In line with the UNICEF Country Programme and Government 13th FYP which prioritizes strengthening the community health systems, this exercise aims to assess the current situation of community health and nutrition (CHN) services and community engagement, update the village/community health and nutrition strategy and develop an action plan. The updated CHN strategy and action plan will enable implementation of community health and nutrition interventions for primary health care (PHC).
If you are a committed, resourceful 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.
The UNICEF Refugee Response Office (RRO) in Poland is seeking a senior national consultant to provide strategic technical expertise for the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programme priorities within the Health and Nutrition section. The Senior National Consultant will also offer technical support and contribute to the implementation of the multisectoral MHPSS interventions across various sections, including Health, Child Protection, Education, Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), and Social and Behavior Change (SBC).
This is a consultancy contract (considered non-staff), full-time, on-site in Warsaw, for a period of up to 31 December 2025.
O principal objectivo da consultoria solicitada é de, numa primeira fase, rever e actualizar os projectos padrão existentes para sanitários escolares (sanitários secos e sanitários húmidos) e, na segunda fase, desenvolver um novo projecto padrão, adoptando uma abordagem modular e centrada na criança, para assegurar que as instalações sanitárias nas escolas atendam aos critérios de satisfação da demanda, qualidade, segurança e adequação às necessidades das crianças conforme descrito mais adiante nestes Termos de Referência.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a qualified candidate to join our team as a Staff Counsellor based in Gaza to develop and implement a stress management programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff management in the State of Palestine, with a focus on Gaza Field Office.
The Child Protection Section of the UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking an individual consultant to provide specialized knowledge, guidance, and strategies to enhance the effectiveness of TICAC’s operations and responses to online child sexual exploitation and abuse cases in Thailand. This includes improving information sharing, strengthening expertise in handling online crimes, enhancing collaboration with global platforms, increasing law enforcement capacity, and improving data analysis.
Due to the nature of this assignment, it is considered an ‘elevated risk role’ from UNICEF’s child safeguarding perspective. The consultant will undergo a comprehensive assessment, which includes rigorous background checks.
The purpose of this assignment to review and gather lessons learned from countries who have experience in operationalizing these interventions and to document those operational learnings in the form of practical recommendations in order to support future implementation and roll out of recent programmatic shifts related to the new WHO Guideline recommendations.
This review should explore boosters and challenges in the implementation of these interventions and will draw similarities, strengths across contexts in order to provide practical solutions and recommendations on how these interventions can be taken to scale once adapted to the latest WHO Evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations/solutions should focus on the short, medium and long term and should span across different programmatic aspects and levels of the national health system.
We are seeking a highly skilled data scientist to join our team and support the analysis and processing of a diverse range of datasets including geospatial data, school location data, mobile coverage data, internet Quality of Service (QoS) data, Internet Provider’s data, connectivity pricing data and other socioeconomic data. The successful candidate will support the development of machine learning and/or statistical models to generate new insights that will help Giga achieve its goal of connecting every school to the internet, with a particular focus on developing models to help UNICEF and governments to scale up the procurement of affordable school connectivity services.
The Market Research Specialist will support UNICEF Supply Division and Giga to implement interventions aimed at incentivizing the telecommunications industry to improve availability and affordability of school connectivity solutions. This role will support, with solid market research and evidence, the development and implementation of procurement strategies for school connectivity. Demand forecasts and market shaping strategies will be developed where needed to help UNICEF accelerate market development, improve availability of connectivity solutions for schools, and reduce prices for this essential service for children. High-quality business intelligence will be maintained and kept up to date to inform UNICEF’s strategic engagement with key industry suppliers, ensuring core business are postured to meet the needs of children.
The Technical Specialist for Connectivity Solutions will significantly enhance the capacity of UNICEF and Giga to deliver high-quality, reliable, and sustainable connectivity solutions to schools. By ensuring the implementation of robust technical standards and quality assurance measures, the specialist will contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of school connectivity projects. This role will help bridge the digital divide, providing children in unconnected schools with access to educational resources and opportunities, thus supporting UNICEF’s mission to promote equity and the right to education for every child. The specialist’s work in monitoring and adapting service requirements, evaluating suppliers, and managing product portfolios will ensure that connectivity solutions are fit for purpose, cost-effective, and aligned with the latest industry advancements. This will ultimately lead to improved educational outcomes and a stronger foundation for the future development of connected learning environments globally.
If you are a committed, resourceful 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.
We are looking for a Child Protection Officer (Social Service Workforce Strengthening) who will be responsible for providing professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. This Temporary Appointment is for 364 days.
Candidates applying for positions in the NO category must possess the nationality of the country of the duty station, with the exception of internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in the country independently of UNICEF appointment. If not a national of Poland, proof of residence/work permit may be required.
This position is subject to local recruitment. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support the Family Welfare Division (FWD) to develop national integrated home-based maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition handbook. The consultant will be engaged for 6 months.
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
Giga’s mission is to support governments to connect all schools in the world by 2030, so children and young people can have access to information, opportunity, and choice. Alongside internet connectivity, it is essential that students and teachers have the necessary devices like tablets and computers for accessing the wealth of resources available on the Internet for education. Meaningful connectivity is characterized by sufficient speed, an adequate device, enough data, and frequent connection. Giga collaborates with the industry and governmental bodies to ensure that schools receive high-speed, quality-assured connectivity with sufficient data for educational purposes. This consultancy will assist UNICEF in building a framework, leveraging Giga’s experience in connectivity, to integrate cost-effective and adequate devices for schools that are connected.
The Device Expert will survey the supplier landscape and available solutions, spot market trends, advise on suitable device specifications for education according to different schools and countries’ context, and outline strategies to procure devices economically, utilizing Giga’s experience in connecting schools, procurement, and partnerships with various organizations.
Graphic designer for the development of comic books for training on Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Gender Based Violence (GBV)
UNICEF's Talent Development team, part of the Division of People and Culture, seeks a consultant to support the delivery, promotion, and reporting of key core and management learning programmes. The consultant will be responsible for revising learning guidelines, marketing mentorship initiatives, facilitating thematic discussions, and preparing comprehensive learning reports. Additionally, they will recommend innovative learning engagement interventions. Key responsibilities include coordinating learning events, supporting programme design, managing communications on various platforms, and overseeing progress in mentorship and upskilling sessions.
Across the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENAR), the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children, adolescents and women is increasing, including in the Gulf area. In MENAR an estimated 9 per cent of children under 5 years of age are living with overweight, within the Gulf sub-region this ranges between 7 -12 per cent, all of which are higher than the global estimate of 6 per cent. The rates increase in children aged 5-19 years, with 33 per cent living with overweight in MENAR, with the range in Gulf countries between 39 and 47 per cent, compared to 20 per cent globally. MENAR is the region with the highest prevalence of women aged over 18 years living with overweight, at 68 per cent, compared to the global average of 40%, the Gulf sub-region estimates range between 69 and 82 per cent. These figures highlight the need to take immediate action to address overweight prevention in the Gulf sub-region, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Building on the results of the Shock Responsive Social Protection Readiness Assessment, National consultant is expected to support drafting the National Action Plan on improving the shock responsiveness of the social protection system by introducing Humanitarian Cash Transfers into the country’s social transfers support system, administered by the Pension Fund of Turkmenistan at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Turkmenistan.
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 fulfill 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 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 fulfill 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.
In line with the UNICEF Country Programme and Government 13th FYP which prioritizes strengthening the community health systems, this exercise aims to assess the current situation of community health and nutrition (CHN) services and community engagement, update the village/community health and nutrition strategy and develop an action plan. The updated CHN strategy and action plan will enable implementation of community health and nutrition interventions for primary health care (PHC).
If you are a committed, resourceful 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.
The UNICEF Refugee Response Office (RRO) in Poland is seeking a senior national consultant to provide strategic technical expertise for the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programme priorities within the Health and Nutrition section. The Senior National Consultant will also offer technical support and contribute to the implementation of the multisectoral MHPSS interventions across various sections, including Health, Child Protection, Education, Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), and Social and Behavior Change (SBC).
This is a consultancy contract (considered non-staff), full-time, on-site in Warsaw, for a period of up to 31 December 2025.
O principal objectivo da consultoria solicitada é de, numa primeira fase, rever e actualizar os projectos padrão existentes para sanitários escolares (sanitários secos e sanitários húmidos) e, na segunda fase, desenvolver um novo projecto padrão, adoptando uma abordagem modular e centrada na criança, para assegurar que as instalações sanitárias nas escolas atendam aos critérios de satisfação da demanda, qualidade, segurança e adequação às necessidades das crianças conforme descrito mais adiante nestes Termos de Referência.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a qualified candidate to join our team as a Staff Counsellor based in Gaza to develop and implement a stress management programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff management in the State of Palestine, with a focus on Gaza Field Office.
The Child Protection Section of the UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking an individual consultant to provide specialized knowledge, guidance, and strategies to enhance the effectiveness of TICAC’s operations and responses to online child sexual exploitation and abuse cases in Thailand. This includes improving information sharing, strengthening expertise in handling online crimes, enhancing collaboration with global platforms, increasing law enforcement capacity, and improving data analysis.
Due to the nature of this assignment, it is considered an ‘elevated risk role’ from UNICEF’s child safeguarding perspective. The consultant will undergo a comprehensive assessment, which includes rigorous background checks.
The purpose of this assignment to review and gather lessons learned from countries who have experience in operationalizing these interventions and to document those operational learnings in the form of practical recommendations in order to support future implementation and roll out of recent programmatic shifts related to the new WHO Guideline recommendations.
This review should explore boosters and challenges in the implementation of these interventions and will draw similarities, strengths across contexts in order to provide practical solutions and recommendations on how these interventions can be taken to scale once adapted to the latest WHO Evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations/solutions should focus on the short, medium and long term and should span across different programmatic aspects and levels of the national health system.
We are seeking a highly skilled data scientist to join our team and support the analysis and processing of a diverse range of datasets including geospatial data, school location data, mobile coverage data, internet Quality of Service (QoS) data, Internet Provider’s data, connectivity pricing data and other socioeconomic data. The successful candidate will support the development of machine learning and/or statistical models to generate new insights that will help Giga achieve its goal of connecting every school to the internet, with a particular focus on developing models to help UNICEF and governments to scale up the procurement of affordable school connectivity services.
The Market Research Specialist will support UNICEF Supply Division and Giga to implement interventions aimed at incentivizing the telecommunications industry to improve availability and affordability of school connectivity solutions. This role will support, with solid market research and evidence, the development and implementation of procurement strategies for school connectivity. Demand forecasts and market shaping strategies will be developed where needed to help UNICEF accelerate market development, improve availability of connectivity solutions for schools, and reduce prices for this essential service for children. High-quality business intelligence will be maintained and kept up to date to inform UNICEF’s strategic engagement with key industry suppliers, ensuring core business are postured to meet the needs of children.
The Technical Specialist for Connectivity Solutions will significantly enhance the capacity of UNICEF and Giga to deliver high-quality, reliable, and sustainable connectivity solutions to schools. By ensuring the implementation of robust technical standards and quality assurance measures, the specialist will contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of school connectivity projects. This role will help bridge the digital divide, providing children in unconnected schools with access to educational resources and opportunities, thus supporting UNICEF’s mission to promote equity and the right to education for every child. The specialist’s work in monitoring and adapting service requirements, evaluating suppliers, and managing product portfolios will ensure that connectivity solutions are fit for purpose, cost-effective, and aligned with the latest industry advancements. This will ultimately lead to improved educational outcomes and a stronger foundation for the future development of connected learning environments globally.
If you are a committed, resourceful 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.
We are looking for a Child Protection Officer (Social Service Workforce Strengthening) who will be responsible for providing professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. This Temporary Appointment is for 364 days.
Candidates applying for positions in the NO category must possess the nationality of the country of the duty station, with the exception of internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in the country independently of UNICEF appointment. If not a national of Poland, proof of residence/work permit may be required.
This position is subject to local recruitment. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support the Family Welfare Division (FWD) to develop national integrated home-based maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition handbook. The consultant will be engaged for 6 months.
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
Giga’s mission is to support governments to connect all schools in the world by 2030, so children and young people can have access to information, opportunity, and choice. Alongside internet connectivity, it is essential that students and teachers have the necessary devices like tablets and computers for accessing the wealth of resources available on the Internet for education. Meaningful connectivity is characterized by sufficient speed, an adequate device, enough data, and frequent connection. Giga collaborates with the industry and governmental bodies to ensure that schools receive high-speed, quality-assured connectivity with sufficient data for educational purposes. This consultancy will assist UNICEF in building a framework, leveraging Giga’s experience in connectivity, to integrate cost-effective and adequate devices for schools that are connected.
The Device Expert will survey the supplier landscape and available solutions, spot market trends, advise on suitable device specifications for education according to different schools and countries’ context, and outline strategies to procure devices economically, utilizing Giga’s experience in connecting schools, procurement, and partnerships with various organizations.
Graphic designer for the development of comic books for training on Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Gender Based Violence (GBV)
UNICEF's Talent Development team, part of the Division of People and Culture, seeks a consultant to support the delivery, promotion, and reporting of key core and management learning programmes. The consultant will be responsible for revising learning guidelines, marketing mentorship initiatives, facilitating thematic discussions, and preparing comprehensive learning reports. Additionally, they will recommend innovative learning engagement interventions. Key responsibilities include coordinating learning events, supporting programme design, managing communications on various platforms, and overseeing progress in mentorship and upskilling sessions.
Across the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENAR), the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children, adolescents and women is increasing, including in the Gulf area. In MENAR an estimated 9 per cent of children under 5 years of age are living with overweight, within the Gulf sub-region this ranges between 7 -12 per cent, all of which are higher than the global estimate of 6 per cent. The rates increase in children aged 5-19 years, with 33 per cent living with overweight in MENAR, with the range in Gulf countries between 39 and 47 per cent, compared to 20 per cent globally. MENAR is the region with the highest prevalence of women aged over 18 years living with overweight, at 68 per cent, compared to the global average of 40%, the Gulf sub-region estimates range between 69 and 82 per cent. These figures highlight the need to take immediate action to address overweight prevention in the Gulf sub-region, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Building on the results of the Shock Responsive Social Protection Readiness Assessment, National consultant is expected to support drafting the National Action Plan on improving the shock responsiveness of the social protection system by introducing Humanitarian Cash Transfers into the country’s social transfers support system, administered by the Pension Fund of Turkmenistan at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Turkmenistan.
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 fulfill 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 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 fulfill 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.