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
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the Ministry of Justice and UNICEF in developing a practical, rights-based and institutionally sustainable monitoring framework on the status of children in contact with the justice system that can be adopted and routinely applied by the Ministry of Justice. The framework should enable regular collection, consolidation and analysis of relevant data and support evidence-based policy development and monitoring of the implementation of children’s rights within the justice system.
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 Partnerships Officer (NO-2) will support UNICEF India Country Office’s Resource Mobilization & Partnerships section in developing and managing relationships with Indian and international foundations to mobilize resources for UNICEF programmes. The role involves identifying prospective donors, conducting due diligence, developing fundraising strategies, and managing existing foundation partnerships. The incumbent will coordinate proposal and concept note development, grant management, donor reporting, and compliance with donor requirements. The position will also support donor engagement, meetings, visits, stewardship materials, and coordination with programme, finance, communications, and other teams.
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 Senior Administrative Associate, at the G-7 level, will be part of the Myanmar UNICEF country office. Reporting to the Administrative Specialist. This position is predominantly accountable for applying a broad range of specialized complex administrative rules and procedures in the coordination of administrative support to the team served in a large operations team.
UNICEF is engaging a Lead Consultant to support the Ministry of Health in the development of the National Maternal Nutrition Guidelines and the revision and updating of the Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Guidelines for Lao PDR, ensuring alignment with current evidence, international recommendations, and national programme priorities.
To support this process, UNICEF is also seeking a National Consultant who will work closely with the Lead Consultant and the MoH to facilitate access to relevant national policies, guidelines, programme documents, and other reference materials. The National Consultant will support coordination and collaboration with government counterparts and key stakeholders, facilitate consultations and review processes, and provide local technical and contextual expertise to ensure that the guidelines are appropriately adapted to the Lao PDR context, including its health system structures, implementation realities, and socio-cultural diversity.
Provide dedicated, office-based communication support to the two EU-funded programmes over 36 months, weighted to reflect UNICEF’s role in each: approximately 70% of time for EU4PEOPLE, where UNICEF is lead agency, and 30% for the Roma Assistance Programme, where UNICEF is a participating agency. Under the guidance of the Communication Officer, the Communication Associate will support communication, visibility and event management for EU4PEOPLE, including day-to-day coordination with communication colleagues from partner UN agencies; deliver UNICEF’s communication contributions to the UNDP-led Roma Assistance Programme; ensure compliance with EU and UNICEF branding and visibility rules; and produce ethical, evidence-based and human-interest content that makes programme results visible to decision-makers, professionals, communities and the general public.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the Ministry of Family Care and Demography, the Ministry of Labour,
Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, and UNICEF in planning and conducting the analysis of trends in the alternative
care system in the Republic of Serbia.
The assignment will focus on examining trends, challenges, and the quality of existing policies and practices in alternative
care, with particular attention to permanency planning, outcomes for children deprived of parental care within the child
protection system, and factors contributing to prolonged stays in alternative care.
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.
The National Consultant will provide technical/operational support and monitoring throughout implementation of
activities to facilitate the management and delivery of results and to strengthen national ownership of the activities,
ensuring efficiency, quality assurance and value for money.
The National Consultant will also contribute to ensuring close liaison with the Government at different levels and support UNICEF in the development of TORs in line with established rules and procedures.
UNICEF requires dedicated research analyst to support the CAMH Measurement Technical Lead in delivering the portfolio with quality and coherence. This consultancy is designed to provide substantive support across the portfolio’s core workstreams during a critical period of growth and external launch.
This assignment aims to support the development of UNICEF’s global learning assessment data portal by integrating data from multiple regional and international assessments into a single platform. The consultant will contribute to data management, harmonization and visualization efforts, helping improve access to comparable foundational learning data in reading and numeracy to strengthen evidence generation, monitoring and education decision-making.
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s MICS-EMIS initiative by integrating and analyzing education administrative data and household survey data to provide a more comprehensive understanding of enrolment, progression and learning outcomes. The consultant will acquire, clean and standardize education datasets from multiple countries, link them with MICS data, generate analytical insights, and develop reproducible processes and tools that can be scaled and applied across additional countries.
UNICEF is seeking a Consultant who will provide dedicated backend software engineering capacity to support this transition. The consultant will work closely with the product and tech team of Connectivity Credits, who will provide the overall technical direction and architecture, and will be responsible for implementing agreed backend services, event-driven workflows, integrations and supporting deployment infrastructure.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will contribute to the institutionalization of cost-effectiveness and impact modelling approaches within UNICEF innovation programming and support the generation of robust evidence to inform strategy, resource allocation, scale-up decisions and [LK2.1]partner engagement.
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’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
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the Ministry of Justice and UNICEF in developing a practical, rights-based and institutionally sustainable monitoring framework on the status of children in contact with the justice system that can be adopted and routinely applied by the Ministry of Justice. The framework should enable regular collection, consolidation and analysis of relevant data and support evidence-based policy development and monitoring of the implementation of children’s rights within the justice system.
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 Partnerships Officer (NO-2) will support UNICEF India Country Office’s Resource Mobilization & Partnerships section in developing and managing relationships with Indian and international foundations to mobilize resources for UNICEF programmes. The role involves identifying prospective donors, conducting due diligence, developing fundraising strategies, and managing existing foundation partnerships. The incumbent will coordinate proposal and concept note development, grant management, donor reporting, and compliance with donor requirements. The position will also support donor engagement, meetings, visits, stewardship materials, and coordination with programme, finance, communications, and other teams.
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 Senior Administrative Associate, at the G-7 level, will be part of the Myanmar UNICEF country office. Reporting to the Administrative Specialist. This position is predominantly accountable for applying a broad range of specialized complex administrative rules and procedures in the coordination of administrative support to the team served in a large operations team.
UNICEF is engaging a Lead Consultant to support the Ministry of Health in the development of the National Maternal Nutrition Guidelines and the revision and updating of the Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Guidelines for Lao PDR, ensuring alignment with current evidence, international recommendations, and national programme priorities.
To support this process, UNICEF is also seeking a National Consultant who will work closely with the Lead Consultant and the MoH to facilitate access to relevant national policies, guidelines, programme documents, and other reference materials. The National Consultant will support coordination and collaboration with government counterparts and key stakeholders, facilitate consultations and review processes, and provide local technical and contextual expertise to ensure that the guidelines are appropriately adapted to the Lao PDR context, including its health system structures, implementation realities, and socio-cultural diversity.
Provide dedicated, office-based communication support to the two EU-funded programmes over 36 months, weighted to reflect UNICEF’s role in each: approximately 70% of time for EU4PEOPLE, where UNICEF is lead agency, and 30% for the Roma Assistance Programme, where UNICEF is a participating agency. Under the guidance of the Communication Officer, the Communication Associate will support communication, visibility and event management for EU4PEOPLE, including day-to-day coordination with communication colleagues from partner UN agencies; deliver UNICEF’s communication contributions to the UNDP-led Roma Assistance Programme; ensure compliance with EU and UNICEF branding and visibility rules; and produce ethical, evidence-based and human-interest content that makes programme results visible to decision-makers, professionals, communities and the general public.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the Ministry of Family Care and Demography, the Ministry of Labour,
Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, and UNICEF in planning and conducting the analysis of trends in the alternative
care system in the Republic of Serbia.
The assignment will focus on examining trends, challenges, and the quality of existing policies and practices in alternative
care, with particular attention to permanency planning, outcomes for children deprived of parental care within the child
protection system, and factors contributing to prolonged stays in alternative care.
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.
The National Consultant will provide technical/operational support and monitoring throughout implementation of
activities to facilitate the management and delivery of results and to strengthen national ownership of the activities,
ensuring efficiency, quality assurance and value for money.
The National Consultant will also contribute to ensuring close liaison with the Government at different levels and support UNICEF in the development of TORs in line with established rules and procedures.
UNICEF requires dedicated research analyst to support the CAMH Measurement Technical Lead in delivering the portfolio with quality and coherence. This consultancy is designed to provide substantive support across the portfolio’s core workstreams during a critical period of growth and external launch.
This assignment aims to support the development of UNICEF’s global learning assessment data portal by integrating data from multiple regional and international assessments into a single platform. The consultant will contribute to data management, harmonization and visualization efforts, helping improve access to comparable foundational learning data in reading and numeracy to strengthen evidence generation, monitoring and education decision-making.
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s MICS-EMIS initiative by integrating and analyzing education administrative data and household survey data to provide a more comprehensive understanding of enrolment, progression and learning outcomes. The consultant will acquire, clean and standardize education datasets from multiple countries, link them with MICS data, generate analytical insights, and develop reproducible processes and tools that can be scaled and applied across additional countries.
UNICEF is seeking a Consultant who will provide dedicated backend software engineering capacity to support this transition. The consultant will work closely with the product and tech team of Connectivity Credits, who will provide the overall technical direction and architecture, and will be responsible for implementing agreed backend services, event-driven workflows, integrations and supporting deployment infrastructure.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will contribute to the institutionalization of cost-effectiveness and impact modelling approaches within UNICEF innovation programming and support the generation of robust evidence to inform strategy, resource allocation, scale-up decisions and [LK2.1]partner engagement.
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.
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