UNICEF Namibia Country Office invites an energetic, focus and suitable individual to provide a framework by which students and graduates pursuing or having recently completed tertiary education are assigned to UNICEF Offices to enhance their education experience through practical work assignments; to expose them to the work of UNICEF; and to provide UNICEF Offices with the assistance of qualified students or recent graduates specialized in various professional fields.
The Gender, Rights, and Protection unit is establishing a Roster of Consultants to pre-qualify candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. Consultants on the roster may be called upon to:
• Conduct evidence reviews and quality appraisals of programmatic research on child marriage, FGM, and related interventions (e.g. social protection, cash transfers, health, social and behavioural change)
• Draft high-quality research outputs including reports, briefs, academic articles, and presentations.
• Provide technical assistance on harmful practice research to UNICEF and UNFPA country and regional offices to support evidence-informed programming.
• Support evidence-agenda setting processes including research consultations, evidence synthesis, engaging stakeholders, and developing knowledge translation tools to enhance evidence uptake.
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
Climate change in Central Asia threatens essential services like WASH, MNCH, nutrition, and primary health care. UNICEF is leading efforts to secure resilient supply chains, strengthen health systems, and scale green financing solutions with global partners.
We seek a consultant to develop a Climate-Smart Supply Financing strategy for Uzbekistan and the region aligning investments with sustainability and equity. Your work will shape pathways for reliable medicines, vaccines, safe water, and nutrition services, ensuring continuity during climate shocks.
The Risk Management in Programming and Safeguarding (RMPS) Unit, within the Programme Effectiveness Team (PET) in UNICEF’s Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), was established at the end of 2024 to drive an integrated approach to risk management and safeguarding across UNICEF’s programming and operations.
To ensure sustainability, UNICEF is preparing to transfer the management of UNICARE from EMOPS to DAPM. This consultancy will provide business analysis and rollout/adoption support during and following transition, ensuring that workflows and processes are aligned with the CFM Procedure, that country offices have the tools and guidance to adopt the system efficiently, and that the analytics component is developed to respond to programme and accountability needs.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordination). Make a meaningful impact on the lives of children in Cameroon. As a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordinator), you will play a key role in promoting children's rights by leading and overseeing the full range of operations within the transactional support hub. Your leadership will directly enhance the office’s efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to deliver results for children.
L’UNICEF, le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance, œuvre à la protection des droits de chaque enfant, partout dans le monde, en particulier les plus défavorisés et ceux vivant dans les zones les plus difficiles d’accès. Dans plus de 190 pays et territoires, nous mettons tout en œuvre pour aider les enfants à survivre, à s’épanouir et à réaliser pleinement leur potentiel.
UNISON is UNICEF’s Salesforce-based partnership management CRM system. UNISON is accessed by over 160 offices worldwide and is used to coordinate and collaborate on donor engagement; manage donor relationships and funding pipelines; and to make data-driven decisions on donor strategy. The system was put in place in 2015 but has been more fully maximized and adapted to global user needs over the last four years. Legacy data and fields must be cleaned up and rationalized and donor adoption enhanced through refined analytics.
This consultancy will support UNICEF’s global partnerships and fundraising community and the wider organization by leveraging UNISON (Salesforce) data to deliver actionable insights, optimize partner engagement strategies, set measurable KPIs, and enhance reporting capabilities.
The National Consultant will provide technical and coordination support for the implementation and piloting of the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IEPF) in 10 preschools, as well as coordinate work on the development of National ECD Strategy. This includes facilitating consultations, conducting needs assessments, supporting capacity-building, contextualizing materials, monitoring pilot implementation, and contributing to evidence generation and refinement of the framework for national scale-up.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti is seeking a consultant to support in undertaking research activities into education programmes and reform activities at country-level, with the goal to generate lessons learned from implementation globally.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti is seeking a consultant to support in the coordination of implementation research being undertaken on education programmes and policies.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enhance the actionability of research and insights. The focus will be on supporting research related to mass and general population audiences. Four key areas have been identified:
1. Global Insights Planning: Support the creation of the Audience Insights Ecosystem by bringing together 4 to 7 core pilot markets. Responsibilities include arranging 2 kickoff meetings, organizing the listening tours (1 for each pilot market, consisting of 7 to 15 interviews per market), and drafting insights plans for each pilot market in partnership with, and with support from, the Audience and Market Insights team, including the High-Value Audience (HVA) Manager, Mass Manager, and Chief of Audience and Market Insights.
2. Supporting the Actionability of the Brand Barometer: Contribute to research planning (market selection, questionnaire amendments, vendor liaison), insights identification (lead analysis of various markets or sub-audience groups), and facilitation of insights-to-action sessions. This will be done under the supervision of, and in collaboration with, the Audience and Market Insights Team.
3. Individual Giving Insights Strategy: Lead the inaugural listening tour and develop an insights plan to support the Individual Giving team in PFP with relevant audience insight. Manage select relevant projects (1 or 2), including methodology selection, market selection, and vendor liaison (if relevant). Responsibilities also include insights identification (leading analysis of various markets or sub-audience groups) and insight asset development (presentations, working sessions, and workshops, as relevant). This will be done under the supervision of, and in collaboration with, the Audience and Market Insights team.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enhance the actionability of research and insights. The Junior Insights Analyst Consultant will support the AMI team by conducting desk research, analyzing audience and market data, preparing insight reports, and assisting in the delivery of research projects. The role is ideal for a motivated early-career researcher with experience in market research, social listening, or audience insights:
1. Data Analysis and Visualization Support: Assist in the analysis of audience survey data, social media analytics, and secondary data sources, producing clear, well-structured outputs and visualizations using Excel, Power BI, or similar tools.
2. Contribution to Research Projects and Insight Reports: Support end-to-end research activities including questionnaire design, coordination with external vendors, data synthesis, and the creation of final insight reports for internal distribution.
3. Data and insights organization: Maintain up-to-date insight databases, dashboards, and internal repositories (e.g., SharePoint, Teams folders) to ensure research materials are easily accessible and systematically organized.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enable the team to conduct more effective quantitative research. UNICEF is increasingly leveraging self-serve quantitative survey scripting platforms as in-house scripting and data collection tool for quantitative research. To support the growing number of global and local research initiatives, AMI seeks a Scripting and Data Processing Consultant to script surveys, coordinate translations and link checks, liaise with panel vendors for survey fielding, conduct data quality control, and perform basic data processing including weighting and tabulations. The consultant will:
1. Serve as a technical lead for scripting and managing quantitative surveys in the self-serve quantitative survey scripting platform tools UNICEF has access.
2. Ensure high-quality, error-free survey links and seamless survey deployment.
3. Coordinate effectively with markets, agencies, and panel vendors to ensure timely fieldwork and data delivery.
4. Conduct quality checks on incoming data and perform data processing and tabulation.
5. Support UNICEF’s flagship and ad hoc research projects to enable evidence-based strategic decision-making.
UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all children and adolescents in everything we do. Together with our allies, we work in 190 countries and territories to transform this commitment into practical actions that benefit all children, especially focusing our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded, worldwide.
The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.
UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society, and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.
For more information about UNICEF and its work. (www.unicef.org/lac).
UNICEF’s Supporter Engagement Strategy (SES) places supporters at the heart of how UNICEF delivers results for children, inspiring individuals to donate their voice, money, and time, and empowering offices to reach fundraising goals, among others.
SES is a set of enablers to:
* Drive positive supporter evolution and personalized supporter journeys worldwide.
* Leverage state-of-the-art technologies and information to customize experiences locally.
* Foster positive change and collaboration within UNICEF.
Under the overall guidance of the Digital Delivery Manager in Geneva and in coordination with the Global SES Team, the specialist will be asked to gather business requirements, conduct business process redesign, and provide support on testing, training, report writing, analysis, and implementation of Salesforce and SES in the LAC Region.
UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all children and adolescents in everything we do. Together with our allies, we work in 190 countries and territories to transform this commitment into practical actions that benefit all children, especially focusing our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded, worldwide.
The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.
UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society, and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.
For more information about UNICEF and its work. (www.unicef.org/lac).
UNICEF’s Supporter Engagement Strategy (SES) places supporters at the heart of how UNICEF delivers results for children, inspiring individuals to donate their voice, money, and time, and empowering offices to reach fundraising goals, among others.
SES is a set of enablers to:
Drive positive supporter evolution and personalized supporter journeys worldwide.
Leverage state-of-the-art technologies and information to customize experiences locally.
Foster positive change and collaboration within UNICEF.
Under the overall guidance of the Digital Delivery Manager in Geneva and in coordination with the Global SES Team, the specialist will be asked to gather business requirements, conduct business process redesign, and provide support on testing, training, report writing, analysis, and implementation of Salesforce and SES in the LAC Region.
Dans le cadre du processus d’élaboration du prochain Programme de coopération 2027–2031, UNICEF BENIN recrute un consultant national pour la réalisation de la synthèse des évidences sur la situation des enfants au Bénin.
If you are a committed, creative 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 Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) within the Evaluation Office will be managing several L3 evaluations during the second half of 2025 and 2026. These include the evaluation of UNICEF’s L3 (Level 3) response in the State of Palestine. Aligned with EO’s vision to deliver high quality, utilization-focused and more cost-efficient evaluations as well as to ensure rapid turn-around of evaluation deliverables able to inform humanitarian programming in a timely manner; in light of the limited internal capacity within HEEP to complete all the activities included in its work plan; and given UNICEF’s strong localization commitments and its prioritization of local expertise and knowledge as well as of supporting national evaluation capacity and national ownership, EO is currently seeking two Humanitarian Evaluation Consultants to support one of the portfolio’s most high-profile activities of the year: the L3 SoP evaluation. Under the guidance of the EO’s Senior Evaluation Specialist (Humanitarian) and the direct supervision of the Team Lead and Co-Lead, the consultant will provide technical support to the L3 SoP evaluation and help strengthen the overall quality and utility of the final deliverables. The consultants will also review the draft report produced within the scope of another important evaluation (L3 Lebanon) due to the links existing between the two responses .
• Exposer des jeunes universitaires au travail de l’UNICEF, renforcer ainsi les capacités en offrant un cadre de travail et un encadrement professionnel
• Promouvoir l’image de l’UNICEF comme employeur de choix
• Susciter de l’intérêt pour le travail de l’UNICEF
• A Long terme, répondre à la question de la distribution genre du bureau et la question de l’inclusion, en favorisant la présence des femmes et des personnes avec handicaps.
UNICEF Namibia Country Office invites an energetic, focus and suitable individual to provide a framework by which students and graduates pursuing or having recently completed tertiary education are assigned to UNICEF Offices to enhance their education experience through practical work assignments; to expose them to the work of UNICEF; and to provide UNICEF Offices with the assistance of qualified students or recent graduates specialized in various professional fields.
The Gender, Rights, and Protection unit is establishing a Roster of Consultants to pre-qualify candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. Consultants on the roster may be called upon to:
• Conduct evidence reviews and quality appraisals of programmatic research on child marriage, FGM, and related interventions (e.g. social protection, cash transfers, health, social and behavioural change)
• Draft high-quality research outputs including reports, briefs, academic articles, and presentations.
• Provide technical assistance on harmful practice research to UNICEF and UNFPA country and regional offices to support evidence-informed programming.
• Support evidence-agenda setting processes including research consultations, evidence synthesis, engaging stakeholders, and developing knowledge translation tools to enhance evidence uptake.
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
Climate change in Central Asia threatens essential services like WASH, MNCH, nutrition, and primary health care. UNICEF is leading efforts to secure resilient supply chains, strengthen health systems, and scale green financing solutions with global partners.
We seek a consultant to develop a Climate-Smart Supply Financing strategy for Uzbekistan and the region aligning investments with sustainability and equity. Your work will shape pathways for reliable medicines, vaccines, safe water, and nutrition services, ensuring continuity during climate shocks.
The Risk Management in Programming and Safeguarding (RMPS) Unit, within the Programme Effectiveness Team (PET) in UNICEF’s Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), was established at the end of 2024 to drive an integrated approach to risk management and safeguarding across UNICEF’s programming and operations.
To ensure sustainability, UNICEF is preparing to transfer the management of UNICARE from EMOPS to DAPM. This consultancy will provide business analysis and rollout/adoption support during and following transition, ensuring that workflows and processes are aligned with the CFM Procedure, that country offices have the tools and guidance to adopt the system efficiently, and that the analytics component is developed to respond to programme and accountability needs.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordination). Make a meaningful impact on the lives of children in Cameroon. As a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordinator), you will play a key role in promoting children's rights by leading and overseeing the full range of operations within the transactional support hub. Your leadership will directly enhance the office’s efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to deliver results for children.
L’UNICEF, le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance, œuvre à la protection des droits de chaque enfant, partout dans le monde, en particulier les plus défavorisés et ceux vivant dans les zones les plus difficiles d’accès. Dans plus de 190 pays et territoires, nous mettons tout en œuvre pour aider les enfants à survivre, à s’épanouir et à réaliser pleinement leur potentiel.
UNISON is UNICEF’s Salesforce-based partnership management CRM system. UNISON is accessed by over 160 offices worldwide and is used to coordinate and collaborate on donor engagement; manage donor relationships and funding pipelines; and to make data-driven decisions on donor strategy. The system was put in place in 2015 but has been more fully maximized and adapted to global user needs over the last four years. Legacy data and fields must be cleaned up and rationalized and donor adoption enhanced through refined analytics.
This consultancy will support UNICEF’s global partnerships and fundraising community and the wider organization by leveraging UNISON (Salesforce) data to deliver actionable insights, optimize partner engagement strategies, set measurable KPIs, and enhance reporting capabilities.
The National Consultant will provide technical and coordination support for the implementation and piloting of the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IEPF) in 10 preschools, as well as coordinate work on the development of National ECD Strategy. This includes facilitating consultations, conducting needs assessments, supporting capacity-building, contextualizing materials, monitoring pilot implementation, and contributing to evidence generation and refinement of the framework for national scale-up.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti is seeking a consultant to support in undertaking research activities into education programmes and reform activities at country-level, with the goal to generate lessons learned from implementation globally.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti is seeking a consultant to support in the coordination of implementation research being undertaken on education programmes and policies.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enhance the actionability of research and insights. The focus will be on supporting research related to mass and general population audiences. Four key areas have been identified:
1. Global Insights Planning: Support the creation of the Audience Insights Ecosystem by bringing together 4 to 7 core pilot markets. Responsibilities include arranging 2 kickoff meetings, organizing the listening tours (1 for each pilot market, consisting of 7 to 15 interviews per market), and drafting insights plans for each pilot market in partnership with, and with support from, the Audience and Market Insights team, including the High-Value Audience (HVA) Manager, Mass Manager, and Chief of Audience and Market Insights.
2. Supporting the Actionability of the Brand Barometer: Contribute to research planning (market selection, questionnaire amendments, vendor liaison), insights identification (lead analysis of various markets or sub-audience groups), and facilitation of insights-to-action sessions. This will be done under the supervision of, and in collaboration with, the Audience and Market Insights Team.
3. Individual Giving Insights Strategy: Lead the inaugural listening tour and develop an insights plan to support the Individual Giving team in PFP with relevant audience insight. Manage select relevant projects (1 or 2), including methodology selection, market selection, and vendor liaison (if relevant). Responsibilities also include insights identification (leading analysis of various markets or sub-audience groups) and insight asset development (presentations, working sessions, and workshops, as relevant). This will be done under the supervision of, and in collaboration with, the Audience and Market Insights team.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enhance the actionability of research and insights. The Junior Insights Analyst Consultant will support the AMI team by conducting desk research, analyzing audience and market data, preparing insight reports, and assisting in the delivery of research projects. The role is ideal for a motivated early-career researcher with experience in market research, social listening, or audience insights:
1. Data Analysis and Visualization Support: Assist in the analysis of audience survey data, social media analytics, and secondary data sources, producing clear, well-structured outputs and visualizations using Excel, Power BI, or similar tools.
2. Contribution to Research Projects and Insight Reports: Support end-to-end research activities including questionnaire design, coordination with external vendors, data synthesis, and the creation of final insight reports for internal distribution.
3. Data and insights organization: Maintain up-to-date insight databases, dashboards, and internal repositories (e.g., SharePoint, Teams folders) to ensure research materials are easily accessible and systematically organized.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enable the team to conduct more effective quantitative research. UNICEF is increasingly leveraging self-serve quantitative survey scripting platforms as in-house scripting and data collection tool for quantitative research. To support the growing number of global and local research initiatives, AMI seeks a Scripting and Data Processing Consultant to script surveys, coordinate translations and link checks, liaise with panel vendors for survey fielding, conduct data quality control, and perform basic data processing including weighting and tabulations. The consultant will:
1. Serve as a technical lead for scripting and managing quantitative surveys in the self-serve quantitative survey scripting platform tools UNICEF has access.
2. Ensure high-quality, error-free survey links and seamless survey deployment.
3. Coordinate effectively with markets, agencies, and panel vendors to ensure timely fieldwork and data delivery.
4. Conduct quality checks on incoming data and perform data processing and tabulation.
5. Support UNICEF’s flagship and ad hoc research projects to enable evidence-based strategic decision-making.
UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all children and adolescents in everything we do. Together with our allies, we work in 190 countries and territories to transform this commitment into practical actions that benefit all children, especially focusing our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded, worldwide.
The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.
UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society, and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.
For more information about UNICEF and its work. (www.unicef.org/lac).
UNICEF’s Supporter Engagement Strategy (SES) places supporters at the heart of how UNICEF delivers results for children, inspiring individuals to donate their voice, money, and time, and empowering offices to reach fundraising goals, among others.
SES is a set of enablers to:
* Drive positive supporter evolution and personalized supporter journeys worldwide.
* Leverage state-of-the-art technologies and information to customize experiences locally.
* Foster positive change and collaboration within UNICEF.
Under the overall guidance of the Digital Delivery Manager in Geneva and in coordination with the Global SES Team, the specialist will be asked to gather business requirements, conduct business process redesign, and provide support on testing, training, report writing, analysis, and implementation of Salesforce and SES in the LAC Region.
UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all children and adolescents in everything we do. Together with our allies, we work in 190 countries and territories to transform this commitment into practical actions that benefit all children, especially focusing our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded, worldwide.
The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.
UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society, and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.
For more information about UNICEF and its work. (www.unicef.org/lac).
UNICEF’s Supporter Engagement Strategy (SES) places supporters at the heart of how UNICEF delivers results for children, inspiring individuals to donate their voice, money, and time, and empowering offices to reach fundraising goals, among others.
SES is a set of enablers to:
Drive positive supporter evolution and personalized supporter journeys worldwide.
Leverage state-of-the-art technologies and information to customize experiences locally.
Foster positive change and collaboration within UNICEF.
Under the overall guidance of the Digital Delivery Manager in Geneva and in coordination with the Global SES Team, the specialist will be asked to gather business requirements, conduct business process redesign, and provide support on testing, training, report writing, analysis, and implementation of Salesforce and SES in the LAC Region.
Dans le cadre du processus d’élaboration du prochain Programme de coopération 2027–2031, UNICEF BENIN recrute un consultant national pour la réalisation de la synthèse des évidences sur la situation des enfants au Bénin.
If you are a committed, creative 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 Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) within the Evaluation Office will be managing several L3 evaluations during the second half of 2025 and 2026. These include the evaluation of UNICEF’s L3 (Level 3) response in the State of Palestine. Aligned with EO’s vision to deliver high quality, utilization-focused and more cost-efficient evaluations as well as to ensure rapid turn-around of evaluation deliverables able to inform humanitarian programming in a timely manner; in light of the limited internal capacity within HEEP to complete all the activities included in its work plan; and given UNICEF’s strong localization commitments and its prioritization of local expertise and knowledge as well as of supporting national evaluation capacity and national ownership, EO is currently seeking two Humanitarian Evaluation Consultants to support one of the portfolio’s most high-profile activities of the year: the L3 SoP evaluation. Under the guidance of the EO’s Senior Evaluation Specialist (Humanitarian) and the direct supervision of the Team Lead and Co-Lead, the consultant will provide technical support to the L3 SoP evaluation and help strengthen the overall quality and utility of the final deliverables. The consultants will also review the draft report produced within the scope of another important evaluation (L3 Lebanon) due to the links existing between the two responses .
• Exposer des jeunes universitaires au travail de l’UNICEF, renforcer ainsi les capacités en offrant un cadre de travail et un encadrement professionnel
• Promouvoir l’image de l’UNICEF comme employeur de choix
• Susciter de l’intérêt pour le travail de l’UNICEF
• A Long terme, répondre à la question de la distribution genre du bureau et la question de l’inclusion, en favorisant la présence des femmes et des personnes avec handicaps.
