Individual Consultants - Technical and Methodological Consultants for Evidence activities on Long Term Agreements (LTA) for 2 + 1 years (open to both National & International Consultants)
In Ghana, the Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) has played an instrumental role in the design and implementation of GEOP – The Ghana Education Outcomes Programme - Africa’s largest outcomes-based education initiative. In partnership with the Ministry of Education, the World Bank and the UK Government (FCDO), EOF is helping to deliver a programme that improves literacy and numeracy levels in primary schools and reintegrates out-of-school children into mainstream education.
The consultant will be based in Accra and provide technical and programme management support to the Ministry of Education’s GEOP Management Unit, complementing EOF’s remote team. This will strengthen in-country capacity, enhance stakeholder engagement, and contribute to the effective delivery of GEOP through responsive advisory support, coordination, and knowledge-sharing
The objective of the consultancy is to produce evidence on child poverty from existing datasets, as a contribution towards the 3rd Arab Poverty Report, by including analysis on child poverty and disabilities, and produce analysis on child multidimensional poverty on newly released datasets (surveys conducted in 2023-2024).
UNICEF Moldova is contracting a National Individual Consultant, to support the Ministry of Education and Research and UNICEF, within the National Programme for Inclusive Education, in developing an evidence-based Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Strategy and implementation action plan for three years to advance inclusive education.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section, within the Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a consultant to provide implementation support for digital tests on Individual Giving in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, with aim of achieving the 2026 goals. This work builds on tests initiated in 2024, and support may also be extended to other regions as needed.
The consultant will work directly with the Regional Office (RO) Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) teams, ICT, CODAS, and external agencies to ensure that the related PSFR entities meet their 2026 goals, which will serve as a basis for evaluating potential plans for 2027 and beyond.
UNICEF is soliciting proposals from qualified individuals with relevant qualifications and experience in professional writing, editing and proofreading services to support UNICEF Offices globally. The consultancy will be fully remote.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany
The immunisation team is developing an integrated package to promote data use for decision-making and provide timely and actionable data analytics to support global, national, and subnational advocacy and immunization delivery efforts. The package consists of a set of analytical products including subnational and monthly-level administrative datasets, and slide decks for visualizing subnational and monthly analytics, triangulated with other immunization-related data. These products will be used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to monitoring, planning and advocacy. When working with administrative data, there are often multiple data quality challenges that need to be addressed. As such, there is a need for support with cleaning data from administrative systems, compiling and reconciling shapefiles, and production of cleaned subnational and monthly-level databases to materialise this vision.
Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.
The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate these above areas of immunisation database management, immunisation data cleaning and processing, and data analytics support under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (Immunisaiton) and in collaboration with other team members.
The consultant will support the IF Hub in its activity around Child-Lens Investing and the Child-Lens Investing Framework (CLIF), a framework to guide investors to incorporate child-related considerations in investment decision-making. The consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting the development of standards for child-lens debt instruments and advancing the integration of Child-Lens Investing with other investment lenses.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed following the MICS7 Regional Survey Design Workshops (8 completed so far). Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams are and will be in need of technical support on
• finalizing and updating the full content of MICS7 survey tools
• providing technical support to ongoing MICS7 surveys including the planning, sample design, questionnaire customisation, pre-test of questionnaires, customisation of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination,
• support to planning and organisation of the regional and/or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops, and
• Oversee and contribute to the acquisition of GIS data, anonymization and dissemination of surveys
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF in Bosnia and Herzegovina in developing a legal study on the protection of unaccompanied and separated children in the country.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a Digital Specialist to provide implementation support for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) Clusters/ROs (LAC, ROSA, ECA and MENA RO), and related Country Office (CO) PSFR teams. The incumbent will also support testing in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, ensuring they meet their 2025-2026 goals.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with Cluster Managers, CO PSFR teams, Regional Office teams, ICT, CODAS, and external agencies to ensure PSFR entities achieve their 2025-2026 goals and develop ambitious plans for 2027 onwards. This role will also work internally with relevant stakeholders to ensure adequate tracking and reporting to support goal delivery.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a Digital Fundraising Specialist to carry out specific fundraising support in addition to supporting testing in MENA, ESA, ECA and WCA regions.
This role will be critical for Country Offices, new markets, and Clusters to deliver tests and further develop their digital plans and targets. The incumbent will work directly with the CODAS, PFP Teams, and Cluster and Country Office (CO) PSFR teams, as well as the digital agencies managing digital activity.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to provide support and technical guidance for UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Child Protection Section and Partnership Section 1) for engagement with ASEAN to facilitate and coordinate finalization, adoption and launch of these reviews and new frameworks; and 2) for the mid term review of the Road Map for the implementation of the Ha Noi Declaration on Strengthening Social Work Towards a Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN Community.
UNICEF needs a data processing expert to (a) support the maintenance and updating of the standard data management systems (b) support the development of editing and analysis programmes, and include the anonymization of microdata, (c) support the development of data management systems, editing and analysis programmes for new MICS Plus surveys.
Additionally, due to the increasing number of countries starting with MICS implementation in 2025/26 and working on innovations in the MICS programme, the Data Collection Unit needs additional support to cope with the workload.
The Social Media Consultant – Humanitarian role resides in the Digital Strategy Section within UNICEF's Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA). The Section consists of the Web Editorial, Digital Governance and Web Platforms, Social Media, and Digital Marketing and Partnerships teams, all working together to create compelling public-facing content and to provide expert digital services and capacity building within the organization.
Through multiple platforms and in multiple languages, the Digital Strategy Section (DSS) draws attention to the many facets of UNICEF’s work, encouraging public support, participation and action, as well as ensuring greater transparency and accountability. We create and deliver compelling content to international audiences of parents, young people and UNICEF supporters, building engaged communities in multiple languages across social media and web platforms, while providing expert digital services to the organization.
One of the priority areas for advocacy and communication in GCA is humanitarian emergencies and social media is a key means through which UNICEF engages public audiences on these issues.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director Programmes, and direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist, and working closely with the Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, and in collaboration with the Generation Unlimited (GenU) Programme Team, the Youth Investment Case Consultant will synthesize a knowledge product to provide a robust, evidence-based “Investment Case” targeted at global decision-makers, with the aim to mobilize substantial resources to support youth transitions from learning to earning across the world, in accordance with the collaboration between UNICEF Generation Unlimited and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the investment case during October 2025 to July 2026.
Gender equality is essential to realizing the mandate of UNICEF to uphold the rights of all children. UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2022-25 elaborates the steps required to accelerate progress on gender equality across the five Goal Areas of the Strategic Plan - health and nutrition, education, child protection, protection and water and sanitation, and social protection - as well as within institutional systems and processes, with clear indicators and monitoring mechanisms to track change.
As mandated by the Executive Board of UNICEF, a report is prepared every year on the status of implementation of the GAP, to be presented at the annual session of the Board. The global annual report is based on Country Office annual reporting on GAP priorities across goal areas through the Results and Assessment Module, as well as using data from other corporate platforms like Vision and the Emergency Preparedness Platform. In addition to the annual report to the Board, UNICEF prepares reports for the UN System-Wide Action Plan on Gender Equality, the UN Gender Equality Action Plan, and for donors to the gender equality portfolio.
To support these reporting requirements, the Gender Equality Section of the Programme Group seeks a consultant to support the following tasks:
1) Support data quality assurance and aggregation for annual reporting
2) Facilitate the production of various gender reports to document gender results, challenges and lessons.
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.
Join UNICEF’s Investigations Section as a consultant! We’re looking for a French/English speaker to help assess and investigate misconduct cases worldwide-ensuring accountability, integrity and impact in UNICEF’s work
The consultant will support the implementation of UNICEF’s social protection component of the joint UN Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programme, supported by the Government of Switzerland, and implemented jointly with UNDP, UNESCO and FAO, by strengthening disaster risk and protection planning capacities within the social protection sector in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), in line with shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) principles.
Individual Consultants - Technical and Methodological Consultants for Evidence activities on Long Term Agreements (LTA) for 2 + 1 years (open to both National & International Consultants)
In Ghana, the Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) has played an instrumental role in the design and implementation of GEOP – The Ghana Education Outcomes Programme - Africa’s largest outcomes-based education initiative. In partnership with the Ministry of Education, the World Bank and the UK Government (FCDO), EOF is helping to deliver a programme that improves literacy and numeracy levels in primary schools and reintegrates out-of-school children into mainstream education.
The consultant will be based in Accra and provide technical and programme management support to the Ministry of Education’s GEOP Management Unit, complementing EOF’s remote team. This will strengthen in-country capacity, enhance stakeholder engagement, and contribute to the effective delivery of GEOP through responsive advisory support, coordination, and knowledge-sharing
The objective of the consultancy is to produce evidence on child poverty from existing datasets, as a contribution towards the 3rd Arab Poverty Report, by including analysis on child poverty and disabilities, and produce analysis on child multidimensional poverty on newly released datasets (surveys conducted in 2023-2024).
UNICEF Moldova is contracting a National Individual Consultant, to support the Ministry of Education and Research and UNICEF, within the National Programme for Inclusive Education, in developing an evidence-based Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Strategy and implementation action plan for three years to advance inclusive education.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section, within the Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a consultant to provide implementation support for digital tests on Individual Giving in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, with aim of achieving the 2026 goals. This work builds on tests initiated in 2024, and support may also be extended to other regions as needed.
The consultant will work directly with the Regional Office (RO) Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) teams, ICT, CODAS, and external agencies to ensure that the related PSFR entities meet their 2026 goals, which will serve as a basis for evaluating potential plans for 2027 and beyond.
UNICEF is soliciting proposals from qualified individuals with relevant qualifications and experience in professional writing, editing and proofreading services to support UNICEF Offices globally. The consultancy will be fully remote.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany
The immunisation team is developing an integrated package to promote data use for decision-making and provide timely and actionable data analytics to support global, national, and subnational advocacy and immunization delivery efforts. The package consists of a set of analytical products including subnational and monthly-level administrative datasets, and slide decks for visualizing subnational and monthly analytics, triangulated with other immunization-related data. These products will be used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to monitoring, planning and advocacy. When working with administrative data, there are often multiple data quality challenges that need to be addressed. As such, there is a need for support with cleaning data from administrative systems, compiling and reconciling shapefiles, and production of cleaned subnational and monthly-level databases to materialise this vision.
Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.
The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate these above areas of immunisation database management, immunisation data cleaning and processing, and data analytics support under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (Immunisaiton) and in collaboration with other team members.
The consultant will support the IF Hub in its activity around Child-Lens Investing and the Child-Lens Investing Framework (CLIF), a framework to guide investors to incorporate child-related considerations in investment decision-making. The consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting the development of standards for child-lens debt instruments and advancing the integration of Child-Lens Investing with other investment lenses.
Current work on the questionnaire architecture and content of standard MICS7 questionnaires is nearly completed following the MICS7 Regional Survey Design Workshops (8 completed so far). Current and future MICS participating country/survey teams are and will be in need of technical support on
• finalizing and updating the full content of MICS7 survey tools
• providing technical support to ongoing MICS7 surveys including the planning, sample design, questionnaire customisation, pre-test of questionnaires, customisation of tabulation plans, fieldworkers training, fieldwork monitoring, data analysis and report drafting, and dissemination,
• support to planning and organisation of the regional and/or global MICS Survey Design, Data Processing and Data Interpretation and Further Analysis workshops, and
• Oversee and contribute to the acquisition of GIS data, anonymization and dissemination of surveys
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF in Bosnia and Herzegovina in developing a legal study on the protection of unaccompanied and separated children in the country.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a Digital Specialist to provide implementation support for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) Clusters/ROs (LAC, ROSA, ECA and MENA RO), and related Country Office (CO) PSFR teams. The incumbent will also support testing in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) regions, ensuring they meet their 2025-2026 goals.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with Cluster Managers, CO PSFR teams, Regional Office teams, ICT, CODAS, and external agencies to ensure PSFR entities achieve their 2025-2026 goals and develop ambitious plans for 2027 onwards. This role will also work internally with relevant stakeholders to ensure adequate tracking and reporting to support goal delivery.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking a Digital Fundraising Specialist to carry out specific fundraising support in addition to supporting testing in MENA, ESA, ECA and WCA regions.
This role will be critical for Country Offices, new markets, and Clusters to deliver tests and further develop their digital plans and targets. The incumbent will work directly with the CODAS, PFP Teams, and Cluster and Country Office (CO) PSFR teams, as well as the digital agencies managing digital activity.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to provide support and technical guidance for UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Child Protection Section and Partnership Section 1) for engagement with ASEAN to facilitate and coordinate finalization, adoption and launch of these reviews and new frameworks; and 2) for the mid term review of the Road Map for the implementation of the Ha Noi Declaration on Strengthening Social Work Towards a Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN Community.
UNICEF needs a data processing expert to (a) support the maintenance and updating of the standard data management systems (b) support the development of editing and analysis programmes, and include the anonymization of microdata, (c) support the development of data management systems, editing and analysis programmes for new MICS Plus surveys.
Additionally, due to the increasing number of countries starting with MICS implementation in 2025/26 and working on innovations in the MICS programme, the Data Collection Unit needs additional support to cope with the workload.
The Social Media Consultant – Humanitarian role resides in the Digital Strategy Section within UNICEF's Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA). The Section consists of the Web Editorial, Digital Governance and Web Platforms, Social Media, and Digital Marketing and Partnerships teams, all working together to create compelling public-facing content and to provide expert digital services and capacity building within the organization.
Through multiple platforms and in multiple languages, the Digital Strategy Section (DSS) draws attention to the many facets of UNICEF’s work, encouraging public support, participation and action, as well as ensuring greater transparency and accountability. We create and deliver compelling content to international audiences of parents, young people and UNICEF supporters, building engaged communities in multiple languages across social media and web platforms, while providing expert digital services to the organization.
One of the priority areas for advocacy and communication in GCA is humanitarian emergencies and social media is a key means through which UNICEF engages public audiences on these issues.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director Programmes, and direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist, and working closely with the Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, and in collaboration with the Generation Unlimited (GenU) Programme Team, the Youth Investment Case Consultant will synthesize a knowledge product to provide a robust, evidence-based “Investment Case” targeted at global decision-makers, with the aim to mobilize substantial resources to support youth transitions from learning to earning across the world, in accordance with the collaboration between UNICEF Generation Unlimited and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the investment case during October 2025 to July 2026.
Gender equality is essential to realizing the mandate of UNICEF to uphold the rights of all children. UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2022-25 elaborates the steps required to accelerate progress on gender equality across the five Goal Areas of the Strategic Plan - health and nutrition, education, child protection, protection and water and sanitation, and social protection - as well as within institutional systems and processes, with clear indicators and monitoring mechanisms to track change.
As mandated by the Executive Board of UNICEF, a report is prepared every year on the status of implementation of the GAP, to be presented at the annual session of the Board. The global annual report is based on Country Office annual reporting on GAP priorities across goal areas through the Results and Assessment Module, as well as using data from other corporate platforms like Vision and the Emergency Preparedness Platform. In addition to the annual report to the Board, UNICEF prepares reports for the UN System-Wide Action Plan on Gender Equality, the UN Gender Equality Action Plan, and for donors to the gender equality portfolio.
To support these reporting requirements, the Gender Equality Section of the Programme Group seeks a consultant to support the following tasks:
1) Support data quality assurance and aggregation for annual reporting
2) Facilitate the production of various gender reports to document gender results, challenges and lessons.
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.
Join UNICEF’s Investigations Section as a consultant! We’re looking for a French/English speaker to help assess and investigate misconduct cases worldwide-ensuring accountability, integrity and impact in UNICEF’s work
The consultant will support the implementation of UNICEF’s social protection component of the joint UN Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programme, supported by the Government of Switzerland, and implemented jointly with UNDP, UNESCO and FAO, by strengthening disaster risk and protection planning capacities within the social protection sector in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), in line with shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) principles.
