The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is an international household survey programme developed and supported by UNICEF. MICS is designed to collect data on key indicators that are used to assess the situation of children and women. Over the past three decades, MICS has continuously evolved to respond to changing data needs, expanding from 28 indicators in the first round in the mid-1990s to more than 250 indicators in the current seventh round, and has become a key source of data on child protection, early childhood education, and a major source of data on child health and nutrition. In addition to being a data collection tool to generate data for monitoring the progress towards national goals and global commitments for promoting the welfare of children, MICS provided valuable data for MDG and recently for SDG monitoring and reporting.
Under the overall supervision of the Household Survey Specialist, the Global Blood Testing Consultant has the responsibility for finalising the standard MICS questionnaire modules and associated protocols. In collaboration with the Global MICS Team in UNICEF Headquarters (HQ) and Regional Offices (ROs), and the respective UNICEF Country Offices (COs), as well the UNICEF Programme Group staff on Climate, Environment, Energy & Disaster and national partners, the Consultant will support the preparation, implementation, and completion of up to three MICS surveys (or similar UNICEF-supported survey) in relation to the blood testing component. When possible, the consultant will further provide input to UNICEF’s global efforts and support to data collection including blood sample, outside the MICS Programme.
Designs and protocols will follow those established for other components of the MICS Programme. The Consultant will work together with the Global MICS Team’s experts on sampling, data processing, and household survey support.
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.
The Risk Management in Programming and Safeguarding (RMPS) Unit, within the Programme Effectiveness Team (PET) in UNICEF’s Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), was established at the end of 2024 to drive an integrated approach to risk management and safeguarding across UNICEF’s programming and operations.
To ensure sustainability, UNICEF is preparing to transfer the management of UNICARE from EMOPS to DAPM. This consultancy will provide business analysis and rollout/adoption support during and following transition, ensuring that workflows and processes are aligned with the CFM Procedure, that country offices have the tools and guidance to adopt the system efficiently, and that the analytics component is developed to respond to programme and accountability needs.
Sous la supervision du Spécialiste en Planification et en Suivi-Evaluation, le/la consultant(e) International(e) MICS (CIM) soutiendra et fournira des directives au Bureau UNICEF du Mali et à l'INSTAT pour la préparation, la mise en oeuvre et l'achèvement de l'enquête MICS 2026 dans le pays.
Unicef en Cuba ¿Le gustaría trabajar con nuestro equipo para generar cambios positivos en la vida de niños, niñas y adolescentes? Esta puede ser una oportunidad.
La Oficina de Unicef en Cuba anuncia su Convocatoria para ocupar la vacante de Oficial de Programa en su Oficina. La persona que ocupe el puesto deberá proporcionar asistencia técnica profesional y apoyo para el diseño, la planificación y la ejecución de programas, la gestión y la evaluación de las actividades de los programas/proyectos, el análisis de datos y la presentación de informes de progreso, en apoyo de las metas y los objetivos del programa. Le invitamos a consultar la Descripción del Perfil y los requerimientos para su postulación.
UNICEF tiene una política de tolerancia cero con respecto de cualquier conducta incompatible con los propósitos y objetivos de las Naciones Unidas, incluyendo explotación sexual y abuso, acoso sexual, abuso de autoridad y discriminación. Asimismo, UNICEF se adhiere a estrictos principios para la salvaguarda de la niñez.
Las personas seleccionadas estarán sujetas a un riguroso proceso de verificación de antecedentes y referencias, y se espera se adhieran a los estándares y principios de UNICEF.
Te animamos a consultar si cumples los requerimientos anunciados. ! Tú puedes ser parte de nuestro equipo y trabajar a favor de la infancia y la adolescencia en el país!
Analizar el marco jurídico actual del sistema de educación parvularia y proponer los cambios normativos necesarios para viabilizar una reforma al sistema de financiamiento, en articulación con las propuestas institucionales y financieras desarrolladas por la consultoría económica.
Propósito de la actividad o asignación:
Desarrollar propuestas técnicas que orienten el diseño de un modelo institucional y financiero para el sistema de financiamiento de la educación parvularia en Chile, basado en criterios de equidad, eficiencia y gobernanza, y articulado con una futura reforma normativa.
The Cold Chain Logistics Specialist reports to Chief Health & Nutrition and works closely with the Supply and Logistics Specialist and is responsible for the implementation and strengthening vaccine management, EPI supplies and cold chain systems.
In collaboration with UNICEF’s Health and Nutrition Programme team, national partners on immunization service supply chain management, the incumbent provides technical support in defining supply requirements for vaccines and cold chain equipment and accessories for programming.
Sous la supervision du chef de l’Unité Construction basé à N‘Djaména, l’ingénieur consultant en génie civil aura la charge de la préparation des dossiers de construction, la gestion de la qualité des travaux et la communication avec les parties prenantes locales
Join UNICEF as a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordination). Make a meaningful impact on the lives of children in Cameroon. As a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordinator), you will play a key role in promoting children's rights by leading and overseeing the full range of operations within the transactional support hub. Your leadership will directly enhance the office’s efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to deliver results for children.
UNICEF Congo Brazzaville is seeking a motivated professional who is passionate about children's rights and is ready to put their expertise in the field of social policies and program planning, monitoring and evaluation to work for the children of Congo.
L’UNICEF, le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance, œuvre à la protection des droits de chaque enfant, partout dans le monde, en particulier les plus défavorisés et ceux vivant dans les zones les plus difficiles d’accès. Dans plus de 190 pays et territoires, nous mettons tout en œuvre pour aider les enfants à survivre, à s’épanouir et à réaliser pleinement leur potentiel.
UNICEF Angola is looking for 3 Nutrition consultants who will support the monitoring and coordination of nutrition interventions with government and implementing partners, ensure adherence to national and UNICEF standards, and contribute to quality assurance through regular technical reporting.
UNISON is UNICEF’s Salesforce-based partnership management CRM system. UNISON is accessed by over 160 offices worldwide and is used to coordinate and collaborate on donor engagement; manage donor relationships and funding pipelines; and to make data-driven decisions on donor strategy. The system was put in place in 2015 but has been more fully maximized and adapted to global user needs over the last four years. Legacy data and fields must be cleaned up and rationalized and donor adoption enhanced through refined analytics.
This consultancy will support UNICEF’s global partnerships and fundraising community and the wider organization by leveraging UNISON (Salesforce) data to deliver actionable insights, optimize partner engagement strategies, set measurable KPIs, and enhance reporting capabilities.
The consultant is expected to work closely with the Ministry of Justice and two working groups under the Ministry of Justice on juvenile justice system reforms and on elaboration of the draft law on mediation. The Consultant provides support to the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries and agencies to elaborate standard operating procedures that will describe in detail the referral pathway of the cases of children allegedly committed crimes through law enforcement to social sector to divert children in conflict with the law.
The National Consultant will provide technical and coordination support for the implementation and piloting of the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IEPF) in 10 preschools, as well as coordinate work on the development of National ECD Strategy. This includes facilitating consultations, conducting needs assessments, supporting capacity-building, contextualizing materials, monitoring pilot implementation, and contributing to evidence generation and refinement of the framework for national scale-up.
Reporting to the Chief of the Health Section, the national expert will provide technical expertise, support, and guidance to UNICEF in Kazakhstan for Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes, projects, and activities within the Country Programme with focus on implementation of the joint Comprehensive Plan for Early Intervention and Early Childhood Development “Sätti Bastau". Due to lack of in-house capacity to deliver specific expertise as identified below, UNICEF intends to hire a qualified ECD expert to undertake specific task/deliverables to advance the ECD agenda in the country.
The Community Engagement consultant will work in close collaboration with a Researcher Consultant to support a rapid needs assessment aimed at understanding migration experience of Bangladeshi UASC, identifying key protection risks and provide evidence-based recommendations to inform policy responses. More specifically, the consultant will carry out 1) the search and translation of relevant sources informing the initial desk review as per the researcher’s guidance; 2) the review of methodology and tools aimed at community engagement; 3) the reach out of key informants who will participate in interviews; 4) the cultural and linguistic mediation of focus group discussions with Bangladeshi youth; 5) the review of the rapid needs assessment-related materials.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is an international household survey programme developed and supported by UNICEF. MICS is designed to collect data on key indicators that are used to assess the situation of children and women. Over the past three decades, MICS has continuously evolved to respond to changing data needs, expanding from 28 indicators in the first round in the mid-1990s to more than 250 indicators in the current seventh round, and has become a key source of data on child protection, early childhood education, and a major source of data on child health and nutrition. In addition to being a data collection tool to generate data for monitoring the progress towards national goals and global commitments for promoting the welfare of children, MICS provided valuable data for MDG and recently for SDG monitoring and reporting.
Under the overall supervision of the Household Survey Specialist, the Global Blood Testing Consultant has the responsibility for finalising the standard MICS questionnaire modules and associated protocols. In collaboration with the Global MICS Team in UNICEF Headquarters (HQ) and Regional Offices (ROs), and the respective UNICEF Country Offices (COs), as well the UNICEF Programme Group staff on Climate, Environment, Energy & Disaster and national partners, the Consultant will support the preparation, implementation, and completion of up to three MICS surveys (or similar UNICEF-supported survey) in relation to the blood testing component. When possible, the consultant will further provide input to UNICEF’s global efforts and support to data collection including blood sample, outside the MICS Programme.
Designs and protocols will follow those established for other components of the MICS Programme. The Consultant will work together with the Global MICS Team’s experts on sampling, data processing, and household survey support.
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.
The Risk Management in Programming and Safeguarding (RMPS) Unit, within the Programme Effectiveness Team (PET) in UNICEF’s Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), was established at the end of 2024 to drive an integrated approach to risk management and safeguarding across UNICEF’s programming and operations.
To ensure sustainability, UNICEF is preparing to transfer the management of UNICARE from EMOPS to DAPM. This consultancy will provide business analysis and rollout/adoption support during and following transition, ensuring that workflows and processes are aligned with the CFM Procedure, that country offices have the tools and guidance to adopt the system efficiently, and that the analytics component is developed to respond to programme and accountability needs.
Sous la supervision du Spécialiste en Planification et en Suivi-Evaluation, le/la consultant(e) International(e) MICS (CIM) soutiendra et fournira des directives au Bureau UNICEF du Mali et à l'INSTAT pour la préparation, la mise en oeuvre et l'achèvement de l'enquête MICS 2026 dans le pays.
Unicef en Cuba ¿Le gustaría trabajar con nuestro equipo para generar cambios positivos en la vida de niños, niñas y adolescentes? Esta puede ser una oportunidad.
La Oficina de Unicef en Cuba anuncia su Convocatoria para ocupar la vacante de Oficial de Programa en su Oficina. La persona que ocupe el puesto deberá proporcionar asistencia técnica profesional y apoyo para el diseño, la planificación y la ejecución de programas, la gestión y la evaluación de las actividades de los programas/proyectos, el análisis de datos y la presentación de informes de progreso, en apoyo de las metas y los objetivos del programa. Le invitamos a consultar la Descripción del Perfil y los requerimientos para su postulación.
UNICEF tiene una política de tolerancia cero con respecto de cualquier conducta incompatible con los propósitos y objetivos de las Naciones Unidas, incluyendo explotación sexual y abuso, acoso sexual, abuso de autoridad y discriminación. Asimismo, UNICEF se adhiere a estrictos principios para la salvaguarda de la niñez.
Las personas seleccionadas estarán sujetas a un riguroso proceso de verificación de antecedentes y referencias, y se espera se adhieran a los estándares y principios de UNICEF.
Te animamos a consultar si cumples los requerimientos anunciados. ! Tú puedes ser parte de nuestro equipo y trabajar a favor de la infancia y la adolescencia en el país!
Analizar el marco jurídico actual del sistema de educación parvularia y proponer los cambios normativos necesarios para viabilizar una reforma al sistema de financiamiento, en articulación con las propuestas institucionales y financieras desarrolladas por la consultoría económica.
Propósito de la actividad o asignación:
Desarrollar propuestas técnicas que orienten el diseño de un modelo institucional y financiero para el sistema de financiamiento de la educación parvularia en Chile, basado en criterios de equidad, eficiencia y gobernanza, y articulado con una futura reforma normativa.
The Cold Chain Logistics Specialist reports to Chief Health & Nutrition and works closely with the Supply and Logistics Specialist and is responsible for the implementation and strengthening vaccine management, EPI supplies and cold chain systems.
In collaboration with UNICEF’s Health and Nutrition Programme team, national partners on immunization service supply chain management, the incumbent provides technical support in defining supply requirements for vaccines and cold chain equipment and accessories for programming.
Sous la supervision du chef de l’Unité Construction basé à N‘Djaména, l’ingénieur consultant en génie civil aura la charge de la préparation des dossiers de construction, la gestion de la qualité des travaux et la communication avec les parties prenantes locales
Join UNICEF as a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordination). Make a meaningful impact on the lives of children in Cameroon. As a Programme Specialist (Programme Hub Coordinator), you will play a key role in promoting children's rights by leading and overseeing the full range of operations within the transactional support hub. Your leadership will directly enhance the office’s efficiency, effectiveness, and ability to deliver results for children.
UNICEF Congo Brazzaville is seeking a motivated professional who is passionate about children's rights and is ready to put their expertise in the field of social policies and program planning, monitoring and evaluation to work for the children of Congo.
L’UNICEF, le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance, œuvre à la protection des droits de chaque enfant, partout dans le monde, en particulier les plus défavorisés et ceux vivant dans les zones les plus difficiles d’accès. Dans plus de 190 pays et territoires, nous mettons tout en œuvre pour aider les enfants à survivre, à s’épanouir et à réaliser pleinement leur potentiel.
UNICEF Angola is looking for 3 Nutrition consultants who will support the monitoring and coordination of nutrition interventions with government and implementing partners, ensure adherence to national and UNICEF standards, and contribute to quality assurance through regular technical reporting.
UNISON is UNICEF’s Salesforce-based partnership management CRM system. UNISON is accessed by over 160 offices worldwide and is used to coordinate and collaborate on donor engagement; manage donor relationships and funding pipelines; and to make data-driven decisions on donor strategy. The system was put in place in 2015 but has been more fully maximized and adapted to global user needs over the last four years. Legacy data and fields must be cleaned up and rationalized and donor adoption enhanced through refined analytics.
This consultancy will support UNICEF’s global partnerships and fundraising community and the wider organization by leveraging UNISON (Salesforce) data to deliver actionable insights, optimize partner engagement strategies, set measurable KPIs, and enhance reporting capabilities.
The consultant is expected to work closely with the Ministry of Justice and two working groups under the Ministry of Justice on juvenile justice system reforms and on elaboration of the draft law on mediation. The Consultant provides support to the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries and agencies to elaborate standard operating procedures that will describe in detail the referral pathway of the cases of children allegedly committed crimes through law enforcement to social sector to divert children in conflict with the law.
The National Consultant will provide technical and coordination support for the implementation and piloting of the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IEPF) in 10 preschools, as well as coordinate work on the development of National ECD Strategy. This includes facilitating consultations, conducting needs assessments, supporting capacity-building, contextualizing materials, monitoring pilot implementation, and contributing to evidence generation and refinement of the framework for national scale-up.
Reporting to the Chief of the Health Section, the national expert will provide technical expertise, support, and guidance to UNICEF in Kazakhstan for Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes, projects, and activities within the Country Programme with focus on implementation of the joint Comprehensive Plan for Early Intervention and Early Childhood Development “Sätti Bastau". Due to lack of in-house capacity to deliver specific expertise as identified below, UNICEF intends to hire a qualified ECD expert to undertake specific task/deliverables to advance the ECD agenda in the country.
The Community Engagement consultant will work in close collaboration with a Researcher Consultant to support a rapid needs assessment aimed at understanding migration experience of Bangladeshi UASC, identifying key protection risks and provide evidence-based recommendations to inform policy responses. More specifically, the consultant will carry out 1) the search and translation of relevant sources informing the initial desk review as per the researcher’s guidance; 2) the review of methodology and tools aimed at community engagement; 3) the reach out of key informants who will participate in interviews; 4) the cultural and linguistic mediation of focus group discussions with Bangladeshi youth; 5) the review of the rapid needs assessment-related materials.
