field missions (minimum of 9 missions each for an average 5 working days long). S/he will provide data-driven technical assistance through effective coordination with both Government and development partners, capacity-building support including day-to-day on-the-job knowledge transfer, and document lessons learned and recommendations (with clear prioritization) to improve vaccine stock and cold chain. The duration of the consultancy is nine months. The consultant will be supervised by the immunization specialist in Solomon Islands Field Office with the overall guidance of the Cold Chain specialist in Suva UNICEF Pacific MCO.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, has ongoing requirements for the production and design of digital content pieces to carry out specific fundraising support for emerging and established markets in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions. Through this LTA, CODAS would like to establish a roster of Digital Designers able to ensure smooth delivery of digital content pieces.
The high-quality content packages will be either uniquely created or adapted/refreshed based on existing and proven UNICEF global fundraising campaigns, featured for various digital platforms, including Google, Meta, and Bing, among others. The selected consultants will work on both new campaigns and adapt existing ones, designing static, dynamic, and video ads. Additionally, selected consultants will be responsible for writing engaging ad copy that drives results for both campaign and web content.
These services will be critical for frontier and established markets to deliver tests and develop their digital plans and targets. The consultants will work directly with CODAS, the ECA team, as well as digital agencies, in order to support digital activities.
Household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) enable countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, water and sanitation, and nutrition. For many countries, household surveys have been among the most important data sources used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and informing the public about the situation of children and women.
The consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing and producing high-quality products featuring UNICEF data, in collaboration with D&A focal points.
More specifically, the designer will support the production of a number of data-driven publications and dissemination products on mortality and children on the move. The designer will be responsible for the conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publications, and for ensuring broad alignment of the products with UNICEF design standards and branding. Since most of the products will be data-driven with a number of graphs, maps and figures, the designer will need to produce creative and visually appealing final products.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a consultant as a Quality Assurance Engineer and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
Tanzania office is looking for an Individual consultant to develop a comprehensive CPD framework for healthcare professionals at all service delivery levels. The consultant will draw on the best practices from Tanzania mainland, other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, other African regions and beyond. The consultant will review the current medical and nursing practitioners' license renewal practices and link them with the framework.
The purpose of this position is to support the HCT team in developing the technical documentation required throughout the enhancements and maintenance of UNICEF Humanitarian cash Operations and Programme Ecosystem (HOPE) and to liaise with relevant stakeholders, internal and external. The technical documentation function entails the drafting of functional and business requirements, user stories and visualization of business and process flow to support the architectural and functional enhancements of HOPE. This function plays a critical role in ensuring adequate quality assurance and user acceptance tests are performed prior to clear the deployment to production of new features and bug fixes.
UNICEF seeks to hire an experienced, results oriented national Individual consultant to assist UNICEF Lesotho Country Office with the review and update of the existing CPD framework and logbook, which are due for review after five years. This review will be informed by the 2022 CPD evaluation survey findings. The consultant will draft a revised CPD framework to ensure it aligns with emerging trends and meets the professional development needs of healthcare workers in Lesotho including Learning hub, online and offline learning and simulation centers. UNICEF, MOH and LNC will be sharing with the consultant materials necessary for this work.
The UN Partnerships Team in UNICEF's Public Partnerships Division in New York is looking for an intern to support the team in shaping and building partnerships to achieve results for children worldwide.
This is an exciting opportunity to obtain an in-depth understanding of the functioning of UNICEF and its work, from high-level political engagement to liaising with colleagues in the field, at country and regional level and across headquarters divisions.
Under the supervision of the Public Partnership Manager, the intern will support various aspects of external relations, knowledge management and development of strategies and approaches to relevant thematic areas.
The consultant will provide support to PPD Asia-LAC team for liaison, coordination, scheduling, drafting briefing notes and readouts for high-level meetings and escorting senior leaders to and from these meetings; as well as grant management support for country offices in the Asia-LAC regions.
The selected candidate is expected to work on assessing the quality of the harmonized MICS data, ensuring its alignment with the MICS Tabulator platform, and collaborating with the Tabulator software development team as well as the IPUMS team responsible for data harmonization. This role will involve developing relevant code for data analysis and tabulation that will run in the background of the Tabulator platform, supporting decisions on visualization tools, and contributing to documentation and technical guidance for the platform’s implementation.
This consultation aims to ensure that the consultant has a strong grasp of household survey methodologies, MICS-specific data processing approaches, and statistical tools, allowing them to provide effective support in developing a robust and user-friendly platform for real-time data analysis. The consultant will work closely with technical teams to ensure that the MICS Tabulator is built on high-quality, standardized, and well-structured data, with the necessary analytical tools to enhance accessibility and usability for stakeholders.
The consultant will work with UNICEF’s Head of Child and Nutrition Advocacy and colleagues across UNICEF to deliver the advocacy workstream of the Advocacy and Communications Strategy with the goal of securing strong government engagement, and where possible new commitments, at the Forum in July. This includes preparing internal briefings to support UNICEF’s plans and activities, developing advocacy resources, and supporting and coordinating (in close collaboration with UNICEF offices) government engagements and preparations ahead of the Forum. The consultant will also consolidate new commitments and Government statements from the Forum and help produce a short results report after the Forum takes place
The Implementation Research Consultant will provide technical support for the execution of implementation research in countries within the designated region or regions. Specifically, the incumbent will contribute to generating evidence from implementation research embedded in Health programmes to improve coverage and equity in priority countries (e.g., highest child death numbers and rates’ countries, Gavi, GFF, Global Fund). The incumbent will also produce knowledge products from findings from the implementation research projects and deliver capacity building activities within countries in the designated region or regions, within both UNICEF and partners on the methodology and approach to undertake embedded implementation research that leads to timely improvements in programme delivery of MNCAH services. The incumbent will engage with, and solicit inputs from other members of MNCAH Section (PHC-HSS, Child and Community health, Digital Health & Information systems), other Health Section (Immunization, HEPR etc), and other health colleagues, particularly in country offices, as well as partners, in particular Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Eli Lilly, BMGF and with the Global Fund.
Assignment context:
The volunteer is sought to backstop the Health Officer during their six-month leave (June to November). The volunteer will provide professional technical assistance and support for the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of Health and Nutrition program activities in the South of Iraq. Responsibilities include data analysis, progress reporting, knowledge sharing, and capacity-building efforts, in alignment with the objectives of the field office Health and Nutrition work plan and the overall Health and Nutrition program strategy.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Bebbo Drupal CMS Consultant to manage the content management ecosystem and hosting server to ensure effective knowledge management across all implementations.
UNICEF is looking for an Individual International consultant to conduct the capacity building of professionals handling civil court cases on child rights and free legal aid.
UNICEF Bhutan invites proposals from eligible national consultants to develop national communication and advocacy strategy and action plan for public health promotion (2025-2029)
If you are committed, passionate about results for children, we are looking for you! The overall objective of the consultancy is to provide technical support to countries in the region with the implementation of UNICEF standardized energy demand assessment for health facilities.
As part of the implementation of the EU Health Project "Ezaka ho tomady", two types of technical assistants will be recruited at the district level: the National Consultant District Technical Assistant (DTA) and a Technical Assistant assigned to the District Referral Hospital (CHRD). The first, the National Consultant District Technical Assistant (DTA), will provide technical support to health districts, health facilities (HFs), coordination structures, and local authorities responsible for the health sector. Their role will be to strengthen planning, improve service quality, enhance governance, and promote community engagement in health matters. The DTA will offer professional expertise in technical assistance to support health districts and HFs in conducting in-depth and ongoing situational analyses, as well as in developing appropriate solutions. He/she will also support the organization of healthcare services and mobilize local authorities to ensure effective health sector management and equitable access to care for all. Meanwhile, the Technical Assistant assigned to the CHRD will be responsible for supporting the hospital’s technical and clinical teams in organizing and ensuring the quality of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC), training various categories of health professionals involved, monitoring and ensuring the functionality of technical platforms (including the availability of inputs), and organizing referral and counter-referral systems.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support for supply chain strengthening using drones in hard-to-reach areas as part of the ongoing development of routine immunization programs and emergency response. Additionally, it aims to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and equity of immunization programs by leveraging geospatial technology for data-driven decision-making.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultancy is for a period of 198 days spread over 9 months.
The consultant will be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands for the entire contract period (9 months) with frequent in-country field missions (minimum of 9 missions each for an average 5 working days long). S/he will provide data-driven technical assistance through effective coordination with both Government and development partners, capacity-building support including day-to-day on-the-job knowledge transfer, and document lessons learned and recommendations (with clear prioritization) to improve vaccine stock and cold chain. The duration of the consultancy is nine months. The consultant will be supervised by the immunization specialist in Solomon Islands Field Office with the overall guidance of the Cold Chain specialist in Suva UNICEF Pacific MCO.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, has ongoing requirements for the production and design of digital content pieces to carry out specific fundraising support for emerging and established markets in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions. Through this LTA, CODAS would like to establish a roster of Digital Designers able to ensure smooth delivery of digital content pieces.
The high-quality content packages will be either uniquely created or adapted/refreshed based on existing and proven UNICEF global fundraising campaigns, featured for various digital platforms, including Google, Meta, and Bing, among others. The selected consultants will work on both new campaigns and adapt existing ones, designing static, dynamic, and video ads. Additionally, selected consultants will be responsible for writing engaging ad copy that drives results for both campaign and web content.
These services will be critical for frontier and established markets to deliver tests and develop their digital plans and targets. The consultants will work directly with CODAS, the ECA team, as well as digital agencies, in order to support digital activities.
Household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) enable countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, water and sanitation, and nutrition. For many countries, household surveys have been among the most important data sources used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and informing the public about the situation of children and women.
The consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing and producing high-quality products featuring UNICEF data, in collaboration with D&A focal points.
More specifically, the designer will support the production of a number of data-driven publications and dissemination products on mortality and children on the move. The designer will be responsible for the conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publications, and for ensuring broad alignment of the products with UNICEF design standards and branding. Since most of the products will be data-driven with a number of graphs, maps and figures, the designer will need to produce creative and visually appealing final products.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a consultant as a Quality Assurance Engineer and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
Tanzania office is looking for an Individual consultant to develop a comprehensive CPD framework for healthcare professionals at all service delivery levels. The consultant will draw on the best practices from Tanzania mainland, other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, other African regions and beyond. The consultant will review the current medical and nursing practitioners' license renewal practices and link them with the framework.
The purpose of this position is to support the HCT team in developing the technical documentation required throughout the enhancements and maintenance of UNICEF Humanitarian cash Operations and Programme Ecosystem (HOPE) and to liaise with relevant stakeholders, internal and external. The technical documentation function entails the drafting of functional and business requirements, user stories and visualization of business and process flow to support the architectural and functional enhancements of HOPE. This function plays a critical role in ensuring adequate quality assurance and user acceptance tests are performed prior to clear the deployment to production of new features and bug fixes.
UNICEF seeks to hire an experienced, results oriented national Individual consultant to assist UNICEF Lesotho Country Office with the review and update of the existing CPD framework and logbook, which are due for review after five years. This review will be informed by the 2022 CPD evaluation survey findings. The consultant will draft a revised CPD framework to ensure it aligns with emerging trends and meets the professional development needs of healthcare workers in Lesotho including Learning hub, online and offline learning and simulation centers. UNICEF, MOH and LNC will be sharing with the consultant materials necessary for this work.
The UN Partnerships Team in UNICEF's Public Partnerships Division in New York is looking for an intern to support the team in shaping and building partnerships to achieve results for children worldwide.
This is an exciting opportunity to obtain an in-depth understanding of the functioning of UNICEF and its work, from high-level political engagement to liaising with colleagues in the field, at country and regional level and across headquarters divisions.
Under the supervision of the Public Partnership Manager, the intern will support various aspects of external relations, knowledge management and development of strategies and approaches to relevant thematic areas.
The consultant will provide support to PPD Asia-LAC team for liaison, coordination, scheduling, drafting briefing notes and readouts for high-level meetings and escorting senior leaders to and from these meetings; as well as grant management support for country offices in the Asia-LAC regions.
The selected candidate is expected to work on assessing the quality of the harmonized MICS data, ensuring its alignment with the MICS Tabulator platform, and collaborating with the Tabulator software development team as well as the IPUMS team responsible for data harmonization. This role will involve developing relevant code for data analysis and tabulation that will run in the background of the Tabulator platform, supporting decisions on visualization tools, and contributing to documentation and technical guidance for the platform’s implementation.
This consultation aims to ensure that the consultant has a strong grasp of household survey methodologies, MICS-specific data processing approaches, and statistical tools, allowing them to provide effective support in developing a robust and user-friendly platform for real-time data analysis. The consultant will work closely with technical teams to ensure that the MICS Tabulator is built on high-quality, standardized, and well-structured data, with the necessary analytical tools to enhance accessibility and usability for stakeholders.
The consultant will work with UNICEF’s Head of Child and Nutrition Advocacy and colleagues across UNICEF to deliver the advocacy workstream of the Advocacy and Communications Strategy with the goal of securing strong government engagement, and where possible new commitments, at the Forum in July. This includes preparing internal briefings to support UNICEF’s plans and activities, developing advocacy resources, and supporting and coordinating (in close collaboration with UNICEF offices) government engagements and preparations ahead of the Forum. The consultant will also consolidate new commitments and Government statements from the Forum and help produce a short results report after the Forum takes place
