UNICEF Kenya seeks an Innovation Consultant to provide technical, coordination, and implementation support across its innovation, digital transformation, youth engagement, and humanitarian innovation portfolio
The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), established under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT), houses the National Assessment Wing (NAW), which is mandated to design and implement assessments that measure student learning outcomes at national scale, including the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the Foundational Learning Study (FLS).
With technical support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) delivered principally through Dr. Abdullah Ferdous, Principal Researcher/Psychometrician and funding channelled through the World Bank's Data & Research in Education (DARE) technical assistance programme, NAW/PIE has successfully developed, piloted and administered NAT-2026 and FLS-2026. FLS-2026 is Pakistan's first nationally representative assessment of Grade 3 literacy and numeracy, anchored in the Federal Foundational Learning Policy 2024 and designed for alignment with the Global Proficiency Framework (GPF) and Minimum Proficiency Levels (MPLs) so that Pakistan can report against SDG indicator 4.1.1.
The objective of this assignment is for UNICEF Pakistan to provide targeted technical assistance to NAW/PIE for the specific set of NAT- and FLS-related activities that fall outside the current World Bank/DARE scope, so that Pakistan's first national foundational learning evidence base is completed, benchmarked, and reported to international standards without loss of methodological continuity or delay.
To provide technical and analytical support to UNICEF's evidence generation and policy work on household vulnerability and shock-responsive social protection, including collaborative analytical products and policy recommendations with UN partners in the context of recent and compound shocks, including the Middle East crisis.
UNICEF Sri Lanka generates evidence and policy recommendations to strengthen household resilience and shock responsive social protection in the context of recurrent and overlapping economic, climate, disaster and external shocks.
As part of this evidence generation, UNICEF is undertaking a rapid telephone-based household survey to examine household socioeconomic conditions, exposure to recent shocks, coping responses, social protection, access to essential services and child wellbeing, including household-level impacts associated with the Middle East crisis. UNICEF also collaborates with other UN partners on complementary analytical work that brings together different evidence streams and translates them into practical policy recommendations. This consultancy will support two connected areas of UNICEF's evidence and policy work. First, it will use relevant findings from the rapid telephone-based household survey, together with complementary evidence generated with UN partners,
to contribute to a focused live case study on shock-responsive social protection, using Aswesuma as the principal entry
point. Second, it will support the household vulnerability and social protection component of a broader collaborativeanal Es. This second analytical stream will be explicitly built on the upstream enterprise and value-chain analysis undertaken by the collaborating UN partner(s). Based on the priority
sectors, affected worker groups, employment channels and enterprise-level impacts identified through that analysis.
Within this context, UNICEF is increasing its focus on delivering climate-resilient social services and strengthening the capacity of staff and partners to design and deliver them. The consultant will support this shift through a combination of capacity strengthening, knowledge management and technical assistance.
The consultant will support capacity-strengthening initiatives, contribute to internal knowledge management and communications, and provide technical support on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, as well as resource mobilization efforts. The consultant will work closely with the Climate Resilience CoE, other CoEs, relevant divisions, satellite offices, and regional and country offices to strengthen UNICEF’s institutional capacity to deliver results for children in a changing climate.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health to develop a context-appropriate, evidence-based NPM in Lao PDR, aligned with global and regional guidance and adapted to the national food environment.
The NPM will be developed through a Technical Working Group (TWG), following a structured approach that includes defining scope, adapting suitable WHO NPMs, identifying food categories, setting nutrient thresholds, and validating the model with different stakeholders, among others.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MoHHS) in Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), to strengthen breastfeeding promotion through improving implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in two main hospitals and their surrounding communities. Background Promotion of breastfeeding is a high impact intervention that plays a crucial role in ensuring children receive adequate nourishment. Breastfed children have a significantly reduced risk for both wasting and later childhood overweight or obesity. In RMI, one in every three children under five years of age are stunted. Nearly 5% of children in the same age group are overweight and another 4% are wasted. Sub-optimal infant feeding, including limited breastfeeding, is considered to be a critical driver of malnutrition in this context. In 1991, UNICEF and WHO jointly launched the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BHFI), which consolidated evidence on promoting breastfeeding within health facilities. The BFHI included “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”, which were subsequently updated in guidelines published in 2018. These guidelines titled, “Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding” are intended for use in health facilities providing maternity and newborn services to promote breastfeeding. As outlined in UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Program Document (MCPD) for 2023- 2027, UNICEF is committed to supporting the RMI and other Pacific island countries in strengthening capacities for improved, affordable, and equitable quality primary health care and nutrition services, including during emergencies. Within this framework, UNICEF works with MoHs and other partners to ensure that the health care systems are conducive to protect, promote and support breastfeeding practices The BFHI was previously implemented in the major hospital (Majuro) in RMI.
Join UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office as an Operations Associate and help deliver seamless operational services across 12 countries. We are looking for four Operations Associates, with one position based in each of Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of an integrated regional Operations team, you will manage a specialized portfolio while supporting service delivery, business continuity, operational performance and cross-country collaboration. Your contribution will help ensure consistent, responsive and efficient operational support that enables teams across the Caribbean to deliver results for children.
Location:Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize
The consultancy will provide a desk review of national and international best practices and protocols for identifying and providing care to children and adolescents who are victims of violence, including a synthesis of findings and practical recommendations to strengthen integrated child protection responses in Rio de Janeiro.
The Digital Engagement and Protection (DEP) Unit within the UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti is seeking a communications consultant to support ongoing communications and dissemination activities related to research on the risks and opportunities children face online. Specifically, the consult will support the development and implementation of communications strategies and materials for the DEP Unit.
UNICEF Yemen is strengthening the integration of ECD within nutrition and other relevant maternal and child health platforms. Building on existing national MAIYCN and community cadre training platforms, this consultancy will support the development of an evidence-based and contextually appropriate National Multisectoral ECD Strategy, aligned with the Nurturing Care Framework and relevant SDG targets. It will also support development of an action plan and monitoring and evaluation framework to facilitate implementation, institutionalization, and monitoring of integrated ECD services.
Join UNICEF’s Global WASH Practice and help accelerate access to safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation services for children and communities worldwide. Based in Nairobi, you will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to governments and UNICEF Country Offices, driving sanitation system strengthening, sector financing, policy reform, innovation, and equitable service delivery. You will lead global efforts across sanitation, WASH in Schools, and Menstrual Health and Hygiene, while supporting climate resilience, governance reforms, digital solutions, and resource mobilization. Working with partners across development and humanitarian settings, you will help shape policies, strengthen institutions, mobilize investments, and scale sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families. This is a unique opportunity to influence global WASH priorities and contribute to UNICEF’s mission of leaving no child behind
UNICEF Pakistan is seeking an experienced program specialist/polio team lead to provide strategic leadership and technical oversight of the polio eradication program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Based in Peshawar, the incumbent will lead program planning, implementation, monitoring, partnerships, and capacity-building efforts to deliver sustainable results for children.
This consultancy will provide technical support to the IE and ECD/E projects to ensure that project outcomes are effectively consolidated, documented, and elevated for policy influence. The consultant will provide full-time-equivalent technical support over 12 months to assist UNICEF and national and subnational partners in consolidating the quality, consistency, sustainability and visibility of Inclusive education and the consultation and documentation of the ECE/D teacher training implementation strategy to inform national teacher’s development strategy. The consultant will translate agreed priorities into coordinated workplans, capacity-strengthening activities, quality assurance and monitoring mechanisms, sustainability support, knowledge products and transition arrangements.
The consultancy will provide strategic technical and coordination support to the LEAP Programme under the MoGCSP to develop / enhance and maintain a role-based LEAP MIS covering the modules stated under the scope of work as well as capacity building of the LEAP Management Secretariat MIS team to manage the LEAP information management system independently and effectively.
UNICEF Innocenti is seeking to hire a qualitative research consultant, to co-lead the research study described above, particularly analysis and writing from QuIP interviews. The selected consultant will closely collaborate with the research consultant in charge of Life Histories and KII study components (LH/KII researcher).
To support implementation of the National SRHR Roadmap and achievement of project objectives, UNICEF Lesotho, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, seeks to engage a consultant to provide dedicated technical and coordination support for SRHR monitoring, accountability, data systems, reporting, knowledge management and stakeholder coordination. The consultant will help ensure that roadmap priorities are implemented, progress is tracked, evidence is generated and lessons are documented to inform decision-making, accountability and future scale-up.
Lao PDR is strengthening its immunization programme to sustain and improve routine immunization coverage, reduce inequalities in access and coverage, and ensure that zero-dose and under-immunized children and missed communities are identified and reached with appropriate vaccination services. The programme also requires continued strengthening of immunization information systems and data use, sub-national programme performance and coordination, supportive supervision, and preparedness to respond effectively to outbreaks of polio, measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases. The assignment aims to provide targeted technical assistance to the National Immunization Programme (NIP) and relevant provincial and district health teams to strengthen programme planning, implementation, monitoring and performance management. The consultant will support the programme to translate immunization data and evidence into practical actions, identify and address coverage and equity gaps, strengthen approaches for identifying and reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children, and improve coordination and accountability across national and sub-national levels. The consultant will also support preparedness and implementation of priority immunization activities, including supplementary immunization activities and MR/HPV campaigns, follow-up of EVM-related programme recommendations, and documentation of lessons learned and good practices. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening the capacity of national and sub-national teams through supportive supervision, mentoring, training and use of relevant learning platforms. Through this assignment, the consultant is expected to contribute to improved programme performance, stronger data driven decision-making, increased reach among missed and underserved populations, and strengthened readiness to prevent and respond to vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in Lao PDR.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vientiane, Lao PDR, requires an experienced and qualified Lao National to fill the post of Driver (Fix term appointment), at GS2 level to be based in UNICEF Country Office in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
UNICEF's Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) will develop or revise an estimated 5 10 organizational regulatory instruments over a 12-month period. The specific instruments will be assigned by OSE progressively during the consultancy, based on emerging regulatory priorities and readiness for review. This consultancy will provide specialist drafting, regulatory coherence, quality assurance and governance-process expertise to produce defined, verifiable document packages.
UNICEF Kenya seeks an Innovation Consultant to provide technical, coordination, and implementation support across its innovation, digital transformation, youth engagement, and humanitarian innovation portfolio
The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), established under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT), houses the National Assessment Wing (NAW), which is mandated to design and implement assessments that measure student learning outcomes at national scale, including the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the Foundational Learning Study (FLS).
With technical support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) delivered principally through Dr. Abdullah Ferdous, Principal Researcher/Psychometrician and funding channelled through the World Bank's Data & Research in Education (DARE) technical assistance programme, NAW/PIE has successfully developed, piloted and administered NAT-2026 and FLS-2026. FLS-2026 is Pakistan's first nationally representative assessment of Grade 3 literacy and numeracy, anchored in the Federal Foundational Learning Policy 2024 and designed for alignment with the Global Proficiency Framework (GPF) and Minimum Proficiency Levels (MPLs) so that Pakistan can report against SDG indicator 4.1.1.
The objective of this assignment is for UNICEF Pakistan to provide targeted technical assistance to NAW/PIE for the specific set of NAT- and FLS-related activities that fall outside the current World Bank/DARE scope, so that Pakistan's first national foundational learning evidence base is completed, benchmarked, and reported to international standards without loss of methodological continuity or delay.
To provide technical and analytical support to UNICEF's evidence generation and policy work on household vulnerability and shock-responsive social protection, including collaborative analytical products and policy recommendations with UN partners in the context of recent and compound shocks, including the Middle East crisis.
UNICEF Sri Lanka generates evidence and policy recommendations to strengthen household resilience and shock responsive social protection in the context of recurrent and overlapping economic, climate, disaster and external shocks.
As part of this evidence generation, UNICEF is undertaking a rapid telephone-based household survey to examine household socioeconomic conditions, exposure to recent shocks, coping responses, social protection, access to essential services and child wellbeing, including household-level impacts associated with the Middle East crisis. UNICEF also collaborates with other UN partners on complementary analytical work that brings together different evidence streams and translates them into practical policy recommendations. This consultancy will support two connected areas of UNICEF's evidence and policy work. First, it will use relevant findings from the rapid telephone-based household survey, together with complementary evidence generated with UN partners,
to contribute to a focused live case study on shock-responsive social protection, using Aswesuma as the principal entry
point. Second, it will support the household vulnerability and social protection component of a broader collaborativeanal Es. This second analytical stream will be explicitly built on the upstream enterprise and value-chain analysis undertaken by the collaborating UN partner(s). Based on the priority
sectors, affected worker groups, employment channels and enterprise-level impacts identified through that analysis.
Within this context, UNICEF is increasing its focus on delivering climate-resilient social services and strengthening the capacity of staff and partners to design and deliver them. The consultant will support this shift through a combination of capacity strengthening, knowledge management and technical assistance.
The consultant will support capacity-strengthening initiatives, contribute to internal knowledge management and communications, and provide technical support on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, as well as resource mobilization efforts. The consultant will work closely with the Climate Resilience CoE, other CoEs, relevant divisions, satellite offices, and regional and country offices to strengthen UNICEF’s institutional capacity to deliver results for children in a changing climate.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health to develop a context-appropriate, evidence-based NPM in Lao PDR, aligned with global and regional guidance and adapted to the national food environment.
The NPM will be developed through a Technical Working Group (TWG), following a structured approach that includes defining scope, adapting suitable WHO NPMs, identifying food categories, setting nutrient thresholds, and validating the model with different stakeholders, among others.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MoHHS) in Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), to strengthen breastfeeding promotion through improving implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in two main hospitals and their surrounding communities. Background Promotion of breastfeeding is a high impact intervention that plays a crucial role in ensuring children receive adequate nourishment. Breastfed children have a significantly reduced risk for both wasting and later childhood overweight or obesity. In RMI, one in every three children under five years of age are stunted. Nearly 5% of children in the same age group are overweight and another 4% are wasted. Sub-optimal infant feeding, including limited breastfeeding, is considered to be a critical driver of malnutrition in this context. In 1991, UNICEF and WHO jointly launched the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BHFI), which consolidated evidence on promoting breastfeeding within health facilities. The BFHI included “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”, which were subsequently updated in guidelines published in 2018. These guidelines titled, “Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding” are intended for use in health facilities providing maternity and newborn services to promote breastfeeding. As outlined in UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Program Document (MCPD) for 2023- 2027, UNICEF is committed to supporting the RMI and other Pacific island countries in strengthening capacities for improved, affordable, and equitable quality primary health care and nutrition services, including during emergencies. Within this framework, UNICEF works with MoHs and other partners to ensure that the health care systems are conducive to protect, promote and support breastfeeding practices The BFHI was previously implemented in the major hospital (Majuro) in RMI.
Join UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office as an Operations Associate and help deliver seamless operational services across 12 countries. We are looking for four Operations Associates, with one position based in each of Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of an integrated regional Operations team, you will manage a specialized portfolio while supporting service delivery, business continuity, operational performance and cross-country collaboration. Your contribution will help ensure consistent, responsive and efficient operational support that enables teams across the Caribbean to deliver results for children.
Location:Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize
The consultancy will provide a desk review of national and international best practices and protocols for identifying and providing care to children and adolescents who are victims of violence, including a synthesis of findings and practical recommendations to strengthen integrated child protection responses in Rio de Janeiro.
The Digital Engagement and Protection (DEP) Unit within the UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti is seeking a communications consultant to support ongoing communications and dissemination activities related to research on the risks and opportunities children face online. Specifically, the consult will support the development and implementation of communications strategies and materials for the DEP Unit.
UNICEF Yemen is strengthening the integration of ECD within nutrition and other relevant maternal and child health platforms. Building on existing national MAIYCN and community cadre training platforms, this consultancy will support the development of an evidence-based and contextually appropriate National Multisectoral ECD Strategy, aligned with the Nurturing Care Framework and relevant SDG targets. It will also support development of an action plan and monitoring and evaluation framework to facilitate implementation, institutionalization, and monitoring of integrated ECD services.
Join UNICEF’s Global WASH Practice and help accelerate access to safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation services for children and communities worldwide. Based in Nairobi, you will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to governments and UNICEF Country Offices, driving sanitation system strengthening, sector financing, policy reform, innovation, and equitable service delivery. You will lead global efforts across sanitation, WASH in Schools, and Menstrual Health and Hygiene, while supporting climate resilience, governance reforms, digital solutions, and resource mobilization. Working with partners across development and humanitarian settings, you will help shape policies, strengthen institutions, mobilize investments, and scale sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families. This is a unique opportunity to influence global WASH priorities and contribute to UNICEF’s mission of leaving no child behind
UNICEF Pakistan is seeking an experienced program specialist/polio team lead to provide strategic leadership and technical oversight of the polio eradication program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Based in Peshawar, the incumbent will lead program planning, implementation, monitoring, partnerships, and capacity-building efforts to deliver sustainable results for children.
This consultancy will provide technical support to the IE and ECD/E projects to ensure that project outcomes are effectively consolidated, documented, and elevated for policy influence. The consultant will provide full-time-equivalent technical support over 12 months to assist UNICEF and national and subnational partners in consolidating the quality, consistency, sustainability and visibility of Inclusive education and the consultation and documentation of the ECE/D teacher training implementation strategy to inform national teacher’s development strategy. The consultant will translate agreed priorities into coordinated workplans, capacity-strengthening activities, quality assurance and monitoring mechanisms, sustainability support, knowledge products and transition arrangements.
The consultancy will provide strategic technical and coordination support to the LEAP Programme under the MoGCSP to develop / enhance and maintain a role-based LEAP MIS covering the modules stated under the scope of work as well as capacity building of the LEAP Management Secretariat MIS team to manage the LEAP information management system independently and effectively.
UNICEF Innocenti is seeking to hire a qualitative research consultant, to co-lead the research study described above, particularly analysis and writing from QuIP interviews. The selected consultant will closely collaborate with the research consultant in charge of Life Histories and KII study components (LH/KII researcher).
To support implementation of the National SRHR Roadmap and achievement of project objectives, UNICEF Lesotho, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, seeks to engage a consultant to provide dedicated technical and coordination support for SRHR monitoring, accountability, data systems, reporting, knowledge management and stakeholder coordination. The consultant will help ensure that roadmap priorities are implemented, progress is tracked, evidence is generated and lessons are documented to inform decision-making, accountability and future scale-up.
Lao PDR is strengthening its immunization programme to sustain and improve routine immunization coverage, reduce inequalities in access and coverage, and ensure that zero-dose and under-immunized children and missed communities are identified and reached with appropriate vaccination services. The programme also requires continued strengthening of immunization information systems and data use, sub-national programme performance and coordination, supportive supervision, and preparedness to respond effectively to outbreaks of polio, measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases. The assignment aims to provide targeted technical assistance to the National Immunization Programme (NIP) and relevant provincial and district health teams to strengthen programme planning, implementation, monitoring and performance management. The consultant will support the programme to translate immunization data and evidence into practical actions, identify and address coverage and equity gaps, strengthen approaches for identifying and reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children, and improve coordination and accountability across national and sub-national levels. The consultant will also support preparedness and implementation of priority immunization activities, including supplementary immunization activities and MR/HPV campaigns, follow-up of EVM-related programme recommendations, and documentation of lessons learned and good practices. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening the capacity of national and sub-national teams through supportive supervision, mentoring, training and use of relevant learning platforms. Through this assignment, the consultant is expected to contribute to improved programme performance, stronger data driven decision-making, increased reach among missed and underserved populations, and strengthened readiness to prevent and respond to vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in Lao PDR.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vientiane, Lao PDR, requires an experienced and qualified Lao National to fill the post of Driver (Fix term appointment), at GS2 level to be based in UNICEF Country Office in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
UNICEF's Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) will develop or revise an estimated 5 10 organizational regulatory instruments over a 12-month period. The specific instruments will be assigned by OSE progressively during the consultancy, based on emerging regulatory priorities and readiness for review. This consultancy will provide specialist drafting, regulatory coherence, quality assurance and governance-process expertise to produce defined, verifiable document packages.
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