UNICEF Pakistan is seeking a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Monitoring Officer at the NOA level to join the Planning and Monitoring Team on a fixed term basis in Islamabad Office.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a dynamic qualified candidate to join our team as a Programme Specialist (PSEA / Child Safeguarding) at the P-3 level based in the Gaza Strip, SOP.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide guidance and support to three Country Offices (COs) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan – in UNICEF’s South Asia region which are undertaking costing exercises (including a financial gap analysis), cost-effectiveness, and fiscal space analyses for community health and nutrition. Each CO will employ the services of a national consultant, who will be primarily responsible for the additional data collection analysis required to develop these knowledge products. It is worth noting that COs are building on previous work that has already been conducted, with Community Health Worker strategies and nutrition plans already fully or partially costed, supported by Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies.
The role of the consultant will be to harmonize the approach taken across the COs, and to provide detailed guidance and hands-on support to COs with methodological guidance, guiding and reviewing data collection and analysis, and supporting the drafting of succinct knowledge products that are suitable for advocacy purposes. This will involve the development of guidance and template documents.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support the Family Welfare Division (FWD) to develop national integrated home-based maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition handbook. The consultant will be engaged for 6 months.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to develop implementation guideline of Skill Health Personnel (SHP) and Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) modular training package in Nepal. The consultant will be engaged for 30 working days within 5 months.
The Health Officer will report to the Health Specialist Team Lead. The Health Officer-HSS will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme goals on objectives within the Country Programme on all the pillars of Health System Strengthening.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in producing the donors’ reports; to support for the already scheduled reports to be submitted until the end of September 2025 as well as support for the development of new donor proposals and support in grants management through review of reprogramming requests and coordination of verification exercises as needed.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
Consolidate an evidence-based investment case to promote the scaling up of UNICEF-supported models of services piloted in Italy, namely the foster care model for UASC and the support to 6 Prefectures through deployment of UNICEF case managers.
The UCHI Regional Programme Coordinator will have the key responsibility to design the implementation of the community outreach component in each of the districts assigned to him/her and facilitate a smooth implementation of the programme in close collaboration with all stakeholders. The Regional Programme Coordinator will work in close collaboration with Principal Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Officer (PHNAO), and the District Nutrition Coordinating Committee (DNCC) with the aim of systems strengthening.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basiswithpublic audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
LACRO is looking for a consultant to identify best practices for integrating refugees and migrants into social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-pandemic context. If you fulfill the requirements, Apply Now!!
The Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all UCHI Nutrition Programme activities in their allocated districts. Additionally, the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will back-stop the District Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, in close collaboration with the District Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinating Committee (DMECC) with the aim of strengthening the government systems.
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.
UNICEF Pakistan is seeking a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Monitoring Officer at the NOA level to join the Planning and Monitoring Team on a fixed term basis in Islamabad Office.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a dynamic qualified candidate to join our team as a Programme Specialist (PSEA / Child Safeguarding) at the P-3 level based in the Gaza Strip, SOP.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide guidance and support to three Country Offices (COs) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan – in UNICEF’s South Asia region which are undertaking costing exercises (including a financial gap analysis), cost-effectiveness, and fiscal space analyses for community health and nutrition. Each CO will employ the services of a national consultant, who will be primarily responsible for the additional data collection analysis required to develop these knowledge products. It is worth noting that COs are building on previous work that has already been conducted, with Community Health Worker strategies and nutrition plans already fully or partially costed, supported by Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies.
The role of the consultant will be to harmonize the approach taken across the COs, and to provide detailed guidance and hands-on support to COs with methodological guidance, guiding and reviewing data collection and analysis, and supporting the drafting of succinct knowledge products that are suitable for advocacy purposes. This will involve the development of guidance and template documents.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support the Family Welfare Division (FWD) to develop national integrated home-based maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition handbook. The consultant will be engaged for 6 months.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to develop implementation guideline of Skill Health Personnel (SHP) and Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) modular training package in Nepal. The consultant will be engaged for 30 working days within 5 months.
The Health Officer will report to the Health Specialist Team Lead. The Health Officer-HSS will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme goals on objectives within the Country Programme on all the pillars of Health System Strengthening.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in producing the donors’ reports; to support for the already scheduled reports to be submitted until the end of September 2025 as well as support for the development of new donor proposals and support in grants management through review of reprogramming requests and coordination of verification exercises as needed.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
Consolidate an evidence-based investment case to promote the scaling up of UNICEF-supported models of services piloted in Italy, namely the foster care model for UASC and the support to 6 Prefectures through deployment of UNICEF case managers.
The UCHI Regional Programme Coordinator will have the key responsibility to design the implementation of the community outreach component in each of the districts assigned to him/her and facilitate a smooth implementation of the programme in close collaboration with all stakeholders. The Regional Programme Coordinator will work in close collaboration with Principal Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Officer (PHNAO), and the District Nutrition Coordinating Committee (DNCC) with the aim of systems strengthening.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basiswithpublic audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
LACRO is looking for a consultant to identify best practices for integrating refugees and migrants into social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-pandemic context. If you fulfill the requirements, Apply Now!!
The Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all UCHI Nutrition Programme activities in their allocated districts. Additionally, the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will back-stop the District Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, in close collaboration with the District Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinating Committee (DMECC) with the aim of strengthening the government systems.
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.