To advance its Digital Learning Strategy (2025–2030), UNICEF is establishing a new Strategic Partner Engagement Consultancy. This consultancy will focus on managing critical partner negotiations, roadmaps, and events, , and delivering joint strategies and agreements that will continue to build the technical and programmatic foundations of the Learning Passport programme. The successful result(s) of this consultancy will advance the priorities of UNICEF’s new Digital Learning Strategy and contribute to the goals of the coming Strategic Plan.
The consultant will work closely with the Learning Passport Global Lead to support targeted, and core, partnership negotiation and engagement workflows. This will include guiding the technical strategic direction of agreements to best deliver programmatic results, with a focus on supporting successful executive engagements of UNICEF and its key Learning Passport partners.
Additionally, the consultant will support the management of the Learning Passport Leadership Council—under the direction of the Global Lead—and collaborate with all major Learning Passport partners. These efforts will contribute directly to the successful implementation of UNICEF’s Digital Learning Strategy (2025–2030) by successfully managing private sector engagements needed to scale digital learning initiatives globally.
The Product Designer will tackle design specific tasks assigned and estimated during regular sprint planning
sessions, in coordination with the Product Owner and Design Lead, using our Agile Project Management
Methodology. This consultancy will create and support the integration of an A/B testing framework into UNICEF's UX/UI design process. This work will contribute to the development of intuitive and accessible interfaces and features for UNICEF’s Drupal platform, as well as enhancing the UNICEF.org Design
System, which is an enterprise-level, variable and component based Figma library.
The expected results will include the participation in Sprint Planning and Sprint Demo sessions, along with full demonstration of the design task, and proper handover in Figma with notations for Product, Design, and Development teams, as noted above.
The Gender Equality Section is seeking a Consultant to support the compilation and drafting of key written products fulfilling institutional and interagency reporting obligations. The first is the report on the UN System-Wide Action Plan which tracks UN entities’ performance on gender equality for the Chief Executives Board for Coordination. The second is the Annual Report on progress on the Gender Action Plan submitted to the UNICEF Executive Board alongside the Executive Director’s Annual Report. The third is the Global Annual Results Report (inclusive of the Spotlight on the Gender Equality Thematic Fund) meant principally for donors, partners and the general public. The reports are targeted towards diverse audiences and require extensive compilation of content from various sources into high-quality products with strictly defined formats and timelines
The Child Protection and Development (CPD) team within the Data and Analytics Section covers a number of topics including birth registration, child labour, child marriage, female genital mutilation, violence against children and children living outside of family care. The CPD team is also responsible for statistics and data on early childhood development (ECD). The CPD team work in the area of child protection includes: supporting the collection of nationally representative data through the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS); maintaining global databases on key indicators; methodological work to develop new data collection and monitoring tools and questionnaires in the area of child protection and ECD, including on issues measured by SDG indicators; conducting data analyses; undertaking capacity-building; and disseminating data on child protection in a variety of ways including through flagship publications, thematic data-driven publications and brochures and statistical country profiles.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide support to the CPD team with respect to some specific topics within child protection, namely violence, child marriage and children with disabilities. The consultant will be supervised by the Senior Adviser, Statistics, Child Protection and Development within the Data and Analytics Section.
This consultancy will contribute to four interrelated areas within UNICEF's Programme Strategy and Coordination Hub. The first three focuses on the Hub's structural evolution and support to the Future Focused Initiative (FFI), while the fourth relates to support for the Hub's continued leadership in several distinct areas of work requiring inter divisional collaboration
Data-driven decision-making for FFI is supported by a continually evolving data compendium, which aggregates key data points that have informed the development of FFI proposals. In parallel the consultant's knowledge management expertise will also be leveraged to support other strategic workstreams lead by the PSC Hub.
The primary objective is to provide technical and analytical expertise to support the development of evidence-based recommendations with a particular focus on sustainable financing for primary healthcare and immunization programs
Join UNICEF’s Investigations Section as a consultant! We’re looking for a French/English speaker to help assess and investigate misconduct cases worldwide-ensuring accountability, integrity and impact in UNICEF’s work
work in close coordination with other DGCA sections, EMOPS, Public Partnerships Division, Private Fundraising Partnerships Division, Programme Group, other HQ Divisions, Regional, Country Offices, National Committees, other relevant internal and external stakeholders.
Through these efforts, the Humanitarian Advocacy Consultant will contribute to the fulfilment of GCA’s accountabilities to strengthen capacities to develop, implement and monitor targeted, integrated and corporately owned humanitarian advocacy strategies and workplans at global level and in select emergencies, in close collaboration with EMOPS.
The Humanitarian Advocacy Coordination Consultant will be responsible for gathering ways of working across technical-level humanitarian advocacy crisis cells and working groups as well as the Humanitarian Diplomacy Squad, and will be accountable to the Head of Humanitarian Advocacy and Humanitarian Advocacy team for conducting a review of ways of working, developing recommendations for strengthening a streamlined, coordinated approach, and based on feedback from recommendations, developing an updated, streamlined approach to humanitarian advocacy and diplomacy within UNICEF, focusing on building and testing ways of working across HQ Divisions and with COs and ROs in a context of a rapidly changing internal landscape within UNICEF alongside an evolving external humanitarian landscape.
This consultant will support the WASH Section at UNICEF HQ to provide technical support to the global coordinated advocacy initiative, specifically on the development of the shared agenda for action and consultations with adolescents and young people, to ensure their voices are considered in this agenda. The consultant will also support the development of a technical guidance on climate change and MHH.
Taking into consideration the importance of presence at subnational level for better coordination, monitoring and developing partnerships in the regions as well as to provide support to the most vulnerable families with children, UNICEF in Belarus is looking for two consultants based in Brest and Gomel who will be responsible for the regional work across the country. These consultancies are intended to strengthen UNICEF presence at subnational level and provide support in coordination, implementation and monitoring of UNICEF programmes, expanding partnerships and ensuring emergency-development nexus in the indicated regions.
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking an individual consultant to support the development of a new Country Programme (2027-2031). The Country Programme provides the legal, programmatic and operational basis for advancing children’s rights at the country level in support of national and global development priorities and human rights obligations.
UNICEF is looking for a National / International Consultant / researcher to support understanding the factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviors among key healthcare workers and stakeholders.
The consultant will provide dedicated technical assistance to the UNICEF Tanzania health team to enable and realize submission and publishing of twelve (12) manuscripts based on already collected, and in the majority of cases already analyzed, data from 2020 to 2024. All work will be done in close collaboration with the UNICEF team and other stakeholders who have been involved in the research. In some cases, draft manuscripts are already available but need additional work to be readied for submission. The consultant will additionally provide a quality assurance function for ongoing studies through review of protocols and reports.
This consultancy will manage the Centre’s day-to-day KM functions during the transition phase, helping to design, organise, and operationalise systems that capture, store, and share knowledge across all functional areas. The consultant will work closely with the Strategic Content Consultant and thematic leads to identify, curate, and package high-value content—particularly from country office annual reports and other corporate processes—for use in global reporting, knowledge products, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
By connecting with KM focal points across divisions, satellite teams, and country offices, the consultant will ensure a steady flow of high-quality, accessible knowledge products that position UNICEF as the global leader in child-sensitive climate resilience and enable the replication and scaling of successful interventions worldwide.
This role will provide capacity support for child-sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR), including technical assistance across multi-hazard early warning systems, anticipatory action, disaster risk financing, and climate risk and vulnerability assessments. It also contributes to the global implementation and monitoring of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) 2023–2030 Area of Acceleration 1: climate-informed disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action, and resilient recovery.
Under the supervision of the Programme Officer for Disaster Risk Reduction, the DRR Programme Consultant is expected to deliver three outputs:
1. Strengthen knowledge management and capacity building on child-sensitive DRR
2. Global monitoring and reporting on child-sensitive DRR
3. Interagency partnership, communications and advocacy support for child-sensitive DRR
UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with
implementation, communications, knowledge management, and research-related work in transitioning energy systems to
net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes support to
knowledge management and communications action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their
understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean cooking that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s
programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its
assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and
healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable
Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting
essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the smooth, timely, and accurate web publishing and management of the 2026 Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals and related revisions in preparation for the Global HAC launch in December 2025, and throughout the 2026 cycle. The consultant will be responsible for end-to-end management of publishing approximately 45 standalone appeals, including updating infographics, live web pages, and static PDFs, creating live pages for new 2026 appeals, archiving previous year’s content, and updating the UNICEF HAC webpage components such as visuals, introductions, and navigational elements. Additionally, the consultant will support publishing of the revised HAC appeals throughout 2026 for an estimated 30 appeals as humanitarian requirements and interagency plans evolve, ensuring the UNICEF HAC webpage remains updated effectively.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring an Operations Officer on a temporary appointment to be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Under the general supervision of the Chief Field Office with technical guidance from Deputy Representative, Operations, the Operations Officer will be accountable for operations functions, facilitate change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts. The Officer will supervise a team of three staff members including an Administrative Associate and two Drivers. The Operations Officer will be entrusted with the following five pillars, the core focus of all operations functions: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, Valuing Partners.
To advance its Digital Learning Strategy (2025–2030), UNICEF is establishing a new Strategic Partner Engagement Consultancy. This consultancy will focus on managing critical partner negotiations, roadmaps, and events, , and delivering joint strategies and agreements that will continue to build the technical and programmatic foundations of the Learning Passport programme. The successful result(s) of this consultancy will advance the priorities of UNICEF’s new Digital Learning Strategy and contribute to the goals of the coming Strategic Plan.
The consultant will work closely with the Learning Passport Global Lead to support targeted, and core, partnership negotiation and engagement workflows. This will include guiding the technical strategic direction of agreements to best deliver programmatic results, with a focus on supporting successful executive engagements of UNICEF and its key Learning Passport partners.
Additionally, the consultant will support the management of the Learning Passport Leadership Council—under the direction of the Global Lead—and collaborate with all major Learning Passport partners. These efforts will contribute directly to the successful implementation of UNICEF’s Digital Learning Strategy (2025–2030) by successfully managing private sector engagements needed to scale digital learning initiatives globally.
The Product Designer will tackle design specific tasks assigned and estimated during regular sprint planning
sessions, in coordination with the Product Owner and Design Lead, using our Agile Project Management
Methodology. This consultancy will create and support the integration of an A/B testing framework into UNICEF's UX/UI design process. This work will contribute to the development of intuitive and accessible interfaces and features for UNICEF’s Drupal platform, as well as enhancing the UNICEF.org Design
System, which is an enterprise-level, variable and component based Figma library.
The expected results will include the participation in Sprint Planning and Sprint Demo sessions, along with full demonstration of the design task, and proper handover in Figma with notations for Product, Design, and Development teams, as noted above.
The Gender Equality Section is seeking a Consultant to support the compilation and drafting of key written products fulfilling institutional and interagency reporting obligations. The first is the report on the UN System-Wide Action Plan which tracks UN entities’ performance on gender equality for the Chief Executives Board for Coordination. The second is the Annual Report on progress on the Gender Action Plan submitted to the UNICEF Executive Board alongside the Executive Director’s Annual Report. The third is the Global Annual Results Report (inclusive of the Spotlight on the Gender Equality Thematic Fund) meant principally for donors, partners and the general public. The reports are targeted towards diverse audiences and require extensive compilation of content from various sources into high-quality products with strictly defined formats and timelines
The Child Protection and Development (CPD) team within the Data and Analytics Section covers a number of topics including birth registration, child labour, child marriage, female genital mutilation, violence against children and children living outside of family care. The CPD team is also responsible for statistics and data on early childhood development (ECD). The CPD team work in the area of child protection includes: supporting the collection of nationally representative data through the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS); maintaining global databases on key indicators; methodological work to develop new data collection and monitoring tools and questionnaires in the area of child protection and ECD, including on issues measured by SDG indicators; conducting data analyses; undertaking capacity-building; and disseminating data on child protection in a variety of ways including through flagship publications, thematic data-driven publications and brochures and statistical country profiles.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide support to the CPD team with respect to some specific topics within child protection, namely violence, child marriage and children with disabilities. The consultant will be supervised by the Senior Adviser, Statistics, Child Protection and Development within the Data and Analytics Section.
This consultancy will contribute to four interrelated areas within UNICEF's Programme Strategy and Coordination Hub. The first three focuses on the Hub's structural evolution and support to the Future Focused Initiative (FFI), while the fourth relates to support for the Hub's continued leadership in several distinct areas of work requiring inter divisional collaboration
Data-driven decision-making for FFI is supported by a continually evolving data compendium, which aggregates key data points that have informed the development of FFI proposals. In parallel the consultant's knowledge management expertise will also be leveraged to support other strategic workstreams lead by the PSC Hub.
The primary objective is to provide technical and analytical expertise to support the development of evidence-based recommendations with a particular focus on sustainable financing for primary healthcare and immunization programs
Join UNICEF’s Investigations Section as a consultant! We’re looking for a French/English speaker to help assess and investigate misconduct cases worldwide-ensuring accountability, integrity and impact in UNICEF’s work
work in close coordination with other DGCA sections, EMOPS, Public Partnerships Division, Private Fundraising Partnerships Division, Programme Group, other HQ Divisions, Regional, Country Offices, National Committees, other relevant internal and external stakeholders.
Through these efforts, the Humanitarian Advocacy Consultant will contribute to the fulfilment of GCA’s accountabilities to strengthen capacities to develop, implement and monitor targeted, integrated and corporately owned humanitarian advocacy strategies and workplans at global level and in select emergencies, in close collaboration with EMOPS.
The Humanitarian Advocacy Coordination Consultant will be responsible for gathering ways of working across technical-level humanitarian advocacy crisis cells and working groups as well as the Humanitarian Diplomacy Squad, and will be accountable to the Head of Humanitarian Advocacy and Humanitarian Advocacy team for conducting a review of ways of working, developing recommendations for strengthening a streamlined, coordinated approach, and based on feedback from recommendations, developing an updated, streamlined approach to humanitarian advocacy and diplomacy within UNICEF, focusing on building and testing ways of working across HQ Divisions and with COs and ROs in a context of a rapidly changing internal landscape within UNICEF alongside an evolving external humanitarian landscape.
This consultant will support the WASH Section at UNICEF HQ to provide technical support to the global coordinated advocacy initiative, specifically on the development of the shared agenda for action and consultations with adolescents and young people, to ensure their voices are considered in this agenda. The consultant will also support the development of a technical guidance on climate change and MHH.
Taking into consideration the importance of presence at subnational level for better coordination, monitoring and developing partnerships in the regions as well as to provide support to the most vulnerable families with children, UNICEF in Belarus is looking for two consultants based in Brest and Gomel who will be responsible for the regional work across the country. These consultancies are intended to strengthen UNICEF presence at subnational level and provide support in coordination, implementation and monitoring of UNICEF programmes, expanding partnerships and ensuring emergency-development nexus in the indicated regions.
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking an individual consultant to support the development of a new Country Programme (2027-2031). The Country Programme provides the legal, programmatic and operational basis for advancing children’s rights at the country level in support of national and global development priorities and human rights obligations.
UNICEF is looking for a National / International Consultant / researcher to support understanding the factors influencing breastfeeding and vaccine promotion behaviors among key healthcare workers and stakeholders.
The consultant will provide dedicated technical assistance to the UNICEF Tanzania health team to enable and realize submission and publishing of twelve (12) manuscripts based on already collected, and in the majority of cases already analyzed, data from 2020 to 2024. All work will be done in close collaboration with the UNICEF team and other stakeholders who have been involved in the research. In some cases, draft manuscripts are already available but need additional work to be readied for submission. The consultant will additionally provide a quality assurance function for ongoing studies through review of protocols and reports.
This consultancy will manage the Centre’s day-to-day KM functions during the transition phase, helping to design, organise, and operationalise systems that capture, store, and share knowledge across all functional areas. The consultant will work closely with the Strategic Content Consultant and thematic leads to identify, curate, and package high-value content—particularly from country office annual reports and other corporate processes—for use in global reporting, knowledge products, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
By connecting with KM focal points across divisions, satellite teams, and country offices, the consultant will ensure a steady flow of high-quality, accessible knowledge products that position UNICEF as the global leader in child-sensitive climate resilience and enable the replication and scaling of successful interventions worldwide.
This role will provide capacity support for child-sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR), including technical assistance across multi-hazard early warning systems, anticipatory action, disaster risk financing, and climate risk and vulnerability assessments. It also contributes to the global implementation and monitoring of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) 2023–2030 Area of Acceleration 1: climate-informed disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action, and resilient recovery.
Under the supervision of the Programme Officer for Disaster Risk Reduction, the DRR Programme Consultant is expected to deliver three outputs:
1. Strengthen knowledge management and capacity building on child-sensitive DRR
2. Global monitoring and reporting on child-sensitive DRR
3. Interagency partnership, communications and advocacy support for child-sensitive DRR
UNICEF is seeking a consultant who will support UNICEF with
implementation, communications, knowledge management, and research-related work in transitioning energy systems to
net zero and adapting essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children. This includes support to
knowledge management and communications action plan on tools and training for UNICEF staff to strengthen their
understanding of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean cooking that can be then integrated across UNICEF’s
programs in healthcare, nutrition, WASH, education, social protection and child protection, and supporting UNICEF in its
assessing the market landscape and demand for the provision of solar energy in UNICEF’s key sectors (WASH, education and
healthcare) to generate the evidence base to inform UNICEF’s value add and future interventions to meet several Sustainable
Development Goals. This will contribute to UNICEF-related work in transitioning energy systems to net zero and adapting
essential social services in an integrated and low-carbon manner for children.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the smooth, timely, and accurate web publishing and management of the 2026 Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals and related revisions in preparation for the Global HAC launch in December 2025, and throughout the 2026 cycle. The consultant will be responsible for end-to-end management of publishing approximately 45 standalone appeals, including updating infographics, live web pages, and static PDFs, creating live pages for new 2026 appeals, archiving previous year’s content, and updating the UNICEF HAC webpage components such as visuals, introductions, and navigational elements. Additionally, the consultant will support publishing of the revised HAC appeals throughout 2026 for an estimated 30 appeals as humanitarian requirements and interagency plans evolve, ensuring the UNICEF HAC webpage remains updated effectively.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring an Operations Officer on a temporary appointment to be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Under the general supervision of the Chief Field Office with technical guidance from Deputy Representative, Operations, the Operations Officer will be accountable for operations functions, facilitate change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts. The Officer will supervise a team of three staff members including an Administrative Associate and two Drivers. The Operations Officer will be entrusted with the following five pillars, the core focus of all operations functions: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, Valuing Partners.
