UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Knowledge Management and Communication Consultant to structure lessons learned captured through meta-analysis, a combination of multiple sources of information including evaluative exercises and other documentation of ECA region work on humanitarian programming, humanitarian preparedness, and humanitarian-development nexus.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Innovative Financing and Partnerships Consultant – ECEC to advise and support the Childcare Accelerator Fund (CAF), particularly to shape and refine the partnership framework and its operational aspects.
Partnerships Consultant will support the Myanmar Country Office (MCO) in deepening collaboration with key resource partners and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of the assignment.
UNICEF Pacific seeks for a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will work in a consultative and participatory manner, ensuring ownership and relevance of the final outputs, and contributing toward the development of a sustainable plan for their effective implementation thereafter. The consultancy will review the development and use of storybooks in ECE, early primary and parenting programmes across a select number of Pacific countries, identifying common trends, unique differences, good or innovative practices, challenges, opportunities and key recommendations across content and approaches to use.
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is recruiting a qualified consultant to undertake two principal analyses: (a) an analysis of local governance and public service delivery for children, particularly services related to UNICEF Thailand’s programmatic areas2; and (b) a mapping and analysis of the Decentralization to the Local Government Organization Committee (DLOC). Additionally, the role of the consultant includes providing advisory services concerning Thailand’s decentralization characteristics and its ramifications for UNICEF’s programming.
Under the direct supervision of the SWA Programme Specialist, Country Engagement, the consultant will provide support for partner engagement to develop efficient plans and processes for the engagement of three SWA constituencies, with a particular focus on Heads of State Engagement, High-Level Meetings, Mutual Accountability Mechanism, as well as mobilisation in underrepresented constituencies.
UNICEF Lebanon is committed to support Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and UNRWA to ensure efficient management of the immunization supply chain and achieving improvements in the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) system. The EVM Assessment and subsequent Improvement Plan (IP) aim to strengthen Lebanon’s immunization supply chain management (iSCM) systems to handle current and future vaccine introductions.
To provide technical support to design, implement, and operationalize child-centered Early Warning Systems (EWS) in Nepal and Maldives. The focus will be on enhancing the resilience of children by conducting child-centered risk assessments, integrating the Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Disaster Risk Management (DRM) frameworks, and developing climate-change-calibrated scenarios for targeted interventions.
A national consultant will play a crucial role in assisting in optimizing program frameworks, developing data-driven monitoring systems, and supporting advocacy efforts to secure long-term funding and support from the government. Their involvement will ensure the necessary context-specific expertise and knowledge are applied, ensuring that the program can achieve its intended outcomes while adapting to the national context.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6.
The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. Solutions are selected based on their potential to accelerate results for children across multiple countries and regions. One of the solutions in the portfolio, Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment, is a nature-based WASH innovation aiming to provide sustainable, cheaper, climate-resilient wastewater treatment services.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by documenting the experience of the UNICEF teams currently implementing Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment with the objective of optimizing the approach for impactful scaling both within Bangladesh and into other countries in a range of regions and national contexts.
In a global context characterized by ever shrinking international development assistance, especially in countries passing the middle- and high-income threshold, UNICEF country offices have increasingly been relying on funding from the private sector to develop and sustain critical programmatic interventions for the most vulnerable children in their own countries. Moreover, business and other key private entities are increasingly becoming critical partners in addressing key child rights violations and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more broadly.
Over the past decade, over twenty UNICEF country offices have established structured private sector fundraising (PSFR) operations as part of their country office model, allowing them to generate significant funding not only for their own country programme, but also for the rest of the organization, including donor orphan countries in their own regions.
In this context, in 2021 UNICEF established a financial instrument in partnership with the World Bank to raise additional financing for investment in private sector fundraising as a pilot project limited to an amount of $50 million. To meet its obligations with the World Bank, UNICEF needs to produce annual narrative report on the impact on children’s lives that this investment has indirectly contributed to by enabling to raise more funds from the private sector.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking an Individual Giving Fundraising Specialist to carry out specific fundraising support to support emerging markets in the MENA, ESA, ECA and WCA regions.
This role will be critical for Country Offices (COs) and Clusters in terms of establishing an infrastructure for the growth of Individual Giving (IG) and helping offices deliver their 2025 Private Sector Plan (PSP) targets and testing plans. In addition, the incumbent will help develop high growth targets as part of future strategic plans.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with the Regional Offices (including the Procurement and Ops team), COs, Cluster PSFR teams, and CODAS, as well as with the relevant agencies.
The International Consultant will technically lead the process of modelling school-based inclusive technologies, devices and equipment for inclusive education.
The UNICEF Pacific Multi- Country office is hiring a Driver/Messenger on fixed term appointment to be based in Tarawa field office in Kiribati. Under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Associate in Kiribati, the Driver/Messenger is responsible for providing reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop new features and enhance the overall performance of the current ECW website to attract users, increase traffic and provide up to date information to ECW stakeholders.
UNICEF Liberia CO is hiring an experienced consutlant to serve as technical lead in providing overall coordination and technical guidance in this phase of the transitional justice process in Liberia. The consultant will serve as technical lead in providing overall coordination and technical guidance for the development and, to the extent permitted by time, implementation of UNICEF’s action plan on transitional justice (TJ) in Liberia. If you are interested and have the expertise and competencies to undertake this consultancy, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Evaluation Purpose and Users
In line with the UNICEF Evaluation Policy, this evaluation as two purposes:
i) Accountability: the evaluation will provide solid evidence on the extent to which the RRM attained the envisaged objectives.
ii) Learning: This evaluation will generate knowledge and high-quality lessons learned to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and connectedness of the RRM in the evolving context in CAR. The evaluation is forward-looking and will focus on providing lessons learned while also addressing accountability.
The primary users of the evaluation are the UNICEF Country Office, Donors, RRM implementing partners, rights holders (communities, children and families), OCHA, United Nations Agencies complementing RRM interventions, the Humanitarian Country Team and the Government, and other partners that are involved in the RRM coordination and response
UNICEF intends to recruit a consultant/medical expert to support UNICEF office and Ministry of Health by policy analysis in the immunization programme, focusing on unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children with a special accent on vulnerable children.
The situation in Afghanistan continues to remain exceptionally complex, with a protracted emergency, characterized by recurrent natural disasters, an increased number of people living in poverty, continued internal displacement, unprecedented levels of food insecurity, which has been further compounded since the COVID-19 pandemic. This complexity has impacted the situation of children and women in the country. The withdrawal of United States military forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the establishment of a de-facto government by the Taliban has exacerbated the complexity and uncertainty of the situation. UNICEF is required to rapidly adapt the ways of working to address the multiple operational constraints present in the highly volatile and unpredictable context. This included the need to establish a Project Management Unit (PMU) to provide operational and transactional capacity to the Afghanistan Country Office (ACO) to ensure urgent lifesaving and resilience building programmes can continue.
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UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Knowledge Management and Communication Consultant to structure lessons learned captured through meta-analysis, a combination of multiple sources of information including evaluative exercises and other documentation of ECA region work on humanitarian programming, humanitarian preparedness, and humanitarian-development nexus.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Innovative Financing and Partnerships Consultant – ECEC to advise and support the Childcare Accelerator Fund (CAF), particularly to shape and refine the partnership framework and its operational aspects.
Partnerships Consultant will support the Myanmar Country Office (MCO) in deepening collaboration with key resource partners and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of the assignment.
UNICEF Pacific seeks for a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will work in a consultative and participatory manner, ensuring ownership and relevance of the final outputs, and contributing toward the development of a sustainable plan for their effective implementation thereafter. The consultancy will review the development and use of storybooks in ECE, early primary and parenting programmes across a select number of Pacific countries, identifying common trends, unique differences, good or innovative practices, challenges, opportunities and key recommendations across content and approaches to use.
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is recruiting a qualified consultant to undertake two principal analyses: (a) an analysis of local governance and public service delivery for children, particularly services related to UNICEF Thailand’s programmatic areas2; and (b) a mapping and analysis of the Decentralization to the Local Government Organization Committee (DLOC). Additionally, the role of the consultant includes providing advisory services concerning Thailand’s decentralization characteristics and its ramifications for UNICEF’s programming.
Under the direct supervision of the SWA Programme Specialist, Country Engagement, the consultant will provide support for partner engagement to develop efficient plans and processes for the engagement of three SWA constituencies, with a particular focus on Heads of State Engagement, High-Level Meetings, Mutual Accountability Mechanism, as well as mobilisation in underrepresented constituencies.
UNICEF Lebanon is committed to support Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and UNRWA to ensure efficient management of the immunization supply chain and achieving improvements in the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) system. The EVM Assessment and subsequent Improvement Plan (IP) aim to strengthen Lebanon’s immunization supply chain management (iSCM) systems to handle current and future vaccine introductions.
To provide technical support to design, implement, and operationalize child-centered Early Warning Systems (EWS) in Nepal and Maldives. The focus will be on enhancing the resilience of children by conducting child-centered risk assessments, integrating the Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Disaster Risk Management (DRM) frameworks, and developing climate-change-calibrated scenarios for targeted interventions.
A national consultant will play a crucial role in assisting in optimizing program frameworks, developing data-driven monitoring systems, and supporting advocacy efforts to secure long-term funding and support from the government. Their involvement will ensure the necessary context-specific expertise and knowledge are applied, ensuring that the program can achieve its intended outcomes while adapting to the national context.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6.
The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. Solutions are selected based on their potential to accelerate results for children across multiple countries and regions. One of the solutions in the portfolio, Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment, is a nature-based WASH innovation aiming to provide sustainable, cheaper, climate-resilient wastewater treatment services.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by documenting the experience of the UNICEF teams currently implementing Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment with the objective of optimizing the approach for impactful scaling both within Bangladesh and into other countries in a range of regions and national contexts.
In a global context characterized by ever shrinking international development assistance, especially in countries passing the middle- and high-income threshold, UNICEF country offices have increasingly been relying on funding from the private sector to develop and sustain critical programmatic interventions for the most vulnerable children in their own countries. Moreover, business and other key private entities are increasingly becoming critical partners in addressing key child rights violations and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more broadly.
Over the past decade, over twenty UNICEF country offices have established structured private sector fundraising (PSFR) operations as part of their country office model, allowing them to generate significant funding not only for their own country programme, but also for the rest of the organization, including donor orphan countries in their own regions.
In this context, in 2021 UNICEF established a financial instrument in partnership with the World Bank to raise additional financing for investment in private sector fundraising as a pilot project limited to an amount of $50 million. To meet its obligations with the World Bank, UNICEF needs to produce annual narrative report on the impact on children’s lives that this investment has indirectly contributed to by enabling to raise more funds from the private sector.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking an Individual Giving Fundraising Specialist to carry out specific fundraising support to support emerging markets in the MENA, ESA, ECA and WCA regions.
This role will be critical for Country Offices (COs) and Clusters in terms of establishing an infrastructure for the growth of Individual Giving (IG) and helping offices deliver their 2025 Private Sector Plan (PSP) targets and testing plans. In addition, the incumbent will help develop high growth targets as part of future strategic plans.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with the Regional Offices (including the Procurement and Ops team), COs, Cluster PSFR teams, and CODAS, as well as with the relevant agencies.
The International Consultant will technically lead the process of modelling school-based inclusive technologies, devices and equipment for inclusive education.
The UNICEF Pacific Multi- Country office is hiring a Driver/Messenger on fixed term appointment to be based in Tarawa field office in Kiribati. Under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Associate in Kiribati, the Driver/Messenger is responsible for providing reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop new features and enhance the overall performance of the current ECW website to attract users, increase traffic and provide up to date information to ECW stakeholders.
UNICEF Liberia CO is hiring an experienced consutlant to serve as technical lead in providing overall coordination and technical guidance in this phase of the transitional justice process in Liberia. The consultant will serve as technical lead in providing overall coordination and technical guidance for the development and, to the extent permitted by time, implementation of UNICEF’s action plan on transitional justice (TJ) in Liberia. If you are interested and have the expertise and competencies to undertake this consultancy, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Evaluation Purpose and Users
In line with the UNICEF Evaluation Policy, this evaluation as two purposes:
i) Accountability: the evaluation will provide solid evidence on the extent to which the RRM attained the envisaged objectives.
ii) Learning: This evaluation will generate knowledge and high-quality lessons learned to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and connectedness of the RRM in the evolving context in CAR. The evaluation is forward-looking and will focus on providing lessons learned while also addressing accountability.
The primary users of the evaluation are the UNICEF Country Office, Donors, RRM implementing partners, rights holders (communities, children and families), OCHA, United Nations Agencies complementing RRM interventions, the Humanitarian Country Team and the Government, and other partners that are involved in the RRM coordination and response
UNICEF intends to recruit a consultant/medical expert to support UNICEF office and Ministry of Health by policy analysis in the immunization programme, focusing on unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children with a special accent on vulnerable children.
The situation in Afghanistan continues to remain exceptionally complex, with a protracted emergency, characterized by recurrent natural disasters, an increased number of people living in poverty, continued internal displacement, unprecedented levels of food insecurity, which has been further compounded since the COVID-19 pandemic. This complexity has impacted the situation of children and women in the country. The withdrawal of United States military forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the establishment of a de-facto government by the Taliban has exacerbated the complexity and uncertainty of the situation. UNICEF is required to rapidly adapt the ways of working to address the multiple operational constraints present in the highly volatile and unpredictable context. This included the need to establish a Project Management Unit (PMU) to provide operational and transactional capacity to the Afghanistan Country Office (ACO) to ensure urgent lifesaving and resilience building programmes can continue.
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