This assignment helps ensure the ranking of UNICEF’s Parenting Hub on traditional search engines and strengthens its visibility in AI platforms. It takes place during a period of transition, limited staffing and major technological shifts in these areas. Operating under a deliverables-based contract, the consultant will play a critical role in researching keyword gaps and opportunities, developing content to rank on search engines and feature in AI responses, as well as tracking and optimizing performance.
Working closely with the Web Editorial team, the consultant will combine an editorial and technical lens to develop and optimize content that is 1. Engaging and useful for its target audience, and 2. Maximizes the likelihood of the audience discovering this content on search engines and AI platforms. The work will directly support UNICEF’s Parenting Hub by ensuring the accessibility, visibility and relevance of content, which is key to our ability to achieve our digital goals and grant deliverables.
L'objectif de cette consultance est d'apporter une assistance technique pour l’analyse, la planification, le suivi et la coordination des interventions numériques visant à renforcer les systèmes d’information et améliorer l’accès, la qualité et l’efficacité des services de santé à Madagascar.
L'objectif de cette consultance est de fournir un appui technique au MOH dans la réalisation des formations des 35.000 AC cibles du programme à travers la planification, l’appui à la coordination, le développement et le suivi de la réalisation du plan opérationnel dans les régions et districts prioritaires à Madagascar.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support for the Nutrition programme through a comprehensive landscape analysis of childhood overweight and obesity in Lebanon. The consultant will adapt UNICEF’s global protocol to the local context, facilitate a stakeholder validation workshop to identify priority actions, and develop a final report with policy recommendations to support national efforts in preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support to the Nutrition Programme. The consultant will conduct a comprehensive situation analysis on adolescent nutrition in Lebanon, adapt UNICEF’s participatory adolescent nutrition research methodology to the local context, and implement formative research with adolescents to generate evidence-based insights. The findings will inform the development of the POWER4Girls life skills package, with a focus on gender responsiveness and cultural relevance.
UNICEF Pakistan is looking for a highly professional and qualified Consultant to be part of a dynamic Education Team in Islamabad to provide strategic and technical leadership to operationalize UNICEF Pakistan’s Digital Learning Roadmap and position digital learning as a driver of equity, resilience, and improved learning outcomes.
The consultancy will address these gaps by strengthening national learning and skills assessment practices across South Asia so that they provide a reliable foundation for system accountability, inform classroom practice, and remain relevant in development and emergency contexts.
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
The consultant will support development of a national strategic plan aimed at strengthening the Social Service Workforce in Iran through a coordinated, strategic, and systems-level approach which contributes to workforce's ability to respond effectively and sustainably to complex social and protection challenges.
* Geographical Boundaries: National
* Population: Primarily social workforce and secondarily vulnerable children and their families.
Programme Monitoring is an increasingly strategic area within UNICEF, with its importance widely acknowledged across the organization. The adoption of the UNICEF Monitoring Procedure, along with the accompanying Guidance and Checklist, has further clarified standards and expectations for programme monitoring. However, the level of adoption and implementation varies across Country Offices, influenced by contextual factors and capacity.
The consultant will develop, validate, and finalize Somalia’s National Implementation Guidelines for HIV programming among Young Key Populations (YKP) (ages 10–24 across MSM, sex workers, PWID, and young people in prisons/closed settings). The guideline will be aligned to WHO (2022) Consolidated Guidelines for Key Populations and informed, where relevant, by aids), a practical M&E matrix, and a light roll-out package (ToT deck + implementation brief). The consultant will integrate the recommendations and findings of the HIV Gender Assessment into the guideline and roll-out materials, so they are implementation-ready for MoH endorsement and partner uptake.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop a standardized and national Basic First Aid Training Package and Trainer Guide suitable for a two-day training format, which is tailored for youth participants across 26 districts.
The overall objective of this consultancy is to provide technical and coordination support to the UN Country Team for the effective facilitation of the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard assessment.
The objective of this consultancy is to design a Performance Management Framework that:
• Aligns individual, team and programme priorities with organizational priorities.
• Integrates performance planning, continuous feedback, development, and recognition.
• Provides clear performance indicators and evaluation criteria.
• Embeds accountability and organizational learning.
• Provide technical leadership on child rights mainstreaming, ensuring alignment of all activities and deliverables with the Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the overall methodological design of the theory of change, evaluation framework and data collection tools (interview questionnaires, online survey, and self-assessment tool and rubric), ensuring quality and coherence with regard to child rights.
• Conduct literature review, document review and data collection activities (KIIs, FGDs, surveys, self-assessment tool and rubric) along with evaluation team members.
• Contribute to the analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data.
• Contribute to the drafting and finalization of findings, recommendations and deliverables, including the inception note, evaluation report, presentation materials and other deliverables as per the Terms of Reference.
• Engage with the Evaluation Reference Group and other stakeholders to validate findings and co-create recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with UNEG and UNICEF quality and ethical standards, also through integrating human rights, including gender equality and inclusion considerations in evaluations.
The Guidance Note of the UN Secretary General (S-G) on Child Rights Mainstreaming (CRM) 2023 aims to integrate child rights across all United Nations (UN) activities. The evaluability assessment is being planned to understand UNICEF and the UN system’s capacities and readiness to implement the Guidance Note. This evaluability assessment will provide credible evidence in relation to existing mechanisms, actions, capacities, barriers and enablers for the mainstreaming of children’s rights across the UN system with the aim of providing actionable insights to strengthen implementation.
The evaluation will be managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office using a blended management approach with a team comprising two internal staff members and two external consultants. The two external consultants will bring complementary expertise, with one serving as the Evaluation Team Leader/ and the other as the Child Rights Consultant. Close collaboration with the UNICEF Human Rights Team in the Programme Group, the Office of the Executive Director, and other stakeholders is expected.
This ToR relates specifically to the Evaluation Team Leader role. The consultant will provide strategic and methodological support for the evaluation, ensuring high-quality, timely, and credible deliverables through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Human Rights, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support for Online Format Design
• Participate in meetings with digital design teams.
• Contribute to key design decisions to ensure the Handbook’s format is accessible, user-friendly, and coherent across all platforms.
2. Final Drafting and Proofreading of the CRC Implementation Handbook
• Revise and refine Handbook content based on feedback from peer reviewers.
• Collaborate with the copyeditor to ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s editorial standards.
• Update introductory chapters to reflect recent developments and align with the revised structure.
3. Support for Dissemination and Awareness-Raising
• Prepare supporting materials for outreach, including articles, chapter summaries, abstracts, videos and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to dissemination activities, such as launch events, webinars, and stakeholder briefings.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to enable UNICEF immunization team to lead in organizing Hub calls and convening meetings, such as the Demand Hub Steering Committee (DHSC), monthly meetings and face to face meetings of the Expanded Partners; produce documentation of actions agreed upon; organize agreed number of technical sessions to build capacity on the new emerging areas in demand and supporting the Demand Hub leadership team to convene and discuss strategic discussion to guide the Demand Hub.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
This assignment helps ensure the ranking of UNICEF’s Parenting Hub on traditional search engines and strengthens its visibility in AI platforms. It takes place during a period of transition, limited staffing and major technological shifts in these areas. Operating under a deliverables-based contract, the consultant will play a critical role in researching keyword gaps and opportunities, developing content to rank on search engines and feature in AI responses, as well as tracking and optimizing performance.
Working closely with the Web Editorial team, the consultant will combine an editorial and technical lens to develop and optimize content that is 1. Engaging and useful for its target audience, and 2. Maximizes the likelihood of the audience discovering this content on search engines and AI platforms. The work will directly support UNICEF’s Parenting Hub by ensuring the accessibility, visibility and relevance of content, which is key to our ability to achieve our digital goals and grant deliverables.
L'objectif de cette consultance est d'apporter une assistance technique pour l’analyse, la planification, le suivi et la coordination des interventions numériques visant à renforcer les systèmes d’information et améliorer l’accès, la qualité et l’efficacité des services de santé à Madagascar.
L'objectif de cette consultance est de fournir un appui technique au MOH dans la réalisation des formations des 35.000 AC cibles du programme à travers la planification, l’appui à la coordination, le développement et le suivi de la réalisation du plan opérationnel dans les régions et districts prioritaires à Madagascar.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support for the Nutrition programme through a comprehensive landscape analysis of childhood overweight and obesity in Lebanon. The consultant will adapt UNICEF’s global protocol to the local context, facilitate a stakeholder validation workshop to identify priority actions, and develop a final report with policy recommendations to support national efforts in preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support to the Nutrition Programme. The consultant will conduct a comprehensive situation analysis on adolescent nutrition in Lebanon, adapt UNICEF’s participatory adolescent nutrition research methodology to the local context, and implement formative research with adolescents to generate evidence-based insights. The findings will inform the development of the POWER4Girls life skills package, with a focus on gender responsiveness and cultural relevance.
UNICEF Pakistan is looking for a highly professional and qualified Consultant to be part of a dynamic Education Team in Islamabad to provide strategic and technical leadership to operationalize UNICEF Pakistan’s Digital Learning Roadmap and position digital learning as a driver of equity, resilience, and improved learning outcomes.
The consultancy will address these gaps by strengthening national learning and skills assessment practices across South Asia so that they provide a reliable foundation for system accountability, inform classroom practice, and remain relevant in development and emergency contexts.
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
The consultant will support development of a national strategic plan aimed at strengthening the Social Service Workforce in Iran through a coordinated, strategic, and systems-level approach which contributes to workforce's ability to respond effectively and sustainably to complex social and protection challenges.
* Geographical Boundaries: National
* Population: Primarily social workforce and secondarily vulnerable children and their families.
Programme Monitoring is an increasingly strategic area within UNICEF, with its importance widely acknowledged across the organization. The adoption of the UNICEF Monitoring Procedure, along with the accompanying Guidance and Checklist, has further clarified standards and expectations for programme monitoring. However, the level of adoption and implementation varies across Country Offices, influenced by contextual factors and capacity.
The consultant will develop, validate, and finalize Somalia’s National Implementation Guidelines for HIV programming among Young Key Populations (YKP) (ages 10–24 across MSM, sex workers, PWID, and young people in prisons/closed settings). The guideline will be aligned to WHO (2022) Consolidated Guidelines for Key Populations and informed, where relevant, by aids), a practical M&E matrix, and a light roll-out package (ToT deck + implementation brief). The consultant will integrate the recommendations and findings of the HIV Gender Assessment into the guideline and roll-out materials, so they are implementation-ready for MoH endorsement and partner uptake.
The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop a standardized and national Basic First Aid Training Package and Trainer Guide suitable for a two-day training format, which is tailored for youth participants across 26 districts.
The overall objective of this consultancy is to provide technical and coordination support to the UN Country Team for the effective facilitation of the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard assessment.
The objective of this consultancy is to design a Performance Management Framework that:
• Aligns individual, team and programme priorities with organizational priorities.
• Integrates performance planning, continuous feedback, development, and recognition.
• Provides clear performance indicators and evaluation criteria.
• Embeds accountability and organizational learning.
• Provide technical leadership on child rights mainstreaming, ensuring alignment of all activities and deliverables with the Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming.
• Contribute to the overall methodological design of the theory of change, evaluation framework and data collection tools (interview questionnaires, online survey, and self-assessment tool and rubric), ensuring quality and coherence with regard to child rights.
• Conduct literature review, document review and data collection activities (KIIs, FGDs, surveys, self-assessment tool and rubric) along with evaluation team members.
• Contribute to the analysis, triangulation and interpretation of data.
• Contribute to the drafting and finalization of findings, recommendations and deliverables, including the inception note, evaluation report, presentation materials and other deliverables as per the Terms of Reference.
• Engage with the Evaluation Reference Group and other stakeholders to validate findings and co-create recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with UNEG and UNICEF quality and ethical standards, also through integrating human rights, including gender equality and inclusion considerations in evaluations.
The Guidance Note of the UN Secretary General (S-G) on Child Rights Mainstreaming (CRM) 2023 aims to integrate child rights across all United Nations (UN) activities. The evaluability assessment is being planned to understand UNICEF and the UN system’s capacities and readiness to implement the Guidance Note. This evaluability assessment will provide credible evidence in relation to existing mechanisms, actions, capacities, barriers and enablers for the mainstreaming of children’s rights across the UN system with the aim of providing actionable insights to strengthen implementation.
The evaluation will be managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office using a blended management approach with a team comprising two internal staff members and two external consultants. The two external consultants will bring complementary expertise, with one serving as the Evaluation Team Leader/ and the other as the Child Rights Consultant. Close collaboration with the UNICEF Human Rights Team in the Programme Group, the Office of the Executive Director, and other stakeholders is expected.
This ToR relates specifically to the Evaluation Team Leader role. The consultant will provide strategic and methodological support for the evaluation, ensuring high-quality, timely, and credible deliverables through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Human Rights, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support for Online Format Design
• Participate in meetings with digital design teams.
• Contribute to key design decisions to ensure the Handbook’s format is accessible, user-friendly, and coherent across all platforms.
2. Final Drafting and Proofreading of the CRC Implementation Handbook
• Revise and refine Handbook content based on feedback from peer reviewers.
• Collaborate with the copyeditor to ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to UNICEF’s editorial standards.
• Update introductory chapters to reflect recent developments and align with the revised structure.
3. Support for Dissemination and Awareness-Raising
• Prepare supporting materials for outreach, including articles, chapter summaries, abstracts, videos and other relevant resources.
• Contribute to dissemination activities, such as launch events, webinars, and stakeholder briefings.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to enable UNICEF immunization team to lead in organizing Hub calls and convening meetings, such as the Demand Hub Steering Committee (DHSC), monthly meetings and face to face meetings of the Expanded Partners; produce documentation of actions agreed upon; organize agreed number of technical sessions to build capacity on the new emerging areas in demand and supporting the Demand Hub leadership team to convene and discuss strategic discussion to guide the Demand Hub.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
