UNICEF is expanding its digital fundraising capabilities to increase support for children worldwide. The Individual Giving (IG) team, which generates over USD 1 billion annually, is undertaking a digital transformation focused on improving donor acquisition, retention and engagement through data-driven decision-making. This consultancy will support the Global Data and Insights team by developing advanced data models that can serve as global standards, particularly for the East Asia and Pacific region. Building on these models, the consultant will create dashboards and machine learning solutions while ensuring all data products are scalable, future-proof and AI-ready, helping UNICEF maximize fundraising impact and outcomes for children.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
The purpose of this consultancy is to consolidate lessons from the 2026 cholera response and strengthen evidence-based WASH planning for cholera prevention, preparedness and risk reduction in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
UNICEF DCOE is therefore seeking a Senior Consultant to lead Oky’s country partnerships and advance girls’ digital literacy and contributions across the Oky network, bringing country realities and girls’ perspectives into Oky’s technology direction.
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub works to develop financing solutions that accelerate progress for children and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a global mandate, the Hub brings together innovation, partnerships and investment expertise to address a critical challenge: despite a global SDG financing gap exceeding USD 4 trillion, children remain largely overlooked in investment decision-making. While companies and investors have significant impacts on children’s lives through products, employment, communities and environmental practices, child rights considerations are rarely integrated into investment strategies. This assignment will support UNICEF’s efforts to mobilize capital, strengthen child-focused finance approaches, and promote investment practices that better advance child rights and development outcomes.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Finland
UNICEF is seeking a Quantitative Data Analysis Consultant to support a high-profile impact evaluation of the Mother and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) programme in Sudan, a key initiative improving maternal and child wellbeing during the first 1,000 days of life. Working with UNICEF's Evaluation Office, the consultant will lead quantitative survey design, data collection oversight, baseline analysis, and reporting while collaborating with national and international stakeholders. This consultancy offers an opportunity to contribute to evidence-based programming and generate impact insights that help drive better outcomes for children.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s global leadership on menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) by advancing advocacy, accountability, monitoring, knowledge management and partnerships. The consultant will support implementation of the global MHH agenda, including tracking progress against commitments, strengthening country-level monitoring systems, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and promoting knowledge-sharing. The role will also support the UNICEF–Kimberly-Clark partnership through advocacy, capacity building, resource development, programme learning, and cross-country exchange to improve health, education and wellbeing outcomes for girls and women.
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.
UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.
Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering strategic partnerships and investment opportunities, practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening, and evidence synthesis and publications. These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Kenya
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
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.
The consultant will provide independent technical review and advisory support to UNICEF India to strengthen the methodological rigour, implementation quality and analytical robustness of three education research studies. The assignment will focus on reviewing research designs and methodologies, monitoring progress against agreed milestones, assessing implementation readiness and data quality, and critically reviewing analytical outputs and emerging findings. The consultant will identify methodological gaps, implementation risks and areas requiring further technical attention and provide evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the credibility and policy relevance of the research. The consultant will prepare defined technical review reports, progress monitoring updates and a consolidated technical handover report to support UNICEF’s oversight of research quality and inform its engagement with the agencies undertaking the studies. Responsibility for conducting the research, collecting and analysing data, and producing the research outputs will remain with the respective research agencies
UNICEF is engaging a Lead Consultant to support the Ministry of Health in the development of the National Maternal Nutrition Guidelines and the revision and updating of the Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Guidelines for Lao PDR, ensuring alignment with current evidence, international recommendations, and national programme priorities.
To support this process, UNICEF is also seeking a National Consultant who will work closely with the Lead Consultant and the MoH to facilitate access to relevant national policies, guidelines, programme documents, and other reference materials. The National Consultant will support coordination and collaboration with government counterparts and key stakeholders, facilitate consultations and review processes, and provide local technical and contextual expertise to ensure that the guidelines are appropriately adapted to the Lao PDR context, including its health system structures, implementation realities, and socio-cultural diversity.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant, a sustainable finance senior consultant to support the development and ensure effective implementation of the IF Hub strategy. He/she will support the development of the Child-Lens Investing field through thought leadership pieces development, adoption strategies with partners and field building activities.
UNICEF seeks a consultant to support the mobilization of catalytic finance for the WASH sector and the preparation of the Sanitation Programme Facility (SPF) in Nigeria.
UNICEF requires dedicated research analyst to support the CAMH Measurement Technical Lead in delivering the portfolio with quality and coherence. This consultancy is designed to provide substantive support across the portfolio’s core workstreams during a critical period of growth and external launch.
This assignment aims to support the development of UNICEF’s global learning assessment data portal by integrating data from multiple regional and international assessments into a single platform. The consultant will contribute to data management, harmonization and visualization efforts, helping improve access to comparable foundational learning data in reading and numeracy to strengthen evidence generation, monitoring and education decision-making.
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s MICS-EMIS initiative by integrating and analyzing education administrative data and household survey data to provide a more comprehensive understanding of enrolment, progression and learning outcomes. The consultant will acquire, clean and standardize education datasets from multiple countries, link them with MICS data, generate analytical insights, and develop reproducible processes and tools that can be scaled and applied across additional countries.
UNICEF is seeking a Consultant who will provide dedicated backend software engineering capacity to support this transition. The consultant will work closely with the product and tech team of Connectivity Credits, who will provide the overall technical direction and architecture, and will be responsible for implementing agreed backend services, event-driven workflows, integrations and supporting deployment infrastructure.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will contribute to the institutionalization of cost-effectiveness and impact modelling approaches within UNICEF innovation programming and support the generation of robust evidence to inform strategy, resource allocation, scale-up decisions and [LK2.1]partner engagement.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) needs a Graphic Design Lead to own the visual and motion identity of its partnership and communications work, and to make that work findable wherever audiences now look: search engines, social platforms and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The consultant will build a unified visual and motion system across OOI’s priority initiatives, produce high-impact assets for partners, donors and the public, and set the production standards that make every image, animation, video and data visual accessible, machine-readable and credible. The assignment is time-bound, with defined, measurable deliverables from December 2026 to June 2027.
UNICEF is expanding its digital fundraising capabilities to increase support for children worldwide. The Individual Giving (IG) team, which generates over USD 1 billion annually, is undertaking a digital transformation focused on improving donor acquisition, retention and engagement through data-driven decision-making. This consultancy will support the Global Data and Insights team by developing advanced data models that can serve as global standards, particularly for the East Asia and Pacific region. Building on these models, the consultant will create dashboards and machine learning solutions while ensuring all data products are scalable, future-proof and AI-ready, helping UNICEF maximize fundraising impact and outcomes for children.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
The purpose of this consultancy is to consolidate lessons from the 2026 cholera response and strengthen evidence-based WASH planning for cholera prevention, preparedness and risk reduction in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
UNICEF DCOE is therefore seeking a Senior Consultant to lead Oky’s country partnerships and advance girls’ digital literacy and contributions across the Oky network, bringing country realities and girls’ perspectives into Oky’s technology direction.
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub works to develop financing solutions that accelerate progress for children and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a global mandate, the Hub brings together innovation, partnerships and investment expertise to address a critical challenge: despite a global SDG financing gap exceeding USD 4 trillion, children remain largely overlooked in investment decision-making. While companies and investors have significant impacts on children’s lives through products, employment, communities and environmental practices, child rights considerations are rarely integrated into investment strategies. This assignment will support UNICEF’s efforts to mobilize capital, strengthen child-focused finance approaches, and promote investment practices that better advance child rights and development outcomes.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Finland
UNICEF is seeking a Quantitative Data Analysis Consultant to support a high-profile impact evaluation of the Mother and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) programme in Sudan, a key initiative improving maternal and child wellbeing during the first 1,000 days of life. Working with UNICEF's Evaluation Office, the consultant will lead quantitative survey design, data collection oversight, baseline analysis, and reporting while collaborating with national and international stakeholders. This consultancy offers an opportunity to contribute to evidence-based programming and generate impact insights that help drive better outcomes for children.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s global leadership on menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) by advancing advocacy, accountability, monitoring, knowledge management and partnerships. The consultant will support implementation of the global MHH agenda, including tracking progress against commitments, strengthening country-level monitoring systems, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and promoting knowledge-sharing. The role will also support the UNICEF–Kimberly-Clark partnership through advocacy, capacity building, resource development, programme learning, and cross-country exchange to improve health, education and wellbeing outcomes for girls and women.
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.
UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.
Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering strategic partnerships and investment opportunities, practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening, and evidence synthesis and publications. These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Kenya
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
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.
The consultant will provide independent technical review and advisory support to UNICEF India to strengthen the methodological rigour, implementation quality and analytical robustness of three education research studies. The assignment will focus on reviewing research designs and methodologies, monitoring progress against agreed milestones, assessing implementation readiness and data quality, and critically reviewing analytical outputs and emerging findings. The consultant will identify methodological gaps, implementation risks and areas requiring further technical attention and provide evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the credibility and policy relevance of the research. The consultant will prepare defined technical review reports, progress monitoring updates and a consolidated technical handover report to support UNICEF’s oversight of research quality and inform its engagement with the agencies undertaking the studies. Responsibility for conducting the research, collecting and analysing data, and producing the research outputs will remain with the respective research agencies
UNICEF is engaging a Lead Consultant to support the Ministry of Health in the development of the National Maternal Nutrition Guidelines and the revision and updating of the Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Guidelines for Lao PDR, ensuring alignment with current evidence, international recommendations, and national programme priorities.
To support this process, UNICEF is also seeking a National Consultant who will work closely with the Lead Consultant and the MoH to facilitate access to relevant national policies, guidelines, programme documents, and other reference materials. The National Consultant will support coordination and collaboration with government counterparts and key stakeholders, facilitate consultations and review processes, and provide local technical and contextual expertise to ensure that the guidelines are appropriately adapted to the Lao PDR context, including its health system structures, implementation realities, and socio-cultural diversity.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant, a sustainable finance senior consultant to support the development and ensure effective implementation of the IF Hub strategy. He/she will support the development of the Child-Lens Investing field through thought leadership pieces development, adoption strategies with partners and field building activities.
UNICEF seeks a consultant to support the mobilization of catalytic finance for the WASH sector and the preparation of the Sanitation Programme Facility (SPF) in Nigeria.
UNICEF requires dedicated research analyst to support the CAMH Measurement Technical Lead in delivering the portfolio with quality and coherence. This consultancy is designed to provide substantive support across the portfolio’s core workstreams during a critical period of growth and external launch.
This assignment aims to support the development of UNICEF’s global learning assessment data portal by integrating data from multiple regional and international assessments into a single platform. The consultant will contribute to data management, harmonization and visualization efforts, helping improve access to comparable foundational learning data in reading and numeracy to strengthen evidence generation, monitoring and education decision-making.
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s MICS-EMIS initiative by integrating and analyzing education administrative data and household survey data to provide a more comprehensive understanding of enrolment, progression and learning outcomes. The consultant will acquire, clean and standardize education datasets from multiple countries, link them with MICS data, generate analytical insights, and develop reproducible processes and tools that can be scaled and applied across additional countries.
UNICEF is seeking a Consultant who will provide dedicated backend software engineering capacity to support this transition. The consultant will work closely with the product and tech team of Connectivity Credits, who will provide the overall technical direction and architecture, and will be responsible for implementing agreed backend services, event-driven workflows, integrations and supporting deployment infrastructure.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will contribute to the institutionalization of cost-effectiveness and impact modelling approaches within UNICEF innovation programming and support the generation of robust evidence to inform strategy, resource allocation, scale-up decisions and [LK2.1]partner engagement.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) needs a Graphic Design Lead to own the visual and motion identity of its partnership and communications work, and to make that work findable wherever audiences now look: search engines, social platforms and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The consultant will build a unified visual and motion system across OOI’s priority initiatives, produce high-impact assets for partners, donors and the public, and set the production standards that make every image, animation, video and data visual accessible, machine-readable and credible. The assignment is time-bound, with defined, measurable deliverables from December 2026 to June 2027.
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