UNICEF Brazil seeks an individual consultant to undertake a targeted update of its completed, but not yet published, Multidimensional Child Poverty study by incorporating the 2025 data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua) into the established time series, which currently includes 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024. The assignment will apply the methodology, indicator definitions, analytical cuts and reproducible scripts already developed for the study, producing comparable estimates for 2025 and updating the corresponding tables, figures, key findings and narrative analysis. This is a time-bound technical update. The assignment is not intended to redesign the multidimensional poverty methodology, develop new estimation methods, or expand the analytical framework beyond what is required to incorporate 2025 data, unless a technical adjustment is strictly necessary to preserve comparability and is previously agreed with UNICEF.
An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen at the UNICEF Niger Country Office for a highly motivated and committed professional to serve as Deputy Representative, Operations at the P-5 level. The Deputy Representative Operations serve as a core member of the senior management team, acting as a strategic partner to the Representative and Deputy Representative Programme in ensuring the effective, efficient, and compliant management of country office. The role also strengthens internal controls, promotes a culture of accountability and service excellence, and enables evidence-based decision-making, thereby supporting the Representative in achieving organizational objectives and maximizing impact at country level.
Further, the role provides leadership and oversight of the operations function – covering administration budget, finance, Digital Impact, supply chain, and risk management while aligning Operations management with Programme delivery focusing on programmatic priorities.
By leading multiple cross-functional teams, the Deputy Representative Operations drives integrated planning, resource optimization, risk management and performance monitoring, ensuring that systems, processes and people are positioned to deliver results.
UNICEF está buscando a un consultor o consultora que aplicará herramientas de evaluación hidrosanitaria, listas de verificación y entrevistas con personal administrativo y operativo, recopilará evidencia y mediciones básicas que permitan caracterizar el estado actual de los servicios, riesgos sanitarios y ambientales, fallas estructurales, vulnerabilidades frente a eventos climáticos.
The Programme Associate is accountable for the full spectrum of administrative and project/programme support activities, specially related to the Multi-Year Resilience Program. The key results have an impact on the overall performance of the country office and success in the implementation of project/programme activities. Accurate programme monitoring and recommendations, data entry and presentation of information ensure proper programme decision-making. Education: Completion of secondary education is required, preferably supplemented by technical or university courses related to the work of the organization. Experience: A minimum of six years of experience in the implementation, monitoring and reporting results in primary and/or secondary education is required. Experience on children rights, data analysis in primary and secondary education in schools, is considered as an asset. Prior experience in programme support or partner coordination functions is an asset. Prior experience in programme support or partner coordination functions is an asset. Relevant experience in programme management support to consortiums or interagency/inter-institutional/interorganizational projects is considered as an asset. Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset. For this position, a bachelor’s degree from a recognized academic institution in the field of Education, social work or social studies may replace three years of related work experience. A master’s degree may replace additional two years. Language Requirements: English and Spanish proficiency is required.
Join UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office as an Operations Specialist (Administration, Supply and Procurement) and coordinate an integrated portfolio of administration, procurement, supply and logistics services across our 12-country operation. You will help strengthen service delivery, operational performance and efficiency, driving more standardized and agile ways of working that enable programmes and humanitarian response across the region.
The Supply and Logistics Officer supports the effective management of supply chain operations, procurement, warehousing and distribution activities to ensure the timely delivery of programmes and services for children in the Republic of the Congo.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated coordination and analytical support to connected areas of work that strengthen PPR's partnerships effectiveness and its delivery of the 2026-2029 SP: UNISON adoption and partnership intelligence across PPR teams; functional skills and capability mapping — built from the outset as the evidence base for a knowledge-enabled learning architecture aligned with PFP's Academy model; coordination of PPR's participation in the Skills Academy as a cross-cone initiative, including the development of PPR trainings; learning and knowledge management; AI and digital transformation; and the Division's strategic change initiatives. The assignment is a direct contribution to the Stewardship function (building and nurturing public partnership capacities and networks) and, through its UNISON adoption and partnership intelligence work, to the Insight function.
The Global Disability Team and Global Mental Health Team require time-bound programme coordination and organizational support for selected activities planned in 2027. These include coordination of disability-related meetings and events, preparations for the 2027 Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, organization of an internal MHPSS learning series, and planning and coordination of the 2027 UNICEF Global MHPSS Network Meeting.
Under the overall guidance of the ECE/D Specialist and direct supervision of the ECD Officer, the Individual Consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of preschool education initiatives, with a particular focus on the capacity development components of project activities aimed at improving the quality of preschool education in Uzbekistan.
The Chief of Communication will be accountable for developing, managing, co-ordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on a regular and on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children’s and women’s rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Abuja is seeking a passionate and dynamic individual to join its team as a Programme Assistant. We invite applications from highly motivated and dedicated candidates who are committed to making a difference in the lives of children. If you are driven by impact and excellence, we encourage you to apply and become part of a committed and results oriented team.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will strengthen donor engagement, retention and lifetime value through data-driven journey orchestration, marketing automation, segmentation, testing and performance optimization. The consultant will combine hands-on execution, strategic guidance and market enablement, while ensuring strong alignment between CRM, paid media, content and broader Individual Giving priorities.
UNICEF Kenya seeks an Innovation Consultant to provide technical, coordination, and implementation support across its innovation, digital transformation, youth engagement, and humanitarian innovation portfolio
To conduct a comprehensive costing analysis of nutrition programmes in Afghanistan and estimate the financial resources required to achieve national nutrition targets over the medium term. The assignment will generate evidence on programme costs, resource needs, financing gaps, investment priorities, and cost-effectiveness to support strategic planning, budgeting, advocacy, and resource mobilization. It will also determine unit costs and assess the relative costeffectiveness of key nutrition interventions, delivery platforms, and service delivery models to identify the most efficient approaches for improving nutrition outcomes at scale.
The consultant will conduct a Nutrition Programme Costing Analysis to estimate recurrent, capital, and total programme costs at national and sub-national levels, including costs per beneficiary reached, service delivered, child treated for SAM and HR-MAM, pregnant and lactating woman served, FHH supported, CNDCC supported, and health facility delivering nutrition services. . The consultant will also develop 3–5-year resource requirement projections. Based on these findings, the consultant will develop a Nutrition Investment Case demonstrating the burden of malnutrition. The consultant will be required to undertake travel to four UNICEF zonal offices (Mazar, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat) within Afghanistan to collect primary data. This may include visits to selected provinces representing different programme delivery modalities and operational contexts. The consultant will conduct consultations with government counterparts, implementing partners, health facility staff, community representatives, and other relevant stakeholders involved in nutrition programming. The number and destinations of field missions will be agreed upon during the inception phase,
The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), established under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT), houses the National Assessment Wing (NAW), which is mandated to design and implement assessments that measure student learning outcomes at national scale, including the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the Foundational Learning Study (FLS).
With technical support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) delivered principally through Dr. Abdullah Ferdous, Principal Researcher/Psychometrician and funding channelled through the World Bank's Data & Research in Education (DARE) technical assistance programme, NAW/PIE has successfully developed, piloted and administered NAT-2026 and FLS-2026. FLS-2026 is Pakistan's first nationally representative assessment of Grade 3 literacy and numeracy, anchored in the Federal Foundational Learning Policy 2024 and designed for alignment with the Global Proficiency Framework (GPF) and Minimum Proficiency Levels (MPLs) so that Pakistan can report against SDG indicator 4.1.1.
The objective of this assignment is for UNICEF Pakistan to provide targeted technical assistance to NAW/PIE for the specific set of NAT- and FLS-related activities that fall outside the current World Bank/DARE scope, so that Pakistan's first national foundational learning evidence base is completed, benchmarked, and reported to international standards without loss of methodological continuity or delay.
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated professional with strong networking, fundraising and partnership development skills to help expand UNICEF Sri Lanka’s private sector engagement and resource mobilization efforts.
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.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Health in the planning, implementation,
monitoring, and reporting of preventive and curative nutrition interventions delivered through the health system. The
consultant will work closely with relevant departments of the Ministry of Health to enhance coordination, support evidence
based programming, and contribute to the effective delivery of nutrition services and interventions.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health to develop a context-appropriate, evidence-based NPM in Lao PDR, aligned with global and regional guidance and adapted to the national food environment.
The NPM will be developed through a Technical Working Group (TWG), following a structured approach that includes defining scope, adapting suitable WHO NPMs, identifying food categories, setting nutrient thresholds, and validating the model with different stakeholders, among others.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to coordinate UNICEF Thailand’s emergency preparedness and response for 2027: maintaining an up-to-date risk analysis and preparedness plan, ensuring timely and quality situation monitoring and reporting, strengthening cross-border planning with neighbouring UNICEF Country Offices, readying supplies and partners (including with the private sector), building the capacity of staff and partners, piloting and documenting the engagement of community volunteers in emergency response in the Southern Border Provinces, and informing UNICEF’s strategic positioning in emergencies in an upper-middle-income country.
UNICEF Brazil seeks an individual consultant to undertake a targeted update of its completed, but not yet published, Multidimensional Child Poverty study by incorporating the 2025 data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua) into the established time series, which currently includes 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024. The assignment will apply the methodology, indicator definitions, analytical cuts and reproducible scripts already developed for the study, producing comparable estimates for 2025 and updating the corresponding tables, figures, key findings and narrative analysis. This is a time-bound technical update. The assignment is not intended to redesign the multidimensional poverty methodology, develop new estimation methods, or expand the analytical framework beyond what is required to incorporate 2025 data, unless a technical adjustment is strictly necessary to preserve comparability and is previously agreed with UNICEF.
An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen at the UNICEF Niger Country Office for a highly motivated and committed professional to serve as Deputy Representative, Operations at the P-5 level. The Deputy Representative Operations serve as a core member of the senior management team, acting as a strategic partner to the Representative and Deputy Representative Programme in ensuring the effective, efficient, and compliant management of country office. The role also strengthens internal controls, promotes a culture of accountability and service excellence, and enables evidence-based decision-making, thereby supporting the Representative in achieving organizational objectives and maximizing impact at country level.
Further, the role provides leadership and oversight of the operations function – covering administration budget, finance, Digital Impact, supply chain, and risk management while aligning Operations management with Programme delivery focusing on programmatic priorities.
By leading multiple cross-functional teams, the Deputy Representative Operations drives integrated planning, resource optimization, risk management and performance monitoring, ensuring that systems, processes and people are positioned to deliver results.
UNICEF está buscando a un consultor o consultora que aplicará herramientas de evaluación hidrosanitaria, listas de verificación y entrevistas con personal administrativo y operativo, recopilará evidencia y mediciones básicas que permitan caracterizar el estado actual de los servicios, riesgos sanitarios y ambientales, fallas estructurales, vulnerabilidades frente a eventos climáticos.
The Programme Associate is accountable for the full spectrum of administrative and project/programme support activities, specially related to the Multi-Year Resilience Program. The key results have an impact on the overall performance of the country office and success in the implementation of project/programme activities. Accurate programme monitoring and recommendations, data entry and presentation of information ensure proper programme decision-making. Education: Completion of secondary education is required, preferably supplemented by technical or university courses related to the work of the organization. Experience: A minimum of six years of experience in the implementation, monitoring and reporting results in primary and/or secondary education is required. Experience on children rights, data analysis in primary and secondary education in schools, is considered as an asset. Prior experience in programme support or partner coordination functions is an asset. Prior experience in programme support or partner coordination functions is an asset. Relevant experience in programme management support to consortiums or interagency/inter-institutional/interorganizational projects is considered as an asset. Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset. For this position, a bachelor’s degree from a recognized academic institution in the field of Education, social work or social studies may replace three years of related work experience. A master’s degree may replace additional two years. Language Requirements: English and Spanish proficiency is required.
Join UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office as an Operations Specialist (Administration, Supply and Procurement) and coordinate an integrated portfolio of administration, procurement, supply and logistics services across our 12-country operation. You will help strengthen service delivery, operational performance and efficiency, driving more standardized and agile ways of working that enable programmes and humanitarian response across the region.
The Supply and Logistics Officer supports the effective management of supply chain operations, procurement, warehousing and distribution activities to ensure the timely delivery of programmes and services for children in the Republic of the Congo.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated coordination and analytical support to connected areas of work that strengthen PPR's partnerships effectiveness and its delivery of the 2026-2029 SP: UNISON adoption and partnership intelligence across PPR teams; functional skills and capability mapping — built from the outset as the evidence base for a knowledge-enabled learning architecture aligned with PFP's Academy model; coordination of PPR's participation in the Skills Academy as a cross-cone initiative, including the development of PPR trainings; learning and knowledge management; AI and digital transformation; and the Division's strategic change initiatives. The assignment is a direct contribution to the Stewardship function (building and nurturing public partnership capacities and networks) and, through its UNISON adoption and partnership intelligence work, to the Insight function.
The Global Disability Team and Global Mental Health Team require time-bound programme coordination and organizational support for selected activities planned in 2027. These include coordination of disability-related meetings and events, preparations for the 2027 Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, organization of an internal MHPSS learning series, and planning and coordination of the 2027 UNICEF Global MHPSS Network Meeting.
Under the overall guidance of the ECE/D Specialist and direct supervision of the ECD Officer, the Individual Consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of preschool education initiatives, with a particular focus on the capacity development components of project activities aimed at improving the quality of preschool education in Uzbekistan.
The Chief of Communication will be accountable for developing, managing, co-ordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on a regular and on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children’s and women’s rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Abuja is seeking a passionate and dynamic individual to join its team as a Programme Assistant. We invite applications from highly motivated and dedicated candidates who are committed to making a difference in the lives of children. If you are driven by impact and excellence, we encourage you to apply and become part of a committed and results oriented team.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will strengthen donor engagement, retention and lifetime value through data-driven journey orchestration, marketing automation, segmentation, testing and performance optimization. The consultant will combine hands-on execution, strategic guidance and market enablement, while ensuring strong alignment between CRM, paid media, content and broader Individual Giving priorities.
UNICEF Kenya seeks an Innovation Consultant to provide technical, coordination, and implementation support across its innovation, digital transformation, youth engagement, and humanitarian innovation portfolio
To conduct a comprehensive costing analysis of nutrition programmes in Afghanistan and estimate the financial resources required to achieve national nutrition targets over the medium term. The assignment will generate evidence on programme costs, resource needs, financing gaps, investment priorities, and cost-effectiveness to support strategic planning, budgeting, advocacy, and resource mobilization. It will also determine unit costs and assess the relative costeffectiveness of key nutrition interventions, delivery platforms, and service delivery models to identify the most efficient approaches for improving nutrition outcomes at scale.
The consultant will conduct a Nutrition Programme Costing Analysis to estimate recurrent, capital, and total programme costs at national and sub-national levels, including costs per beneficiary reached, service delivered, child treated for SAM and HR-MAM, pregnant and lactating woman served, FHH supported, CNDCC supported, and health facility delivering nutrition services. . The consultant will also develop 3–5-year resource requirement projections. Based on these findings, the consultant will develop a Nutrition Investment Case demonstrating the burden of malnutrition. The consultant will be required to undertake travel to four UNICEF zonal offices (Mazar, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat) within Afghanistan to collect primary data. This may include visits to selected provinces representing different programme delivery modalities and operational contexts. The consultant will conduct consultations with government counterparts, implementing partners, health facility staff, community representatives, and other relevant stakeholders involved in nutrition programming. The number and destinations of field missions will be agreed upon during the inception phase,
The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), established under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT), houses the National Assessment Wing (NAW), which is mandated to design and implement assessments that measure student learning outcomes at national scale, including the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the Foundational Learning Study (FLS).
With technical support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) delivered principally through Dr. Abdullah Ferdous, Principal Researcher/Psychometrician and funding channelled through the World Bank's Data & Research in Education (DARE) technical assistance programme, NAW/PIE has successfully developed, piloted and administered NAT-2026 and FLS-2026. FLS-2026 is Pakistan's first nationally representative assessment of Grade 3 literacy and numeracy, anchored in the Federal Foundational Learning Policy 2024 and designed for alignment with the Global Proficiency Framework (GPF) and Minimum Proficiency Levels (MPLs) so that Pakistan can report against SDG indicator 4.1.1.
The objective of this assignment is for UNICEF Pakistan to provide targeted technical assistance to NAW/PIE for the specific set of NAT- and FLS-related activities that fall outside the current World Bank/DARE scope, so that Pakistan's first national foundational learning evidence base is completed, benchmarked, and reported to international standards without loss of methodological continuity or delay.
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated professional with strong networking, fundraising and partnership development skills to help expand UNICEF Sri Lanka’s private sector engagement and resource mobilization efforts.
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.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Health in the planning, implementation,
monitoring, and reporting of preventive and curative nutrition interventions delivered through the health system. The
consultant will work closely with relevant departments of the Ministry of Health to enhance coordination, support evidence
based programming, and contribute to the effective delivery of nutrition services and interventions.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health to develop a context-appropriate, evidence-based NPM in Lao PDR, aligned with global and regional guidance and adapted to the national food environment.
The NPM will be developed through a Technical Working Group (TWG), following a structured approach that includes defining scope, adapting suitable WHO NPMs, identifying food categories, setting nutrient thresholds, and validating the model with different stakeholders, among others.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to coordinate UNICEF Thailand’s emergency preparedness and response for 2027: maintaining an up-to-date risk analysis and preparedness plan, ensuring timely and quality situation monitoring and reporting, strengthening cross-border planning with neighbouring UNICEF Country Offices, readying supplies and partners (including with the private sector), building the capacity of staff and partners, piloting and documenting the engagement of community volunteers in emergency response in the Southern Border Provinces, and informing UNICEF’s strategic positioning in emergencies in an upper-middle-income country.
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