Consultancy support on the AU State of Africa children report on WASH and preparations for the UN 2026 Water Conference & Interactive Dialogue report on Water for People
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will source, pilot and scale transformational and frontier climate resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. One of those solutions is Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) technology, a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic induction to map sustainable deep groundwater sources.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for the Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) solution, to support multi-country and multi-region scale.
This consultancy will assess the current fiscal space for WASH by reviewing government budgets, donor funding, and private sector involvement. It will identify opportunities to expand financing through domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and innovative approaches such as climate and blended finance.
Based on this, a WASH Financing Strategy will be developed, outlining key financing pathways, resource mobilization options, and institutional strengthening measures. The consultant will also provide actionable policy recommendations to improve sector financing, coordination, and sustainability.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Project Officer (Water Supply) on a fixed-term appointment to be based in Suva, Fiji. Under the general supervision of the WASH Manager at P-4 level. The Project Officer (Water Supply) is expected to support the UNICEF Pacific programme on strengthening WASH programming on climate resilient water supply systems.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking to hire a WASH Officer to provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process.
UNICEF Malawi will establish a Long Term Agreement with an individual consultant to provide technical support and engineering expertise on-demand for the design, review, validation, and oversight of rural WASH infrastructure in Malawi. The consultant will support UNICEF Malawi on an as-and-when-required basis in ensuring that all WASH infrastructure designs—particularly solar-powered water supply systems and WASH facilities in schools, healthcare facilities, and other institutions—meet national guidelines and UNICEF standards for sustainability, safety, equity, and climate resilience. In addition, the consultant will provide advisory services and technical capacity-building to UNICEF partners, including government institutions and NGOs, to strengthen national systems and support effective implementation of WASH infrastructure across the country.
Under the overall supervision of the Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with all UNICEF programmes and sectoral teams involved in the refugee response, the consultant will support the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland for enhancing the Accountability to Affected Population efforts through leading content generation, anagement, and dissemination efforts across digital and offline platforms, managing projects and interventions that enhance and amplify voice of refugees, ensuring child friendly and safe reporting mechanisms for refugee children and adolescents. This role
includes ensuring that all information products, key messages, and communication materials are timely, contextually relevant, aligned with UNICEF standards, and coherent across programmes and partners. The consultant will take on a lead coordination role for two critical initiatives under the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) framework. The first is focused on the design and piloting of a child-friendly feedback mechanism grounded in human-centered design principles; the second targets adolescent engagement and outreach through frontline worker capacity-building. Both projects aim to strengthen UNICEF’s ability to receive, process, and act upon feedback from children and adolescents, particularly those from refugee backgrounds, while also supporting social inclusion and participation.
¡UNICEF Guatemala te está buscando! En esta consultoría podrás elaborar la propuesta de la justificación climática para la gestión sectorial de agua potable, saneamiento e higiene (APSH), para Guatemala y contribuir de manera relevante y complementaria con los temas que desarrollan, directa o indirectamente, la gestión de la prestación de servicios, en proyectos, estudios, capacitaciones, etc. que considerarán los enfoques de adaptación, mitigación y resiliencia al cambio climático, resaltando la reducción de su impacto y la sostenibilidad ambiental, que incide directamente en la prestación de los servicios.
UNICEF Costa Rica is looking for a passionate Health & Nutrition Officer to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of impactful health and nutrition programmes. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and operational support to ensure the successful delivery of initiatives aligned with UNICEF’s strategic goals.
UNICEF Pacific is offering an exciting consultancy opportunity for a proactive and experienced international Consultant to help shape the future of maternal and child health in Fiji. This 40-day remote-based assignment focuses on costing Fiji’s national plan to prevent vertical transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis. The consultant will be responsible for developing a comprehensive costing framework that covers clinical care, community interventions, procurement of services and supplies, documentation, coordination, and a costed monitoring and evaluation system. By applying global best practices and innovative approaches, the consultant will play a key role in strengthening the implementation and tracking of interventions, ultimately contributing to the elimination of new infections among children and improving health outcomes for mothers living with HIV. If you're passionate about global health and making a meaningful impact, this is your chance to contribute to a vital mission.
Climate change in Central Asia threatens essential services like WASH, MNCH, nutrition, and primary health care. UNICEF is leading efforts to secure resilient supply chains, strengthen health systems, and scale green financing solutions with global partners.
We seek a consultant to develop a Climate-Smart Supply Financing strategy for Uzbekistan and the region aligning investments with sustainability and equity. Your work will shape pathways for reliable medicines, vaccines, safe water, and nutrition services, ensuring continuity during climate shocks.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Philippines is looking for Policy and Data Analysis Consultant who would provide professional technical, operational assistance to localize and Integrate child- and Social-sector-focused Data in the GeoRiskPh.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Philippines is looking for Project development Consultant who would provide professional technical, operational assistance to localize National Adaptation Plan (NAP) through the Investment Portfolio for Risk Resilience integrating social sectors.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
As part of the MICS programme, UNICEF continues to strengthen its MICS support mechanism at all levels, so that implementing partners in countries can receive the required level of technical assistance on a timely basis at critical survey stages and are in a better position to support the implementing partner. The 7th round of the MICS programme (MICS7) was launched in March 2023 and there are already 40 planned and ongoing MICS7 surveys and potentially 20-30 more surveys in the pipeline. There are also 7 surveys from the 6th round of the MICS programme that are still in data processing or report finalisation stages.
A very important element of MICS design and implementation is sampling, which is a very specialized field of work. Excellent sampling support is needed during the design, implementation, and reporting stages of all surveys.
As currently there is no sufficient funding to cover all planned activities, some deliverables are planned to be completed only if additional resources become available.
Le/la Consultant/e International/e pilotera l’élaboration d’un Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants au niveau infranational (subnational Children’s Climate Risk Index, CCRI) aux Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le/la Consultant National/e et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. Le consultant finalisera la méthodologie à utiliser aux Comores pour un indice de risque au niveau communal, selon les données déjà disponibles ou collectable à travers le/la consultant/e national/e; assurera un contrôle qualité du travail de collecte de données; analysera les données collectées (les expositions, les aléas, les vulnérabilités et les capacités des enfants, pour chaque commune) et fournira une carte numérique interactive permettant de superposer ces différents facteurs.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant for Teachers Professional Learning 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.
in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.
Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.
To better understand the drivers of breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among key health providers in maternity wards, home visiting services and breastfeeding counsellors in Serbia, UNICEF seeks the services of a national consultant to conduct an assessment and provide social and behaviour-related support to Health and Early Childhood Development Program at UNICEF Serbia and UNICEF Regional Office in Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) in identifying psychological, social, and environmental factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among health workers in maternity wards and breastfeeding counsellors in the country.
Taking in consideration that a majority UNICEF documents and internal communication, both via email and verbally,
are made using the English language, the UNICEF Bissau Country office would like to ensure the availability of a
qualified English Language teacher for staff members to improve their English skills, in order to facilitate
communication and improve the quality of documents produced.
Consultancy support on the AU State of Africa children report on WASH and preparations for the UN 2026 Water Conference & Interactive Dialogue report on Water for People
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will source, pilot and scale transformational and frontier climate resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. One of those solutions is Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) technology, a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic induction to map sustainable deep groundwater sources.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for the Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) solution, to support multi-country and multi-region scale.
This consultancy will assess the current fiscal space for WASH by reviewing government budgets, donor funding, and private sector involvement. It will identify opportunities to expand financing through domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and innovative approaches such as climate and blended finance.
Based on this, a WASH Financing Strategy will be developed, outlining key financing pathways, resource mobilization options, and institutional strengthening measures. The consultant will also provide actionable policy recommendations to improve sector financing, coordination, and sustainability.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Project Officer (Water Supply) on a fixed-term appointment to be based in Suva, Fiji. Under the general supervision of the WASH Manager at P-4 level. The Project Officer (Water Supply) is expected to support the UNICEF Pacific programme on strengthening WASH programming on climate resilient water supply systems.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking to hire a WASH Officer to provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process.
UNICEF Malawi will establish a Long Term Agreement with an individual consultant to provide technical support and engineering expertise on-demand for the design, review, validation, and oversight of rural WASH infrastructure in Malawi. The consultant will support UNICEF Malawi on an as-and-when-required basis in ensuring that all WASH infrastructure designs—particularly solar-powered water supply systems and WASH facilities in schools, healthcare facilities, and other institutions—meet national guidelines and UNICEF standards for sustainability, safety, equity, and climate resilience. In addition, the consultant will provide advisory services and technical capacity-building to UNICEF partners, including government institutions and NGOs, to strengthen national systems and support effective implementation of WASH infrastructure across the country.
Under the overall supervision of the Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with all UNICEF programmes and sectoral teams involved in the refugee response, the consultant will support the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland for enhancing the Accountability to Affected Population efforts through leading content generation, anagement, and dissemination efforts across digital and offline platforms, managing projects and interventions that enhance and amplify voice of refugees, ensuring child friendly and safe reporting mechanisms for refugee children and adolescents. This role
includes ensuring that all information products, key messages, and communication materials are timely, contextually relevant, aligned with UNICEF standards, and coherent across programmes and partners. The consultant will take on a lead coordination role for two critical initiatives under the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) framework. The first is focused on the design and piloting of a child-friendly feedback mechanism grounded in human-centered design principles; the second targets adolescent engagement and outreach through frontline worker capacity-building. Both projects aim to strengthen UNICEF’s ability to receive, process, and act upon feedback from children and adolescents, particularly those from refugee backgrounds, while also supporting social inclusion and participation.
¡UNICEF Guatemala te está buscando! En esta consultoría podrás elaborar la propuesta de la justificación climática para la gestión sectorial de agua potable, saneamiento e higiene (APSH), para Guatemala y contribuir de manera relevante y complementaria con los temas que desarrollan, directa o indirectamente, la gestión de la prestación de servicios, en proyectos, estudios, capacitaciones, etc. que considerarán los enfoques de adaptación, mitigación y resiliencia al cambio climático, resaltando la reducción de su impacto y la sostenibilidad ambiental, que incide directamente en la prestación de los servicios.
UNICEF Costa Rica is looking for a passionate Health & Nutrition Officer to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of impactful health and nutrition programmes. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and operational support to ensure the successful delivery of initiatives aligned with UNICEF’s strategic goals.
UNICEF Pacific is offering an exciting consultancy opportunity for a proactive and experienced international Consultant to help shape the future of maternal and child health in Fiji. This 40-day remote-based assignment focuses on costing Fiji’s national plan to prevent vertical transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis. The consultant will be responsible for developing a comprehensive costing framework that covers clinical care, community interventions, procurement of services and supplies, documentation, coordination, and a costed monitoring and evaluation system. By applying global best practices and innovative approaches, the consultant will play a key role in strengthening the implementation and tracking of interventions, ultimately contributing to the elimination of new infections among children and improving health outcomes for mothers living with HIV. If you're passionate about global health and making a meaningful impact, this is your chance to contribute to a vital mission.
Climate change in Central Asia threatens essential services like WASH, MNCH, nutrition, and primary health care. UNICEF is leading efforts to secure resilient supply chains, strengthen health systems, and scale green financing solutions with global partners.
We seek a consultant to develop a Climate-Smart Supply Financing strategy for Uzbekistan and the region aligning investments with sustainability and equity. Your work will shape pathways for reliable medicines, vaccines, safe water, and nutrition services, ensuring continuity during climate shocks.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Philippines is looking for Policy and Data Analysis Consultant who would provide professional technical, operational assistance to localize and Integrate child- and Social-sector-focused Data in the GeoRiskPh.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Philippines is looking for Project development Consultant who would provide professional technical, operational assistance to localize National Adaptation Plan (NAP) through the Investment Portfolio for Risk Resilience integrating social sectors.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
As part of the MICS programme, UNICEF continues to strengthen its MICS support mechanism at all levels, so that implementing partners in countries can receive the required level of technical assistance on a timely basis at critical survey stages and are in a better position to support the implementing partner. The 7th round of the MICS programme (MICS7) was launched in March 2023 and there are already 40 planned and ongoing MICS7 surveys and potentially 20-30 more surveys in the pipeline. There are also 7 surveys from the 6th round of the MICS programme that are still in data processing or report finalisation stages.
A very important element of MICS design and implementation is sampling, which is a very specialized field of work. Excellent sampling support is needed during the design, implementation, and reporting stages of all surveys.
As currently there is no sufficient funding to cover all planned activities, some deliverables are planned to be completed only if additional resources become available.
Le/la Consultant/e International/e pilotera l’élaboration d’un Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants au niveau infranational (subnational Children’s Climate Risk Index, CCRI) aux Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le/la Consultant National/e et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. Le consultant finalisera la méthodologie à utiliser aux Comores pour un indice de risque au niveau communal, selon les données déjà disponibles ou collectable à travers le/la consultant/e national/e; assurera un contrôle qualité du travail de collecte de données; analysera les données collectées (les expositions, les aléas, les vulnérabilités et les capacités des enfants, pour chaque commune) et fournira une carte numérique interactive permettant de superposer ces différents facteurs.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant for Teachers Professional Learning 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.
in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.
Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.
To better understand the drivers of breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among key health providers in maternity wards, home visiting services and breastfeeding counsellors in Serbia, UNICEF seeks the services of a national consultant to conduct an assessment and provide social and behaviour-related support to Health and Early Childhood Development Program at UNICEF Serbia and UNICEF Regional Office in Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) in identifying psychological, social, and environmental factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviours among health workers in maternity wards and breastfeeding counsellors in the country.
Taking in consideration that a majority UNICEF documents and internal communication, both via email and verbally,
are made using the English language, the UNICEF Bissau Country office would like to ensure the availability of a
qualified English Language teacher for staff members to improve their English skills, in order to facilitate
communication and improve the quality of documents produced.
