Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten children’s rights and well-being, undermining progress in child survival and development. It is imperative that countries adopt climate-focused policies and financing strategies that ensure climate-resilient, low-carbon social services to help children and families adapt to increasingly severe impacts.
Aligned with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP), UNICEF advances policy to embed child rights across Paris Agreement instruments (NDCs, NAPs, sector plans) and UNFCCC guidance, linking climate policy commitments to country-level systems and risk-informed, shock-responsive services for children.
As UNICEF drives practical, measurable policy change in climate action, a UNFCCC policy consultant is needed to support UNICEF engagement in key climate policy processes. This includes collaboration with current and incoming COP Presidencies to elevate child rights, monitoring key negotiations workstreams, supporting effective engagement with the Action Agenda, and contributing to political advocacy, mobilization efforts and government engagement, including through the Group of Friends for Children and Climate Action. The consultant will also support internal coordination, policy planning and fundraising efforts, aligned with UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (2023-2030) and climate policy priorities
Le but de cette consultation est de contribuer à la dissémination des résultats obtenus, des bonnes pratiques et des leçons apprises dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre d’initiatives telles que l’approche du marketing social en faveur du Grand Rattrapage, le rappel par SMS des rendez-vous de vaccination, et la solarisation des formations sanitaires dépourvues d’électricité. Il s'agira, au consultant, de fournir un appui technique à la section Survie et Croissance de l’Enfant de l’UNICEF au Togo pour la collecte, la revue et l’analyse de la documentation relative aux principales initiatives mises en œuvre en vue de renforcer le Programme Élargi de Vaccination (PEV) de routine.
UNICEF Belarus is transitioning to a new country programme. To achieve the desired results, the Country Office must strengthen its ability to mobilize additional resources from both public and private donors. As part of this effort, the office is enhancing its resource mobilization strategy by implementing comprehensive measures to ensure effective fundraising. One key initiative is a capacity-building programme aimed at strengthening project development skills among staff. To support this, the office is seeking a qualified Project Development Trainer to deliver a two-day training session, including practical guidance.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is seeking the services of a committed professional and expert to hire as a consultant to support the National Planning Commission (NPC)/ National Nutrition and Food Security Secretariate (NNFSS) in conducting Nutrition Budget and Expenditure Analysis (Nutrition Financial Tracking) of nutrition interventions across all levels of government. The consultancy is for the period of six months with remote work arrangement.
EMOPS serves as UNICEF’s central hub for coordinating and managing humanitarian action worldwide. It ensures that UNICEF is proactively prepared for emergencies and responds effectively when crises strike. This includes overseeing policy development, emergency financing (e.g., Global Humanitarian Thematic, Emergency Programme Funds, preparedness funding), and supporting Country and Regional Offices in preparedness, deployment of surge staff, and rapid response execution. EMOPS also leads UNICEF’s role in inter-agency coordination and cluster leadership and manages the 24/7 Operations Centre and global support infrastructure.
UNICEF Ghana seeks the services of a highly experienced professional with a profound commitment to achieving impactful result for every child. Join UNICEF Ghana team as a national consultant to lead a comprehensive analysis of Ghana’s nutrition budget for 2019–2024, using the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement methodology. The analysis will enable nutrition-relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) and partners to advocate for increased, efficient, and equitable investments in nutrition. It will also inform future budget planning, advocacy for budget coding and tagging, donor alignment, and integration of nutrition into sectoral strategies, ensuring coherence across national and sub-national levels.
The contract is based in Accra-Ghana and for a duration of 6.3months. The consultant will report to the Nutrition Manager. ONLY Ghanaian nationals are eligible to apply.
This assignment will contribute to the holistic reintegration and well-being of families by ensuring high-quality psychosocial care, integration with social service systems, and alignment with international MHPSS standards and trauma-informed interventions.
As a founding member of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and in alignment with both the Immunization Agenda 2030 and the UNICEF Gender Action Plan (2026–2029), UNICEF is intensifying its efforts to integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls throughout its immunization and health programming.
To support this initiative, UNICEF is establishing a dedicated team of consultants to strengthen capacity, provide specialized and sustained expertise, and offer help-desk support to UNICEF country offices and partners.
The selected consultants will be tasked with delivering targeted, context-specific support for gender in immunization country programming, monitoring, and advocacy. They will also contribute to building collective knowledge by systematically capturing experiences and best practices from gender-focused immunization and health initiatives undertaken by UNICEF and its partners
This ToR relates specifically to the Learning and Leadership Development Consultant role. The consultant will bring expertise in adult learning, leadership development, and organizational culture, and will focus on how managers engage with and apply the MSP in practice. They will support data collection and analysis with a particular emphasis on behaviour change, learning transfer, and organizational dynamics, and will help ensure that findings and recommendations are grounded in practical understanding of leadership development in complex organizations.
Full details of the evaluation are provided in the Terms of Reference for the Evaluation of the Manager Support Programme (see here).
This ToR relates specifically to the Senior Evaluation Consultant role. The consultant will provide methodological leadership and team coordination, oversee data collection and analysis, ensure coherence and quality across deliverables, and facilitate participatory processes such as sensemaking and co-creation workshops.
Full details of the evaluation are provided in the Terms of Reference for the Evaluation of the Manager Support Programme
The Quality Review of the Country Programme Planning process (CPP) aims to assess the extent to which the purpose, rationale, and practice of the new CPP guidance have been understood and integrated by Country Offices. More deeply, the quality review aims at assessing the extent to which the new country programmes enable and plan for programming for scale and impact and for leveraging partnerships towards the achievement of higher-level results.
Therefore, elements to be assessed will include not only the adherence to the guidance (in terms of steps, processes, and templates) but also the application of its key principles, such as:
- Shifting towards more purposeful, effective and strategic planning at the country level, using high-quality analysis to shape programme choices
- Designing adaptive country programmes that contribute to outcome-level changes in the lives of children, by responding effectively and at scale to the most critical child rights’ deprivations (programming for scale and impact)
- Linking the Theories of Change with the evidence gathered in the Evidence Synthesis
- Identifying relevant systemic changes and appropriate interventions in the ToCs
- Connecting the Results and Resources Plans with the ToC’s interventions and systemic changes
- Harmonising Humanitarian and Development analysis and planning
- Better integrating risk analysis and management throughout the process
- Leveraging of a diverse set of partnerships towards the realisation of higher results for children
- Better reflecting on government and partners’ contributions (including the private sector) and commitment in line with National Development Plans
- Ensuring effective participation of key stakeholders at the critical steps of the planning process, as appropriate to the country's context
UNICEF’s child protection in humanitarian action (CPHA) programs aim to ensure every child is protected from violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect. We partner with governments, international organizations, and civil society to actively prevent children from being harmed; to monitor grave violations committed against girls and boys and advocate for respect for international humanitarian law; and to develop programmes to support children who have experienced violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect. UNICEF’s child protection work promotes effective linkages between humanitarian and development programming and supports countries to strengthen their capacities and systems for mitigating risks, preparing for and responding to emergencies, and building resilience. UNICEF also leads the development of technical standards, guidance and advocacy efforts to support child protection actors in the field in delivering evidence-based, effective and high-quality programs to protect children.
The CPHA Team continually seeks to strengthen the evidence and data in all areas of Child Protection programming, and is committed to monitoring, evaluation, and results-based management. During the duration of the contract, the consultant will be responsible for a set of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening the CPHA programming related to planning, resource mobilization, monitoring and reporting, knowledge management, and evidence building
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
This consultancy, which will be hosted on the UNICEF-DRP GitHub, delivers a technology suite that takes outputs and figures from R scripts and makes them accessible to large language models (LLMs) for natural language querying. This approach ensures interoperability with cross-unit workflows, allowing various teams to leverage the tool regardless of their specific R script outputs. By transforming raw data into easily digestible insights, this work directly supports the Africa Data Strategy's shift "From Data to Insights," making data more accessible and useful for decision-making across the continent. This not only enhances technical assistance by improving data analysis capacity but also promotes knowledge exchange by fostering a shared, technology-driven approach to understanding child welfare data.
To support this growing portfolio, UNICEF is seeking support to:
• Strengthen global data infrastructure, analytics tools, and documentation of best practices
• Provide technical support to country offices and ministries of health to access, clean, and analyze routine data
• Finalize and scale country-specific data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics products
This role will be embedded within the MNCAH Data and Analytics team and will work closely with regional and country teams. The consultant will help close the gap between data and action, supporting more agile, accountable, and equitable health systems.
The purpose of the consultancy is to conduct costing of the multisectoral State Programme on Nutrition for the period of 2026-2030 for Tajikistan, to enable realistic resource planning, prioritization, and advocacy with partners.
The International Consultant will provide technical expertise to develop, pilot, and refine the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IEPF) for preschools in Uzbekistan. This will include supporting the establishment of pilot inclusive preschools, designing and delivering a comprehensive capacity-building programme for preschool staff, and generating evidence to inform scale-up and integration into national policy and professional development systems.
The overall goal is to further support the integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation and environmental issues into the education system. The purpose of the consultancy is to build the capacity of local experts in green school standards conceptualization and its roll out in Kazakhstan. This consultancy aims to guide the established technical working group in developing standards and self-assessment tools for green schools and capacities for implementation nationwide.
Under the supervision of the Health Officer, supported by the Social and Behaviour Change Manager, the consultant will undertake a mixed method case study on Elma-funded implementation of the RED Strategy with the National Department of Health, the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provincial Departments of Health, and selected district health teams, to strengthen the EPI programme, and develop tailored strategies to reach zero dose and under immunised children.
The objective of the assignment is to explore and describe the operational effectiveness, barriers, facilitators, and outcomes of the RED Strategy implementation in selected urban districts, and to generate actionable insights for scaling and strengthening immunisation services.
For every child, the right to Immunisation.
This consultancy will support the development of a National Framework on the Use of AI in Education, providing policymakers, practitioners, and development partners with a practical tool to evaluate current conditions, identify gaps, and prioritize investments.
Under the supervision of UNICEF Uzbekistan’s Child Protection Officer and in collaboration with NASP and the Uzbekistan Columbia Centre, the consultant will review and enhance existing foster care training materials. This includes integrating trauma-informed care and positive parenting approaches, developing supplementary modules to support children with complex psychosocial needs, and conducting a Training of Trainers for key stakeholders. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive, culturally appropriate training package tailored to Uzbekistan’s context.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten children’s rights and well-being, undermining progress in child survival and development. It is imperative that countries adopt climate-focused policies and financing strategies that ensure climate-resilient, low-carbon social services to help children and families adapt to increasingly severe impacts.
Aligned with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP), UNICEF advances policy to embed child rights across Paris Agreement instruments (NDCs, NAPs, sector plans) and UNFCCC guidance, linking climate policy commitments to country-level systems and risk-informed, shock-responsive services for children.
As UNICEF drives practical, measurable policy change in climate action, a UNFCCC policy consultant is needed to support UNICEF engagement in key climate policy processes. This includes collaboration with current and incoming COP Presidencies to elevate child rights, monitoring key negotiations workstreams, supporting effective engagement with the Action Agenda, and contributing to political advocacy, mobilization efforts and government engagement, including through the Group of Friends for Children and Climate Action. The consultant will also support internal coordination, policy planning and fundraising efforts, aligned with UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (2023-2030) and climate policy priorities
Le but de cette consultation est de contribuer à la dissémination des résultats obtenus, des bonnes pratiques et des leçons apprises dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre d’initiatives telles que l’approche du marketing social en faveur du Grand Rattrapage, le rappel par SMS des rendez-vous de vaccination, et la solarisation des formations sanitaires dépourvues d’électricité. Il s'agira, au consultant, de fournir un appui technique à la section Survie et Croissance de l’Enfant de l’UNICEF au Togo pour la collecte, la revue et l’analyse de la documentation relative aux principales initiatives mises en œuvre en vue de renforcer le Programme Élargi de Vaccination (PEV) de routine.
UNICEF Belarus is transitioning to a new country programme. To achieve the desired results, the Country Office must strengthen its ability to mobilize additional resources from both public and private donors. As part of this effort, the office is enhancing its resource mobilization strategy by implementing comprehensive measures to ensure effective fundraising. One key initiative is a capacity-building programme aimed at strengthening project development skills among staff. To support this, the office is seeking a qualified Project Development Trainer to deliver a two-day training session, including practical guidance.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is seeking the services of a committed professional and expert to hire as a consultant to support the National Planning Commission (NPC)/ National Nutrition and Food Security Secretariate (NNFSS) in conducting Nutrition Budget and Expenditure Analysis (Nutrition Financial Tracking) of nutrition interventions across all levels of government. The consultancy is for the period of six months with remote work arrangement.
EMOPS serves as UNICEF’s central hub for coordinating and managing humanitarian action worldwide. It ensures that UNICEF is proactively prepared for emergencies and responds effectively when crises strike. This includes overseeing policy development, emergency financing (e.g., Global Humanitarian Thematic, Emergency Programme Funds, preparedness funding), and supporting Country and Regional Offices in preparedness, deployment of surge staff, and rapid response execution. EMOPS also leads UNICEF’s role in inter-agency coordination and cluster leadership and manages the 24/7 Operations Centre and global support infrastructure.
UNICEF Ghana seeks the services of a highly experienced professional with a profound commitment to achieving impactful result for every child. Join UNICEF Ghana team as a national consultant to lead a comprehensive analysis of Ghana’s nutrition budget for 2019–2024, using the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement methodology. The analysis will enable nutrition-relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) and partners to advocate for increased, efficient, and equitable investments in nutrition. It will also inform future budget planning, advocacy for budget coding and tagging, donor alignment, and integration of nutrition into sectoral strategies, ensuring coherence across national and sub-national levels.
The contract is based in Accra-Ghana and for a duration of 6.3months. The consultant will report to the Nutrition Manager. ONLY Ghanaian nationals are eligible to apply.
This assignment will contribute to the holistic reintegration and well-being of families by ensuring high-quality psychosocial care, integration with social service systems, and alignment with international MHPSS standards and trauma-informed interventions.
As a founding member of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and in alignment with both the Immunization Agenda 2030 and the UNICEF Gender Action Plan (2026–2029), UNICEF is intensifying its efforts to integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls throughout its immunization and health programming.
To support this initiative, UNICEF is establishing a dedicated team of consultants to strengthen capacity, provide specialized and sustained expertise, and offer help-desk support to UNICEF country offices and partners.
The selected consultants will be tasked with delivering targeted, context-specific support for gender in immunization country programming, monitoring, and advocacy. They will also contribute to building collective knowledge by systematically capturing experiences and best practices from gender-focused immunization and health initiatives undertaken by UNICEF and its partners
This ToR relates specifically to the Learning and Leadership Development Consultant role. The consultant will bring expertise in adult learning, leadership development, and organizational culture, and will focus on how managers engage with and apply the MSP in practice. They will support data collection and analysis with a particular emphasis on behaviour change, learning transfer, and organizational dynamics, and will help ensure that findings and recommendations are grounded in practical understanding of leadership development in complex organizations.
Full details of the evaluation are provided in the Terms of Reference for the Evaluation of the Manager Support Programme (see here).
This ToR relates specifically to the Senior Evaluation Consultant role. The consultant will provide methodological leadership and team coordination, oversee data collection and analysis, ensure coherence and quality across deliverables, and facilitate participatory processes such as sensemaking and co-creation workshops.
Full details of the evaluation are provided in the Terms of Reference for the Evaluation of the Manager Support Programme
The Quality Review of the Country Programme Planning process (CPP) aims to assess the extent to which the purpose, rationale, and practice of the new CPP guidance have been understood and integrated by Country Offices. More deeply, the quality review aims at assessing the extent to which the new country programmes enable and plan for programming for scale and impact and for leveraging partnerships towards the achievement of higher-level results.
Therefore, elements to be assessed will include not only the adherence to the guidance (in terms of steps, processes, and templates) but also the application of its key principles, such as:
- Shifting towards more purposeful, effective and strategic planning at the country level, using high-quality analysis to shape programme choices
- Designing adaptive country programmes that contribute to outcome-level changes in the lives of children, by responding effectively and at scale to the most critical child rights’ deprivations (programming for scale and impact)
- Linking the Theories of Change with the evidence gathered in the Evidence Synthesis
- Identifying relevant systemic changes and appropriate interventions in the ToCs
- Connecting the Results and Resources Plans with the ToC’s interventions and systemic changes
- Harmonising Humanitarian and Development analysis and planning
- Better integrating risk analysis and management throughout the process
- Leveraging of a diverse set of partnerships towards the realisation of higher results for children
- Better reflecting on government and partners’ contributions (including the private sector) and commitment in line with National Development Plans
- Ensuring effective participation of key stakeholders at the critical steps of the planning process, as appropriate to the country's context
UNICEF’s child protection in humanitarian action (CPHA) programs aim to ensure every child is protected from violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect. We partner with governments, international organizations, and civil society to actively prevent children from being harmed; to monitor grave violations committed against girls and boys and advocate for respect for international humanitarian law; and to develop programmes to support children who have experienced violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect. UNICEF’s child protection work promotes effective linkages between humanitarian and development programming and supports countries to strengthen their capacities and systems for mitigating risks, preparing for and responding to emergencies, and building resilience. UNICEF also leads the development of technical standards, guidance and advocacy efforts to support child protection actors in the field in delivering evidence-based, effective and high-quality programs to protect children.
The CPHA Team continually seeks to strengthen the evidence and data in all areas of Child Protection programming, and is committed to monitoring, evaluation, and results-based management. During the duration of the contract, the consultant will be responsible for a set of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening the CPHA programming related to planning, resource mobilization, monitoring and reporting, knowledge management, and evidence building
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
This consultancy, which will be hosted on the UNICEF-DRP GitHub, delivers a technology suite that takes outputs and figures from R scripts and makes them accessible to large language models (LLMs) for natural language querying. This approach ensures interoperability with cross-unit workflows, allowing various teams to leverage the tool regardless of their specific R script outputs. By transforming raw data into easily digestible insights, this work directly supports the Africa Data Strategy's shift "From Data to Insights," making data more accessible and useful for decision-making across the continent. This not only enhances technical assistance by improving data analysis capacity but also promotes knowledge exchange by fostering a shared, technology-driven approach to understanding child welfare data.
To support this growing portfolio, UNICEF is seeking support to:
• Strengthen global data infrastructure, analytics tools, and documentation of best practices
• Provide technical support to country offices and ministries of health to access, clean, and analyze routine data
• Finalize and scale country-specific data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics products
This role will be embedded within the MNCAH Data and Analytics team and will work closely with regional and country teams. The consultant will help close the gap between data and action, supporting more agile, accountable, and equitable health systems.
The purpose of the consultancy is to conduct costing of the multisectoral State Programme on Nutrition for the period of 2026-2030 for Tajikistan, to enable realistic resource planning, prioritization, and advocacy with partners.
The International Consultant will provide technical expertise to develop, pilot, and refine the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IEPF) for preschools in Uzbekistan. This will include supporting the establishment of pilot inclusive preschools, designing and delivering a comprehensive capacity-building programme for preschool staff, and generating evidence to inform scale-up and integration into national policy and professional development systems.
The overall goal is to further support the integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation and environmental issues into the education system. The purpose of the consultancy is to build the capacity of local experts in green school standards conceptualization and its roll out in Kazakhstan. This consultancy aims to guide the established technical working group in developing standards and self-assessment tools for green schools and capacities for implementation nationwide.
Under the supervision of the Health Officer, supported by the Social and Behaviour Change Manager, the consultant will undertake a mixed method case study on Elma-funded implementation of the RED Strategy with the National Department of Health, the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provincial Departments of Health, and selected district health teams, to strengthen the EPI programme, and develop tailored strategies to reach zero dose and under immunised children.
The objective of the assignment is to explore and describe the operational effectiveness, barriers, facilitators, and outcomes of the RED Strategy implementation in selected urban districts, and to generate actionable insights for scaling and strengthening immunisation services.
For every child, the right to Immunisation.
This consultancy will support the development of a National Framework on the Use of AI in Education, providing policymakers, practitioners, and development partners with a practical tool to evaluate current conditions, identify gaps, and prioritize investments.
Under the supervision of UNICEF Uzbekistan’s Child Protection Officer and in collaboration with NASP and the Uzbekistan Columbia Centre, the consultant will review and enhance existing foster care training materials. This includes integrating trauma-informed care and positive parenting approaches, developing supplementary modules to support children with complex psychosocial needs, and conducting a Training of Trainers for key stakeholders. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive, culturally appropriate training package tailored to Uzbekistan’s context.
