UNICEF is seeking a Programme and Partnership Lead/Specialist (Frontier Data Tech) to facilitate and foster our internal/external public/private sector AI and frontier data technologies relationships and projects, so that our network can most efficiently deliver impact.It is a bridging role between technology and social impact. This role involves coordinating stakeholders across UNICEF business units, country, regional offices, managing discussions with corporate partners, and sifting manifold opportunities into specific deliverables that advance the AI Office and the Frontier Data work in-house and with our research partners. The successful candidate combines digital product development and community of practice experience over a child-centered mission. Working under the general direction of the Chief AI Officer and the data scientist specialist, the Programme and Partnership Lead/Specialist will contribute to the goals of AI for programs, Child Centred AI (Advocacy) and Strategy workstreams within the AI Office.This role emphasizes coordinating strategic partnerships for the AI Office, supporting the design and implementation of AI Office flagship initiatives using FDN model/approach, supporting community building activities and facilitating data sharing agreements with companies and global platforms.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated product ownership for the development and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, ensuring that business needs, as defined by the AI Business Owner, are translated into clear product requirements, prioritised use cases, and implementable features. The Product Owner will support alignment between stakeholders, technical teams and governance functions to ensure that AI products are user-centred, operationally relevant, responsibly designed, and delivered in line with agreed priorities, quality standards and organisational requirements.
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme is a core component of UNICEF Burkina Faso’s Country Programme, implemented in a context marked by insecurity, climate shocks and large‑scale internal displacement. The programme focuses on delivering life‑saving and resilient WASH services while strengthening national and sub‑national systems to ensure equitable, sustainable access for the most vulnerable women and children, particularly in fragile and hard‑to‑reach areas.
The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Schools (WinS) Program is a critical component of quality education, child health, dignity, and protection. Adequate WASH services in schools contribute to improved learner attendance, reduced incidence of water- and sanitation-related diseases, safer and more inclusive learning environments, and better education outcomes. For adolescent girls WASH facilities are particularly important to ensure privacy, dignity, menstrual health and hygiene, and continued participation in school activities.
The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) localized the program.
MBHTE oversees approximately 2,612 public elementary and secondary schools mandated to implement WinS and report through the WinS Online Monitoring System (OMS), which generates ratings through the Three-Star Rating System. However, schools and divisions continue to experience difficulties in monitoring, reporting, and data uploading due to limited internet connectivity, technical login issues, incomplete submissions, and varying interpretations of indicators.
Challenges also persist in school WASH infrastructure, supplies, water safety, waste management, operation and maintenance, and access to technical assistance, particularly in remote, island, conflict-affected, and climate vulnerable areas. Since WinS data is largely self-reported, field validation is needed to verify the actual functionality, adequacy, accessibility, safety, and sustainability of school WASH services. Given these gaps, UNICEF and MBHTE require dedicated technical support to conduct a comprehensive assessment and validation of WinS implementation across BARMM. The assignment will generate credible and usable evidence to guide planning, policy advocacy, resource mobilization, technical assistance, and integration of WinS priorities into School Improvement Plans (SIP), Division Education Development Plans (DEDP), and Bangsamoro Education Reform and Development Plan (BERDP)
Consultancy in a project project aims to contribute to Zimbabwe's climate mitigation agenda through investments in renewable energy, water and wastewater management, sustainable waste management, clean cooking solutions, and green skills development. The interventions will be implemented in Harare, Bulawayo, and in Matabeleland North Province. (Gokwe District).
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
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.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for the nationally owned process of revising and strengthening the project entitled “Climate-resilient WASH services and water security to support the resilience of community, health and education systems in Chad”, together with all mandatory annexes and supporting documentation, to ensure alignment with UNICEF pipeline selection requirements and the GCF investment criteria.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen the quality, reliability, and policy relevance of data on children with disabilities by ensuring that data collection tools, methodologies, and analytical processes are aligned with international standards and national priorities.
As part of the UNICEF India Country Programme (2023–2027) and the approved Rolling Work Plan (2026–2027), UNICEF Rajasthan proposes to engage an Individual Consultant to provide technical assistance to the Government of Rajasthan, particularly the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), for strengthening Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQMS) system to ensure equitable, climate-resilient and safely managed drinking water services
Join UNICEF’s Division of People and Culture as an Operations Associate and help ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of operational and administrative services. You will support budget monitoring, procurement, travel and financial processes, while also coordinating administrative and logistical support for learning and talent management initiatives across UNICEF offices.
Results-Enabling Advisory and Capacity Hub (REACH) Process Reengineering Consultant
UNICEF Global Programme Division / REACH and CoE Model Implementation HQ, New York, US, remote / home-based, with possible travel if required, 12 months
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 assignment aims to support UNICEF’s Gender Equality Action Plan 2026–2029 by strengthening programme communications, advocacy and partnerships. The consultant will develop communication and advocacy materials, support partner engagement and resource mobilisation, and promote adolescent girls’ leadership, voices and rights across UNICEF and with external partners.
Working in close partnership with DPC, GPD and OED, the consultant will design and build the architecture of a structured technical leadership track with a proposal for how to organize, establish, implement, maintain and govern it.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Fundraising Officer, the Digital Fundraising (FR) Consultant provides specialized technical support to the Communications and Fundraising Section in the development, implementation, execution and monitoring of private sector fundraising activities, with a particular focus on digital donor acquisition.
The Consultant contributes to the effective and timely delivery of digital fundraising initiatives, ensuring alignment with UNICEF strategies, policies, procedures, standards and applicable rules and regulations, while supporting the achievement of agreed fundraising objectives and results.
UNICEF is seeking a Programme and Partnership Lead/Specialist (Frontier Data Tech) to facilitate and foster our internal/external public/private sector AI and frontier data technologies relationships and projects, so that our network can most efficiently deliver impact.It is a bridging role between technology and social impact. This role involves coordinating stakeholders across UNICEF business units, country, regional offices, managing discussions with corporate partners, and sifting manifold opportunities into specific deliverables that advance the AI Office and the Frontier Data work in-house and with our research partners. The successful candidate combines digital product development and community of practice experience over a child-centered mission. Working under the general direction of the Chief AI Officer and the data scientist specialist, the Programme and Partnership Lead/Specialist will contribute to the goals of AI for programs, Child Centred AI (Advocacy) and Strategy workstreams within the AI Office.This role emphasizes coordinating strategic partnerships for the AI Office, supporting the design and implementation of AI Office flagship initiatives using FDN model/approach, supporting community building activities and facilitating data sharing agreements with companies and global platforms.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated product ownership for the development and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, ensuring that business needs, as defined by the AI Business Owner, are translated into clear product requirements, prioritised use cases, and implementable features. The Product Owner will support alignment between stakeholders, technical teams and governance functions to ensure that AI products are user-centred, operationally relevant, responsibly designed, and delivered in line with agreed priorities, quality standards and organisational requirements.
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme is a core component of UNICEF Burkina Faso’s Country Programme, implemented in a context marked by insecurity, climate shocks and large‑scale internal displacement. The programme focuses on delivering life‑saving and resilient WASH services while strengthening national and sub‑national systems to ensure equitable, sustainable access for the most vulnerable women and children, particularly in fragile and hard‑to‑reach areas.
The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Schools (WinS) Program is a critical component of quality education, child health, dignity, and protection. Adequate WASH services in schools contribute to improved learner attendance, reduced incidence of water- and sanitation-related diseases, safer and more inclusive learning environments, and better education outcomes. For adolescent girls WASH facilities are particularly important to ensure privacy, dignity, menstrual health and hygiene, and continued participation in school activities.
The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) localized the program.
MBHTE oversees approximately 2,612 public elementary and secondary schools mandated to implement WinS and report through the WinS Online Monitoring System (OMS), which generates ratings through the Three-Star Rating System. However, schools and divisions continue to experience difficulties in monitoring, reporting, and data uploading due to limited internet connectivity, technical login issues, incomplete submissions, and varying interpretations of indicators.
Challenges also persist in school WASH infrastructure, supplies, water safety, waste management, operation and maintenance, and access to technical assistance, particularly in remote, island, conflict-affected, and climate vulnerable areas. Since WinS data is largely self-reported, field validation is needed to verify the actual functionality, adequacy, accessibility, safety, and sustainability of school WASH services. Given these gaps, UNICEF and MBHTE require dedicated technical support to conduct a comprehensive assessment and validation of WinS implementation across BARMM. The assignment will generate credible and usable evidence to guide planning, policy advocacy, resource mobilization, technical assistance, and integration of WinS priorities into School Improvement Plans (SIP), Division Education Development Plans (DEDP), and Bangsamoro Education Reform and Development Plan (BERDP)
Consultancy in a project project aims to contribute to Zimbabwe's climate mitigation agenda through investments in renewable energy, water and wastewater management, sustainable waste management, clean cooking solutions, and green skills development. The interventions will be implemented in Harare, Bulawayo, and in Matabeleland North Province. (Gokwe District).
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
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.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for the nationally owned process of revising and strengthening the project entitled “Climate-resilient WASH services and water security to support the resilience of community, health and education systems in Chad”, together with all mandatory annexes and supporting documentation, to ensure alignment with UNICEF pipeline selection requirements and the GCF investment criteria.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen the quality, reliability, and policy relevance of data on children with disabilities by ensuring that data collection tools, methodologies, and analytical processes are aligned with international standards and national priorities.
As part of the UNICEF India Country Programme (2023–2027) and the approved Rolling Work Plan (2026–2027), UNICEF Rajasthan proposes to engage an Individual Consultant to provide technical assistance to the Government of Rajasthan, particularly the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), for strengthening Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQMS) system to ensure equitable, climate-resilient and safely managed drinking water services
Join UNICEF’s Division of People and Culture as an Operations Associate and help ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of operational and administrative services. You will support budget monitoring, procurement, travel and financial processes, while also coordinating administrative and logistical support for learning and talent management initiatives across UNICEF offices.
Results-Enabling Advisory and Capacity Hub (REACH) Process Reengineering Consultant
UNICEF Global Programme Division / REACH and CoE Model Implementation HQ, New York, US, remote / home-based, with possible travel if required, 12 months
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 assignment aims to support UNICEF’s Gender Equality Action Plan 2026–2029 by strengthening programme communications, advocacy and partnerships. The consultant will develop communication and advocacy materials, support partner engagement and resource mobilisation, and promote adolescent girls’ leadership, voices and rights across UNICEF and with external partners.
Working in close partnership with DPC, GPD and OED, the consultant will design and build the architecture of a structured technical leadership track with a proposal for how to organize, establish, implement, maintain and govern it.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Fundraising Officer, the Digital Fundraising (FR) Consultant provides specialized technical support to the Communications and Fundraising Section in the development, implementation, execution and monitoring of private sector fundraising activities, with a particular focus on digital donor acquisition.
The Consultant contributes to the effective and timely delivery of digital fundraising initiatives, ensuring alignment with UNICEF strategies, policies, procedures, standards and applicable rules and regulations, while supporting the achievement of agreed fundraising objectives and results.
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