UNICEF está buscando a un consultor/a que desarrollará paquetes de inducción diferenciados para nuevo personal de UNICEF, proveedores de servicios y contratistas, así como visitantes, donantes y misiones de terreno. Los productos incluirán materiales de capacitación, recursos de autoaprendizaje, herramientas de evaluación del aprendizaje, guías de facilitación, materiales de referencia rápida y un video de inducción para nuevo personal de UNICEF.
Governments across Africa forgo significant revenue through tax expenditures such as exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates and tax holidays. In 32 African countries with available data, these incentives cost at least USD 56 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of GDP and 18% of tax revenue in the median country. Unlike direct spending, tax expenditures are rarely scrutinized, approved, time-limited or evaluated, and little is known about who benefits. Most reported tax expenditures lack a clear policy objective, beneficiary group or sector classification, making their impacts on children and poor households largely invisible at a time of rising fiscal pressure and debt burdens. This assignment will assess the scale, composition and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, examine how they are granted and reviewed, identify lessons from reform efforts, and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
Bring your executive support expertise to a role where exceptional organisation helps drive global impact for children. Working closely with the PFP Director, you will connect people, priorities and processes, ensuring the Director’s Office remains responsive, well-coordinated and equipped to advance PFP’s ambitious agenda.
ECW is looking for a qualified and experienced Coordinator who will lead the strategic management of ECW's Acceleration Facility, the Fund's catalytic investment window that supports the development and uptake of global public goods, innovation, and systems strengthening in education in emergencies and protracted crises (EiEPC).
Under the supervision of the Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA) the incumbent will provide strategic guidance, quality assurance and ensure overall management of DGCA to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate and brand for children and their rights across the world.
In particular, the incumbent will guide and manage teams within the Advocacy pillar in DGCA to ensure the timely identification, implementation and monitoring of advocacy and communication strategies to support the achievement of organizational priorities. S/he will establish a systematic approach to identify issues of strategic importance and advocacy opportunities and partnerships for UNICEF, ensuring effective co-ordination of DGCA in support of global priorities, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2026-2029), its Advocacy and Communication Change Strategy and the Global Communications and Advocacy Strategy. Emphasizing team building, s/he will promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective and efficient global advocacy and communications team. The incumbent will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization - including HQ divisions, Regional and Country Offices and National Committees - to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
The Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in the preparation and finalisation of the 2026 Education Sector Performance Report (ESPR) and to provide technical support for the preparation, coordination and reporting of the Joint Sector Review (JSR).
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 Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
The consultants will work closely with UNICEF, and relevant stakeholders to develop an integrated package that strengthens children's learning and development in ECED, making them ready to learn and transition into Grade 1. The assignment will include the development of structured daily activity plans (192 days for ECED and at least the first 90 days, but not limited to, for Grade 1 teachers focusing on transition), formative assessment tools, coaching guidance, school readiness and transition resources, parent and caregiver engagement materials, and practical implementation guidance for teachers, schools, and local governments.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide AI capacity development to UNICEF Nepal staff through tailored coaching sessions and practical demonstrations that enable staff to confidently integrate AI into their daily work.
UNICEF Myanmar aims to engage two separate individual consultants under this assignment. Each consultant will be deployed on an on-demand basis, either independently or in parallel depending on programme needs, geographic coverage, urgency and the specific deliverables required.
Each consultant will be responsible for delivering the agreed content outputs assigned through a separate pre-mission brief, including photography, captions, consent documentation and any additional editorial deliverables as required, in coordination with the UNICEF Advocacy & Communications section.
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region.
Specifically, the regional government deemed it necessary to develop and implement a curriculum that is relevant and contextualized for all children in early childhood in the whole region. Currently, early learning facilities in BARMM are utilizing different curricula depending on its availability and accessibility (e.g. downloaded from websites). In addition, very limited number of Child Development Workers (CDWs) were trained on utilizing the National Early Learning Curriculum (NELC) while the Tahderiyyah Curriculum was only utilized in the Madrasah. With this curriculum, the regional government can issue a memorandum directing all LGUs to follow a standard curriculum, monitor its implementation and document the progress of children. Thus, this consultancy will help the region in developing their own Bangsamoro Early Learning Curriculum that is also anchored in the revised Philippine Early Learning Development Standards (PELDS).
However, before the development process of early learning curriculum will be realized, there is a need to first conduct a comprehensive review process of the existing curricula in the region to assess how they are being implemented, identify what works and the bottlenecks, and provide strategic recommendations on how BARMM can proceed with developing its own early learning curriculum moving forward.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as stipulated in the signed Joint Roling Workplan with the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region. Specifically, the regional government envisions an ECCD framework that is relevant in the context of BARMM and a ECCD policy and program expert is needed to support this important milestone. Where the policy consultant will craft and develop the contextualized ECCD system policy with guidance from the TWG that institutionalizes a whole-of-society approach to ECCD, including mechanisms for private sector engagement, public-private partnerships, and business investments that support early childhood development outcomes in BARMM. This consultancy will provide a robust situation analysis of children in early childhood including the existing environment. This will provide solid evidence on policy actions for the Bangsamoro ECCD policy in the region. This consultancy work is very critical as this will contribute to providing ECCD direction in the region, define its structure and management mechanisms, and guide respective local government units (LGUs) in planning, budgeting and implementation of a comprehensive and integrative ECCD program for children 0 to 8 years old in BARMM.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Join UNICEF as a People and Culture Officer (NOA) and play a key role in supporting the organization’s most valuable asset, its people. In this exciting opportunity, you will work closely with managers, staff, and P&C colleagues to deliver a range of human resources services, including recruitment, talent management, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, and P&C data analytics. Ideal for a proactive professional with strong research, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, the role offers valuable exposure to strategic P&C initiatives, client-focused advisory services, and workplace culture development. This position provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining talent while helping UNICEF create a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce that advances the rights and wellbeing of children around the world.
At UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire, strong financial management helps make every resource count for children. We are seeking a Finance Associate who will contribute to accurate accounting, effective financial monitoring, compliant documentation and timely support to teams, while upholding UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
UNICEF está buscando a un consultor/a que desarrollará paquetes de inducción diferenciados para nuevo personal de UNICEF, proveedores de servicios y contratistas, así como visitantes, donantes y misiones de terreno. Los productos incluirán materiales de capacitación, recursos de autoaprendizaje, herramientas de evaluación del aprendizaje, guías de facilitación, materiales de referencia rápida y un video de inducción para nuevo personal de UNICEF.
Governments across Africa forgo significant revenue through tax expenditures such as exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates and tax holidays. In 32 African countries with available data, these incentives cost at least USD 56 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of GDP and 18% of tax revenue in the median country. Unlike direct spending, tax expenditures are rarely scrutinized, approved, time-limited or evaluated, and little is known about who benefits. Most reported tax expenditures lack a clear policy objective, beneficiary group or sector classification, making their impacts on children and poor households largely invisible at a time of rising fiscal pressure and debt burdens. This assignment will assess the scale, composition and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, examine how they are granted and reviewed, identify lessons from reform efforts, and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
Bring your executive support expertise to a role where exceptional organisation helps drive global impact for children. Working closely with the PFP Director, you will connect people, priorities and processes, ensuring the Director’s Office remains responsive, well-coordinated and equipped to advance PFP’s ambitious agenda.
ECW is looking for a qualified and experienced Coordinator who will lead the strategic management of ECW's Acceleration Facility, the Fund's catalytic investment window that supports the development and uptake of global public goods, innovation, and systems strengthening in education in emergencies and protracted crises (EiEPC).
Under the supervision of the Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA) the incumbent will provide strategic guidance, quality assurance and ensure overall management of DGCA to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate and brand for children and their rights across the world.
In particular, the incumbent will guide and manage teams within the Advocacy pillar in DGCA to ensure the timely identification, implementation and monitoring of advocacy and communication strategies to support the achievement of organizational priorities. S/he will establish a systematic approach to identify issues of strategic importance and advocacy opportunities and partnerships for UNICEF, ensuring effective co-ordination of DGCA in support of global priorities, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2026-2029), its Advocacy and Communication Change Strategy and the Global Communications and Advocacy Strategy. Emphasizing team building, s/he will promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective and efficient global advocacy and communications team. The incumbent will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization - including HQ divisions, Regional and Country Offices and National Committees - to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
The Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in the preparation and finalisation of the 2026 Education Sector Performance Report (ESPR) and to provide technical support for the preparation, coordination and reporting of the Joint Sector Review (JSR).
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 Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
The consultants will work closely with UNICEF, and relevant stakeholders to develop an integrated package that strengthens children's learning and development in ECED, making them ready to learn and transition into Grade 1. The assignment will include the development of structured daily activity plans (192 days for ECED and at least the first 90 days, but not limited to, for Grade 1 teachers focusing on transition), formative assessment tools, coaching guidance, school readiness and transition resources, parent and caregiver engagement materials, and practical implementation guidance for teachers, schools, and local governments.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide AI capacity development to UNICEF Nepal staff through tailored coaching sessions and practical demonstrations that enable staff to confidently integrate AI into their daily work.
UNICEF Myanmar aims to engage two separate individual consultants under this assignment. Each consultant will be deployed on an on-demand basis, either independently or in parallel depending on programme needs, geographic coverage, urgency and the specific deliverables required.
Each consultant will be responsible for delivering the agreed content outputs assigned through a separate pre-mission brief, including photography, captions, consent documentation and any additional editorial deliverables as required, in coordination with the UNICEF Advocacy & Communications section.
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region.
Specifically, the regional government deemed it necessary to develop and implement a curriculum that is relevant and contextualized for all children in early childhood in the whole region. Currently, early learning facilities in BARMM are utilizing different curricula depending on its availability and accessibility (e.g. downloaded from websites). In addition, very limited number of Child Development Workers (CDWs) were trained on utilizing the National Early Learning Curriculum (NELC) while the Tahderiyyah Curriculum was only utilized in the Madrasah. With this curriculum, the regional government can issue a memorandum directing all LGUs to follow a standard curriculum, monitor its implementation and document the progress of children. Thus, this consultancy will help the region in developing their own Bangsamoro Early Learning Curriculum that is also anchored in the revised Philippine Early Learning Development Standards (PELDS).
However, before the development process of early learning curriculum will be realized, there is a need to first conduct a comprehensive review process of the existing curricula in the region to assess how they are being implemented, identify what works and the bottlenecks, and provide strategic recommendations on how BARMM can proceed with developing its own early learning curriculum moving forward.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as stipulated in the signed Joint Roling Workplan with the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region. Specifically, the regional government envisions an ECCD framework that is relevant in the context of BARMM and a ECCD policy and program expert is needed to support this important milestone. Where the policy consultant will craft and develop the contextualized ECCD system policy with guidance from the TWG that institutionalizes a whole-of-society approach to ECCD, including mechanisms for private sector engagement, public-private partnerships, and business investments that support early childhood development outcomes in BARMM. This consultancy will provide a robust situation analysis of children in early childhood including the existing environment. This will provide solid evidence on policy actions for the Bangsamoro ECCD policy in the region. This consultancy work is very critical as this will contribute to providing ECCD direction in the region, define its structure and management mechanisms, and guide respective local government units (LGUs) in planning, budgeting and implementation of a comprehensive and integrative ECCD program for children 0 to 8 years old in BARMM.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Join UNICEF as a People and Culture Officer (NOA) and play a key role in supporting the organization’s most valuable asset, its people. In this exciting opportunity, you will work closely with managers, staff, and P&C colleagues to deliver a range of human resources services, including recruitment, talent management, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, and P&C data analytics. Ideal for a proactive professional with strong research, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, the role offers valuable exposure to strategic P&C initiatives, client-focused advisory services, and workplace culture development. This position provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining talent while helping UNICEF create a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce that advances the rights and wellbeing of children around the world.
At UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire, strong financial management helps make every resource count for children. We are seeking a Finance Associate who will contribute to accurate accounting, effective financial monitoring, compliant documentation and timely support to teams, while upholding UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
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