The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. To further unlock the power of collective innovation, we are seeking a consultant to develop a bold and practical collaboration strategy that enables UNICEF teams and partners worldwide to work together more effectively. This strategy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The consultant will assess partners and prospects with particular focus on climate resilience and innovation as entry points and identify funding, public financing and non-financial partnership opportunities. Through consultations across country offices and global partnership teams, and a few select external actors, the consultant will map partnership gaps and opportunities propose, and outline clear engagement approach that support efforts towards high impact and long-term partnerships.
A key deliverable will be identifying high‑potential partners with strong interest in WASH, innovation, and climate‑resilient solutions to produce a stakeholder matrix and develop a global partnership pipeline of the most viable prospects. This is to include funding, public financing, and core resources and networks, leverage opportunities towards areas such as capacity building, advocacy, and building a pipeline of solutions. The work will include preparing a high‑level, tailored engagement strategy for each partnership type and context. This work will help establish a strong foundation for partnership collaboration, enabling UNICEF and partners to support, cocreate, and scale impactful WASH climate resilient programmes and innovations.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services.
The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
UNICEF’s Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is seeking a consultant to develop a Capacity Building Strategy that will equip UNICEF Country Offices, regional teams, governments, and key partners with the capabilities needed to adopt, adapt, and accelerate innovative WASH solutions at scale. Building on the Hub’s vision to drive transformational, climate‑resilient WASH innovations, the strategy will strengthen the ability of national and local actors to deploy emerging technologies, leverage innovative financing, and embed evidence‑driven approaches into programmes that address the most pressing WASH challenges. This assignment forms a critical pillar of the Hub’s next phase (2026–2029), as UNICEF expands its leadership in elevating high‑impact solutions towards multi‑regional adoption.
The consultant will work closely with the WASH Innovation Hub, the new WASH Global Program, global WASH networks, UNICEF Country Offices, and a diverse ecosystem of partners to define the competencies, systems, and resources needed to strengthen innovation capacity across contexts. This includes documenting existing capacity approaches, identifying gaps, synthesising global best practice, and proposing a coherent framework with clear pathways, milestones, and enabling conditions for sustained capacity development. The resulting strategy will help position UNICEF’s new Nairobi‑based WASH Centre of Excellence and the Hub as global drivers of capability strengthening—empowering governments, practitioners, and local innovators to deliver climate‑resilient WASH services at scale, and ultimately shaping a more equitable, water‑secure future for every child.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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 Hub is seeking technical writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading support for the development of on-demand knowledge and communications products in the thematic areas of WASH, innovation, scaling, impact and innovative/blended financing for both internal and external audiences such as UNICEF country offices, governments, implementing partners and donors. The Hub seeks an experienced writer to develop technical products such as field notes, advocacy notes, reports, concept notes and workshop summaries for both technical and non-technical audiences on an ad-hoc, part-time basis.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. As part of our approach, the WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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.
For this work, the Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing and detailing a scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the solution further and supporting uptake at multi-country and multi-region scale to ensure integrated monitoring for Climate-resilient WASH. 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.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services. The Hub is seeking an experienced consultant to lead the development of its Strategic Plan (2026–2029), guiding the Hub’s next phase as it accelerates transformative WASH solutions from demonstration to multi‑regional scale. Building on Denmark’s foundational investment and insights from the Hub’s first three years, the Strategic Plan will articulate a bold, evidence‑driven pathway for UNICEF to lead a global shift in how climate‑resilient WASH innovations are sourced, financed, and scaled. The consultancy will help shape the Hub’s contribution to UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and its evolving role within the new WASH Centre of Excellence.
The selected consultant will analyse emerging sector trends, assess the Hub’s current portfolio and performance, and co‑develop a compelling vision, Theory of Change, and operational model. The Strategic Plan will outline how UNICEF will enable accelerated uptake of high‑impact solutions to help close the gap on achieving universal access to resilient, safely managed water and sanitation services. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a global agenda for scaling WASH innovation, strengthen an ecosystem of partners, and define the enabling conditions and pathways needed to drive transformational, climate‑resilient impact for vulnerable children and communities worldwide.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. UNICEF’s innovation portfolio approach focuses our innovation efforts on the most challenging problems UNICEF is trying to solve for and with children and young people. It does so by identifying targeted, strategic innovative solutions – with potential to have a significant impact and for which capacity is in place for rapid scaling up – and facilitating their accelerated progress to scale. The WASH Hub supports and builds capacity within UNICEF country offices to facilitate successful scaling of WASH innovations, in-country and globally.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing a strategy for scaling WASH innovations, outlining the pathway, approach and key considerations for moving demonstration projects to multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities to design, pilot, and evaluate carbon credit schemes that can mobilize high-integrity climate finance to safeguard children’s rights and accelerate sustainable financing for WASH. In the context of this, UNICEF now seeks to engage a highly qualified Sustainable Finance Specialist with technical expertise in carbon credit project development, climate finance mechanisms, and sustainable and blended financing models supporting UNICEF’s climate action programming.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities for design, pilot, and scaling of models that can mobilize and accelerate sustainable and blended financing for WASH.
In the context of this, UNICEF proposes to engage the expertise of a highly qualified Sustainable and Blended Finance specialist to facilitate the effective implementation of sustainable and innovative finance solutions for WASH. These tasks encompass scoping, mapping, and supporting Sustainable Finance solutions, and technical support to regional and country offices as well as advising HQ, regional, and country offices working on scaling solutions and projects.
The consultant will support the implementation of the WASH Work Plan and KM under the multi-country grants, working closely with team members and regional WASH colleagues.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub acts as a global accelerator for climate-resilient solutions. To scale these solutions, the Hub requires flexible and agile contracting pathways that allow for co-creation within UNICEF Country offices. This consultancy is designed to map, review, assess and provide clear guidance on the specific contracting instruments available within the UN system, specifically focusing on UNICEF, UNDP, WFP and UNOPS frameworks for the innovation and co-creation contracting procedures, and to provide actionable feedback and recommendations that strengthen the WASH Innovation Hub’s ability to select and apply the most suitable contracting pathways that support innovation and co-creation.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a WASH Manager and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team
The objective of this position is to support the WASH team in the Odesa Area of Responsibility (AoR) in the effective and timely implementation of the WASH programme’s core activities. The WASH Consultant will provide technical assistance during the assessment and planning phase and advise on priorities based on identified technical needs and prepare the required technical designs.
UNICEF seeks to engage a highly qualified a consultant to develop, refine and assess financial models relevant to groundwater schemes, reviewing existing cost structures, tariff frameworks, revenue systems, subsidy mechanisms, and investment flows in the ASAL counties of Northern Kenya.
The consultant will consolidate existing evidence, map financing mechanisms, identify institutional and financial gaps, and refine potential models for up to four proposed pilot sites.
The assignment does not generate new field data but synthesizes existing information from counties, utilities, NGOs, regulators, and previous studies. The consultant must be able to work with Kenyan institutions and be available for field travel when necessary.
Are you seeking an opportunity to contribute to the affairs of children, their protection and development? If you fit the call above, don’t miss this exciting offer at UNICEF Bolivia.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the Organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give more children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
If you are a seasoned technical professional with strong expertise in renewable energy systems and a passion for advancing climate-resilient WASH services in fragile and underserved settings, UNICEF Philippines invites you to apply for the position of Solar Renewable Energy Technical Consultant (WASH) – Tawi-Tawi under the WASH Programme.
This consultancy will provide independent technical oversight and quality assurance for the solarization of a desalination plant and related WASH infrastructure. The role involves reviewing and validating system design, overseeing installation and commissioning, ensuring compliance with national regulations and international best practices, advising on safety and sustainability measures, and documenting lessons learned to support replication and scale-up, contributing to UNICEF’s climate-resilient WASH commitments and improved access to safe water for children and communities in BARMM.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. To further unlock the power of collective innovation, we are seeking a consultant to develop a bold and practical collaboration strategy that enables UNICEF teams and partners worldwide to work together more effectively. This strategy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The consultant will assess partners and prospects with particular focus on climate resilience and innovation as entry points and identify funding, public financing and non-financial partnership opportunities. Through consultations across country offices and global partnership teams, and a few select external actors, the consultant will map partnership gaps and opportunities propose, and outline clear engagement approach that support efforts towards high impact and long-term partnerships.
A key deliverable will be identifying high‑potential partners with strong interest in WASH, innovation, and climate‑resilient solutions to produce a stakeholder matrix and develop a global partnership pipeline of the most viable prospects. This is to include funding, public financing, and core resources and networks, leverage opportunities towards areas such as capacity building, advocacy, and building a pipeline of solutions. The work will include preparing a high‑level, tailored engagement strategy for each partnership type and context. This work will help establish a strong foundation for partnership collaboration, enabling UNICEF and partners to support, cocreate, and scale impactful WASH climate resilient programmes and innovations.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services.
The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
UNICEF’s Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is seeking a consultant to develop a Capacity Building Strategy that will equip UNICEF Country Offices, regional teams, governments, and key partners with the capabilities needed to adopt, adapt, and accelerate innovative WASH solutions at scale. Building on the Hub’s vision to drive transformational, climate‑resilient WASH innovations, the strategy will strengthen the ability of national and local actors to deploy emerging technologies, leverage innovative financing, and embed evidence‑driven approaches into programmes that address the most pressing WASH challenges. This assignment forms a critical pillar of the Hub’s next phase (2026–2029), as UNICEF expands its leadership in elevating high‑impact solutions towards multi‑regional adoption.
The consultant will work closely with the WASH Innovation Hub, the new WASH Global Program, global WASH networks, UNICEF Country Offices, and a diverse ecosystem of partners to define the competencies, systems, and resources needed to strengthen innovation capacity across contexts. This includes documenting existing capacity approaches, identifying gaps, synthesising global best practice, and proposing a coherent framework with clear pathways, milestones, and enabling conditions for sustained capacity development. The resulting strategy will help position UNICEF’s new Nairobi‑based WASH Centre of Excellence and the Hub as global drivers of capability strengthening—empowering governments, practitioners, and local innovators to deliver climate‑resilient WASH services at scale, and ultimately shaping a more equitable, water‑secure future for every child.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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 Hub is seeking technical writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading support for the development of on-demand knowledge and communications products in the thematic areas of WASH, innovation, scaling, impact and innovative/blended financing for both internal and external audiences such as UNICEF country offices, governments, implementing partners and donors. The Hub seeks an experienced writer to develop technical products such as field notes, advocacy notes, reports, concept notes and workshop summaries for both technical and non-technical audiences on an ad-hoc, part-time basis.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. As part of our approach, the WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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.
For this work, the Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing and detailing a scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the solution further and supporting uptake at multi-country and multi-region scale to ensure integrated monitoring for Climate-resilient WASH. 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.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services. The Hub is seeking an experienced consultant to lead the development of its Strategic Plan (2026–2029), guiding the Hub’s next phase as it accelerates transformative WASH solutions from demonstration to multi‑regional scale. Building on Denmark’s foundational investment and insights from the Hub’s first three years, the Strategic Plan will articulate a bold, evidence‑driven pathway for UNICEF to lead a global shift in how climate‑resilient WASH innovations are sourced, financed, and scaled. The consultancy will help shape the Hub’s contribution to UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and its evolving role within the new WASH Centre of Excellence.
The selected consultant will analyse emerging sector trends, assess the Hub’s current portfolio and performance, and co‑develop a compelling vision, Theory of Change, and operational model. The Strategic Plan will outline how UNICEF will enable accelerated uptake of high‑impact solutions to help close the gap on achieving universal access to resilient, safely managed water and sanitation services. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a global agenda for scaling WASH innovation, strengthen an ecosystem of partners, and define the enabling conditions and pathways needed to drive transformational, climate‑resilient impact for vulnerable children and communities worldwide.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. UNICEF’s innovation portfolio approach focuses our innovation efforts on the most challenging problems UNICEF is trying to solve for and with children and young people. It does so by identifying targeted, strategic innovative solutions – with potential to have a significant impact and for which capacity is in place for rapid scaling up – and facilitating their accelerated progress to scale. The WASH Hub supports and builds capacity within UNICEF country offices to facilitate successful scaling of WASH innovations, in-country and globally.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing a strategy for scaling WASH innovations, outlining the pathway, approach and key considerations for moving demonstration projects to multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities to design, pilot, and evaluate carbon credit schemes that can mobilize high-integrity climate finance to safeguard children’s rights and accelerate sustainable financing for WASH. In the context of this, UNICEF now seeks to engage a highly qualified Sustainable Finance Specialist with technical expertise in carbon credit project development, climate finance mechanisms, and sustainable and blended financing models supporting UNICEF’s climate action programming.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities for design, pilot, and scaling of models that can mobilize and accelerate sustainable and blended financing for WASH.
In the context of this, UNICEF proposes to engage the expertise of a highly qualified Sustainable and Blended Finance specialist to facilitate the effective implementation of sustainable and innovative finance solutions for WASH. These tasks encompass scoping, mapping, and supporting Sustainable Finance solutions, and technical support to regional and country offices as well as advising HQ, regional, and country offices working on scaling solutions and projects.
The consultant will support the implementation of the WASH Work Plan and KM under the multi-country grants, working closely with team members and regional WASH colleagues.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational 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. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub acts as a global accelerator for climate-resilient solutions. To scale these solutions, the Hub requires flexible and agile contracting pathways that allow for co-creation within UNICEF Country offices. This consultancy is designed to map, review, assess and provide clear guidance on the specific contracting instruments available within the UN system, specifically focusing on UNICEF, UNDP, WFP and UNOPS frameworks for the innovation and co-creation contracting procedures, and to provide actionable feedback and recommendations that strengthen the WASH Innovation Hub’s ability to select and apply the most suitable contracting pathways that support innovation and co-creation.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a WASH Manager and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team
The objective of this position is to support the WASH team in the Odesa Area of Responsibility (AoR) in the effective and timely implementation of the WASH programme’s core activities. The WASH Consultant will provide technical assistance during the assessment and planning phase and advise on priorities based on identified technical needs and prepare the required technical designs.
UNICEF seeks to engage a highly qualified a consultant to develop, refine and assess financial models relevant to groundwater schemes, reviewing existing cost structures, tariff frameworks, revenue systems, subsidy mechanisms, and investment flows in the ASAL counties of Northern Kenya.
The consultant will consolidate existing evidence, map financing mechanisms, identify institutional and financial gaps, and refine potential models for up to four proposed pilot sites.
The assignment does not generate new field data but synthesizes existing information from counties, utilities, NGOs, regulators, and previous studies. The consultant must be able to work with Kenyan institutions and be available for field travel when necessary.
Are you seeking an opportunity to contribute to the affairs of children, their protection and development? If you fit the call above, don’t miss this exciting offer at UNICEF Bolivia.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the Organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give more children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
If you are a seasoned technical professional with strong expertise in renewable energy systems and a passion for advancing climate-resilient WASH services in fragile and underserved settings, UNICEF Philippines invites you to apply for the position of Solar Renewable Energy Technical Consultant (WASH) – Tawi-Tawi under the WASH Programme.
This consultancy will provide independent technical oversight and quality assurance for the solarization of a desalination plant and related WASH infrastructure. The role involves reviewing and validating system design, overseeing installation and commissioning, ensuring compliance with national regulations and international best practices, advising on safety and sustainability measures, and documenting lessons learned to support replication and scale-up, contributing to UNICEF’s climate-resilient WASH commitments and improved access to safe water for children and communities in BARMM.
