The Education Unit at Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a person who has relevant experience and skills to organise, curate and manage a Implementation Research (IR) community of practice, initiating sharing and positive engagement around approach, practice, methodologies, with practitioners, engaging donors, motivating interaction, and intentionally involving partners in close collaboration with and as a broader part of the What Works Hub for Global Education (WWHGE) community of practice. The consultant will coordinate COP activities with senior and technical staff from multiple organizations involved in the funding, implementation and use of IR in education. This engagement will be through, online meetings, curating a live chat with community members, and face to face meetings as and where opportunities arise. Beyond the IR Community of Practice the selected candidate will also support the Education Unit in UNICEF Innocenti with research work related to the Implementation Research (IR) portfolio, working on topic and methodological briefs synthesizing the processes and outputs from the IR team.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is seeking the services of a competent professional and expert consultant to support our Nutrition programme . Details are in the attached TOR. The consultancy is for a period of four months.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is seeking the services of very competent professional and expert to work as consultant to support the Nutrition Programme on the described assignment. The consultancy is for a period of Five months with remote work arrangement.
UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU), in partnership with the African Union Commission’s Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), is the hiring entity for this consultancy. GenU and the AU have joined forces to launch EmPowerHer Africa—a flagship programme aiming to empower 50 million adolescent girls and young women by 2030. The programme seeks to expand access to market-relevant skills, entrepreneurship pathways, financial inclusion mechanisms, and supportive policy environments across Africa. The consultancy will be physically and administratively based within the AU WGYD, emphasizing the Youth Directorate
PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY:
To provide technical and operational support to monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) across the WYFEI Initiative through AU/UNICEF EmPowerHer Africa. This will ensure results-based implementation, rigorous reporting, enhanced accountability, capacity building, and strategic learning for scale-up.
Aligned with UNICEF’s strategic positioning of ECD in the next Strategic Plan, the objective of this consultancy is to support the ECD Team in: (i) ensuring timely data quality assurance through internal monitoring mechanisms for UNICEF-supported and implemented ECD programmes globally in 2025; (ii) producing analytical quantitative and qualitative updates and visuals for annual and donor reporting; (iii) developing a consolidated summary report of global ECD results for the current Strategic Plan (SP) period; (iv) providing technical inputs to UNICEF progress and global reports (e.g., Global Annual Results Report GARR); and (v) extracting illustrative examples and case studies from country reports to supplement ECD 2025 result statements in reports with field stories.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) Programme is UNICEF’s flagship household survey, providing internationally comparable, statistically rigorous data on the situation of children and women. Managed globally by UNICEF’s Data Collection Unit in Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring Division (DAPM), MICS supports more than 100 countries with technical assistance, capacity building, and data quality assurance.
With the growing number of ongoing and planned surveys, and a new funding modality centered on country resources, effective program coordination is critical to ensure the timely implementation of survey activities, efficient use of funds, and consistent coordination across regional and country offices.
MICS is a national government-led activity, with UNICEF providing technical assistance and limited financial support. Given the current dramatic reduction in donor funding and constrained national fiscal space, the consultant will focus on assessing the broader financial sustainability of MICS, including funding from governments, donors, and other partners. The consultant will analyse how MICS is financed across different sources to support strategic planning and resource mobilization.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to assess and articulate the extent to which MICS can and should respond to the changing global survey landscape, and under what conditions—institutional, technical, and financial—such an expanded role would be viable and sustainable. The work will examine how MICS could contribute to maintaining continuity in global demographic and health statistics while reinforcing existing national data infrastructures and avoiding the creation of parallel systems.
As part of the MICS programme, UNICEF continues to strengthen its MICS support mechanism at all levels, so that implementing partners in countries can receive the required level of technical assistance on a timely basis at critical survey stages and are in a better position to support the implementing partner. The 7th round of the MICS programme (MICS7) was launched in March 2023 and there are already 40 planned and ongoing MICS7 surveys and potentially 20-30 more surveys in the pipeline. There are also 7 surveys from the 6th round of the MICS programme that are still in data processing or report finalisation stages.
A very important element of MICS design and implementation is sampling, which is a very specialized field of work. Excellent sampling support is needed during the design, implementation, and reporting stages of all surveys.
As currently there is no sufficient funding to cover all planned activities, some deliverables are planned to be completed only if additional resources become available.
UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)—implemented in over 120 countries and aligned with 22 of 23 SDG indicators previously monitored through DHS—represent one of the world’s leading sources of internationally comparable data on children and women. In this evolving context, there is a growing expectation that MICS could play an expanded role in addressing the data gaps left by DHS. However, this potential requires careful assessment of both external opportunities and internal readiness, including questions of institutional capacity, financial sustainability, and strategic prioritization.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to assess and articulate the extent to which MICS can and should respond to the changing global survey landscape, and under what conditions—institutional, technical, and financial—such an expanded role would be viable and sustainable. The work will examine how MICS could contribute to maintaining continuity in global demographic and health statistics while reinforcing existing national data infrastructures and avoiding the creation of parallel systems.
This assignment will produce an evidence-based analysis and a strategic framework to guide UNICEF’s decisions on the internal investments, partnerships, and operational adjustments required to strengthen MICS’s position within the global data ecosystem. It will be conducted in alignment with the ISWGHS Task Force on Sustainable Demographic and Health Statistics and UNICEF’s Global Data Strategy, ensuring that all recommendations are grounded in principles of national ownership, complementarity, and sustainability.
Pour assurer l’appui à la collecte de données primaires et à l’analyse de ces données sur les adolescentes dans le sous-secteur de la vaccination, l'UNICEF recrute un Consultant national en charge d’appui à la collecte de données sur l’accès et l’utilisation des services de santé, notamment la vaccination des adolescentes dans le cadre de l’analyse genre dans le sous-secteur de la vaccination.
Le/la Consultant/e International/e pilotera l’élaboration d’un Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants au niveau infranational (subnational Children’s Climate Risk Index, CCRI) aux Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le/la Consultant National/e et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. Le consultant finalisera la méthodologie à utiliser aux Comores pour un indice de risque au niveau communal, selon les données déjà disponibles ou collectable à travers le/la consultant/e national/e; assurera un contrôle qualité du travail de collecte de données; analysera les données collectées (les expositions, les aléas, les vulnérabilités et les capacités des enfants, pour chaque commune) et fournira une carte numérique interactive permettant de superposer ces différents facteurs.
Le/la Consultant/e National/e apportera son appui au développement de l’Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants à l’échelle infranationale (CCRI) pour les Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le Consultant International (appui à distance) et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. En consultation avec les parties prenantes clés, le Consultant National appuiera le Consultant International pour proposer les indicateurs à inclure dans le CCRI, collectera l’ensembles des données (rassemblement des données existantes, et collecte de données au niveau des communes), appuiera la finalisation de l’indice, et proposera des formations sur l’utilisation et la mise à jour de l’indice.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant for Teachers Professional Learning and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
The UNICEF Gulf Area Office (UNICEF GAO) is unique in its mandate. It is accountable for providing programmatic support to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. In addition, it identifies, cultivates and sustains partnerships with Gulf-Based partners to generate resources for the organization globally. UNICEF has a role to play in ensuring rapid development in the Gulf is child sensitive and child focused and that children remain at the heart of the national development dialogue.
has context menu
The purpose of this specific assignment is to write the 2025 UNICEF Mozambique Country Office Annual Report (COAR) and ensure quality 2025 results statements for all MCO areas of work.
This consultancy will assess the current fiscal space for WASH by reviewing government budgets, donor funding, and private sector involvement. It will identify opportunities to expand financing through domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and innovative approaches such as climate and blended finance.
Based on this, a WASH Financing Strategy will be developed, outlining key financing pathways, resource mobilization options, and institutional strengthening measures. The consultant will also provide actionable policy recommendations to improve sector financing, coordination, and sustainability.
¡UNICEF Guatemala te está buscando! En esta consultoría podrás brindar apoyo técnico para la elaboración del contenido de la Caja de Herramientas para el fortalecimiento de capacidades en Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN).
in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.
Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide high-level technical expertise to develop, test, and refine the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IECPF) and associated standards, tools, and processes that operationalize the Whole School Approach to inclusion across three key dimensions of equitable education systems: Access, Participation, and Achievement.
The Education Unit at Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a person who has relevant experience and skills to organise, curate and manage a Implementation Research (IR) community of practice, initiating sharing and positive engagement around approach, practice, methodologies, with practitioners, engaging donors, motivating interaction, and intentionally involving partners in close collaboration with and as a broader part of the What Works Hub for Global Education (WWHGE) community of practice. The consultant will coordinate COP activities with senior and technical staff from multiple organizations involved in the funding, implementation and use of IR in education. This engagement will be through, online meetings, curating a live chat with community members, and face to face meetings as and where opportunities arise. Beyond the IR Community of Practice the selected candidate will also support the Education Unit in UNICEF Innocenti with research work related to the Implementation Research (IR) portfolio, working on topic and methodological briefs synthesizing the processes and outputs from the IR team.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is seeking the services of a competent professional and expert consultant to support our Nutrition programme . Details are in the attached TOR. The consultancy is for a period of four months.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is seeking the services of very competent professional and expert to work as consultant to support the Nutrition Programme on the described assignment. The consultancy is for a period of Five months with remote work arrangement.
UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU), in partnership with the African Union Commission’s Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), is the hiring entity for this consultancy. GenU and the AU have joined forces to launch EmPowerHer Africa—a flagship programme aiming to empower 50 million adolescent girls and young women by 2030. The programme seeks to expand access to market-relevant skills, entrepreneurship pathways, financial inclusion mechanisms, and supportive policy environments across Africa. The consultancy will be physically and administratively based within the AU WGYD, emphasizing the Youth Directorate
PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY:
To provide technical and operational support to monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) across the WYFEI Initiative through AU/UNICEF EmPowerHer Africa. This will ensure results-based implementation, rigorous reporting, enhanced accountability, capacity building, and strategic learning for scale-up.
Aligned with UNICEF’s strategic positioning of ECD in the next Strategic Plan, the objective of this consultancy is to support the ECD Team in: (i) ensuring timely data quality assurance through internal monitoring mechanisms for UNICEF-supported and implemented ECD programmes globally in 2025; (ii) producing analytical quantitative and qualitative updates and visuals for annual and donor reporting; (iii) developing a consolidated summary report of global ECD results for the current Strategic Plan (SP) period; (iv) providing technical inputs to UNICEF progress and global reports (e.g., Global Annual Results Report GARR); and (v) extracting illustrative examples and case studies from country reports to supplement ECD 2025 result statements in reports with field stories.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) Programme is UNICEF’s flagship household survey, providing internationally comparable, statistically rigorous data on the situation of children and women. Managed globally by UNICEF’s Data Collection Unit in Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring Division (DAPM), MICS supports more than 100 countries with technical assistance, capacity building, and data quality assurance.
With the growing number of ongoing and planned surveys, and a new funding modality centered on country resources, effective program coordination is critical to ensure the timely implementation of survey activities, efficient use of funds, and consistent coordination across regional and country offices.
MICS is a national government-led activity, with UNICEF providing technical assistance and limited financial support. Given the current dramatic reduction in donor funding and constrained national fiscal space, the consultant will focus on assessing the broader financial sustainability of MICS, including funding from governments, donors, and other partners. The consultant will analyse how MICS is financed across different sources to support strategic planning and resource mobilization.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to assess and articulate the extent to which MICS can and should respond to the changing global survey landscape, and under what conditions—institutional, technical, and financial—such an expanded role would be viable and sustainable. The work will examine how MICS could contribute to maintaining continuity in global demographic and health statistics while reinforcing existing national data infrastructures and avoiding the creation of parallel systems.
As part of the MICS programme, UNICEF continues to strengthen its MICS support mechanism at all levels, so that implementing partners in countries can receive the required level of technical assistance on a timely basis at critical survey stages and are in a better position to support the implementing partner. The 7th round of the MICS programme (MICS7) was launched in March 2023 and there are already 40 planned and ongoing MICS7 surveys and potentially 20-30 more surveys in the pipeline. There are also 7 surveys from the 6th round of the MICS programme that are still in data processing or report finalisation stages.
A very important element of MICS design and implementation is sampling, which is a very specialized field of work. Excellent sampling support is needed during the design, implementation, and reporting stages of all surveys.
As currently there is no sufficient funding to cover all planned activities, some deliverables are planned to be completed only if additional resources become available.
UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)—implemented in over 120 countries and aligned with 22 of 23 SDG indicators previously monitored through DHS—represent one of the world’s leading sources of internationally comparable data on children and women. In this evolving context, there is a growing expectation that MICS could play an expanded role in addressing the data gaps left by DHS. However, this potential requires careful assessment of both external opportunities and internal readiness, including questions of institutional capacity, financial sustainability, and strategic prioritization.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore to assess and articulate the extent to which MICS can and should respond to the changing global survey landscape, and under what conditions—institutional, technical, and financial—such an expanded role would be viable and sustainable. The work will examine how MICS could contribute to maintaining continuity in global demographic and health statistics while reinforcing existing national data infrastructures and avoiding the creation of parallel systems.
This assignment will produce an evidence-based analysis and a strategic framework to guide UNICEF’s decisions on the internal investments, partnerships, and operational adjustments required to strengthen MICS’s position within the global data ecosystem. It will be conducted in alignment with the ISWGHS Task Force on Sustainable Demographic and Health Statistics and UNICEF’s Global Data Strategy, ensuring that all recommendations are grounded in principles of national ownership, complementarity, and sustainability.
Pour assurer l’appui à la collecte de données primaires et à l’analyse de ces données sur les adolescentes dans le sous-secteur de la vaccination, l'UNICEF recrute un Consultant national en charge d’appui à la collecte de données sur l’accès et l’utilisation des services de santé, notamment la vaccination des adolescentes dans le cadre de l’analyse genre dans le sous-secteur de la vaccination.
Le/la Consultant/e International/e pilotera l’élaboration d’un Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants au niveau infranational (subnational Children’s Climate Risk Index, CCRI) aux Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le/la Consultant National/e et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. Le consultant finalisera la méthodologie à utiliser aux Comores pour un indice de risque au niveau communal, selon les données déjà disponibles ou collectable à travers le/la consultant/e national/e; assurera un contrôle qualité du travail de collecte de données; analysera les données collectées (les expositions, les aléas, les vulnérabilités et les capacités des enfants, pour chaque commune) et fournira une carte numérique interactive permettant de superposer ces différents facteurs.
Le/la Consultant/e National/e apportera son appui au développement de l’Indice de Risque Climatique pour les Enfants à l’échelle infranationale (CCRI) pour les Comores, en étroite collaboration avec le Consultant International (appui à distance) et la Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile (DGSC) du ministère de l’Intérieur. Ce travail s’appuiera sur la méthodologie précédemment développée et utilisée dans d’autres pays par l’UNICEF, ainsi que l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et des risques climatiques centrée sur l’enfant réalisée en 2024 par l’UNICEF Comores et le ministère de l’Environnement des Comores, et portant sur l’analyse de l’impact du changement climatique sur les enfants dans les secteurs de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (WASH), la santé, l’éducation, la protection de l’enfant, la nutrition et la protection sociale. En consultation avec les parties prenantes clés, le Consultant National appuiera le Consultant International pour proposer les indicateurs à inclure dans le CCRI, collectera l’ensembles des données (rassemblement des données existantes, et collecte de données au niveau des communes), appuiera la finalisation de l’indice, et proposera des formations sur l’utilisation et la mise à jour de l’indice.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a national consultant for Teachers Professional Learning and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
The UNICEF Gulf Area Office (UNICEF GAO) is unique in its mandate. It is accountable for providing programmatic support to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. In addition, it identifies, cultivates and sustains partnerships with Gulf-Based partners to generate resources for the organization globally. UNICEF has a role to play in ensuring rapid development in the Gulf is child sensitive and child focused and that children remain at the heart of the national development dialogue.
has context menu
The purpose of this specific assignment is to write the 2025 UNICEF Mozambique Country Office Annual Report (COAR) and ensure quality 2025 results statements for all MCO areas of work.
This consultancy will assess the current fiscal space for WASH by reviewing government budgets, donor funding, and private sector involvement. It will identify opportunities to expand financing through domestic resource mobilization, efficiency gains, and innovative approaches such as climate and blended finance.
Based on this, a WASH Financing Strategy will be developed, outlining key financing pathways, resource mobilization options, and institutional strengthening measures. The consultant will also provide actionable policy recommendations to improve sector financing, coordination, and sustainability.
¡UNICEF Guatemala te está buscando! En esta consultoría podrás brindar apoyo técnico para la elaboración del contenido de la Caja de Herramientas para el fortalecimiento de capacidades en Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN).
in 2018, MOH, with support from UNICEF, launched a mentorship strategy to develop healthcare professionals, focused on antenatal care and childbirth, post-natal care, child health, in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, and Tete. The program involved experienced professionals represented by their professional organizations that and was implemented over three years and demonstrated improvements in maternal and child health services.
Therefore, considering the above factors, UNICEF intends to hire a consultant to develop national guidance for quality improvement for SSRH/MNCH aligned with the quality-of-care national strategy in force at MoH and to standardize the SSRH/MNCH mentoring model for Primary Health Care.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide high-level technical expertise to develop, test, and refine the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework (IECPF) and associated standards, tools, and processes that operationalize the Whole School Approach to inclusion across three key dimensions of equitable education systems: Access, Participation, and Achievement.
