The Government of Kenya, through the State Department for Children Services, is implementing the Adolescent
Conditional Cash Plus Programme under KSEIP II to support vulnerable adolescents by combining cash transfers with
complementary services that strengthen well-being, resilience and access to opportunities. UNICEF Kenya, in partnership
with CIFF, provides technical assistance to enhance programme design, implementation, monitoring, learning and results
reporting.
The purpose of this consultancy is to produce the 2027 edition of UNICEF's Secondary Education Guidance: Multiple and Flexible Pathways as a standalone, user-friendly reference for UNICEF country offices, anchored in the SSE pillar's programme offer and differentiated by country context. The product supersedes the 2020 guidance while carrying forward the elements of it that remain valid, and refers readers to the 2020 guidance, the 2025 evaluation and the Education Strategy for depth rather than reproducing them.
The primary audience is UNICEF staff, in particular education and adolescent development colleagues in country offices. The secondary audience is UNICEF's partnership base, including governments, multilateral and bilateral partners, foundations and the private sector, for whom a short partner-facing summary will be produced.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
Consultant for Global Evidence Review, Child-Centred Evaluation Framework on Communication Blackouts, Digital Impact Division, Digital Empowerment in Emergencies, Valencia, Spain, Remote without travel, 3 months
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that children, adolescents, families and communities affected by humanitarian crises are placed at the centre of humanitarian decision-making and programming. This requires programmes to be designed, implemented, monitored and adapted based on the expressed needs, priorities, capacities and feedback of affected
populations. It further requires approaches that are inclusive of children and young people, persons with disabilities, women and girls, and local actors representing affected communities, while ensuring meaningful participation, accessibility, dignity, safety and protection from all forms of harm.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide advocacy expertise and coordination support to the implementation of UNICEF’s global advocacy strategy, including related partnership activities; and to Child Poverty team’s technical assistance to regional and country level child poverty advocacy.
Project Management, Reporting and Partnership Support Consultant, UNICEF Evaluation Office - Development Effectiveness and Impact Evaluation, Remote with no travel with availability during Central European Time (CET) working hours as required, 9 months
UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is seeking for a Consultant to commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children
UNICEF is seeking a Senior Digital Analytics Implementation Specialist to strengthen its global digital fundraising capabilities and support revenue growth. The consultant will lead the implementation and optimization of analytics solutions across UNICEF’s digital platforms, leveraging tools such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Optimizely, Hotjar, Google Cloud Platform and Salesforce. Working with global, regional and country teams, the role will support digital fundraising campaigns, marketing attribution, marketing automation and first-party data collection strategies to improve donor acquisition, retention and user experience. The assignment will also contribute to the development of advanced analytics solutions and a global digital measurement framework, helping UNICEF enhance decision-making and scale digital fundraising performance in pursuit of ambitious growth targets.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the development of recommendations for Greece to introduce a comprehensive integrated child protection system in the best interests of the child, in line with the 2024 Commission Recommendation on developing and strengthening integrated child protection systems.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide strategic and technical monitoring and evaluation (M&E) expertise for the development of the M&E components of South Africa's Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) Request for Funding (RF). The consultant will ensure that all M&E, performance measurements, and reporting requirements are evidence-based, technically robust, and fully aligned with Global Fund guidance and requirements across all funding request modules.
This assignment aims to advance gender equality in and through education by supporting UNICEF and UNGEI’s efforts to strengthen gender-transformative education policies, systems and programmes. The consultant will provide technical support to country initiatives such as the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), contribute to research and knowledge generation, facilitate learning and partnership engagement, and help scale evidence-based approaches that promote girls’ education, gender equality and inclusion across diverse education contexts.
An integrated approach that aligns curriculum and teaching-learning materials (TLM) to promote positive teaching practices is essential for future reforms to succeed. For this reason, TLM quality assurance guidelines and tools will be developed as part of a Quality Assurance Framework for Developing TLMs, along with criteria for their assessment, adaptation, and selection.
The consultancy will contribute to policy dialogue, advocacy, and resource mobilization, positioning YuWaah’s work within national development priorities and youth policy frameworks related to employability, skills development, and workforce participation.
UNICEF is seeking an individual Consultant to provide specialist, time-bound support to strengthen its global, regional and country-level work on preventing overweight and obesity among children and adolescents.
The consultancy aims to provide technical assistance to selected provinces to strengthen the operation and sustainability of community-based child protection systems, and to document results, lessons learned and recommendations for handover to local authorities for continued implementation beyond UNICEF’s current provincial programme cooperation cycle.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a Review of Gender Integration across UNICEF Ghana Country Programme to assess the integration, quality and strategic positioning of gender equality across programme planning, implementation, monitoring, organizational systems and partnerships.
UNICEF is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the ADEPT Programme, working with governments, UNICEF offices, and global partners to improve importation and customs clearance processes for vaccines, medicines, and other essential supplies. The role will lead country engagement, diagnostics, stakeholder coordination, and process improvement initiatives to strengthen supply chain efficiency and accelerate the delivery of critical products for children.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the SPA team and will contribute to the following objectives and deliverables of these analytical processes:
•
Assess the current progress towards achieving the Impact Results of the Strategic Plan 2026-2029;
• Analyse the role and effectiveness of its Strategies, Enablers, and Accelerators and assess their effectiveness in enabling evidence-based support to governments and improving outcomes for children;
• Generate evidence-informed recommendations for targeted, actionable corrective actions based on synthesized evidence to guide the implementation and resource allocation of the Strategic Plan towards catalysing the pace of the pursued change towards achieving tangible and transformative outcomes for children;
• Strengthen the practical application of the Strategic Plan’s approach to focus, scale and impact, and differentiation.
The Government of Kenya, through the State Department for Children Services, is implementing the Adolescent
Conditional Cash Plus Programme under KSEIP II to support vulnerable adolescents by combining cash transfers with
complementary services that strengthen well-being, resilience and access to opportunities. UNICEF Kenya, in partnership
with CIFF, provides technical assistance to enhance programme design, implementation, monitoring, learning and results
reporting.
The purpose of this consultancy is to produce the 2027 edition of UNICEF's Secondary Education Guidance: Multiple and Flexible Pathways as a standalone, user-friendly reference for UNICEF country offices, anchored in the SSE pillar's programme offer and differentiated by country context. The product supersedes the 2020 guidance while carrying forward the elements of it that remain valid, and refers readers to the 2020 guidance, the 2025 evaluation and the Education Strategy for depth rather than reproducing them.
The primary audience is UNICEF staff, in particular education and adolescent development colleagues in country offices. The secondary audience is UNICEF's partnership base, including governments, multilateral and bilateral partners, foundations and the private sector, for whom a short partner-facing summary will be produced.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
Consultant for Global Evidence Review, Child-Centred Evaluation Framework on Communication Blackouts, Digital Impact Division, Digital Empowerment in Emergencies, Valencia, Spain, Remote without travel, 3 months
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that children, adolescents, families and communities affected by humanitarian crises are placed at the centre of humanitarian decision-making and programming. This requires programmes to be designed, implemented, monitored and adapted based on the expressed needs, priorities, capacities and feedback of affected
populations. It further requires approaches that are inclusive of children and young people, persons with disabilities, women and girls, and local actors representing affected communities, while ensuring meaningful participation, accessibility, dignity, safety and protection from all forms of harm.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide advocacy expertise and coordination support to the implementation of UNICEF’s global advocacy strategy, including related partnership activities; and to Child Poverty team’s technical assistance to regional and country level child poverty advocacy.
Project Management, Reporting and Partnership Support Consultant, UNICEF Evaluation Office - Development Effectiveness and Impact Evaluation, Remote with no travel with availability during Central European Time (CET) working hours as required, 9 months
UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is seeking for a Consultant to commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children
UNICEF is seeking a Senior Digital Analytics Implementation Specialist to strengthen its global digital fundraising capabilities and support revenue growth. The consultant will lead the implementation and optimization of analytics solutions across UNICEF’s digital platforms, leveraging tools such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Optimizely, Hotjar, Google Cloud Platform and Salesforce. Working with global, regional and country teams, the role will support digital fundraising campaigns, marketing attribution, marketing automation and first-party data collection strategies to improve donor acquisition, retention and user experience. The assignment will also contribute to the development of advanced analytics solutions and a global digital measurement framework, helping UNICEF enhance decision-making and scale digital fundraising performance in pursuit of ambitious growth targets.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the development of recommendations for Greece to introduce a comprehensive integrated child protection system in the best interests of the child, in line with the 2024 Commission Recommendation on developing and strengthening integrated child protection systems.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide strategic and technical monitoring and evaluation (M&E) expertise for the development of the M&E components of South Africa's Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) Request for Funding (RF). The consultant will ensure that all M&E, performance measurements, and reporting requirements are evidence-based, technically robust, and fully aligned with Global Fund guidance and requirements across all funding request modules.
This assignment aims to advance gender equality in and through education by supporting UNICEF and UNGEI’s efforts to strengthen gender-transformative education policies, systems and programmes. The consultant will provide technical support to country initiatives such as the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), contribute to research and knowledge generation, facilitate learning and partnership engagement, and help scale evidence-based approaches that promote girls’ education, gender equality and inclusion across diverse education contexts.
An integrated approach that aligns curriculum and teaching-learning materials (TLM) to promote positive teaching practices is essential for future reforms to succeed. For this reason, TLM quality assurance guidelines and tools will be developed as part of a Quality Assurance Framework for Developing TLMs, along with criteria for their assessment, adaptation, and selection.
The consultancy will contribute to policy dialogue, advocacy, and resource mobilization, positioning YuWaah’s work within national development priorities and youth policy frameworks related to employability, skills development, and workforce participation.
UNICEF is seeking an individual Consultant to provide specialist, time-bound support to strengthen its global, regional and country-level work on preventing overweight and obesity among children and adolescents.
The consultancy aims to provide technical assistance to selected provinces to strengthen the operation and sustainability of community-based child protection systems, and to document results, lessons learned and recommendations for handover to local authorities for continued implementation beyond UNICEF’s current provincial programme cooperation cycle.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a Review of Gender Integration across UNICEF Ghana Country Programme to assess the integration, quality and strategic positioning of gender equality across programme planning, implementation, monitoring, organizational systems and partnerships.
UNICEF is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the ADEPT Programme, working with governments, UNICEF offices, and global partners to improve importation and customs clearance processes for vaccines, medicines, and other essential supplies. The role will lead country engagement, diagnostics, stakeholder coordination, and process improvement initiatives to strengthen supply chain efficiency and accelerate the delivery of critical products for children.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the SPA team and will contribute to the following objectives and deliverables of these analytical processes:
•
Assess the current progress towards achieving the Impact Results of the Strategic Plan 2026-2029;
• Analyse the role and effectiveness of its Strategies, Enablers, and Accelerators and assess their effectiveness in enabling evidence-based support to governments and improving outcomes for children;
• Generate evidence-informed recommendations for targeted, actionable corrective actions based on synthesized evidence to guide the implementation and resource allocation of the Strategic Plan towards catalysing the pace of the pursued change towards achieving tangible and transformative outcomes for children;
• Strengthen the practical application of the Strategic Plan’s approach to focus, scale and impact, and differentiation.
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