UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified Consultant for regional stakeholder consultation and advisory engagement to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) in coordinating regional-level engagement and feedback within the framework of the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) project for the development of the new Child Protection and Family Support legislation.
Passionate about climate action and child rights? UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dedicated and proactive Consultant to develop three analytical reports based on the Children’s Climate Risk Index and Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) for Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. This home-based consultancy spans 33 days over 2 months and is open to both national and international applicants. The selected consultant will transform complex data into clear, actionable narratives, highlighting key findings, methodologies, and priority geographic and sectoral areas that impact children’s vulnerability to climate and disaster risks.
If you’re a strong communicator with a knack for turning data into powerful stories that inspire change, this is your chance to contribute to a safer, more resilient future for children across the Pacific.
Under the supervision of the Country Coordinator and the technical coordination of the Child Protection Manager, ADAP Manager, and BMI Senior Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, the Consultant will support the development of a comprehensive documentation blueprint to be implemented in 2026. This blueprint will serve as a strategic framework to guide the systematic documentation of UNICEF’s interventions in Italy over the past decade, with a particular focus on capturing models, methodologies, achievements, and lessons learned.
The documentation blueprint will reflect UNICEF’s programming in a high-income country (HIC) context, as outlined in the 2023 Programme Guidance for HICs. It will also take into account the unique operational setup in Italy, where UNICEF operates alongside a National Committee, ensuring complementarity between UNICEF’s technical engagement and the National Committee’s role. 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 fulfill their potential.
UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in the organization’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. The division focuses on maximizing private sector fundraising, partnerships, and engagement. Central to these efforts is the Innovative Financing for Children (IF4C) function, which develops and implements innovative financing mechanisms to mobilize resources for children's welfare globally. These initiatives address critical issues such as climate change, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction, targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized children and adolescents. The IF4C team plays a crucial role in driving these efforts forward through strategic private sector engagements.
The Innovative Financing Consultant will play a key role in exploring, designing, and implementing a range of financing solutions in collaboration with private sector entities. The role involves making vital contributions to program design, product development, and the execution of financing strategies to effectively mobilize resources in support of UNICEF’s mission.
The Education Section of UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a remote-based consultant for an estimated 214 working days to support the integration of implementation research into education programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa. The section embeds research into large-scale initiatives, including remedial education, inclusive education, and digital learning. The overarching goal of this research portfolio is to inform improvements in the delivery and scale-up of education programmes to enhance children’s learning outcomes, while synthesizing lessons across countries to contribute to global public goods.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic
institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection
in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) leads the Alliance with a rotating NGO, currently
the International Rescue Committee. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various
stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and
effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
This is a critical moment for the Alliance to solidify strategic partnerships and elevate its advocacy work for the centrality of
the child in all humanitarian action. The purpose of the assignment is to support the Alliance Secretariat with strategic
partnerships, donor engagement, and advocacy activities.
Given the urgency of adverse climate impacts, it is crucial that UNICEF and national governments have the necessary data and evidence to respond to chronic and emerging climate and environmental threats. As the foremost organization on child specific climate UNICEF is committed to ensuring that the data decision makers rely on is reflective of the local context and encapsulates the needs of children, especially the most vulnerable.
To further consolidate its global positioning and offer on climate risk analysis and data, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support for UNICEF programming, operations and advocacy to scale results for children. Specifically, the consultant will support the application of data from the global hazard database, the Children’s Climate Risk Index-Disaster.
During the duration period of the contract, the consultant will support development and dissemination of the survivor-centered guidance tool on FGM, as well as the expansion of the rollouts of Primero / GBVIMS+ through the specific tasks listed below.
Under the direct supervision of the SWA Programme Specialist, Country Engagement, the consultant will provide support for partner engagement to Lusophone and LAC SWA countries, with a particular focus on Heads of State Engagement, High- Level Meetings, as well as the Mutual Accountability Mechanism.
The deliverables will directly be focused on the government partners
The purpose of this assignment is to assess the alternative care landscape in Rwanda and using the evidence generated from this assessment to develop comprehensive and actionable guidelines covering all forms of alternative care in Rwanda. As a result, this assignment will be carried out in two phases. The first phase is to assess the current alternative care system in Rwanda. The second phase, based on the findings of the first phase, is to develop comprehensive Guidelines on Alternative Care in Rwanda. The first phase will involve a national data collection exercise that will be led by a Rwandan National, working closely with the international consultant, to ensure data confidentiality as per the Government’s data protocol.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire a qualified individual to support routine nutrition programme monitoring; tracking progress towards the achievement of nutrition targets. This will include technical support to the government and partners in development of reporting tools, monitoring, and ensuring collection, collation and utilization of nutrition data across all/multiple platforms. Qualified interested female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Programme and Planning section at the UNICEF MENA Regional Office is looking to hire a Regional consultant for analysis of field monitoring data using AI for a period of three months to work on developing an innovative AI-powered solution to support the automation and standardization of qualitative monitoring report analysis with the aim of enhancing the use of field monitoring data for informed decision- making, course adjustment and improving programme results.
UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking to hire a national consultant to develop an evidence-based case study that documents how P-RECs can be measured, verified, traded and reinvested to sustain UNICEF-supported solar assets in Ethiopia’s health, and WASH areas, and to provide a practical monitoring framework that national partners can replicate at scale.
Under the supervision of the Health Specialist – Disability, NCDs, and Injuries, the consultant will provide technical and strategic support to UNICEF’s global child injury prevention work. The consultant will focus on finalizing core knowledge products, including guidance on safe and sustainable mobility, a data and indicator framework, and a roadmap for child injury prevention. In addition, the consultant will support donor reporting for existing partnerships (Abertis and RNLI) and contribute to the preparation of proposals for Phase 2 funding with Michelin and FIA Foundation to sustain and expand the programmatic response.
Under the supervision of the Health Specialist – Child Development and Disabilities, NCDs and Injuries, the consultant will provide technical and documentation support for the second phase of the Early Identification and Early Intervention Project across three pilot countries (Bulgaria, Uganda, and Peru). The consultancy will focus on finalizing project documentation, supporting the impact evaluation, developing peer-reviewed publications, and preparing knowledge translation products to inform policy and scale-up efforts. The consultant will ensure strategic technical oversight throughout the evaluation process and contribute to global knowledge dissemination.
The work undertaken by this consultancy will, thus, enable concrete violence prevention strategies that can be applied at the national level, strengthening the commitment to the protection and well-being of Brazilian children with respect to the country’s geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity.
The hired consultant will be responsible for proposing and implementing a qualitative research methodology in Recife and Manaus, based on the formative research methodology carried out in Rio de Janeiro (which will be shared by UNICEF), expanding the scope of the initial diagnosis to include different geographic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, and racial perspectives. The aim is to support culturally adapted interventions that respect regional specificities, promote child protection, and address social norms that perpetuate corporal punishment.
UNICEF OOI is seeking a dynamic and experienced consultant with extensive experience with using experimental and quasi experimental methods to conduct the impact assessment of Fundoo, a digital platform that seeks to equip young people with 21st century skills. This consultany will be conducted under guidance and direction of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at OOI, and in close collaboration with relevant colleagues in OOI and COs.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the high-quality instructional design and adult-appropriate methodology for a series of Social and Behavior Change (SBC) capacity-building trainings to be delivered to national stakeholders, including government organizations, universities, and professional groups. The expert will work in close collaboration with the UNICEF SBC Officer to develop tailored, engaging, and practical training packages that meet the learning needs of adult professionals distinct from traditional pedagogical approaches used in university settings.
The selected expert will apply a modern andragogical approach centered on interactivity, relevance, and clarity, ensuring that training materials are tailored to the needs of adult professionals, practice-oriented and designed to effectively deliver key SBC concepts, tools and approaches.
Generation Unlimited (GenU) is UNICEF’s global multi-sector partnership platform, connecting young people worldwide to opportunities in employability, entrepreneurship, and climate resilience by 2030. GenU is scaling up innovative financing to unlock resources for youth-led climate adaptation and sustainable development. This global consultancy will drive the design and execution of innovative finance solutions, focusing on debt swaps, blended finance, and major philanthropic partnerships.
UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified Consultant for regional stakeholder consultation and advisory engagement to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) in coordinating regional-level engagement and feedback within the framework of the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) project for the development of the new Child Protection and Family Support legislation.
Passionate about climate action and child rights? UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dedicated and proactive Consultant to develop three analytical reports based on the Children’s Climate Risk Index and Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) for Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. This home-based consultancy spans 33 days over 2 months and is open to both national and international applicants. The selected consultant will transform complex data into clear, actionable narratives, highlighting key findings, methodologies, and priority geographic and sectoral areas that impact children’s vulnerability to climate and disaster risks.
If you’re a strong communicator with a knack for turning data into powerful stories that inspire change, this is your chance to contribute to a safer, more resilient future for children across the Pacific.
Under the supervision of the Country Coordinator and the technical coordination of the Child Protection Manager, ADAP Manager, and BMI Senior Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, the Consultant will support the development of a comprehensive documentation blueprint to be implemented in 2026. This blueprint will serve as a strategic framework to guide the systematic documentation of UNICEF’s interventions in Italy over the past decade, with a particular focus on capturing models, methodologies, achievements, and lessons learned.
The documentation blueprint will reflect UNICEF’s programming in a high-income country (HIC) context, as outlined in the 2023 Programme Guidance for HICs. It will also take into account the unique operational setup in Italy, where UNICEF operates alongside a National Committee, ensuring complementarity between UNICEF’s technical engagement and the National Committee’s role. 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 fulfill their potential.
UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in the organization’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. The division focuses on maximizing private sector fundraising, partnerships, and engagement. Central to these efforts is the Innovative Financing for Children (IF4C) function, which develops and implements innovative financing mechanisms to mobilize resources for children's welfare globally. These initiatives address critical issues such as climate change, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction, targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized children and adolescents. The IF4C team plays a crucial role in driving these efforts forward through strategic private sector engagements.
The Innovative Financing Consultant will play a key role in exploring, designing, and implementing a range of financing solutions in collaboration with private sector entities. The role involves making vital contributions to program design, product development, and the execution of financing strategies to effectively mobilize resources in support of UNICEF’s mission.
The Education Section of UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a remote-based consultant for an estimated 214 working days to support the integration of implementation research into education programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa. The section embeds research into large-scale initiatives, including remedial education, inclusive education, and digital learning. The overarching goal of this research portfolio is to inform improvements in the delivery and scale-up of education programmes to enhance children’s learning outcomes, while synthesizing lessons across countries to contribute to global public goods.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic
institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection
in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) leads the Alliance with a rotating NGO, currently
the International Rescue Committee. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various
stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and
effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
This is a critical moment for the Alliance to solidify strategic partnerships and elevate its advocacy work for the centrality of
the child in all humanitarian action. The purpose of the assignment is to support the Alliance Secretariat with strategic
partnerships, donor engagement, and advocacy activities.
Given the urgency of adverse climate impacts, it is crucial that UNICEF and national governments have the necessary data and evidence to respond to chronic and emerging climate and environmental threats. As the foremost organization on child specific climate UNICEF is committed to ensuring that the data decision makers rely on is reflective of the local context and encapsulates the needs of children, especially the most vulnerable.
To further consolidate its global positioning and offer on climate risk analysis and data, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support for UNICEF programming, operations and advocacy to scale results for children. Specifically, the consultant will support the application of data from the global hazard database, the Children’s Climate Risk Index-Disaster.
During the duration period of the contract, the consultant will support development and dissemination of the survivor-centered guidance tool on FGM, as well as the expansion of the rollouts of Primero / GBVIMS+ through the specific tasks listed below.
Under the direct supervision of the SWA Programme Specialist, Country Engagement, the consultant will provide support for partner engagement to Lusophone and LAC SWA countries, with a particular focus on Heads of State Engagement, High- Level Meetings, as well as the Mutual Accountability Mechanism.
The deliverables will directly be focused on the government partners
The purpose of this assignment is to assess the alternative care landscape in Rwanda and using the evidence generated from this assessment to develop comprehensive and actionable guidelines covering all forms of alternative care in Rwanda. As a result, this assignment will be carried out in two phases. The first phase is to assess the current alternative care system in Rwanda. The second phase, based on the findings of the first phase, is to develop comprehensive Guidelines on Alternative Care in Rwanda. The first phase will involve a national data collection exercise that will be led by a Rwandan National, working closely with the international consultant, to ensure data confidentiality as per the Government’s data protocol.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire a qualified individual to support routine nutrition programme monitoring; tracking progress towards the achievement of nutrition targets. This will include technical support to the government and partners in development of reporting tools, monitoring, and ensuring collection, collation and utilization of nutrition data across all/multiple platforms. Qualified interested female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Programme and Planning section at the UNICEF MENA Regional Office is looking to hire a Regional consultant for analysis of field monitoring data using AI for a period of three months to work on developing an innovative AI-powered solution to support the automation and standardization of qualitative monitoring report analysis with the aim of enhancing the use of field monitoring data for informed decision- making, course adjustment and improving programme results.
UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking to hire a national consultant to develop an evidence-based case study that documents how P-RECs can be measured, verified, traded and reinvested to sustain UNICEF-supported solar assets in Ethiopia’s health, and WASH areas, and to provide a practical monitoring framework that national partners can replicate at scale.
Under the supervision of the Health Specialist – Disability, NCDs, and Injuries, the consultant will provide technical and strategic support to UNICEF’s global child injury prevention work. The consultant will focus on finalizing core knowledge products, including guidance on safe and sustainable mobility, a data and indicator framework, and a roadmap for child injury prevention. In addition, the consultant will support donor reporting for existing partnerships (Abertis and RNLI) and contribute to the preparation of proposals for Phase 2 funding with Michelin and FIA Foundation to sustain and expand the programmatic response.
Under the supervision of the Health Specialist – Child Development and Disabilities, NCDs and Injuries, the consultant will provide technical and documentation support for the second phase of the Early Identification and Early Intervention Project across three pilot countries (Bulgaria, Uganda, and Peru). The consultancy will focus on finalizing project documentation, supporting the impact evaluation, developing peer-reviewed publications, and preparing knowledge translation products to inform policy and scale-up efforts. The consultant will ensure strategic technical oversight throughout the evaluation process and contribute to global knowledge dissemination.
The work undertaken by this consultancy will, thus, enable concrete violence prevention strategies that can be applied at the national level, strengthening the commitment to the protection and well-being of Brazilian children with respect to the country’s geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity.
The hired consultant will be responsible for proposing and implementing a qualitative research methodology in Recife and Manaus, based on the formative research methodology carried out in Rio de Janeiro (which will be shared by UNICEF), expanding the scope of the initial diagnosis to include different geographic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, and racial perspectives. The aim is to support culturally adapted interventions that respect regional specificities, promote child protection, and address social norms that perpetuate corporal punishment.
UNICEF OOI is seeking a dynamic and experienced consultant with extensive experience with using experimental and quasi experimental methods to conduct the impact assessment of Fundoo, a digital platform that seeks to equip young people with 21st century skills. This consultany will be conducted under guidance and direction of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at OOI, and in close collaboration with relevant colleagues in OOI and COs.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the high-quality instructional design and adult-appropriate methodology for a series of Social and Behavior Change (SBC) capacity-building trainings to be delivered to national stakeholders, including government organizations, universities, and professional groups. The expert will work in close collaboration with the UNICEF SBC Officer to develop tailored, engaging, and practical training packages that meet the learning needs of adult professionals distinct from traditional pedagogical approaches used in university settings.
The selected expert will apply a modern andragogical approach centered on interactivity, relevance, and clarity, ensuring that training materials are tailored to the needs of adult professionals, practice-oriented and designed to effectively deliver key SBC concepts, tools and approaches.
Generation Unlimited (GenU) is UNICEF’s global multi-sector partnership platform, connecting young people worldwide to opportunities in employability, entrepreneurship, and climate resilience by 2030. GenU is scaling up innovative financing to unlock resources for youth-led climate adaptation and sustainable development. This global consultancy will drive the design and execution of innovative finance solutions, focusing on debt swaps, blended finance, and major philanthropic partnerships.
