UNICEF Bhutan invites proposals from eligible national consultants to conduct a study to examine behavioral, socio-economic, and cultural factors influencing vaccine acceptance and uptake in Bhutan.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the smooth, timely, and accurate web publishing and management of the 2026 Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals and related revisions in preparation for the Global HAC launch in December 2025, and throughout the 2026 cycle. The consultant will be responsible for end-to-end management of publishing approximately 45 standalone appeals, including updating infographics, live web pages, and static PDFs, creating live pages for new 2026 appeals, archiving previous year’s content, and updating the UNICEF HAC webpage components such as visuals, introductions, and navigational elements. Additionally, the consultant will support publishing of the revised HAC appeals throughout 2026 for an estimated 30 appeals as humanitarian requirements and interagency plans evolve, ensuring the UNICEF HAC webpage remains updated effectively.
The purpose of this role is to coordinate and support demand for Technology for Development programmatic support. UNICEF Programmes increasingly leverage digital means for effective programme delivery, systems strengthening and monitoring. The T4D Specialist will work with programme teams in the identification, assessment and integration of ICTs and digital innovation into UNICEF programming; strengthening internal capacity to lead and support T4D related initiatives; identifying and engaging with key partners; building business relationships; applying reusable and replicable technical buildings blocks; and maximizing the potential for the scale-up and sustainability of technology and digital innovation for UNICEF programming.
The T4D Specialist, 130121, NOC, works closely with Programme staff and in close liaison with Regional Office ICT and T4D teams, and the central ICT Division where applicable. The T4D Specialist may supervise local staff members or oversee the work of consultants.
This consultancy will directly contribute to the CoE’s Results & Learning function during its establishment phase. The consultant will capture, package, and disseminate results, lessons learned, and innovations from UNICEF’s climate resilience, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction work—highlighting child-specific outcomes and policy impact. This includes producing high-quality, results-focused knowledge products that inform policy reform, strengthen workforce capacity, support financing proposals, and enhance advocacy to scale up effective interventions.
Working in close collaboration with thematic leads, regional offices, country offices, and the Strategic Content Consultant, the consultant will also help build staff and partner capacity to document and communicate evidence in ways that drive action and resource mobilisation.
UNICEF is looking for a consultant to support the assessment of the forecasting and supply planning processes in Tajikistan, and at the same time help the country strengthen the forecasting and supply planning processes for vaccines and other immunization supplies. The consultant will use the UNICEF forecasting and supply planning assessment tool to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement and based on the findings help the country finalize the comprehensive and agreed improvement plan and long-term improvement roadmap for forecasting and supply planning strengthening in Tajikistan. The consultant will also implement specific/identified improvement plan activities. These could be helping to set up a forecasting and supply planning team, training of team members, supporting the identification of methodology and assumptions and designing key performance indicators to monitor forecasting and supply planning performance. The specific activities could be adapted based on the assessment findings.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Mozambique in developing comprehensive training modules and supporting documents in line with the updated national guidelines on the management of child acute malnutrition and nutritional oedema. These materials will be used to train health professionals and ensure the proper implementation of the revised protocols. Once the training modules and supporting documents are completed and approved by the Ministry of Health, the consultant will liaise with the relevant academic institutions in the country to ensure that the new materials are integrated in the academic curriculum of Health and Nutrition courses.
The consultant will work closely with the Nutrition Department and the extended PRN Technical Group (GT-PRN) to ensure alignment with national health strategies and international standards, particularly the updated 2023 WHO guidelines.
In addition, during the review of the PRN national guidelines the national consultant will be responsible for pre-testing the instruments, materials and job aids and conduct the review of the M&E and logistics chapters of the PRN guidelines. The pre-testing of materials will take place in selected health facilities in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambezia, Sofala and Maputo.
The UNICEF Libya Country Office is seeking a dynamic, results-driven, and experienced Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Social Policy Specialist to lead the combined PME and Social Policy Section. Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative – Programmes, the incumbent will be responsible for ensuring that the Country Office maintains a high-quality, results-based sector programme and an up-to-date country programme aligned with the Country Programme Document and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan.
Somalia has faced long-standing conflicts, political instability, and insecurity, compounded by droughts, floods, and food shortages. These factors have significantly impacted the health of the population and severely disrupted Somalia’s delicate healthcare system, leading to some of the poorest health outcomes for mothers and children worldwide.
The leading causes of under-five mortality are pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles, and malnutrition, with pneumonia and diarrhoea alone claiming 21% and 18-20% of under-five deaths, respectively, while the leading causes of maternal mortality are postpartum haemorrhage and hypertension disorders.
The Somali Federal Ministry of Health, acknowledging that despite significant improvements in health outcomes for women, children, and adolescents over recent decades, progress has stalled. The trend is further exacerbated by worsening rates of malnutrition, poor water supply, sanitation and hygiene, low health literacy for young people, and the impacts of conflict, climate change, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as well as other social determinants of health. These have impeded efforts to fulfil relevant commitments made to advance the objectives and targets of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) and the related road maps.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a motivated, experienced and dynamic Programme Specialist, P3 level to join its Maputo Office. The incumbent is responsible for supporting the Representative, Deputy Representatives and wider team in implementing and following up on key strategic priorities of the Country Office and the Country Management Team; coordinating, managing and planning activities in a systematic and organized manner; leading knowledge management and internal communications; supporting risk management; and managing an effective system for developing SOPs, key documents, decision memos and managing incoming and outgoing information. If you meet the requirements and you are passionate about making a difference, we highly encourage you to apply.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant for Risk-Based Water Safety Planning.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified National Consultant to support Education and Cesty programmes, who will provide technical and coordination support to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MOEYS) and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) of the Czech Republic in implementing the refugee response workplans signed between UNICEF and the ministries (MOEYS, MOI).
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is looking for and administrative assistant who will be responsible for executing a broad variety of administrative, programme and logistical support functions for the respective section and more broadly to the Innocenti-GORaF.
The consultant will provide dedicated technical assistance to the UNICEF Tanzania health team to enable and realize submission and publishing of twelve (12) manuscripts based on already collected, and in the majority of cases already analyzed, data from 2020 to 2024. All work will be done in close collaboration with the UNICEF team and other stakeholders who have been involved in the research. In some cases, draft manuscripts are already available but need additional work to be readied for submission. The consultant will additionally provide a quality assurance function for ongoing studies through review of protocols and reports.
To support MOPSE and the Presidential Methodological Center for development of education reform in the development of the legislative framework, an action plan and guidelines to facilitate coherent, structured and sustainable reform in learning assessment including unified school exams and entrance to university exams, based on and in full alignment with National Curriculum Framework (NCF).
This consultancy is to document the implementation of Phase 2 of the Joint Programme, focusing on: (a) the outputs and short-term results achieved during the period August 2024 – January 2026, (b) implementation experiences and good practices, and (c) lessons learned from applying inclusive, gender-responsive, and rights-based approaches.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a committed and experienced Child Protection Specialist for a temporary appointment position with the Solomon Islands Field Office in Honiara.
Under the supervision of the Chief Field Office in Honiara, and with technical guidance from the Chief of Child Protection in Suva, the Specialist will lead the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of child protection programmes in the Solomon Islands. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape a multi-dimensional programme, including:
• Strengthening national child protection systems
• Advancing community-based approaches in remote areas
• Leading emergency response efforts, particularly those related to climate change
The Specialist will serve as the programme lead, working directly with the relevant Government line ministry at the national level, and will also supervise UNICEF national child protection staff. If you're passionate about protecting children and driving meaningful change in the Pacific, we encourage you to apply.
The main purpose of the assignment is to provide technical support in organizing First Food concertation Workshop and in developing a multisectoral budgeted plan, aiming at improving children’s diets through a multi-system approach in alignment with the Global Nutrition Strategy 2020-2030 as well as with the complementary feeding frameworks for action taking into consideration the national context.
This consultancy will manage the Centre’s day-to-day KM functions during the transition phase, helping to design, organise, and operationalise systems that capture, store, and share knowledge across all functional areas. The consultant will work closely with the Strategic Content Consultant and thematic leads to identify, curate, and package high-value content—particularly from country office annual reports and other corporate processes—for use in global reporting, knowledge products, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
By connecting with KM focal points across divisions, satellite teams, and country offices, the consultant will ensure a steady flow of high-quality, accessible knowledge products that position UNICEF as the global leader in child-sensitive climate resilience and enable the replication and scaling of successful interventions worldwide.
UNICEF Bhutan invites proposals from eligible national consultants to conduct a study to examine behavioral, socio-economic, and cultural factors influencing vaccine acceptance and uptake in Bhutan.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the smooth, timely, and accurate web publishing and management of the 2026 Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals and related revisions in preparation for the Global HAC launch in December 2025, and throughout the 2026 cycle. The consultant will be responsible for end-to-end management of publishing approximately 45 standalone appeals, including updating infographics, live web pages, and static PDFs, creating live pages for new 2026 appeals, archiving previous year’s content, and updating the UNICEF HAC webpage components such as visuals, introductions, and navigational elements. Additionally, the consultant will support publishing of the revised HAC appeals throughout 2026 for an estimated 30 appeals as humanitarian requirements and interagency plans evolve, ensuring the UNICEF HAC webpage remains updated effectively.
The purpose of this role is to coordinate and support demand for Technology for Development programmatic support. UNICEF Programmes increasingly leverage digital means for effective programme delivery, systems strengthening and monitoring. The T4D Specialist will work with programme teams in the identification, assessment and integration of ICTs and digital innovation into UNICEF programming; strengthening internal capacity to lead and support T4D related initiatives; identifying and engaging with key partners; building business relationships; applying reusable and replicable technical buildings blocks; and maximizing the potential for the scale-up and sustainability of technology and digital innovation for UNICEF programming.
The T4D Specialist, 130121, NOC, works closely with Programme staff and in close liaison with Regional Office ICT and T4D teams, and the central ICT Division where applicable. The T4D Specialist may supervise local staff members or oversee the work of consultants.
This consultancy will directly contribute to the CoE’s Results & Learning function during its establishment phase. The consultant will capture, package, and disseminate results, lessons learned, and innovations from UNICEF’s climate resilience, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction work—highlighting child-specific outcomes and policy impact. This includes producing high-quality, results-focused knowledge products that inform policy reform, strengthen workforce capacity, support financing proposals, and enhance advocacy to scale up effective interventions.
Working in close collaboration with thematic leads, regional offices, country offices, and the Strategic Content Consultant, the consultant will also help build staff and partner capacity to document and communicate evidence in ways that drive action and resource mobilisation.
UNICEF is looking for a consultant to support the assessment of the forecasting and supply planning processes in Tajikistan, and at the same time help the country strengthen the forecasting and supply planning processes for vaccines and other immunization supplies. The consultant will use the UNICEF forecasting and supply planning assessment tool to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement and based on the findings help the country finalize the comprehensive and agreed improvement plan and long-term improvement roadmap for forecasting and supply planning strengthening in Tajikistan. The consultant will also implement specific/identified improvement plan activities. These could be helping to set up a forecasting and supply planning team, training of team members, supporting the identification of methodology and assumptions and designing key performance indicators to monitor forecasting and supply planning performance. The specific activities could be adapted based on the assessment findings.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Mozambique in developing comprehensive training modules and supporting documents in line with the updated national guidelines on the management of child acute malnutrition and nutritional oedema. These materials will be used to train health professionals and ensure the proper implementation of the revised protocols. Once the training modules and supporting documents are completed and approved by the Ministry of Health, the consultant will liaise with the relevant academic institutions in the country to ensure that the new materials are integrated in the academic curriculum of Health and Nutrition courses.
The consultant will work closely with the Nutrition Department and the extended PRN Technical Group (GT-PRN) to ensure alignment with national health strategies and international standards, particularly the updated 2023 WHO guidelines.
In addition, during the review of the PRN national guidelines the national consultant will be responsible for pre-testing the instruments, materials and job aids and conduct the review of the M&E and logistics chapters of the PRN guidelines. The pre-testing of materials will take place in selected health facilities in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambezia, Sofala and Maputo.
The UNICEF Libya Country Office is seeking a dynamic, results-driven, and experienced Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Social Policy Specialist to lead the combined PME and Social Policy Section. Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative – Programmes, the incumbent will be responsible for ensuring that the Country Office maintains a high-quality, results-based sector programme and an up-to-date country programme aligned with the Country Programme Document and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan.
Somalia has faced long-standing conflicts, political instability, and insecurity, compounded by droughts, floods, and food shortages. These factors have significantly impacted the health of the population and severely disrupted Somalia’s delicate healthcare system, leading to some of the poorest health outcomes for mothers and children worldwide.
The leading causes of under-five mortality are pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles, and malnutrition, with pneumonia and diarrhoea alone claiming 21% and 18-20% of under-five deaths, respectively, while the leading causes of maternal mortality are postpartum haemorrhage and hypertension disorders.
The Somali Federal Ministry of Health, acknowledging that despite significant improvements in health outcomes for women, children, and adolescents over recent decades, progress has stalled. The trend is further exacerbated by worsening rates of malnutrition, poor water supply, sanitation and hygiene, low health literacy for young people, and the impacts of conflict, climate change, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as well as other social determinants of health. These have impeded efforts to fulfil relevant commitments made to advance the objectives and targets of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) and the related road maps.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a motivated, experienced and dynamic Programme Specialist, P3 level to join its Maputo Office. The incumbent is responsible for supporting the Representative, Deputy Representatives and wider team in implementing and following up on key strategic priorities of the Country Office and the Country Management Team; coordinating, managing and planning activities in a systematic and organized manner; leading knowledge management and internal communications; supporting risk management; and managing an effective system for developing SOPs, key documents, decision memos and managing incoming and outgoing information. If you meet the requirements and you are passionate about making a difference, we highly encourage you to apply.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant for Risk-Based Water Safety Planning.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified National Consultant to support Education and Cesty programmes, who will provide technical and coordination support to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MOEYS) and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) of the Czech Republic in implementing the refugee response workplans signed between UNICEF and the ministries (MOEYS, MOI).
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is looking for and administrative assistant who will be responsible for executing a broad variety of administrative, programme and logistical support functions for the respective section and more broadly to the Innocenti-GORaF.
The consultant will provide dedicated technical assistance to the UNICEF Tanzania health team to enable and realize submission and publishing of twelve (12) manuscripts based on already collected, and in the majority of cases already analyzed, data from 2020 to 2024. All work will be done in close collaboration with the UNICEF team and other stakeholders who have been involved in the research. In some cases, draft manuscripts are already available but need additional work to be readied for submission. The consultant will additionally provide a quality assurance function for ongoing studies through review of protocols and reports.
To support MOPSE and the Presidential Methodological Center for development of education reform in the development of the legislative framework, an action plan and guidelines to facilitate coherent, structured and sustainable reform in learning assessment including unified school exams and entrance to university exams, based on and in full alignment with National Curriculum Framework (NCF).
This consultancy is to document the implementation of Phase 2 of the Joint Programme, focusing on: (a) the outputs and short-term results achieved during the period August 2024 – January 2026, (b) implementation experiences and good practices, and (c) lessons learned from applying inclusive, gender-responsive, and rights-based approaches.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a committed and experienced Child Protection Specialist for a temporary appointment position with the Solomon Islands Field Office in Honiara.
Under the supervision of the Chief Field Office in Honiara, and with technical guidance from the Chief of Child Protection in Suva, the Specialist will lead the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of child protection programmes in the Solomon Islands. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape a multi-dimensional programme, including:
• Strengthening national child protection systems
• Advancing community-based approaches in remote areas
• Leading emergency response efforts, particularly those related to climate change
The Specialist will serve as the programme lead, working directly with the relevant Government line ministry at the national level, and will also supervise UNICEF national child protection staff. If you're passionate about protecting children and driving meaningful change in the Pacific, we encourage you to apply.
The main purpose of the assignment is to provide technical support in organizing First Food concertation Workshop and in developing a multisectoral budgeted plan, aiming at improving children’s diets through a multi-system approach in alignment with the Global Nutrition Strategy 2020-2030 as well as with the complementary feeding frameworks for action taking into consideration the national context.
This consultancy will manage the Centre’s day-to-day KM functions during the transition phase, helping to design, organise, and operationalise systems that capture, store, and share knowledge across all functional areas. The consultant will work closely with the Strategic Content Consultant and thematic leads to identify, curate, and package high-value content—particularly from country office annual reports and other corporate processes—for use in global reporting, knowledge products, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
By connecting with KM focal points across divisions, satellite teams, and country offices, the consultant will ensure a steady flow of high-quality, accessible knowledge products that position UNICEF as the global leader in child-sensitive climate resilience and enable the replication and scaling of successful interventions worldwide.
