Consultancy support on the AU State of Africa children report on WASH and preparations for the UN 2026 Water Conference & Interactive Dialogue report on Water for People
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will source, pilot and scale transformational and frontier climate resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. One of those solutions is Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) technology, a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic induction to map sustainable deep groundwater sources.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for the Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) solution, to support multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF ECARO is seeking a motivated Communications Officer NOA for its office in Warsaw, Poland. Under the supervision of the Communication Specialist/Chief of Communication. The supervisor defines the parameters of assignments and outline approaches to problem areas. Carry out research to collect facts and data analysis in accordance with the established procedures and methodology.
This consultancy will assess the current fiscal space for WASH by reviewing government budgets, donor funding, and private sector involvement. It will identify opportunities to expand financing through domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and innovative approaches such as climate and blended finance.
Based on this, a WASH Financing Strategy will be developed, outlining key financing pathways, resource mobilization options, and institutional strengthening measures. The consultant will also provide actionable policy recommendations to improve sector financing, coordination, 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.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking to hire a WASH Officer to provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process.
Under the overall supervision of the Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with all UNICEF programmes and sectoral teams involved in the refugee response, the consultant will support the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland for enhancing the Accountability to Affected Population efforts through leading content generation, anagement, and dissemination efforts across digital and offline platforms, managing projects and interventions that enhance and amplify voice of refugees, ensuring child friendly and safe reporting mechanisms for refugee children and adolescents. This role
includes ensuring that all information products, key messages, and communication materials are timely, contextually relevant, aligned with UNICEF standards, and coherent across programmes and partners. The consultant will take on a lead coordination role for two critical initiatives under the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) framework. The first is focused on the design and piloting of a child-friendly feedback mechanism grounded in human-centered design principles; the second targets adolescent engagement and outreach through frontline worker capacity-building. Both projects aim to strengthen UNICEF’s ability to receive, process, and act upon feedback from children and adolescents, particularly those from refugee backgrounds, while also supporting social inclusion and participation.
UNICEF seeks to hire a senior technical consultant to support the implementation of key activities as part of the acceleration plan for pilot implementation of revised 2023 WHO Guidelines on prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema among children under five in Katsina state.
UNICEF Costa Rica is looking for a passionate Health & Nutrition Officer to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of impactful health and nutrition programmes. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and operational support to ensure the successful delivery of initiatives aligned with UNICEF’s strategic goals.
Climate change in Central Asia threatens essential services like WASH, MNCH, nutrition, and primary health care. UNICEF is leading efforts to secure resilient supply chains, strengthen health systems, and scale green financing solutions with global partners.
We seek a consultant to develop a Climate-Smart Supply Financing strategy for Uzbekistan and the region aligning investments with sustainability and equity. Your work will shape pathways for reliable medicines, vaccines, safe water, and nutrition services, ensuring continuity during climate shocks.
MICS enables countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children, women and their families, in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene. For many countries, MICS surveys are among the most important sources of data used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and for informing the public about the situation of children and women.
Currently, the MICS programme is in its 7th round and over 50 surveys are already formally listed as part of MICS7: Just over 20 have or are completing fieldwork, with the remaining still in the design phase. The number of MICS7 surveys is expected to increase by 10-20% in 2026 mainly due to closure of USAID’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program and a few other countries currently in the process of finalizing the Memorandum of Understanding documents.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed and 8 regional/global Survey Design and 5 Data Processing Workshops have been completed so far. Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams will need additional technical support on:
• ongoing and future MICS surveys including planning, sample design, questionnaire customisation, pre-test of questionnaires, customisation of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination, and
• planning and organisation of any potential local, regional, or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops.
MICS enables countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women, in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene. For many countries, MICS surveys are among the most important sources of data used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and for informing the public about the situation of children and women.
Currently, the MICS programme is in its 7th round and over 50 surveys are already formally listed as part of MICS7: Just over 20 have or are completing fieldwork, with the remaining still in the design phase. The number of MICS7 surveys is expected to increase by 10-20% in 2026 mainly due to closure of USAID’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program and a few other countries currently in the process of finalizing the Memorandum of Understanding documents.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed and 8 regional/global Survey Design and 5 Data Processing Workshops have been completed so far. Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams will need additional technical support on providing technical support to
• ongoing and future MICS surveys including planning, sample design, questionnaire customization, pre-test of questionnaires, customization of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination, and
• planning and organization of any potential local, regional, or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops.
The intersection of the global climate crisis and rising inequalities increasingly threatens children’s health, well-being, and futures, particularly in vulnerable settings. While adaptation is an urgent priority, financing continues to fall short of actual needs. The public sector has played a critical role in mobilizing resources for climate action; however, its full potential remains untapped in advancing climate action through the social sectors—education, health, nutrition, protection, water and sanitation, most vital for building resilience among children and their communities.
The Division of Private Fundraising Partnerships (PFP) and Public Partnerships Division (PPD) support the Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) and the upcoming Strategic Plan 2026-2030 by enhancing strategic engagement with public sector partners and donors, focusing on sustaining and boosting climate income generation. The purpose of this consultancy assignment is to support the Chief of Climate Partnerships in PFP and the Deputy Director in PPD by coordinating with donor-facing desks in PPD and other divisions on climate engagement, fundraising, and influencing public sector donors for an enhanced public-private climate partnerships approach.
UNICEF has established TeamOne as a global mechanism to provide digital support to country offices. TeamOne brings together digital advisors from across the organization in one virtual team to serve as a Global Digital Advisory Service. TeamOne also serves as a platform for continuous upskilling, thought leadership and knowledge management. As part of the TeamOne mechanism, a digital platform was implemented to gather, track and manage digital support requests, primarily from country offices. This digital platform is currently in pilot phase, with an aim to test its effectiveness for TeamOne, as well as gather initial sets of TeamOne requests to test its collaboration processes and ways of working.
The TeamOne KM consultant will manage CO requests on the platform, as well as develop knowledge assets, insights and learnings on priority knowledge areas and platform usage. The consultant will develop regular reports on key KPIs related to the system, work with request owners to ensure completion and collect feedback on completed requests. In doing so, the consultant will work closely with communications, community engagement teams, as well as TeamOne Principal Digital Advisors, to share back lessons and incentivize platform use and appropriate knowledge capture. In addition, the TeamOne KM consultant will track and promote the adoption and use of the knowledge assets created.
The job provides office management, budget and human resources support to the PPD Asia Pacific Pillar, one of the 3 PPD geographic pillars alongside Brussels and Washington DC.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
Le/la Consultant/e International/e pilotera l’élaboration d’un Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants au niveau infranational (subnational Children’s Climate Risk Index, CCRI) aux Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le/la Consultant National/e et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. Le consultant finalisera la méthodologie à utiliser aux Comores pour un indice de risque au niveau communal, selon les données déjà disponibles ou collectable à travers le/la consultant/e national/e; assurera un contrôle qualité du travail de collecte de données; analysera les données collectées (les expositions, les aléas, les vulnérabilités et les capacités des enfants, pour chaque commune) et fournira une carte numérique interactive permettant de superposer ces différents facteurs.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant for Teachers Professional Learning 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.
To better understand the drivers of breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among key health providers in maternity wards, home visiting services and breastfeeding counsellors in Serbia, UNICEF seeks the services of a national consultant to conduct an assessment and provide social and behaviour-related support to Health and Early Childhood Development Program at UNICEF Serbia and UNICEF Regional Office in Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) in identifying psychological, social, and environmental factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among health workers in maternity wards and breastfeeding counsellors in the country.
Consultancy support on the AU State of Africa children report on WASH and preparations for the UN 2026 Water Conference & Interactive Dialogue report on Water for People
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will source, pilot and scale transformational and frontier climate resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. One of those solutions is Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) technology, a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic induction to map sustainable deep groundwater sources.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for the Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) solution, to support multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF ECARO is seeking a motivated Communications Officer NOA for its office in Warsaw, Poland. Under the supervision of the Communication Specialist/Chief of Communication. The supervisor defines the parameters of assignments and outline approaches to problem areas. Carry out research to collect facts and data analysis in accordance with the established procedures and methodology.
This consultancy will assess the current fiscal space for WASH by reviewing government budgets, donor funding, and private sector involvement. It will identify opportunities to expand financing through domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and innovative approaches such as climate and blended finance.
Based on this, a WASH Financing Strategy will be developed, outlining key financing pathways, resource mobilization options, and institutional strengthening measures. The consultant will also provide actionable policy recommendations to improve sector financing, coordination, 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.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking to hire a WASH Officer to provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process.
Under the overall supervision of the Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with all UNICEF programmes and sectoral teams involved in the refugee response, the consultant will support the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland for enhancing the Accountability to Affected Population efforts through leading content generation, anagement, and dissemination efforts across digital and offline platforms, managing projects and interventions that enhance and amplify voice of refugees, ensuring child friendly and safe reporting mechanisms for refugee children and adolescents. This role
includes ensuring that all information products, key messages, and communication materials are timely, contextually relevant, aligned with UNICEF standards, and coherent across programmes and partners. The consultant will take on a lead coordination role for two critical initiatives under the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) framework. The first is focused on the design and piloting of a child-friendly feedback mechanism grounded in human-centered design principles; the second targets adolescent engagement and outreach through frontline worker capacity-building. Both projects aim to strengthen UNICEF’s ability to receive, process, and act upon feedback from children and adolescents, particularly those from refugee backgrounds, while also supporting social inclusion and participation.
UNICEF seeks to hire a senior technical consultant to support the implementation of key activities as part of the acceleration plan for pilot implementation of revised 2023 WHO Guidelines on prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema among children under five in Katsina state.
UNICEF Costa Rica is looking for a passionate Health & Nutrition Officer to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of impactful health and nutrition programmes. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and operational support to ensure the successful delivery of initiatives aligned with UNICEF’s strategic goals.
Climate change in Central Asia threatens essential services like WASH, MNCH, nutrition, and primary health care. UNICEF is leading efforts to secure resilient supply chains, strengthen health systems, and scale green financing solutions with global partners.
We seek a consultant to develop a Climate-Smart Supply Financing strategy for Uzbekistan and the region aligning investments with sustainability and equity. Your work will shape pathways for reliable medicines, vaccines, safe water, and nutrition services, ensuring continuity during climate shocks.
MICS enables countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children, women and their families, in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene. For many countries, MICS surveys are among the most important sources of data used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and for informing the public about the situation of children and women.
Currently, the MICS programme is in its 7th round and over 50 surveys are already formally listed as part of MICS7: Just over 20 have or are completing fieldwork, with the remaining still in the design phase. The number of MICS7 surveys is expected to increase by 10-20% in 2026 mainly due to closure of USAID’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program and a few other countries currently in the process of finalizing the Memorandum of Understanding documents.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed and 8 regional/global Survey Design and 5 Data Processing Workshops have been completed so far. Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams will need additional technical support on:
• ongoing and future MICS surveys including planning, sample design, questionnaire customisation, pre-test of questionnaires, customisation of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination, and
• planning and organisation of any potential local, regional, or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops.
MICS enables countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women, in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene. For many countries, MICS surveys are among the most important sources of data used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and for informing the public about the situation of children and women.
Currently, the MICS programme is in its 7th round and over 50 surveys are already formally listed as part of MICS7: Just over 20 have or are completing fieldwork, with the remaining still in the design phase. The number of MICS7 surveys is expected to increase by 10-20% in 2026 mainly due to closure of USAID’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program and a few other countries currently in the process of finalizing the Memorandum of Understanding documents.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed and 8 regional/global Survey Design and 5 Data Processing Workshops have been completed so far. Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams will need additional technical support on providing technical support to
• ongoing and future MICS surveys including planning, sample design, questionnaire customization, pre-test of questionnaires, customization of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination, and
• planning and organization of any potential local, regional, or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops.
The intersection of the global climate crisis and rising inequalities increasingly threatens children’s health, well-being, and futures, particularly in vulnerable settings. While adaptation is an urgent priority, financing continues to fall short of actual needs. The public sector has played a critical role in mobilizing resources for climate action; however, its full potential remains untapped in advancing climate action through the social sectors—education, health, nutrition, protection, water and sanitation, most vital for building resilience among children and their communities.
The Division of Private Fundraising Partnerships (PFP) and Public Partnerships Division (PPD) support the Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) and the upcoming Strategic Plan 2026-2030 by enhancing strategic engagement with public sector partners and donors, focusing on sustaining and boosting climate income generation. The purpose of this consultancy assignment is to support the Chief of Climate Partnerships in PFP and the Deputy Director in PPD by coordinating with donor-facing desks in PPD and other divisions on climate engagement, fundraising, and influencing public sector donors for an enhanced public-private climate partnerships approach.
UNICEF has established TeamOne as a global mechanism to provide digital support to country offices. TeamOne brings together digital advisors from across the organization in one virtual team to serve as a Global Digital Advisory Service. TeamOne also serves as a platform for continuous upskilling, thought leadership and knowledge management. As part of the TeamOne mechanism, a digital platform was implemented to gather, track and manage digital support requests, primarily from country offices. This digital platform is currently in pilot phase, with an aim to test its effectiveness for TeamOne, as well as gather initial sets of TeamOne requests to test its collaboration processes and ways of working.
The TeamOne KM consultant will manage CO requests on the platform, as well as develop knowledge assets, insights and learnings on priority knowledge areas and platform usage. The consultant will develop regular reports on key KPIs related to the system, work with request owners to ensure completion and collect feedback on completed requests. In doing so, the consultant will work closely with communications, community engagement teams, as well as TeamOne Principal Digital Advisors, to share back lessons and incentivize platform use and appropriate knowledge capture. In addition, the TeamOne KM consultant will track and promote the adoption and use of the knowledge assets created.
The job provides office management, budget and human resources support to the PPD Asia Pacific Pillar, one of the 3 PPD geographic pillars alongside Brussels and Washington DC.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
Le/la Consultant/e International/e pilotera l’élaboration d’un Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants au niveau infranational (subnational Children’s Climate Risk Index, CCRI) aux Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le/la Consultant National/e et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. Le consultant finalisera la méthodologie à utiliser aux Comores pour un indice de risque au niveau communal, selon les données déjà disponibles ou collectable à travers le/la consultant/e national/e; assurera un contrôle qualité du travail de collecte de données; analysera les données collectées (les expositions, les aléas, les vulnérabilités et les capacités des enfants, pour chaque commune) et fournira une carte numérique interactive permettant de superposer ces différents facteurs.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant for Teachers Professional Learning 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.
To better understand the drivers of breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among key health providers in maternity wards, home visiting services and breastfeeding counsellors in Serbia, UNICEF seeks the services of a national consultant to conduct an assessment and provide social and behaviour-related support to Health and Early Childhood Development Program at UNICEF Serbia and UNICEF Regional Office in Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) in identifying psychological, social, and environmental factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among health workers in maternity wards and breastfeeding counsellors in the country.
