Programme Monitoring is an increasingly strategic area within UNICEF, with its importance widely acknowledged across the organization. The adoption of the UNICEF Monitoring Procedure, along with the accompanying Guidance and Checklist, has further clarified standards and expectations for programme monitoring. However, the level of adoption and implementation varies across Country Offices, influenced by contextual factors and capacity.
The consultant will develop, validate, and finalize Somalia’s National Implementation Guidelines for HIV programming among Young Key Populations (YKP) (ages 10–24 across MSM, sex workers, PWID, and young people in prisons/closed settings). The guideline will be aligned to WHO (2022) Consolidated Guidelines for Key Populations and informed, where relevant, by aids), a practical M&E matrix, and a light roll-out package (ToT deck + implementation brief). The consultant will integrate the recommendations and findings of the HIV Gender Assessment into the guideline and roll-out materials, so they are implementation-ready for MoH endorsement and partner uptake.
UNICEF works tirelessly to uphold the rights of every child, everywhere. As part of this mission, we implement the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) to ensure accountability, reduce risks, and strengthen national systems.
We are seeking a Senior Operations Associate (HACT) to provide critical financial, operational, and administrative support for HACT implementation.
Your work will directly impact programme delivery, resource accountability, and sustainable results for children.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to operationalize UNICEF’s Child-Lens Investing agenda in East Asia and the Pacific and south Asia, translating insights from an upcoming 2025 ESG Regional Review assessing how companies report on children’s rights for approx. 2,000 companies across the region. Through strategic support, the consultancy will drive advocacy, partnerships, and capacity building efforts that enable UNICEF and its partners to engage finance actors as drivers of impact for children, as well as by empowering Country Offices to engage more holistically and strategically with potential corporate partners across the region.
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. UNICEF Philippines is looking for a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to ensure the continuity of key Planning Monitoring and Evaluation initiatives in the UNICEF Mindanao Field Office. This role will focus on PME Support needs of in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Be part of our mission to create a more equitable future for every child. This post will be based in Cotabato City.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children and other vulnerable people, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF, on behalf of the United Nations in the Philippines, is looking for a Programme Specialist – UN Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Coordinator, who would provide professional technical, operational and management assistance in the area of PSEA for the United Nations in the Philippines.
Under the supervision of Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliances Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the B2C for RR Consultant will develop a knowledge product to provide robust guidance for frontline fundraisers on partnering with B2C companies, support this strategic effort to revitalize partnerships with consumer-facing companies and unlock new streams of sustainable, flexible funding. The document will cover best practices, key prinicples and how-to-guidance on securing consumer-facing partnerships while enhancing the knowledge of front-line fundraisers on consumer engagement and marketing. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the B2C engagement guidance document, alongside training materials from December 2025-June 2026.
Work with the high value marketing team to support the facilitation of a brand strategy process and support the Chief of section to develop the team strategy.
The brand strategy process requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in global brand strategy, preferably with experience of adapting commercial brand strategy to a non-profit setting. This work will require significant amounts of stakeholder management given UNICEF’s decentralized structure, and also the delivery of expertise in comprehensible formats for colleagues of varying experience on brand strategy.
The team strategy reflects the need for the high value marketing team to reset following a tumultuous period. The team has grown considerably post-COVID and has now been significantly reduced. The team is at a cross roads where it needs to explore the requirements of a marketing function in PFP (the HQ team with responsibility for raising the resources the organisation needs). It needs to consider the relationship of this team to market teams, and how to have an approach that recognizes both resource constraints and the desire of PFP and markets to transform their approach to private sector engagement (through a greater focus on audiences).
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliance Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the Product Licensing Consultant will support the strategic effort to centralize product licensing operations, managed by a third-party agency. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination as needed from December 2025 onwards.
Join UNICEF’s Division of People and Culture as a People and Culture Specialist - Project Specialist and play a vital role in driving organizational transformation to strengthen UNICEF’s humanitarian workforce. In this dynamic position, you will coordinate and monitor key initiatives stemming from the Humanitarian Review, support strategic planning and implementation, and foster collaboration across global teams. Working closely with senior leadership, you will help shape policies, streamline processes, and enhance staff preparedness for effective humanitarian response. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven professional with strong project management, communication, and partnership skills to contribute to UNICEF’s mission of building a people-centered, agile, and resilient organization that delivers impactful results for children worldwide.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop a standardized and national Basic First Aid Training Package and Trainer Guide suitable for a two-day training format, which is tailored for youth participants across 26 districts.
UNICEF Indonesia seeks to hire an individual consultant to support innovative finance work at the UNICEF Jakarta office and explore potential expansion of innovative finance at national and sub-national levels. The consultancy is expected to last approximately 4.5 months.
The NOB Social Policy Officer (PF4C) Officer will report to the Chief Child Protection and Social Policy and work closely with technical leads working on Social Protection, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Education, and Climate. The Officer provides strong management and leadership to the work on PFM to deliver timely and quality results against the annual workplan and in line with the Country Programme Document (CPD). S/he will also be responsible for effective budget management, as well as ensuring compliance with donor conditionalities and effective coordination with development partners in the areas of responsibility.
Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Human Rights, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support for Online Format Design
• Participate in meetings with digital design teams.
• Contribute to key design decisions to ensure the Handbook’s format is accessible, user-friendly, and coherent across all platforms.
2. Final Drafting and Proofreading of the CRC Implementation Handbook
• Revise and refine Handbook content based on feedback from peer reviewers.
• Collaborate with the copyeditor to ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s editorial standards.
• Update introductory chapters to reflect recent developments and align with the revised structure.
3. Support for Dissemination and Awareness-Raising
• Prepare supporting materials for outreach, including articles, chapter summaries, abstracts, videos and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to dissemination activities, such as launch events, webinars, and stakeholder briefings.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
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.
UNICEF Belize and the National Commission for Families and Children (NCFC) are seeking a National Junior Consultant to support the implementation of the Blue Teddy Bear Campaign — a national initiative focused on preventing violence and sexual abuse against children.
The Junior Consultant will work closely with the Lead Consultant, UNICEF, and NCFC to strengthen youth participation, coordinate outreach activities, and ensure that young people’s voices are reflected in campaign actions and messages. The role includes assisting with community events, youth engagement workshops, visibility and social media efforts, and documenting campaign progress and stories of change.
This is a 12-month consultancy, based in Belize City, with travel to communities across the Southside area. The consultant will contribute to building safer communities for children while gaining hands-on experience in advocacy, communication, and child protection programming.
UNICEF Belize and the National Commission for Families and Children (NCFC) are seeking a National Consultant to lead the first-year implementation of the Blue Teddy Bear Campaign — a nationwide initiative to prevent violence and sexual abuse against children. The consultant will coordinate training, outreach, and community engagement activities across Belize City’s Southside, strengthening the capacity of community-based organizations, schools, parents, and private sector partners to champion child protection.
The assignment includes revising and adapting training materials, facilitating workshops, supporting monitoring and reporting, and ensuring visibility and participation across key partners. This is a 12-month, full-time consultancy based in Belize City, with local travel to participating communities.
Programme Monitoring is an increasingly strategic area within UNICEF, with its importance widely acknowledged across the organization. The adoption of the UNICEF Monitoring Procedure, along with the accompanying Guidance and Checklist, has further clarified standards and expectations for programme monitoring. However, the level of adoption and implementation varies across Country Offices, influenced by contextual factors and capacity.
The consultant will develop, validate, and finalize Somalia’s National Implementation Guidelines for HIV programming among Young Key Populations (YKP) (ages 10–24 across MSM, sex workers, PWID, and young people in prisons/closed settings). The guideline will be aligned to WHO (2022) Consolidated Guidelines for Key Populations and informed, where relevant, by aids), a practical M&E matrix, and a light roll-out package (ToT deck + implementation brief). The consultant will integrate the recommendations and findings of the HIV Gender Assessment into the guideline and roll-out materials, so they are implementation-ready for MoH endorsement and partner uptake.
UNICEF works tirelessly to uphold the rights of every child, everywhere. As part of this mission, we implement the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) to ensure accountability, reduce risks, and strengthen national systems.
We are seeking a Senior Operations Associate (HACT) to provide critical financial, operational, and administrative support for HACT implementation.
Your work will directly impact programme delivery, resource accountability, and sustainable results for children.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to operationalize UNICEF’s Child-Lens Investing agenda in East Asia and the Pacific and south Asia, translating insights from an upcoming 2025 ESG Regional Review assessing how companies report on children’s rights for approx. 2,000 companies across the region. Through strategic support, the consultancy will drive advocacy, partnerships, and capacity building efforts that enable UNICEF and its partners to engage finance actors as drivers of impact for children, as well as by empowering Country Offices to engage more holistically and strategically with potential corporate partners across the region.
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. UNICEF Philippines is looking for a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to ensure the continuity of key Planning Monitoring and Evaluation initiatives in the UNICEF Mindanao Field Office. This role will focus on PME Support needs of in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Be part of our mission to create a more equitable future for every child. This post will be based in Cotabato City.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children and other vulnerable people, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF, on behalf of the United Nations in the Philippines, is looking for a Programme Specialist – UN Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Coordinator, who would provide professional technical, operational and management assistance in the area of PSEA for the United Nations in the Philippines.
Under the supervision of Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliances Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the B2C for RR Consultant will develop a knowledge product to provide robust guidance for frontline fundraisers on partnering with B2C companies, support this strategic effort to revitalize partnerships with consumer-facing companies and unlock new streams of sustainable, flexible funding. The document will cover best practices, key prinicples and how-to-guidance on securing consumer-facing partnerships while enhancing the knowledge of front-line fundraisers on consumer engagement and marketing. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the B2C engagement guidance document, alongside training materials from December 2025-June 2026.
Work with the high value marketing team to support the facilitation of a brand strategy process and support the Chief of section to develop the team strategy.
The brand strategy process requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in global brand strategy, preferably with experience of adapting commercial brand strategy to a non-profit setting. This work will require significant amounts of stakeholder management given UNICEF’s decentralized structure, and also the delivery of expertise in comprehensible formats for colleagues of varying experience on brand strategy.
The team strategy reflects the need for the high value marketing team to reset following a tumultuous period. The team has grown considerably post-COVID and has now been significantly reduced. The team is at a cross roads where it needs to explore the requirements of a marketing function in PFP (the HQ team with responsibility for raising the resources the organisation needs). It needs to consider the relationship of this team to market teams, and how to have an approach that recognizes both resource constraints and the desire of PFP and markets to transform their approach to private sector engagement (through a greater focus on audiences).
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliance Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the Product Licensing Consultant will support the strategic effort to centralize product licensing operations, managed by a third-party agency. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination as needed from December 2025 onwards.
Join UNICEF’s Division of People and Culture as a People and Culture Specialist - Project Specialist and play a vital role in driving organizational transformation to strengthen UNICEF’s humanitarian workforce. In this dynamic position, you will coordinate and monitor key initiatives stemming from the Humanitarian Review, support strategic planning and implementation, and foster collaboration across global teams. Working closely with senior leadership, you will help shape policies, streamline processes, and enhance staff preparedness for effective humanitarian response. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven professional with strong project management, communication, and partnership skills to contribute to UNICEF’s mission of building a people-centered, agile, and resilient organization that delivers impactful results for children worldwide.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop a standardized and national Basic First Aid Training Package and Trainer Guide suitable for a two-day training format, which is tailored for youth participants across 26 districts.
UNICEF Indonesia seeks to hire an individual consultant to support innovative finance work at the UNICEF Jakarta office and explore potential expansion of innovative finance at national and sub-national levels. The consultancy is expected to last approximately 4.5 months.
The NOB Social Policy Officer (PF4C) Officer will report to the Chief Child Protection and Social Policy and work closely with technical leads working on Social Protection, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Education, and Climate. The Officer provides strong management and leadership to the work on PFM to deliver timely and quality results against the annual workplan and in line with the Country Programme Document (CPD). S/he will also be responsible for effective budget management, as well as ensuring compliance with donor conditionalities and effective coordination with development partners in the areas of responsibility.
Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Human Rights, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support for Online Format Design
• Participate in meetings with digital design teams.
• Contribute to key design decisions to ensure the Handbook’s format is accessible, user-friendly, and coherent across all platforms.
2. Final Drafting and Proofreading of the CRC Implementation Handbook
• Revise and refine Handbook content based on feedback from peer reviewers.
• Collaborate with the copyeditor to ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s editorial standards.
• Update introductory chapters to reflect recent developments and align with the revised structure.
3. Support for Dissemination and Awareness-Raising
• Prepare supporting materials for outreach, including articles, chapter summaries, abstracts, videos and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to dissemination activities, such as launch events, webinars, and stakeholder briefings.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
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.
UNICEF Belize and the National Commission for Families and Children (NCFC) are seeking a National Junior Consultant to support the implementation of the Blue Teddy Bear Campaign — a national initiative focused on preventing violence and sexual abuse against children.
The Junior Consultant will work closely with the Lead Consultant, UNICEF, and NCFC to strengthen youth participation, coordinate outreach activities, and ensure that young people’s voices are reflected in campaign actions and messages. The role includes assisting with community events, youth engagement workshops, visibility and social media efforts, and documenting campaign progress and stories of change.
This is a 12-month consultancy, based in Belize City, with travel to communities across the Southside area. The consultant will contribute to building safer communities for children while gaining hands-on experience in advocacy, communication, and child protection programming.
UNICEF Belize and the National Commission for Families and Children (NCFC) are seeking a National Consultant to lead the first-year implementation of the Blue Teddy Bear Campaign — a nationwide initiative to prevent violence and sexual abuse against children. The consultant will coordinate training, outreach, and community engagement activities across Belize City’s Southside, strengthening the capacity of community-based organizations, schools, parents, and private sector partners to champion child protection.
The assignment includes revising and adapting training materials, facilitating workshops, supporting monitoring and reporting, and ensuring visibility and participation across key partners. This is a 12-month, full-time consultancy based in Belize City, with local travel to participating communities.
