UNICEF contributes to the Yanomami Alert System, a community-based initiative that enables trained indigenous monitors to report alerts related to health, WASH, environment, and territorial threats using mobile devices in local languages, even without internet access. These alerts are verified and shared with relevant authorities to support timely and coordinated responses.
To support this initiative, the consultant will assist the response of WASH alerts, in close collaboration with local and national health and sanitation services. The consultant will work closely with the UNICEF Boa Vista team to strengthen WASH monitoring, response mechanisms, and the engagement of indigenous sanitation agents in the Yanomami Territory.
UNICEF OOI is seeking a dynamic and experienced consultant with extensive experience with using experimental and quasi experimental methods to conduct the impact assessment of Fundoo, a digital platform that seeks to equip young people with 21st century skills. This consultany will be conducted under guidance and direction of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at OOI, and in close collaboration with relevant colleagues in OOI and COs.
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.
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.
Under the direct supervision of the ADAP officer and in collaboration with the Education Specialist , the consultant is responsible for providing technical support in the implementation of the Akelius initiative, contributing to a quality scale-up in five administrative units by ensuring technical support to key partners (teacher training institutes and education ministries), providing monitoring of activities within schools, monitoring of equipment, feedback collection and knowledge exchange between different administrative units and schools and regular reporting of these activities and serving as a technical resource person for schools and partners.
We are seeking a motivated student with strong research skills and an interest in evidence-based policy related to child outcomes to support this initiative. The intern will provide analytical and coordination support to the Thought Leadership team and contribute to its core activities.
The Consultant’s goal will be to support the mainstreaming of gender, race and ethnicity into UNICEF SELO and #AgendaCidade flagship initiatives, as well as in the Annual Workplans of each of the aforementioned Goal Areas in all of the Zonal Offices. Furthermore, the Consultant will conduct capacity building within the office to enhance awareness on issues of race and ethnicity as well as suggest practical ways to enhance race and ethnicity into programming, enhancing thus the quality of the Country Programme in the long term.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight in seeking a consultant to co-lead the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP) component on the long-term effects of the Mozambique Child Grant.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a consultant to co-lead two qualitative study components on the long-term effects of the Mozambique Child Grant. In addition, the selected consultant will provide in-country coordination support to the study team. The ideal candidate would be based in Mozambique.
The Education Section of UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a remote-based consultant for an estimated 214 working days to support the integration of implementation research into education programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa. The section embeds research into large-scale initiatives, including remedial education, inclusive education, and digital learning. The overarching goal of this research portfolio is to inform improvements in the delivery and scale-up of education programmes to enhance children’s learning outcomes, while synthesizing lessons across countries to contribute to global public goods.
The consultant will support the design and delivery of joint communication plans and frameworks for multi-country and global partnerships, including coordinating communication planning across multiple markets. The role includes facilitating partnership communication workshops, developing high-quality communication assets and materials, and managing reputational risks through proactive communication strategies. The consultant will also oversee the rollout and implementation of these communication assets and frameworks in collaboration with markets.
The job entails close collaboration with National Committees and country offices to mitigate reputational risks, contribute to the prevention of public relations crises, and work with internal and external stakeholders to successfully manage responses to reputational issues for UNICEF’s private sector financial and non-financial partnerships with business, foundations, high-net-worth individuals, and membership-based and faith-based organizations.
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional Data & Analytics Intern to support in the development of our data science platform. This gives the opportunity to utilize some new extensive datasets and advanced machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) libraries.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation seeks an early-career professional to produce 7-8 engaging videos that explain and promote two Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks. Working remotely and embedded within the Office of Innovation’s MEL and Knowledge Management (KM) team, the consultant will support efforts to strengthen the capacity of innovation actors to adopt an evidence-based approach to scaling innovations. Our mission is to generate evidence on what works, why it works, and how to scale it. From shaping global guidance to data-driven evidence, we bring rigor to innovation.
UNICEF’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office (LACRO) is seeking experienced individual consultants to join a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) roster for evaluative services over a 36-month period. This home-based consultancy offers opportunities in two key areas: quality review of evaluation deliverables (such as terms of reference, inception reports, and evaluation reports) and technical support for conducting evaluative exercises across all phases of the evidence generation cycle. Consultants will contribute to high-quality, ethical, and impactful evaluations that inform UNICEF’s programming and advocacy across the region.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the high-quality instructional design and adult-appropriate methodology for a series of Social and Behavior Change (SBC) capacity-building trainings to be delivered to national stakeholders, including government organizations, universities, and professional groups. The expert will work in close collaboration with the UNICEF SBC Officer to develop tailored, engaging, and practical training packages that meet the learning needs of adult professionals distinct from traditional pedagogical approaches used in university settings.
The selected expert will apply a modern andragogical approach centered on interactivity, relevance, and clarity, ensuring that training materials are tailored to the needs of adult professionals, practice-oriented and designed to effectively deliver key SBC concepts, tools and approaches.
Generation Unlimited (GenU) is UNICEF’s global multi-sector partnership platform, connecting young people worldwide to opportunities in employability, entrepreneurship, and climate resilience by 2030. GenU is scaling up innovative financing to unlock resources for youth-led climate adaptation and sustainable development. This global consultancy will drive the design and execution of innovative finance solutions, focusing on debt swaps, blended finance, and major philanthropic partnerships.
During the duration period of the contract, the consultant will support the following activities:
1. Mapping and linking potential GBV service entry points to specialized GBV case management services, with a particular focus on child survivors of sexual violence;
2. Formalizing standard operating procedures and referral protocols for responding to different types of cases (child survivors, mandatory reporting, etc.);
3. Training community volunteers and outreach workers on how to safely and appropriately respond to disclosures and make safe and ethical referrals when GBV survivors ask for help (based on the GBV Pocket Guide);
4. Developing a Caring for Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse (CCS) case management protocol tailored to Sudan to support local service providers to integrate CCS into all stages of their programming, including emergency contingency planning (based on the updated Caring for Child Survivors (CCS) of Sexual Abuse Guidelines and associated Training Package);
5. Sharing the resources and learning through global GBViE fora, including the GBV case management task force convened under the umbrella of the GBVIMS.
During the 3-month period of the contract, the Consultant will support a series of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening GBViE targeted advocacy and communications, including during the international events occurring within the contract duration with a specific focus on key messages for donors.
To support UNICEFs Child Nutrition and Development team to improve the nutrition of pregnant women and adolescent girls globally. Assist UNICEFs New York maternal nutrition team at HQ for business continuity and to ensure multiple donor deliverables for measurement, learning and evaluation are met. This will involve the collation, analysis and dissemination of data and information for maternal nutrition programming, including multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS), as outlined in the strategic results of the Acceleration Plan. Part of this work is to support UNICEF’s reporting procedures, including the NutriDash monitoring system, strengthening annual activities related to backend functionalities for the maternal nutrition module and other modules where maternal nutrition information is collected.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to support the operationalization of the priorities set out in the Nutrition Strategy and the Programming Guidance for Nutrition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence.
The role will support effective and efficient knowledge management and communication, including supporting the documentation of best practices in countries working on the nutrition of this age group and organizing learning webinars. It will also manage UNICEF’s internal school-age children and adolescent nutrition site. Finally, the role will support resource mobilization and coordination with donors.
UNICEF contributes to the Yanomami Alert System, a community-based initiative that enables trained indigenous monitors to report alerts related to health, WASH, environment, and territorial threats using mobile devices in local languages, even without internet access. These alerts are verified and shared with relevant authorities to support timely and coordinated responses.
To support this initiative, the consultant will assist the response of WASH alerts, in close collaboration with local and national health and sanitation services. The consultant will work closely with the UNICEF Boa Vista team to strengthen WASH monitoring, response mechanisms, and the engagement of indigenous sanitation agents in the Yanomami Territory.
UNICEF OOI is seeking a dynamic and experienced consultant with extensive experience with using experimental and quasi experimental methods to conduct the impact assessment of Fundoo, a digital platform that seeks to equip young people with 21st century skills. This consultany will be conducted under guidance and direction of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at OOI, and in close collaboration with relevant colleagues in OOI and COs.
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.
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.
Under the direct supervision of the ADAP officer and in collaboration with the Education Specialist , the consultant is responsible for providing technical support in the implementation of the Akelius initiative, contributing to a quality scale-up in five administrative units by ensuring technical support to key partners (teacher training institutes and education ministries), providing monitoring of activities within schools, monitoring of equipment, feedback collection and knowledge exchange between different administrative units and schools and regular reporting of these activities and serving as a technical resource person for schools and partners.
We are seeking a motivated student with strong research skills and an interest in evidence-based policy related to child outcomes to support this initiative. The intern will provide analytical and coordination support to the Thought Leadership team and contribute to its core activities.
The Consultant’s goal will be to support the mainstreaming of gender, race and ethnicity into UNICEF SELO and #AgendaCidade flagship initiatives, as well as in the Annual Workplans of each of the aforementioned Goal Areas in all of the Zonal Offices. Furthermore, the Consultant will conduct capacity building within the office to enhance awareness on issues of race and ethnicity as well as suggest practical ways to enhance race and ethnicity into programming, enhancing thus the quality of the Country Programme in the long term.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight in seeking a consultant to co-lead the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP) component on the long-term effects of the Mozambique Child Grant.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a consultant to co-lead two qualitative study components on the long-term effects of the Mozambique Child Grant. In addition, the selected consultant will provide in-country coordination support to the study team. The ideal candidate would be based in Mozambique.
The Education Section of UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a remote-based consultant for an estimated 214 working days to support the integration of implementation research into education programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa. The section embeds research into large-scale initiatives, including remedial education, inclusive education, and digital learning. The overarching goal of this research portfolio is to inform improvements in the delivery and scale-up of education programmes to enhance children’s learning outcomes, while synthesizing lessons across countries to contribute to global public goods.
The consultant will support the design and delivery of joint communication plans and frameworks for multi-country and global partnerships, including coordinating communication planning across multiple markets. The role includes facilitating partnership communication workshops, developing high-quality communication assets and materials, and managing reputational risks through proactive communication strategies. The consultant will also oversee the rollout and implementation of these communication assets and frameworks in collaboration with markets.
The job entails close collaboration with National Committees and country offices to mitigate reputational risks, contribute to the prevention of public relations crises, and work with internal and external stakeholders to successfully manage responses to reputational issues for UNICEF’s private sector financial and non-financial partnerships with business, foundations, high-net-worth individuals, and membership-based and faith-based organizations.
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional Data & Analytics Intern to support in the development of our data science platform. This gives the opportunity to utilize some new extensive datasets and advanced machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) libraries.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation seeks an early-career professional to produce 7-8 engaging videos that explain and promote two Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks. Working remotely and embedded within the Office of Innovation’s MEL and Knowledge Management (KM) team, the consultant will support efforts to strengthen the capacity of innovation actors to adopt an evidence-based approach to scaling innovations. Our mission is to generate evidence on what works, why it works, and how to scale it. From shaping global guidance to data-driven evidence, we bring rigor to innovation.
UNICEF’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office (LACRO) is seeking experienced individual consultants to join a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) roster for evaluative services over a 36-month period. This home-based consultancy offers opportunities in two key areas: quality review of evaluation deliverables (such as terms of reference, inception reports, and evaluation reports) and technical support for conducting evaluative exercises across all phases of the evidence generation cycle. Consultants will contribute to high-quality, ethical, and impactful evaluations that inform UNICEF’s programming and advocacy across the region.
The purpose of this consultancy is to ensure the high-quality instructional design and adult-appropriate methodology for a series of Social and Behavior Change (SBC) capacity-building trainings to be delivered to national stakeholders, including government organizations, universities, and professional groups. The expert will work in close collaboration with the UNICEF SBC Officer to develop tailored, engaging, and practical training packages that meet the learning needs of adult professionals distinct from traditional pedagogical approaches used in university settings.
The selected expert will apply a modern andragogical approach centered on interactivity, relevance, and clarity, ensuring that training materials are tailored to the needs of adult professionals, practice-oriented and designed to effectively deliver key SBC concepts, tools and approaches.
Generation Unlimited (GenU) is UNICEF’s global multi-sector partnership platform, connecting young people worldwide to opportunities in employability, entrepreneurship, and climate resilience by 2030. GenU is scaling up innovative financing to unlock resources for youth-led climate adaptation and sustainable development. This global consultancy will drive the design and execution of innovative finance solutions, focusing on debt swaps, blended finance, and major philanthropic partnerships.
During the duration period of the contract, the consultant will support the following activities:
1. Mapping and linking potential GBV service entry points to specialized GBV case management services, with a particular focus on child survivors of sexual violence;
2. Formalizing standard operating procedures and referral protocols for responding to different types of cases (child survivors, mandatory reporting, etc.);
3. Training community volunteers and outreach workers on how to safely and appropriately respond to disclosures and make safe and ethical referrals when GBV survivors ask for help (based on the GBV Pocket Guide);
4. Developing a Caring for Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse (CCS) case management protocol tailored to Sudan to support local service providers to integrate CCS into all stages of their programming, including emergency contingency planning (based on the updated Caring for Child Survivors (CCS) of Sexual Abuse Guidelines and associated Training Package);
5. Sharing the resources and learning through global GBViE fora, including the GBV case management task force convened under the umbrella of the GBVIMS.
During the 3-month period of the contract, the Consultant will support a series of specific deliverables aiming at strengthening GBViE targeted advocacy and communications, including during the international events occurring within the contract duration with a specific focus on key messages for donors.
To support UNICEFs Child Nutrition and Development team to improve the nutrition of pregnant women and adolescent girls globally. Assist UNICEFs New York maternal nutrition team at HQ for business continuity and to ensure multiple donor deliverables for measurement, learning and evaluation are met. This will involve the collation, analysis and dissemination of data and information for maternal nutrition programming, including multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS), as outlined in the strategic results of the Acceleration Plan. Part of this work is to support UNICEF’s reporting procedures, including the NutriDash monitoring system, strengthening annual activities related to backend functionalities for the maternal nutrition module and other modules where maternal nutrition information is collected.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to support the operationalization of the priorities set out in the Nutrition Strategy and the Programming Guidance for Nutrition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence.
The role will support effective and efficient knowledge management and communication, including supporting the documentation of best practices in countries working on the nutrition of this age group and organizing learning webinars. It will also manage UNICEF’s internal school-age children and adolescent nutrition site. Finally, the role will support resource mobilization and coordination with donors.
