UNICEF Myanmar strives to ensure that adolescents and young people are not only heard but actively contribute as agents of change in both humanitarian and development contexts. To amplify these voices, UNICEF launched U-Report Myanmar in August 2016 — an innovative digital platform that leverages mobile and social media technology to engage young people, share information, gather insights, and promote positive social change.
To ensure high-quality execution and strong alignment with global guidelines, UNICEF Myanmar seeks a consultant with specialized expertise in social media strategy, content creation, and digital engagement. The consultant will play a key role in driving U-Report’s rebranding activation, maintaining and enhancing its social media presence, and identifying innovative approaches to reach and engage young people on both existing and emerging platforms.
Join UNICEF Philippines as a Health Officer and help improve the lives of children and women, especially the most vulnerable. In this role, you will support the design, implementation, and evaluation of health programmes focused on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), children with disabilities, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), emergency health response, and environmental health. Working alongside government partners, NGOs, UN agencies, and donors, you will turn evidence-based priorities into sustainable, impactful results that advance child health and well-being across the Philippines.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical and operational support to UNICEF Guinea-Bissau and national partners for the effective implementation, coordination, monitoring and documentation of priority interventions in health and nutrition, with a particular focus on: i) Community health; ii) Nutrition; iii) Climate-resilient health and nutrition systems; vi) Integrated primary health care (PHC) service delivery in vulnerable, rural and hard-to-reach communities.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide close technical supervision, quality assurance, construction planning, progress monitoring, technical guidance and reporting for CRIBS rehabilitation works in Enugu State. The consultant will support timely and quality implementation while final approval, certification, contract management and payment authorization remain with UNICEF staff members.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide professional editing, copy-editing, structural review and publication-readiness support for 15 papers that will form book chapters developed under the UNICEF Lesotho Thought Leadership Series. The consultant will support UNICEF Lesotho to transform selected full papers into polished, accessible and policy-relevant manuscripts suitable for presentation at the 2027 National Dialogue and for possible inclusion in an edited open-access book.
UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking an experienced Immunization Specialist to provide technical leadership and strategic support for the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of immunization programmes. The incumbent will work closely with government counterparts, development partners and UNICEF teams to strengthen routine immunization, reduce zero-dose children, improve equitable access to services, and support emergency preparedness and outbreak response across Ethiopia. The position requires strong expertise in public health, programme management, partnership building, and evidence-based decision-making.
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the Ministry of Justice and UNICEF in developing a practical, rights-based and institutionally sustainable monitoring framework on the status of children in contact with the justice system that can be adopted and routinely applied by the Ministry of Justice. The framework should enable regular collection, consolidation and analysis of relevant data and support evidence-based policy development and monitoring of the implementation of children’s rights within the justice system.
To provide technical and analytical support to UNICEF's evidence generation and policy work on household vulnerability and shock-responsive social protection, including collaborative analytical products and policy recommendations with UN partners in the context of recent and compound shocks, including the Middle East crisis.
UNICEF Sri Lanka generates evidence and policy recommendations to strengthen household resilience and shock responsive social protection in the context of recurrent and overlapping economic, climate, disaster and external shocks.
As part of this evidence generation, UNICEF is undertaking a rapid telephone-based household survey to examine household socioeconomic conditions, exposure to recent shocks, coping responses, social protection, access to essential services and child wellbeing, including household-level impacts associated with the Middle East crisis. UNICEF also collaborates with other UN partners on complementary analytical work that brings together different evidence streams and translates them into practical policy recommendations. This consultancy will support two connected areas of UNICEF's evidence and policy work. First, it will use relevant findings from the rapid telephone-based household survey, together with complementary evidence generated with UN partners,
to contribute to a focused live case study on shock-responsive social protection, using Aswesuma as the principal entry
point. Second, it will support the household vulnerability and social protection component of a broader collaborativeanal Es. This second analytical stream will be explicitly built on the upstream enterprise and value-chain analysis undertaken by the collaborating UN partner(s). Based on the priority
sectors, affected worker groups, employment channels and enterprise-level impacts identified through that analysis.
Join UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office as an Operations Associate and help deliver seamless operational services across 12 countries. We are looking for four Operations Associates, with one position based in each of Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of an integrated regional Operations team, you will manage a specialized portfolio while supporting service delivery, business continuity, operational performance and cross-country collaboration. Your contribution will help ensure consistent, responsive and efficient operational support that enables teams across the Caribbean to deliver results for children.
Location:Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize
To operationalize the National Food Fortification Strategy, Angola requires a robust legal and regulatory framework that
establishes standards, institutional responsibilities, quality assurance mechanisms, compliance requirements, and
enforcement provisions. In this context, the Government of Angola seeks to engage a legal consultant to provide technical
assistance in the development, review, and finalization of the legislation, regulations, and standards necessary to support
the approval and implementation of the national food fortification agenda.
Under the supervision of the WASH Officer, the WASH Technical Consultant for Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is accountable for the timely and quality implementation of the WASH-MHM program, under the CER Output 5.2, with particular focus on the promoting Menstrual Hygiene Management and the institutionalization of the Oky Menstrual Period Tracking App in the Philippines.
The implementation Oky under the TUSIP program and the emerging climate-environment agenda for MHM has expanded the opportunity to reach more adolescents in the Philippines. To maximize this opportunity, the WASH-MHM program, particularly the Oky project, requires continued personnel support for technical assistance delivery, marketing and user acquisition, and systems strengthening. UNICEF needs the services of a dedicated consultant to support Oky Philippines and WASH-MHM tasks/activities and provide technical assistance to CSO and government implementing partners
UNICEF Innocenti is seeking to hire a qualitative research consultant based in Kenya, to co-lead the research study described above, particularly analysis and writing from Life Histories (LHs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). The selected consultant will closely collaborate with the consultant in charge of the QuIP study component (QuIP consultant).
UNICEF Tajikistan seeks a national consultant to work alongside the international consultant on the identification and refinement of a child-sensitive climate investment idea and preparation of a Green Climate Fund (GCF) Concept Note and supporting pre-feasibility study. The national consultant will lead day-to-day country coordination, facilitate country ownership, gather and verify national evidence, organize and document consultations, and provide country-specific technical inputs and follow-up.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
Join UNICEF's Global Programme Division as a Health Specialist (Adolescent Health) and play a pivotal role in advancing adolescent health and well-being worldwide. Based in Nairobi within UNICEF's Centre of Excellence, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise to strengthen adolescent-responsive health systems and services, influence global policy and guidance, and support countries in designing and scaling evidence-based programmes. Working closely with governments, development partners, UNICEF Regional and Country Offices, you will drive innovation, capacity development, knowledge generation, partnerships, and resource mobilization to improve equitable access to quality health services for adolescents and contribute to sustainable results at global, regional and country levels.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Specialist, P-3 in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and play a pivotal role in advancing children’s rights and development across the North Pacific. This exciting position offers the opportunity to lead and manage high-impact programmes, working closely with government counterparts, development partners, communities, and civil society organizations to deliver sustainable and result-driven solutions for children and families. Ideal for a dynamic professional with strong programme management, partnership-building, and policy engagement experience, the role provides a unique platform to influence development priorities, strengthen national capacities, and support evidence-based programming. As part of UNICEF’s Pacific Multi-Country Office, you will contribute to programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and advocacy efforts while gaining valuable experience in a culturally rich and diverse island context.
The consultant will support the provision of technical support on the MHPSS agenda and facilitate coordination and engagement with focal points across Education, Child Protection, ADAP, SBC and other relevant sections, as well as with key partners and subject matter experts. This will help ensure that quality MHPSS programmes for children, adolescents and caregivers are effectively implemented and scaled up through systems strengthening efforts.
The objective of the consultancy is to support the Evolution and Scale-Up of HAT methodology. The overall objective will be achieved through the following sub-objectives:
•Identifying the mental health issues that are a high priority and need to be addressed and provide detailed guidance to support implementation, with a focus on describing sectoral roles and recommendations to strengthen a multi-sectoral mental health system;
•Identifying and updating the required legislative, strategy, policy, capacity building steps and changes to ensure a multi-sectoral mental health system;
•Engaging actors in the health, social welfare and child protection and education sectors at all levels of society to design, implement and evaluate mental health and psychosocial support strategies that shall be context-relevant, comprehensive and sustainable.
Vacancy for long term agreement (LTA) of Graphic Designers, national consultancies roles. The LTA will be awarded to maximum 5 suitable candidates and the duration of LTA offered will be for 3 years.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with foundations and faith-based and membership organizations by advancing strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and collaboration opportunities. The consultant will support the development of new high-value partnerships, strengthen existing relationships, provide strategic support across the partnership cycle, and help UNICEF maximize partner contributions in funding, advocacy, expertise, influence, and global reach.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnerships with foundations, faith-based organizations and membership-based organizations by supporting resource mobilization, partnership growth and strategic engagement. The consultant will help implement global partnership strategies, build fundraising capacity across UNICEF markets, support partner cultivation and relationship management, and maximize both financial and non-financial contributions from key partners to advance UNICEF’s goals and increase sustainable income.
UNICEF Myanmar strives to ensure that adolescents and young people are not only heard but actively contribute as agents of change in both humanitarian and development contexts. To amplify these voices, UNICEF launched U-Report Myanmar in August 2016 — an innovative digital platform that leverages mobile and social media technology to engage young people, share information, gather insights, and promote positive social change.
To ensure high-quality execution and strong alignment with global guidelines, UNICEF Myanmar seeks a consultant with specialized expertise in social media strategy, content creation, and digital engagement. The consultant will play a key role in driving U-Report’s rebranding activation, maintaining and enhancing its social media presence, and identifying innovative approaches to reach and engage young people on both existing and emerging platforms.
Join UNICEF Philippines as a Health Officer and help improve the lives of children and women, especially the most vulnerable. In this role, you will support the design, implementation, and evaluation of health programmes focused on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), children with disabilities, Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), emergency health response, and environmental health. Working alongside government partners, NGOs, UN agencies, and donors, you will turn evidence-based priorities into sustainable, impactful results that advance child health and well-being across the Philippines.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical and operational support to UNICEF Guinea-Bissau and national partners for the effective implementation, coordination, monitoring and documentation of priority interventions in health and nutrition, with a particular focus on: i) Community health; ii) Nutrition; iii) Climate-resilient health and nutrition systems; vi) Integrated primary health care (PHC) service delivery in vulnerable, rural and hard-to-reach communities.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide close technical supervision, quality assurance, construction planning, progress monitoring, technical guidance and reporting for CRIBS rehabilitation works in Enugu State. The consultant will support timely and quality implementation while final approval, certification, contract management and payment authorization remain with UNICEF staff members.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide professional editing, copy-editing, structural review and publication-readiness support for 15 papers that will form book chapters developed under the UNICEF Lesotho Thought Leadership Series. The consultant will support UNICEF Lesotho to transform selected full papers into polished, accessible and policy-relevant manuscripts suitable for presentation at the 2027 National Dialogue and for possible inclusion in an edited open-access book.
UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking an experienced Immunization Specialist to provide technical leadership and strategic support for the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of immunization programmes. The incumbent will work closely with government counterparts, development partners and UNICEF teams to strengthen routine immunization, reduce zero-dose children, improve equitable access to services, and support emergency preparedness and outbreak response across Ethiopia. The position requires strong expertise in public health, programme management, partnership building, and evidence-based decision-making.
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the Ministry of Justice and UNICEF in developing a practical, rights-based and institutionally sustainable monitoring framework on the status of children in contact with the justice system that can be adopted and routinely applied by the Ministry of Justice. The framework should enable regular collection, consolidation and analysis of relevant data and support evidence-based policy development and monitoring of the implementation of children’s rights within the justice system.
To provide technical and analytical support to UNICEF's evidence generation and policy work on household vulnerability and shock-responsive social protection, including collaborative analytical products and policy recommendations with UN partners in the context of recent and compound shocks, including the Middle East crisis.
UNICEF Sri Lanka generates evidence and policy recommendations to strengthen household resilience and shock responsive social protection in the context of recurrent and overlapping economic, climate, disaster and external shocks.
As part of this evidence generation, UNICEF is undertaking a rapid telephone-based household survey to examine household socioeconomic conditions, exposure to recent shocks, coping responses, social protection, access to essential services and child wellbeing, including household-level impacts associated with the Middle East crisis. UNICEF also collaborates with other UN partners on complementary analytical work that brings together different evidence streams and translates them into practical policy recommendations. This consultancy will support two connected areas of UNICEF's evidence and policy work. First, it will use relevant findings from the rapid telephone-based household survey, together with complementary evidence generated with UN partners,
to contribute to a focused live case study on shock-responsive social protection, using Aswesuma as the principal entry
point. Second, it will support the household vulnerability and social protection component of a broader collaborativeanal Es. This second analytical stream will be explicitly built on the upstream enterprise and value-chain analysis undertaken by the collaborating UN partner(s). Based on the priority
sectors, affected worker groups, employment channels and enterprise-level impacts identified through that analysis.
Join UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office as an Operations Associate and help deliver seamless operational services across 12 countries. We are looking for four Operations Associates, with one position based in each of Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of an integrated regional Operations team, you will manage a specialized portfolio while supporting service delivery, business continuity, operational performance and cross-country collaboration. Your contribution will help ensure consistent, responsive and efficient operational support that enables teams across the Caribbean to deliver results for children.
Location:Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize
To operationalize the National Food Fortification Strategy, Angola requires a robust legal and regulatory framework that
establishes standards, institutional responsibilities, quality assurance mechanisms, compliance requirements, and
enforcement provisions. In this context, the Government of Angola seeks to engage a legal consultant to provide technical
assistance in the development, review, and finalization of the legislation, regulations, and standards necessary to support
the approval and implementation of the national food fortification agenda.
Under the supervision of the WASH Officer, the WASH Technical Consultant for Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is accountable for the timely and quality implementation of the WASH-MHM program, under the CER Output 5.2, with particular focus on the promoting Menstrual Hygiene Management and the institutionalization of the Oky Menstrual Period Tracking App in the Philippines.
The implementation Oky under the TUSIP program and the emerging climate-environment agenda for MHM has expanded the opportunity to reach more adolescents in the Philippines. To maximize this opportunity, the WASH-MHM program, particularly the Oky project, requires continued personnel support for technical assistance delivery, marketing and user acquisition, and systems strengthening. UNICEF needs the services of a dedicated consultant to support Oky Philippines and WASH-MHM tasks/activities and provide technical assistance to CSO and government implementing partners
UNICEF Innocenti is seeking to hire a qualitative research consultant based in Kenya, to co-lead the research study described above, particularly analysis and writing from Life Histories (LHs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). The selected consultant will closely collaborate with the consultant in charge of the QuIP study component (QuIP consultant).
UNICEF Tajikistan seeks a national consultant to work alongside the international consultant on the identification and refinement of a child-sensitive climate investment idea and preparation of a Green Climate Fund (GCF) Concept Note and supporting pre-feasibility study. The national consultant will lead day-to-day country coordination, facilitate country ownership, gather and verify national evidence, organize and document consultations, and provide country-specific technical inputs and follow-up.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
Join UNICEF's Global Programme Division as a Health Specialist (Adolescent Health) and play a pivotal role in advancing adolescent health and well-being worldwide. Based in Nairobi within UNICEF's Centre of Excellence, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise to strengthen adolescent-responsive health systems and services, influence global policy and guidance, and support countries in designing and scaling evidence-based programmes. Working closely with governments, development partners, UNICEF Regional and Country Offices, you will drive innovation, capacity development, knowledge generation, partnerships, and resource mobilization to improve equitable access to quality health services for adolescents and contribute to sustainable results at global, regional and country levels.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Specialist, P-3 in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and play a pivotal role in advancing children’s rights and development across the North Pacific. This exciting position offers the opportunity to lead and manage high-impact programmes, working closely with government counterparts, development partners, communities, and civil society organizations to deliver sustainable and result-driven solutions for children and families. Ideal for a dynamic professional with strong programme management, partnership-building, and policy engagement experience, the role provides a unique platform to influence development priorities, strengthen national capacities, and support evidence-based programming. As part of UNICEF’s Pacific Multi-Country Office, you will contribute to programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and advocacy efforts while gaining valuable experience in a culturally rich and diverse island context.
The consultant will support the provision of technical support on the MHPSS agenda and facilitate coordination and engagement with focal points across Education, Child Protection, ADAP, SBC and other relevant sections, as well as with key partners and subject matter experts. This will help ensure that quality MHPSS programmes for children, adolescents and caregivers are effectively implemented and scaled up through systems strengthening efforts.
The objective of the consultancy is to support the Evolution and Scale-Up of HAT methodology. The overall objective will be achieved through the following sub-objectives:
•Identifying the mental health issues that are a high priority and need to be addressed and provide detailed guidance to support implementation, with a focus on describing sectoral roles and recommendations to strengthen a multi-sectoral mental health system;
•Identifying and updating the required legislative, strategy, policy, capacity building steps and changes to ensure a multi-sectoral mental health system;
•Engaging actors in the health, social welfare and child protection and education sectors at all levels of society to design, implement and evaluate mental health and psychosocial support strategies that shall be context-relevant, comprehensive and sustainable.
Vacancy for long term agreement (LTA) of Graphic Designers, national consultancies roles. The LTA will be awarded to maximum 5 suitable candidates and the duration of LTA offered will be for 3 years.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with foundations and faith-based and membership organizations by advancing strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and collaboration opportunities. The consultant will support the development of new high-value partnerships, strengthen existing relationships, provide strategic support across the partnership cycle, and help UNICEF maximize partner contributions in funding, advocacy, expertise, influence, and global reach.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnerships with foundations, faith-based organizations and membership-based organizations by supporting resource mobilization, partnership growth and strategic engagement. The consultant will help implement global partnership strategies, build fundraising capacity across UNICEF markets, support partner cultivation and relationship management, and maximize both financial and non-financial contributions from key partners to advance UNICEF’s goals and increase sustainable income.
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