UNICEF Bhutan has internship opportunity for final year students of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law to support the Child Protection Section in the area of Justice for Children.
Under the overall direction and guidance of the Education Manager/Specialist Cluster Coordinator, the IM Officer (Education Cluster) manages and supports the information management function of the Education Cluster Working Group at sub-national level. The incumbent supports the collection, analysis, management and dissemination of information required to enable evidence-based humanitarian planning, response coordination, monitoring and reporting.
UNICEF Mongolia seeks to establish a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with qualified individual consultants to provide simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, written translation, and editing services between Mongolian and English (and vice versa) to the UNICEF Mongolia Country Office.
The LTA will be established for a two-year period, with services requested on an as-needed, call-down basis. It aims to ensure timely access to qualified language professionals, maintain the quality and consistency of language services, and streamline the engagement of consultants while reducing the need for repeated competitive selection processes for individual assignments.
The purpose of this assignment is to assess and document the post-handover functionality, utilization, accessibility, and sustainability of the investments made under the ISHONCH 2030 Project. Through the specified deliverables, the consultant will examine whether the supplied equipment is operational and effectively used for teaching and learning; whether accessibility features and inclusive infrastructure remain functional, maintained, and accessible to learners; whether outstanding issues related to contractors and suppliers have been resolved; and what institutional, technical, and financial measures are required for MOPSE to sustain, replicate, and scale the model schools approach. The assignment will also generate technical recommendations and supply-related inputs to inform future education sector procurement, concept notes, and project proposals aimed at expanding equitable, inclusive, and technology-enabled learning environments in Uzbekistan.
The Humanitarian Action Unit within the Child Nutrition and Development Global Practice is seeking a consultant to support Grant Managers within the unit with a range of tasks related to, monitoring, reporting, and knowledge management across a portfolio of global humanitarian nutrition awards. The consultant will support quality implementation, documentation and reporting of donor-funded programmes implemented across up to 25 countries by enhancing information management systems, coordinating high-quality reporting processes, consolidating programme results and lessons learned, and establishing practical mechanisms for knowledge sharing and institutional memory. The consultancy will contribute to improved accountability to donors, strengthened programme monitoring, and more systematic documentation and dissemination of evidence, results, and learning generated through humanitarian
nutrition programming. The consultant will support the timely delivery of donor reporting requirements while ensuring that programme information is organized, accessible, and effectively used to inform decision-making and future programming.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to design, implement, and monitor evidence-based SBC strategies, campaign framework, communication packages and community engagement tools addressing parenting support, child and adolescent mental health, child protection and wellbeing in the digital environment. These initiatives will promote positive parenting & mental health and digital safety for children while providing behavioral guidance during crises and unexpected school closures across the Gulf region, starting in UAE, to be later tweaked to each of the Gulf countries.
The purpose of this consultancy is to review, understand and respond to the Uganda Country Office process-guidance needs and to establish clear, user-centred process flows that complement, but do not duplicate, replace or reinterpret UNICEF corporate policies and procedures.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide senior technical and evaluation-management support to UNICEF India for a
portfolio of approximately four to five evaluations over six months. The consultant will draft or review defined evaluation
outputs, participate in evaluation management meetings and calls linked to those outputs, provide quality assurance for
selected research and studies, and support evidence use and organizational learning.
Background and rationale
Evidence is central to UNICEF’s work in India and to advancing equity and results for children. In response to growing
expectations from Government and other partners, UNICEF India established the Evidence for Children Section, guided by
the India Country Office Evidence Strategy (2021) and the Change Strategy on Evidence, Data and Knowledge
Management under the 2023-2027 Country Programme.
The Evidence Section comprises a Chief of Evidence, a Research and Evaluation Specialist, a Statistics and Monitoring
Specialist and a Knowledge Management Specialist, supported by officers and consultants. Additional senior consultancy
capacity is required for six months to maintain continuity and quality across a high-volume evaluation portfolio during a
temporary period of change. The consultant will support board-approved costed evaluations and thematic donor-funded
evaluations, while safeguarding the independence, impartiality and transparency required for evaluation work. The
consultant will also provide selected methodological and ethical quality assurance for priority research and studies
UNICEF, in collaboration with government counterparts and Education Cluster partners, is supporting the continuation of learning through temporary learning arrangements, provision of learning materials, psychosocial support, and early recovery interventions. As the response progresses from emergency relief to recovery, there is a growing need for technical oversight to ensure that temporary and semi-permanent learning facilities are designed, constructed, and monitored in line with safety, quality, and child-friendly standards.
Operations Associate (G-6), Information and Communications Technology, Supply and Procurement | Astana, KazakhstanJoin UNICEF Kazakhstan as an Operations Associate supporting Information and Communications Technology, Supply and Procurement. The role contributes to IT support, procurement, logistics, and supply chain activities, ensuring efficient and compliant operational services to advance UNICEF's work for children. Relevant experience in ICT and supply/procurement is required.
Following the creation of the Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO), the scope and complexity of UNICEF’s public partnerships work across the region has increased substantially. This assignment will strengthen APRO’s Public Partnerships Section by providing analytical, operational and knowledge management support to enhance engagement with government donors, regional organizations, partners, Country Offices and Centres of Excellence. The consultancy will support the identification of funding opportunities, strategic partner engagement, and the delivery of timely partnership intelligence and guidance. It will also strengthen knowledge management systems, improve coordination across the region, and support evidence-based decision-making. Ultimately, the assignment will help APRO enhance its partnership architecture, strengthen resource mobilization efforts, and support UNICEF priorities across Asia and the Pacific.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF China in advancing child-sensitive ESG and child-lens investing through partnership development, stakeholder engagement, coordination of capacity-building activities, documentation of good practices, and development of advocacy, event and engagement materials tailored to China’s policy, business and sustainable finance context. The consultancy will help position children as a critical stakeholder group in China’s evolving ESG, sustainable finance, responsible business, and corporate disclosure work. It will support UNICEF China to engage strategically with investors, financial institutions, listed companies, stock exchanges, ESG data and rating providers, business associations, research institutions, foundations, and relevant policy stakeholders on how business and investment decisions affect children’s rights and well-being. The assignment will build on UNICEF China’s ongoing work on child rights in ESG disclosure, responsible business conduct, child-lens investing, family-friendly workplaces, care economy, digital protection, climate and just transition, nutrition, disability inclusion, rural children, and business respect for children’s rights. It will also help UNICEF China identify practical entry points for integrating child-related considerations into ESG disclosure, responsible investment practices, corporate sustainability strategies, and capital market engagement, with particular attention to China's evolving regulatory and sustainability reporting landscape; and connect child-sensitive ESG with China’s policy priorities, including population high-quality development, family support, child-friendly society, childcare services, inclusive growth, and human capital development.
As custodian to the Pasifika Call to Action, the Pacific Regional Council for Early Childhood Development (PRC4ECD) unites Ministers and Permanent Secretaries from education, health, finance, and social welfare in 15 PICTs (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu), and encourages countries to tailor the Call to Action to their specific contexts, and to drive collaboration among leaders, policymakers, and program implementers to address gaps in health, nutrition, protection, care, learning and stimulation that affect the development of young children across the region. These efforts align with broader regional priorities, such as the 2050 Blue Pacific Strategy, the Pacific Culture Strategy, and sectoral goals set by Pacific Ministers of Education, Health, and Women. Together, these frameworks also underscore the importance of parenting engagement as a central element in the holistic development of young children. Since 2017, The Pacific region has made important progress in strengthening national and regional ECD systems, including through the Pasifika Call to Action on ECD, national ECD policies, multisectoral coordination mechanisms, workforce development, monitoring systems, and support for parents and communities. In 2025, the Pacific ECD Forum Leaders have strengthened the regional mandate for Early Childhood Development by endorsing ECD as a standing agenda item within the People Centred Development thematic area of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. More recently, the PIF Women Leaders Meeting endorsed the importance of ECD as a cross-sectoral priority linked to gender equality, social inclusion, resilience, child wellbeing, and long-term human development.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound specialized engineering expertise to UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina to support the completion, monitoring and technical follow-up of ongoing and pending rehabilitation activities.
Become the next Health and Nutrition Specialist for UNICEF Mexico! We are seeking a senior professional to lead a key component of UNICEF Mexico’s Health and Nutrition agenda, providing strategic and technical leadership to strengthen national and subnational systems, influence public policy, build strategic partnerships and advance integrated Health, Nutrition and WASH approaches for school-age children and adolescents. You will lead a senior team and work closely with government and partners to translate evidence and policy commitments into sustainable results at scale.If you have the leadership, technical expertise and commitment to drive systems-level change in health and nutrition for children and adolescents, apply today!
UNICEF Mexico’s Individual Giving programme leverages advanced analytics and data-driven fundraising strategies to strengthen donor engagement and generate sustainable resources for children. The programme relies on predictive modelling, donor intelligence, CRM analytics, and experimentation frameworks to anticipate donor behaviour, optimize campaigns, and support long-term fundraising growth. For more information related to the work of our office in Mexico, please visit our website: UNICEF Mexico, our commitments for a six‑year term for children: A good six-year term for children: Un buen sexenio para la niñez or read our Annual Report 2025 - UNICEF México.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support to UNICEF and MoEST in the design, adaptation and delivery of an applied capacity-strengthening programme on domestic financing for education in Tanzania. Working within a Government-led process, the consultant will curate and adapt existing education financing, domestic resource mobilization and public finance materials to the Tanzania context and support facilitation of a five-day engagement combining technical learning for education-sector officials with broader inter-sectoral dialogue on education financing.
Kenya is committed to inclusive development, with children (41.3% of population) and persons with disability (2% of population) being among the most vulnerable. The budget framework is one of the most important policy tools that the GoK applies to achieve inclusion. In the fy 2027-28 and medium-term budget preparation guidelines, National Treasury strengthened the need for children, gender and disability budgeting, tagging and reporting. Implementation of this requires tools of tagging, reporting and capacity of the users in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and counties.
The Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Health’s National Vaccines and Immunization program (MoH/NVIP), is preparing the country application package for Gavi 6.0 support, and to the Gavi’s First Response Fund to help the country respond to the Ebola outbreak. The application process requires extensive technical coordination, evidence synthesis, stakeholder engagement, prioritization discussions, costing alignment, and preparation of high-quality submission documents in line with Gavi guidance and timelines.
UNICEF Lao PDR is seeking a national individual consultancy to provide programme coordination, monitoring and reporting support to the ALERT-LAO Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR) Project, including strengthening the operational readiness and coordination of the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), for a period of 12 months.
UNICEF Bhutan has internship opportunity for final year students of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law to support the Child Protection Section in the area of Justice for Children.
Under the overall direction and guidance of the Education Manager/Specialist Cluster Coordinator, the IM Officer (Education Cluster) manages and supports the information management function of the Education Cluster Working Group at sub-national level. The incumbent supports the collection, analysis, management and dissemination of information required to enable evidence-based humanitarian planning, response coordination, monitoring and reporting.
UNICEF Mongolia seeks to establish a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with qualified individual consultants to provide simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, written translation, and editing services between Mongolian and English (and vice versa) to the UNICEF Mongolia Country Office.
The LTA will be established for a two-year period, with services requested on an as-needed, call-down basis. It aims to ensure timely access to qualified language professionals, maintain the quality and consistency of language services, and streamline the engagement of consultants while reducing the need for repeated competitive selection processes for individual assignments.
The purpose of this assignment is to assess and document the post-handover functionality, utilization, accessibility, and sustainability of the investments made under the ISHONCH 2030 Project. Through the specified deliverables, the consultant will examine whether the supplied equipment is operational and effectively used for teaching and learning; whether accessibility features and inclusive infrastructure remain functional, maintained, and accessible to learners; whether outstanding issues related to contractors and suppliers have been resolved; and what institutional, technical, and financial measures are required for MOPSE to sustain, replicate, and scale the model schools approach. The assignment will also generate technical recommendations and supply-related inputs to inform future education sector procurement, concept notes, and project proposals aimed at expanding equitable, inclusive, and technology-enabled learning environments in Uzbekistan.
The Humanitarian Action Unit within the Child Nutrition and Development Global Practice is seeking a consultant to support Grant Managers within the unit with a range of tasks related to, monitoring, reporting, and knowledge management across a portfolio of global humanitarian nutrition awards. The consultant will support quality implementation, documentation and reporting of donor-funded programmes implemented across up to 25 countries by enhancing information management systems, coordinating high-quality reporting processes, consolidating programme results and lessons learned, and establishing practical mechanisms for knowledge sharing and institutional memory. The consultancy will contribute to improved accountability to donors, strengthened programme monitoring, and more systematic documentation and dissemination of evidence, results, and learning generated through humanitarian
nutrition programming. The consultant will support the timely delivery of donor reporting requirements while ensuring that programme information is organized, accessible, and effectively used to inform decision-making and future programming.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to design, implement, and monitor evidence-based SBC strategies, campaign framework, communication packages and community engagement tools addressing parenting support, child and adolescent mental health, child protection and wellbeing in the digital environment. These initiatives will promote positive parenting & mental health and digital safety for children while providing behavioral guidance during crises and unexpected school closures across the Gulf region, starting in UAE, to be later tweaked to each of the Gulf countries.
The purpose of this consultancy is to review, understand and respond to the Uganda Country Office process-guidance needs and to establish clear, user-centred process flows that complement, but do not duplicate, replace or reinterpret UNICEF corporate policies and procedures.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide senior technical and evaluation-management support to UNICEF India for a
portfolio of approximately four to five evaluations over six months. The consultant will draft or review defined evaluation
outputs, participate in evaluation management meetings and calls linked to those outputs, provide quality assurance for
selected research and studies, and support evidence use and organizational learning.
Background and rationale
Evidence is central to UNICEF’s work in India and to advancing equity and results for children. In response to growing
expectations from Government and other partners, UNICEF India established the Evidence for Children Section, guided by
the India Country Office Evidence Strategy (2021) and the Change Strategy on Evidence, Data and Knowledge
Management under the 2023-2027 Country Programme.
The Evidence Section comprises a Chief of Evidence, a Research and Evaluation Specialist, a Statistics and Monitoring
Specialist and a Knowledge Management Specialist, supported by officers and consultants. Additional senior consultancy
capacity is required for six months to maintain continuity and quality across a high-volume evaluation portfolio during a
temporary period of change. The consultant will support board-approved costed evaluations and thematic donor-funded
evaluations, while safeguarding the independence, impartiality and transparency required for evaluation work. The
consultant will also provide selected methodological and ethical quality assurance for priority research and studies
UNICEF, in collaboration with government counterparts and Education Cluster partners, is supporting the continuation of learning through temporary learning arrangements, provision of learning materials, psychosocial support, and early recovery interventions. As the response progresses from emergency relief to recovery, there is a growing need for technical oversight to ensure that temporary and semi-permanent learning facilities are designed, constructed, and monitored in line with safety, quality, and child-friendly standards.
Operations Associate (G-6), Information and Communications Technology, Supply and Procurement | Astana, KazakhstanJoin UNICEF Kazakhstan as an Operations Associate supporting Information and Communications Technology, Supply and Procurement. The role contributes to IT support, procurement, logistics, and supply chain activities, ensuring efficient and compliant operational services to advance UNICEF's work for children. Relevant experience in ICT and supply/procurement is required.
Following the creation of the Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO), the scope and complexity of UNICEF’s public partnerships work across the region has increased substantially. This assignment will strengthen APRO’s Public Partnerships Section by providing analytical, operational and knowledge management support to enhance engagement with government donors, regional organizations, partners, Country Offices and Centres of Excellence. The consultancy will support the identification of funding opportunities, strategic partner engagement, and the delivery of timely partnership intelligence and guidance. It will also strengthen knowledge management systems, improve coordination across the region, and support evidence-based decision-making. Ultimately, the assignment will help APRO enhance its partnership architecture, strengthen resource mobilization efforts, and support UNICEF priorities across Asia and the Pacific.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF China in advancing child-sensitive ESG and child-lens investing through partnership development, stakeholder engagement, coordination of capacity-building activities, documentation of good practices, and development of advocacy, event and engagement materials tailored to China’s policy, business and sustainable finance context. The consultancy will help position children as a critical stakeholder group in China’s evolving ESG, sustainable finance, responsible business, and corporate disclosure work. It will support UNICEF China to engage strategically with investors, financial institutions, listed companies, stock exchanges, ESG data and rating providers, business associations, research institutions, foundations, and relevant policy stakeholders on how business and investment decisions affect children’s rights and well-being. The assignment will build on UNICEF China’s ongoing work on child rights in ESG disclosure, responsible business conduct, child-lens investing, family-friendly workplaces, care economy, digital protection, climate and just transition, nutrition, disability inclusion, rural children, and business respect for children’s rights. It will also help UNICEF China identify practical entry points for integrating child-related considerations into ESG disclosure, responsible investment practices, corporate sustainability strategies, and capital market engagement, with particular attention to China's evolving regulatory and sustainability reporting landscape; and connect child-sensitive ESG with China’s policy priorities, including population high-quality development, family support, child-friendly society, childcare services, inclusive growth, and human capital development.
As custodian to the Pasifika Call to Action, the Pacific Regional Council for Early Childhood Development (PRC4ECD) unites Ministers and Permanent Secretaries from education, health, finance, and social welfare in 15 PICTs (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu), and encourages countries to tailor the Call to Action to their specific contexts, and to drive collaboration among leaders, policymakers, and program implementers to address gaps in health, nutrition, protection, care, learning and stimulation that affect the development of young children across the region. These efforts align with broader regional priorities, such as the 2050 Blue Pacific Strategy, the Pacific Culture Strategy, and sectoral goals set by Pacific Ministers of Education, Health, and Women. Together, these frameworks also underscore the importance of parenting engagement as a central element in the holistic development of young children. Since 2017, The Pacific region has made important progress in strengthening national and regional ECD systems, including through the Pasifika Call to Action on ECD, national ECD policies, multisectoral coordination mechanisms, workforce development, monitoring systems, and support for parents and communities. In 2025, the Pacific ECD Forum Leaders have strengthened the regional mandate for Early Childhood Development by endorsing ECD as a standing agenda item within the People Centred Development thematic area of the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. More recently, the PIF Women Leaders Meeting endorsed the importance of ECD as a cross-sectoral priority linked to gender equality, social inclusion, resilience, child wellbeing, and long-term human development.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound specialized engineering expertise to UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina to support the completion, monitoring and technical follow-up of ongoing and pending rehabilitation activities.
Become the next Health and Nutrition Specialist for UNICEF Mexico! We are seeking a senior professional to lead a key component of UNICEF Mexico’s Health and Nutrition agenda, providing strategic and technical leadership to strengthen national and subnational systems, influence public policy, build strategic partnerships and advance integrated Health, Nutrition and WASH approaches for school-age children and adolescents. You will lead a senior team and work closely with government and partners to translate evidence and policy commitments into sustainable results at scale.If you have the leadership, technical expertise and commitment to drive systems-level change in health and nutrition for children and adolescents, apply today!
UNICEF Mexico’s Individual Giving programme leverages advanced analytics and data-driven fundraising strategies to strengthen donor engagement and generate sustainable resources for children. The programme relies on predictive modelling, donor intelligence, CRM analytics, and experimentation frameworks to anticipate donor behaviour, optimize campaigns, and support long-term fundraising growth. For more information related to the work of our office in Mexico, please visit our website: UNICEF Mexico, our commitments for a six‑year term for children: A good six-year term for children: Un buen sexenio para la niñez or read our Annual Report 2025 - UNICEF México.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support to UNICEF and MoEST in the design, adaptation and delivery of an applied capacity-strengthening programme on domestic financing for education in Tanzania. Working within a Government-led process, the consultant will curate and adapt existing education financing, domestic resource mobilization and public finance materials to the Tanzania context and support facilitation of a five-day engagement combining technical learning for education-sector officials with broader inter-sectoral dialogue on education financing.
Kenya is committed to inclusive development, with children (41.3% of population) and persons with disability (2% of population) being among the most vulnerable. The budget framework is one of the most important policy tools that the GoK applies to achieve inclusion. In the fy 2027-28 and medium-term budget preparation guidelines, National Treasury strengthened the need for children, gender and disability budgeting, tagging and reporting. Implementation of this requires tools of tagging, reporting and capacity of the users in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and counties.
The Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Health’s National Vaccines and Immunization program (MoH/NVIP), is preparing the country application package for Gavi 6.0 support, and to the Gavi’s First Response Fund to help the country respond to the Ebola outbreak. The application process requires extensive technical coordination, evidence synthesis, stakeholder engagement, prioritization discussions, costing alignment, and preparation of high-quality submission documents in line with Gavi guidance and timelines.
UNICEF Lao PDR is seeking a national individual consultancy to provide programme coordination, monitoring and reporting support to the ALERT-LAO Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR) Project, including strengthening the operational readiness and coordination of the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), for a period of 12 months.
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