To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
UNICEF Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
Consultant – Documentation of good/promising practices, successful models and lessons learned on children’s care reform and family-based alternative care, Child Protection and Migration Practice, Amman Centre of Excellence, Jordan, 7 months, remote no travel
This consultancy will provide senior technical and strategic support to UNICEF India to design and operationalize the early phase of a catalytic financing facility.
Under the supervision and guidance of the Social Policy Specialist, the Social Policy Officer contributes to the effective implementation of UNICEF Maldives's Social Policy Programme, with a particular focus on public finance for children, social policy analysis, child rights monitoring, and evidence generation. The position provides technical, operational, and coordination support for the design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of programme activities aimed at strengthening policies, systems, and investments that advance children's rights and well-being. The role requires strong analytical skills, knowledge of social policy and public finance, and the ability to work collaboratively with government counterparts, development partners, civil society organizations, and UNICEF programme teams. Through policy analysis, evidence generation, strategic partnerships, advocacy, and programme support, the incumbent contributes to improving child-focused planning, budgeting, accountability, and decision-making.
The Tuvalu Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) undertook a systems enabling factor analysis (EFA). Part of this analysis looks into domestic financing volumes, modalities, guiding principles and regulations and utilization. An independent review of the Tuvalu EFA identified both equity and efficiency of education spend as issues of concern to sustainably providing quality education in the country. Based on this, Tuvalu has requested technical and on the ground support to undertake an expenditure review of the sector.
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease affecting Ituri and other affected or at-risk provinces. National authorities, with the support of humanitarian partners, have activated emergency coordination and response mechanisms to contain transmission and protect affected communities.
The outbreak is unfolding in a complex humanitarian environment marked by insecurity, population displacement, high mobility, constrained access to essential services and weak water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control systems. These conditions heighten the risk of transmission in health facilities and communities and require rapid, well-coordinated and technically rigorous WASH/IPC action.
The geographic expansion of the outbreak, the operational complexity of the response and the need to align interventions across national, provincial and health-zone levels require senior leadership. An experienced profile is therefore required to provide the strategic expertise, technical authority and convening capacity needed to lead UNICEF's WASH/IPC response and support Government-led coordination across affected and at-risk areas.
This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) is issued to identify and assess qualified professionals for potential inclusion in UNICEF's Talent Group for Health. The purpose of this GVA is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates who can be considered for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. While placement in the Talent Group does not guarantee selection for a specific post, it serves as a highly valuable and primary resource for swiftly filling future vacancies.
The consultant will provide independent technical review and advisory support to strengthen the PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan (PRS) as a national, system-level assessment of school education.
The MICS7 will be implemented using CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing) to reduce data collection time, facilitate real-time monitoring, improve data quality and reduce survey costs. Under the overall supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (CRM) Specialist, the National MICS consultant will support the preparation, implementation and completion of the MICS survey in Uzbekistan. The consultant will work closely with and advise the NSC, especially the Survey Coordinator and sampling and data processing experts, during survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, training, fieldwork, data processing, data analysis, dissemination and archiving, ensuring that MICS protocols and recommendations are followed at all times. The consultant will communicate effectively between the UNICEF CO and NSC, participate in required meetings, and coordinate the work of other resource people hired by UNICEF to provide technical assistance. The Consultant will work in close collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinators at UNICEF Regional Office and the MICS Team at UNICEF Headquarters, as well as expert consultants assigned to support the Uzbekistan MICS (collectively labelled "The UNICEF MICS Team").
UNICEF Morocco seeks an international consultant to produce a defined set of specialized, time-bound WASH-related deliverables across its health, education and climate portfolio. These deliverables include finalized national standards and technical guidance; implementation, training and monitoring tools; documented quality-assurance reviews of field activities; and technical products supporting donor-funded initiatives.
The GSSC Office is looking for a Staff Counsellor who could support the overall well-being of UNICEF staff and their families in Europe HQ locations and ECAMENA region. This involves raising awareness about mental health and healthy work practices; improving the work-life balance of UNICEF staff on work-related and/or personal problems.
UNICEF Malawi is seeking highly motivated Drivers to play a critical role in enabling programme delivery by providing safe, reliable, and efficient transportation services.
UNICEF Mongolia Country Office is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Officer to provide technical and operational support in managing the country’s Procurement Services (PS) and supply systems strengthening portfolios. The Officer will also contribute to strengthening project management capacity for the effective planning and implementation of procurement projects across health, WASH and other sectors.
UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series focused on burnout prevention, recovery, resilience, and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver two cohorts of interactive sessions, providing participants with practical, evidence-based tools to better understand burnout, regulate stress, strengthen resilience, enhance self-care practices, and reconnect with purpose in both their professional and personal lives. The assignment requires demonstrated expertise in psychology, counselling, staff wellbeing, or a related field, along with experience facilitating engaging virtual learning programmes within multicultural and complex organizational environments. Experience working with the United Nations system or international organizations and delivering similar wellbeing initiatives is highly desirable.
UNICEF’s Myanmar Child Protection Section seeks to maintain a roster of qualified experts to provide technical support for Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) in the following 2 thematic areas:
1. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
2. Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC)
Interested applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
UNICEF Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
Consultant – Documentation of good/promising practices, successful models and lessons learned on children’s care reform and family-based alternative care, Child Protection and Migration Practice, Amman Centre of Excellence, Jordan, 7 months, remote no travel
This consultancy will provide senior technical and strategic support to UNICEF India to design and operationalize the early phase of a catalytic financing facility.
Under the supervision and guidance of the Social Policy Specialist, the Social Policy Officer contributes to the effective implementation of UNICEF Maldives's Social Policy Programme, with a particular focus on public finance for children, social policy analysis, child rights monitoring, and evidence generation. The position provides technical, operational, and coordination support for the design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of programme activities aimed at strengthening policies, systems, and investments that advance children's rights and well-being. The role requires strong analytical skills, knowledge of social policy and public finance, and the ability to work collaboratively with government counterparts, development partners, civil society organizations, and UNICEF programme teams. Through policy analysis, evidence generation, strategic partnerships, advocacy, and programme support, the incumbent contributes to improving child-focused planning, budgeting, accountability, and decision-making.
The Tuvalu Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) undertook a systems enabling factor analysis (EFA). Part of this analysis looks into domestic financing volumes, modalities, guiding principles and regulations and utilization. An independent review of the Tuvalu EFA identified both equity and efficiency of education spend as issues of concern to sustainably providing quality education in the country. Based on this, Tuvalu has requested technical and on the ground support to undertake an expenditure review of the sector.
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease affecting Ituri and other affected or at-risk provinces. National authorities, with the support of humanitarian partners, have activated emergency coordination and response mechanisms to contain transmission and protect affected communities.
The outbreak is unfolding in a complex humanitarian environment marked by insecurity, population displacement, high mobility, constrained access to essential services and weak water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control systems. These conditions heighten the risk of transmission in health facilities and communities and require rapid, well-coordinated and technically rigorous WASH/IPC action.
The geographic expansion of the outbreak, the operational complexity of the response and the need to align interventions across national, provincial and health-zone levels require senior leadership. An experienced profile is therefore required to provide the strategic expertise, technical authority and convening capacity needed to lead UNICEF's WASH/IPC response and support Government-led coordination across affected and at-risk areas.
This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) is issued to identify and assess qualified professionals for potential inclusion in UNICEF's Talent Group for Health. The purpose of this GVA is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates who can be considered for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. While placement in the Talent Group does not guarantee selection for a specific post, it serves as a highly valuable and primary resource for swiftly filling future vacancies.
The consultant will provide independent technical review and advisory support to strengthen the PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan (PRS) as a national, system-level assessment of school education.
The MICS7 will be implemented using CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing) to reduce data collection time, facilitate real-time monitoring, improve data quality and reduce survey costs. Under the overall supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (CRM) Specialist, the National MICS consultant will support the preparation, implementation and completion of the MICS survey in Uzbekistan. The consultant will work closely with and advise the NSC, especially the Survey Coordinator and sampling and data processing experts, during survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, training, fieldwork, data processing, data analysis, dissemination and archiving, ensuring that MICS protocols and recommendations are followed at all times. The consultant will communicate effectively between the UNICEF CO and NSC, participate in required meetings, and coordinate the work of other resource people hired by UNICEF to provide technical assistance. The Consultant will work in close collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinators at UNICEF Regional Office and the MICS Team at UNICEF Headquarters, as well as expert consultants assigned to support the Uzbekistan MICS (collectively labelled "The UNICEF MICS Team").
UNICEF Morocco seeks an international consultant to produce a defined set of specialized, time-bound WASH-related deliverables across its health, education and climate portfolio. These deliverables include finalized national standards and technical guidance; implementation, training and monitoring tools; documented quality-assurance reviews of field activities; and technical products supporting donor-funded initiatives.
The GSSC Office is looking for a Staff Counsellor who could support the overall well-being of UNICEF staff and their families in Europe HQ locations and ECAMENA region. This involves raising awareness about mental health and healthy work practices; improving the work-life balance of UNICEF staff on work-related and/or personal problems.
UNICEF Malawi is seeking highly motivated Drivers to play a critical role in enabling programme delivery by providing safe, reliable, and efficient transportation services.
UNICEF Mongolia Country Office is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Officer to provide technical and operational support in managing the country’s Procurement Services (PS) and supply systems strengthening portfolios. The Officer will also contribute to strengthening project management capacity for the effective planning and implementation of procurement projects across health, WASH and other sectors.
UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series focused on burnout prevention, recovery, resilience, and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver two cohorts of interactive sessions, providing participants with practical, evidence-based tools to better understand burnout, regulate stress, strengthen resilience, enhance self-care practices, and reconnect with purpose in both their professional and personal lives. The assignment requires demonstrated expertise in psychology, counselling, staff wellbeing, or a related field, along with experience facilitating engaging virtual learning programmes within multicultural and complex organizational environments. Experience working with the United Nations system or international organizations and delivering similar wellbeing initiatives is highly desirable.
UNICEF’s Myanmar Child Protection Section seeks to maintain a roster of qualified experts to provide technical support for Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) in the following 2 thematic areas:
1. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
2. Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC)
Interested applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
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