The establishment of a Capacity Building Consultant Roster on Climate, Environment, Energy, and DRR (CEED) will ensure that UNICEF can effectively respond to capacity needs at the headquarters, regional, and country office levels. This roster will consist of highly skilled and motivated consultants who will provide tailored technical assistance, training, and support to UNICEF staff and partners globally. The primary objective is to strengthen UNICEF’s ability to integrate sustainability and climate action into its programmes and operations. Key tasks will include developing and delivering tailored training sessions on climate and disaster resilience, sustainability, and emissions reduction strategies across all UNICEF sectors. Consultants will also assist in embedding climate-smart approaches into health, education, water, sanitation, nutrition, and child protection programmes, as well as providing technical support in integrating child-focused climate and disaster actions into national policies, plans, and budgets (e.g., NDCs, NAPs).The Capacity Building Roster will serve as a human resources repository from which pre-vetted and well qualified capacity building experts can be drawn quickly and efficiently. Once accepted on the roster, consultants will be eligible for direct recruitment by UNICEF HQ Offices, Country Offices or Regional Offices for a period of up to three years. The length of the contract will depend on project needs and funding availability
Under the supervision of the Chief PAC, the incumbent will be accountable for supporting resource mobilisation efforts, for supporting advocacy, communications and visibility related to partners, and for monitoring and writing donor reports of programme funds, falling under UNICEF Tunisia Country Office.
As part of the quality assurance role, the incumbent will run quality checks and issue reports on data and process quality based on data analysis and will design and manage quality deep dives on specific risky areas, monitor processes, follow up on suspicious transactions and raise awareness of potential risk of fraud.
Renforcer les capacités des professionnels de la première ligne en Soins pour le développement de l'enfant (Care for Child Development, CCD) à travers la formation d’un pool de formateurs, la définition des stratégies potentielles et les mécanismes pour l’intégration du CCD das les services de soins pour la petite enfance.
Working closely with other units in the organization the consultant will mainly augment the capacity for the Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) development team in the Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) in Valencia for work items related to GSSC processes, providing coverage for technical development work currently under-resourced within the Section to ensure the efficient delivery of critical BIS workplan priorities. The primary focus of the work will be on GSSC projects that drive business modernization and efficiency across UNICEF.
Under the supervision of the UNICEF Programme Officer and Climate Action Coordinator, the consultant is expected to conduct a desk review and series of consultations with children and youth to understand their perspectives, as well as with government and
partners to understand key priorities and opportunities.
These consultations are to be summarized in a comprehensive and visually appealing advocacy brief, complemented with concise communications materials that include clear advocacy asks. Subsequently, the consultant is to organize and facilitate an advocacy event to present the results and materials.
SCOPE OF
If you are a committed, professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Iraq country office is looking for a qualified Humanitarian Affairs Officer (Disaster Risk Reduction) at the NO-B level to be based in Baghdad Iraq.
The consultancy aims to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), a UNICEF-led initiative designed to mobilize financing and resources to combat malnutrition. The consultant will play a critical role in enhancing data transparency, quality, and storytelling, thereby supporting the CNF’s mission to sustainably scale up interventions addressing wasting, stunting, and anemia in children and women.
The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a UNICEF-led financing mechanism designed to transform the way we address malnutrition. The CNF mobilizes financing to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programmes, practices and supplies to address malnutrition. To do so, the CNF provides new opportunities to financially support essential actions to prevent, detect and treat wasting, stunting and/or anaemia in children and women.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to bolster the CNF’s monitoring and evaluation framework, contributing to improved data transparency and quality. The consultant will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including UNICEF country and regional offices, data teams, and donors, to ensure the alignment of M&E activities with CNF’s strategic objectives.
The consultancy seeks to enhance the communications and advocacy efforts of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), a UNICEF-led initiative aimed at addressing global malnutrition. The consultant will be instrumental in driving global awareness and support for CNF’s mission by implementing strategic communication and advocacy initiatives.
The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a UNICEF-led financing mechanism designed to transform the way we address malnutrition. The CNF mobilizes financing to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programmes, practices and supplies to address malnutrition. To do so, the CNF provides new opportunities to financially support essential actions to prevent, detect and treat wasting, stunting and/or anaemia in children and women.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to strengthen the CNF’s communication and advocacy efforts, contributing to the fund’s overall mission by increasing global awareness and support. The consultant will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, including national governments, donors, partners, and civil society organizations, to ensure that CNF’s initiatives are effectively communicated and advocated.
We are seeking a blockchain developer interested in advancing his/her career in web3 by contributing to a goal of connecting every school in the world to the Internet.
Giga is piloting web3 products which will be used to enable children to use digital technology in schools and their communities. Exploring and implementing real-life use cases for web3 is what drives us, and we have gathered an amazing group of blockchain geeks to work on this during crypto winter. Products on which we are currently working include Connectivity credits platform (think carbon credits for school connectivity), an accounting platform for real-time payments for connectivity through smart contracts, and of course – an NFT collection. We tend to come up with new product ideas quite often and follow the latest trends in web3 in order to find ways we can accelerate connecting the remaining 1.3 billion unconnected children.
UNICEF Jordan Country Office is seeking to hire a passionate, dynamic, and collaborative Social Policy intern working in partnership and under the supervision of the Social Policy Specialist. The intern will be part of a dynamic team and will be responsible for knowledge management activities, research, and coordination activities.
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct Child-focused Public Expenditure Measurement (C-PEM) to identify direct and indirect allocations and spending on child policy objectives of the budget over time. Additionally, this assignment aims to support the measurement of public expenditures focused on children in Azerbaijan, aligning with current governmental policies to optimise budget contributions toward child-specific goals. Furthermore, the assignment aims to introduce child-friendly budgeting within the Mid-Term Expenditure Framework in partnership with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist (Inclusive Education) and with guidance from select regional and country office colleagues, the consultant will provide technical expertise and facilitation to:
1. Update and finalize a programme brief detailing the what and why of inclusive education across the education cycle, starting in early childhood. The brief will explain the underpinning normative frameworks and relevant rationale (including the UN CRPD, UNICEF Education and Disability Inclusion Strategies), key approaches and strategies, current trends and emerging priorities, and FAQs.
2. Develop new guidance on how to operationalize the inclusive education systems framework across the education cycle, including current trends and emerging priorities, with country examples and relevant resources, to guide and illustrate implementation
3. Update and finalize an inclusive education checklist to guide education programme staff to ensure considerations for disability inclusion are hardwired across education programming from the planning stage.
4. Organize and facilitate webinars for UNICEF staff to introduce and disseminate the new resources.
Based on agreed DAPM intranet sites governance framework, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Consult with key DAPM stakeholders using a participatory approach to develop a proposal for a refresh of the DAPM communication site including improvements to site design and content organization.
2. Work with DAPM content managers to implement the agreed site refresh including making high level changes to the site, working with focal points to develop and upload content needed for the refresh and agreeing on team roles and responsibilities for regular site updating.
3. Review and make recommendations for improvements to the DAPM collaboration site in terms of site organization, content management and roles and responsibilities for regularly updating the site, as well as recommendations around effective use of collaboration sites within the Division.
4. Develop a short training guide and develop and deliver a webinar tutorial giving an overview of DAPM intranet governance and how to manage content on DAPM's communication and collaboration sites.
Le nouveau programme de pays Togo-UNICEF 2024-2026 a été validé en septembre 2023 par le conseil d’administration de l’UNICEF, à l’issu d’un processus de conception analytique et participatif conduit par le Gouvernement du Togo et l’UNICEF. Le document de programme pays (CPD) détaille ces derniers dans un cadre de résultats et spécifie les stratégies sectorielles et transversales envisagées pour atteindre les objectifs.
Le programme de pays Togo-UNICEF est articulé autour de cinq résultats :
• Chaque enfant et adolescent survit et s’épanouit ;
• Chaque enfant et adolescent apprend et participe ;
• Chaque enfant est protégé contre la violence et l’exploitation ;
• Chaque enfant vit à l’abri de la pauvreté ;
• Efficacité du programme.
Cette structure a été pensée pour réaliser les droits de l’enfant et fait écho aux besoins identifiés sur la base de la situation socio-économique et démographique
The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the child protection programmes/projects through the application of theoretical and technical skills in researching, collecting, analyzing, and presenting technical programme information while learning organizational rules, regulations and procedures to support the development and formulation of the Child Protection Programme within the Country Programme.
Under supervision of the Chief of Section, with dot lines with the Programme Partnership Manager, the incumbent will perform a variety of knowledge management, programme/project/financial monitoring and analysis, and secretariat functions in support of the Child Protection Program, and particularly the Sudan Free of FGM Initiative, jointly implemented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization, in order to strengthen overall management of the Joint Programme and the analysis of Value for Money.
UNICEF Moldova is hiring a national individual consultant to support MER and INEL in determining the personal and development needs of teachers, mentors, and school managers from the perspective of improving the learning outcomes. The study’s results will serve as a reference for decision-making regarding teacher training policies, for the re-design of initial and ongoing professional development programs for teachers and school managers, and the development of mentor training programs.
UNICEF Tajikistan intends to hire a national consultant to conduct the endline IPC assessment in the selected secondary (maternity, surgical, pediatric, infectious diseases, laboratory) departments and primary health care facilities of the selected districts. The required technical support will include a review of the existing policies, standards, assessment, and situation analysis on Infection Prevention and Control practices (IPC) and Healthcare Waste Management (HWM) in the selected health facilities of project districts.
UNICEF ROSA’s education team seeks a consultant to map and analyze the current state of learning assessments in the region, focusing on identifying their strengths and weaknesses, including in terms of their use, and offer actionable recommendations for discussions with relevant country-level stakeholders. The consultant will help build a foundation for the potential development of a regional programme, contextually relevant, and capable of strengthening capacity in relation to learning assessment for improving learning outcomes, in particular foundational learning.
The establishment of a Capacity Building Consultant Roster on Climate, Environment, Energy, and DRR (CEED) will ensure that UNICEF can effectively respond to capacity needs at the headquarters, regional, and country office levels. This roster will consist of highly skilled and motivated consultants who will provide tailored technical assistance, training, and support to UNICEF staff and partners globally. The primary objective is to strengthen UNICEF’s ability to integrate sustainability and climate action into its programmes and operations. Key tasks will include developing and delivering tailored training sessions on climate and disaster resilience, sustainability, and emissions reduction strategies across all UNICEF sectors. Consultants will also assist in embedding climate-smart approaches into health, education, water, sanitation, nutrition, and child protection programmes, as well as providing technical support in integrating child-focused climate and disaster actions into national policies, plans, and budgets (e.g., NDCs, NAPs).The Capacity Building Roster will serve as a human resources repository from which pre-vetted and well qualified capacity building experts can be drawn quickly and efficiently. Once accepted on the roster, consultants will be eligible for direct recruitment by UNICEF HQ Offices, Country Offices or Regional Offices for a period of up to three years. The length of the contract will depend on project needs and funding availability
Under the supervision of the Chief PAC, the incumbent will be accountable for supporting resource mobilisation efforts, for supporting advocacy, communications and visibility related to partners, and for monitoring and writing donor reports of programme funds, falling under UNICEF Tunisia Country Office.
As part of the quality assurance role, the incumbent will run quality checks and issue reports on data and process quality based on data analysis and will design and manage quality deep dives on specific risky areas, monitor processes, follow up on suspicious transactions and raise awareness of potential risk of fraud.
Renforcer les capacités des professionnels de la première ligne en Soins pour le développement de l'enfant (Care for Child Development, CCD) à travers la formation d’un pool de formateurs, la définition des stratégies potentielles et les mécanismes pour l’intégration du CCD das les services de soins pour la petite enfance.
Working closely with other units in the organization the consultant will mainly augment the capacity for the Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) development team in the Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) in Valencia for work items related to GSSC processes, providing coverage for technical development work currently under-resourced within the Section to ensure the efficient delivery of critical BIS workplan priorities. The primary focus of the work will be on GSSC projects that drive business modernization and efficiency across UNICEF.
Under the supervision of the UNICEF Programme Officer and Climate Action Coordinator, the consultant is expected to conduct a desk review and series of consultations with children and youth to understand their perspectives, as well as with government and
partners to understand key priorities and opportunities.
These consultations are to be summarized in a comprehensive and visually appealing advocacy brief, complemented with concise communications materials that include clear advocacy asks. Subsequently, the consultant is to organize and facilitate an advocacy event to present the results and materials.
SCOPE OF
If you are a committed, professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Iraq country office is looking for a qualified Humanitarian Affairs Officer (Disaster Risk Reduction) at the NO-B level to be based in Baghdad Iraq.
The consultancy aims to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), a UNICEF-led initiative designed to mobilize financing and resources to combat malnutrition. The consultant will play a critical role in enhancing data transparency, quality, and storytelling, thereby supporting the CNF’s mission to sustainably scale up interventions addressing wasting, stunting, and anemia in children and women.
The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a UNICEF-led financing mechanism designed to transform the way we address malnutrition. The CNF mobilizes financing to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programmes, practices and supplies to address malnutrition. To do so, the CNF provides new opportunities to financially support essential actions to prevent, detect and treat wasting, stunting and/or anaemia in children and women.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to bolster the CNF’s monitoring and evaluation framework, contributing to improved data transparency and quality. The consultant will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including UNICEF country and regional offices, data teams, and donors, to ensure the alignment of M&E activities with CNF’s strategic objectives.
The consultancy seeks to enhance the communications and advocacy efforts of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), a UNICEF-led initiative aimed at addressing global malnutrition. The consultant will be instrumental in driving global awareness and support for CNF’s mission by implementing strategic communication and advocacy initiatives.
The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a UNICEF-led financing mechanism designed to transform the way we address malnutrition. The CNF mobilizes financing to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programmes, practices and supplies to address malnutrition. To do so, the CNF provides new opportunities to financially support essential actions to prevent, detect and treat wasting, stunting and/or anaemia in children and women.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to strengthen the CNF’s communication and advocacy efforts, contributing to the fund’s overall mission by increasing global awareness and support. The consultant will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, including national governments, donors, partners, and civil society organizations, to ensure that CNF’s initiatives are effectively communicated and advocated.
We are seeking a blockchain developer interested in advancing his/her career in web3 by contributing to a goal of connecting every school in the world to the Internet.
Giga is piloting web3 products which will be used to enable children to use digital technology in schools and their communities. Exploring and implementing real-life use cases for web3 is what drives us, and we have gathered an amazing group of blockchain geeks to work on this during crypto winter. Products on which we are currently working include Connectivity credits platform (think carbon credits for school connectivity), an accounting platform for real-time payments for connectivity through smart contracts, and of course – an NFT collection. We tend to come up with new product ideas quite often and follow the latest trends in web3 in order to find ways we can accelerate connecting the remaining 1.3 billion unconnected children.
UNICEF Jordan Country Office is seeking to hire a passionate, dynamic, and collaborative Social Policy intern working in partnership and under the supervision of the Social Policy Specialist. The intern will be part of a dynamic team and will be responsible for knowledge management activities, research, and coordination activities.
The purpose of this assignment is to conduct Child-focused Public Expenditure Measurement (C-PEM) to identify direct and indirect allocations and spending on child policy objectives of the budget over time. Additionally, this assignment aims to support the measurement of public expenditures focused on children in Azerbaijan, aligning with current governmental policies to optimise budget contributions toward child-specific goals. Furthermore, the assignment aims to introduce child-friendly budgeting within the Mid-Term Expenditure Framework in partnership with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist (Inclusive Education) and with guidance from select regional and country office colleagues, the consultant will provide technical expertise and facilitation to:
1. Update and finalize a programme brief detailing the what and why of inclusive education across the education cycle, starting in early childhood. The brief will explain the underpinning normative frameworks and relevant rationale (including the UN CRPD, UNICEF Education and Disability Inclusion Strategies), key approaches and strategies, current trends and emerging priorities, and FAQs.
2. Develop new guidance on how to operationalize the inclusive education systems framework across the education cycle, including current trends and emerging priorities, with country examples and relevant resources, to guide and illustrate implementation
3. Update and finalize an inclusive education checklist to guide education programme staff to ensure considerations for disability inclusion are hardwired across education programming from the planning stage.
4. Organize and facilitate webinars for UNICEF staff to introduce and disseminate the new resources.
Based on agreed DAPM intranet sites governance framework, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Consult with key DAPM stakeholders using a participatory approach to develop a proposal for a refresh of the DAPM communication site including improvements to site design and content organization.
2. Work with DAPM content managers to implement the agreed site refresh including making high level changes to the site, working with focal points to develop and upload content needed for the refresh and agreeing on team roles and responsibilities for regular site updating.
3. Review and make recommendations for improvements to the DAPM collaboration site in terms of site organization, content management and roles and responsibilities for regularly updating the site, as well as recommendations around effective use of collaboration sites within the Division.
4. Develop a short training guide and develop and deliver a webinar tutorial giving an overview of DAPM intranet governance and how to manage content on DAPM's communication and collaboration sites.
Le nouveau programme de pays Togo-UNICEF 2024-2026 a été validé en septembre 2023 par le conseil d’administration de l’UNICEF, à l’issu d’un processus de conception analytique et participatif conduit par le Gouvernement du Togo et l’UNICEF. Le document de programme pays (CPD) détaille ces derniers dans un cadre de résultats et spécifie les stratégies sectorielles et transversales envisagées pour atteindre les objectifs.
Le programme de pays Togo-UNICEF est articulé autour de cinq résultats :
• Chaque enfant et adolescent survit et s’épanouit ;
• Chaque enfant et adolescent apprend et participe ;
• Chaque enfant est protégé contre la violence et l’exploitation ;
• Chaque enfant vit à l’abri de la pauvreté ;
• Efficacité du programme.
Cette structure a été pensée pour réaliser les droits de l’enfant et fait écho aux besoins identifiés sur la base de la situation socio-économique et démographique
The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the child protection programmes/projects through the application of theoretical and technical skills in researching, collecting, analyzing, and presenting technical programme information while learning organizational rules, regulations and procedures to support the development and formulation of the Child Protection Programme within the Country Programme.
Under supervision of the Chief of Section, with dot lines with the Programme Partnership Manager, the incumbent will perform a variety of knowledge management, programme/project/financial monitoring and analysis, and secretariat functions in support of the Child Protection Program, and particularly the Sudan Free of FGM Initiative, jointly implemented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization, in order to strengthen overall management of the Joint Programme and the analysis of Value for Money.
UNICEF Moldova is hiring a national individual consultant to support MER and INEL in determining the personal and development needs of teachers, mentors, and school managers from the perspective of improving the learning outcomes. The study’s results will serve as a reference for decision-making regarding teacher training policies, for the re-design of initial and ongoing professional development programs for teachers and school managers, and the development of mentor training programs.
UNICEF Tajikistan intends to hire a national consultant to conduct the endline IPC assessment in the selected secondary (maternity, surgical, pediatric, infectious diseases, laboratory) departments and primary health care facilities of the selected districts. The required technical support will include a review of the existing policies, standards, assessment, and situation analysis on Infection Prevention and Control practices (IPC) and Healthcare Waste Management (HWM) in the selected health facilities of project districts.
UNICEF ROSA’s education team seeks a consultant to map and analyze the current state of learning assessments in the region, focusing on identifying their strengths and weaknesses, including in terms of their use, and offer actionable recommendations for discussions with relevant country-level stakeholders. The consultant will help build a foundation for the potential development of a regional programme, contextually relevant, and capable of strengthening capacity in relation to learning assessment for improving learning outcomes, in particular foundational learning.