The objective of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF programme in strengthening integrated child health services, with focus on strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC), focused immunization programme and leveraging Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) to improve child health and development outcomes. The consultancy will contribute to advancing key priorities of UNICEF, in line with its programme planning for 2026-2030.
This consultancy will contribute to four interrelated areas within UNICEF's Programme Strategy and Coordination Hub. The first three focuses on the Hub's structural evolution and support to the Future Focused Initiative (FFI), while the fourth relates to support for the Hub's continued leadership in several distinct areas of work requiring inter divisional collaboration
Data-driven decision-making for FFI is supported by a continually evolving data compendium, which aggregates key data points that have informed the development of FFI proposals. In parallel the consultant's knowledge management expertise will also be leveraged to support other strategic workstreams lead by the PSC Hub.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for an expert to support the Education section in the area digital learning and innovation for the duration of twelve months. For more information, the detailed term of the reference is uploaded in the vacancy.
This consultancy will manage the Centre’s day-to-day KM functions during the transition phase, helping to design, organise, and operationalise systems that capture, store, and share knowledge across all functional areas. The consultant will work closely with the Strategic Content Consultant and thematic leads to identify, curate, and package high-value content—particularly from country office annual reports and other corporate processes—for use in global reporting, knowledge products, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
By connecting with KM focal points across divisions, satellite teams, and country offices, the consultant will ensure a steady flow of high-quality, accessible knowledge products that position UNICEF as the global leader in child-sensitive climate resilience and enable the replication and scaling of successful interventions worldwide.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with
implementation, communications, knowledge management, and research-related work in transitioning energy systems to
net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes support to
knowledge management and communications action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their
understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean cooking that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s
programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its
assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and
healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable
Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting
essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and facilitate the integration of the Telemed.kg platform into the national information system, in alignment with existing national regulations.
UNICEF Jamaica is seeking an experienced consultant with a solid background in Education, with focused on youth engagement, to play a key role in advancing UNICEF’s strategic objectives related to youth participation, advocacy, and policy influence within the health and nutrition sectors.
The Health Specialist (MHPSS) role is situated in the Ukraine Country Office and reports directly to the Chief of Health and Nutrition. This position is essential for bridging health-focused MHPSS programming with broader organizational goals, ensuring a comprehensive approach to mental health and psychosocial support by integrating efforts across both internal sectors and external partnerships. The Health Specialist supports MHPSS programming primarily within the health sector while coordinating with other crucial UNICEF sectors such as education, child protection, Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), and Social and Behavior Change (SBC). This role also entails significant collaboration with external entities, including government agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders, to embed MHPSS into their programs, thereby fostering a unified approach to health and well-being across various sectors.
Additionally, the Specialist is instrumental in shaping and influencing national MHPSS policies. By offering expert guidance to external stakeholders such as the national MHPSS coordination center, Ministry of Health, educational leaders, and community organizations, the Specialist ensures that MHPSS initiatives are harmoniously integrated into the broader health and social systems. This effort is complemented by UNICEF’s collaboration with the “All-Ukraine Health Program”, which aims to establish a far-reaching support network impacting various societal dimensions.
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a shock-responsive assessment of Ukraine’s social protection system using globally acknowledged tools - guided by UNICEF’s Social Protection System Readiness Assessment Tool and complemented by other tools as needed (ISPA CODI, OPM’s SRSP toolkit, WB’s ASP framework) - in support of the Government’s social protection reform agenda. Supporting the Government of Ukraine to strengthen social protection systems to address needs in the current crisis context is a strategic objective for UNICEF.
The assessment will identify strengths, gaps, and entry points for enhancing the shock-responsiveness of the national social protection system, with particular focus on recent shocks and responses, linkages with humanitarian assistance if possible, and adaptive capacity to future shocks. The SRSP assessment should focus on the core pillars of SRSP, such as policy and legal framework, coordination and governance, administrative and delivery systems, and contingency financing. The assessment should be practical and provide actionable recommendations to take forward with the Ministry of Social Policy.
This role will provide capacity support for child-sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR), including technical assistance across multi-hazard early warning systems, anticipatory action, disaster risk financing, and climate risk and vulnerability assessments. It also contributes to the global implementation and monitoring of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) 2023–2030 Area of Acceleration 1: climate-informed disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action, and resilient recovery.
Under the supervision of the Programme Officer for Disaster Risk Reduction, the DRR Programme Consultant is expected to deliver three outputs:
1. Strengthen knowledge management and capacity building on child-sensitive DRR
2. Global monitoring and reporting on child-sensitive DRR
3. Interagency partnership, communications and advocacy support for child-sensitive DRR
The Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process, with emphasis on fostering partnerships, coordinating recovery efforts, and supporting the transition from emergency response to sustainable infrastructure development. The Officer contributes to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme, while ensuring meaningful participation of affected populations and leveraging resources from multiple stakeholders.
This evaluation will be carried out to assess achievement of results and learn from implementation of the Youth Environment Living Labs (YELL), a joint programme of UNDP and UNICEF, in collaboration with the European Union (EU), Amanah Lestari Alam (ALAM) and OSK Foundation.
As part of the development of UNICEF Africa’s flagship publication on human capital, ESARO wishes to engage two researchers from African universities to synthesise their body of literature on the subject.
UNICEF is looking for a National / International Consultant / researcher to support understanding the factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviors among key healthcare workers and stakeholders.
UNICEF Maldives is seeking a qualified Maldivian National for the fixed-term position of Child Protection Officer, NO-1. All interested local candidates are invited to apply!
UNICEF Bhutan invites proposals from eligible national consultants to conduct a study to examine behavioral, socio-economic, and cultural factors influencing vaccine acceptance and uptake in Bhutan.
Individual Consultants to support implementation of Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Prevention of Sexual Harassment on Long Term Arrangement (LTA) for 2 + 1 years (open to National Consultants only)
UNICEF Sri Lanka would like to engage the services of professional graphic/layout designers to be available in short notice to assist with creating communication materials. Selected candidates to be placed in a roster for 12 months.
The objective of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF programme in strengthening integrated child health services, with focus on strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC), focused immunization programme and leveraging Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) to improve child health and development outcomes. The consultancy will contribute to advancing key priorities of UNICEF, in line with its programme planning for 2026-2030.
This consultancy will contribute to four interrelated areas within UNICEF's Programme Strategy and Coordination Hub. The first three focuses on the Hub's structural evolution and support to the Future Focused Initiative (FFI), while the fourth relates to support for the Hub's continued leadership in several distinct areas of work requiring inter divisional collaboration
Data-driven decision-making for FFI is supported by a continually evolving data compendium, which aggregates key data points that have informed the development of FFI proposals. In parallel the consultant's knowledge management expertise will also be leveraged to support other strategic workstreams lead by the PSC Hub.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for an expert to support the Education section in the area digital learning and innovation for the duration of twelve months. For more information, the detailed term of the reference is uploaded in the vacancy.
This consultancy will manage the Centre’s day-to-day KM functions during the transition phase, helping to design, organise, and operationalise systems that capture, store, and share knowledge across all functional areas. The consultant will work closely with the Strategic Content Consultant and thematic leads to identify, curate, and package high-value content—particularly from country office annual reports and other corporate processes—for use in global reporting, knowledge products, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
By connecting with KM focal points across divisions, satellite teams, and country offices, the consultant will ensure a steady flow of high-quality, accessible knowledge products that position UNICEF as the global leader in child-sensitive climate resilience and enable the replication and scaling of successful interventions worldwide.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with
implementation, communications, knowledge management, and research-related work in transitioning energy systems to
net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes support to
knowledge management and communications action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their
understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean cooking that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s
programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its
assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and
healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable
Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting
essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and facilitate the integration of the Telemed.kg platform into the national information system, in alignment with existing national regulations.
UNICEF Jamaica is seeking an experienced consultant with a solid background in Education, with focused on youth engagement, to play a key role in advancing UNICEF’s strategic objectives related to youth participation, advocacy, and policy influence within the health and nutrition sectors.
The Health Specialist (MHPSS) role is situated in the Ukraine Country Office and reports directly to the Chief of Health and Nutrition. This position is essential for bridging health-focused MHPSS programming with broader organizational goals, ensuring a comprehensive approach to mental health and psychosocial support by integrating efforts across both internal sectors and external partnerships. The Health Specialist supports MHPSS programming primarily within the health sector while coordinating with other crucial UNICEF sectors such as education, child protection, Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), and Social and Behavior Change (SBC). This role also entails significant collaboration with external entities, including government agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders, to embed MHPSS into their programs, thereby fostering a unified approach to health and well-being across various sectors.
Additionally, the Specialist is instrumental in shaping and influencing national MHPSS policies. By offering expert guidance to external stakeholders such as the national MHPSS coordination center, Ministry of Health, educational leaders, and community organizations, the Specialist ensures that MHPSS initiatives are harmoniously integrated into the broader health and social systems. This effort is complemented by UNICEF’s collaboration with the “All-Ukraine Health Program”, which aims to establish a far-reaching support network impacting various societal dimensions.
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a shock-responsive assessment of Ukraine’s social protection system using globally acknowledged tools - guided by UNICEF’s Social Protection System Readiness Assessment Tool and complemented by other tools as needed (ISPA CODI, OPM’s SRSP toolkit, WB’s ASP framework) - in support of the Government’s social protection reform agenda. Supporting the Government of Ukraine to strengthen social protection systems to address needs in the current crisis context is a strategic objective for UNICEF.
The assessment will identify strengths, gaps, and entry points for enhancing the shock-responsiveness of the national social protection system, with particular focus on recent shocks and responses, linkages with humanitarian assistance if possible, and adaptive capacity to future shocks. The SRSP assessment should focus on the core pillars of SRSP, such as policy and legal framework, coordination and governance, administrative and delivery systems, and contingency financing. The assessment should be practical and provide actionable recommendations to take forward with the Ministry of Social Policy.
This role will provide capacity support for child-sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR), including technical assistance across multi-hazard early warning systems, anticipatory action, disaster risk financing, and climate risk and vulnerability assessments. It also contributes to the global implementation and monitoring of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) 2023–2030 Area of Acceleration 1: climate-informed disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action, and resilient recovery.
Under the supervision of the Programme Officer for Disaster Risk Reduction, the DRR Programme Consultant is expected to deliver three outputs:
1. Strengthen knowledge management and capacity building on child-sensitive DRR
2. Global monitoring and reporting on child-sensitive DRR
3. Interagency partnership, communications and advocacy support for child-sensitive DRR
The Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process, with emphasis on fostering partnerships, coordinating recovery efforts, and supporting the transition from emergency response to sustainable infrastructure development. The Officer contributes to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme, while ensuring meaningful participation of affected populations and leveraging resources from multiple stakeholders.
This evaluation will be carried out to assess achievement of results and learn from implementation of the Youth Environment Living Labs (YELL), a joint programme of UNDP and UNICEF, in collaboration with the European Union (EU), Amanah Lestari Alam (ALAM) and OSK Foundation.
As part of the development of UNICEF Africa’s flagship publication on human capital, ESARO wishes to engage two researchers from African universities to synthesise their body of literature on the subject.
UNICEF is looking for a National / International Consultant / researcher to support understanding the factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviors among key healthcare workers and stakeholders.
UNICEF Maldives is seeking a qualified Maldivian National for the fixed-term position of Child Protection Officer, NO-1. All interested local candidates are invited to apply!
UNICEF Bhutan invites proposals from eligible national consultants to conduct a study to examine behavioral, socio-economic, and cultural factors influencing vaccine acceptance and uptake in Bhutan.
Individual Consultants to support implementation of Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Prevention of Sexual Harassment on Long Term Arrangement (LTA) for 2 + 1 years (open to National Consultants only)
UNICEF Sri Lanka would like to engage the services of professional graphic/layout designers to be available in short notice to assist with creating communication materials. Selected candidates to be placed in a roster for 12 months.
