The Education & Adolescent Development Section of Programme Group (PG) at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) requires the services of an Advocacy Specialist to deliver critical and time-bound interventions for the implementation of 2025-26 advocacy activities on the learning crisis.
This includes ensuring strategic and aligned roll-out of advocacy and communication efforts for Foundational Learning; a) developing strategic advocacy planning documents, resources and materials as key deliverables under a number of external partnerships; and b) developing and monitoring delivery under advocacy and communications workplans.
UNICEF Brazil is looking for a Social Protection consultant to support the development of technical guidance for Social Assistance workers on Social Assistance Benefits and Cash Transfer programs in emergency contexts. Under the supervision of the Chief of Social Policy, the consultant will work closely with SNAS and SENARC technical teams and support coordination efforts led by UNICEF.
The development of a comprehensive Strategic Purchasing Manual for the Zanzibar Health Services Fund (ZHSF) is a critical step in strengthening health financing reforms and advancing the broader health sector transformation agenda of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. The manual will ensure alignment of ZHSF’s purchasing functions with the ongoing health sector reforms and contribute to the achievement of the government’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goal.
The development of the manual is timely, since ZHSF is in the process of expanding its UHI coverage to include the informal sector and vulnerable groups. A comprehensive strategic purchasing manual that clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders is essential to the achievement of the UHC goal as coverage expends.
ZHSF will use the manual to guide its strategic purchasing functions, which will promote efficient and equitable financing, and the delivery of quality health care services in Zanzibar. The manual will increase ZHSF’s capacity in ensuring value for money of health expenditures and creating stronger incentives for providers to deliver affordable, accessible, and quality health services.
The consultancy includes training and mentoring of ZHSF staff on operationalization of the manual to be produced. This will enhance the institutional capacity of ZHSF in making decisions on provider payment mechanisms, benefit package design, and service provider performance monitoring, all of which will improve access to equitable and quality health care services for the people of Zanzibar.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an individual consultant with expertise to provide technical leadership in revising the existing national IMAM guidelines in line with the 2023 WHO recommendations, integrating best practices, stakeholder input, and the country’s context, health systems and review and consolidate the current training materials in line with the revised National Guidelines for Acute Malnutrition. If you have the required expertise and is interested, kindly post your application.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant for Risk-Based Water Safety Planning.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support Armenia country office with communication and advocacy, particularly with operation of various digital channels and regular content generation for digital, face to face, and print purposes.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to offer data science, engineering and provide senior stakeholder, communications and project management support for the activities of EAPRO’s Frontier Data Lab for activities related to GAVI/ Climate Change / Emergencies and WASH. This work is fundamental to the outcomes and outputs of EAP RO’s RAM and is related to the support of the CPD process. Under the guidance of EAPRO’s Regional T4D Manager, the consultant will collaborate closely with regional T4D and program teams, as well as T4D, data, and program teams based in country offices throughout the East Asia and Pacific region and in the future, the wider Asia Pacific Region.
In order to reinforce its expertise in sustainable energy UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with
implementation, communications, knowledge management, and research-related work in transitioning energy systems to
net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes support to
knowledge management and communications action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their
understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean cooking that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s
programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its
assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and
healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable
Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting
essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have
the following responsibilities:
Human Resources
United Nations Children’s Fund
1) Solar Hub Helpdesk: Support the solar hub helpdesk with dedicated hotline hours to provide real-time technical support
and guidance on renewable energy solutions for Country Offices (COs).
2) Global Guidance Pack on Solar Systems for UNICEF.
Under the direct supervision of the Child Rights and Monitoring Specialist, the consultant is responsible to conduct a comprehensive legal that maps the current legal framework related to children’s participation in user-generated content in digital spaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, identifies legal and institutional gaps, and proposes actionable recommendations for policy, regulation, and rights education. The analysis will serve as a foundation for advocacy, legal harmonization, child rights education, and public awareness-raising.
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant for Vulnerability and Adaption Assessment. The purpose of the consultancy is to assess the vulnerability of the Zimbabwe’s health sector to climate change and identify existing and potential adaptation measures that can build climate resilience at the national and sub-national levels.
L’objectif global de cette consultation est de renforcer l’intégration de l’égalité de genre dans le système éducatif malgache, en dotant les enseignants(e)s de ressources, de compétences et d’outils adaptés pour promouvoir une éducation sensible au genre en classe, tant au niveau du primaire que du secondaire. En s’inscrivant dans les priorités nationales et internationales en faveur de l’égalité de genre, cette mission vise à transformer les pratiques pédagogiques, réduire les disparités et permettre à chaque enfant d’exprimer son plein potentiel, indépendamment de son genre.
UNICEF Bolivia requiere contratar los servicios de un/una profesional para el servicio de consultoría en asistencia técnica al Ministerio de Educación para la producción de un sistema de información sobre temáticas de género generacional en unidades educativas.
La sede de la consultoría es la ciudad de La Paz, no se prevé viajes. La fecha límite de finalización de la consultoría es 30 de octubre de 2025 y se desea iniciar inmediatamente.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide temporary technical support to the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) unit of UNICEF Tajikistan, with the aim of significantly strengthening its planning, monitoring, and reporting processes.
National digital engagement consultant vacancy in UNICEF Myanmar, Social & Behavior Change unit. Interested Myanmar nationals with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
UNICEF Honduras busca consultor/a individual nacional para la evaluación de necesidades, diseño y supervisión de obras de rehabilitación de la Red de Laboratorios de Salud Humana, Animal y Ambiental.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Estamos buscando a una persona que nos apoye en el monitoreo del crecimiento y modelo demostrativo de provisión de suplemento nutricional.
To update the trend of multidimensional child poverty in Viet Nam 2020 to 2024 and analyze the factors associated with child poverty for formulating policy recommendations on sustainable poverty reduction.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic windows. The consultant will play a lead technical role on two ongoing mixed-method impact evaluation on child marriage and social norms including the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage” and the “Impact evaluation of Ghana’s Promoting Adolescent Safe Spaces (PASS),” jointly with other members of the EO ICF team. In addition, the consultant will lead on the development of a novel child vulnerability and/or resilience index as part of the ASPECT portfolio. The overarching goal of this latter work is to develop a measurement tool which can be integrated into future impact evaluations and large-scale data collection in fragile and humanitarian settings.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic window on child marriage and social norms to integrate an innovative qualitative methodology to capture programme outcomes and impacts into the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage.” More specifically, the consultant will support development of a design, study instruments, training, analysis and dissemination of an imbedded Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) focused on adolescent girls affected by the 2023 earthquake and who now live in container cities and have benefited from the intervention. This sub-set of adolescent girls represents a highly vulnerable group and an opportunity to understand the perceptions of impact within a smaller purposefully selected sample affected by natural disasters. This is a strategic investment for the ICF impact evaluation portfolio, as learnings from this effort will feed into broader institutional efforts which may benefit from this methodology to investigate sub-group impacts of interest to UNICEF and broader stakeholders across studies. The EO seeks a highly motivated impact evaluation consultant who strives to excel and stays abreast of the latest evaluative knowledge and methodological innovations.
During the 3-month period of the contract, the Consultant will support a series of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening GBViE targeted research efforts.
The Education & Adolescent Development Section of Programme Group (PG) at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) requires the services of an Advocacy Specialist to deliver critical and time-bound interventions for the implementation of 2025-26 advocacy activities on the learning crisis.
This includes ensuring strategic and aligned roll-out of advocacy and communication efforts for Foundational Learning; a) developing strategic advocacy planning documents, resources and materials as key deliverables under a number of external partnerships; and b) developing and monitoring delivery under advocacy and communications workplans.
UNICEF Brazil is looking for a Social Protection consultant to support the development of technical guidance for Social Assistance workers on Social Assistance Benefits and Cash Transfer programs in emergency contexts. Under the supervision of the Chief of Social Policy, the consultant will work closely with SNAS and SENARC technical teams and support coordination efforts led by UNICEF.
The development of a comprehensive Strategic Purchasing Manual for the Zanzibar Health Services Fund (ZHSF) is a critical step in strengthening health financing reforms and advancing the broader health sector transformation agenda of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar. The manual will ensure alignment of ZHSF’s purchasing functions with the ongoing health sector reforms and contribute to the achievement of the government’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goal.
The development of the manual is timely, since ZHSF is in the process of expanding its UHI coverage to include the informal sector and vulnerable groups. A comprehensive strategic purchasing manual that clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders is essential to the achievement of the UHC goal as coverage expends.
ZHSF will use the manual to guide its strategic purchasing functions, which will promote efficient and equitable financing, and the delivery of quality health care services in Zanzibar. The manual will increase ZHSF’s capacity in ensuring value for money of health expenditures and creating stronger incentives for providers to deliver affordable, accessible, and quality health services.
The consultancy includes training and mentoring of ZHSF staff on operationalization of the manual to be produced. This will enhance the institutional capacity of ZHSF in making decisions on provider payment mechanisms, benefit package design, and service provider performance monitoring, all of which will improve access to equitable and quality health care services for the people of Zanzibar.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an individual consultant with expertise to provide technical leadership in revising the existing national IMAM guidelines in line with the 2023 WHO recommendations, integrating best practices, stakeholder input, and the country’s context, health systems and review and consolidate the current training materials in line with the revised National Guidelines for Acute Malnutrition. If you have the required expertise and is interested, kindly post your application.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant for Risk-Based Water Safety Planning.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support Armenia country office with communication and advocacy, particularly with operation of various digital channels and regular content generation for digital, face to face, and print purposes.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to offer data science, engineering and provide senior stakeholder, communications and project management support for the activities of EAPRO’s Frontier Data Lab for activities related to GAVI/ Climate Change / Emergencies and WASH. This work is fundamental to the outcomes and outputs of EAP RO’s RAM and is related to the support of the CPD process. Under the guidance of EAPRO’s Regional T4D Manager, the consultant will collaborate closely with regional T4D and program teams, as well as T4D, data, and program teams based in country offices throughout the East Asia and Pacific region and in the future, the wider Asia Pacific Region.
In order to reinforce its expertise in sustainable energy UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with
implementation, communications, knowledge management, and research-related work in transitioning energy systems to
net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes support to
knowledge management and communications action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their
understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean cooking that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s
programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its
assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and
healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable
Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting
essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have
the following responsibilities:
Human Resources
United Nations Children’s Fund
1) Solar Hub Helpdesk: Support the solar hub helpdesk with dedicated hotline hours to provide real-time technical support
and guidance on renewable energy solutions for Country Offices (COs).
2) Global Guidance Pack on Solar Systems for UNICEF.
Under the direct supervision of the Child Rights and Monitoring Specialist, the consultant is responsible to conduct a comprehensive legal that maps the current legal framework related to children’s participation in user-generated content in digital spaces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, identifies legal and institutional gaps, and proposes actionable recommendations for policy, regulation, and rights education. The analysis will serve as a foundation for advocacy, legal harmonization, child rights education, and public awareness-raising.
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant for Vulnerability and Adaption Assessment. The purpose of the consultancy is to assess the vulnerability of the Zimbabwe’s health sector to climate change and identify existing and potential adaptation measures that can build climate resilience at the national and sub-national levels.
L’objectif global de cette consultation est de renforcer l’intégration de l’égalité de genre dans le système éducatif malgache, en dotant les enseignants(e)s de ressources, de compétences et d’outils adaptés pour promouvoir une éducation sensible au genre en classe, tant au niveau du primaire que du secondaire. En s’inscrivant dans les priorités nationales et internationales en faveur de l’égalité de genre, cette mission vise à transformer les pratiques pédagogiques, réduire les disparités et permettre à chaque enfant d’exprimer son plein potentiel, indépendamment de son genre.
UNICEF Bolivia requiere contratar los servicios de un/una profesional para el servicio de consultoría en asistencia técnica al Ministerio de Educación para la producción de un sistema de información sobre temáticas de género generacional en unidades educativas.
La sede de la consultoría es la ciudad de La Paz, no se prevé viajes. La fecha límite de finalización de la consultoría es 30 de octubre de 2025 y se desea iniciar inmediatamente.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide temporary technical support to the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) unit of UNICEF Tajikistan, with the aim of significantly strengthening its planning, monitoring, and reporting processes.
National digital engagement consultant vacancy in UNICEF Myanmar, Social & Behavior Change unit. Interested Myanmar nationals with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
UNICEF Honduras busca consultor/a individual nacional para la evaluación de necesidades, diseño y supervisión de obras de rehabilitación de la Red de Laboratorios de Salud Humana, Animal y Ambiental.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Estamos buscando a una persona que nos apoye en el monitoreo del crecimiento y modelo demostrativo de provisión de suplemento nutricional.
To update the trend of multidimensional child poverty in Viet Nam 2020 to 2024 and analyze the factors associated with child poverty for formulating policy recommendations on sustainable poverty reduction.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic windows. The consultant will play a lead technical role on two ongoing mixed-method impact evaluation on child marriage and social norms including the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage” and the “Impact evaluation of Ghana’s Promoting Adolescent Safe Spaces (PASS),” jointly with other members of the EO ICF team. In addition, the consultant will lead on the development of a novel child vulnerability and/or resilience index as part of the ASPECT portfolio. The overarching goal of this latter work is to develop a measurement tool which can be integrated into future impact evaluations and large-scale data collection in fragile and humanitarian settings.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic window on child marriage and social norms to integrate an innovative qualitative methodology to capture programme outcomes and impacts into the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage.” More specifically, the consultant will support development of a design, study instruments, training, analysis and dissemination of an imbedded Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) focused on adolescent girls affected by the 2023 earthquake and who now live in container cities and have benefited from the intervention. This sub-set of adolescent girls represents a highly vulnerable group and an opportunity to understand the perceptions of impact within a smaller purposefully selected sample affected by natural disasters. This is a strategic investment for the ICF impact evaluation portfolio, as learnings from this effort will feed into broader institutional efforts which may benefit from this methodology to investigate sub-group impacts of interest to UNICEF and broader stakeholders across studies. The EO seeks a highly motivated impact evaluation consultant who strives to excel and stays abreast of the latest evaluative knowledge and methodological innovations.
During the 3-month period of the contract, the Consultant will support a series of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening GBViE targeted research efforts.
