Under the direct supervision of the Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Lead, with overall guidance from the Director of Programmes and in close coordination with the Programme Team at Generation Unlimited (GenU), regional offices, and priority Country Offices, the consultant will provide specialized technical expertise to strengthen GenU’s entrepreneurship incubation pathways. The assignment will focus on designing and operationalizing incubation systems across the Entrepreneurship Portfolio, with particular emphasis on the AI Ventures Accelerator, Community Health Worker (CHW) Entrepreneurship models, and Micro entrepreneurship pathways. This includes developing structured cohort models, crafting technical and business curricula, establishing mentorship and advisory mechanisms, and building follow-on funding and business perks ecosystems that support early-stage ventures from ideation to investment readiness. The consultant will also contribute to harmonizing incubation processes across programs, ensuring entrepreneurs receive consistent, high-quality support regardless of pathway, and will help advance GenU’s broader ambition to build an integrated, scalable entrepreneurship support architecture that is grounded in evidence and adaptable to diverse country contexts
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide graphic design support for the cross-sectoral report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, being led by the Poverty and Gender Equality Team.
The consultant will be responsible for designing and producing the report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, including conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publication, and for ensuring alignment of the report with UNICEF design standards and branding.
This consultancy will provide critical support to an initiative to bridge the gap between the gender equality and Education in Emergencies & Protracted Crises (EiEPC) spaces at global and country level. This will be done by contributing gender in EiEPC expertise to UNGEI’s global platforms and advocacy, as well as to the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), and by supporting UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora.
The Gender and EiEPC Consultant is primarily responsible for four streams of work: i) meaningfully integrate EiEPC in the platforms, forums and movements that UNGEI convenes and leads; ii) include a crisis and resilience lens into the GCI initiative, integrating a crisis component into its political and technical support to countries and strengthening the gender capacity of of EiEPC actors; iii) support the inception phase of the GPE Gender Technical Assistance Initiative in Pakistan and Jordan; and iv) support UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora. The Gender and EiEPC Consultant will be supervised by the GCI Lead. They will work closely with the Programme Manager for Gender Transformative Education, UNGEI Advocacy and Communications Lead and other members of the UNGEI Secretariat, the UNICEF HQ EiE team and the GCI team at IIEP-UNESCO Dakar.
The main function of this role is to provide technical guidance, capacity strengthening, and strategic coordination to NatComs to ensure UNICEF’s mental health programming is coherent, evidence-informed, and responsive to diverse country contexts. Support includes the formulation, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of advocacy and programming strategies related to mental health and child rights in high-income countries, in line with UNICEF’s Programme Guidance for PHICs and the global MHPSS portfolio. This ensures efficient and effective programme management and achievement of goals through advocacy, legal and policy development, and networking. The consultant will also advance multi-sectoral and system-strengthening approaches that promote equitable access to MHPSS, build community and institutional resilience, and improve coordination across UNICEF sectors, offices, and partners.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following areas of work:
• Pilot integrated GBV-CP Primero Instance: Pilot an integrated GBV–CP Primero instance in one country with accompanying documentation and lessons-learnt.
• Country-level Standard Operating Procedures Development: Support the development or revision of national SOPs on data sharing, role-based access, and confidentiality protocols.
• Training and Capacity Building: Train local actors and NGO frontline workers on ethical data collection, consent, case classification, and safe referrals.
• AI for GBV Trends Analysis: Provide technical support and develop guidance on the use of AI for GBV trends analysis to improve the quality of analytical briefs that inform protection programming and government decision-making.
• Interagency GBVIMS Technical Support: Support GBVIMS and Primero/GBVIMS+ Ongoing Rollouts as part of the Interagency GBVIMS Technical Team.
• System Administration: For existing rollouts of Primero/GBVIMS+ the Consultant will act as the System Administrator and provide level 1 troubleshooting support as needed.
• Capacity Building on Primero/GBVIMS+: Provide capacity building on Primero/GBVIMS+ to end users, system administrators, and coordinators.
• Support preparation of technical donor reports for GBVIMS+ activities, including development of case studies, impact metrics, and analytical briefs for key donors.
Under the direct supervision of the Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Lead, with overall guidance from the Director of Programmes and in close coordination with the Programme Team at Generation Unlimited (GenU), regional offices, and priority Country Offices, the consultant will provide specialized technical expertise to strengthen GenU’s entrepreneurship incubation pathways. The assignment will focus on designing and operationalizing incubation systems across the Entrepreneurship Portfolio, with particular emphasis on the AI Ventures Accelerator, Community Health Worker (CHW) Entrepreneurship models, and Micro entrepreneurship pathways. This includes developing structured cohort models, crafting technical and business curricula, establishing mentorship and advisory mechanisms, and building follow-on funding and business perks ecosystems that support early-stage ventures from ideation to investment readiness. The consultant will also contribute to harmonizing incubation processes across programs, ensuring entrepreneurs receive consistent, high-quality support regardless of pathway, and will help advance GenU’s broader ambition to build an integrated, scalable entrepreneurship support architecture that is grounded in evidence and adaptable to diverse country contexts
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide graphic design support for the cross-sectoral report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, being led by the Poverty and Gender Equality Team.
The consultant will be responsible for designing and producing the report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, including conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publication, and for ensuring alignment of the report with UNICEF design standards and branding.
This consultancy will provide critical support to an initiative to bridge the gap between the gender equality and Education in Emergencies & Protracted Crises (EiEPC) spaces at global and country level. This will be done by contributing gender in EiEPC expertise to UNGEI’s global platforms and advocacy, as well as to the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), and by supporting UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora.
The Gender and EiEPC Consultant is primarily responsible for four streams of work: i) meaningfully integrate EiEPC in the platforms, forums and movements that UNGEI convenes and leads; ii) include a crisis and resilience lens into the GCI initiative, integrating a crisis component into its political and technical support to countries and strengthening the gender capacity of of EiEPC actors; iii) support the inception phase of the GPE Gender Technical Assistance Initiative in Pakistan and Jordan; and iv) support UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora. The Gender and EiEPC Consultant will be supervised by the GCI Lead. They will work closely with the Programme Manager for Gender Transformative Education, UNGEI Advocacy and Communications Lead and other members of the UNGEI Secretariat, the UNICEF HQ EiE team and the GCI team at IIEP-UNESCO Dakar.
The main function of this role is to provide technical guidance, capacity strengthening, and strategic coordination to NatComs to ensure UNICEF’s mental health programming is coherent, evidence-informed, and responsive to diverse country contexts. Support includes the formulation, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of advocacy and programming strategies related to mental health and child rights in high-income countries, in line with UNICEF’s Programme Guidance for PHICs and the global MHPSS portfolio. This ensures efficient and effective programme management and achievement of goals through advocacy, legal and policy development, and networking. The consultant will also advance multi-sectoral and system-strengthening approaches that promote equitable access to MHPSS, build community and institutional resilience, and improve coordination across UNICEF sectors, offices, and partners.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following areas of work:
• Pilot integrated GBV-CP Primero Instance: Pilot an integrated GBV–CP Primero instance in one country with accompanying documentation and lessons-learnt.
• Country-level Standard Operating Procedures Development: Support the development or revision of national SOPs on data sharing, role-based access, and confidentiality protocols.
• Training and Capacity Building: Train local actors and NGO frontline workers on ethical data collection, consent, case classification, and safe referrals.
• AI for GBV Trends Analysis: Provide technical support and develop guidance on the use of AI for GBV trends analysis to improve the quality of analytical briefs that inform protection programming and government decision-making.
• Interagency GBVIMS Technical Support: Support GBVIMS and Primero/GBVIMS+ Ongoing Rollouts as part of the Interagency GBVIMS Technical Team.
• System Administration: For existing rollouts of Primero/GBVIMS+ the Consultant will act as the System Administrator and provide level 1 troubleshooting support as needed.
• Capacity Building on Primero/GBVIMS+: Provide capacity building on Primero/GBVIMS+ to end users, system administrators, and coordinators.
• Support preparation of technical donor reports for GBVIMS+ activities, including development of case studies, impact metrics, and analytical briefs for key donors.
