UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)—implemented in over 120 countries and aligned with 22 of 23 SDG indicators previously monitored through DHS—represent one of the world’s leading sources of internationally comparable data on children and women. In this evolving context, there is a growing expectation that MICS could play an expanded role in addressing the data gaps left by DHS. However, this potential requires careful assessment of both external opportunities and internal readiness, including questions of institutional capacity, financial sustainability, and strategic prioritization.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to assess and articulate the extent to which MICS can and should respond to the changing global survey landscape, and under what conditions—institutional, technical, and financial—such an expanded role would be viable and sustainable. The work will examine how MICS could contribute to maintaining continuity in global demographic and health statistics while reinforcing existing national data infrastructures and avoiding the creation of parallel systems.
This assignment will produce an evidence-based analysis and a strategic framework to guide UNICEF’s decisions on the internal investments, partnerships, and operational adjustments required to strengthen MICS’s position within the global data ecosystem. It will be conducted in alignment with the ISWGHS Task Force on Sustainable Demographic and Health Statistics and UNICEF’s Global Data Strategy, ensuring that all recommendations are grounded in principles of national ownership, complementarity, and sustainability.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Project Officer (Water Supply) on a fixed-term appointment to be based in Suva, Fiji. Under the general supervision of the WASH Manager at P-4 level. The Project Officer (Water Supply) is expected to support the UNICEF Pacific programme on strengthening WASH programming on climate resilient water supply systems.
in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.
Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.
Join our dynamic team in Bishkek, UNICEF Kyrgyzstan to provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance to support programme performance planning and monitoring.
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 Nutrition Specialist who would provide professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance in the programming process for the Nutrition Programme in the Philippine Country Office.
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UNICEF Malaysia is seeking a qualified consultant to support the development of annual budget briefs under its Public Finance for Children (PF4C) initiative. These briefs will analyze and summarize national budget allocations and expenditures, with a focus on sectors critical to children’s well-being. The insights generated will inform advocacy efforts and support evidence-based policymaking to enhance public investment in children. The assignment is for 12 months, beginning December 2025. Ideal candidates will have expertise in public finance, data analysis, and child-focused policy.
UNICEF Pacific is offering an exciting consultancy opportunity for a proactive and experienced international Consultant to help shape the future of maternal and child health in Fiji. This 40-day remote-based assignment focuses on costing Fiji’s national plan to prevent vertical transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis. The consultant will be responsible for developing a comprehensive costing framework that covers clinical care, community interventions, procurement of services and supplies, documentation, coordination, and a costed monitoring and evaluation system. By applying global best practices and innovative approaches, the consultant will play a key role in strengthening the implementation and tracking of interventions, ultimately contributing to the elimination of new infections among children and improving health outcomes for mothers living with HIV. If you're passionate about global health and making a meaningful impact, this is your chance to contribute to a vital mission.
Únete a nuestro equipo de UNICEF Colombia y marca la diferencia en la vida de los niños, niñas y adolescentes! Esta consultoría busca contratar un consultor para integrar la educación ambiental y climática en el currículo y las prácticas pedagógicas de la educación media, en los materiales de aprendizaje y en los proyectos escolares (productivos, PRAES, etc), con un enfoque de igualdad de género. Para esto, UNICEF busca consolidar un paquete mínimo de aprendizaje ambiental y climático dirigido a niñas, niños y adolescentes, que busque fortalecer el aprendizaje, actitudes y habilidades para el cuidado del ambiente, la acción climática y la gobernanza territorial desde un enfoque de derechos, identidad y resiliencia.
The Nutrition Specialist Cluster Coordinator (level 3) GJP is to be used in a Country Office (CO) where there is a Nutrition (Senior) Manager Cluster Coordinator (L5/ L4) in place. The post holder will be based in a sub-national Cluster/ Working Group and will report to the Nutrition (Senior) Manager Cluster Coordinator (L5/ L4) for general guidance and direction. Under the overall direction and guidance of the Nutrition (Senior) Manager Cluster Coordinator (L5/ L4), the Nutrition Specialist Cluster Coordinator will provide leadership and representation of the Cluster/ Working Group at sub-national level. They will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the sub-national Cluster/ Working Group that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the Nutrition Specialist Cluster Coordinator is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of sectoral responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration at the sub-national level and for ensuring adequate coordination with the national level.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to lead the development of a Federal Ministry of Education of Nigeria, SBC strategy and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking an International Consultant to provide the full scope of technical assistance and implementation of a situation analysis for non-formal education.
Sous la supervision du Spécialiste aux Technologies de l'Information et des Communications (TIC), l’Associé(e) aux TIC exécute des activités procédurales et certaines activités spécialisées relatives aux systèmes TIC de l'UNICEF, qui comprennent l'installation et l’administration des postes de travail, le déploiement des équipements de réseau et de télécommunications, ainsi que l’installation et la maintenance des serveurs.
The Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), based in Geneva, aims to achieve sustainable impact for children – income and influence at scale – by maximizing UNICEF's private fundraising, partnerships, and engagement activities, including work with National Committees, regional, and country offices, for the realization of children's rights. The Humanitarian Funding Unit within the Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section of PFP supports National Committees and Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) countries and steers global efforts across the organization to maximize funding opportunities through and for humanitarian crises and sudden-onset disasters.
Over the last 5 years, on average 66% of private sector funding has gone to only 3 HAC appeals – many of them media-covered emergencies. Although we will continue to leverage media-driven crises, our universal mandate requires a more sustainable and equitable distribution of funding across emergencies, especially for Chronically Underfunded Emergencies (CUEs). Chronically Underfunded Emergencies are crises marked by sustained humanitarian needs that often span years or even decades. These emergencies typically occur in regions affected by chronic displacement, ongoing conflicts, or recurring natural disasters such as drought.
Closing the funding gap for chronically underfunded emergencies from the private sector demands bold action and seamless collaboration across UNICEF.
It is in this regard that UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division is launching the Global Emergency Alliance for Children, a pioneering platform to mobilize leading businesses for sustained, flexible support to children affected by protracted and sudden-onset crises. The Alliance aims to reduce the funding gap for crises by leveraging corporate resources, expertise, and influence to deliver measurable impact for children worldwide.
The consultant will be responsible for assessing the integration of Child Protection across other sectors by identifying achievements, gaps, and challenges; verifying a minimum of 1,400 completed Child Protection Case Management booklets and harmonized CPIMS forms to ensure data accuracy; mapping partners implementing case management and providing capacity development to government and CSO/NGO partners based on identified gaps; and producing both a quarterly report for January–March 2025 and an annual case management data report for January–December 2025.
Analizar el marco jurídico actual del sistema de educación parvularia y proponer los cambios normativos necesarios para viabilizar una reforma al sistema de financiamiento, en articulación con las propuestas institucionales y financieras desarrolladas por la consultoría económica.
Propósito de la actividad o asignación:
Desarrollar propuestas técnicas que orienten el diseño de un modelo institucional y financiero para el sistema de financiamiento de la educación parvularia en Chile, basado en criterios de equidad, eficiencia y gobernanza, y articulado con una futura reforma normativa.
UNICEF Angola is looking for 3 Nutrition consultants who will support the monitoring and coordination of nutrition interventions with government and implementing partners, ensure adherence to national and UNICEF standards, and contribute to quality assurance through regular technical reporting.
The consultant is expected to work closely with the Ministry of Justice and two working groups under the Ministry of Justice on juvenile justice system reforms and on elaboration of the draft law on mediation. The Consultant provides support to the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries and agencies to elaborate standard operating procedures that will describe in detail the referral pathway of the cases of children allegedly committed crimes through law enforcement to social sector to divert children in conflict with the law.
UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)—implemented in over 120 countries and aligned with 22 of 23 SDG indicators previously monitored through DHS—represent one of the world’s leading sources of internationally comparable data on children and women. In this evolving context, there is a growing expectation that MICS could play an expanded role in addressing the data gaps left by DHS. However, this potential requires careful assessment of both external opportunities and internal readiness, including questions of institutional capacity, financial sustainability, and strategic prioritization.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to assess and articulate the extent to which MICS can and should respond to the changing global survey landscape, and under what conditions—institutional, technical, and financial—such an expanded role would be viable and sustainable. The work will examine how MICS could contribute to maintaining continuity in global demographic and health statistics while reinforcing existing national data infrastructures and avoiding the creation of parallel systems.
This assignment will produce an evidence-based analysis and a strategic framework to guide UNICEF’s decisions on the internal investments, partnerships, and operational adjustments required to strengthen MICS’s position within the global data ecosystem. It will be conducted in alignment with the ISWGHS Task Force on Sustainable Demographic and Health Statistics and UNICEF’s Global Data Strategy, ensuring that all recommendations are grounded in principles of national ownership, complementarity, and sustainability.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Project Officer (Water Supply) on a fixed-term appointment to be based in Suva, Fiji. Under the general supervision of the WASH Manager at P-4 level. The Project Officer (Water Supply) is expected to support the UNICEF Pacific programme on strengthening WASH programming on climate resilient water supply systems.
in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.
Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.
Join our dynamic team in Bishkek, UNICEF Kyrgyzstan to provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance to support programme performance planning and monitoring.
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 Nutrition Specialist who would provide professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance in the programming process for the Nutrition Programme in the Philippine Country Office.
Join Us in Empowering Young Voices!
UNICEF Malaysia is seeking a qualified consultant to support the development of annual budget briefs under its Public Finance for Children (PF4C) initiative. These briefs will analyze and summarize national budget allocations and expenditures, with a focus on sectors critical to children’s well-being. The insights generated will inform advocacy efforts and support evidence-based policymaking to enhance public investment in children. The assignment is for 12 months, beginning December 2025. Ideal candidates will have expertise in public finance, data analysis, and child-focused policy.
UNICEF Pacific is offering an exciting consultancy opportunity for a proactive and experienced international Consultant to help shape the future of maternal and child health in Fiji. This 40-day remote-based assignment focuses on costing Fiji’s national plan to prevent vertical transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis. The consultant will be responsible for developing a comprehensive costing framework that covers clinical care, community interventions, procurement of services and supplies, documentation, coordination, and a costed monitoring and evaluation system. By applying global best practices and innovative approaches, the consultant will play a key role in strengthening the implementation and tracking of interventions, ultimately contributing to the elimination of new infections among children and improving health outcomes for mothers living with HIV. If you're passionate about global health and making a meaningful impact, this is your chance to contribute to a vital mission.
Únete a nuestro equipo de UNICEF Colombia y marca la diferencia en la vida de los niños, niñas y adolescentes! Esta consultoría busca contratar un consultor para integrar la educación ambiental y climática en el currículo y las prácticas pedagógicas de la educación media, en los materiales de aprendizaje y en los proyectos escolares (productivos, PRAES, etc), con un enfoque de igualdad de género. Para esto, UNICEF busca consolidar un paquete mínimo de aprendizaje ambiental y climático dirigido a niñas, niños y adolescentes, que busque fortalecer el aprendizaje, actitudes y habilidades para el cuidado del ambiente, la acción climática y la gobernanza territorial desde un enfoque de derechos, identidad y resiliencia.
The Nutrition Specialist Cluster Coordinator (level 3) GJP is to be used in a Country Office (CO) where there is a Nutrition (Senior) Manager Cluster Coordinator (L5/ L4) in place. The post holder will be based in a sub-national Cluster/ Working Group and will report to the Nutrition (Senior) Manager Cluster Coordinator (L5/ L4) for general guidance and direction. Under the overall direction and guidance of the Nutrition (Senior) Manager Cluster Coordinator (L5/ L4), the Nutrition Specialist Cluster Coordinator will provide leadership and representation of the Cluster/ Working Group at sub-national level. They will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the sub-national Cluster/ Working Group that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the Nutrition Specialist Cluster Coordinator is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of sectoral responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration at the sub-national level and for ensuring adequate coordination with the national level.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to lead the development of a Federal Ministry of Education of Nigeria, SBC strategy and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking an International Consultant to provide the full scope of technical assistance and implementation of a situation analysis for non-formal education.
Sous la supervision du Spécialiste aux Technologies de l'Information et des Communications (TIC), l’Associé(e) aux TIC exécute des activités procédurales et certaines activités spécialisées relatives aux systèmes TIC de l'UNICEF, qui comprennent l'installation et l’administration des postes de travail, le déploiement des équipements de réseau et de télécommunications, ainsi que l’installation et la maintenance des serveurs.
The Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), based in Geneva, aims to achieve sustainable impact for children – income and influence at scale – by maximizing UNICEF's private fundraising, partnerships, and engagement activities, including work with National Committees, regional, and country offices, for the realization of children's rights. The Humanitarian Funding Unit within the Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section of PFP supports National Committees and Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) countries and steers global efforts across the organization to maximize funding opportunities through and for humanitarian crises and sudden-onset disasters.
Over the last 5 years, on average 66% of private sector funding has gone to only 3 HAC appeals – many of them media-covered emergencies. Although we will continue to leverage media-driven crises, our universal mandate requires a more sustainable and equitable distribution of funding across emergencies, especially for Chronically Underfunded Emergencies (CUEs). Chronically Underfunded Emergencies are crises marked by sustained humanitarian needs that often span years or even decades. These emergencies typically occur in regions affected by chronic displacement, ongoing conflicts, or recurring natural disasters such as drought.
Closing the funding gap for chronically underfunded emergencies from the private sector demands bold action and seamless collaboration across UNICEF.
It is in this regard that UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division is launching the Global Emergency Alliance for Children, a pioneering platform to mobilize leading businesses for sustained, flexible support to children affected by protracted and sudden-onset crises. The Alliance aims to reduce the funding gap for crises by leveraging corporate resources, expertise, and influence to deliver measurable impact for children worldwide.
The consultant will be responsible for assessing the integration of Child Protection across other sectors by identifying achievements, gaps, and challenges; verifying a minimum of 1,400 completed Child Protection Case Management booklets and harmonized CPIMS forms to ensure data accuracy; mapping partners implementing case management and providing capacity development to government and CSO/NGO partners based on identified gaps; and producing both a quarterly report for January–March 2025 and an annual case management data report for January–December 2025.
Analizar el marco jurídico actual del sistema de educación parvularia y proponer los cambios normativos necesarios para viabilizar una reforma al sistema de financiamiento, en articulación con las propuestas institucionales y financieras desarrolladas por la consultoría económica.
Propósito de la actividad o asignación:
Desarrollar propuestas técnicas que orienten el diseño de un modelo institucional y financiero para el sistema de financiamiento de la educación parvularia en Chile, basado en criterios de equidad, eficiencia y gobernanza, y articulado con una futura reforma normativa.
UNICEF Angola is looking for 3 Nutrition consultants who will support the monitoring and coordination of nutrition interventions with government and implementing partners, ensure adherence to national and UNICEF standards, and contribute to quality assurance through regular technical reporting.
The consultant is expected to work closely with the Ministry of Justice and two working groups under the Ministry of Justice on juvenile justice system reforms and on elaboration of the draft law on mediation. The Consultant provides support to the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries and agencies to elaborate standard operating procedures that will describe in detail the referral pathway of the cases of children allegedly committed crimes through law enforcement to social sector to divert children in conflict with the law.
