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.
The purpose of the assignment is to support UNICEF Ukraine Country Office in transitioning the diversion to services model for adolescents in alleged conflict with the law from a conceptual and design stage to initial piloting across a number of selected Oblasts. The consultant will be expected to use the established legal, institutional and methodological basis to support with planning out and implementing the diversion to services mechanism by introducing practical tools, SoPs and procedures for consistent application across selected pilot sites. The consultant’s work will include facilitating discussions across key stakeholders, development of policy documents, strategies, operational plans and protocols for coordinated implementation. The key purpose of the consultancy is to facilitate preparation and stress-testing of the model prior to its pilot implementation; to ensure implementation of legally sound, robust and feasible model, which is based on relevant international standards, practices of other states and is child-centered. The consultant will aim to strengthen inter-agency cooperation and agency-level capabilities for fast, effective and quality decision-making in line with the diversion trajectory. Finally, the consultant will strengthen human and institutional capabilities of UNICEF’s implementing partner to plan, implement, assess the impact and expand the diversion mechanism. The ultimate purpose of the assignment is to ensure that diversion to services model is operational and scalable across Ukraine to be available to all children in alleged conflict with the law.
Provide technical guidance to the UNICEF Cameroon Country Office in supporting government counterparts to strengthen national Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Health Care Facilities (WiH) monitoring systems, including the integration and use of WASH FIT indicators, data collection and reporting tools, quality assurance mechanisms, and evidence-based monitoring processes to improve service delivery and accountability.
As part of the Kosovo Programme 2026–2030, UNICEF supports Kosovo institutions to strengthen policy optimization at the central level and include child-related indicators in the Municipal Performance Grant system, ensuring that child rights are at the center of decision-making and investments. The consultant will identify gaps and opportunities and propose a set of measurable, feasible and evidence-based indicators that better capture municipal contributions to child well-being and support the realization of child rights.
UNICEF is seeking to engage a National Individual Consultant who will provide essential technical expertise and grant management support for the execution of key public health emergency programs.
To support the design and implementation of these hard component interventions, UNICEF requires a qualified technical consultant to undertake facility assessments, carry out community and stakeholder consultations, prepare construction related documentation, and advise on suitable implementation modalities.
The purpose of this consultancy is to review and adapt UNICEF’s existing AI Risk Assessment Framework into a practical, operational approach that can be applied by government officials when evaluating AI applications in health contexts. This includes development of a user-oriented assessment tool, risk classification methodology, and accompanying governance guidance that links identified risks to mitigation and decision-making processes.
UNICEF, jointly with UNDP, and in partnership with the Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MoPSE) of Uzbekistan, is implementing Vision 2030 project for Modelling climate resilience and WASH in 50 schools in Uzbekistan. Its key priorities are enhancing access of children and adolescents in the most affected schools to equitable, inclusive, and climate-resilient learning environments and enhance the education system to better plan, deliver, and maintain school environments. For the implementation of the planned activities, UNICEF is seeking the services of a local consultant to support timely accomplishment of interventions, including but not limited to liaison with national partners and subject experts, coordinating the collaboration with relevant stakeholders, external vendors, and to perform a quality control and overall coordination of envisaged SBC solutions.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support to Programme Specialist/Social Sector and Child
Protection Section in the design, implementation, and monitoring of planned and ongoing programme interventions
as well as to draft and provide inputs to fundraising project proposals in programme areas related to Inclusive
Education, Social-Emotional and Digital Skills, STEM for Girls, Career Pathways for Children with Disabilities, Education
in Emergencies under the Resilient Future Generation outcome, and related to Deinstitutionalization and Prevention
of Institutionalization under the Supportive Family Environment and Protection from Violence outcome of the UNICEF Country Programme for 2026-2030 (CPD). The consultancy will contribute to the national education agenda ensuring future sustainable development of Belarussian society.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
DGCA - Website, Editorial and Governance Section is seeking a consultant on Digital Governance Operations for 9 months remotely. The consultant will focus on operational delivery, stakeholder coordination, and implementation tracking, following up on deliverables, and supporting the rollout and adoption of the Web Content Lifecycle and Web Archiving initiatives across the organization.
The Partner Recognition and Impact team in the Private Sector Communication and Engagement Section at UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnership (PFP) Division is seeking to establish a roster of highly skilled, experienced, and strategic communication professional to contribute to a diverse range of partnership communication activities.
This role will require to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the three Resource Centres for Children with Disabilities and their role in supporting inclusive education in Montenegro and early intervention services.
UNICEF seeks the services of a seasoned international consultant with demonstrated expertise in youth social innovation, entrepreneurship programming, and the UPSHIFT methodology to support UNICEF ZCO in contextualizing and rolling out the UPSHIFT Entrepreneurship Programme for Youth Community Health Workers in Zimbabwe.
Under the direct supervision of the Education Officer and in collaboration with the Education Specialist , the consultant is responsible for providing technical support in the implementation of the Akelius initiative, contributing to a quality scaleup in 31 additional schools (further to the 17 existing ones) in Una-Sana Canton by ensuring technical support to key partners (schools, teacher training institute and education ministry), providing monitoring of activities within schools, monitoring of equipment, feedback collection and knowledge exchange between different administrative units and schools and regular reporting of these activities and serving as a technical resource person for schools and partners.
To deliver in-person Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) training sessions in parallel locations across Uzbekistan, using the standardized training package developed and to support learning assessment, feedback collection, and reporting.
The purpose of this assignment is to undertake a comprehensive seven-month desk-based analytical study on the financing of the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) programme across national and subnational levels. MBG is a flagship priority of the Government of Indonesia, currently predominantly financed and implemented at the national level. At the national level, the assignment will focus on analyzing the financing of MBG within the State Budget (APBN), including budget allocations, expenditure trends, and the composition of spending. The analysis will assess the adequacy, efficiency, and fiscal sustainability of current financing arrangements, and identify opportunities to strengthen budget performance and support informed decision-making on the programme’s scale-up and long-term viability. This will also include an assessment of fiscal incentive mechanisms and frameworks—particularly those related to stunting reduction— to assess their alignment with and potential contribution to MBG objectives.
UNICEF has been implementing various programmes, including Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), school nutrition initiatives, and communication campaigns to encourage behaviour change towards healthier diets. In addition, UNICEF is working to improve food environments, such as promoting the application of the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) in retailers, cities, and schools to prevent childhood overweight.
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.
The purpose of the assignment is to support UNICEF Ukraine Country Office in transitioning the diversion to services model for adolescents in alleged conflict with the law from a conceptual and design stage to initial piloting across a number of selected Oblasts. The consultant will be expected to use the established legal, institutional and methodological basis to support with planning out and implementing the diversion to services mechanism by introducing practical tools, SoPs and procedures for consistent application across selected pilot sites. The consultant’s work will include facilitating discussions across key stakeholders, development of policy documents, strategies, operational plans and protocols for coordinated implementation. The key purpose of the consultancy is to facilitate preparation and stress-testing of the model prior to its pilot implementation; to ensure implementation of legally sound, robust and feasible model, which is based on relevant international standards, practices of other states and is child-centered. The consultant will aim to strengthen inter-agency cooperation and agency-level capabilities for fast, effective and quality decision-making in line with the diversion trajectory. Finally, the consultant will strengthen human and institutional capabilities of UNICEF’s implementing partner to plan, implement, assess the impact and expand the diversion mechanism. The ultimate purpose of the assignment is to ensure that diversion to services model is operational and scalable across Ukraine to be available to all children in alleged conflict with the law.
Provide technical guidance to the UNICEF Cameroon Country Office in supporting government counterparts to strengthen national Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Health Care Facilities (WiH) monitoring systems, including the integration and use of WASH FIT indicators, data collection and reporting tools, quality assurance mechanisms, and evidence-based monitoring processes to improve service delivery and accountability.
As part of the Kosovo Programme 2026–2030, UNICEF supports Kosovo institutions to strengthen policy optimization at the central level and include child-related indicators in the Municipal Performance Grant system, ensuring that child rights are at the center of decision-making and investments. The consultant will identify gaps and opportunities and propose a set of measurable, feasible and evidence-based indicators that better capture municipal contributions to child well-being and support the realization of child rights.
UNICEF is seeking to engage a National Individual Consultant who will provide essential technical expertise and grant management support for the execution of key public health emergency programs.
To support the design and implementation of these hard component interventions, UNICEF requires a qualified technical consultant to undertake facility assessments, carry out community and stakeholder consultations, prepare construction related documentation, and advise on suitable implementation modalities.
The purpose of this consultancy is to review and adapt UNICEF’s existing AI Risk Assessment Framework into a practical, operational approach that can be applied by government officials when evaluating AI applications in health contexts. This includes development of a user-oriented assessment tool, risk classification methodology, and accompanying governance guidance that links identified risks to mitigation and decision-making processes.
UNICEF, jointly with UNDP, and in partnership with the Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MoPSE) of Uzbekistan, is implementing Vision 2030 project for Modelling climate resilience and WASH in 50 schools in Uzbekistan. Its key priorities are enhancing access of children and adolescents in the most affected schools to equitable, inclusive, and climate-resilient learning environments and enhance the education system to better plan, deliver, and maintain school environments. For the implementation of the planned activities, UNICEF is seeking the services of a local consultant to support timely accomplishment of interventions, including but not limited to liaison with national partners and subject experts, coordinating the collaboration with relevant stakeholders, external vendors, and to perform a quality control and overall coordination of envisaged SBC solutions.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support to Programme Specialist/Social Sector and Child
Protection Section in the design, implementation, and monitoring of planned and ongoing programme interventions
as well as to draft and provide inputs to fundraising project proposals in programme areas related to Inclusive
Education, Social-Emotional and Digital Skills, STEM for Girls, Career Pathways for Children with Disabilities, Education
in Emergencies under the Resilient Future Generation outcome, and related to Deinstitutionalization and Prevention
of Institutionalization under the Supportive Family Environment and Protection from Violence outcome of the UNICEF Country Programme for 2026-2030 (CPD). The consultancy will contribute to the national education agenda ensuring future sustainable development of Belarussian society.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
DGCA - Website, Editorial and Governance Section is seeking a consultant on Digital Governance Operations for 9 months remotely. The consultant will focus on operational delivery, stakeholder coordination, and implementation tracking, following up on deliverables, and supporting the rollout and adoption of the Web Content Lifecycle and Web Archiving initiatives across the organization.
The Partner Recognition and Impact team in the Private Sector Communication and Engagement Section at UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnership (PFP) Division is seeking to establish a roster of highly skilled, experienced, and strategic communication professional to contribute to a diverse range of partnership communication activities.
This role will require to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the three Resource Centres for Children with Disabilities and their role in supporting inclusive education in Montenegro and early intervention services.
UNICEF seeks the services of a seasoned international consultant with demonstrated expertise in youth social innovation, entrepreneurship programming, and the UPSHIFT methodology to support UNICEF ZCO in contextualizing and rolling out the UPSHIFT Entrepreneurship Programme for Youth Community Health Workers in Zimbabwe.
Under the direct supervision of the Education Officer and in collaboration with the Education Specialist , the consultant is responsible for providing technical support in the implementation of the Akelius initiative, contributing to a quality scaleup in 31 additional schools (further to the 17 existing ones) in Una-Sana Canton by ensuring technical support to key partners (schools, teacher training institute and education ministry), providing monitoring of activities within schools, monitoring of equipment, feedback collection and knowledge exchange between different administrative units and schools and regular reporting of these activities and serving as a technical resource person for schools and partners.
To deliver in-person Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) training sessions in parallel locations across Uzbekistan, using the standardized training package developed and to support learning assessment, feedback collection, and reporting.
The purpose of this assignment is to undertake a comprehensive seven-month desk-based analytical study on the financing of the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) programme across national and subnational levels. MBG is a flagship priority of the Government of Indonesia, currently predominantly financed and implemented at the national level. At the national level, the assignment will focus on analyzing the financing of MBG within the State Budget (APBN), including budget allocations, expenditure trends, and the composition of spending. The analysis will assess the adequacy, efficiency, and fiscal sustainability of current financing arrangements, and identify opportunities to strengthen budget performance and support informed decision-making on the programme’s scale-up and long-term viability. This will also include an assessment of fiscal incentive mechanisms and frameworks—particularly those related to stunting reduction— to assess their alignment with and potential contribution to MBG objectives.
UNICEF has been implementing various programmes, including Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), school nutrition initiatives, and communication campaigns to encourage behaviour change towards healthier diets. In addition, UNICEF is working to improve food environments, such as promoting the application of the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) in retailers, cities, and schools to prevent childhood overweight.
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