Can you influence the decisions that shape Angola’s WASH agenda? Are you a respected WASH professional with the experience to guide policy, strengthen institutions, and mobilize partners towards a common vision? Do you thrive on turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions that improve the lives of children and communities? UNICEF Angola is seeking an exceptional WASH Specialist to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise and partnership engagement in support of equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services across the country. If you are ready to shape systems, influence change, and leave a lasting legacy for children in Angola, we encourage you to apply. For every child, safe water, sanitation, and a healthier future.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will coordinate the TeamOne community engagement, strengthening participation, knowledge exchange and collaboration across the global network while supporting agile processes for digital advisory services.
UNICEF Nepal is seeking a national individual consultant to provide technical, field-level, and implementation support for WASH in Schools and Systems Strengthening in Madhesh Province, including WASH/MHM assessments, infrastructure planning and monitoring, hygiene and menstrual health management initiatives, EMIS/WASH data strengthening, capacity development, and implementation support under the China-supported Adolescent Development Programme, for a period of 6 months.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s knowledge management on gender equality and support the implementation of the UGEAP 2026–2029. The consultant will develop, curate and disseminate gender-related knowledge products, facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building, and promote mutual learning across UNICEF to improve the visibility, accessibility and use of gender-related tools, evidence and good practices.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound technical and coordination support to strengthen UNICEF’s institutional approach to internal displacement and its advocacy and programming for child-sensitive durable solutions. The consultant will support a structured review and revision of UNICEF’s Institutional Action Plan on Internal Displacement and deliver priority internal-displacement workstreams managed by the Migration and Displacement Hub.
The assignment will help ensure that UNICEF’s global priorities reflect current evidence, organizational learning and country-level realities, and clearly position UNICEF’s contribution to preventing and addressing internal displacement, protecting the rights of internally displaced children and supporting durable solutions. The consultancy has a global remit and will support MDH’s engagement with country offices, regional offices, headquarters divisions and relevant global teams.
The WASH Officer reports to the Chief of Health and Nutrition (P-4), the position contributes to the achievement of UNICEF Mexico´s child survival and development goals by advancing and integrated health, nutrition and WASH agenda. The incumbent provides technical and operational leadership to strengthen WASH systems and services, with a particular focus on community and institutional capacities that support improved child health and nutrition outcomes, including prevention of stunting. The role supportsthe development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme, while fostering intersectoral collaboration, advocacy and strategic engagement with government counterparts and key stakeholders to accelerate sustainable and scalable results for children.
UNICEF supported the state governments to develop Sustainability Compacts and Action plans in response to the 2021 Sector-wide Sustainability Check (SWSC) findings. UNICEF has also supported the update of the WASH Information Management System (WASHIMS) to integrate climate resilience, sustainability, and gender equality indicators, and improved government capacity to report on WASH routinely on the WASHIMS. For the HOSI, UNICEF supported the government to engage in regional and global meetings hosted by the African Minister’s Council on Water and the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership. In 2026, the Government of Nigeria was also supported to engage in discussions WASH financing and meaningful youth engagement at the IRC WASH Systems Leadership Symposium in Kigali, and to advance the Water Compact in collaboration with the Nigeria Water Development Partner’s Group.
Building on these foundations, a systems strengthening consultant is required to support the federal and state governments to advance on the knowledge management and evidence generation, WASH service sustainability and the HOSI.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.And we never give up.
Consultant, Climate Partnerships, Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), Climate Partnerships, Rome, Italy, Rome office and / or Remote, no travel
Consultant to Conduct a Gender Analysis and Develop a Gender Equality Workplan for the UNICEF Caribbean Multi-Country Office, UNICEF Eastern Caribbean Area- Barbados & Remote without travel, 3 months
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s efforts to promote child rights in the digital environment by addressing risks associated with digital technologies and strengthening rights-respecting digital governance. The consultant will contribute to initiatives focused on protecting children from online harms, including technology-facilitated violence, while advancing policies, evidence, and practices that ensure digital technologies support children’s safety, wellbeing, privacy, and participation.
Join UNICEF in the State of Palestine as a Warehouse Assistant and play a key role in supporting warehousing operations in Gaza. The position is responsible for inventory management, warehouse operations, and ensuring the timely and efficient handling of supplies in a complex and fast-paced emergency environment.
The purpose of the consultancy is to support UNICEF in designing and facilitating a participatory process that will result in:
• A concise, realistic, measurable, and prioritized Pulse Survey action plan;
• Clear implementation arrangements and timeline for each agreed action;
• Defined roles and accountabilities across People and Culture, Management, the Staff Association, staff representatives, and other action owners;
• A practical monitoring and reporting framework;
• An initial implementation roadmap that enables agreed actions to move from planning to execution.
The consultancy will help ensure that staff feedback is appropriately analysed, discussed, prioritized, and translated into actions with clearly identified results, responsibilities, timelines, resources, indicators, and follow-up mechanisms.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide time-bound technical support to the Child AI Safety and Security Rubric (CAISSR). The assignment will establish and operate a reproducible workflow for testing large language models against an agreed set of child-safety and responsible-AI test cases. The consultant will prepare test materials, execute structured evaluations across agreed models and configurations, organize outputs for expert review, prototype a lightweight review interface, and convert expert feedback into refined or new test cases. The work will produce defined, measurable deliverables and a clean, versioned evidence base for CAISSR.
Education requirement: Advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in Communication, Journalism, International Relations, Development Studies, or related fields. Two years of additional relevant work experience that was gained after obtaining a bachelor’s degree may be accepted in lieu of advanced degree. Experience required:A minimum of five years of relevant, progressively responsible, professional work experience in digital communications, external relations, writing and editing (or equivalent fields), of which at least two years involve managing website content and digital communication channels, is required.Language requirements: Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
UNICEF is working in an increasing number of fragile, violent and conflict-affected settings where children and communities face interconnected challenges, including conflict, displacement, climate shocks, poverty, weak governance and disrupted services. These pressures are straining national and local systems and limiting their ability to protect children and deliver essential services. This consultancy will support the development of a practical UNICEF strategy for engagement in these contexts, helping define UNICEF’s comparative advantage, strengthen the resilience of systems and communities, and promote more coherent, risk-informed and child-centered programming across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Drawing on evidence, country experience and existing UNICEF guidance, the assignment will produce a strategic framework to guide programming, advocacy, partnerships, resource mobilization and technical support in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
UNICEF India is seeking a national individual consultancy to support UNICEF and government counterparts in strengthening safe, inclusive and evidence-informed digital education interventions, including digital education strategy, EdTech architecture, digital pedagogy, responsible use of AI, capacity strengthening and monitoring, at national and state levels for a period of 12.5 months.
Aligned with these priorities, the Digital Impact Associate (GS-6), under direct supervision of the Digital Impact Officer (NO-1), contributes to the effective functioning of UNICEF Mexico’s ICT environment by delivering reliable operational and technical support services that enable continuity of business operations and programme delivery.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Office aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
Can you influence the decisions that shape Angola’s WASH agenda? Are you a respected WASH professional with the experience to guide policy, strengthen institutions, and mobilize partners towards a common vision? Do you thrive on turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions that improve the lives of children and communities? UNICEF Angola is seeking an exceptional WASH Specialist to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise and partnership engagement in support of equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services across the country. If you are ready to shape systems, influence change, and leave a lasting legacy for children in Angola, we encourage you to apply. For every child, safe water, sanitation, and a healthier future.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will coordinate the TeamOne community engagement, strengthening participation, knowledge exchange and collaboration across the global network while supporting agile processes for digital advisory services.
UNICEF Nepal is seeking a national individual consultant to provide technical, field-level, and implementation support for WASH in Schools and Systems Strengthening in Madhesh Province, including WASH/MHM assessments, infrastructure planning and monitoring, hygiene and menstrual health management initiatives, EMIS/WASH data strengthening, capacity development, and implementation support under the China-supported Adolescent Development Programme, for a period of 6 months.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s knowledge management on gender equality and support the implementation of the UGEAP 2026–2029. The consultant will develop, curate and disseminate gender-related knowledge products, facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building, and promote mutual learning across UNICEF to improve the visibility, accessibility and use of gender-related tools, evidence and good practices.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound technical and coordination support to strengthen UNICEF’s institutional approach to internal displacement and its advocacy and programming for child-sensitive durable solutions. The consultant will support a structured review and revision of UNICEF’s Institutional Action Plan on Internal Displacement and deliver priority internal-displacement workstreams managed by the Migration and Displacement Hub.
The assignment will help ensure that UNICEF’s global priorities reflect current evidence, organizational learning and country-level realities, and clearly position UNICEF’s contribution to preventing and addressing internal displacement, protecting the rights of internally displaced children and supporting durable solutions. The consultancy has a global remit and will support MDH’s engagement with country offices, regional offices, headquarters divisions and relevant global teams.
The WASH Officer reports to the Chief of Health and Nutrition (P-4), the position contributes to the achievement of UNICEF Mexico´s child survival and development goals by advancing and integrated health, nutrition and WASH agenda. The incumbent provides technical and operational leadership to strengthen WASH systems and services, with a particular focus on community and institutional capacities that support improved child health and nutrition outcomes, including prevention of stunting. The role supportsthe development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme, while fostering intersectoral collaboration, advocacy and strategic engagement with government counterparts and key stakeholders to accelerate sustainable and scalable results for children.
UNICEF supported the state governments to develop Sustainability Compacts and Action plans in response to the 2021 Sector-wide Sustainability Check (SWSC) findings. UNICEF has also supported the update of the WASH Information Management System (WASHIMS) to integrate climate resilience, sustainability, and gender equality indicators, and improved government capacity to report on WASH routinely on the WASHIMS. For the HOSI, UNICEF supported the government to engage in regional and global meetings hosted by the African Minister’s Council on Water and the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership. In 2026, the Government of Nigeria was also supported to engage in discussions WASH financing and meaningful youth engagement at the IRC WASH Systems Leadership Symposium in Kigali, and to advance the Water Compact in collaboration with the Nigeria Water Development Partner’s Group.
Building on these foundations, a systems strengthening consultant is required to support the federal and state governments to advance on the knowledge management and evidence generation, WASH service sustainability and the HOSI.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.And we never give up.
Consultant, Climate Partnerships, Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), Climate Partnerships, Rome, Italy, Rome office and / or Remote, no travel
Consultant to Conduct a Gender Analysis and Develop a Gender Equality Workplan for the UNICEF Caribbean Multi-Country Office, UNICEF Eastern Caribbean Area- Barbados & Remote without travel, 3 months
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s efforts to promote child rights in the digital environment by addressing risks associated with digital technologies and strengthening rights-respecting digital governance. The consultant will contribute to initiatives focused on protecting children from online harms, including technology-facilitated violence, while advancing policies, evidence, and practices that ensure digital technologies support children’s safety, wellbeing, privacy, and participation.
Join UNICEF in the State of Palestine as a Warehouse Assistant and play a key role in supporting warehousing operations in Gaza. The position is responsible for inventory management, warehouse operations, and ensuring the timely and efficient handling of supplies in a complex and fast-paced emergency environment.
The purpose of the consultancy is to support UNICEF in designing and facilitating a participatory process that will result in:
• A concise, realistic, measurable, and prioritized Pulse Survey action plan;
• Clear implementation arrangements and timeline for each agreed action;
• Defined roles and accountabilities across People and Culture, Management, the Staff Association, staff representatives, and other action owners;
• A practical monitoring and reporting framework;
• An initial implementation roadmap that enables agreed actions to move from planning to execution.
The consultancy will help ensure that staff feedback is appropriately analysed, discussed, prioritized, and translated into actions with clearly identified results, responsibilities, timelines, resources, indicators, and follow-up mechanisms.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide time-bound technical support to the Child AI Safety and Security Rubric (CAISSR). The assignment will establish and operate a reproducible workflow for testing large language models against an agreed set of child-safety and responsible-AI test cases. The consultant will prepare test materials, execute structured evaluations across agreed models and configurations, organize outputs for expert review, prototype a lightweight review interface, and convert expert feedback into refined or new test cases. The work will produce defined, measurable deliverables and a clean, versioned evidence base for CAISSR.
Education requirement: Advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in Communication, Journalism, International Relations, Development Studies, or related fields. Two years of additional relevant work experience that was gained after obtaining a bachelor’s degree may be accepted in lieu of advanced degree. Experience required:A minimum of five years of relevant, progressively responsible, professional work experience in digital communications, external relations, writing and editing (or equivalent fields), of which at least two years involve managing website content and digital communication channels, is required.Language requirements: Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
UNICEF is working in an increasing number of fragile, violent and conflict-affected settings where children and communities face interconnected challenges, including conflict, displacement, climate shocks, poverty, weak governance and disrupted services. These pressures are straining national and local systems and limiting their ability to protect children and deliver essential services. This consultancy will support the development of a practical UNICEF strategy for engagement in these contexts, helping define UNICEF’s comparative advantage, strengthen the resilience of systems and communities, and promote more coherent, risk-informed and child-centered programming across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Drawing on evidence, country experience and existing UNICEF guidance, the assignment will produce a strategic framework to guide programming, advocacy, partnerships, resource mobilization and technical support in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
UNICEF India is seeking a national individual consultancy to support UNICEF and government counterparts in strengthening safe, inclusive and evidence-informed digital education interventions, including digital education strategy, EdTech architecture, digital pedagogy, responsible use of AI, capacity strengthening and monitoring, at national and state levels for a period of 12.5 months.
Aligned with these priorities, the Digital Impact Associate (GS-6), under direct supervision of the Digital Impact Officer (NO-1), contributes to the effective functioning of UNICEF Mexico’s ICT environment by delivering reliable operational and technical support services that enable continuity of business operations and programme delivery.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Office aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
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