The communications and knowledge management consultant is a creative, dynamic and exciting role. You will be responsible for creating and disseminating responsive and strategic content to engage audiences across UNGEI platforms, and managing the digital platform including websites, newsletters and social media. For Safe to Learn, you will provide support for the design of publications, website engagement and digital content. This will include refreshing the Safe to Learn brand and ensuring a consistent and appealing visual identity for the Coalition.
The consultant will support the development, delivery, and governance of key CMS features and enhancements, as well as the roll-out of the content lifecycle project. Applying both a business analysis and content architecture lens, the consultant will ensure that user needs, editorial strategy, and governance requirements are translated into functional, high-quality technical solutions.
The grants of Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All (ASWA, Phase 3) funded by the government of the Netherlands, and the Beyond Pipes and Toilets grant, funded by the EU, are both critical grants for UNICEF to implement key aspects of the WASH components of its strategic plan. It is critical that UNICEF can create visibility for these two critical donors on these two grants, but also that the work completed by the grants is communicated well in a range of forms such as social media posting, dissemination of developed reports and achievements, and production of communication materials.
The ASWA III grant focuses on the delivery of climate resilient WASH programming in eight countries across Africa. Focus on both service delivery and systems strengthening, with a particular focus on key thematic areas of sustainability, gender transformative WASH, climate resilient WASH, and as applicable on the Head of State Initiative (HoSI). The programme is designed to run until the end of December 2027.
The EU funded Beyond Taps and Toilets focuses on similar areas of WASH and climate, and the HoSI, as well as monitoring and sustainability, with the programme due to expire at the end of March 2027. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership.
The Education & Adolescent Development Section of Programme Group (PG) at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) requires the services of an Advocacy Specialist to deliver critical and time-bound interventions for the implementation of 2025-26 advocacy activities on the learning crisis.
This includes ensuring strategic and aligned roll-out of advocacy and communication efforts for Foundational Learning; a) developing strategic advocacy planning documents, resources and materials as key deliverables under a number of external partnerships; and b) developing and monitoring delivery under advocacy and communications workplans.
In alignment with UNICEF’s Gender Equality Action Plan, UNICEF’s Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy, and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan ‘adolescent girls accelerator’ commitments, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the adolescent girls’ agenda. Specifically, this consultancy will focus on:
- Delivery of key briefings on strategy, partner engagement and policy to advance the adolescent girls agenda
- Deliver key programmatic outputs in collaboration with Senior Gender Advisor – including a robust Results Framework for the global POWER4Girls initiatives; annual adolescent girls report for partners summarising key results and programmatic lessons
- Undertake research and support the evaluation of POWER4Girls programmes
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an individual consultant with expertise to provide technical leadership in revising the existing national IMAM guidelines in line with the 2023 WHO recommendations, integrating best practices, stakeholder input, and the country’s context, health systems and review and consolidate the current training materials in line with the revised National Guidelines for Acute Malnutrition. If you have the required expertise and is interested, kindly post your application.
In order to reinforce its expertise in sustainable energy 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.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have
the following responsibilities:
Human Resources
United Nations Children’s Fund
1) Solar Hub Helpdesk: Support the solar hub helpdesk with dedicated hotline hours to provide real-time technical support
and guidance on renewable energy solutions for Country Offices (COs).
2) Global Guidance Pack on Solar Systems for UNICEF.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide temporary technical support to the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) unit of UNICEF Tajikistan, with the aim of significantly strengthening its planning, monitoring, and reporting processes.
National digital engagement consultant vacancy in UNICEF Myanmar, Social & Behavior Change unit. Interested Myanmar nationals with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
The ECD Officer will play a critical role in supporting the development, planning, and implementation of the ECD programmes. Also, will be responsible for managing a specific sector of the programme, including monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on its progress within the broader country programme framework. Will provide technical expertise and managerial support throughout the programme cycle to ensure the delivery of tangible, sustainable results in ECD. The work will align with established plans, budget allocations, and results-based management (RBM) principles. All activities will adhere to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework to maximize impact and ensure programme integrity.
During the 3-month period of the contract, the Consultant will support a series of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening GBViE targeted research efforts.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic windows. The consultant will play a lead technical role on two ongoing mixed-method impact evaluation on child marriage and social norms including the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage” and the “Impact evaluation of Ghana’s Promoting Adolescent Safe Spaces (PASS),” jointly with other members of the EO ICF team. In addition, the consultant will lead on the development of a novel child vulnerability and/or resilience index as part of the ASPECT portfolio. The overarching goal of this latter work is to develop a measurement tool which can be integrated into future impact evaluations and large-scale data collection in fragile and humanitarian settings.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic window on child marriage and social norms to integrate an innovative qualitative methodology to capture programme outcomes and impacts into the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage.” More specifically, the consultant will support development of a design, study instruments, training, analysis and dissemination of an imbedded Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) focused on adolescent girls affected by the 2023 earthquake and who now live in container cities and have benefited from the intervention. This sub-set of adolescent girls represents a highly vulnerable group and an opportunity to understand the perceptions of impact within a smaller purposefully selected sample affected by natural disasters. This is a strategic investment for the ICF impact evaluation portfolio, as learnings from this effort will feed into broader institutional efforts which may benefit from this methodology to investigate sub-group impacts of interest to UNICEF and broader stakeholders across studies. The EO seeks a highly motivated impact evaluation consultant who strives to excel and stays abreast of the latest evaluative knowledge and methodological innovations.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Tajikistan country office to develop a comprehensive and evidence-based advocacy package that effectively communicates the importance of investing in Early Childhood Development suitable to different stakeholders and platforms in Tajikistan.
The Child Protection Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative for guidance and general supervision. The Specialist leads the development and preparation of the Child Protection programme(s) and is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of the child protection programmes/projects within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes. H/She facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm, and to protect their rights to survival, development and well being as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies. H/She leads engagement with the Child Rights Commissioner to support implementation and monitoring of the CRC Action plan.
The Specialist contributes to the achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
Botswana Country Office seeks the services of a consultant to conduct a legal landscape analysis of Botswana’s food environment, using UNICEF’s legal landscape analysis tool.
UNICEF Moldova is seeking to contract a National Individual Consultant, to provide supervision and strategic support for the implementation of communication efforts aimed at preventing Violence Against Children (VAC) and Violence Against Women (VAW) of the National Agency for the Prevention and Combating of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Through these efforts, the consultancy will contribute to a coordinated and impactful approach to violence prevention, ultimately fostering safer, more supportive, and gender-responsive environments for children and women across the Republic of Moldova.
Under the general guidance of the Chief, SBC Section and in close coordination with
Sectoral and Cross-Sectoral Specialists and Officers, contributes to/responsible for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based, inclusive and innovative SBC strategies in support of the country programme. UNICEF Ukraine country programme 2025-2029 is built around key leadership areas, namely Better Start, Better Learning and Skills and Better Care with inclusion of children/persons with disabilities; mental health and psychosocial support; and parenting cutting across all these areas, thus, the incumbent will be expected to provide significant contributions to these cross-cutting themes.
The main objective of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to UNICEF Country Office in scaling up results in the area of meaningful youth engagement as agents of change in climate agenda through the expansion of the Young Climate Champions network, community-based youth climate actions, especially in Karakalpakstan, and advocacy at national and international levels.
UNICEF State of Palestine is seeking for Individual Consultant to to
Support the Development of the National Child Justice Strategy (2025–2029) in the
State of Palestine. The duration of this assignment is 3 Months.
The communications and knowledge management consultant is a creative, dynamic and exciting role. You will be responsible for creating and disseminating responsive and strategic content to engage audiences across UNGEI platforms, and managing the digital platform including websites, newsletters and social media. For Safe to Learn, you will provide support for the design of publications, website engagement and digital content. This will include refreshing the Safe to Learn brand and ensuring a consistent and appealing visual identity for the Coalition.
The consultant will support the development, delivery, and governance of key CMS features and enhancements, as well as the roll-out of the content lifecycle project. Applying both a business analysis and content architecture lens, the consultant will ensure that user needs, editorial strategy, and governance requirements are translated into functional, high-quality technical solutions.
The grants of Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All (ASWA, Phase 3) funded by the government of the Netherlands, and the Beyond Pipes and Toilets grant, funded by the EU, are both critical grants for UNICEF to implement key aspects of the WASH components of its strategic plan. It is critical that UNICEF can create visibility for these two critical donors on these two grants, but also that the work completed by the grants is communicated well in a range of forms such as social media posting, dissemination of developed reports and achievements, and production of communication materials.
The ASWA III grant focuses on the delivery of climate resilient WASH programming in eight countries across Africa. Focus on both service delivery and systems strengthening, with a particular focus on key thematic areas of sustainability, gender transformative WASH, climate resilient WASH, and as applicable on the Head of State Initiative (HoSI). The programme is designed to run until the end of December 2027.
The EU funded Beyond Taps and Toilets focuses on similar areas of WASH and climate, and the HoSI, as well as monitoring and sustainability, with the programme due to expire at the end of March 2027. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership.
The Education & Adolescent Development Section of Programme Group (PG) at New York Headquarters (NYHQ) requires the services of an Advocacy Specialist to deliver critical and time-bound interventions for the implementation of 2025-26 advocacy activities on the learning crisis.
This includes ensuring strategic and aligned roll-out of advocacy and communication efforts for Foundational Learning; a) developing strategic advocacy planning documents, resources and materials as key deliverables under a number of external partnerships; and b) developing and monitoring delivery under advocacy and communications workplans.
In alignment with UNICEF’s Gender Equality Action Plan, UNICEF’s Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy, and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan ‘adolescent girls accelerator’ commitments, UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the adolescent girls’ agenda. Specifically, this consultancy will focus on:
- Delivery of key briefings on strategy, partner engagement and policy to advance the adolescent girls agenda
- Deliver key programmatic outputs in collaboration with Senior Gender Advisor – including a robust Results Framework for the global POWER4Girls initiatives; annual adolescent girls report for partners summarising key results and programmatic lessons
- Undertake research and support the evaluation of POWER4Girls programmes
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an individual consultant with expertise to provide technical leadership in revising the existing national IMAM guidelines in line with the 2023 WHO recommendations, integrating best practices, stakeholder input, and the country’s context, health systems and review and consolidate the current training materials in line with the revised National Guidelines for Acute Malnutrition. If you have the required expertise and is interested, kindly post your application.
In order to reinforce its expertise in sustainable energy 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.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the CEED Programme Specialist, the Sustainable Energy Consultant shall have
the following responsibilities:
Human Resources
United Nations Children’s Fund
1) Solar Hub Helpdesk: Support the solar hub helpdesk with dedicated hotline hours to provide real-time technical support
and guidance on renewable energy solutions for Country Offices (COs).
2) Global Guidance Pack on Solar Systems for UNICEF.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide temporary technical support to the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) unit of UNICEF Tajikistan, with the aim of significantly strengthening its planning, monitoring, and reporting processes.
National digital engagement consultant vacancy in UNICEF Myanmar, Social & Behavior Change unit. Interested Myanmar nationals with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
The ECD Officer will play a critical role in supporting the development, planning, and implementation of the ECD programmes. Also, will be responsible for managing a specific sector of the programme, including monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on its progress within the broader country programme framework. Will provide technical expertise and managerial support throughout the programme cycle to ensure the delivery of tangible, sustainable results in ECD. The work will align with established plans, budget allocations, and results-based management (RBM) principles. All activities will adhere to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework to maximize impact and ensure programme integrity.
During the 3-month period of the contract, the Consultant will support a series of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening GBViE targeted research efforts.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic windows. The consultant will play a lead technical role on two ongoing mixed-method impact evaluation on child marriage and social norms including the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage” and the “Impact evaluation of Ghana’s Promoting Adolescent Safe Spaces (PASS),” jointly with other members of the EO ICF team. In addition, the consultant will lead on the development of a novel child vulnerability and/or resilience index as part of the ASPECT portfolio. The overarching goal of this latter work is to develop a measurement tool which can be integrated into future impact evaluations and large-scale data collection in fragile and humanitarian settings.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic window on child marriage and social norms to integrate an innovative qualitative methodology to capture programme outcomes and impacts into the “Impact evaluation of Türkiye’s adolescent girls’ and boys’ empowerment program for elimination of child marriage.” More specifically, the consultant will support development of a design, study instruments, training, analysis and dissemination of an imbedded Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) focused on adolescent girls affected by the 2023 earthquake and who now live in container cities and have benefited from the intervention. This sub-set of adolescent girls represents a highly vulnerable group and an opportunity to understand the perceptions of impact within a smaller purposefully selected sample affected by natural disasters. This is a strategic investment for the ICF impact evaluation portfolio, as learnings from this effort will feed into broader institutional efforts which may benefit from this methodology to investigate sub-group impacts of interest to UNICEF and broader stakeholders across studies. The EO seeks a highly motivated impact evaluation consultant who strives to excel and stays abreast of the latest evaluative knowledge and methodological innovations.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Tajikistan country office to develop a comprehensive and evidence-based advocacy package that effectively communicates the importance of investing in Early Childhood Development suitable to different stakeholders and platforms in Tajikistan.
The Child Protection Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative for guidance and general supervision. The Specialist leads the development and preparation of the Child Protection programme(s) and is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of the child protection programmes/projects within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes. H/She facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm, and to protect their rights to survival, development and well being as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies. H/She leads engagement with the Child Rights Commissioner to support implementation and monitoring of the CRC Action plan.
The Specialist contributes to the achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
Botswana Country Office seeks the services of a consultant to conduct a legal landscape analysis of Botswana’s food environment, using UNICEF’s legal landscape analysis tool.
UNICEF Moldova is seeking to contract a National Individual Consultant, to provide supervision and strategic support for the implementation of communication efforts aimed at preventing Violence Against Children (VAC) and Violence Against Women (VAW) of the National Agency for the Prevention and Combating of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Through these efforts, the consultancy will contribute to a coordinated and impactful approach to violence prevention, ultimately fostering safer, more supportive, and gender-responsive environments for children and women across the Republic of Moldova.
Under the general guidance of the Chief, SBC Section and in close coordination with
Sectoral and Cross-Sectoral Specialists and Officers, contributes to/responsible for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based, inclusive and innovative SBC strategies in support of the country programme. UNICEF Ukraine country programme 2025-2029 is built around key leadership areas, namely Better Start, Better Learning and Skills and Better Care with inclusion of children/persons with disabilities; mental health and psychosocial support; and parenting cutting across all these areas, thus, the incumbent will be expected to provide significant contributions to these cross-cutting themes.
The main objective of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to UNICEF Country Office in scaling up results in the area of meaningful youth engagement as agents of change in climate agenda through the expansion of the Young Climate Champions network, community-based youth climate actions, especially in Karakalpakstan, and advocacy at national and international levels.
UNICEF State of Palestine is seeking for Individual Consultant to to
Support the Development of the National Child Justice Strategy (2025–2029) in the
State of Palestine. The duration of this assignment is 3 Months.
