Under the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Health Programme Group, New York, the consultant will support the Global Health Team in enhancing UNICEF’s digital presence and knowledge management systems through an integrated social media and communications approach.
As part of UNICEF international technical assistance, at the ministry request, and in coordination with EIB UNICEF will support the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine (MinDev) by financing the maintenance of the PMSU. To ensure sustainability of UNICEF’s ongoing system-strengthening support to the water and sanitation sector. The Consultant shall perform functions defined by the Financial Agreement and Project Operations Manual, with due diligence, quality, efficiency and economy in accordance with professional standards. The Head of PMSU is responsible for Project management, coordination, monitoring and control, performing the assigned tasks.
The objective of engaging the consultant within the Programme Management Support Unit (PMSU) is to ensure the implementation of engineering and technical support activities related to the selection of sub-projects, contract execution under the Project, monitoring of the technical performance of contracts, and technical assessment of progress achieved by the final beneficiaries.
The Consultant will support the PMSU Team in carrying out day-to-day operational activities related to the Project, in order to achieve its objectives.
The Consultant will work in close coordination with the PMSU Head and other Consultants engaged or associated with the Project, and will ensure collaborative, systematic, efficient, and high-quality execution of engineering tasks.
The objectives of this assignment for the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant are to support sustainable and robust M&E practices for reporting on Project activities in accordance with the Financial Agreement, the EIB Procurement Guidance, and other applicable EIB and EU Directives as described in this Terms of Reference.
To provide technical support to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in developing a scientifically grounded, gender-responsive, and coherent framework for implementing career guidance in general secondary education through: 1) Conducting a comprehensive desk research on international best practice in school-based career guidance, systems with attention to elimination of gender-based stereotypes in career exploration and providing recommendations for Ukraine. 2) Reviewing and aligning Ukraine’s current legislative and regulatory documents with these practices, ensuring coherence with global standards.
Under the direct supervision of the Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Lead, with overall guidance from the Director of Programmes and in close coordination with the Programme Team at Generation Unlimited (GenU), regional offices, and priority Country Offices, the consultant will provide specialized technical expertise to strengthen GenU’s entrepreneurship incubation pathways. The assignment will focus on designing and operationalizing incubation systems across the Entrepreneurship Portfolio, with particular emphasis on the AI Ventures Accelerator, Community Health Worker (CHW) Entrepreneurship models, and Micro entrepreneurship pathways. This includes developing structured cohort models, crafting technical and business curricula, establishing mentorship and advisory mechanisms, and building follow-on funding and business perks ecosystems that support early-stage ventures from ideation to investment readiness. The consultant will also contribute to harmonizing incubation processes across programs, ensuring entrepreneurs receive consistent, high-quality support regardless of pathway, and will help advance GenU’s broader ambition to build an integrated, scalable entrepreneurship support architecture that is grounded in evidence and adaptable to diverse country contexts
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide graphic design support for the cross-sectoral report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, being led by the Poverty and Gender Equality Team.
The consultant will be responsible for designing and producing the report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, including conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publication, and for ensuring alignment of the report with UNICEF design standards and branding.
This consultancy will provide critical support to an initiative to bridge the gap between the gender equality and Education in Emergencies & Protracted Crises (EiEPC) spaces at global and country level. This will be done by contributing gender in EiEPC expertise to UNGEI’s global platforms and advocacy, as well as to the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), and by supporting UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora.
The Gender and EiEPC Consultant is primarily responsible for four streams of work: i) meaningfully integrate EiEPC in the platforms, forums and movements that UNGEI convenes and leads; ii) include a crisis and resilience lens into the GCI initiative, integrating a crisis component into its political and technical support to countries and strengthening the gender capacity of of EiEPC actors; iii) support the inception phase of the GPE Gender Technical Assistance Initiative in Pakistan and Jordan; and iv) support UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora. The Gender and EiEPC Consultant will be supervised by the GCI Lead. They will work closely with the Programme Manager for Gender Transformative Education, UNGEI Advocacy and Communications Lead and other members of the UNGEI Secretariat, the UNICEF HQ EiE team and the GCI team at IIEP-UNESCO Dakar.
The main function of this role is to provide technical guidance, capacity strengthening, and strategic coordination to NatComs to ensure UNICEF’s mental health programming is coherent, evidence-informed, and responsive to diverse country contexts. Support includes the formulation, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of advocacy and programming strategies related to mental health and child rights in high-income countries, in line with UNICEF’s Programme Guidance for PHICs and the global MHPSS portfolio. This ensures efficient and effective programme management and achievement of goals through advocacy, legal and policy development, and networking. The consultant will also advance multi-sectoral and system-strengthening approaches that promote equitable access to MHPSS, build community and institutional resilience, and improve coordination across UNICEF sectors, offices, and partners.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following areas of work:
• Pilot integrated GBV-CP Primero Instance: Pilot an integrated GBV–CP Primero instance in one country with accompanying documentation and lessons-learnt.
• Country-level Standard Operating Procedures Development: Support the development or revision of national SOPs on data sharing, role-based access, and confidentiality protocols.
• Training and Capacity Building: Train local actors and NGO frontline workers on ethical data collection, consent, case classification, and safe referrals.
• AI for GBV Trends Analysis: Provide technical support and develop guidance on the use of AI for GBV trends analysis to improve the quality of analytical briefs that inform protection programming and government decision-making.
• Interagency GBVIMS Technical Support: Support GBVIMS and Primero/GBVIMS+ Ongoing Rollouts as part of the Interagency GBVIMS Technical Team.
• System Administration: For existing rollouts of Primero/GBVIMS+ the Consultant will act as the System Administrator and provide level 1 troubleshooting support as needed.
• Capacity Building on Primero/GBVIMS+: Provide capacity building on Primero/GBVIMS+ to end users, system administrators, and coordinators.
• Support preparation of technical donor reports for GBVIMS+ activities, including development of case studies, impact metrics, and analytical briefs for key donors.
UNICEF has produced a Pandemic Influenza Planning Guide, which provides a structured approach to enhancing readiness at all organizational levels including Operating Procedures (OPs). Though based on pandemic influenza as an example of a respiratory pathogen, the Guide supports actions beyond respiratory emergencies and draws on UNICEF’s Operational Response Framework (ORF).
Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS) in collaboration with Program Group (PG) and Supply Division (SD) seeks a qualified consultant to design, deliver, and facilitate a 2-part H5N1 simulation exercise (SIMEX) engaging UNICEF across all levels to improve readiness.
To document and synthesize lessons learned from UNICEF–World Bank partnerships in fragile and conflict-affected contexts (FCV), focusing on sustaining primary health care systems. The consultant will produce a learning document and agency-specific notes to guide future strategic, operational, and financial cooperation.
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. The 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.
The More Water More Life (MWML) programme (2018–2025) introduced an innovative approach to deep groundwater exploration using remote sensing and overlay analysis to identify deep groundwater resources, producing groundwater suitability maps—offering a cost-effective and efficient way to enhance groundwater access in vulnerable areas.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by defining, outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the approach to ground water mapping further by supporting multi-country and multi-region scale of adoption where appropriate. The scaling pathway is a structured approach that outlines the steps, strategies, and choices for expanding a proven innovation so it can reach a larger population and achieve sustainable impact over time.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive consultant. The consultancy is for a period of 200 days over 24 months and is a home-based consultancy assignment with a minimum of one visit each to Kiribati, Vanuatu and FSM for the entire duration of the assignment. The consultant will provide specialized technical expertise in assistive technology procurement, logistics, and supply chain systems playing a critical role in bridging gaps in Assistive Technology (AT) systems in three Pacific countries (Kiribati, Vanuatu and FSM). As well as ensuring the successful implementation of the ATscale programme and supporting PIC governments to achieve long-term sustainability and ownership of AT procurement and supply chain systems. Day-to-day monitoring and supervision of the consultant will be provided by the Procurement Services Specialist at the UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, with overall guidance and supervision from the Chief of Health and Nutrition Unit. The consultant is expected to commence work on 15 January 2026.
The Digital Engagement and Protection unit at UNICEF Innocenti conducts rigorous research to strengthen the evidence base around how digital transformation affects children’s lives. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to research design, implementation, and data analysis and to provide expert technical services related to quantitative and mixed-methods research activities. Individual consultants on the Long-Term Agreement (LTA) may be called upon to provide services in one or several of the following four areas: (1) Research conceptualisation and design; (2) Implementation and oversight of data collection activities; (3) Data cleaning, analysis and write-up; (4) Dissemination and engagement.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti generates rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to strengthen education programmes and systems. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to the design, implementation, and analysis of education research activities.
UNICEF and Ipea are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the direct costs of VAC in Brazil, contributing to the broader analysis of the economic cost of VAC being conducted by UNICEF and IPEA to support evidence-based public policy formulation.
UNICEF and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the prevalence of VAC in Brazil and the loss of productivity over the life cycle of individuals who experienced violence during childhood and adolescence, as an indirect tangible cost, in order to subsidize the estimation of the economic cost of VAC in Brazil conducted by the UNICEF and the Ipea to support evidence-based policy formulation.
To develop a concise, high-impact policy brief for UNICEF, governments, and partners that:
• Summarizes a compelling rationale for prioritizing specific vulnerable populations for VAS delivery;
• Presents a framework for how to identify and target prioritized groups using available data (e.g., maternal characteristics, geographic disparities, zero-dose status, etc.);
• Offers actionable policy and programming recommendations for ministries of health and implementing partners based on established ways to target prioritized children;
• Is aligned with UNICEF’s equity-driven approach and broader efforts to reach zero-dose and underserved populations.
The purpose of the assignment is for EOF Programme staff to have gained insights, knowledge and understanding on public financial management and budgetary processes that are typical in resource constrained African countries; as well as skills in thinking and working politically for engaging with government institutions and actors on resource allocation questions.
Under the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Health Programme Group, New York, the consultant will support the Global Health Team in enhancing UNICEF’s digital presence and knowledge management systems through an integrated social media and communications approach.
As part of UNICEF international technical assistance, at the ministry request, and in coordination with EIB UNICEF will support the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine (MinDev) by financing the maintenance of the PMSU. To ensure sustainability of UNICEF’s ongoing system-strengthening support to the water and sanitation sector. The Consultant shall perform functions defined by the Financial Agreement and Project Operations Manual, with due diligence, quality, efficiency and economy in accordance with professional standards. The Head of PMSU is responsible for Project management, coordination, monitoring and control, performing the assigned tasks.
The objective of engaging the consultant within the Programme Management Support Unit (PMSU) is to ensure the implementation of engineering and technical support activities related to the selection of sub-projects, contract execution under the Project, monitoring of the technical performance of contracts, and technical assessment of progress achieved by the final beneficiaries.
The Consultant will support the PMSU Team in carrying out day-to-day operational activities related to the Project, in order to achieve its objectives.
The Consultant will work in close coordination with the PMSU Head and other Consultants engaged or associated with the Project, and will ensure collaborative, systematic, efficient, and high-quality execution of engineering tasks.
The objectives of this assignment for the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant are to support sustainable and robust M&E practices for reporting on Project activities in accordance with the Financial Agreement, the EIB Procurement Guidance, and other applicable EIB and EU Directives as described in this Terms of Reference.
To provide technical support to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in developing a scientifically grounded, gender-responsive, and coherent framework for implementing career guidance in general secondary education through: 1) Conducting a comprehensive desk research on international best practice in school-based career guidance, systems with attention to elimination of gender-based stereotypes in career exploration and providing recommendations for Ukraine. 2) Reviewing and aligning Ukraine’s current legislative and regulatory documents with these practices, ensuring coherence with global standards.
Under the direct supervision of the Youth Engagement and Entrepreneurship Lead, with overall guidance from the Director of Programmes and in close coordination with the Programme Team at Generation Unlimited (GenU), regional offices, and priority Country Offices, the consultant will provide specialized technical expertise to strengthen GenU’s entrepreneurship incubation pathways. The assignment will focus on designing and operationalizing incubation systems across the Entrepreneurship Portfolio, with particular emphasis on the AI Ventures Accelerator, Community Health Worker (CHW) Entrepreneurship models, and Micro entrepreneurship pathways. This includes developing structured cohort models, crafting technical and business curricula, establishing mentorship and advisory mechanisms, and building follow-on funding and business perks ecosystems that support early-stage ventures from ideation to investment readiness. The consultant will also contribute to harmonizing incubation processes across programs, ensuring entrepreneurs receive consistent, high-quality support regardless of pathway, and will help advance GenU’s broader ambition to build an integrated, scalable entrepreneurship support architecture that is grounded in evidence and adaptable to diverse country contexts
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide graphic design support for the cross-sectoral report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, being led by the Poverty and Gender Equality Team.
The consultant will be responsible for designing and producing the report, For Every Child a Fair Future 2025 Progress Report, including conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publication, and for ensuring alignment of the report with UNICEF design standards and branding.
This consultancy will provide critical support to an initiative to bridge the gap between the gender equality and Education in Emergencies & Protracted Crises (EiEPC) spaces at global and country level. This will be done by contributing gender in EiEPC expertise to UNGEI’s global platforms and advocacy, as well as to the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), and by supporting UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora.
The Gender and EiEPC Consultant is primarily responsible for four streams of work: i) meaningfully integrate EiEPC in the platforms, forums and movements that UNGEI convenes and leads; ii) include a crisis and resilience lens into the GCI initiative, integrating a crisis component into its political and technical support to countries and strengthening the gender capacity of of EiEPC actors; iii) support the inception phase of the GPE Gender Technical Assistance Initiative in Pakistan and Jordan; and iv) support UNGEI’s advisory roles in various fora. The Gender and EiEPC Consultant will be supervised by the GCI Lead. They will work closely with the Programme Manager for Gender Transformative Education, UNGEI Advocacy and Communications Lead and other members of the UNGEI Secretariat, the UNICEF HQ EiE team and the GCI team at IIEP-UNESCO Dakar.
The main function of this role is to provide technical guidance, capacity strengthening, and strategic coordination to NatComs to ensure UNICEF’s mental health programming is coherent, evidence-informed, and responsive to diverse country contexts. Support includes the formulation, design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of advocacy and programming strategies related to mental health and child rights in high-income countries, in line with UNICEF’s Programme Guidance for PHICs and the global MHPSS portfolio. This ensures efficient and effective programme management and achievement of goals through advocacy, legal and policy development, and networking. The consultant will also advance multi-sectoral and system-strengthening approaches that promote equitable access to MHPSS, build community and institutional resilience, and improve coordination across UNICEF sectors, offices, and partners.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following areas of work:
• Pilot integrated GBV-CP Primero Instance: Pilot an integrated GBV–CP Primero instance in one country with accompanying documentation and lessons-learnt.
• Country-level Standard Operating Procedures Development: Support the development or revision of national SOPs on data sharing, role-based access, and confidentiality protocols.
• Training and Capacity Building: Train local actors and NGO frontline workers on ethical data collection, consent, case classification, and safe referrals.
• AI for GBV Trends Analysis: Provide technical support and develop guidance on the use of AI for GBV trends analysis to improve the quality of analytical briefs that inform protection programming and government decision-making.
• Interagency GBVIMS Technical Support: Support GBVIMS and Primero/GBVIMS+ Ongoing Rollouts as part of the Interagency GBVIMS Technical Team.
• System Administration: For existing rollouts of Primero/GBVIMS+ the Consultant will act as the System Administrator and provide level 1 troubleshooting support as needed.
• Capacity Building on Primero/GBVIMS+: Provide capacity building on Primero/GBVIMS+ to end users, system administrators, and coordinators.
• Support preparation of technical donor reports for GBVIMS+ activities, including development of case studies, impact metrics, and analytical briefs for key donors.
UNICEF has produced a Pandemic Influenza Planning Guide, which provides a structured approach to enhancing readiness at all organizational levels including Operating Procedures (OPs). Though based on pandemic influenza as an example of a respiratory pathogen, the Guide supports actions beyond respiratory emergencies and draws on UNICEF’s Operational Response Framework (ORF).
Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS) in collaboration with Program Group (PG) and Supply Division (SD) seeks a qualified consultant to design, deliver, and facilitate a 2-part H5N1 simulation exercise (SIMEX) engaging UNICEF across all levels to improve readiness.
To document and synthesize lessons learned from UNICEF–World Bank partnerships in fragile and conflict-affected contexts (FCV), focusing on sustaining primary health care systems. The consultant will produce a learning document and agency-specific notes to guide future strategic, operational, and financial cooperation.
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. The 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.
The More Water More Life (MWML) programme (2018–2025) introduced an innovative approach to deep groundwater exploration using remote sensing and overlay analysis to identify deep groundwater resources, producing groundwater suitability maps—offering a cost-effective and efficient way to enhance groundwater access in vulnerable areas.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by defining, outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the approach to ground water mapping further by supporting multi-country and multi-region scale of adoption where appropriate. The scaling pathway is a structured approach that outlines the steps, strategies, and choices for expanding a proven innovation so it can reach a larger population and achieve sustainable impact over time.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive consultant. The consultancy is for a period of 200 days over 24 months and is a home-based consultancy assignment with a minimum of one visit each to Kiribati, Vanuatu and FSM for the entire duration of the assignment. The consultant will provide specialized technical expertise in assistive technology procurement, logistics, and supply chain systems playing a critical role in bridging gaps in Assistive Technology (AT) systems in three Pacific countries (Kiribati, Vanuatu and FSM). As well as ensuring the successful implementation of the ATscale programme and supporting PIC governments to achieve long-term sustainability and ownership of AT procurement and supply chain systems. Day-to-day monitoring and supervision of the consultant will be provided by the Procurement Services Specialist at the UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, with overall guidance and supervision from the Chief of Health and Nutrition Unit. The consultant is expected to commence work on 15 January 2026.
The Digital Engagement and Protection unit at UNICEF Innocenti conducts rigorous research to strengthen the evidence base around how digital transformation affects children’s lives. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to research design, implementation, and data analysis and to provide expert technical services related to quantitative and mixed-methods research activities. Individual consultants on the Long-Term Agreement (LTA) may be called upon to provide services in one or several of the following four areas: (1) Research conceptualisation and design; (2) Implementation and oversight of data collection activities; (3) Data cleaning, analysis and write-up; (4) Dissemination and engagement.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti generates rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to strengthen education programmes and systems. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to the design, implementation, and analysis of education research activities.
UNICEF and Ipea are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the direct costs of VAC in Brazil, contributing to the broader analysis of the economic cost of VAC being conducted by UNICEF and IPEA to support evidence-based public policy formulation.
UNICEF and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the prevalence of VAC in Brazil and the loss of productivity over the life cycle of individuals who experienced violence during childhood and adolescence, as an indirect tangible cost, in order to subsidize the estimation of the economic cost of VAC in Brazil conducted by the UNICEF and the Ipea to support evidence-based policy formulation.
To develop a concise, high-impact policy brief for UNICEF, governments, and partners that:
• Summarizes a compelling rationale for prioritizing specific vulnerable populations for VAS delivery;
• Presents a framework for how to identify and target prioritized groups using available data (e.g., maternal characteristics, geographic disparities, zero-dose status, etc.);
• Offers actionable policy and programming recommendations for ministries of health and implementing partners based on established ways to target prioritized children;
• Is aligned with UNICEF’s equity-driven approach and broader efforts to reach zero-dose and underserved populations.
The purpose of the assignment is for EOF Programme staff to have gained insights, knowledge and understanding on public financial management and budgetary processes that are typical in resource constrained African countries; as well as skills in thinking and working politically for engaging with government institutions and actors on resource allocation questions.
