The Play and Heal project is targeting children with mental health and psychosocial support needs following the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Northwest Syria and the protracted humanitarian crisis and recent conflict escalation in Lebanon. The project supports the most vulnerable children, including refugee children, by integrating play based facilitated activities that target mental health outcomes in UNICEF's emergency response and Early Childhood Development, Education, and Child Protection Programmes, with the aim of providing children at risk of poor mental health with emotionally safe and healing experiences.
LEGO’s Play and Learn has been rolled out already in 2024 in the project’s target areas in Northwest Syria, earthquake affected areas of Türkiye, and southern Lebanon, in preparation for the training later in the year with the new Play and Heal model.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a consultant for a (remote) assignment of approximately 90 working days. The consultant will be engaged to implement the quantitative component of a mixed-method study on the costs associated with raising a child with disability in the Tunisian context.
UNICEF is seeking a dedicated, proactive consultant to work closely with UNICEF Malaysia, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Ministry of Natural Resources & Environmental Sustainability (NRES), and Government and Non-Government partners.
The consultant will provide technical assistance for MICS7 sampling, ensuring accurate, representative, and disaggregated data across urban, rural, nomadic, and IDP domains, and adherence to MICS standards throughout the survey process.
The main purpose of the assignment is to work as part of the Partnerships team to support UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight to achieve the goals of the partnerships strategy in delivering convening moments for new and current partners to the office. Under the guidance of the office and in collaboration with UNICEF PFP, the consultant will support on the creation and delivery of events, convenings and partnership cultivation to support fundraising for the office.
The role will report into the Director's office.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide remote technical support to national ATM databases in HMIS system and the AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria team.
UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Warsaw, Poland seeks the support of a dedicated expert for a short-term, remote-based consultancy assignment with the Social & Behaviour Change Team supporting capacity building of Poland’s first behavioural science team in public policy (public health). This is open to Polish speaking candidates who are already in the country.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant is expected to work remotely (70 days) with in-country mission to Fiji (25 days) over 7-month contract period. All costs related to the work will be included in the financial proposal and subsequent contract. Overall monitoring and supervision will be provided by Nutrition Manager, UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, in close coordination with Social Policy Specialist.
In light of this, UNICEF in collaboration with the Fiji Ministry of Health and the Consumer Council of Fiji, is seeking a consultant to undertake a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis and creating an investment case for two key regulatory measures: the mandatory implementation of FOPNL and UFBMR.
UNICEF's ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Gender and Technology team is seeking services of individual Gender and Technology consultants to provide a range of support services and technical assistance to enhance the ability of UNICEF Offices at global, regional, and field level to lead and deliver high quality digital programmatic results that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as specified within the UNICEF Strategic Plan and the Gender Action Plan 2022-25.
Applicants will be considered for current and upcoming Gender and Technology consultancy opportunities, and for placement on the ICTD Gender and Technology Consultant Roster 2025-2027.
UNICEF’s core mission is to deliver measurable and sustainable results that improve the lives of children globally. In alignment with the 2022–2025 Strategic Plan (SP) and our continued commitment to strengthening results-based management (RBM), it is essential to reinforce the linkage between organizational results and the resources allocated to achieve them.
To support this objective, UNICEF is implementing the eZPLAN solution—an integral initiative designed to enhance strategic planning and optimize resource allocation. eZPLAN facilitates a more results-driven approach by aligning financial planning with expected outputs and outcomes, ensuring its full integration into existing programming processes and supporting the Strategic Plan both now and in future cycles.
This initiative will enhance evidence-based spending analysis and enable a shift in focus from inputs to the results those inputs are intended to achieve. In doing so, eZPLAN will replace the Integrated Budget Costing System (IBCS), providing a more accurate, efficient, and results-oriented framework for resource management.
UNICEF Montenegro is looking for a National Individual Consultant to collect data on adaptation of Caring Families for Young children programme.
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates from diverse populations, including but not limited to people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
UNICEF Sudan seeks Climate, Energy, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED), ESS and innovation Specialist role that will allow the Country Office to scale up its resilience building activities, to strengthen emergency preparedness and leverage in-country capacities in WASH, to provide child-responsive disaster risk reduction support and encourage low carbon, renewable energy & application of innovative approaches to service delivery and in the CO’s operations and programming and ensuring ESS requirements. In addition, the WASH Specialist will be required to strengthen climate responses programme delivery, monitoring and document lessons learning. The Specialist will report to the WASH Manager for UNICEF Sudan country office and will be located in Port Sudan, Sudan.
Support Preschool Education Project Management in implementation and monitoring of the ISDB funded project aimed at raising the quality of Preschool Education in Uzbekistan (in particular, capacity development component)
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a Nutrition Media and Communication Support Consultant to support the Communications team in disseminating information and engaging with internal and external stakeholders, with a focus on EU-supported nutrition initiatives. The duration of this assignment is 5 months starting as soon as possible and the consultant will be based at the UNICEF office in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
UNICEF Timor-Leste is seeking for an International Consultant to organize and facilitate Training of Trainer and Public Dialogue on Maternal, Newborn, Infant and Young Child Nutrition for health professionals in Timor-Leste.
UNICEF Libya Country Office is seeking to hire a qualified and experienced national consultant to provide construction engineering services for its construction-related projects. The construction engineer will offer technical support, which includes managing amendments, variations, duration extensions, and the application of liquidated damages to contracts.
The Education Strategy (2019-30) ‘Every Child Learns’ identifies innovation as one of six programmatic approaches that has the potential to disrupt the conventional pace of expansion of education inputs and enable the improvement of learning. The Learning Passport (LP) is the flagship Digital Learning Programme of UNICEF, developed as a partnership between UNICEF and Microsoft. The Learning Passport delivers digital learning experiences to children around the world, in both connected and unconnected environments with 6m+ learners across 35+ countries, each with specific content needs and support.
The scale of the LP has created a surge in demand for technical assistance on programme monitoring and data analysis. This demand comes from Learning Passport implementing Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices (ROs), and HQ business units. The increased organizational focus on digital learning, specifically through the varying implementations of the Learning Passport, requires sustained technical capacity within the global team to meet the consistent and growing demands from implementing parties and the global Learning Passport user base. The global LP team wants to systemize evidence generation systems for the LP to understand what works, and under which conditions, as a priority activity that would accelerate the journey from the what to the how to improve learning outcomes.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea Office is looking for an engaged consultant to assist the National Department of Education (NDoE) in collaboration with the Local Education Group (LEG) to ensure that the National Education Plan (NEP) 2020-2029 is sound and
robust by carrying out an independent appraisal based on the IIEP-UNESCO/GPE Guidelines for Education Sector Plan Appraisal.
National Consultant, under the guidance of the UNICEF Myanmar Social Policy Specialist, to support in disability screening, disability inclusion process and coordination with partners
National Consultant to support in program participant data of social protection programmes (cash transfer programmes – bimonthly and one-off; Disability Management Information System).
The Play and Heal project is targeting children with mental health and psychosocial support needs following the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Northwest Syria and the protracted humanitarian crisis and recent conflict escalation in Lebanon. The project supports the most vulnerable children, including refugee children, by integrating play based facilitated activities that target mental health outcomes in UNICEF's emergency response and Early Childhood Development, Education, and Child Protection Programmes, with the aim of providing children at risk of poor mental health with emotionally safe and healing experiences.
LEGO’s Play and Learn has been rolled out already in 2024 in the project’s target areas in Northwest Syria, earthquake affected areas of Türkiye, and southern Lebanon, in preparation for the training later in the year with the new Play and Heal model.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a consultant for a (remote) assignment of approximately 90 working days. The consultant will be engaged to implement the quantitative component of a mixed-method study on the costs associated with raising a child with disability in the Tunisian context.
UNICEF is seeking a dedicated, proactive consultant to work closely with UNICEF Malaysia, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Ministry of Natural Resources & Environmental Sustainability (NRES), and Government and Non-Government partners.
The consultant will provide technical assistance for MICS7 sampling, ensuring accurate, representative, and disaggregated data across urban, rural, nomadic, and IDP domains, and adherence to MICS standards throughout the survey process.
The main purpose of the assignment is to work as part of the Partnerships team to support UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight to achieve the goals of the partnerships strategy in delivering convening moments for new and current partners to the office. Under the guidance of the office and in collaboration with UNICEF PFP, the consultant will support on the creation and delivery of events, convenings and partnership cultivation to support fundraising for the office.
The role will report into the Director's office.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide remote technical support to national ATM databases in HMIS system and the AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria team.
UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Warsaw, Poland seeks the support of a dedicated expert for a short-term, remote-based consultancy assignment with the Social & Behaviour Change Team supporting capacity building of Poland’s first behavioural science team in public policy (public health). This is open to Polish speaking candidates who are already in the country.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant is expected to work remotely (70 days) with in-country mission to Fiji (25 days) over 7-month contract period. All costs related to the work will be included in the financial proposal and subsequent contract. Overall monitoring and supervision will be provided by Nutrition Manager, UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, in close coordination with Social Policy Specialist.
In light of this, UNICEF in collaboration with the Fiji Ministry of Health and the Consumer Council of Fiji, is seeking a consultant to undertake a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis and creating an investment case for two key regulatory measures: the mandatory implementation of FOPNL and UFBMR.
UNICEF's ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Gender and Technology team is seeking services of individual Gender and Technology consultants to provide a range of support services and technical assistance to enhance the ability of UNICEF Offices at global, regional, and field level to lead and deliver high quality digital programmatic results that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as specified within the UNICEF Strategic Plan and the Gender Action Plan 2022-25.
Applicants will be considered for current and upcoming Gender and Technology consultancy opportunities, and for placement on the ICTD Gender and Technology Consultant Roster 2025-2027.
UNICEF’s core mission is to deliver measurable and sustainable results that improve the lives of children globally. In alignment with the 2022–2025 Strategic Plan (SP) and our continued commitment to strengthening results-based management (RBM), it is essential to reinforce the linkage between organizational results and the resources allocated to achieve them.
To support this objective, UNICEF is implementing the eZPLAN solution—an integral initiative designed to enhance strategic planning and optimize resource allocation. eZPLAN facilitates a more results-driven approach by aligning financial planning with expected outputs and outcomes, ensuring its full integration into existing programming processes and supporting the Strategic Plan both now and in future cycles.
This initiative will enhance evidence-based spending analysis and enable a shift in focus from inputs to the results those inputs are intended to achieve. In doing so, eZPLAN will replace the Integrated Budget Costing System (IBCS), providing a more accurate, efficient, and results-oriented framework for resource management.
UNICEF Montenegro is looking for a National Individual Consultant to collect data on adaptation of Caring Families for Young children programme.
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates from diverse populations, including but not limited to people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
UNICEF Sudan seeks Climate, Energy, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED), ESS and innovation Specialist role that will allow the Country Office to scale up its resilience building activities, to strengthen emergency preparedness and leverage in-country capacities in WASH, to provide child-responsive disaster risk reduction support and encourage low carbon, renewable energy & application of innovative approaches to service delivery and in the CO’s operations and programming and ensuring ESS requirements. In addition, the WASH Specialist will be required to strengthen climate responses programme delivery, monitoring and document lessons learning. The Specialist will report to the WASH Manager for UNICEF Sudan country office and will be located in Port Sudan, Sudan.
Support Preschool Education Project Management in implementation and monitoring of the ISDB funded project aimed at raising the quality of Preschool Education in Uzbekistan (in particular, capacity development component)
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a Nutrition Media and Communication Support Consultant to support the Communications team in disseminating information and engaging with internal and external stakeholders, with a focus on EU-supported nutrition initiatives. The duration of this assignment is 5 months starting as soon as possible and the consultant will be based at the UNICEF office in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
UNICEF Timor-Leste is seeking for an International Consultant to organize and facilitate Training of Trainer and Public Dialogue on Maternal, Newborn, Infant and Young Child Nutrition for health professionals in Timor-Leste.
UNICEF Libya Country Office is seeking to hire a qualified and experienced national consultant to provide construction engineering services for its construction-related projects. The construction engineer will offer technical support, which includes managing amendments, variations, duration extensions, and the application of liquidated damages to contracts.
The Education Strategy (2019-30) ‘Every Child Learns’ identifies innovation as one of six programmatic approaches that has the potential to disrupt the conventional pace of expansion of education inputs and enable the improvement of learning. The Learning Passport (LP) is the flagship Digital Learning Programme of UNICEF, developed as a partnership between UNICEF and Microsoft. The Learning Passport delivers digital learning experiences to children around the world, in both connected and unconnected environments with 6m+ learners across 35+ countries, each with specific content needs and support.
The scale of the LP has created a surge in demand for technical assistance on programme monitoring and data analysis. This demand comes from Learning Passport implementing Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices (ROs), and HQ business units. The increased organizational focus on digital learning, specifically through the varying implementations of the Learning Passport, requires sustained technical capacity within the global team to meet the consistent and growing demands from implementing parties and the global Learning Passport user base. The global LP team wants to systemize evidence generation systems for the LP to understand what works, and under which conditions, as a priority activity that would accelerate the journey from the what to the how to improve learning outcomes.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea Office is looking for an engaged consultant to assist the National Department of Education (NDoE) in collaboration with the Local Education Group (LEG) to ensure that the National Education Plan (NEP) 2020-2029 is sound and
robust by carrying out an independent appraisal based on the IIEP-UNESCO/GPE Guidelines for Education Sector Plan Appraisal.
National Consultant, under the guidance of the UNICEF Myanmar Social Policy Specialist, to support in disability screening, disability inclusion process and coordination with partners
National Consultant to support in program participant data of social protection programmes (cash transfer programmes – bimonthly and one-off; Disability Management Information System).
