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At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, the right to Deliver

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How can you make a difference? 

Background:

Protracted conflict, recurrent natural disasters and low economic development have had a devastating impact on Afghanistan’s people and its basic services. Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services is limited in communities (in both rural and urban areas), in Health Care Facilities (HCFs) and schools. Change in regime has resulted in international sanctions which have further increased the challenges and made the WASH sector vulnerable. Only 75% of the population has access to at least basic drinking water services with huge disparities between urban and rural (99% urban and 66% rural) JMP 2020. The quality of water is also an issue of concern and only 33.1 percent of the drinking water sources are free from fecal contamination (IE&LF 2020). UNICEF Afghanistan Country Office has been collaborating with the Afghanistan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development to ensure provision of WASH services access to clean water for communities and institutions. In addition, many of the programme and operational activities require diverse service contracts to support their operations.

In 2025, the team issued around 529 contracts (including time-bound LTAs) to the tune of $102 million. 

The consultant is required to provide support in accelerating ongoing procurement processes. This role requires demonstrated experience and a strong ability to deliver high quality output under tight timelines, with a proven capacity to manage quick turnaround tasks efficiently.

Scope of Work:

UNICEF Afghanistan’s institutional contracting portfolio exceeds US$ 100 million per year and in 2025, a total of 529 contract. The consultant is expected to: 

• Provide expert advisory and process facilitation across the solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, and contracting cycle for works and services.
• Ensure audit ready documentation and adherence to UNICEF rules, templates, and approval pathways.
• Build actionable outputs (RFP packages, evaluation consolidations, award recommendations) enabling UNICEF’s authorized officials to take decisions.

Deliverables include:

• Ensure management of end-to-end procurement and contracting processes for assigned categories in line with UNICEF procedures.
• Submit complete and technically sound tender packages for assigned procurement and contracting processes within 3 days of receiving the request, ensuring all requirements are included to minimize incomplete submissions by bidders.
• Provide documented negotiation points and strategies for discussion with bidders for BAFO meetings within 2 days of receipt of financial proposals.
• Deliver consolidated technical and financial evaluation packages for review by the Contracts Manager within 3 days of receipt of completed documents.
• Prepare and submit comprehensive award recommendation justifications, including the process documentation used to identify prospective awardees.
• Facilitate and deliver the documents for CRC package consolidation, ensuring readiness for committee review and deliberation.
• Submit a detailed tabulation of ongoing cases, status updates, and timelines for completion.
• Deliver a comprehensive report covering activities undertaken, bottlenecks faced, and recommendations for streamlining the contracting pipeline.
• Support and document strategic sourcing and market engagement activities, providing relevant reports and insights.
• Submit a draft end-of-assignment report one week before completion, and a final report on the last day of the assignment detailing activities, outcomes, and lessons learned.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

• Education:

  A university degree is required in Business Administration, Management, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Commercial Law, International Development, or related social science field

• Work Experience: 

• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in general procurement, institutional and construction contracting, supply chain management and procurement is required.

• Skills:

• Understanding of development and humanitarian work context is a must
• Emergency work experience is required
• Experience in managing complex and high value institutional contracts is required
• Experience in handling construction contracts is a must
• Health supply chain management experience an advantage

• Language Requirements: 

• English Language is required; knowledge of the local language is desired.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

 To view our competency framework, please visit here. 

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Interested consultants are required to apply online, indicating availability and all-inclusive lump sum fee to undertake the terms of reference.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.