UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking to hire an international consultant. The Consultant will work under the overall supervision of an Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF Sierra Leone/West and Central Africa Regional Office. UNICEF will facilitate access to relevant documentation and stakeholders.
This is an individual consultancy, and it is expected to last for 40 working days. The Consultant will work remotely without any travel to Sierra Leone.
The consultant is expected to use their own work tools including laptop and other communication tools required. For this assessment, AI will be used in a limited, quality-assurance role to support structured document review, results framework and ToC analysis, indicator and data quality scanning. It will also help with the analysis of gaps in indicators, baselines, as well as the assessment of data readiness. All analytical judgements will remain fully human-led.
UNICEF Innocenti seeks a consultant to undertake policy‑oriented research to examine residential sport academies as de facto care institutions and environments for children, with a focus on residential football academies for a period of 17 months remotely.
The Programme Support Specialist (Remote Support Hub) is responsible for identifying, testing and costing location-independent programme management and programme support services that have the potential to be delivered through the Remote Support Hub, in synergy with existing operations, HR and finance support.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF’s global technical leadership and interagency coordination on child protection case management and information management for case management (IM4CM) in humanitarian settings.
The consultant will contribute to global governance, capacity strengthening, and the dissemination and operationalization of interagency guidance, tools, and digital systems, including CPIMS+. The consultant will provide technical assistance and evidence generation to strengthen case management systems and improve protection outcomes for vulnerable children in priority humanitarian contexts.
The objective of this consultancy is to produce a comprehensive Geneva ecosystem analysis and partnership development strategy that will enable Safe Online to effectively leverage Geneva-based institutions, networks, and platforms to advance its mission. The consultancy will deliver concrete outputs including stakeholder mapping, partnership opportunity assessments, an engagement strategy, and a pipeline of cultivated relationships ready for Safe Online leadership to act upon.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enable the team to conduct more effective quantitative research. UNICEF is increasingly leveraging self-serve quantitative survey scripting platforms as in-house scripting and data collection tool for quantitative research. To support the growing number of global and local research initiatives, AMI seeks a Scripting and Data Processing Consultant to script surveys, coordinate translations and link checks, liaise with panel vendors for survey fielding, conduct data quality control, and perform basic data processing including weighting and tabulations.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities to design, pilot, and evaluate carbon credit schemes that can mobilize high-integrity climate finance to safeguard children’s rights and accelerate sustainable financing for WASH. In the context of this, UNICEF now seeks to engage a highly qualified Sustainable Finance Specialist with technical expertise in carbon credit project development, climate finance mechanisms, and sustainable and blended financing models supporting UNICEF’s climate action programming.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities for design, pilot, and scaling of models that can mobilize and accelerate sustainable and blended financing for WASH.
In the context of this, UNICEF proposes to engage the expertise of a highly qualified Sustainable and Blended Finance specialist to facilitate the effective implementation of sustainable and innovative finance solutions for WASH. These tasks encompass scoping, mapping, and supporting Sustainable Finance solutions, and technical support to regional and country offices as well as advising HQ, regional, and country offices working on scaling solutions and projects.
UNICEF Pacific is looking for a proactive and dedicated Consultant (National or International) for a 5 month assignment (75 working days) to support nutrition strengthening efforts across Solomon Islands.
In partnership with MEHRD, MAL and MHMS, the Consultant will lead comprehensive dietary intake assessments in 9 schools across Western and Isabel Provinces, and 7–9 schools in Guadalcanal Province. You will work closely with provincial government teams, coordinate with other consultants and partners, and contribute to related curriculum development work on nutrition teaching aids.
This role requires 70 days of work in country, including three field visits to each province, with an additional 5 days of remote work permitted. All travel and activity costs will be covered within the contract’s financial proposal. The position will be managed by the UNICEF Solomon Islands Field Office, with technical guidance from the UNICEF Pacific Nutrition Manager.
If you're passionate about improving school nutrition and ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now!
Location:Fiji/Pacific Island Countries, Solomon Islands
The consultant will support the implementation of the WASH Work Plan and KM under the multi-country grants, working closely with team members and regional WASH colleagues.
To support the Assistive Technology and Disability team in the Child Survival Centre (CSC), under the guidance of UNICEF Supply Division and in coordination with WHO, in advancing strategic procurement and market-shaping efforts that improve the affordability, availability and appropriate use of prioritized quality-assured assistive products in low and middle-income countries, including through catalogue expansion, stakeholder dissemination and procurement guidance, and development of an assessment tool to evaluate national production capacity and inform sustainable procurement planning.
UNICEF seeks to engage a highly qualified a consultant to develop, refine and assess financial models relevant to groundwater schemes, reviewing existing cost structures, tariff frameworks, revenue systems, subsidy mechanisms, and investment flows in the ASAL counties of Northern Kenya.
The consultant will consolidate existing evidence, map financing mechanisms, identify institutional and financial gaps, and refine potential models for up to four proposed pilot sites.
The assignment does not generate new field data but synthesizes existing information from counties, utilities, NGOs, regulators, and previous studies. The consultant must be able to work with Kenyan institutions and be available for field travel when necessary.
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist, Budget Reform and Financing, the consultant will provide technical and coordination expert advice to Global Education Practice in the implementation of the GPE-KIX Africa 19 initiative. The purpose of the assignment is to contribute specialized expertise to strengthen selected components of the Africa 19 Hub activities, including country support processes, regional knowledge exchange, and documentation and dissemination of evidence and innovations that inform inclusive and gender-responsive education policies and programmes.
As part of its ongoing evolution, the GSSC is piloting a Remote Support Hub (RSH) model to provide location-independent operational, human resources and administrative services to small Country Offices. UNICEF GSSC is looking for an individual passionate in creating, maintaining and updating the shared knowledge for the Remote Support Hub), ensuring clear structure, human-centered design and ease of navigation in UNICEF’s knowledge platforms (SharePoint, ServiceNow) to improve the user experience.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering: Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future action in this area of work.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments’]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future actions. (Open to National and International)
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high‑threat environments. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation, the assignment contributes to an impartial assessment of UNICEF’s “Staying and Delivering” approach, examining relevance, effectiveness, progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners while generating learning to guide future humanitarian action. The consultant will support the Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) by assisting the Team Leader, contributing to design, data collection and analysis, drafting report sections, and guiding or leading specific field components.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO), located in New York HQ, provides global leadership and oversight of the evaluation function in the organization. As such, it manages independent, corporate evaluations and evaluation syntheses, provides technical assistance and quality assurance for evaluations commissioned at the decentralized level (country and regional offices, as well as other divisions in HQ offices), develops evaluation methods, and reports to the UNICEF Executive Board.
The Evaluation Office is therefore seeking an experienced evaluation capacity development consultant to support the refinement of its National Evaluation Capacity Development for UNICEF staff and partners.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and principled humanitarian action in complex and high threat environments’].
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking to hire an international consultant. The Consultant will work under the overall supervision of an Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF Sierra Leone/West and Central Africa Regional Office. UNICEF will facilitate access to relevant documentation and stakeholders.
This is an individual consultancy, and it is expected to last for 40 working days. The Consultant will work remotely without any travel to Sierra Leone.
The consultant is expected to use their own work tools including laptop and other communication tools required. For this assessment, AI will be used in a limited, quality-assurance role to support structured document review, results framework and ToC analysis, indicator and data quality scanning. It will also help with the analysis of gaps in indicators, baselines, as well as the assessment of data readiness. All analytical judgements will remain fully human-led.
UNICEF Innocenti seeks a consultant to undertake policy‑oriented research to examine residential sport academies as de facto care institutions and environments for children, with a focus on residential football academies for a period of 17 months remotely.
The Programme Support Specialist (Remote Support Hub) is responsible for identifying, testing and costing location-independent programme management and programme support services that have the potential to be delivered through the Remote Support Hub, in synergy with existing operations, HR and finance support.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF’s global technical leadership and interagency coordination on child protection case management and information management for case management (IM4CM) in humanitarian settings.
The consultant will contribute to global governance, capacity strengthening, and the dissemination and operationalization of interagency guidance, tools, and digital systems, including CPIMS+. The consultant will provide technical assistance and evidence generation to strengthen case management systems and improve protection outcomes for vulnerable children in priority humanitarian contexts.
The objective of this consultancy is to produce a comprehensive Geneva ecosystem analysis and partnership development strategy that will enable Safe Online to effectively leverage Geneva-based institutions, networks, and platforms to advance its mission. The consultancy will deliver concrete outputs including stakeholder mapping, partnership opportunity assessments, an engagement strategy, and a pipeline of cultivated relationships ready for Safe Online leadership to act upon.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enable the team to conduct more effective quantitative research. UNICEF is increasingly leveraging self-serve quantitative survey scripting platforms as in-house scripting and data collection tool for quantitative research. To support the growing number of global and local research initiatives, AMI seeks a Scripting and Data Processing Consultant to script surveys, coordinate translations and link checks, liaise with panel vendors for survey fielding, conduct data quality control, and perform basic data processing including weighting and tabulations.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities to design, pilot, and evaluate carbon credit schemes that can mobilize high-integrity climate finance to safeguard children’s rights and accelerate sustainable financing for WASH. In the context of this, UNICEF now seeks to engage a highly qualified Sustainable Finance Specialist with technical expertise in carbon credit project development, climate finance mechanisms, and sustainable and blended financing models supporting UNICEF’s climate action programming.
UNICEF is committed to advancing climate‑resilient development and exploring innovative financing approaches that can support child-focused climate action. As part of this work, UNICEF is assessing opportunities for design, pilot, and scaling of models that can mobilize and accelerate sustainable and blended financing for WASH.
In the context of this, UNICEF proposes to engage the expertise of a highly qualified Sustainable and Blended Finance specialist to facilitate the effective implementation of sustainable and innovative finance solutions for WASH. These tasks encompass scoping, mapping, and supporting Sustainable Finance solutions, and technical support to regional and country offices as well as advising HQ, regional, and country offices working on scaling solutions and projects.
UNICEF Pacific is looking for a proactive and dedicated Consultant (National or International) for a 5 month assignment (75 working days) to support nutrition strengthening efforts across Solomon Islands.
In partnership with MEHRD, MAL and MHMS, the Consultant will lead comprehensive dietary intake assessments in 9 schools across Western and Isabel Provinces, and 7–9 schools in Guadalcanal Province. You will work closely with provincial government teams, coordinate with other consultants and partners, and contribute to related curriculum development work on nutrition teaching aids.
This role requires 70 days of work in country, including three field visits to each province, with an additional 5 days of remote work permitted. All travel and activity costs will be covered within the contract’s financial proposal. The position will be managed by the UNICEF Solomon Islands Field Office, with technical guidance from the UNICEF Pacific Nutrition Manager.
If you're passionate about improving school nutrition and ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now!
Location:Fiji/Pacific Island Countries, Solomon Islands
The consultant will support the implementation of the WASH Work Plan and KM under the multi-country grants, working closely with team members and regional WASH colleagues.
To support the Assistive Technology and Disability team in the Child Survival Centre (CSC), under the guidance of UNICEF Supply Division and in coordination with WHO, in advancing strategic procurement and market-shaping efforts that improve the affordability, availability and appropriate use of prioritized quality-assured assistive products in low and middle-income countries, including through catalogue expansion, stakeholder dissemination and procurement guidance, and development of an assessment tool to evaluate national production capacity and inform sustainable procurement planning.
UNICEF seeks to engage a highly qualified a consultant to develop, refine and assess financial models relevant to groundwater schemes, reviewing existing cost structures, tariff frameworks, revenue systems, subsidy mechanisms, and investment flows in the ASAL counties of Northern Kenya.
The consultant will consolidate existing evidence, map financing mechanisms, identify institutional and financial gaps, and refine potential models for up to four proposed pilot sites.
The assignment does not generate new field data but synthesizes existing information from counties, utilities, NGOs, regulators, and previous studies. The consultant must be able to work with Kenyan institutions and be available for field travel when necessary.
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist, Budget Reform and Financing, the consultant will provide technical and coordination expert advice to Global Education Practice in the implementation of the GPE-KIX Africa 19 initiative. The purpose of the assignment is to contribute specialized expertise to strengthen selected components of the Africa 19 Hub activities, including country support processes, regional knowledge exchange, and documentation and dissemination of evidence and innovations that inform inclusive and gender-responsive education policies and programmes.
As part of its ongoing evolution, the GSSC is piloting a Remote Support Hub (RSH) model to provide location-independent operational, human resources and administrative services to small Country Offices. UNICEF GSSC is looking for an individual passionate in creating, maintaining and updating the shared knowledge for the Remote Support Hub), ensuring clear structure, human-centered design and ease of navigation in UNICEF’s knowledge platforms (SharePoint, ServiceNow) to improve the user experience.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering: Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future action in this area of work.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and Principled humanitarian access in complex and high threat environments’]. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation and responding to ongoing challenges, it will provide an impartial assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of UNICEF’s institutional approach to humanitarian access, highlighting progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners and generate learning to guide future actions. (Open to National and International)
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high‑threat environments. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation, the assignment contributes to an impartial assessment of UNICEF’s “Staying and Delivering” approach, examining relevance, effectiveness, progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners while generating learning to guide future humanitarian action. The consultant will support the Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) by assisting the Team Leader, contributing to design, data collection and analysis, drafting report sections, and guiding or leading specific field components.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO), located in New York HQ, provides global leadership and oversight of the evaluation function in the organization. As such, it manages independent, corporate evaluations and evaluation syntheses, provides technical assistance and quality assurance for evaluations commissioned at the decentralized level (country and regional offices, as well as other divisions in HQ offices), develops evaluation methods, and reports to the UNICEF Executive Board.
The Evaluation Office is therefore seeking an experienced evaluation capacity development consultant to support the refinement of its National Evaluation Capacity Development for UNICEF staff and partners.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high-threat environments [Staying and Delivering and principled humanitarian action in complex and high threat environments’].
