The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical and strategic support to UNICEF country offices and government counterparts. The consultant will support countries in strengthening reform coherence, implementation feasibility, and alignment between policy priorities, financing strategies, and learning outcomes objectives.
In consultation with stakeholders, the project coordinator and the lead agencies (UNICEF, DEP, NESDC), the consultant will develop the methodology and assessment framework, in line with the Theory of Change of the pilot project which has been developed during the first phase. The assessment framework will include a minimum set of indicators to assess the success of the piloted model, identify bottlenecks and recommendations for a successful scale up.
To better document UNICEF's work, a consultant is needed to provide technical support in consolidating programme tools, defining working models, and documenting UNICEF's nutrition programmes. This includes capturing experiences, achievements, and challenges in implementation. The resulting documentation reports will play a critical role in scaling up programme implementation nationwide with high quality, and in enabling other partners beyond UNICEF to adopt and sustain these programmes.
The consultancy will support the broader ADAP and youth initiatives for Timor-Leste CO, including mental health awareness, referral systems at schools and Youth Centers, development and implementation of the Climate Change Adaptation Module for youth, and its integration into the Youth Parliament Programme. He will also support Hackathons for social impact innovation, the UPSHIFT initiative on green skills and livelihoods, and training on the rights of persons with disabilities with ADTL. Additionally, activities will target 13 youth associations to enhance institutional capacity and leadership in selected municipalities, along with activities under the Youth Parliament Programme and capacity-building for Youth Centers. The consultant will also provide strategic leadership for ADAP and Youth Programming, coordinating across sections within UNICEF.
UNICEF seeks to generate robust and actionable evidence through a gender-responsive rapid market assessment. This assessment will inform the design of a targeted Skills4Girls programme aimed at supporting adolescent girls’ transition to economic empowerment in Katsina State. The programme will provide girls aged 15–19 with high-quality, market-aligned vocational, entrepreneurship, and livelihood skills, complemented by financial literacy training. It will also identify feasible and safe economic sectors, analyse labour market demand and skills gaps, and examine systemic and gender-related barriers affecting girls’ economic participation.
The purpose of this consultancy is to lead the Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR) for UNICEF Burundi and support the Country Office in identifying priority gender equality issues, strengthening gender-responsive programming, and aligning programme strategies with the UNICEF Gender Equality Action Plan (UGEAP) 2026–2029 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support Generation Unlimited (GenU) in strengthening strategic engagement with the GenU Global Leadership Council and other influential leaders to advance employability, employment and entrepreneurship for young people, working with GenU leadership and across the GenU Global Team.
This Long-Term Agreement for Services (LTAS) will provide UNICEF with a pool of individual consultants who can support SBC in Emergency initiatives, across the different levels of the organization and across continents. The agreement will enable teams to request training, workshops, data and feedback generation and analysis, tailored strategies and guidance. It also creates a mechanism to maintain shared learning through communities of practice, case studies, knowledge products, and routine communication channels.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
We are seeking a committed and creative professional for the position of Emergency Officer, P-2, Temporary Position, Office of Emergency Operations, for 6 months, Off Emergency Prog, O/P Rome. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, join UNICEF — the world’s leading organization dedicated to promoting and protecting children’s rights.
Join UNICEF Supply Division as a Quality Assurance Specialist and help ensure that life-saving pharmaceutical and nutrition products reach children worldwide safely and to the highest quality standards. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of quality, global health, and humanitarian supply chains through inspections, audits, and international collaboration. The selected candidate must be willing and able to travel to the duty stations, including emergency locations, as operational needs arise. This is a non-rotational and highly specialized position.
UNICEF Eswatini Country Office is looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Social Policy Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services
The Supply and Logistics Specialist position is established for deployment in small to medium-sized Country Offices (COs), or within larger COs as part of an integrated Supply and Logistics structure. The incumbent contributes to the effective management of supply chain operations, ensuring the timely, efficient, and compliant delivery of goods and services in support of programme implementation and organizational objectives. This role plays a critical part in strengthening supply chain systems and supporting sustainable results for children.
The Procurement Services Specialist will provide guidance, oversight, and direction on Procurement Services, national budgeting for essential supplies for children and supply financing solutions. Directly related to this support, the position will serve as focal point to identify opportunities in adjacent areas such as market access, market intelligence, market development and national supply chain strengthening.
The Immunization Specialist is accountable for providing technical assistance in the development of immunisation workplans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development,Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF'simmunization plus goals and objectives for the country.The Immunization Specialist will provide support to all the five field offices with more focus on Central-South Somalia tosupport the immunization programme and ongoing response activities for cVDPV2 outbreak and other vaccinepreventable diseases. Much more attention will also be required to reduce the zero-dose children burden in the country.As a key partner of Immunisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has the mandate to provide technicalassistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of immunizationprogrammes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet thisobligation.Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunisation programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on genderdisaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.
The CARE4Health project, funded by the European Union, has supported the restoration of essential health services and strengthening of health systems in conflict-affected and underserved areas of Ethiopia. As the project approaches closure in October 2026, UNICEF now requires dedicated capacity primarily to coordinate the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, and full project close-out process, while ensuring that remaining closure-critical activities are completed to the required quality and within the agreed timeframe.
This consultancy is therefore required as a dedicated project closure coordination function. The consultant will lead day-to-day coordination of the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, final reporting, closure documentation, stakeholder dissemination, and follow-up of remaining closure actions, including any outstanding construction-related matters. The role is intended to ensure that CARE4Health closes in a systematic, well-documented, and audit-ready manner, with all major deliverables completed to UNICEF and donor standards.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical and strategic support to UNICEF country offices and government counterparts. The consultant will support countries in strengthening reform coherence, implementation feasibility, and alignment between policy priorities, financing strategies, and learning outcomes objectives.
In consultation with stakeholders, the project coordinator and the lead agencies (UNICEF, DEP, NESDC), the consultant will develop the methodology and assessment framework, in line with the Theory of Change of the pilot project which has been developed during the first phase. The assessment framework will include a minimum set of indicators to assess the success of the piloted model, identify bottlenecks and recommendations for a successful scale up.
To better document UNICEF's work, a consultant is needed to provide technical support in consolidating programme tools, defining working models, and documenting UNICEF's nutrition programmes. This includes capturing experiences, achievements, and challenges in implementation. The resulting documentation reports will play a critical role in scaling up programme implementation nationwide with high quality, and in enabling other partners beyond UNICEF to adopt and sustain these programmes.
The consultancy will support the broader ADAP and youth initiatives for Timor-Leste CO, including mental health awareness, referral systems at schools and Youth Centers, development and implementation of the Climate Change Adaptation Module for youth, and its integration into the Youth Parliament Programme. He will also support Hackathons for social impact innovation, the UPSHIFT initiative on green skills and livelihoods, and training on the rights of persons with disabilities with ADTL. Additionally, activities will target 13 youth associations to enhance institutional capacity and leadership in selected municipalities, along with activities under the Youth Parliament Programme and capacity-building for Youth Centers. The consultant will also provide strategic leadership for ADAP and Youth Programming, coordinating across sections within UNICEF.
UNICEF seeks to generate robust and actionable evidence through a gender-responsive rapid market assessment. This assessment will inform the design of a targeted Skills4Girls programme aimed at supporting adolescent girls’ transition to economic empowerment in Katsina State. The programme will provide girls aged 15–19 with high-quality, market-aligned vocational, entrepreneurship, and livelihood skills, complemented by financial literacy training. It will also identify feasible and safe economic sectors, analyse labour market demand and skills gaps, and examine systemic and gender-related barriers affecting girls’ economic participation.
The purpose of this consultancy is to lead the Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR) for UNICEF Burundi and support the Country Office in identifying priority gender equality issues, strengthening gender-responsive programming, and aligning programme strategies with the UNICEF Gender Equality Action Plan (UGEAP) 2026–2029 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support Generation Unlimited (GenU) in strengthening strategic engagement with the GenU Global Leadership Council and other influential leaders to advance employability, employment and entrepreneurship for young people, working with GenU leadership and across the GenU Global Team.
This Long-Term Agreement for Services (LTAS) will provide UNICEF with a pool of individual consultants who can support SBC in Emergency initiatives, across the different levels of the organization and across continents. The agreement will enable teams to request training, workshops, data and feedback generation and analysis, tailored strategies and guidance. It also creates a mechanism to maintain shared learning through communities of practice, case studies, knowledge products, and routine communication channels.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
We are seeking a committed and creative professional for the position of Emergency Officer, P-2, Temporary Position, Office of Emergency Operations, for 6 months, Off Emergency Prog, O/P Rome. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, join UNICEF — the world’s leading organization dedicated to promoting and protecting children’s rights.
Join UNICEF Supply Division as a Quality Assurance Specialist and help ensure that life-saving pharmaceutical and nutrition products reach children worldwide safely and to the highest quality standards. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of quality, global health, and humanitarian supply chains through inspections, audits, and international collaboration. The selected candidate must be willing and able to travel to the duty stations, including emergency locations, as operational needs arise. This is a non-rotational and highly specialized position.
UNICEF Eswatini Country Office is looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Social Policy Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services
The Supply and Logistics Specialist position is established for deployment in small to medium-sized Country Offices (COs), or within larger COs as part of an integrated Supply and Logistics structure. The incumbent contributes to the effective management of supply chain operations, ensuring the timely, efficient, and compliant delivery of goods and services in support of programme implementation and organizational objectives. This role plays a critical part in strengthening supply chain systems and supporting sustainable results for children.
The Procurement Services Specialist will provide guidance, oversight, and direction on Procurement Services, national budgeting for essential supplies for children and supply financing solutions. Directly related to this support, the position will serve as focal point to identify opportunities in adjacent areas such as market access, market intelligence, market development and national supply chain strengthening.
The Immunization Specialist is accountable for providing technical assistance in the development of immunisation workplans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development,Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF'simmunization plus goals and objectives for the country.The Immunization Specialist will provide support to all the five field offices with more focus on Central-South Somalia tosupport the immunization programme and ongoing response activities for cVDPV2 outbreak and other vaccinepreventable diseases. Much more attention will also be required to reduce the zero-dose children burden in the country.As a key partner of Immunisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has the mandate to provide technicalassistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of immunizationprogrammes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet thisobligation.Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunisation programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on genderdisaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.
The CARE4Health project, funded by the European Union, has supported the restoration of essential health services and strengthening of health systems in conflict-affected and underserved areas of Ethiopia. As the project approaches closure in October 2026, UNICEF now requires dedicated capacity primarily to coordinate the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, and full project close-out process, while ensuring that remaining closure-critical activities are completed to the required quality and within the agreed timeframe.
This consultancy is therefore required as a dedicated project closure coordination function. The consultant will lead day-to-day coordination of the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, final reporting, closure documentation, stakeholder dissemination, and follow-up of remaining closure actions, including any outstanding construction-related matters. The role is intended to ensure that CARE4Health closes in a systematic, well-documented, and audit-ready manner, with all major deliverables completed to UNICEF and donor standards.
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