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
The objective of the assignment is to prepare and facilitate a one-day staff retreat for UNICEF Guinea-Bissau personnel, focusing on capacity building, teamwork enhancement, and practical learning aligned with UNICEF’s core values and 2024 Global Staff Survey (GSS). The retreat will aim to strengthen collaboration, promote well being, and build skills to improve daily work effectiveness.
The consultant will work under the supervision of the NY-based Climate, Energy, Environment and DRR (CEED) Programme Officer and in close collaboration with other members of the climate finance unit. The consultant would support the climate finance unit in three areas: Climate Finance for Young People, Climate Finance Systems Building and Curate and Disseminate Technical Green Climate Fund Knowledge Products.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts. The Center of Excellence (CoE) on Climate Resilience for Children seeks a consultant to provide critical technical support in the following areas
1. Support the roll out of the organization-wide capacity development initiative for climate, environment, energy, and DRR (including monitoring activities and workflow support)
2. Support the stocktaking of baseline technical assistance delivery for newly established Center of Excellence om Climate Resilience
3. Transitional support to the Global Technical Director (meeting coordination, etc.)
Join us as the next Adolescent and Gender Officer!
Are you passionate about empowering adolescents and advancing gender equality?
As Adolescent and Gender Officer, you’ll support the integration of adolescent development and participation especially for girls and young women across all sectors of the Equatorial Guinea Programme. You’ll help design, implement, monitor, and report on impactful initiatives that promote protection, engagement, and empowerment.
If you're ready to make a difference, read the full job ad and apply today!
The partner research and due diligence (DD) function, managed for the organization by the Partnership Advisory Support Services (PASS) team in the Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP), aims to support UNICEF’s effective engagement with business and private philanthropy entities. Recognizing that AI presents a unique opportunity for the PASS team at PFP to enhance due diligence research and processes, the PASS team is looking for a Data Engineering Consultant with experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine-Learning Operations (MLOps) for the PASS AI Project to explore ways to utilize AI in our due diligence process.
The PASS AI Deal Project (Artificial Intelligence For Due Diligence Excellence, Acceleration & Learning Project) aims to explore and pilot the use and integration of best-suited AI technologies in the DD process. It will increase operational efficiency and enable UNICEF to make timely, evidence-based, data-driven, and risk-informed decisions. By automating data ingestion, processing, analysis, monitoring, and reporting, the tool will ensure thorough profiling of entities, flagging violations (e.g., gambling, coal extraction), and identifying adverse media or sustainability risks.
Key steps include AI-driven entity resolution, multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Application Program Interface (API) integration for adverse media detection, predictive analytics for risk benchmarking, and real-time alerts via API polling and social media monitoring. Using cost-efficient tools like open-source APIs, free chatbots in accordance to UNICEF’s internal guidelines, and RPA for document consolidation, the framework minimizes costs while maintaining accuracy through human-in-the-loop validation. This scalable, auditable solution empowers DD analysts in the team with narrative summaries and actionable insights, reducing manual effort and enhancing decision-making for regulatory compliance and risk management.
Únete como nuestro próximo Oficial de Inmunización!
Apoya los esfuerzos de Guinea Ecuatorial para fortalecer la cobertura vacunal y responder a los riesgos epidémicos. Como Oficial del Programa de Inmunización, contribuirás al diseño e implementación de estrategias para mejorar la vacunación rutinaria.
Postúlate ahora y genera un impacto duradero!
The consultant will be associated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and will play an integral role in contextualizing and integrating Giga in BIH and will interact with the different programmatic sections and local stakeholders (government actors, UNICEF, partner private sector, CRA, education ministries, schools, etc) in the country, with the objective of ensuring coordination and execution of Giga activities as per the workplan that will be developed.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Field Office (CFO) at the UNICEF Zonal Office and with guidance from Social Policy Section, the Social Policy Specialist is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and
related advocacy, intergenerational dialogue to delivery of concrete and sustainable results for children, adolescents and youths, taking into account the specific context of the regions covered. This includes programmes implemented in the regions covered, and aimed at supporting governance, decentralization and accountability mechanisms to increase public participation (notably of youths and adolescents and the most marginalized groups) and the quality, equity and coverage of social protection services at decentralized municipality levels.
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.
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.
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
The objective of the assignment is to prepare and facilitate a one-day staff retreat for UNICEF Guinea-Bissau personnel, focusing on capacity building, teamwork enhancement, and practical learning aligned with UNICEF’s core values and 2024 Global Staff Survey (GSS). The retreat will aim to strengthen collaboration, promote well being, and build skills to improve daily work effectiveness.
The consultant will work under the supervision of the NY-based Climate, Energy, Environment and DRR (CEED) Programme Officer and in close collaboration with other members of the climate finance unit. The consultant would support the climate finance unit in three areas: Climate Finance for Young People, Climate Finance Systems Building and Curate and Disseminate Technical Green Climate Fund Knowledge Products.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts. The Center of Excellence (CoE) on Climate Resilience for Children seeks a consultant to provide critical technical support in the following areas
1. Support the roll out of the organization-wide capacity development initiative for climate, environment, energy, and DRR (including monitoring activities and workflow support)
2. Support the stocktaking of baseline technical assistance delivery for newly established Center of Excellence om Climate Resilience
3. Transitional support to the Global Technical Director (meeting coordination, etc.)
Join us as the next Adolescent and Gender Officer!
Are you passionate about empowering adolescents and advancing gender equality?
As Adolescent and Gender Officer, you’ll support the integration of adolescent development and participation especially for girls and young women across all sectors of the Equatorial Guinea Programme. You’ll help design, implement, monitor, and report on impactful initiatives that promote protection, engagement, and empowerment.
If you're ready to make a difference, read the full job ad and apply today!
The partner research and due diligence (DD) function, managed for the organization by the Partnership Advisory Support Services (PASS) team in the Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP), aims to support UNICEF’s effective engagement with business and private philanthropy entities. Recognizing that AI presents a unique opportunity for the PASS team at PFP to enhance due diligence research and processes, the PASS team is looking for a Data Engineering Consultant with experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine-Learning Operations (MLOps) for the PASS AI Project to explore ways to utilize AI in our due diligence process.
The PASS AI Deal Project (Artificial Intelligence For Due Diligence Excellence, Acceleration & Learning Project) aims to explore and pilot the use and integration of best-suited AI technologies in the DD process. It will increase operational efficiency and enable UNICEF to make timely, evidence-based, data-driven, and risk-informed decisions. By automating data ingestion, processing, analysis, monitoring, and reporting, the tool will ensure thorough profiling of entities, flagging violations (e.g., gambling, coal extraction), and identifying adverse media or sustainability risks.
Key steps include AI-driven entity resolution, multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Application Program Interface (API) integration for adverse media detection, predictive analytics for risk benchmarking, and real-time alerts via API polling and social media monitoring. Using cost-efficient tools like open-source APIs, free chatbots in accordance to UNICEF’s internal guidelines, and RPA for document consolidation, the framework minimizes costs while maintaining accuracy through human-in-the-loop validation. This scalable, auditable solution empowers DD analysts in the team with narrative summaries and actionable insights, reducing manual effort and enhancing decision-making for regulatory compliance and risk management.
Únete como nuestro próximo Oficial de Inmunización!
Apoya los esfuerzos de Guinea Ecuatorial para fortalecer la cobertura vacunal y responder a los riesgos epidémicos. Como Oficial del Programa de Inmunización, contribuirás al diseño e implementación de estrategias para mejorar la vacunación rutinaria.
Postúlate ahora y genera un impacto duradero!
The consultant will be associated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and will play an integral role in contextualizing and integrating Giga in BIH and will interact with the different programmatic sections and local stakeholders (government actors, UNICEF, partner private sector, CRA, education ministries, schools, etc) in the country, with the objective of ensuring coordination and execution of Giga activities as per the workplan that will be developed.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Field Office (CFO) at the UNICEF Zonal Office and with guidance from Social Policy Section, the Social Policy Specialist is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and
related advocacy, intergenerational dialogue to delivery of concrete and sustainable results for children, adolescents and youths, taking into account the specific context of the regions covered. This includes programmes implemented in the regions covered, and aimed at supporting governance, decentralization and accountability mechanisms to increase public participation (notably of youths and adolescents and the most marginalized groups) and the quality, equity and coverage of social protection services at decentralized municipality levels.
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.
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.
