The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert-level technical and policy support to UNICEF Kazakhstan and its national partners in mainstreaming child rights and child-centered resilience into climate and environmental governance frameworks. This includes ensuring that national strategies—such as the updated NDC 3.0, NAP, and related cross-sectoral policies, such as Children of Kazakhstan, Roadmap for Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2060 etc. — explicitly consider the vulnerabilities, needs, and potential contributions of children and young people.
• Provide technical leadership on child rights mainstreaming, ensuring alignment of all activities and deliverables with the Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the overall methodological design of the theory of change, evaluation framework and data collection tools (interview questionnaires, online survey, and self-assessment tool and rubric), ensuring quality and coherence with regard to child rights.
• Conduct literature review, document review and data collection activities (KIIs, FGDs, surveys, self-assessment tool and rubric) along with evaluation team members.
• Contribute to the analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data.
• Contribute to the drafting and finalization of findings, recommendations and deliverables, including the inception note, evaluation report, presentation materials and other deliverables as per the Terms of Reference.
• Engage with the Evaluation Reference Group and other stakeholders to validate findings and co-create recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with UNEG and UNICEF quality and ethical standards, also through integrating human rights, including gender equality and inclusion considerations in evaluations.
This consultancy will be responsible for maintaining and aligning the GMF indicator architecture to support the design and refinement of systems, workflows, and processes, while also developing analytical products that facilitate the effective use of GMF data by Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices (ROs), and Headquarters (HQ). The consultant will also contribute to the successful delivery of both the annual planning and reporting cycle and the quadrennial strategic planning cycle through corporate PMR systems, thereby advancing UNICEF’s strategic objectives and organizational effectiveness.
The consultancy will be supervised by the Programme Manager of the OSE Monitoring and Results Management Unit and will work in close coordination with other units, divisions, and offices, especially the Organizational Performance and Systems Unit, the Strategic Planning and Analytics Unit, the Digital Impact Division, and UNICEF’s global SIGNAL Monitoring Technical Team.
The objective of the assignment is to prepare and facilitate a one-day staff retreat for UNICEF Guinea-Bissau personnel, focusing on capacity building, teamwork enhancement, and practical learning aligned with UNICEF’s core values and 2024 Global Staff Survey (GSS). The retreat will aim to strengthen collaboration, promote well being, and build skills to improve daily work effectiveness.
The Emergency Specialist advances UNICEF’s Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus approach, ensuring that emergency preparedness and response are systematically linked to longer-term development and peacebuilding objectives. The role facilitates joint risk analyses, multi-sectoral planning, and capacity-building for local systems, working collaboratively with humanitarian, development, and peace actors to deliver sustainable results for children and communities in Cabo Delgado.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert-level technical and policy support to UNICEF Kazakhstan and its national partners in mainstreaming child rights and child-centered resilience into climate and environmental governance frameworks. This includes ensuring that national strategies—such as the updated NDC 3.0, NAP, and related cross-sectoral policies, such as Children of Kazakhstan, Roadmap for Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2060 etc. — explicitly consider the vulnerabilities, needs, and potential contributions of children and young people.
• Provide technical leadership on child rights mainstreaming, ensuring alignment of all activities and deliverables with the Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the overall methodological design of the theory of change, evaluation framework and data collection tools (interview questionnaires, online survey, and self-assessment tool and rubric), ensuring quality and coherence with regard to child rights.
• Conduct literature review, document review and data collection activities (KIIs, FGDs, surveys, self-assessment tool and rubric) along with evaluation team members.
• Contribute to the analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data.
• Contribute to the drafting and finalization of findings, recommendations and deliverables, including the inception note, evaluation report, presentation materials and other deliverables as per the Terms of Reference.
• Engage with the Evaluation Reference Group and other stakeholders to validate findings and co-create recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with UNEG and UNICEF quality and ethical standards, also through integrating human rights, including gender equality and inclusion considerations in evaluations.
This consultancy will be responsible for maintaining and aligning the GMF indicator architecture to support the design and refinement of systems, workflows, and processes, while also developing analytical products that facilitate the effective use of GMF data by Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices (ROs), and Headquarters (HQ). The consultant will also contribute to the successful delivery of both the annual planning and reporting cycle and the quadrennial strategic planning cycle through corporate PMR systems, thereby advancing UNICEF’s strategic objectives and organizational effectiveness.
The consultancy will be supervised by the Programme Manager of the OSE Monitoring and Results Management Unit and will work in close coordination with other units, divisions, and offices, especially the Organizational Performance and Systems Unit, the Strategic Planning and Analytics Unit, the Digital Impact Division, and UNICEF’s global SIGNAL Monitoring Technical Team.
The objective of the assignment is to prepare and facilitate a one-day staff retreat for UNICEF Guinea-Bissau personnel, focusing on capacity building, teamwork enhancement, and practical learning aligned with UNICEF’s core values and 2024 Global Staff Survey (GSS). The retreat will aim to strengthen collaboration, promote well being, and build skills to improve daily work effectiveness.
The Emergency Specialist advances UNICEF’s Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus approach, ensuring that emergency preparedness and response are systematically linked to longer-term development and peacebuilding objectives. The role facilitates joint risk analyses, multi-sectoral planning, and capacity-building for local systems, working collaboratively with humanitarian, development, and peace actors to deliver sustainable results for children and communities in Cabo Delgado.
