The immunisation team is developing an integrated package to promote data use for decision-making and provide timely and actionable data analytics to support global, national, and subnational advocacy and immunization delivery efforts. The package consists of a set of analytical products including subnational and monthly-level administrative datasets, and slide decks for visualizing subnational and monthly analytics, triangulated with other immunization-related data. These products will be used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to monitoring, planning and advocacy. When working with administrative data, there are often multiple data quality challenges that need to be addressed. As such, there is a need for support with cleaning data from administrative systems, compiling and reconciling shapefiles, and production of cleaned subnational and monthly-level databases to materialise this vision.
Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.
The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate these above areas of immunisation database management, immunisation data cleaning and processing, and data analytics support under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (Immunisaiton) and in collaboration with other team members.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a Digital Specialist to provide implementation support for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) Clusters/ROs (LAC, ROSA, ECA and MENA RO), and related Country Office (CO) PSFR teams. The incumbent will also support testing in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, ensuring they meet their 2025-2026 goals.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with Cluster Managers, CO PSFR teams, Regional Office teams, ICT, CODAS, and external agencies to ensure PSFR entities achieve their 2025-2026 goals and develop ambitious plans for 2027 onwards. This role will also work internally with relevant stakeholders to ensure adequate tracking and reporting to support goal delivery.
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
UNICEF Namibia Country Office is seeking for an Individual consultant to facilitate four days high quality training program to staff members, with a focus on UNICEF's approach to public finance, and how UNICEF NCO staff can influence and support the mobilization, allocation, and use of public financial resources. The training should aim to equip staff members across different sectors, with knowledge, techniques and tools to support efforts to increase investments in children and apply public financial insights and perspectives to their planning, advocacy and programming.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for simultaneous translators from English to French and vice versa during the Regional Management Meeting.
To provide technical support to develop a National Roadmap for Elimination of Open Defecation in Afghanistan, in consultation and coordination with relevant authorities, UNICEF and WASH cluster.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the operationalization and implementation of MHPSS integration within education sector priorities. The assignment will include the provision of technical assistance to country offices, tailored to the specific needs of specific partnerships and a Joint Programme on Mental Health. In addition, the consultant will contribute to knowledge management efforts and support global advocacy initiatives to advance education-based MHPSS.
This is a remote-based consultancy with flexibility for international travel as required and agreed upon with supervisor. The consultant will be expected to work closely with the education global practice and health and education Centers of Excellence, country teams as well as global partners.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:
1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.
The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.
UNICEF requires the services of an external consultant to support the Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) in enhancing its data engineering, report automation, and AI-based analytics, while simultaneously migrating primary responsibility for its technology stack to the platforms team of the Digital Impact Division (DID). The consultancy will focus on:
• Building and optimizing data pipelines across the data lifecycle using an array of modern cloud services and data architectures, including LLMs, analytics platforms, and data lakehouses.
• Developing report automation workflows for flagship publications, including The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) and The State of Africa’s Children (SOAC).
• Advancing UNICEF’s use of generative AI across the data lifecycle, from automated data extraction to RAG-based report generation, contextualization, and localization, including designing and implementing QA strategies using emerging AI-testing frameworks.
• Supporting indicator data, structuring, storage, and consultation processes with field offices and member states.
• Technology and analytics support to the Frontier Data Network as it migrates to DID.
• Together with the DID Platforms Team facilitate the technology transition of PaaS, Saas and bespoke full-stack apps built on varying enterprise-grade software languages from the Data and Analytics Section (D&A) of OSE to DID.
The consultant will support the IF Hub in its activity around Child-Lens Investing and the Child-Lens Investing Framework (CLIF), a framework to guide investors to incorporate child-related considerations in investment decision-making. The consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting the development of standards for child-lens debt instruments and advancing the integration of Child-Lens Investing with other investment lenses.
Consultant will provide technical support to enrich and guide the development and implementation of three key anti-bullying initiatives identified by Sultan Qaboos University and the Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNICEF Oman. The consultant’s role will be primarily remote, and in case of international consultant in-country missions might be required.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed following the MICS7 Regional Survey Design Workshops (8 completed so far). Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams are and will be in need of technical support on
• finalizing and updating the full content of MICS7 survey tools
• providing technical support to ongoing MICS7 surveys including the planning, sample design, questionnaire customisation, pre-test of questionnaires, customisation of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination,
• support to planning and organisation of the regional and/or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops, and
• Oversee and contribute to the acquisition of GIS data, anonymization and dissemination of surveys
Under the direction, guidance, and supervision of the Senior Evaluation Specialist / Chief of the Programme Effectiveness and Impact Evaluation section, the Impact Evaluation Specialist is responsible for implementing UNICEF’s Impact Evaluation Strategy and technical supervision of the multi-county impact evaluation portfolio under the Adaptive Social Protection: Evidence for Child Outcomes (ASPECT) programme – a multi-year partnership between the Evaluation Office and German Development Cooperation, which is implemented in collaboration with the Office of Strategy and Evidence.
Unicef Angola is lookiing for a consultant to document and help promote positive caregiving behaviours for children under five in Angola—especially during the first 1,000 days—by producing user-friendly materials that capture and disseminate effective practices among caregivers, stakeholders, and partners.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to co-lead for teacher Professional Learning 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant for Teachers Professional Learning in Nigeria 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant to review and develop Nigeria's Health Financing Policy 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a National consultant for Digital Health Policy and Operations 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to lead the development of a Federal Ministry of Education of Nigeria, SBC strategy 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.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed and well experienced senior expert to provide strategic technical support to UNICEF Nepal in facilitating the 2026 Programme Budget Review (PBR) preparation process. The assignment is for 4-5 months. Travel to Nepal during the assignment will likely be needed.
The immunisation team is developing an integrated package to promote data use for decision-making and provide timely and actionable data analytics to support global, national, and subnational advocacy and immunization delivery efforts. The package consists of a set of analytical products including subnational and monthly-level administrative datasets, and slide decks for visualizing subnational and monthly analytics, triangulated with other immunization-related data. These products will be used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to monitoring, planning and advocacy. When working with administrative data, there are often multiple data quality challenges that need to be addressed. As such, there is a need for support with cleaning data from administrative systems, compiling and reconciling shapefiles, and production of cleaned subnational and monthly-level databases to materialise this vision.
Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.
The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate these above areas of immunisation database management, immunisation data cleaning and processing, and data analytics support under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (Immunisaiton) and in collaboration with other team members.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a Digital Specialist to provide implementation support for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) Clusters/ROs (LAC, ROSA, ECA and MENA RO), and related Country Office (CO) PSFR teams. The incumbent will also support testing in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, ensuring they meet their 2025-2026 goals.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with Cluster Managers, CO PSFR teams, Regional Office teams, ICT, CODAS, and external agencies to ensure PSFR entities achieve their 2025-2026 goals and develop ambitious plans for 2027 onwards. This role will also work internally with relevant stakeholders to ensure adequate tracking and reporting to support goal delivery.
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
UNICEF Namibia Country Office is seeking for an Individual consultant to facilitate four days high quality training program to staff members, with a focus on UNICEF's approach to public finance, and how UNICEF NCO staff can influence and support the mobilization, allocation, and use of public financial resources. The training should aim to equip staff members across different sectors, with knowledge, techniques and tools to support efforts to increase investments in children and apply public financial insights and perspectives to their planning, advocacy and programming.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for simultaneous translators from English to French and vice versa during the Regional Management Meeting.
To provide technical support to develop a National Roadmap for Elimination of Open Defecation in Afghanistan, in consultation and coordination with relevant authorities, UNICEF and WASH cluster.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the operationalization and implementation of MHPSS integration within education sector priorities. The assignment will include the provision of technical assistance to country offices, tailored to the specific needs of specific partnerships and a Joint Programme on Mental Health. In addition, the consultant will contribute to knowledge management efforts and support global advocacy initiatives to advance education-based MHPSS.
This is a remote-based consultancy with flexibility for international travel as required and agreed upon with supervisor. The consultant will be expected to work closely with the education global practice and health and education Centers of Excellence, country teams as well as global partners.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:
1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.
The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.
UNICEF requires the services of an external consultant to support the Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) in enhancing its data engineering, report automation, and AI-based analytics, while simultaneously migrating primary responsibility for its technology stack to the platforms team of the Digital Impact Division (DID). The consultancy will focus on:
• Building and optimizing data pipelines across the data lifecycle using an array of modern cloud services and data architectures, including LLMs, analytics platforms, and data lakehouses.
• Developing report automation workflows for flagship publications, including The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) and The State of Africa’s Children (SOAC).
• Advancing UNICEF’s use of generative AI across the data lifecycle, from automated data extraction to RAG-based report generation, contextualization, and localization, including designing and implementing QA strategies using emerging AI-testing frameworks.
• Supporting indicator data, structuring, storage, and consultation processes with field offices and member states.
• Technology and analytics support to the Frontier Data Network as it migrates to DID.
• Together with the DID Platforms Team facilitate the technology transition of PaaS, Saas and bespoke full-stack apps built on varying enterprise-grade software languages from the Data and Analytics Section (D&A) of OSE to DID.
The consultant will support the IF Hub in its activity around Child-Lens Investing and the Child-Lens Investing Framework (CLIF), a framework to guide investors to incorporate child-related considerations in investment decision-making. The consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting the development of standards for child-lens debt instruments and advancing the integration of Child-Lens Investing with other investment lenses.
Consultant will provide technical support to enrich and guide the development and implementation of three key anti-bullying initiatives identified by Sultan Qaboos University and the Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNICEF Oman. The consultant’s role will be primarily remote, and in case of international consultant in-country missions might be required.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed following the MICS7 Regional Survey Design Workshops (8 completed so far). Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams are and will be in need of technical support on
• finalizing and updating the full content of MICS7 survey tools
• providing technical support to ongoing MICS7 surveys including the planning, sample design, questionnaire customisation, pre-test of questionnaires, customisation of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination,
• support to planning and organisation of the regional and/or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops, and
• Oversee and contribute to the acquisition of GIS data, anonymization and dissemination of surveys
Under the direction, guidance, and supervision of the Senior Evaluation Specialist / Chief of the Programme Effectiveness and Impact Evaluation section, the Impact Evaluation Specialist is responsible for implementing UNICEF’s Impact Evaluation Strategy and technical supervision of the multi-county impact evaluation portfolio under the Adaptive Social Protection: Evidence for Child Outcomes (ASPECT) programme – a multi-year partnership between the Evaluation Office and German Development Cooperation, which is implemented in collaboration with the Office of Strategy and Evidence.
Unicef Angola is lookiing for a consultant to document and help promote positive caregiving behaviours for children under five in Angola—especially during the first 1,000 days—by producing user-friendly materials that capture and disseminate effective practices among caregivers, stakeholders, and partners.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to co-lead for teacher Professional Learning 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant for Teachers Professional Learning in Nigeria 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant to review and develop Nigeria's Health Financing Policy 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a National consultant for Digital Health Policy and Operations 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.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to lead the development of a Federal Ministry of Education of Nigeria, SBC strategy 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.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed and well experienced senior expert to provide strategic technical support to UNICEF Nepal in facilitating the 2026 Programme Budget Review (PBR) preparation process. The assignment is for 4-5 months. Travel to Nepal during the assignment will likely be needed.
