The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments, commercial service providers and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
The Vaccine Management (VM) consultant will support UNICEF Country office and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population of the Republic Tajikistan (MoHSP) on vaccines and related immunization logistical services planning and delivery to effectively support implementation of the operational deployment plan for COVID-19 vaccination and national immunization program.
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.
Africa’s importance to global objectives, particularly in maternal and child wellbeing, cannot be overstated. By the end of the century, nearly half of the world’s children will reside in Africa. With abundant natural resources and a burgeoning youth population, the continent is poised to play a critical role in a globalized future.
Despite commendable progress in child survival and development over recent decades, Africa faces emerging challenges such as rapid urbanization, digitalization, and climate disasters, which demand innovative solutions and urgent action. African leadership has set forth visionary frameworks like the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, the Ten-Year Implementation Plan 2024-2033, and Africa’s Agenda 2040 for Children. These documents underscore the need for evolving methodologies and expanded partnerships to support African-owned agendas.
In support of these efforts, a new strategy for UNICEF’s contribution to existing African development agendas (referred to internally as the Africa Strategy) was adopted by the UNICEF Executive Board on the 5th of September 2024. UNICEF is now tasked with the complex responsibility of developing and delivering a Year-1 Implementation Plan.
This consultancy is needed to aid with fundraising for and communications regarding the Year-1 Implementation Plan. This role would then continue to oversee development out of all fundraising materials, including investment briefs, prospectuses, donor pitch decks, and all other communications necessary to fundraise for and implement the Africa
Under the supervision of the Chief Advocacy and Communications, the Advocacy and Communications Specialist will support the communication and advocacy team and the whole country office in advancing the rights of children and young people and placing it in the heart of national agenda. Mobilize support and investment to meet the needs and well-being of children and young people, particularly as the country navigates a critical phase of early recovery and reconstruction.
The key objective of the consultancy is to develop and deliver high-quality human-interest stories for website, media relations, communications and advocacy services and materials.
Under the direct supervision of the Country Coordinator, the Consultant will provide support to the UNICEF National Response in Italy in information management to harmonize data collection and analysis and in administration to improve the office’s communication.
Renforcer l’appui technique de l’unité supply et logistique à travers le contrôle et la surveillance technique des travaux construction/réhabilitation et équipement des centres de vaccination internationale adaptés à la vaccination des adultes dans les Directions départementales de la santé, des Hôpitaux e des formations sanitaires des départements du Bénin et des travaux de mise aux normes et de réhabilitation du dépôt central des vaccins du PEV et d’espace de stockage à sec seront réalisés à l’annexe de l’Agence Nationale des Soins de Santé Primaires sise à Guinkomey à cotonou.
Positioned within the Systems, Analytics, Partnerships Risk Management, Planning and Operations team (SARPO) of PPD and under the supervision of the Risk Manager, the Senior Consultant (Contracts and Agreements) will conceptualize and create a searchable and systematized digital database of public sector donor conditions and develop and deliver trainings and capacity-building resources for PPD teams on negotiating public sector agreements. The Senior Consultant (Contracts and Agreements) will further conduct review of PPD compliance with Delegation of Authority and Resource Mobilization policies and make recommendations to improve related processes, as needed.
The consultant is required to review and finalize the training guidelines and package, ensuring that they align with identified needs. Additionally, the consultant will develop a comprehensive implementation plan to inform the rollout of Lead4PHC nation-wide, and more specifically in additional districts of Kigoma region as well as in Katavi, Songwe, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara regions. The consultant will work to deliver this under the overall guidance of the Immunization and Integrated PHC Specialist in the UNICEF Health section.
UNICEF Kyrgyzstan CO is looking for a national consultant to support UNICEF volunteer
programming, U-Report, child-sensitive climate initiative (NDC 3.0) and technical ADAP
programme delivery from April - December 2025.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea is seeking to engage a national District Engineer Officer on consultancy to ensure that all social systems and infrastructures are climate resilient and based on designs that are appropriate for the local environment while meeting the national standards.
UNICEF Maldives is seeking a local consultant to develop the entrepreneurship component of the imaGen Ventures (social innovation) initiative- 2025. The consultancy is for a duration of 5 months.
Under the supervision of the Chief, Education, the Education Officer (Pre-School / Early Childhood Education (ECE) provides technical, operational, and administrative support to the ECE programme, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s strategic objectives, national priorities, and the emerging needs of children and families in Ukraine. This includes coordination in emergencies, strengthening ECE systems, supporting policy and curriculum development, and fostering innovative approaches to service delivery.
The purpose of this LTA is to provide support to the Quality Assurance process of UNICEF managed evaluations, assisting ESAR Regional Office and Country Offices to ensure that evaluations in the region meet the highest quality and ethical standards. In particular, it will support a more efficient and regionalized production of high-quality evidence that will feed into UNICEF programming and advocacy efforts, supporting the decision-makers to make informed choices and plan strategically. To this end, UNICEF seeks to establish a pool of LTAs with individual consultants to provide professional, practical, timely and constructive feedback on the range of evaluative products that ESA Regional Office and Country Offices manage and commission.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is issuing a call for the expansion of an evaluation roster expertise as part of ongoing efforts to enhance evaluation capacities in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) Region. Consultancies being sought include Team Lead Evaluator, Senior Consultant, Mid-level/National Consultant, Data Analyst/Researcher, and Young Emerging Evaluators.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments, commercial service providers and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
The Vaccine Management (VM) consultant will support UNICEF Country office and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population of the Republic Tajikistan (MoHSP) on vaccines and related immunization logistical services planning and delivery to effectively support implementation of the operational deployment plan for COVID-19 vaccination and national immunization program.
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.
Africa’s importance to global objectives, particularly in maternal and child wellbeing, cannot be overstated. By the end of the century, nearly half of the world’s children will reside in Africa. With abundant natural resources and a burgeoning youth population, the continent is poised to play a critical role in a globalized future.
Despite commendable progress in child survival and development over recent decades, Africa faces emerging challenges such as rapid urbanization, digitalization, and climate disasters, which demand innovative solutions and urgent action. African leadership has set forth visionary frameworks like the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, the Ten-Year Implementation Plan 2024-2033, and Africa’s Agenda 2040 for Children. These documents underscore the need for evolving methodologies and expanded partnerships to support African-owned agendas.
In support of these efforts, a new strategy for UNICEF’s contribution to existing African development agendas (referred to internally as the Africa Strategy) was adopted by the UNICEF Executive Board on the 5th of September 2024. UNICEF is now tasked with the complex responsibility of developing and delivering a Year-1 Implementation Plan.
This consultancy is needed to aid with fundraising for and communications regarding the Year-1 Implementation Plan. This role would then continue to oversee development out of all fundraising materials, including investment briefs, prospectuses, donor pitch decks, and all other communications necessary to fundraise for and implement the Africa
Under the supervision of the Chief Advocacy and Communications, the Advocacy and Communications Specialist will support the communication and advocacy team and the whole country office in advancing the rights of children and young people and placing it in the heart of national agenda. Mobilize support and investment to meet the needs and well-being of children and young people, particularly as the country navigates a critical phase of early recovery and reconstruction.
The key objective of the consultancy is to develop and deliver high-quality human-interest stories for website, media relations, communications and advocacy services and materials.
Under the direct supervision of the Country Coordinator, the Consultant will provide support to the UNICEF National Response in Italy in information management to harmonize data collection and analysis and in administration to improve the office’s communication.
Renforcer l’appui technique de l’unité supply et logistique à travers le contrôle et la surveillance technique des travaux construction/réhabilitation et équipement des centres de vaccination internationale adaptés à la vaccination des adultes dans les Directions départementales de la santé, des Hôpitaux e des formations sanitaires des départements du Bénin et des travaux de mise aux normes et de réhabilitation du dépôt central des vaccins du PEV et d’espace de stockage à sec seront réalisés à l’annexe de l’Agence Nationale des Soins de Santé Primaires sise à Guinkomey à cotonou.
Positioned within the Systems, Analytics, Partnerships Risk Management, Planning and Operations team (SARPO) of PPD and under the supervision of the Risk Manager, the Senior Consultant (Contracts and Agreements) will conceptualize and create a searchable and systematized digital database of public sector donor conditions and develop and deliver trainings and capacity-building resources for PPD teams on negotiating public sector agreements. The Senior Consultant (Contracts and Agreements) will further conduct review of PPD compliance with Delegation of Authority and Resource Mobilization policies and make recommendations to improve related processes, as needed.
The consultant is required to review and finalize the training guidelines and package, ensuring that they align with identified needs. Additionally, the consultant will develop a comprehensive implementation plan to inform the rollout of Lead4PHC nation-wide, and more specifically in additional districts of Kigoma region as well as in Katavi, Songwe, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara regions. The consultant will work to deliver this under the overall guidance of the Immunization and Integrated PHC Specialist in the UNICEF Health section.
UNICEF Kyrgyzstan CO is looking for a national consultant to support UNICEF volunteer
programming, U-Report, child-sensitive climate initiative (NDC 3.0) and technical ADAP
programme delivery from April - December 2025.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea is seeking to engage a national District Engineer Officer on consultancy to ensure that all social systems and infrastructures are climate resilient and based on designs that are appropriate for the local environment while meeting the national standards.
UNICEF Maldives is seeking a local consultant to develop the entrepreneurship component of the imaGen Ventures (social innovation) initiative- 2025. The consultancy is for a duration of 5 months.
Under the supervision of the Chief, Education, the Education Officer (Pre-School / Early Childhood Education (ECE) provides technical, operational, and administrative support to the ECE programme, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s strategic objectives, national priorities, and the emerging needs of children and families in Ukraine. This includes coordination in emergencies, strengthening ECE systems, supporting policy and curriculum development, and fostering innovative approaches to service delivery.
The purpose of this LTA is to provide support to the Quality Assurance process of UNICEF managed evaluations, assisting ESAR Regional Office and Country Offices to ensure that evaluations in the region meet the highest quality and ethical standards. In particular, it will support a more efficient and regionalized production of high-quality evidence that will feed into UNICEF programming and advocacy efforts, supporting the decision-makers to make informed choices and plan strategically. To this end, UNICEF seeks to establish a pool of LTAs with individual consultants to provide professional, practical, timely and constructive feedback on the range of evaluative products that ESA Regional Office and Country Offices manage and commission.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is issuing a call for the expansion of an evaluation roster expertise as part of ongoing efforts to enhance evaluation capacities in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) Region. Consultancies being sought include Team Lead Evaluator, Senior Consultant, Mid-level/National Consultant, Data Analyst/Researcher, and Young Emerging Evaluators.
