The consultancy assignments are expected to support high-quality programme implementation, strengthen coordination with government and implementing partners, contribute to evidence generation and adaptive learning, and ensure that RISE interventions are equitable, inclusive, scalable, accountable, and responsive to the needs of vulnerable adolescents and youth across the target counties.
UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking an experienced Health Specialist to support the Government in improving child health and strengthening primary health care systems. The role focuses on advancing child survival, development and well-being through evidence-based interventions, Universal Health Coverage and equitable access to quality health services. Key responsibilities include providing technical guidance, supporting programme design and implementation, strengthening partnerships, and promoting innovation and sustainable health solutions. The position aims to improve health outcomes for all children, particularly the most vulnerable.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical leadership and coordination for the development of two interconnected national guidelines for Lao PDR: the Maternal Nutrition Guidelines and the Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Guidelines.
The consultant will ensure that both guidelines are aligned with the latest WHO and UNICEF recommendations, reflect current national policies, strategies, and evidence, and are adapted to the Lao context, including its ethnic, geographic, and socio-cultural diversity.
UNICEF Honduras is looking for a national Health and Nutrition Officer to provide professional technical assistance and support for programme/project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of programme/project activities, including data analysis, progress reporting, knowledge networking and capacity building in humanitarian and / or emergency contexts.
UNICEF is expanding its digital fundraising capabilities to increase support for children worldwide. The Individual Giving (IG) team, which generates over USD 1 billion annually, is undertaking a digital transformation focused on improving donor acquisition, retention and engagement through data-driven decision-making. This consultancy will support the Global Data and Insights team by developing advanced data models that can serve as global standards, particularly for the East Asia and Pacific region. Building on these models, the consultant will create dashboards and machine learning solutions while ensuring all data products are scalable, future-proof and AI-ready, helping UNICEF maximize fundraising impact and outcomes for children.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub works to develop financing solutions that accelerate progress for children and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a global mandate, the Hub brings together innovation, partnerships and investment expertise to address a critical challenge: despite a global SDG financing gap exceeding USD 4 trillion, children remain largely overlooked in investment decision-making. While companies and investors have significant impacts on children’s lives through products, employment, communities and environmental practices, child rights considerations are rarely integrated into investment strategies. This assignment will support UNICEF’s efforts to mobilize capital, strengthen child-focused finance approaches, and promote investment practices that better advance child rights and development outcomes.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Finland
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 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 is seeking a Quantitative Data Analysis Consultant to support a high-profile impact evaluation of the Mother and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) programme in Sudan, a key initiative improving maternal and child wellbeing during the first 1,000 days of life. Working with UNICEF's Evaluation Office, the consultant will lead quantitative survey design, data collection oversight, baseline analysis, and reporting while collaborating with national and international stakeholders. This consultancy offers an opportunity to contribute to evidence-based programming and generate impact insights that help drive better outcomes for children.
Learning at UNICEF focuses on building skills that support individual, team, and organizational goals. It’s a shared responsibility between staff, supervisors, and the organization, with plans set during annual career conversations. In line with UNICEF’s Global Learning and Development Policy and PCO L&D strategy, UNICEF Pakistan Country Office is planning to conduct an internal learning need assessment to identify current and future learning needs across its workforce. In line with the Learning and Development Committee (LDC) strategy, UNICEF Pakistan seeks an Individual consultant to handle the 2026 learning needs assessment exercise in PCO within the guidance of the Chief of People & Culture, ensuring recommendations are aligned with the learning and development strategy of PCO and office-wide learning plan.
Objectives
• Review existing learning plan and conduct internal learning gap analysis.
• Identify priority learning and development needs across PCO and develop pillars.
• Recommend targeted interventions, priorities and capacity-building strategies.
• Align recommendations with UNICEF’s strategic goals, LDC guidelines, and the country office learning plan.
The consultant will provide independent technical review and advisory support to UNICEF India to strengthen the methodological rigour, implementation quality and analytical robustness of three education research studies. The assignment will focus on reviewing research designs and methodologies, monitoring progress against agreed milestones, assessing implementation readiness and data quality, and critically reviewing analytical outputs and emerging findings. The consultant will identify methodological gaps, implementation risks and areas requiring further technical attention and provide evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the credibility and policy relevance of the research. The consultant will prepare defined technical review reports, progress monitoring updates and a consolidated technical handover report to support UNICEF’s oversight of research quality and inform its engagement with the agencies undertaking the studies. Responsibility for conducting the research, collecting and analysing data, and producing the research outputs will remain with the respective research agencies
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the design, development, piloting, and operationalization of a national micro-credentialing approach for selected professions sector competencies in Iraq. The consultant will contribute to developing the methodology, competency standards, assessment tools, training materials, and implementation modalities for the micro-credentialing framework while ensuring alignment with national systems, labour market requirements, and UNICEF inclusion and safeguarding standards.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant, a sustainable finance senior consultant to support the development and ensure effective implementation of the IF Hub strategy. He/she will support the development of the Child-Lens Investing field through thought leadership pieces development, adoption strategies with partners and field building activities.
UNICEF seeks a consultant to support the mobilization of catalytic finance for the WASH sector and the preparation of the Sanitation Programme Facility (SPF) in Nigeria.
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.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for an Education Officer (Learning for the 21st Century) who will provide professional, technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the education programme through the application of theoretical and technical skills in researching, collecting, analyzing and presenting technical programme information, while learning organizational rules, regulations and procedures to support the development and formulation of the Education Programme within the Country Programme. This is a Temporary Appointment contract for 364 days based in Jakarta.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for an Education Officer (Foundational Skills, Gender & Disability Inclusion) reports to the Chief of Education for close guidance and supervision. The role of the Education Officer is centred on providing research, analysis and recommendations based on advanced knowledge of foundational skills development, and matters relating to the provision of equitable and inclusive education. The position also provides quality technical support to UNICEF Indonesia’s flagship foundational skills development programme, including supporting the development and implementation of GEDSI strategies and M&E frameworks. The position contributes to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) System Capacity Grant work programme, particularly on its technical oversight of research relating to gender and inclusive education issues. This is a Temporary Appointment contract for 364 days based in Jakarta.
The Global Disability Team and Global Mental Health Team require time-bound programme coordination and organizational support for selected activities planned in 2027. These include coordination of disability-related meetings and events, preparations for the 2027 Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, organization of an internal MHPSS learning series, and planning and coordination of the 2027 UNICEF Global MHPSS Network Meeting.
The 2 consultants will be responsible for technical/normative assessments, stakeholder alignment, facilitating technical dialogues, developing the methodological architecture, conducting territorial workshops (in Roraima and São Paulo), and consolidating the final text of the PIA Migrante.
The consultant will be responsible for developing a national digital communication plan for Agenda Cidade UNICEF; producing human-interest stories in selected participating cities and territories; developing communication campaign packages for Global Road Safety and Prefeito/a por Um Dia; preparing institutional and monitoring reports; producing press releases to give visibility to the partnership; and supporting communication activities related to an Agenda Cidade UNICEF event in Rio de Janeiro.
The consultancy assignments are expected to support high-quality programme implementation, strengthen coordination with government and implementing partners, contribute to evidence generation and adaptive learning, and ensure that RISE interventions are equitable, inclusive, scalable, accountable, and responsive to the needs of vulnerable adolescents and youth across the target counties.
UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking an experienced Health Specialist to support the Government in improving child health and strengthening primary health care systems. The role focuses on advancing child survival, development and well-being through evidence-based interventions, Universal Health Coverage and equitable access to quality health services. Key responsibilities include providing technical guidance, supporting programme design and implementation, strengthening partnerships, and promoting innovation and sustainable health solutions. The position aims to improve health outcomes for all children, particularly the most vulnerable.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical leadership and coordination for the development of two interconnected national guidelines for Lao PDR: the Maternal Nutrition Guidelines and the Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Guidelines.
The consultant will ensure that both guidelines are aligned with the latest WHO and UNICEF recommendations, reflect current national policies, strategies, and evidence, and are adapted to the Lao context, including its ethnic, geographic, and socio-cultural diversity.
UNICEF Honduras is looking for a national Health and Nutrition Officer to provide professional technical assistance and support for programme/project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of programme/project activities, including data analysis, progress reporting, knowledge networking and capacity building in humanitarian and / or emergency contexts.
UNICEF is expanding its digital fundraising capabilities to increase support for children worldwide. The Individual Giving (IG) team, which generates over USD 1 billion annually, is undertaking a digital transformation focused on improving donor acquisition, retention and engagement through data-driven decision-making. This consultancy will support the Global Data and Insights team by developing advanced data models that can serve as global standards, particularly for the East Asia and Pacific region. Building on these models, the consultant will create dashboards and machine learning solutions while ensuring all data products are scalable, future-proof and AI-ready, helping UNICEF maximize fundraising impact and outcomes for children.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub works to develop financing solutions that accelerate progress for children and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a global mandate, the Hub brings together innovation, partnerships and investment expertise to address a critical challenge: despite a global SDG financing gap exceeding USD 4 trillion, children remain largely overlooked in investment decision-making. While companies and investors have significant impacts on children’s lives through products, employment, communities and environmental practices, child rights considerations are rarely integrated into investment strategies. This assignment will support UNICEF’s efforts to mobilize capital, strengthen child-focused finance approaches, and promote investment practices that better advance child rights and development outcomes.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Finland
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 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 is seeking a Quantitative Data Analysis Consultant to support a high-profile impact evaluation of the Mother and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) programme in Sudan, a key initiative improving maternal and child wellbeing during the first 1,000 days of life. Working with UNICEF's Evaluation Office, the consultant will lead quantitative survey design, data collection oversight, baseline analysis, and reporting while collaborating with national and international stakeholders. This consultancy offers an opportunity to contribute to evidence-based programming and generate impact insights that help drive better outcomes for children.
Learning at UNICEF focuses on building skills that support individual, team, and organizational goals. It’s a shared responsibility between staff, supervisors, and the organization, with plans set during annual career conversations. In line with UNICEF’s Global Learning and Development Policy and PCO L&D strategy, UNICEF Pakistan Country Office is planning to conduct an internal learning need assessment to identify current and future learning needs across its workforce. In line with the Learning and Development Committee (LDC) strategy, UNICEF Pakistan seeks an Individual consultant to handle the 2026 learning needs assessment exercise in PCO within the guidance of the Chief of People & Culture, ensuring recommendations are aligned with the learning and development strategy of PCO and office-wide learning plan.
Objectives
• Review existing learning plan and conduct internal learning gap analysis.
• Identify priority learning and development needs across PCO and develop pillars.
• Recommend targeted interventions, priorities and capacity-building strategies.
• Align recommendations with UNICEF’s strategic goals, LDC guidelines, and the country office learning plan.
The consultant will provide independent technical review and advisory support to UNICEF India to strengthen the methodological rigour, implementation quality and analytical robustness of three education research studies. The assignment will focus on reviewing research designs and methodologies, monitoring progress against agreed milestones, assessing implementation readiness and data quality, and critically reviewing analytical outputs and emerging findings. The consultant will identify methodological gaps, implementation risks and areas requiring further technical attention and provide evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the credibility and policy relevance of the research. The consultant will prepare defined technical review reports, progress monitoring updates and a consolidated technical handover report to support UNICEF’s oversight of research quality and inform its engagement with the agencies undertaking the studies. Responsibility for conducting the research, collecting and analysing data, and producing the research outputs will remain with the respective research agencies
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the design, development, piloting, and operationalization of a national micro-credentialing approach for selected professions sector competencies in Iraq. The consultant will contribute to developing the methodology, competency standards, assessment tools, training materials, and implementation modalities for the micro-credentialing framework while ensuring alignment with national systems, labour market requirements, and UNICEF inclusion and safeguarding standards.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant, a sustainable finance senior consultant to support the development and ensure effective implementation of the IF Hub strategy. He/she will support the development of the Child-Lens Investing field through thought leadership pieces development, adoption strategies with partners and field building activities.
UNICEF seeks a consultant to support the mobilization of catalytic finance for the WASH sector and the preparation of the Sanitation Programme Facility (SPF) in Nigeria.
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.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for an Education Officer (Learning for the 21st Century) who will provide professional, technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the education programme through the application of theoretical and technical skills in researching, collecting, analyzing and presenting technical programme information, while learning organizational rules, regulations and procedures to support the development and formulation of the Education Programme within the Country Programme. This is a Temporary Appointment contract for 364 days based in Jakarta.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for an Education Officer (Foundational Skills, Gender & Disability Inclusion) reports to the Chief of Education for close guidance and supervision. The role of the Education Officer is centred on providing research, analysis and recommendations based on advanced knowledge of foundational skills development, and matters relating to the provision of equitable and inclusive education. The position also provides quality technical support to UNICEF Indonesia’s flagship foundational skills development programme, including supporting the development and implementation of GEDSI strategies and M&E frameworks. The position contributes to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) System Capacity Grant work programme, particularly on its technical oversight of research relating to gender and inclusive education issues. This is a Temporary Appointment contract for 364 days based in Jakarta.
The Global Disability Team and Global Mental Health Team require time-bound programme coordination and organizational support for selected activities planned in 2027. These include coordination of disability-related meetings and events, preparations for the 2027 Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, organization of an internal MHPSS learning series, and planning and coordination of the 2027 UNICEF Global MHPSS Network Meeting.
The 2 consultants will be responsible for technical/normative assessments, stakeholder alignment, facilitating technical dialogues, developing the methodological architecture, conducting territorial workshops (in Roraima and São Paulo), and consolidating the final text of the PIA Migrante.
The consultant will be responsible for developing a national digital communication plan for Agenda Cidade UNICEF; producing human-interest stories in selected participating cities and territories; developing communication campaign packages for Global Road Safety and Prefeito/a por Um Dia; preparing institutional and monitoring reports; producing press releases to give visibility to the partnership; and supporting communication activities related to an Agenda Cidade UNICEF event in Rio de Janeiro.
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