The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services.
The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. As part of our approach, the WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water-secure future for children and young people.
For this work, the Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing and detailing a scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the solution further and supporting uptake at multi-country and multi-region scale to ensure integrated monitoring for Climate-resilient WASH. The scaling pathway is a structured approach that outlines the steps, strategies, and choices for expanding a proven innovation so it can reach a larger population and achieve sustainable impact over time.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services. The Hub is seeking an experienced consultant to lead the development of its Strategic Plan (2026–2029), guiding the Hub’s next phase as it accelerates transformative WASH solutions from demonstration to multi‑regional scale. Building on Denmark’s foundational investment and insights from the Hub’s first three years, the Strategic Plan will articulate a bold, evidence‑driven pathway for UNICEF to lead a global shift in how climate‑resilient WASH innovations are sourced, financed, and scaled. The consultancy will help shape the Hub’s contribution to UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and its evolving role within the new WASH Centre of Excellence.
The selected consultant will analyse emerging sector trends, assess the Hub’s current portfolio and performance, and co‑develop a compelling vision, Theory of Change, and operational model. The Strategic Plan will outline how UNICEF will enable accelerated uptake of high‑impact solutions to help close the gap on achieving universal access to resilient, safely managed water and sanitation services. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a global agenda for scaling WASH innovation, strengthen an ecosystem of partners, and define the enabling conditions and pathways needed to drive transformational, climate‑resilient impact for vulnerable children and communities worldwide.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. UNICEF’s innovation portfolio approach focuses our innovation efforts on the most challenging problems UNICEF is trying to solve for and with children and young people. It does so by identifying targeted, strategic innovative solutions – with potential to have a significant impact and for which capacity is in place for rapid scaling up – and facilitating their accelerated progress to scale. The WASH Hub supports and builds capacity within UNICEF country offices to facilitate successful scaling of WASH innovations, in-country and globally.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing a strategy for scaling WASH innovations, outlining the pathway, approach and key considerations for moving demonstration projects to multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF Moldova is contracting the services of an International Individual Consultant, to document and assess UNICEF’s child protection response to the Ukraine refugee situation in the Republic of Moldova, including the Transnistrian region, with a particular focus on strengthening the child protection system and the integration of humanitarian, development, and peace nexus approaches.
UNICEF Belarus CO is looking for candidates to apply for the position of Communication Officer (Digital Fundraising). Under the general guidance of the Communication Officer (NOB), the incumbent of the Communication Officer (Digital Fundraising) position assists in planning, designing, implementation and monitoring of digital communication initiatives that contribute to the Country Office communication strategy. The incumbent contributes to strengthening UNICEF’s brand equity by ensuring consistent, timely and high-quality digital communication that engages audiences, reinforces confidence in UNICEF’s mission and values, and creates an enabling environment for resource mobilization. Through effective use of digital communication channels, the incumbent supports the mobilization of financial resources from individual donors, as well as private and public sector partners, contributing to the successful implementation of UNICEF programmes in the best interests of children.
The Operations function is a strategic Business Partner role, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
UNICEF Pakistan, Lahore Office is seeking for a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Data & Analytics Officer at the NOB level to join the team on a temporary appointment.
The UNICEF Seoul Liaison Office requires a Design Consultant to support the deepening of UNICEF’s collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Korea. The consultancy will focus on designing a range of products, including results reports, newsletters, brochures, strategic documents, presentations, and other related materials.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in the Revision of Yemen's Community management of Acute malnutrition (CMAM) Guidelines to align with the new WHO Guidelines on prevention and treatment of wasting and nutritional oedema.
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 Salud y Nutrición en su oficina. La persona que ocupe el puesto proporcionará asistencia técnica profesional y apoyo para el diseño, la planificación, la implementación, el monitoreo y administración de las actividades del programa/proyecto, incluyendo el análisis de datos, la presentación de informes de progreso, la creación de redes de conocimiento y el desarrollo de capacidades, en apoyo al logro de los objetivos planificados del plan de trabajo de salud y nutrición en nuestro nuevo ciclo de programa (2026-2030).
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!
The objective of this consultancy is to support the implementation and strengthening of the Early Childhood Friendly Units (UAPI) initiative within selected primary health care units, in close collaboration with UNICEF.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide technical expertise and support for the development, revision, and validation of guidelines, job aids, and training materials related to the management of child wasting in emergencies and post-exit interventions, as well as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) components aligned with WHO 2023 guidelines.
UNICEF Ghana is seeking a dynamic Child Protection Officer to join our team. The Officer will provide technical and coordination support to integrate climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and humanitarian–development linkages into national child protection systems. The assignment will contribute to evidence generation, systems strengthening, and preparedness efforts that reduce inequalities, protect vulnerable children, and enhance the resilience of social welfare and child protection services in Ghana. This is a Junior Professional Officer (JPO) position. Opportunity is open to Norwegian nationals only.
UNICEF is seeking a Junior Data Analyst to assist in various data analysis priorities of the Giga initiative, a joint partnership between UNICEF and ITU. The analyst will collaborate with the Data & Mapping product team, Country engagement team, as well as external partners to develop innovative products and data solutions for the Giga Initiative.
UNICEF is seeking a short-term software engineering consultant to support the development of the Giga Meter application for health centers, including the integration of internet speed test protocols such as those provided by Cloudflare. The consultant will work closely with the product team, Country Engagement teams, and external partners to design, build, and implement robust software solutions that support the Giga initiative—a joint partnership between UNICEF and ITU—aimed at expanding internet connectivity and monitoring network performance.
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest is recruiting highly dedicated individuals for technical and advisory support, ensuring high-quality service delivery, performance excellence, and full compliance in managing consultancy contracts across both pre- and post-contracting phases. Also manages a team of contract processing staff and involves active engagement with contracting managers in offices across the globe, offering expert guidance on procedures, compliance standards, and best practices.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services.
The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. As part of our approach, the WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water-secure future for children and young people.
For this work, the Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing and detailing a scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the solution further and supporting uptake at multi-country and multi-region scale to ensure integrated monitoring for Climate-resilient WASH. The scaling pathway is a structured approach that outlines the steps, strategies, and choices for expanding a proven innovation so it can reach a larger population and achieve sustainable impact over time.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services. The Hub is seeking an experienced consultant to lead the development of its Strategic Plan (2026–2029), guiding the Hub’s next phase as it accelerates transformative WASH solutions from demonstration to multi‑regional scale. Building on Denmark’s foundational investment and insights from the Hub’s first three years, the Strategic Plan will articulate a bold, evidence‑driven pathway for UNICEF to lead a global shift in how climate‑resilient WASH innovations are sourced, financed, and scaled. The consultancy will help shape the Hub’s contribution to UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and its evolving role within the new WASH Centre of Excellence.
The selected consultant will analyse emerging sector trends, assess the Hub’s current portfolio and performance, and co‑develop a compelling vision, Theory of Change, and operational model. The Strategic Plan will outline how UNICEF will enable accelerated uptake of high‑impact solutions to help close the gap on achieving universal access to resilient, safely managed water and sanitation services. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a global agenda for scaling WASH innovation, strengthen an ecosystem of partners, and define the enabling conditions and pathways needed to drive transformational, climate‑resilient impact for vulnerable children and communities worldwide.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. UNICEF’s innovation portfolio approach focuses our innovation efforts on the most challenging problems UNICEF is trying to solve for and with children and young people. It does so by identifying targeted, strategic innovative solutions – with potential to have a significant impact and for which capacity is in place for rapid scaling up – and facilitating their accelerated progress to scale. The WASH Hub supports and builds capacity within UNICEF country offices to facilitate successful scaling of WASH innovations, in-country and globally.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing a strategy for scaling WASH innovations, outlining the pathway, approach and key considerations for moving demonstration projects to multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF Moldova is contracting the services of an International Individual Consultant, to document and assess UNICEF’s child protection response to the Ukraine refugee situation in the Republic of Moldova, including the Transnistrian region, with a particular focus on strengthening the child protection system and the integration of humanitarian, development, and peace nexus approaches.
UNICEF Belarus CO is looking for candidates to apply for the position of Communication Officer (Digital Fundraising). Under the general guidance of the Communication Officer (NOB), the incumbent of the Communication Officer (Digital Fundraising) position assists in planning, designing, implementation and monitoring of digital communication initiatives that contribute to the Country Office communication strategy. The incumbent contributes to strengthening UNICEF’s brand equity by ensuring consistent, timely and high-quality digital communication that engages audiences, reinforces confidence in UNICEF’s mission and values, and creates an enabling environment for resource mobilization. Through effective use of digital communication channels, the incumbent supports the mobilization of financial resources from individual donors, as well as private and public sector partners, contributing to the successful implementation of UNICEF programmes in the best interests of children.
The Operations function is a strategic Business Partner role, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
UNICEF Pakistan, Lahore Office is seeking for a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Data & Analytics Officer at the NOB level to join the team on a temporary appointment.
The UNICEF Seoul Liaison Office requires a Design Consultant to support the deepening of UNICEF’s collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Korea. The consultancy will focus on designing a range of products, including results reports, newsletters, brochures, strategic documents, presentations, and other related materials.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in the Revision of Yemen's Community management of Acute malnutrition (CMAM) Guidelines to align with the new WHO Guidelines on prevention and treatment of wasting and nutritional oedema.
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 Salud y Nutrición en su oficina. La persona que ocupe el puesto proporcionará asistencia técnica profesional y apoyo para el diseño, la planificación, la implementación, el monitoreo y administración de las actividades del programa/proyecto, incluyendo el análisis de datos, la presentación de informes de progreso, la creación de redes de conocimiento y el desarrollo de capacidades, en apoyo al logro de los objetivos planificados del plan de trabajo de salud y nutrición en nuestro nuevo ciclo de programa (2026-2030).
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!
The objective of this consultancy is to support the implementation and strengthening of the Early Childhood Friendly Units (UAPI) initiative within selected primary health care units, in close collaboration with UNICEF.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide technical expertise and support for the development, revision, and validation of guidelines, job aids, and training materials related to the management of child wasting in emergencies and post-exit interventions, as well as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) components aligned with WHO 2023 guidelines.
UNICEF Ghana is seeking a dynamic Child Protection Officer to join our team. The Officer will provide technical and coordination support to integrate climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and humanitarian–development linkages into national child protection systems. The assignment will contribute to evidence generation, systems strengthening, and preparedness efforts that reduce inequalities, protect vulnerable children, and enhance the resilience of social welfare and child protection services in Ghana. This is a Junior Professional Officer (JPO) position. Opportunity is open to Norwegian nationals only.
UNICEF is seeking a Junior Data Analyst to assist in various data analysis priorities of the Giga initiative, a joint partnership between UNICEF and ITU. The analyst will collaborate with the Data & Mapping product team, Country engagement team, as well as external partners to develop innovative products and data solutions for the Giga Initiative.
UNICEF is seeking a short-term software engineering consultant to support the development of the Giga Meter application for health centers, including the integration of internet speed test protocols such as those provided by Cloudflare. The consultant will work closely with the product team, Country Engagement teams, and external partners to design, build, and implement robust software solutions that support the Giga initiative—a joint partnership between UNICEF and ITU—aimed at expanding internet connectivity and monitoring network performance.
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest is recruiting highly dedicated individuals for technical and advisory support, ensuring high-quality service delivery, performance excellence, and full compliance in managing consultancy contracts across both pre- and post-contracting phases. Also manages a team of contract processing staff and involves active engagement with contracting managers in offices across the globe, offering expert guidance on procedures, compliance standards, and best practices.
