Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative and in close collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and all sections, the consultant will provide support to the revision and editing of the RAM narrative reporting and to the writing, editing and review of the STP Country Office End-Year Summary Narrative report, considering that it is aimed for the public domain. In addition, the assignment seeks to strengthen the capacity of the entire team in reporting, ensuring that this exercise can be fully owned and carried forward by the Country Office in the future.
Under the supervision of Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Le consultant a pour mission d’accompagner le Ministère de l’Enseignement de base, de l’Alphabétisation et de la Promotion des Langues Nationales (MEBAPLN) dans la rédaction d’un document programme pour la part complémentaire du GPE en cohérence avec le projet de rétablissement de la performance du système éducatif et d'amélioration de la Résilience (REPAIR).
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliances Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the B2C for RR Consultant will develop a knowledge product to provide robust guidance for frontline fundraisers on partnering with B2C companies, support this strategic effort to revitalize partnerships with consumer-facing companies and unlock new streams of sustainable, flexible funding. The document will cover best practices, key prinicples and how-to-guidance on securing consumer-facing partnerships while enhancing the knowledge of front-line fundraisers on consumer engagement and marketing. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the B2C engagement guidance document, alongside training materials from December 2025-June 2026.
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliance Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the Product Licensing Consultant will support the strategic effort to centralize product licensing operations, managed by a third-party agency. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination as needed from December 2025 onwards.
UNICEF has developed an online course titled “Using Assistive Technology in Education: A Guide for Teachers and Schools”, which provides a comprehensive framework for educators and school teams on integrating assistive technology (AT) into inclusive education. The course includes definitions, pedagogical strategies, lesson planning, whole-school approaches, and practical tools such as assessment templates and implementation plans.
The English version of the course is context-neutral and foundational. UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland seeks to adapt this course to the national context by incorporating relevant Polish policies, practices, and examples to better support local educators in implementing assistive technologies effectively.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop a standardized and national Basic First Aid Training Package and Trainer Guide suitable for a two-day training format, which is tailored for youth participants across 26 districts.
UNICEF Indonesia seeks to hire an individual consultant to support innovative finance work at the UNICEF Jakarta office and explore potential expansion of innovative finance at national and sub-national levels. The consultancy is expected to last approximately 4.5 months.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert-level technical and policy support to UNICEF Kazakhstan and its national partners in mainstreaming child rights and child-centered resilience into climate and environmental governance frameworks. This includes ensuring that national strategies—such as the updated NDC 3.0, NAP, and related cross-sectoral policies, such as Children of Kazakhstan, Roadmap for Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2060 etc. — explicitly consider the vulnerabilities, needs, and potential contributions of children and young people.
The objective of this consultancy is to design a Performance Management Framework that:
• Aligns individual, team and programme priorities with organizational priorities.
• Integrates performance planning, continuous feedback, development, and recognition.
• Provides clear performance indicators and evaluation criteria.
• Embeds accountability and organizational learning.
• Provide technical leadership on child rights mainstreaming, ensuring alignment of all activities and deliverables with the Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the overall methodological design of the theory of change, evaluation framework and data collection tools (interview questionnaires, online survey, and self-assessment tool and rubric), ensuring quality and coherence with regard to child rights.
• Conduct literature review, document review and data collection activities (KIIs, FGDs, surveys, self-assessment tool and rubric) along with evaluation team members.
• Contribute to the analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data.
• Contribute to the drafting and finalization of findings, recommendations and deliverables, including the inception note, evaluation report, presentation materials and other deliverables as per the Terms of Reference.
• Engage with the Evaluation Reference Group and other stakeholders to validate findings and co-create recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with UNEG and UNICEF quality and ethical standards, also through integrating human rights, including gender equality and inclusion considerations in evaluations.
The Guidance Note of the UN Secretary General (S-G) on Child Rights Mainstreaming (CRM) 2023 aims to integrate child rights across all United Nations (UN) activities. The evaluability assessment is being planned to understand UNICEF and the UN system’s capacities and readiness to implement the Guidance Note. This evaluability assessment will provide credible evidence in relation to existing mechanisms, actions, capacities, barriers and enablers for the mainstreaming of children’s rights across the UN system with the aim of providing actionable insights to strengthen implementation.
The evaluation will be managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office using a blended management approach with a team comprising two internal staff members and two external consultants. The two external consultants will bring complementary expertise, with one serving as the Evaluation Team Leader/ and the other as the Child Rights Consultant. Close collaboration with the UNICEF Human Rights Team in the Programme Group, the Office of the Executive Director, and other stakeholders is expected.
This ToR relates specifically to the Evaluation Team Leader role. The consultant will provide strategic and methodological support for the evaluation, ensuring high-quality, timely, and credible deliverables through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Human Rights, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support for Online Format Design
• Participate in meetings with digital design teams.
• Contribute to key design decisions to ensure the Handbook’s format is accessible, user-friendly, and coherent across all platforms.
2. Final Drafting and Proofreading of the CRC Implementation Handbook
• Revise and refine Handbook content based on feedback from peer reviewers.
• Collaborate with the copyeditor to ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s editorial standards.
• Update introductory chapters to reflect recent developments and align with the revised structure.
3. Support for Dissemination and Awareness-Raising
• Prepare supporting materials for outreach, including articles, chapter summaries, abstracts, videos and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to dissemination activities, such as launch events, webinars, and stakeholder briefings.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to enable UNICEF immunization team to lead in organizing Hub calls and convening meetings, such as the Demand Hub Steering Committee (DHSC), monthly meetings and face to face meetings of the Expanded Partners; produce documentation of actions agreed upon; organize agreed number of technical sessions to build capacity on the new emerging areas in demand and supporting the Demand Hub leadership team to convene and discuss strategic discussion to guide the Demand Hub.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
L'assistant(e) de programme (G5) est affecté(e) à la section Efficacité du programme et rend compte directement au superviseur, en l’occurrence le spécialiste planification, suivi et évaluation.
Sous la supervision et la direction du superviseur, l'assistant(e) de programme fournit un large éventail d'appui administratif, opérationnel et procédural à la section Efficacité du programme. Le/la titulaire facilite la mise en œuvre, le suivi et l'exécution des résultats de la composante de programme en veillant à ce que les tâches soient exécutées en temps voulu et de manière efficace, conformément aux règles et règlements de l'UNICEF. Le/la titulaire peut appuyer un ou plusieurs domaines de programme ou initiatives interfonctionnelles et travaille souvent en coordination avec d'autres sections.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
This consultancy will be responsible for maintaining and aligning the GMF indicator architecture to support the design and refinement of systems, workflows, and processes, while also developing analytical products that facilitate the effective use of GMF data by Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices (ROs), and Headquarters (HQ). The consultant will also contribute to the successful delivery of both the annual planning and reporting cycle and the quadrennial strategic planning cycle through corporate PMR systems, thereby advancing UNICEF’s strategic objectives and organizational effectiveness.
The consultancy will be supervised by the Programme Manager of the OSE Monitoring and Results Management Unit and will work in close coordination with other units, divisions, and offices, especially the Organizational Performance and Systems Unit, the Strategic Planning and Analytics Unit, the Digital Impact Division, and UNICEF’s global SIGNAL Monitoring Technical Team.
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Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative and in close collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and all sections, the consultant will provide support to the revision and editing of the RAM narrative reporting and to the writing, editing and review of the STP Country Office End-Year Summary Narrative report, considering that it is aimed for the public domain. In addition, the assignment seeks to strengthen the capacity of the entire team in reporting, ensuring that this exercise can be fully owned and carried forward by the Country Office in the future.
Under the supervision of Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Le consultant a pour mission d’accompagner le Ministère de l’Enseignement de base, de l’Alphabétisation et de la Promotion des Langues Nationales (MEBAPLN) dans la rédaction d’un document programme pour la part complémentaire du GPE en cohérence avec le projet de rétablissement de la performance du système éducatif et d'amélioration de la Résilience (REPAIR).
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliances Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the B2C for RR Consultant will develop a knowledge product to provide robust guidance for frontline fundraisers on partnering with B2C companies, support this strategic effort to revitalize partnerships with consumer-facing companies and unlock new streams of sustainable, flexible funding. The document will cover best practices, key prinicples and how-to-guidance on securing consumer-facing partnerships while enhancing the knowledge of front-line fundraisers on consumer engagement and marketing. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the B2C engagement guidance document, alongside training materials from December 2025-June 2026.
Under the overall guidance of the Corporate Alliance Manager and working closely with the B2C for RR Taskforce, the Product Licensing Consultant will support the strategic effort to centralize product licensing operations, managed by a third-party agency. The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination as needed from December 2025 onwards.
UNICEF has developed an online course titled “Using Assistive Technology in Education: A Guide for Teachers and Schools”, which provides a comprehensive framework for educators and school teams on integrating assistive technology (AT) into inclusive education. The course includes definitions, pedagogical strategies, lesson planning, whole-school approaches, and practical tools such as assessment templates and implementation plans.
The English version of the course is context-neutral and foundational. UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland seeks to adapt this course to the national context by incorporating relevant Polish policies, practices, and examples to better support local educators in implementing assistive technologies effectively.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop a standardized and national Basic First Aid Training Package and Trainer Guide suitable for a two-day training format, which is tailored for youth participants across 26 districts.
UNICEF Indonesia seeks to hire an individual consultant to support innovative finance work at the UNICEF Jakarta office and explore potential expansion of innovative finance at national and sub-national levels. The consultancy is expected to last approximately 4.5 months.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert-level technical and policy support to UNICEF Kazakhstan and its national partners in mainstreaming child rights and child-centered resilience into climate and environmental governance frameworks. This includes ensuring that national strategies—such as the updated NDC 3.0, NAP, and related cross-sectoral policies, such as Children of Kazakhstan, Roadmap for Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2060 etc. — explicitly consider the vulnerabilities, needs, and potential contributions of children and young people.
The objective of this consultancy is to design a Performance Management Framework that:
• Aligns individual, team and programme priorities with organizational priorities.
• Integrates performance planning, continuous feedback, development, and recognition.
• Provides clear performance indicators and evaluation criteria.
• Embeds accountability and organizational learning.
• Provide technical leadership on child rights mainstreaming, ensuring alignment of all activities and deliverables with the Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the overall methodological design of the theory of change, evaluation framework and data collection tools (interview questionnaires, online survey, and self-assessment tool and rubric), ensuring quality and coherence with regard to child rights.
• Conduct literature review, document review and data collection activities (KIIs, FGDs, surveys, self-assessment tool and rubric) along with evaluation team members.
• Contribute to the analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data.
• Contribute to the drafting and finalization of findings, recommendations and deliverables, including the inception note, evaluation report, presentation materials and other deliverables as per the Terms of Reference.
• Engage with the Evaluation Reference Group and other stakeholders to validate findings and co-create recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with UNEG and UNICEF quality and ethical standards, also through integrating human rights, including gender equality and inclusion considerations in evaluations.
The Guidance Note of the UN Secretary General (S-G) on Child Rights Mainstreaming (CRM) 2023 aims to integrate child rights across all United Nations (UN) activities. The evaluability assessment is being planned to understand UNICEF and the UN system’s capacities and readiness to implement the Guidance Note. This evaluability assessment will provide credible evidence in relation to existing mechanisms, actions, capacities, barriers and enablers for the mainstreaming of children’s rights across the UN system with the aim of providing actionable insights to strengthen implementation.
The evaluation will be managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office using a blended management approach with a team comprising two internal staff members and two external consultants. The two external consultants will bring complementary expertise, with one serving as the Evaluation Team Leader/ and the other as the Child Rights Consultant. Close collaboration with the UNICEF Human Rights Team in the Programme Group, the Office of the Executive Director, and other stakeholders is expected.
This ToR relates specifically to the Evaluation Team Leader role. The consultant will provide strategic and methodological support for the evaluation, ensuring high-quality, timely, and credible deliverables through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Human Rights, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support for Online Format Design
• Participate in meetings with digital design teams.
• Contribute to key design decisions to ensure the Handbook’s format is accessible, user-friendly, and coherent across all platforms.
2. Final Drafting and Proofreading of the CRC Implementation Handbook
• Revise and refine Handbook content based on feedback from peer reviewers.
• Collaborate with the copyeditor to ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s editorial standards.
• Update introductory chapters to reflect recent developments and align with the revised structure.
3. Support for Dissemination and Awareness-Raising
• Prepare supporting materials for outreach, including articles, chapter summaries, abstracts, videos and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to dissemination activities, such as launch events, webinars, and stakeholder briefings.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to enable UNICEF immunization team to lead in organizing Hub calls and convening meetings, such as the Demand Hub Steering Committee (DHSC), monthly meetings and face to face meetings of the Expanded Partners; produce documentation of actions agreed upon; organize agreed number of technical sessions to build capacity on the new emerging areas in demand and supporting the Demand Hub leadership team to convene and discuss strategic discussion to guide the Demand Hub.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
L'assistant(e) de programme (G5) est affecté(e) à la section Efficacité du programme et rend compte directement au superviseur, en l’occurrence le spécialiste planification, suivi et évaluation.
Sous la supervision et la direction du superviseur, l'assistant(e) de programme fournit un large éventail d'appui administratif, opérationnel et procédural à la section Efficacité du programme. Le/la titulaire facilite la mise en œuvre, le suivi et l'exécution des résultats de la composante de programme en veillant à ce que les tâches soient exécutées en temps voulu et de manière efficace, conformément aux règles et règlements de l'UNICEF. Le/la titulaire peut appuyer un ou plusieurs domaines de programme ou initiatives interfonctionnelles et travaille souvent en coordination avec d'autres sections.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
This consultancy will be responsible for maintaining and aligning the GMF indicator architecture to support the design and refinement of systems, workflows, and processes, while also developing analytical products that facilitate the effective use of GMF data by Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices (ROs), and Headquarters (HQ). The consultant will also contribute to the successful delivery of both the annual planning and reporting cycle and the quadrennial strategic planning cycle through corporate PMR systems, thereby advancing UNICEF’s strategic objectives and organizational effectiveness.
The consultancy will be supervised by the Programme Manager of the OSE Monitoring and Results Management Unit and will work in close coordination with other units, divisions, and offices, especially the Organizational Performance and Systems Unit, the Strategic Planning and Analytics Unit, the Digital Impact Division, and UNICEF’s global SIGNAL Monitoring Technical Team.
Join UNICEF OIAI to support UNICEF investigations. Contribute to accountability and integrity globally. Be part of our dedicated team and make a meaningful impact - apply today!
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
