The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering: Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future action in this area of work.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments’]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future actions. (Open to National and International)
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high‑threat environments. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation, the assignment contributes to an impartial assessment of UNICEF’s “Staying and Delivering” approach, examining relevance, effectiveness, progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners while generating learning to guide future humanitarian action. The consultant will support the Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) by assisting the Team Leader, contributing to design, data collection and analysis, drafting report sections, and guiding or leading specific field components.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO), located in New York HQ, provides global leadership and oversight of the evaluation function in the organization. As such, it manages independent, corporate evaluations and evaluation syntheses, provides technical assistance and quality assurance for evaluations commissioned at the decentralized level (country and regional offices, as well as other divisions in HQ offices), develops evaluation methods, and reports to the UNICEF Executive Board.
The Evaluation Office is therefore seeking an experienced evaluation capacity development consultant to support the refinement of its National Evaluation Capacity Development for UNICEF staff and partners.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and principled humanitarian action in complex and high threat environments’].
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people.
The Hub is seeking technical writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading support for the development of on-demand knowledge and communications products in the thematic areas of WASH, innovation, scaling, impact and innovative/blended financing for both internal and external audiences such as UNICEF country offices, governments, implementing partners and donors. The Hub seeks an experienced writer to develop technical products such as field notes, advocacy notes, reports, concept notes and workshop summaries for both technical and non-technical audiences on an ad-hoc, part-time basis.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a Social Policy Monitoring & Learning Expert to strengthen monitoring and analytical learning for the National Disability Allowance and broader Social Policy portfolio to generate credible evidence on results, support Government and donor financing dialogue, and contribute to the implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy and the new Country Programme.
Under direct supervision of the Programme Specialist (Social Sector) and in cooperation with all relevant UNICEF sections (Child Protection, SBC, Communications and Partnerships) the National Consultant will provide high quality support in designing and implementing UNICEF program interventions.
UNICEF Belarus office seeks the support of an international consultant to conduct an external review of the office architecture vis-à-vis CPD ambition and available resources, appreciate and assess existing “legacy” workflows and processes remaining from the previous programme cycle, and jointly with the country team to co-create new practices that will simplify and ensure efficiency of day-to-day operation, retaining appropriate level of controls and risk management. An outcome of this consultancy will be a package of processes and workflow models for the office with actionable recommendations to the country team.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to strengthen the evaluation function in UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) by supporting the implementation of the UNICEF Global Evaluation Policy, the Regional Evaluation Strategy, and related workplans at both regional and country levels. The EAPRO Evaluation Section currently operates with a small team consisting of a full-time Regional Evaluation Advisor, a Programme Assistant, and a Young Emerging Evaluator consultant. In the context of increasing demand for evaluation-related work and constrained human resources, this consultancy will provide additional technical and operational capacity to support the effective functioning of the evaluation portfolio.
The purpose of this contract is to provide technical support through 31 August 2026 for global monitoring, evaluation, learning, documentation, and accountability related to the final phase of the Big Catch-Up (BCU) initiative
The role coordinates and collaborates transversally with the supervision teams of contact providers, BI, Procurement, Digital and other internal areas, ensuring operational coherence, efficiency in execution and a consistent donor experience throughout their different journeys.
The role ensures in particular:
• Timely and quality execution of planned activities.
• Systematic monitoring of KPIs and operational results.
• Organization and prioritization of tasks and processes.
• Effective coordination with suppliers and internal areas.
• Use of digital tools and data for continuous improvement.
Under the overall guidance of the Fundraising Specialist (NO-C), the incumbent is responsible for identifying, prospecting and cultivating new business income opportunities, with a focus on individual giving acquisition and Corporate Pathways to Pledge initiatives. The role also designs and leads the integrated strategy for the acquisition of new individual donors across offline and digital channels, with a clear focus on sustainable revenue growth, diversification of the donor base, and donor quality.
The position will aim to maximize the long-term value of each new donor, ensuring high standards of quality, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) across all acquisition campaigns and channels. Working closely with the Sustainable Growth Officer, this role has direct impact on the onboarding of new donors.
With a strong emphasis on innovation and the development of new business models, this role will be responsible for exploring, designing, and implementing strategic partnerships with the private sector, enabling access to new audiences, customer bases, and employee populations as relevant sources for acquisition and retention. This includes identifying opportunities for co-creation, commercial agreements, innovative giving mechanisms, and new recurring giving offers, both for regular donations and one-off cash contributions, tailored to different prospective donor segments.
The role will lead the diversification and scaling of acquisition channels, including the consolidation of the digital acquisition area under an integrated vision focused on continuous innovation, strategic use of data, and optimization of digital channel performance as a key driver for expanding the individual donor base. It will also contribute to strengthening UNICEF’s positioning through joint fundraising, advocacy, and rights-awareness actions within the framework of strategic partnerships.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. As part of our approach, the WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water-secure future for children and young people.
For this work, the Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing and detailing a scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the solution further and supporting uptake at multi-country and multi-region scale to ensure integrated monitoring for Climate-resilient WASH. The scaling pathway is a structured approach that outlines the steps, strategies, and choices for expanding a proven innovation so it can reach a larger population and achieve sustainable impact over time.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services. The Hub is seeking an experienced consultant to lead the development of its Strategic Plan (2026–2029), guiding the Hub’s next phase as it accelerates transformative WASH solutions from demonstration to multi‑regional scale. Building on Denmark’s foundational investment and insights from the Hub’s first three years, the Strategic Plan will articulate a bold, evidence‑driven pathway for UNICEF to lead a global shift in how climate‑resilient WASH innovations are sourced, financed, and scaled. The consultancy will help shape the Hub’s contribution to UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and its evolving role within the new WASH Centre of Excellence.
The selected consultant will analyse emerging sector trends, assess the Hub’s current portfolio and performance, and co‑develop a compelling vision, Theory of Change, and operational model. The Strategic Plan will outline how UNICEF will enable accelerated uptake of high‑impact solutions to help close the gap on achieving universal access to resilient, safely managed water and sanitation services. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a global agenda for scaling WASH innovation, strengthen an ecosystem of partners, and define the enabling conditions and pathways needed to drive transformational, climate‑resilient impact for vulnerable children and communities worldwide.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services.
The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
The objective of this consultancy is to support the implementation and strengthening of the Early Childhood Friendly Units (UAPI) initiative within selected primary health care units, in close collaboration with UNICEF.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering: Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future action in this area of work.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments’]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future actions. (Open to National and International)
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high‑threat environments. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation, the assignment contributes to an impartial assessment of UNICEF’s “Staying and Delivering” approach, examining relevance, effectiveness, progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners while generating learning to guide future humanitarian action. The consultant will support the Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) by assisting the Team Leader, contributing to design, data collection and analysis, drafting report sections, and guiding or leading specific field components.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO), located in New York HQ, provides global leadership and oversight of the evaluation function in the organization. As such, it manages independent, corporate evaluations and evaluation syntheses, provides technical assistance and quality assurance for evaluations commissioned at the decentralized level (country and regional offices, as well as other divisions in HQ offices), develops evaluation methods, and reports to the UNICEF Executive Board.
The Evaluation Office is therefore seeking an experienced evaluation capacity development consultant to support the refinement of its National Evaluation Capacity Development for UNICEF staff and partners.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and principled humanitarian action in complex and high threat environments’].
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people.
The Hub is seeking technical writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading support for the development of on-demand knowledge and communications products in the thematic areas of WASH, innovation, scaling, impact and innovative/blended financing for both internal and external audiences such as UNICEF country offices, governments, implementing partners and donors. The Hub seeks an experienced writer to develop technical products such as field notes, advocacy notes, reports, concept notes and workshop summaries for both technical and non-technical audiences on an ad-hoc, part-time basis.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a Social Policy Monitoring & Learning Expert to strengthen monitoring and analytical learning for the National Disability Allowance and broader Social Policy portfolio to generate credible evidence on results, support Government and donor financing dialogue, and contribute to the implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy and the new Country Programme.
Under direct supervision of the Programme Specialist (Social Sector) and in cooperation with all relevant UNICEF sections (Child Protection, SBC, Communications and Partnerships) the National Consultant will provide high quality support in designing and implementing UNICEF program interventions.
UNICEF Belarus office seeks the support of an international consultant to conduct an external review of the office architecture vis-à-vis CPD ambition and available resources, appreciate and assess existing “legacy” workflows and processes remaining from the previous programme cycle, and jointly with the country team to co-create new practices that will simplify and ensure efficiency of day-to-day operation, retaining appropriate level of controls and risk management. An outcome of this consultancy will be a package of processes and workflow models for the office with actionable recommendations to the country team.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to strengthen the evaluation function in UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) by supporting the implementation of the UNICEF Global Evaluation Policy, the Regional Evaluation Strategy, and related workplans at both regional and country levels. The EAPRO Evaluation Section currently operates with a small team consisting of a full-time Regional Evaluation Advisor, a Programme Assistant, and a Young Emerging Evaluator consultant. In the context of increasing demand for evaluation-related work and constrained human resources, this consultancy will provide additional technical and operational capacity to support the effective functioning of the evaluation portfolio.
The purpose of this contract is to provide technical support through 31 August 2026 for global monitoring, evaluation, learning, documentation, and accountability related to the final phase of the Big Catch-Up (BCU) initiative
The role coordinates and collaborates transversally with the supervision teams of contact providers, BI, Procurement, Digital and other internal areas, ensuring operational coherence, efficiency in execution and a consistent donor experience throughout their different journeys.
The role ensures in particular:
• Timely and quality execution of planned activities.
• Systematic monitoring of KPIs and operational results.
• Organization and prioritization of tasks and processes.
• Effective coordination with suppliers and internal areas.
• Use of digital tools and data for continuous improvement.
Under the overall guidance of the Fundraising Specialist (NO-C), the incumbent is responsible for identifying, prospecting and cultivating new business income opportunities, with a focus on individual giving acquisition and Corporate Pathways to Pledge initiatives. The role also designs and leads the integrated strategy for the acquisition of new individual donors across offline and digital channels, with a clear focus on sustainable revenue growth, diversification of the donor base, and donor quality.
The position will aim to maximize the long-term value of each new donor, ensuring high standards of quality, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) across all acquisition campaigns and channels. Working closely with the Sustainable Growth Officer, this role has direct impact on the onboarding of new donors.
With a strong emphasis on innovation and the development of new business models, this role will be responsible for exploring, designing, and implementing strategic partnerships with the private sector, enabling access to new audiences, customer bases, and employee populations as relevant sources for acquisition and retention. This includes identifying opportunities for co-creation, commercial agreements, innovative giving mechanisms, and new recurring giving offers, both for regular donations and one-off cash contributions, tailored to different prospective donor segments.
The role will lead the diversification and scaling of acquisition channels, including the consolidation of the digital acquisition area under an integrated vision focused on continuous innovation, strategic use of data, and optimization of digital channel performance as a key driver for expanding the individual donor base. It will also contribute to strengthening UNICEF’s positioning through joint fundraising, advocacy, and rights-awareness actions within the framework of strategic partnerships.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of the transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. As part of our approach, the WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water-secure future for children and young people.
For this work, the Consultant will support the WASH Hub by developing and detailing a scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for taking the solution further and supporting uptake at multi-country and multi-region scale to ensure integrated monitoring for Climate-resilient WASH. The scaling pathway is a structured approach that outlines the steps, strategies, and choices for expanding a proven innovation so it can reach a larger population and achieve sustainable impact over time.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to safely managed services. The Hub is seeking an experienced consultant to lead the development of its Strategic Plan (2026–2029), guiding the Hub’s next phase as it accelerates transformative WASH solutions from demonstration to multi‑regional scale. Building on Denmark’s foundational investment and insights from the Hub’s first three years, the Strategic Plan will articulate a bold, evidence‑driven pathway for UNICEF to lead a global shift in how climate‑resilient WASH innovations are sourced, financed, and scaled. The consultancy will help shape the Hub’s contribution to UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and its evolving role within the new WASH Centre of Excellence.
The selected consultant will analyse emerging sector trends, assess the Hub’s current portfolio and performance, and co‑develop a compelling vision, Theory of Change, and operational model. The Strategic Plan will outline how UNICEF will enable accelerated uptake of high‑impact solutions to help close the gap on achieving universal access to resilient, safely managed water and sanitation services. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a global agenda for scaling WASH innovation, strengthen an ecosystem of partners, and define the enabling conditions and pathways needed to drive transformational, climate‑resilient impact for vulnerable children and communities worldwide.
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services.
The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children.
The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
The objective of this consultancy is to support the implementation and strengthening of the Early Childhood Friendly Units (UAPI) initiative within selected primary health care units, in close collaboration with UNICEF.
