To this end, UNICEF is hiring a consultant who will engage with country offices and generate quality digital outputs at global level, ensuring alignment with contents generated by Country Offices and improving visibility on programmatic work in countries. The Consultant will contribute to enhancing the visibility of key immunization partnerships and communication campaigns—including those funded by Gavi, Gates, the Government of Canada (CanGIVE grant), Alwaleed Philanthropies, and the Republic of Korea—as well as spotlight major immunization activities such as the measles and rubella campaigns in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The role will ensure ethical storytelling practices and foster collaboration with the Division of Global Advocacy and Communications, National Committees and other partners to amplify reach across digital platforms and explore additional opportunities for visibility.
The communications and knowledge management consultant is a creative, dynamic and exciting role. You will be responsible for creating and disseminating responsive and strategic content to engage audiences across UNGEI platforms, and managing the digital platform including websites, newsletters and social media. For Safe to Learn, you will provide support for the design of publications, website engagement and digital content. This will include refreshing the Safe to Learn brand and ensuring a consistent and appealing visual identity for the Coalition.
The grants of Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All (ASWA, Phase 3) funded by the government of the Netherlands, and the Beyond Pipes and Toilets grant, funded by the EU, are both critical grants for UNICEF to implement key aspects of the WASH components of its strategic plan. It is critical that UNICEF can create visibility for these two critical donors on these two grants, but also that the work completed by the grants is communicated well in a range of forms such as social media posting, dissemination of developed reports and achievements, and production of communication materials.
The ASWA III grant focuses on the delivery of climate resilient WASH programming in eight countries across Africa. Focus on both service delivery and systems strengthening, with a particular focus on key thematic areas of sustainability, gender transformative WASH, climate resilient WASH, and as applicable on the Head of State Initiative (HoSI). The programme is designed to run until the end of December 2027.
The EU funded Beyond Taps and Toilets focuses on similar areas of WASH and climate, and the HoSI, as well as monitoring and sustainability, with the programme due to expire at the end of March 2027. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership.
The consultant will support the development, delivery, and governance of key CMS features and enhancements, as well as the roll-out of the content lifecycle project. Applying both a business analysis and content architecture lens, the consultant will ensure that user needs, editorial strategy, and governance requirements are translated into functional, high-quality technical solutions.
Positioned within the Stewardship and Oversight Pillar of PPD and under the supervision of the Risk Manager, the Public Partnerships Specialist (Governance, Risk and Compliance), P3 will be responsible for supporting the negotiation of UNICEF’s contribution agreements with public sector partners in line with established policy. This includes maintaining a pipeline of negotiations and catalogue of donor conditionalities and supporting the escalation of material risk cases to appropriate decision-makers. This role will interact regularly with the Legal Office and will also support initiatives related to overall partnerships risk management. Successful completion of these deliverables will result in strong and harmonized arrangements across public sector partners which will secure significant income to UNICEF in line with relevant policy.
The Education & Adolescent Development Section of Programme Group (PG) at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) requires the services of an Advocacy Specialist to deliver critical and time-bound interventions for the implementation of 2025-26 advocacy activities on the learning crisis.
This includes ensuring strategic and aligned roll-out of advocacy and communication efforts for Foundational Learning; a) developing strategic advocacy planning documents, resources and materials as key deliverables under a number of external partnerships; and b) developing and monitoring delivery under advocacy and communications workplans.
In alignment with UNICEF’s Gender Equality Action Plan, UNICEF’s Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy, and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan ‘adolescent girls accelerator’ commitments, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the adolescent girls’ agenda. Specifically, this consultancy will focus on:
- Delivery of key briefings on strategy, partner engagement and policy to advance the adolescent girls agenda
- Deliver key programmatic outputs in collaboration with Senior Gender Advisor – including a robust Results Framework for the global POWER4Girls initiatives; annual adolescent girls report for partners summarising key results and programmatic lessons
- Undertake research and support the evaluation of POWER4Girls programmes
UNICEF Brazil is looking for a Social Protection consultant to support the development of technical guidance for Social Assistance workers on Social Assistance Benefits and Cash Transfer programs in emergency contexts. Under the supervision of the Chief of Social Policy, the consultant will work closely with SNAS and SENARC technical teams and support coordination efforts led by UNICEF.
The development of a comprehensive Strategic Purchasing Manual for the Zanzibar Health Services Fund (ZHSF) is a critical step in strengthening health financing reforms and advancing the broader health sector transformation agenda of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. The manual will ensure alignment of ZHSF’s purchasing functions with the ongoing health sector reforms and contribute to the achievement of the government’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goal.
The development of the manual is timely, since ZHSF is in the process of expanding its UHI coverage to include the informal sector and vulnerable groups. A comprehensive strategic purchasing manual that clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders is essential to the achievement of the UHC goal as coverage expends.
ZHSF will use the manual to guide its strategic purchasing functions, which will promote efficient and equitable financing, and the delivery of quality health care services in Zanzibar. The manual will increase ZHSF’s capacity in ensuring value for money of health expenditures and creating stronger incentives for providers to deliver affordable, accessible, and quality health services.
The consultancy includes training and mentoring of ZHSF staff on operationalization of the manual to be produced. This will enhance the institutional capacity of ZHSF in making decisions on provider payment mechanisms, benefit package design, and service provider performance monitoring, all of which will improve access to equitable and quality health care services for the people of Zanzibar.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an individual consultant with expertise to provide technical leadership in revising the existing national IMAM guidelines in line with the 2023 WHO recommendations, integrating best practices, stakeholder input, and the country’s context, health systems and review and consolidate the current training materials in line with the revised National Guidelines for Acute Malnutrition. If you have the required expertise and is interested, kindly post your application.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant for Risk-Based Water Safety Planning.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated Gender Programme Specialist for their HIV/AIDS, Adolescents and Gender team. The Gender Programme Specialist reports to the Chief HIV/AIDS, Adolescents Development and Gender (P4) for guidance and supervision. The Specialist shall be responsible for supporting the implementation of the Gender Policy, GAP 3 and the Adolescent Girls Strategy.
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated Education Specialist (Learners’ Welfare and Equity) for their education team. The Education Specialist (Learners’ Welfare and Equity) reports to the Education Specialist (P3 Level) for guidance and general supervision. The Education specialist NO-3 is specifically responsible for planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and coordination of inclusive education, disability, WASH in schools, School feeding and all aspects of safeguarding for in and out of school children.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support Armenia country office with communication and advocacy, particularly with operation of various digital channels and regular content generation for digital, face to face, and print purposes.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to offer data science, engineering and provide senior stakeholder, communications and project management support for the activities of EAPRO’s Frontier Data Lab for activities related to GAVI/ Climate Change / Emergencies and WASH. This work is fundamental to the outcomes and outputs of EAP RO’s RAM and is related to the support of the CPD process. Under the guidance of EAPRO’s Regional T4D Manager, the consultant will collaborate closely with regional T4D and program teams, as well as T4D, data, and program teams based in country offices throughout the East Asia and Pacific region and in the future, the wider Asia Pacific Region.
In order to reinforce its expertise in sustainable energy 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.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have
the following responsibilities:
Human Resources
United Nations Children’s Fund
1) Solar Hub Helpdesk: Support the solar hub helpdesk with dedicated hotline hours to provide real-time technical support
and guidance on renewable energy solutions for Country Offices (COs).
2) Global Guidance Pack on Solar Systems for UNICEF.
UNICEF Honduras looks for an Emergency Specialist to establish and implement country office emergency preparedness and response; develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate the emergency interventions to ensure the survival and well-being of children and mothers, and the affected communities in an emergency situation.
Under the supervision of the Programme Manager (Level 4), the WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for WASH programmes/projects within the country programme from development planning to delivery of WASH output results. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant for Vulnerability and Adaption Assessment. The purpose of the consultancy is to assess the vulnerability of the Zimbabwe’s health sector to climate change and identify existing and potential adaptation measures that can build climate resilience at the national and sub-national levels.
Under the direct supervision of the Child Rights and Monitoring Specialist, the consultant is responsible to conduct a comprehensive legal that maps the current legal framework related to children’s participation in user-generated content in digital spaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, identifies legal and institutional gaps, and proposes actionable recommendations for policy, regulation, and rights education. The analysis will serve as a foundation for advocacy, legal harmonization, child rights education, and public awareness-raising.
To this end, UNICEF is hiring a consultant who will engage with country offices and generate quality digital outputs at global level, ensuring alignment with contents generated by Country Offices and improving visibility on programmatic work in countries. The Consultant will contribute to enhancing the visibility of key immunization partnerships and communication campaigns—including those funded by Gavi, Gates, the Government of Canada (CanGIVE grant), Alwaleed Philanthropies, and the Republic of Korea—as well as spotlight major immunization activities such as the measles and rubella campaigns in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The role will ensure ethical storytelling practices and foster collaboration with the Division of Global Advocacy and Communications, National Committees and other partners to amplify reach across digital platforms and explore additional opportunities for visibility.
The communications and knowledge management consultant is a creative, dynamic and exciting role. You will be responsible for creating and disseminating responsive and strategic content to engage audiences across UNGEI platforms, and managing the digital platform including websites, newsletters and social media. For Safe to Learn, you will provide support for the design of publications, website engagement and digital content. This will include refreshing the Safe to Learn brand and ensuring a consistent and appealing visual identity for the Coalition.
The grants of Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All (ASWA, Phase 3) funded by the government of the Netherlands, and the Beyond Pipes and Toilets grant, funded by the EU, are both critical grants for UNICEF to implement key aspects of the WASH components of its strategic plan. It is critical that UNICEF can create visibility for these two critical donors on these two grants, but also that the work completed by the grants is communicated well in a range of forms such as social media posting, dissemination of developed reports and achievements, and production of communication materials.
The ASWA III grant focuses on the delivery of climate resilient WASH programming in eight countries across Africa. Focus on both service delivery and systems strengthening, with a particular focus on key thematic areas of sustainability, gender transformative WASH, climate resilient WASH, and as applicable on the Head of State Initiative (HoSI). The programme is designed to run until the end of December 2027.
The EU funded Beyond Taps and Toilets focuses on similar areas of WASH and climate, and the HoSI, as well as monitoring and sustainability, with the programme due to expire at the end of March 2027. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership.
The consultant will support the development, delivery, and governance of key CMS features and enhancements, as well as the roll-out of the content lifecycle project. Applying both a business analysis and content architecture lens, the consultant will ensure that user needs, editorial strategy, and governance requirements are translated into functional, high-quality technical solutions.
Positioned within the Stewardship and Oversight Pillar of PPD and under the supervision of the Risk Manager, the Public Partnerships Specialist (Governance, Risk and Compliance), P3 will be responsible for supporting the negotiation of UNICEF’s contribution agreements with public sector partners in line with established policy. This includes maintaining a pipeline of negotiations and catalogue of donor conditionalities and supporting the escalation of material risk cases to appropriate decision-makers. This role will interact regularly with the Legal Office and will also support initiatives related to overall partnerships risk management. Successful completion of these deliverables will result in strong and harmonized arrangements across public sector partners which will secure significant income to UNICEF in line with relevant policy.
The Education & Adolescent Development Section of Programme Group (PG) at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) requires the services of an Advocacy Specialist to deliver critical and time-bound interventions for the implementation of 2025-26 advocacy activities on the learning crisis.
This includes ensuring strategic and aligned roll-out of advocacy and communication efforts for Foundational Learning; a) developing strategic advocacy planning documents, resources and materials as key deliverables under a number of external partnerships; and b) developing and monitoring delivery under advocacy and communications workplans.
In alignment with UNICEF’s Gender Equality Action Plan, UNICEF’s Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy, and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan ‘adolescent girls accelerator’ commitments, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the adolescent girls’ agenda. Specifically, this consultancy will focus on:
- Delivery of key briefings on strategy, partner engagement and policy to advance the adolescent girls agenda
- Deliver key programmatic outputs in collaboration with Senior Gender Advisor – including a robust Results Framework for the global POWER4Girls initiatives; annual adolescent girls report for partners summarising key results and programmatic lessons
- Undertake research and support the evaluation of POWER4Girls programmes
UNICEF Brazil is looking for a Social Protection consultant to support the development of technical guidance for Social Assistance workers on Social Assistance Benefits and Cash Transfer programs in emergency contexts. Under the supervision of the Chief of Social Policy, the consultant will work closely with SNAS and SENARC technical teams and support coordination efforts led by UNICEF.
The development of a comprehensive Strategic Purchasing Manual for the Zanzibar Health Services Fund (ZHSF) is a critical step in strengthening health financing reforms and advancing the broader health sector transformation agenda of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. The manual will ensure alignment of ZHSF’s purchasing functions with the ongoing health sector reforms and contribute to the achievement of the government’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goal.
The development of the manual is timely, since ZHSF is in the process of expanding its UHI coverage to include the informal sector and vulnerable groups. A comprehensive strategic purchasing manual that clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders is essential to the achievement of the UHC goal as coverage expends.
ZHSF will use the manual to guide its strategic purchasing functions, which will promote efficient and equitable financing, and the delivery of quality health care services in Zanzibar. The manual will increase ZHSF’s capacity in ensuring value for money of health expenditures and creating stronger incentives for providers to deliver affordable, accessible, and quality health services.
The consultancy includes training and mentoring of ZHSF staff on operationalization of the manual to be produced. This will enhance the institutional capacity of ZHSF in making decisions on provider payment mechanisms, benefit package design, and service provider performance monitoring, all of which will improve access to equitable and quality health care services for the people of Zanzibar.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an individual consultant with expertise to provide technical leadership in revising the existing national IMAM guidelines in line with the 2023 WHO recommendations, integrating best practices, stakeholder input, and the country’s context, health systems and review and consolidate the current training materials in line with the revised National Guidelines for Acute Malnutrition. If you have the required expertise and is interested, kindly post your application.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant for Risk-Based Water Safety Planning.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated Gender Programme Specialist for their HIV/AIDS, Adolescents and Gender team. The Gender Programme Specialist reports to the Chief HIV/AIDS, Adolescents Development and Gender (P4) for guidance and supervision. The Specialist shall be responsible for supporting the implementation of the Gender Policy, GAP 3 and the Adolescent Girls Strategy.
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated Education Specialist (Learners’ Welfare and Equity) for their education team. The Education Specialist (Learners’ Welfare and Equity) reports to the Education Specialist (P3 Level) for guidance and general supervision. The Education specialist NO-3 is specifically responsible for planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and coordination of inclusive education, disability, WASH in schools, School feeding and all aspects of safeguarding for in and out of school children.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support Armenia country office with communication and advocacy, particularly with operation of various digital channels and regular content generation for digital, face to face, and print purposes.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to offer data science, engineering and provide senior stakeholder, communications and project management support for the activities of EAPRO’s Frontier Data Lab for activities related to GAVI/ Climate Change / Emergencies and WASH. This work is fundamental to the outcomes and outputs of EAP RO’s RAM and is related to the support of the CPD process. Under the guidance of EAPRO’s Regional T4D Manager, the consultant will collaborate closely with regional T4D and program teams, as well as T4D, data, and program teams based in country offices throughout the East Asia and Pacific region and in the future, the wider Asia Pacific Region.
In order to reinforce its expertise in sustainable energy 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.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have
the following responsibilities:
Human Resources
United Nations Children’s Fund
1) Solar Hub Helpdesk: Support the solar hub helpdesk with dedicated hotline hours to provide real-time technical support
and guidance on renewable energy solutions for Country Offices (COs).
2) Global Guidance Pack on Solar Systems for UNICEF.
UNICEF Honduras looks for an Emergency Specialist to establish and implement country office emergency preparedness and response; develop, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate the emergency interventions to ensure the survival and well-being of children and mothers, and the affected communities in an emergency situation.
Under the supervision of the Programme Manager (Level 4), the WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for WASH programmes/projects within the country programme from development planning to delivery of WASH output results. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant for Vulnerability and Adaption Assessment. The purpose of the consultancy is to assess the vulnerability of the Zimbabwe’s health sector to climate change and identify existing and potential adaptation measures that can build climate resilience at the national and sub-national levels.
Under the direct supervision of the Child Rights and Monitoring Specialist, the consultant is responsible to conduct a comprehensive legal that maps the current legal framework related to children’s participation in user-generated content in digital spaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, identifies legal and institutional gaps, and proposes actionable recommendations for policy, regulation, and rights education. The analysis will serve as a foundation for advocacy, legal harmonization, child rights education, and public awareness-raising.
