UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.
Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering strategic partnerships and investment opportunities, practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening, and evidence synthesis and publications. These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Kenya
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.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) needs a Graphic Design Lead to own the visual and motion identity of its partnership and communications work, and to make that work findable wherever audiences now look: search engines, social platforms and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The consultant will build a unified visual and motion system across OOI’s priority initiatives, produce high-impact assets for partners, donors and the public, and set the production standards that make every image, animation, video and data visual accessible, machine-readable and credible. The assignment is time-bound, with defined, measurable deliverables from December 2026 to June 2027.
Child wasting remains a persistent public health challenge in the Philippines, with low coverage of early identification and treatment services under the Philippine Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (PIMAM). While national policies and guidelines are in place, implementation gaps persist across service delivery, workforce capacity, data systems, supply chain reliability, and sustainable financing. The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) Programme (2025–2029) supports the Government of the Philippines to accelerate reduction of wasting through five interlinked implementation components: 1. Improving access and uptake of nutrition services 2. Building a skilled and supported workforce 3. Strengthening nutrition data for action 4. Enabling reliable supply of essential nutrition supplies 5. Mobilising and optimizing nutrition financing Within this framework, UNICEF is supporting the nationwide scale-up of the PhilHealth SAM Outpatient Therapeutic Care (OTC) package, updating guidelines and capacities of service providers, strengthening PIMAM implementation across development and emergency contexts, and closing ongoing Simplified Approaches (SA) Operations Research, including Family MUAC and CHW-led treatment pilots. The Philippines through the Child Nutrition Fund channeled through UNICEF Philippines has committed to accrediting at least 2,011 primary health care facilities nationwide by 2029 under the PhilHealth SAM OTC package, alongside improvements in service utilization and admissions. Achieving these targets requires coordinated technical assistance that strengthens the wasting ecosystem across all five CNF components. This consultancy will therefore provide national technical support (capacity building, monitoring of program implementation, quality assurance, and documentation) to advance PIMAM scale-up across these components, while ensuring structured closure and policy translation of the Simplified Approaches Operations Research.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF and government partners in strengthening the enabling environment for safely managed sanitation financing in Nepal by assessing the sanitation financing landscape, identifying viable financing mechanisms and partnerships, addressing policy and institutional barriers, and developing practical approaches for mobilizing, tracking, and scaling sanitation investments.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide close technical supervision, quality assurance, construction planning, progress monitoring, technical guidance and reporting for CRIBS rehabilitation works in Enugu State. The consultant will support timely and quality implementation while final approval, certification, contract management and payment authorization remain with UNICEF staff members.
La consultoría brindará asistencia técnica especializada al Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MAE), bajo la supervisión de UNICEF, para fortalecer los mecanismos que facilitan el acceso de los gobiernos municipales al financiamiento de proyectos de agua, saneamiento e higiene (WASH). El trabajo incluirá la revisión y mejora de los procesos de viabilidad técnica, la armonización de criterios entre el MAE y el Banco de Desarrollo del Ecuador (BDE), y el fortalecimiento de los sistemas e instrumentos de gestión utilizados en el sector.
Asimismo, la consultoría apoyará la coordinación entre instituciones públicas, organismos multilaterales y otros actores relevantes, contribuyendo al desarrollo de herramientas técnicas, la generación de evidencia y la formulación de recomendaciones para mejorar las políticas públicas y las estrategias de financiamiento del sector WASH.
Under the overall supervision of the Data and Analytics (Evidence Generation and Evaluation) Specialist (Team Lead), the National MICS Consultant (NMC) will support and provide technical and operational support to UNICEF MCO and the NSOs of the selected Caribbean countries for the preparation, implementation and completion of the MICS survey. The NMC will advise and support the NSOs, especially the Survey Coordinator and sampling and data processing experts, during survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, training, fieldwork, data processing, data analysis, reporting, dissemination and archiving, ensuring that MICS protocols and recommendations are being followed at all times. The NMC will communicate effectively between UNICEF MCO and NSOs, responding promptly to MICS-related needs and issues as they arise.
As part of the Caribbean MICS Programme, the NMC will also support efforts to ensure harmonization of survey methodologies, tools, indicators, data processing procedures, and reporting standards across participating countries. The consultant will contribute to the production of nationally representative and internationally comparable data for monitoring child-focused Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), strengthening national statistical systems, and supporting evidence-based policymaking across the region.
The NMC will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the work of other resource people hired by UNICEF to provide technical assistance to the MICS process. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the survey team, the stakeholders, and Steering and Technical Committees and will represent UNICEF in meetings and workshops in relation to the survey as needed. The NMC will also work in close collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinator at the UNICEF Regional Office (RO) and the MICS Team at UNICEF HQ as well as experts and consultants assigned to support selected countries' MICS (collectively labelled “The UNICEF MICS Team”).
The purpose of the assignment is to support the UNICEF Serbia and the Institute for Early Childhood Development and Inclusion (IECDI) in the Republic of Serbia to jointly lead and strengthen the Regional Early childhood intervention (ECI) Network for Europe and Central Asia. The consultant will provide guidance and technical assistance to UNICEF Serbia and the IECDI to strengthen cooperation and participation within the network, facilitate the exchange and learning process, transfer of good practices among members (policy makers and practitioners) and to develop and implement joint initiatives. With the expert support of the consultant, UNICEF country offices and governments in the region will strengthen ECI systems and enhance availability of contemporary, family-centred ECI services provided by transdisciplinary teams, to children at risk of or with delays and disabilities and their families. For this assignment, UNICEF Serbia is seeking to engage a consultant with extensive expertise in early childhood intervention and early inclusion of children with developmental delays and disabilities and experience within the country and the region.
The IG systems success specialist will support UNICEF Individual Giving markets in the Asia pacific (EAP) region through enabling users to extract maximum performance out the technology provided (Optimizely CMS, Salesforce sales cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data platforms). They will provide guidance, training, and by working closely with IG team members such as the UNIQ product owner and Marketing cloud strategists, assistance in the development of new features and functionalities which enable donors to become more engaged with UNICEF’s mission and in doing so raises increasing funds for children worldwide.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnerships with foundations, faith-based organizations and membership-based organizations by supporting resource mobilization, partnership growth and strategic engagement. The consultant will help implement global partnership strategies, build fundraising capacity across UNICEF markets, support partner cultivation and relationship management, and maximize both financial and non-financial contributions from key partners to advance UNICEF’s goals and increase sustainable income.
UNICEF PFP’s Foundations and FMBO Team supports a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of strategic partnerships, grants and opportunities with foundations, faith-based organizations and other partners. As this portfolio expands, there is an urgent need to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of partnership data so that PFP, Regional Offices, Country Offices, National Committees and Centres of Excellence can make timely, informed decisions and manage partnerships more effectively.
The consultant will provide technical and operational support to UNICEF Kenya and its Government of Kenya counterparts in the areas of social protection capacity development, strengthening and deepening adaptive social protection.
To determine the extent to which the UNICEF Indonesia Country Programme, 2026-2030 will be ready for a credible, independent, feasible, and useful country programme evaluation, and to identify the adjustments needed to strengthen its design, theory of change, results framework, monitoring systems, data availability, and evaluation readiness
Join UNICEF’s Education Section and gain valuable professional experience while supporting education planning, monitoring, coordination and communication initiatives.
Contribute to promoting equitable access to quality education for all children, including those affected by emergencies.
The Specialist provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the planning, monitoring, evaluation process, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative tasks to contribute to evaluation planning, implementation, oversight and reporting to ensure that evaluations are carried out according to schedule and that results and recommendations are implemented and followed up.
Therefore, UNICEF seeks an international consultant to work with other members of the technical team, drawn from international and national consultants, UNICEF teams, and UBEC, to refine and scale up this school-based teacher professional development model.
UNICEF proposes a mixed-methods impact evaluation of the main activities of the MCCT+ to understand the impact of the programme as a whole. Additionally, the evaluation will explore the opportunity of evaluating the plus component of the programme alone, making use of its implementation in health centers that no women registered to receive cash support visit. Finally, the impact evaluation will investigate the feasibility of making use of the phased-in implementation of social cohesion communication in MSGs to evaluate its impact.
This assignment is for a local coordinator to support the impact evaluation in its initial stages and act as a focal point of the evaluation team during programme implementation. The local coordinator will work in close contact with the evaluation manager and the impact evaluation analyst, and support UNICEF Sudan with the implementation of the impact evaluation.
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.
Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering strategic partnerships and investment opportunities, practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening, and evidence synthesis and publications. These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Kenya
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.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) needs a Graphic Design Lead to own the visual and motion identity of its partnership and communications work, and to make that work findable wherever audiences now look: search engines, social platforms and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The consultant will build a unified visual and motion system across OOI’s priority initiatives, produce high-impact assets for partners, donors and the public, and set the production standards that make every image, animation, video and data visual accessible, machine-readable and credible. The assignment is time-bound, with defined, measurable deliverables from December 2026 to June 2027.
Child wasting remains a persistent public health challenge in the Philippines, with low coverage of early identification and treatment services under the Philippine Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (PIMAM). While national policies and guidelines are in place, implementation gaps persist across service delivery, workforce capacity, data systems, supply chain reliability, and sustainable financing. The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) Programme (2025–2029) supports the Government of the Philippines to accelerate reduction of wasting through five interlinked implementation components: 1. Improving access and uptake of nutrition services 2. Building a skilled and supported workforce 3. Strengthening nutrition data for action 4. Enabling reliable supply of essential nutrition supplies 5. Mobilising and optimizing nutrition financing Within this framework, UNICEF is supporting the nationwide scale-up of the PhilHealth SAM Outpatient Therapeutic Care (OTC) package, updating guidelines and capacities of service providers, strengthening PIMAM implementation across development and emergency contexts, and closing ongoing Simplified Approaches (SA) Operations Research, including Family MUAC and CHW-led treatment pilots. The Philippines through the Child Nutrition Fund channeled through UNICEF Philippines has committed to accrediting at least 2,011 primary health care facilities nationwide by 2029 under the PhilHealth SAM OTC package, alongside improvements in service utilization and admissions. Achieving these targets requires coordinated technical assistance that strengthens the wasting ecosystem across all five CNF components. This consultancy will therefore provide national technical support (capacity building, monitoring of program implementation, quality assurance, and documentation) to advance PIMAM scale-up across these components, while ensuring structured closure and policy translation of the Simplified Approaches Operations Research.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF and government partners in strengthening the enabling environment for safely managed sanitation financing in Nepal by assessing the sanitation financing landscape, identifying viable financing mechanisms and partnerships, addressing policy and institutional barriers, and developing practical approaches for mobilizing, tracking, and scaling sanitation investments.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide close technical supervision, quality assurance, construction planning, progress monitoring, technical guidance and reporting for CRIBS rehabilitation works in Enugu State. The consultant will support timely and quality implementation while final approval, certification, contract management and payment authorization remain with UNICEF staff members.
La consultoría brindará asistencia técnica especializada al Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MAE), bajo la supervisión de UNICEF, para fortalecer los mecanismos que facilitan el acceso de los gobiernos municipales al financiamiento de proyectos de agua, saneamiento e higiene (WASH). El trabajo incluirá la revisión y mejora de los procesos de viabilidad técnica, la armonización de criterios entre el MAE y el Banco de Desarrollo del Ecuador (BDE), y el fortalecimiento de los sistemas e instrumentos de gestión utilizados en el sector.
Asimismo, la consultoría apoyará la coordinación entre instituciones públicas, organismos multilaterales y otros actores relevantes, contribuyendo al desarrollo de herramientas técnicas, la generación de evidencia y la formulación de recomendaciones para mejorar las políticas públicas y las estrategias de financiamiento del sector WASH.
Under the overall supervision of the Data and Analytics (Evidence Generation and Evaluation) Specialist (Team Lead), the National MICS Consultant (NMC) will support and provide technical and operational support to UNICEF MCO and the NSOs of the selected Caribbean countries for the preparation, implementation and completion of the MICS survey. The NMC will advise and support the NSOs, especially the Survey Coordinator and sampling and data processing experts, during survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, training, fieldwork, data processing, data analysis, reporting, dissemination and archiving, ensuring that MICS protocols and recommendations are being followed at all times. The NMC will communicate effectively between UNICEF MCO and NSOs, responding promptly to MICS-related needs and issues as they arise.
As part of the Caribbean MICS Programme, the NMC will also support efforts to ensure harmonization of survey methodologies, tools, indicators, data processing procedures, and reporting standards across participating countries. The consultant will contribute to the production of nationally representative and internationally comparable data for monitoring child-focused Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), strengthening national statistical systems, and supporting evidence-based policymaking across the region.
The NMC will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the work of other resource people hired by UNICEF to provide technical assistance to the MICS process. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the survey team, the stakeholders, and Steering and Technical Committees and will represent UNICEF in meetings and workshops in relation to the survey as needed. The NMC will also work in close collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinator at the UNICEF Regional Office (RO) and the MICS Team at UNICEF HQ as well as experts and consultants assigned to support selected countries' MICS (collectively labelled “The UNICEF MICS Team”).
The purpose of the assignment is to support the UNICEF Serbia and the Institute for Early Childhood Development and Inclusion (IECDI) in the Republic of Serbia to jointly lead and strengthen the Regional Early childhood intervention (ECI) Network for Europe and Central Asia. The consultant will provide guidance and technical assistance to UNICEF Serbia and the IECDI to strengthen cooperation and participation within the network, facilitate the exchange and learning process, transfer of good practices among members (policy makers and practitioners) and to develop and implement joint initiatives. With the expert support of the consultant, UNICEF country offices and governments in the region will strengthen ECI systems and enhance availability of contemporary, family-centred ECI services provided by transdisciplinary teams, to children at risk of or with delays and disabilities and their families. For this assignment, UNICEF Serbia is seeking to engage a consultant with extensive expertise in early childhood intervention and early inclusion of children with developmental delays and disabilities and experience within the country and the region.
The IG systems success specialist will support UNICEF Individual Giving markets in the Asia pacific (EAP) region through enabling users to extract maximum performance out the technology provided (Optimizely CMS, Salesforce sales cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data platforms). They will provide guidance, training, and by working closely with IG team members such as the UNIQ product owner and Marketing cloud strategists, assistance in the development of new features and functionalities which enable donors to become more engaged with UNICEF’s mission and in doing so raises increasing funds for children worldwide.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnerships with foundations, faith-based organizations and membership-based organizations by supporting resource mobilization, partnership growth and strategic engagement. The consultant will help implement global partnership strategies, build fundraising capacity across UNICEF markets, support partner cultivation and relationship management, and maximize both financial and non-financial contributions from key partners to advance UNICEF’s goals and increase sustainable income.
UNICEF PFP’s Foundations and FMBO Team supports a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of strategic partnerships, grants and opportunities with foundations, faith-based organizations and other partners. As this portfolio expands, there is an urgent need to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of partnership data so that PFP, Regional Offices, Country Offices, National Committees and Centres of Excellence can make timely, informed decisions and manage partnerships more effectively.
The consultant will provide technical and operational support to UNICEF Kenya and its Government of Kenya counterparts in the areas of social protection capacity development, strengthening and deepening adaptive social protection.
To determine the extent to which the UNICEF Indonesia Country Programme, 2026-2030 will be ready for a credible, independent, feasible, and useful country programme evaluation, and to identify the adjustments needed to strengthen its design, theory of change, results framework, monitoring systems, data availability, and evaluation readiness
Join UNICEF’s Education Section and gain valuable professional experience while supporting education planning, monitoring, coordination and communication initiatives.
Contribute to promoting equitable access to quality education for all children, including those affected by emergencies.
The Specialist provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the planning, monitoring, evaluation process, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative tasks to contribute to evaluation planning, implementation, oversight and reporting to ensure that evaluations are carried out according to schedule and that results and recommendations are implemented and followed up.
Therefore, UNICEF seeks an international consultant to work with other members of the technical team, drawn from international and national consultants, UNICEF teams, and UBEC, to refine and scale up this school-based teacher professional development model.
UNICEF proposes a mixed-methods impact evaluation of the main activities of the MCCT+ to understand the impact of the programme as a whole. Additionally, the evaluation will explore the opportunity of evaluating the plus component of the programme alone, making use of its implementation in health centers that no women registered to receive cash support visit. Finally, the impact evaluation will investigate the feasibility of making use of the phased-in implementation of social cohesion communication in MSGs to evaluate its impact.
This assignment is for a local coordinator to support the impact evaluation in its initial stages and act as a focal point of the evaluation team during programme implementation. The local coordinator will work in close contact with the evaluation manager and the impact evaluation analyst, and support UNICEF Sudan with the implementation of the impact evaluation.
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