UNICEF Zambia Country Office is looking to recruit a consultant to provide technical expertise and support to the UNICEF Zambia WASH section in the design, implementation, and monitoring of capacity building and knowledge management activities for water system strengthening activities.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director – Programmes, and direct supervision of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Specialist, and working closely with the Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, and in collaboration with the UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU) Programme Team, the Knowledge Management Consultant will support in the development of key knowledge management outputs, processes, and systems linked to youth skills and livelihoods at UNICEF Generation Unlimited. The position will help to strengthen overall Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) work at UNICEF Generation Unlimited, and also support the UNICEF Generation Unlimited Global Team for key knowledge-related activities and events.
Disasters, climate change, and environmental degradation present significant and escalating threats to the well-being of children globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in child survival and development. Over a billion children are exposed to severe risks from climate and environmental hazards such as heatwaves, droughts, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it is imperative for countries to establish climate-resilient, low-carbon social services encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, education, nutrition, social protection, and child protection to tackle current threats and prepare for increasingly severe impacts.
In alignment with our commitment to protect children and young people worldwide, UNICEF launched its Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) 2023 - 2030. The SCAP prioritizes urgent climate action through systematic partnerships with public and private sector institutions to prioritize the needs of children and young people and build their resilience to the climate threats at hand. The SCAP strives to mainstream sustainability and climate action both internally and externally, through protecting the lives, health and well-being of children and their communities; empowering children with developmental opportunities and skills; and reducing emissions and the environmental footprint within UNICEF.
UNICEF is working as a GCF Accredited Entity for the first time and setting up its internal systems to establish a vertical climate funds unit. In parallel, UNICEF is developing a pipeline of GCF funding proposals. The role of the GCF Senior consultant is to provide expert advise and support development of both aspects of UNICEF’s engagement in climate finance.
The Ministry of Health lacks an integrated, comprehensive national eLMIS to ensure proper accountability and visibility of medicines, vaccines and supplies at the national and district level.
UNEPI has recognised that there is a need for technical support from UNICEF lead a comprehensive assessment, costing, planning, and implementation of an eLMIS that captures the requirements of the immunisation programme and is integrated into existing HMIS architecture.
UNICEF Sri Lanka would like to engage the services of professional translators to be available in short notice to assist with translations and proof reading. Selected candidates will be placed in a roster for 12 months with possibility of extension.
The Public Partnerships Division (PPD) works to strengthen UNICEF's position as a partner of choice for children's rights among governments and inter-governmental actors around the world. The Division is doing this by positioning children's rights in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora and engaging with governments and public institutions as resource, policy and programme partners. A key premise for PPD is that the engagement with countries should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization.How can you make a difference?The Coordination Specialist is responsible for supporting the Director in implementing and following up on key strategic priorities; coordinating, managing and planning activities in a systematic and organized manner; and lastly, managing an effective system for incoming information, including correspondence and decision memos.
UNICEF Moldova is looking for a consultant who will support the MLSP in implementing ongoing activities under the RESTART reform and ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities to the government for initiatives launched over the past two years. Additionally, the consultant will assist in shaping key reform priorities, including expanding access to social services, improving service quality, strengthening the case management framework, addressing coverage gaps in social assistance, developing human resources within newly established ATAS, and enhancing financing and governance mechanisms.
The purpose of this consultancy is to finalize and operationalize the subnational INFORM model, ensuring that it meets methodological standards and can be reliably used for child-sensitive climate and disaster risk analysis in Madagascar.
Key objectives include:
• Revising and restructuring the existing draft INFORM model to align with CCRI-DRM standards and UNICEF guidance;
• Validating revised indicators and composite indices through national consultation;
• Integrating the model into the national GeoSight platform;
• Building capacity among national institutions to independently maintain, update, and utilize the model in planning and early warning systems.
The final model will serve as a strategic tool to guide government institutions and partners in prioritizing interventions for risk-informed, child-sensitive development planning and humanitarian preparedness.
You are passionate about open source and know your way around the messiest of repos and the most opinionated communities. You want to bring your experience in building and supporting open-source communities to the UN and help UNICEF build out its engagement on open source. You can tell a story, sell an idea, and could convince the biggest tech companies to open source their product, if they only gave you a meeting. This is a role for someone who is connected to the open-source world, has converted big organizations to embrace the 'open' life and can explain the difference between 'open source' and 'open standards' in a tweet. Join us to step-up our engagement on open source, to expand our support to new solutions and turn skeptics into converts.
To support field offices and programme sections in handling transactions in VISION Sudan CO has established a VISION Hub service center by bringing together a small group of staff who have expertise and skills through hands-on training and experience in the use of the VISION application. It has been observed that recruiting more staff in the field is very difficult at this moment with strong competition among humanitarian organizations for a small number of job seekers. Therefore, centralizing transaction for field offices in Port Sudan may help to address this risk. Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the programme associate supports the respective section (s) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with a range of staff in the CO, external partners and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track. The duty station for this post is Port Sudan
Lebanon is looking for a national consultant to scale up the implementation of comprehensive wasting program in the country which requires key interventions , UNICEF is seeking to engage an individual consultant to work on the implementation of this focused project activities related to Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) while providing ongoing technical support to MoPH , PHCCs / PSUs and floating nurses throughout the implementation period.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Programme Associate, GS6 level on a temporary appointment to be based in Honiara, Solomons Islands. Under the general supervision of the Chief Field Office the Programme Associate supports the sections by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with a range of staff in the Country Office, external partners and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track.
Under the direct supervision of the Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Lead, with overall guidance from the Director of Programmes and in close collaboration with the Programme Team at UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited (GenU) and select Country Offices this consultancy role will coordinate the global implementation of imaGen Ventures while supporting the broader youth entrepreneurship portfolio within UNICEF’s GenU. This includes leading flagship initiatives like the Global Challenge and Global Incubation Week, as well as providing technical support to UNICEF Country Offices implementing youth entrepreneurship programmes. The consultant will act as the primary liaison for country offices, facilitating alignment with global strategies, managing key partnerships and contributing to the growth of related youth entrepreneurship programmes, including the Green Entrepreneurship component of Green Rising, health entrepreneurship initiatives, and AI-focused ventures. The role also involves developing innovative learning resources, refining incubation frameworks, and supporting effective data collection and impact measurement to enhance programme outcomes globally.
The Consultant will provide technical advice in facilitating and quality assuring evaluations undertaken as part of the Safe Online targeted investment round on Evidence Generation for Sustainable and Scalable Impact in Combatting Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and work with the Safe Online Evaluation Advisory Group. S/he will technically support the implementation of MEL capacity development plan for Safe Online grantees. In addition, s/he will provide technical support on the execution of the Safe Online Strategy and portfolio evaluation, performance monitoring of key results and learning across the Safe Online portfolio.
Under the supervision of the UNICEF Rio de Janeiro Field Office and in close coordination with the Child Protection team, the consultant will support the implementation of UNICEF’s child protection agenda in contexts affected by armed violence, particularly by (1) providing technical inputs to two studies conducted by implementing partners (on early childhood immunization and child mobility), (2) contributing to the systematization of UNICEF’s internal learning and technical note on violence prevention, (3) organizing a civil society engagement meeting, (4) supporting the inauguration of the Child and Adolescent Support Centers (CAAC), (5) reviewing and finalizing methodologies such as the Violence Prevention tool, and the behavior change strategy on corporal punishment, (5) participating in the TEVAC Task Force internal meeting to share Rio-based experiences, and (6) developing strategic recommendations and a final consultancy report summarizing key deliverables and proposed follow-up actions for Child Protection in Rio.
By providing technical support for the preparation and coding of data in the WAPT and ensuring that the final WAPT studies are accurate and complete. One of the main missions of the WASH and WAPT Data Expert is to strengthen the capacity and knowledge of the WASH Accounts Country Team in the TrackFin methodology and its application, data preparation for import into the WAPT, and the use of the WAPT.
Establish a coherent approach to support Cameroon in the process of monitoring the financial flows of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to inform decisions, strengthen national systems for the collection and analysis of WASH financial data, and finally institutionalize the WASH accounts process. The National WASH Accounts Consultant will support processes, coordinating and contributing to key results/outputs, and will be a key member of the WASH Accounts team.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the ROSTER OF SPECIALIZED CONSULTANTS FOR THE CHILD PROTECTION SECTION. They might be contracted to provide support to UNICEF in delivering specific products in relation to evidence generation (data collection, research, etc.); policy and legal analyses; policy advocacy; policy and programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; technical assistance and capacity building; public finance management for social services; knowledge management; management information system design and use, etc. to support child protection programmes in Romania.
UNICEF is looking for a short–term writer to support the communication team in realising agreed communication plans for July – December 2025. Under the overall general guidance of the Chief of Communication, Advocacy and Partnerships this role is responsible for one or all of writing, editing, proofreading and quality assurance of human-interest stories, copy for photo essays, advocacy briefs, key messages, newsletters, media briefs, press releases, website resource hubs, blogs and social media content in English.
The professional writer and editor is required to provide high-quality editing, proofreading, and writing services for various UNICEF publications and documents, under tight deadlines, as well as quality assurance to ensuring clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s style guidelines.
The Consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Communication Specialist at UNICEF South Africa.
The United Nations Children’s Fund in Cambodia is looking for a Cambodian national consultant to conduct a mapping of the private sector in Cambodia to:
• Identify corporates, CSR initiatives, foundations, Chambers of Commerce and HNWIs with potential alignment to UNICEF’s mission.
• Identify charity organizations that are actively fundraising through corporate partnerships and individual donations. Assess the philanthropic landscape, including giving trends, motivations, and mechanisms.
• Provide strategic recommendations for UNICEF Cambodia to engage with these actors effectively.
• Identify relevant digital payment tools and payment options in Cambodia.
If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children in Cambodia, UNICEF would like to hear from you.
UNICEF Zambia Country Office is looking to recruit a consultant to provide technical expertise and support to the UNICEF Zambia WASH section in the design, implementation, and monitoring of capacity building and knowledge management activities for water system strengthening activities.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director – Programmes, and direct supervision of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Specialist, and working closely with the Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, and in collaboration with the UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU) Programme Team, the Knowledge Management Consultant will support in the development of key knowledge management outputs, processes, and systems linked to youth skills and livelihoods at UNICEF Generation Unlimited. The position will help to strengthen overall Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) work at UNICEF Generation Unlimited, and also support the UNICEF Generation Unlimited Global Team for key knowledge-related activities and events.
Disasters, climate change, and environmental degradation present significant and escalating threats to the well-being of children globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in child survival and development. Over a billion children are exposed to severe risks from climate and environmental hazards such as heatwaves, droughts, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it is imperative for countries to establish climate-resilient, low-carbon social services encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, education, nutrition, social protection, and child protection to tackle current threats and prepare for increasingly severe impacts.
In alignment with our commitment to protect children and young people worldwide, UNICEF launched its Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) 2023 - 2030. The SCAP prioritizes urgent climate action through systematic partnerships with public and private sector institutions to prioritize the needs of children and young people and build their resilience to the climate threats at hand. The SCAP strives to mainstream sustainability and climate action both internally and externally, through protecting the lives, health and well-being of children and their communities; empowering children with developmental opportunities and skills; and reducing emissions and the environmental footprint within UNICEF.
UNICEF is working as a GCF Accredited Entity for the first time and setting up its internal systems to establish a vertical climate funds unit. In parallel, UNICEF is developing a pipeline of GCF funding proposals. The role of the GCF Senior consultant is to provide expert advise and support development of both aspects of UNICEF’s engagement in climate finance.
The Ministry of Health lacks an integrated, comprehensive national eLMIS to ensure proper accountability and visibility of medicines, vaccines and supplies at the national and district level.
UNEPI has recognised that there is a need for technical support from UNICEF lead a comprehensive assessment, costing, planning, and implementation of an eLMIS that captures the requirements of the immunisation programme and is integrated into existing HMIS architecture.
UNICEF Sri Lanka would like to engage the services of professional translators to be available in short notice to assist with translations and proof reading. Selected candidates will be placed in a roster for 12 months with possibility of extension.
The Public Partnerships Division (PPD) works to strengthen UNICEF's position as a partner of choice for children's rights among governments and inter-governmental actors around the world. The Division is doing this by positioning children's rights in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora and engaging with governments and public institutions as resource, policy and programme partners. A key premise for PPD is that the engagement with countries should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization.How can you make a difference?The Coordination Specialist is responsible for supporting the Director in implementing and following up on key strategic priorities; coordinating, managing and planning activities in a systematic and organized manner; and lastly, managing an effective system for incoming information, including correspondence and decision memos.
UNICEF Moldova is looking for a consultant who will support the MLSP in implementing ongoing activities under the RESTART reform and ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities to the government for initiatives launched over the past two years. Additionally, the consultant will assist in shaping key reform priorities, including expanding access to social services, improving service quality, strengthening the case management framework, addressing coverage gaps in social assistance, developing human resources within newly established ATAS, and enhancing financing and governance mechanisms.
The purpose of this consultancy is to finalize and operationalize the subnational INFORM model, ensuring that it meets methodological standards and can be reliably used for child-sensitive climate and disaster risk analysis in Madagascar.
Key objectives include:
• Revising and restructuring the existing draft INFORM model to align with CCRI-DRM standards and UNICEF guidance;
• Validating revised indicators and composite indices through national consultation;
• Integrating the model into the national GeoSight platform;
• Building capacity among national institutions to independently maintain, update, and utilize the model in planning and early warning systems.
The final model will serve as a strategic tool to guide government institutions and partners in prioritizing interventions for risk-informed, child-sensitive development planning and humanitarian preparedness.
You are passionate about open source and know your way around the messiest of repos and the most opinionated communities. You want to bring your experience in building and supporting open-source communities to the UN and help UNICEF build out its engagement on open source. You can tell a story, sell an idea, and could convince the biggest tech companies to open source their product, if they only gave you a meeting. This is a role for someone who is connected to the open-source world, has converted big organizations to embrace the 'open' life and can explain the difference between 'open source' and 'open standards' in a tweet. Join us to step-up our engagement on open source, to expand our support to new solutions and turn skeptics into converts.
To support field offices and programme sections in handling transactions in VISION Sudan CO has established a VISION Hub service center by bringing together a small group of staff who have expertise and skills through hands-on training and experience in the use of the VISION application. It has been observed that recruiting more staff in the field is very difficult at this moment with strong competition among humanitarian organizations for a small number of job seekers. Therefore, centralizing transaction for field offices in Port Sudan may help to address this risk. Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the programme associate supports the respective section (s) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with a range of staff in the CO, external partners and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track. The duty station for this post is Port Sudan
Lebanon is looking for a national consultant to scale up the implementation of comprehensive wasting program in the country which requires key interventions , UNICEF is seeking to engage an individual consultant to work on the implementation of this focused project activities related to Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) while providing ongoing technical support to MoPH , PHCCs / PSUs and floating nurses throughout the implementation period.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Programme Associate, GS6 level on a temporary appointment to be based in Honiara, Solomons Islands. Under the general supervision of the Chief Field Office the Programme Associate supports the sections by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with a range of staff in the Country Office, external partners and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track.
Under the direct supervision of the Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Lead, with overall guidance from the Director of Programmes and in close collaboration with the Programme Team at UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited (GenU) and select Country Offices this consultancy role will coordinate the global implementation of imaGen Ventures while supporting the broader youth entrepreneurship portfolio within UNICEF’s GenU. This includes leading flagship initiatives like the Global Challenge and Global Incubation Week, as well as providing technical support to UNICEF Country Offices implementing youth entrepreneurship programmes. The consultant will act as the primary liaison for country offices, facilitating alignment with global strategies, managing key partnerships and contributing to the growth of related youth entrepreneurship programmes, including the Green Entrepreneurship component of Green Rising, health entrepreneurship initiatives, and AI-focused ventures. The role also involves developing innovative learning resources, refining incubation frameworks, and supporting effective data collection and impact measurement to enhance programme outcomes globally.
The Consultant will provide technical advice in facilitating and quality assuring evaluations undertaken as part of the Safe Online targeted investment round on Evidence Generation for Sustainable and Scalable Impact in Combatting Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and work with the Safe Online Evaluation Advisory Group. S/he will technically support the implementation of MEL capacity development plan for Safe Online grantees. In addition, s/he will provide technical support on the execution of the Safe Online Strategy and portfolio evaluation, performance monitoring of key results and learning across the Safe Online portfolio.
Under the supervision of the UNICEF Rio de Janeiro Field Office and in close coordination with the Child Protection team, the consultant will support the implementation of UNICEF’s child protection agenda in contexts affected by armed violence, particularly by (1) providing technical inputs to two studies conducted by implementing partners (on early childhood immunization and child mobility), (2) contributing to the systematization of UNICEF’s internal learning and technical note on violence prevention, (3) organizing a civil society engagement meeting, (4) supporting the inauguration of the Child and Adolescent Support Centers (CAAC), (5) reviewing and finalizing methodologies such as the Violence Prevention tool, and the behavior change strategy on corporal punishment, (5) participating in the TEVAC Task Force internal meeting to share Rio-based experiences, and (6) developing strategic recommendations and a final consultancy report summarizing key deliverables and proposed follow-up actions for Child Protection in Rio.
By providing technical support for the preparation and coding of data in the WAPT and ensuring that the final WAPT studies are accurate and complete. One of the main missions of the WASH and WAPT Data Expert is to strengthen the capacity and knowledge of the WASH Accounts Country Team in the TrackFin methodology and its application, data preparation for import into the WAPT, and the use of the WAPT.
Establish a coherent approach to support Cameroon in the process of monitoring the financial flows of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to inform decisions, strengthen national systems for the collection and analysis of WASH financial data, and finally institutionalize the WASH accounts process. The National WASH Accounts Consultant will support processes, coordinating and contributing to key results/outputs, and will be a key member of the WASH Accounts team.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the ROSTER OF SPECIALIZED CONSULTANTS FOR THE CHILD PROTECTION SECTION. They might be contracted to provide support to UNICEF in delivering specific products in relation to evidence generation (data collection, research, etc.); policy and legal analyses; policy advocacy; policy and programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; technical assistance and capacity building; public finance management for social services; knowledge management; management information system design and use, etc. to support child protection programmes in Romania.
UNICEF is looking for a short–term writer to support the communication team in realising agreed communication plans for July – December 2025. Under the overall general guidance of the Chief of Communication, Advocacy and Partnerships this role is responsible for one or all of writing, editing, proofreading and quality assurance of human-interest stories, copy for photo essays, advocacy briefs, key messages, newsletters, media briefs, press releases, website resource hubs, blogs and social media content in English.
The professional writer and editor is required to provide high-quality editing, proofreading, and writing services for various UNICEF publications and documents, under tight deadlines, as well as quality assurance to ensuring clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s style guidelines.
The Consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Communication Specialist at UNICEF South Africa.
The United Nations Children’s Fund in Cambodia is looking for a Cambodian national consultant to conduct a mapping of the private sector in Cambodia to:
• Identify corporates, CSR initiatives, foundations, Chambers of Commerce and HNWIs with potential alignment to UNICEF’s mission.
• Identify charity organizations that are actively fundraising through corporate partnerships and individual donations. Assess the philanthropic landscape, including giving trends, motivations, and mechanisms.
• Provide strategic recommendations for UNICEF Cambodia to engage with these actors effectively.
• Identify relevant digital payment tools and payment options in Cambodia.
If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children in Cambodia, UNICEF would like to hear from you.
