UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja, is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a social ad Community Listening (SCL) Systems Integration and Dashboard Development consultant and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
In Niger, the combined effects of climate disruptions (droughts, floods), recurrent food and nutrition crises, insecurity in border areas (Tillabéri, Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi), and weak state presence in certain zones have led to a progressive deterioration of livelihoods. Health, water, education, and child protection systems are all severely affected, limiting children's access to essential social services and deepening their vulnerability.The primary objective is to provide technical support to the Country Office, programme sections, and partners (government, civil society, technical and financial partners) in the conceptualization, contextualization, strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, research and evaluation of resilience programming.Specifically, the Resilience Coordinator will dedicate a substantial amount of time to supporting the Deputy Representative Programmes to coordinate UNICEF's contributions to the large scale, ambitious, resiliencepartnership between BMZ, GIZ, UNICEF and WFP. The work will go beyond strengthening the capacity to "bounce back" from disruptions, addressing the complexity of human and community systems, their potential to adapt and persist through changing circumstances, and the implications for children's rights and well-being.
The purpose of this consultancy is to finalize, validate and scale an innovative, accessible and user-friendly community monitoring package that enables communities and implementing partners to monitor behavioural drivers, social norms and behavioural outcomes related to harmful practices. The community monitoring package has been developed and had undergone an initial round of testing. The consultancy will improve the methodological rigour, usability and practical application of the tools through additional pilot testing, refinement and documentation.
Mainstreaming Education in Emergencies (EiE) into Education Sector Planning consultant, Global Education Practice, Humanitarian and Action Resilience / Education in Emergencies (EiE pillar, Amman -Jordan,12 months, remote with possible travel
The consultancy aims to provide overall technical support to UNICEF-supported health projects, particularly in the areas of procurement, technical specification development, installation, commissioning, monitoring, operation and maintenance, and quality assurance of medical equipment. This includes essential diagnostic and newborn care equipment such as sphygmomanometers, glucometers, bilirubinometers, hematology analyzers, and SCANU-related equipment including radiant warmers, phototherapy machines, and bubble CPAP systems.
Se requiere contar con uno o varios profesionales para brindar el servicio de diseño gráfico de acuerdo con los requerimientos del equipo de PFP de UNICEF Perú.
La presente consultoría está abierta únicamente a personas de nacionalidad peruana, que residan en el Perú al momento de la postulación y durante toda la vigencia del Acuerdo. En consecuencia, únicamente serán consideradas aquellas postulaciones que cumplan con estos requisitos.
Benin is a middle-income country that faces many challenges in guaranteeing the rights of everychild. Ranked 158th out of 191 countries on the Human Development Index (UNDP, 2021/2022), ithas significant disparities between urban and rural areas, and between girls and boys. Since 1977,UNICEF has been working closely with the government, civil society, technical and financialpartners, young people and communities to improve access to education, health services,protection, water, sanitation, nutrition and social policies for children.The 2024-2026 cooperation program pays particular attention to girls' education, protectionagainst violence, community health, and the fight against child labor. Present in the field throughits offices in Cotonou, Natitingou and Parakou, UNICEF is committed to working alongside themost vulnerable communities to guarantee concrete, lasting results.Social Policy is a standalone section.
Consultancy to support nutrition databases and analysis, Office of Strategy & Evidence/ Data & Analytics, Florence, Italy, remote with no travel, 12.5 months
The role of the individual consultant aligns directly with the optimization of the PHC concept by ensuring vaccines are accessible at the community level, increasing coverage, and ensuring timely delivery of vaccines and other PHC commodities using the new initiatives such as DRIVE [Direct Delivery of Routine Immunization Vaccines and other PHC commodities for equity]. Their efforts in optimizing the cold chain and vaccine stock management system within PHC settings are crucial for maintaining vaccine potency, reducing wastage, and ensuring the efficacy of immunization supply chain activities. The consultant will also contribute to achieving broader health goals like universal health coverage (UHC) and the Immunization Agenda 2030 by supporting innovative supply chain technologies and the effective management of health commodities.
This intervention, implemented by WFP and UNICEF, is an integrated Nutrition, Health, Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Livelihoods programme. The objective is to provide households with sustainable food security and livelihoods that enable them to produce, access and afford nutritious food. In addition, these interventions will help communities produce sufficient food to sell their surplus, and to add value and connect with higher value markets to boost household income and savings. This in turn will further improve their access to education, health, and WASH services.The candidate will be responsible for field level management and coordination of JRP activities across the four districts, including interface with communities, partners, and local authorities.
On behalf of the UN Resident Coordinator and UNICEF as the Lead Participating UN Organization (PUNO), and in close
collaboration with the three other participating UN agencies, the consultant will lead the implementation of strategic
communications, visibility, knowledge management, documentation, and programme closure communication activities for the
Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal (EWPN) Joint Programme.
Reporting to the Gender Programme Specialist (Joint Programme Coordinator), the consultant will provide technical support
for planning, coordinating, producing, and disseminating high-quality communication products that document programme
achievements, amplify results, support donor visibility requirements, and strengthen knowledge sharing across participating
UN organizations, government counterparts, media partners, and other stakeholders.
The consultant will coordinate closely with communications focal points from all participating UN organizations, technical leads,
implementing partners, media production companies, the European Union (EU) and Government counterparts to ensure timely
delivery of communication products aligned with EWPN/UN branding and visibility standards.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide operational communication and visibility support to UNICEF Kazakhstan to mobilize private sector resources, strengthen corporate partnerships, and enhance visibility of fundraising initiatives, including UNICEF’s 80th Anniversary event series.
The Digital Paid Media Consultant is responsible for driving financial growth and ensuring sustainability in their assigned UNICEF markets. They collaborate closely with global UNICEF teams and regional squads to offer expertise in digital performance marketing and advertising across owned, earned, and paid media channels—primarily focusing on AI, Meta, and Google ads.
The Global MHPSS Leadership Team requires a consultant to support the generation, communication, and use of mental health data and evidence at community, national, and global levels to guide decision-making. The consultant will support the development of operational models, guidance, and tools; facilitate stakeholder consultations; and document country experiences, case studies, and lessons learned to strengthen child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) systems. The consultancy is of a temporary, output-based nature, with deliverables tied to discrete workplan activities across a 12-month period.
UNICEF is developing a global framework to estimate the economic cost of the learning crisis, including learning denial, deprivation, and disruption affecting millions of children worldwide. The framework will quantify the impact on economic growth, productivity, public finances, and human capital to strengthen the case for education investment.
The consultant will support the development, testing, validation, and documentation of this country-level analytical model, including data analysis and cost estimation. Country results will be aggregated to produce regional and global estimates of the learning crisis’s economic impact.
The Operations function supports the Head of the Office on managing the office and monitoring operations and programmes as needed, including risk management while providing advice on best and innovative management practices to enhance office performance. The function is a strategic Business Partner role within the Senior Management team, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
The Communication Specialist will provide general communication support across the Country Office, with a particular focus on strengthening donor visibility, producing high-quality digital and multimedia content, managing social media outputs, and communicating the impact of UNICEF’s work for children. The role will support timely, accurate and compelling communication products for public audiences, donors, partners, National Committees, media and other key stakeholders.
UNICEF Maldives seeks to engage qualified individual(s) to provide professional photography and videography services in support of its communication and advocacy objectives. This includes delivering high-quality, on-demand visual content to document programme implementation, advocacy initiatives, donor reporting, emergency responses, and official events across the country.
To provide UNICEF Center of Excellence in Panama with timely, actionable and behaviourally informed intelligence on emerging narratives, concerns, misinformation trends, information needs, trust dynamics, and emerging issues related to child and adolescent health and immunization across Latin America and the Caribbean, and to generate evidenceinformed recommendations to support programme decision-making, risk communication, community engagement and demand generation efforts.
The Evaluation Office of UNICEF is conducting the Evaluation of child protection systems strengthening for prevention of and response to violence against children and women, an evaluation included in the UNICEF Plan for Global Evaluations 2026–2029. The evaluation focuses on an important programme area for the organization given the breadth of the child right deprivations that programmes intend to address, the scale of the investment and the strategic importance of violence prevention and response. The evaluation serves the purposes of accountability and the generation of learnings to inform the adjustment of programmes, policies and resource mobilization to strengthen their alignment with the Strategic Plan 2026–2029.
UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja, is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a social ad Community Listening (SCL) Systems Integration and Dashboard Development consultant and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
In Niger, the combined effects of climate disruptions (droughts, floods), recurrent food and nutrition crises, insecurity in border areas (Tillabéri, Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi), and weak state presence in certain zones have led to a progressive deterioration of livelihoods. Health, water, education, and child protection systems are all severely affected, limiting children's access to essential social services and deepening their vulnerability.The primary objective is to provide technical support to the Country Office, programme sections, and partners (government, civil society, technical and financial partners) in the conceptualization, contextualization, strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, research and evaluation of resilience programming.Specifically, the Resilience Coordinator will dedicate a substantial amount of time to supporting the Deputy Representative Programmes to coordinate UNICEF's contributions to the large scale, ambitious, resiliencepartnership between BMZ, GIZ, UNICEF and WFP. The work will go beyond strengthening the capacity to "bounce back" from disruptions, addressing the complexity of human and community systems, their potential to adapt and persist through changing circumstances, and the implications for children's rights and well-being.
The purpose of this consultancy is to finalize, validate and scale an innovative, accessible and user-friendly community monitoring package that enables communities and implementing partners to monitor behavioural drivers, social norms and behavioural outcomes related to harmful practices. The community monitoring package has been developed and had undergone an initial round of testing. The consultancy will improve the methodological rigour, usability and practical application of the tools through additional pilot testing, refinement and documentation.
Mainstreaming Education in Emergencies (EiE) into Education Sector Planning consultant, Global Education Practice, Humanitarian and Action Resilience / Education in Emergencies (EiE pillar, Amman -Jordan,12 months, remote with possible travel
The consultancy aims to provide overall technical support to UNICEF-supported health projects, particularly in the areas of procurement, technical specification development, installation, commissioning, monitoring, operation and maintenance, and quality assurance of medical equipment. This includes essential diagnostic and newborn care equipment such as sphygmomanometers, glucometers, bilirubinometers, hematology analyzers, and SCANU-related equipment including radiant warmers, phototherapy machines, and bubble CPAP systems.
Se requiere contar con uno o varios profesionales para brindar el servicio de diseño gráfico de acuerdo con los requerimientos del equipo de PFP de UNICEF Perú.
La presente consultoría está abierta únicamente a personas de nacionalidad peruana, que residan en el Perú al momento de la postulación y durante toda la vigencia del Acuerdo. En consecuencia, únicamente serán consideradas aquellas postulaciones que cumplan con estos requisitos.
Benin is a middle-income country that faces many challenges in guaranteeing the rights of everychild. Ranked 158th out of 191 countries on the Human Development Index (UNDP, 2021/2022), ithas significant disparities between urban and rural areas, and between girls and boys. Since 1977,UNICEF has been working closely with the government, civil society, technical and financialpartners, young people and communities to improve access to education, health services,protection, water, sanitation, nutrition and social policies for children.The 2024-2026 cooperation program pays particular attention to girls' education, protectionagainst violence, community health, and the fight against child labor. Present in the field throughits offices in Cotonou, Natitingou and Parakou, UNICEF is committed to working alongside themost vulnerable communities to guarantee concrete, lasting results.Social Policy is a standalone section.
Consultancy to support nutrition databases and analysis, Office of Strategy & Evidence/ Data & Analytics, Florence, Italy, remote with no travel, 12.5 months
The role of the individual consultant aligns directly with the optimization of the PHC concept by ensuring vaccines are accessible at the community level, increasing coverage, and ensuring timely delivery of vaccines and other PHC commodities using the new initiatives such as DRIVE [Direct Delivery of Routine Immunization Vaccines and other PHC commodities for equity]. Their efforts in optimizing the cold chain and vaccine stock management system within PHC settings are crucial for maintaining vaccine potency, reducing wastage, and ensuring the efficacy of immunization supply chain activities. The consultant will also contribute to achieving broader health goals like universal health coverage (UHC) and the Immunization Agenda 2030 by supporting innovative supply chain technologies and the effective management of health commodities.
This intervention, implemented by WFP and UNICEF, is an integrated Nutrition, Health, Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Livelihoods programme. The objective is to provide households with sustainable food security and livelihoods that enable them to produce, access and afford nutritious food. In addition, these interventions will help communities produce sufficient food to sell their surplus, and to add value and connect with higher value markets to boost household income and savings. This in turn will further improve their access to education, health, and WASH services.The candidate will be responsible for field level management and coordination of JRP activities across the four districts, including interface with communities, partners, and local authorities.
On behalf of the UN Resident Coordinator and UNICEF as the Lead Participating UN Organization (PUNO), and in close
collaboration with the three other participating UN agencies, the consultant will lead the implementation of strategic
communications, visibility, knowledge management, documentation, and programme closure communication activities for the
Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal (EWPN) Joint Programme.
Reporting to the Gender Programme Specialist (Joint Programme Coordinator), the consultant will provide technical support
for planning, coordinating, producing, and disseminating high-quality communication products that document programme
achievements, amplify results, support donor visibility requirements, and strengthen knowledge sharing across participating
UN organizations, government counterparts, media partners, and other stakeholders.
The consultant will coordinate closely with communications focal points from all participating UN organizations, technical leads,
implementing partners, media production companies, the European Union (EU) and Government counterparts to ensure timely
delivery of communication products aligned with EWPN/UN branding and visibility standards.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide operational communication and visibility support to UNICEF Kazakhstan to mobilize private sector resources, strengthen corporate partnerships, and enhance visibility of fundraising initiatives, including UNICEF’s 80th Anniversary event series.
The Digital Paid Media Consultant is responsible for driving financial growth and ensuring sustainability in their assigned UNICEF markets. They collaborate closely with global UNICEF teams and regional squads to offer expertise in digital performance marketing and advertising across owned, earned, and paid media channels—primarily focusing on AI, Meta, and Google ads.
The Global MHPSS Leadership Team requires a consultant to support the generation, communication, and use of mental health data and evidence at community, national, and global levels to guide decision-making. The consultant will support the development of operational models, guidance, and tools; facilitate stakeholder consultations; and document country experiences, case studies, and lessons learned to strengthen child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) systems. The consultancy is of a temporary, output-based nature, with deliverables tied to discrete workplan activities across a 12-month period.
UNICEF is developing a global framework to estimate the economic cost of the learning crisis, including learning denial, deprivation, and disruption affecting millions of children worldwide. The framework will quantify the impact on economic growth, productivity, public finances, and human capital to strengthen the case for education investment.
The consultant will support the development, testing, validation, and documentation of this country-level analytical model, including data analysis and cost estimation. Country results will be aggregated to produce regional and global estimates of the learning crisis’s economic impact.
The Operations function supports the Head of the Office on managing the office and monitoring operations and programmes as needed, including risk management while providing advice on best and innovative management practices to enhance office performance. The function is a strategic Business Partner role within the Senior Management team, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
The Communication Specialist will provide general communication support across the Country Office, with a particular focus on strengthening donor visibility, producing high-quality digital and multimedia content, managing social media outputs, and communicating the impact of UNICEF’s work for children. The role will support timely, accurate and compelling communication products for public audiences, donors, partners, National Committees, media and other key stakeholders.
UNICEF Maldives seeks to engage qualified individual(s) to provide professional photography and videography services in support of its communication and advocacy objectives. This includes delivering high-quality, on-demand visual content to document programme implementation, advocacy initiatives, donor reporting, emergency responses, and official events across the country.
To provide UNICEF Center of Excellence in Panama with timely, actionable and behaviourally informed intelligence on emerging narratives, concerns, misinformation trends, information needs, trust dynamics, and emerging issues related to child and adolescent health and immunization across Latin America and the Caribbean, and to generate evidenceinformed recommendations to support programme decision-making, risk communication, community engagement and demand generation efforts.
The Evaluation Office of UNICEF is conducting the Evaluation of child protection systems strengthening for prevention of and response to violence against children and women, an evaluation included in the UNICEF Plan for Global Evaluations 2026–2029. The evaluation focuses on an important programme area for the organization given the breadth of the child right deprivations that programmes intend to address, the scale of the investment and the strategic importance of violence prevention and response. The evaluation serves the purposes of accountability and the generation of learnings to inform the adjustment of programmes, policies and resource mobilization to strengthen their alignment with the Strategic Plan 2026–2029.
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