UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering all countries and territories for which authoritative legal information can be verified. The Atlas will document the statutory age of majority and MACR, including exceptions, differentiated thresholds and relevant implementation provisions, and assess alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 24,
UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a highly motivated Partnerships Specialist to support resource mobilization, donor engagement, and strategic partnership development for one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian and development operations globally. The role will lead partnership engagement efforts, identify and secure funding opportunities, manage donor proposal and reporting processes, and strengthen relationships with development banks, bilateral donors, UN partners, and other key stakeholders to advance results for children in Afghanistan. Candidates with strong experience in partnerships, external relations, resource mobilization, and grant management are encouraged to apply.
Unicef Afghanistan Country Office is looking for an experienced Contract Specialist responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective and efficient procurement of institutional services for the Country Office and ensuring that the contracting function produces affordable and quality outputs with a significant impact on program delivery of much-needed services.
In 2025, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council, and other key government stakeholders, undertook a comprehensive review of the Programme Convergence Budgeting (PCB) for Early Childhood Development (ECD), now referred to as PCB for Building Early Growth through Integrated Nurturing (PCB BEGIN), with technical support from UNICEF. The review examined the relevance, effectiveness, implementation experience, and institutional arrangements of the PCB mechanism, while assessing its potential to evolve from a coordination platform into a more budgeting strategy for advancing Early Childhood Development outcomes.
To support the Government of the Philippines in advancing these reforms, UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant who will work closely on strengthening the policy, operational, financing, monitoring, and accountability architecture required to sustain inter-agency convergence as an integral component of the country's public financial management system. The consultant will be working in close coordination and with technical oversight from the Department of Education and the ECCD Council, under the strategic oversight of the PCB Steering Committee and the Department of Budget and Management-Fiscal Planning and Reforms Bureau. It will also work closely with other agencies contributing in the PCB implementation such as National Nutrition Council (NNC), Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and other while maintaining oversight coordination with DepEd, the ECCD Council, and DBM to ensure coherence with existing nutrition governance and financing reforms.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
El/la consultor(a) será responsable de formular una estrategia y una propuesta de Plan Estratégico Institucional (Autoridad Nacional del Agua) a nivel nacional y local para el período 2027-2032, orientados al fortalecimiento de la gestión integral, sostenible, equitativo y resiliente de los recursos hídricos y de los servicios de agua, saneamiento e higiene (ASH). La propuesta deberá definir objetivos estratégicos, líneas de acción, indicadores, metas y mecanismos de seguimiento que permitan orientar la toma de decisiones y la implementación de intervenciones en el sector. Asimismo, deberá contribuir al fortalecimiento de la coordinación interinstitucional, la gobernanza del sector y la promoción de prácticas responsables para la gestión del agua y los servicios ASH, garantizando un acceso equitativo, seguro, sostenible y resiliente para la población, con especial énfasis en la preparación, respuesta y recuperación ante situaciones de emergencia y desastres.
Governments across Africa forgo significant revenue through tax expenditures such as exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates and tax holidays. In 32 African countries with available data, these incentives cost at least USD 56 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of GDP and 18% of tax revenue in the median country. Unlike direct spending, tax expenditures are rarely scrutinized, approved, time-limited or evaluated, and little is known about who benefits. Most reported tax expenditures lack a clear policy objective, beneficiary group or sector classification, making their impacts on children and poor households largely invisible at a time of rising fiscal pressure and debt burdens. This assignment will assess the scale, composition and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, examine how they are granted and reviewed, identify lessons from reform efforts, and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in the preparation and finalisation of the 2026 Education Sector Performance Report (ESPR) and to provide technical support for the preparation, coordination and reporting of the Joint Sector Review (JSR).
Under the direct supervision of UNICEF Social Policy Officer, the Consultant will work and collaborate with UNICEF and implementing
partners including the Social Welfare Fund (SWF), the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) and others to deliver and carryout
the proposed activities and tasks related to the cash plus project funded by KFW in Tuban and Al-Mukha districts.
UNICEF Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide AI capacity development to UNICEF Nepal staff through tailored coaching sessions and practical demonstrations that enable staff to confidently integrate AI into their daily work.
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
UNICEF seeks to contract an independent Electrical/Solar Engineer to provide time-bound technical oversight and quality assurance for the supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handover of 5 kVA solar power systems at 20 Civil Registry Department (CRD) sub-offices.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a Security Specialist, P3, based in Pemba Field Office, to provide strategic and operational security support in a complex and volatile humanitarian environment. The role will advise senior management on security risk management, support safe programme delivery, strengthen humanitarian access, and coordinate closely with UNDSS, UN agencies, authorities, NGOs and implementing partners. The incumbent will provide security analysis, incident response, emergency preparedness, staff security guidance and capacity building to enable UNICEF to deliver timely and principled support to children and communities affected by conflict, displacement and climate-related emergencies in northern Mozambique.
This is a Temporary Appointment position for initial 364 days. This is extendable subject to funding availability and programme requirements. Interested Myanmar national applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering all countries and territories for which authoritative legal information can be verified. The Atlas will document the statutory age of majority and MACR, including exceptions, differentiated thresholds and relevant implementation provisions, and assess alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 24,
UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a highly motivated Partnerships Specialist to support resource mobilization, donor engagement, and strategic partnership development for one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian and development operations globally. The role will lead partnership engagement efforts, identify and secure funding opportunities, manage donor proposal and reporting processes, and strengthen relationships with development banks, bilateral donors, UN partners, and other key stakeholders to advance results for children in Afghanistan. Candidates with strong experience in partnerships, external relations, resource mobilization, and grant management are encouraged to apply.
Unicef Afghanistan Country Office is looking for an experienced Contract Specialist responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective and efficient procurement of institutional services for the Country Office and ensuring that the contracting function produces affordable and quality outputs with a significant impact on program delivery of much-needed services.
In 2025, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council, and other key government stakeholders, undertook a comprehensive review of the Programme Convergence Budgeting (PCB) for Early Childhood Development (ECD), now referred to as PCB for Building Early Growth through Integrated Nurturing (PCB BEGIN), with technical support from UNICEF. The review examined the relevance, effectiveness, implementation experience, and institutional arrangements of the PCB mechanism, while assessing its potential to evolve from a coordination platform into a more budgeting strategy for advancing Early Childhood Development outcomes.
To support the Government of the Philippines in advancing these reforms, UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant who will work closely on strengthening the policy, operational, financing, monitoring, and accountability architecture required to sustain inter-agency convergence as an integral component of the country's public financial management system. The consultant will be working in close coordination and with technical oversight from the Department of Education and the ECCD Council, under the strategic oversight of the PCB Steering Committee and the Department of Budget and Management-Fiscal Planning and Reforms Bureau. It will also work closely with other agencies contributing in the PCB implementation such as National Nutrition Council (NNC), Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and other while maintaining oversight coordination with DepEd, the ECCD Council, and DBM to ensure coherence with existing nutrition governance and financing reforms.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
El/la consultor(a) será responsable de formular una estrategia y una propuesta de Plan Estratégico Institucional (Autoridad Nacional del Agua) a nivel nacional y local para el período 2027-2032, orientados al fortalecimiento de la gestión integral, sostenible, equitativo y resiliente de los recursos hídricos y de los servicios de agua, saneamiento e higiene (ASH). La propuesta deberá definir objetivos estratégicos, líneas de acción, indicadores, metas y mecanismos de seguimiento que permitan orientar la toma de decisiones y la implementación de intervenciones en el sector. Asimismo, deberá contribuir al fortalecimiento de la coordinación interinstitucional, la gobernanza del sector y la promoción de prácticas responsables para la gestión del agua y los servicios ASH, garantizando un acceso equitativo, seguro, sostenible y resiliente para la población, con especial énfasis en la preparación, respuesta y recuperación ante situaciones de emergencia y desastres.
Governments across Africa forgo significant revenue through tax expenditures such as exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates and tax holidays. In 32 African countries with available data, these incentives cost at least USD 56 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of GDP and 18% of tax revenue in the median country. Unlike direct spending, tax expenditures are rarely scrutinized, approved, time-limited or evaluated, and little is known about who benefits. Most reported tax expenditures lack a clear policy objective, beneficiary group or sector classification, making their impacts on children and poor households largely invisible at a time of rising fiscal pressure and debt burdens. This assignment will assess the scale, composition and equity implications of tax expenditures across Africa, examine how they are granted and reviewed, identify lessons from reform efforts, and support UNICEF country offices in engaging governments on the issue.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in the preparation and finalisation of the 2026 Education Sector Performance Report (ESPR) and to provide technical support for the preparation, coordination and reporting of the Joint Sector Review (JSR).
Under the direct supervision of UNICEF Social Policy Officer, the Consultant will work and collaborate with UNICEF and implementing
partners including the Social Welfare Fund (SWF), the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) and others to deliver and carryout
the proposed activities and tasks related to the cash plus project funded by KFW in Tuban and Al-Mukha districts.
UNICEF Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide AI capacity development to UNICEF Nepal staff through tailored coaching sessions and practical demonstrations that enable staff to confidently integrate AI into their daily work.
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
UNICEF seeks to contract an independent Electrical/Solar Engineer to provide time-bound technical oversight and quality assurance for the supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handover of 5 kVA solar power systems at 20 Civil Registry Department (CRD) sub-offices.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a Security Specialist, P3, based in Pemba Field Office, to provide strategic and operational security support in a complex and volatile humanitarian environment. The role will advise senior management on security risk management, support safe programme delivery, strengthen humanitarian access, and coordinate closely with UNDSS, UN agencies, authorities, NGOs and implementing partners. The incumbent will provide security analysis, incident response, emergency preparedness, staff security guidance and capacity building to enable UNICEF to deliver timely and principled support to children and communities affected by conflict, displacement and climate-related emergencies in northern Mozambique.
This is a Temporary Appointment position for initial 364 days. This is extendable subject to funding availability and programme requirements. Interested Myanmar national applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
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