UNICEF’s Office of Innovation seeks a Knowledge Management and Content Creation Consultant to develop high-quality knowledge products, strategic reports, and communications materials on innovation. The consultant will also coordinate and host webinars and learning events, ensuring the dissemination of key insights to internal and external audiences. This remote-based role offers an opportunity to contribute to strengthening UNICEF’s innovation knowledge base and fostering evidence-driven decision-making.
We are seeking a National Local Governance Expert to support the implementation and advancement of sub-national partnerships in selected localities. In this role, you will provide both remote and in-person technical assistance to local governments, helping strengthen evidence-based planning, budgeting, and monitoring processes. Working under the supervision of the Social Policy Specialist and in close collaboration with UNICEF teams in the country, you will play a key role in enhancing governance practices to drive meaningful impact at the community level.
UNICEF's Office of Innovation seeks a highly motivated, experienced and technically skilled individual to apply their partnership and resource mobilization expertise with the aim to support our engagement in developing partner pipelines and strategies for unlocking resources for UNICEF's innovation priorities.
UNICEF’s work in the area of data analysis highlights trends and emphasizes patterns found within the data and suggests how these data can be used strategically to inform evidence-based policy and programmatic efforts. The results of UNICEF’s data analysis work appear in its flagship publications as well as data-driven thematic reports, articles, brochures, documents and other dissemination materials.
Toward this end, the Child Protection and Development Unit (CPD) within the Data and Analytics Section produces data and knowledge products for communication, advocacy, donor relations and fundraising intended both for both internal and external audiences (government/policymakers, media, partner networks, donors and the public) on key thematic issues pertaining to child protection, early childhood development (ECD), children with disabilities and adolescents.
ECW is creating a roster of Partnerships experts with solid track records in specific geographic markets who can initiate innovative and non-conventional partnerships and funding opportunities with private and public donors.
This consultancy will support municipalities, and UNICEF plans to advance the self-assessment tool, making it more user-friendly through visual and functional improvements. Additionally, it will enhance the dashboard to display results at the municipal level, fostering transparency and engagement among the municipalities involved.
Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) aims to create a roster of experienced consultants who can support EOF with the development and implementation of its partnerships strategy.
Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) aims to create a roster of experienced consultants who can support EOF with the development and implementation of its communications strategy.
UNICEF is undertaking a research program aimed at contributing to policy discussions and the development of actionable responses to better protect children’s rights. This research seeks to (i) assess and articulate the impacts of the current debt situation on children and (ii) explore policy approaches to debt management and restructuring that prioritize child outcomes and the long-term benefits of investing in human capital.
To support this work UNICEF is seeking a researcher to support the development of the research programme and development of a final book that brings the research together.
EOF recently finalized its medium-term strategy to cover 2025-2030. We require a consultant to provide technical support to EOF’s leadership team to support with the successful implementation of EOF’s strategy in 2025.
The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), in partnership with the Lagos State Government, is starting to design an innovative education outcomes fund for basic education. The outcomes fund will focus on integrating out-of-school children (OOSC) aged 6-11 into formal education
UNICEF Sierra Leone seeks to hire an advocacy specialist to facilitate the development of the ECE advocacy and communication strategy, inclusive of an action plan to support the strategy's execution.
The Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) programme is a partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone, outcome funders, education delivery partners and social investors. Five different delivery partners have been selected to support 325 schools across five implementation lots to improve learning outcomes for 136,000 children in partnership with school leadership and teachers in accordance with the Basic Education curriculum. The program will run for nine school terms, starting September 2022 and ending in August 2025. The aim is to generate evidence to inform which interventions are the most effective in Sierra Leone context, which can then be scaled up by Government and donors. Using a result-based financing approach, service providers are expected to build sustainable capacity in schools, targeting interventions that improve learning beyond the life of the programme.
In addition to the SLEIC programme, the Education Outcomes Fund is working with the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) to set up an outcomes fund that will support the rapid expansion of early childhood education (ECE) provision through community early childhood development (ECD) centres while ensuring that the ECE services provided are high quality and support holistic child development. The implementation of this program is expected to run from Spring 2025 to the end of 2028
We are looking for a consultant to provide technical oversight, quality assurance, and risk management for the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Umbrella mobile app and the MHPSS app. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful digital solutions, ensuring high-quality standards and seamless implementation on UNICEF's uSupport platform.
Under the supervision of Child Rights Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, and in close collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the consultant will support the adaptation and localization of the NRTD. The NRTD operates on JavaScript and TypeScript technologies, primarily built with React.js and Next.js. The consultant will assist in addressing a backlog of feature improvements, particularly in optimizing the control panel to improve user workflows and experiences. The consultant will provide technical expertise to enhance the platform’s functionality, and interoperability, ensuring its effective integration into the human rights reporting processes of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Office of Innovation (OOI) is undertaking a process improvement initiative as part of a comprehensive review of operational support delivery to enhance operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and improve access to tools, templates, job aids, and training resources across a range of operational functions. The objective is to redesign processes with a user-focused lens, ensuring better systemization, ease of navigation, and increased operational transparency.
To achieve this, OOI seeks a seasoned consultant with extensive expertise in process improvement, change management, and knowledge management. The consultant will support the operations team in executing this initiative by facilitating process analysis and identifying practical solutions.
The Government of Belize, in partnership with UNICEF, is planning to conduct a Climate Landscape Analysis for Children, which will examine the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on children, adolescents, and vulnerable groups, including pregnant and lactating mothers and indigenous communities. The report will also explore the disaster risk framework and initiatives as well as the climate mitigation and adaptation efforts of neighboring countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and regional coordination mechanisms like SICA, CCCCC, and the Mexico-Guatemala-Belize Trilateral Cooperation. The analysis will utilize evidence to provide actionable recommendations for key stakeholders, including government agencies, UNICEF, and regional partners, on how to effectively mitigate and adapt to climate change. These recommendations will aim to strengthen efforts to safeguard children’s rights and ensure a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Belize.
Interested applicants should submit a CV, methodology proposal, financial proposal, references, and a sample of previous work.
For full details on responsibilities, deliverables, and qualifications, please refer to the attached Terms of Reference.
As a part of the GenU Programmes Team, under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director Programmes, under the direct supervision of the Senior Advisor, Global Programmes, in collaboration with the Global P2E Coordinator, P2E Content Specialist, UNICEF and GenU partners, the Digital Strategy & ICT Consultant will support GenU’s broader digital initiatives, ensuring cross-programme ICT support by:
• Developing and implementing a digital strategy that enables a portfolio approach to digital scaling across GenU programmes.
• Providing ICT technical expertise across P2E, GVI, imaGen Ventures, and other initiatives requiring digital infrastructure support.
• Overseeing platform integrations and technical alignment between Learning Passport, ICTD, and other digital solutions.
• Enhancing back-end system management, data security, and cost optimization to ensure sustainability and compliance.
This role is critical for ensuring that all GenU digital programs are technically sound, scalable, and cost-efficient.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant to support the Ministry of Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography in designing and piloting a Minimum of Three Social Services at Municipal Level in Montenegro.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation seeks a Knowledge Management and Content Creation Consultant to develop high-quality knowledge products, strategic reports, and communications materials on innovation. The consultant will also coordinate and host webinars and learning events, ensuring the dissemination of key insights to internal and external audiences. This remote-based role offers an opportunity to contribute to strengthening UNICEF’s innovation knowledge base and fostering evidence-driven decision-making.
We are seeking a National Local Governance Expert to support the implementation and advancement of sub-national partnerships in selected localities. In this role, you will provide both remote and in-person technical assistance to local governments, helping strengthen evidence-based planning, budgeting, and monitoring processes. Working under the supervision of the Social Policy Specialist and in close collaboration with UNICEF teams in the country, you will play a key role in enhancing governance practices to drive meaningful impact at the community level.
UNICEF's Office of Innovation seeks a highly motivated, experienced and technically skilled individual to apply their partnership and resource mobilization expertise with the aim to support our engagement in developing partner pipelines and strategies for unlocking resources for UNICEF's innovation priorities.
UNICEF’s work in the area of data analysis highlights trends and emphasizes patterns found within the data and suggests how these data can be used strategically to inform evidence-based policy and programmatic efforts. The results of UNICEF’s data analysis work appear in its flagship publications as well as data-driven thematic reports, articles, brochures, documents and other dissemination materials.
Toward this end, the Child Protection and Development Unit (CPD) within the Data and Analytics Section produces data and knowledge products for communication, advocacy, donor relations and fundraising intended both for both internal and external audiences (government/policymakers, media, partner networks, donors and the public) on key thematic issues pertaining to child protection, early childhood development (ECD), children with disabilities and adolescents.
ECW is creating a roster of Partnerships experts with solid track records in specific geographic markets who can initiate innovative and non-conventional partnerships and funding opportunities with private and public donors.
This consultancy will support municipalities, and UNICEF plans to advance the self-assessment tool, making it more user-friendly through visual and functional improvements. Additionally, it will enhance the dashboard to display results at the municipal level, fostering transparency and engagement among the municipalities involved.
Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) aims to create a roster of experienced consultants who can support EOF with the development and implementation of its partnerships strategy.
Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) aims to create a roster of experienced consultants who can support EOF with the development and implementation of its communications strategy.
UNICEF is undertaking a research program aimed at contributing to policy discussions and the development of actionable responses to better protect children’s rights. This research seeks to (i) assess and articulate the impacts of the current debt situation on children and (ii) explore policy approaches to debt management and restructuring that prioritize child outcomes and the long-term benefits of investing in human capital.
To support this work UNICEF is seeking a researcher to support the development of the research programme and development of a final book that brings the research together.
EOF recently finalized its medium-term strategy to cover 2025-2030. We require a consultant to provide technical support to EOF’s leadership team to support with the successful implementation of EOF’s strategy in 2025.
The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), in partnership with the Lagos State Government, is starting to design an innovative education outcomes fund for basic education. The outcomes fund will focus on integrating out-of-school children (OOSC) aged 6-11 into formal education
UNICEF Sierra Leone seeks to hire an advocacy specialist to facilitate the development of the ECE advocacy and communication strategy, inclusive of an action plan to support the strategy's execution.
The Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) programme is a partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone, outcome funders, education delivery partners and social investors. Five different delivery partners have been selected to support 325 schools across five implementation lots to improve learning outcomes for 136,000 children in partnership with school leadership and teachers in accordance with the Basic Education curriculum. The program will run for nine school terms, starting September 2022 and ending in August 2025. The aim is to generate evidence to inform which interventions are the most effective in Sierra Leone context, which can then be scaled up by Government and donors. Using a result-based financing approach, service providers are expected to build sustainable capacity in schools, targeting interventions that improve learning beyond the life of the programme.
In addition to the SLEIC programme, the Education Outcomes Fund is working with the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) to set up an outcomes fund that will support the rapid expansion of early childhood education (ECE) provision through community early childhood development (ECD) centres while ensuring that the ECE services provided are high quality and support holistic child development. The implementation of this program is expected to run from Spring 2025 to the end of 2028
We are looking for a consultant to provide technical oversight, quality assurance, and risk management for the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Umbrella mobile app and the MHPSS app. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful digital solutions, ensuring high-quality standards and seamless implementation on UNICEF's uSupport platform.
Under the supervision of Child Rights Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, and in close collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the consultant will support the adaptation and localization of the NRTD. The NRTD operates on JavaScript and TypeScript technologies, primarily built with React.js and Next.js. The consultant will assist in addressing a backlog of feature improvements, particularly in optimizing the control panel to improve user workflows and experiences. The consultant will provide technical expertise to enhance the platform’s functionality, and interoperability, ensuring its effective integration into the human rights reporting processes of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Office of Innovation (OOI) is undertaking a process improvement initiative as part of a comprehensive review of operational support delivery to enhance operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and improve access to tools, templates, job aids, and training resources across a range of operational functions. The objective is to redesign processes with a user-focused lens, ensuring better systemization, ease of navigation, and increased operational transparency.
To achieve this, OOI seeks a seasoned consultant with extensive expertise in process improvement, change management, and knowledge management. The consultant will support the operations team in executing this initiative by facilitating process analysis and identifying practical solutions.
The Government of Belize, in partnership with UNICEF, is planning to conduct a Climate Landscape Analysis for Children, which will examine the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on children, adolescents, and vulnerable groups, including pregnant and lactating mothers and indigenous communities. The report will also explore the disaster risk framework and initiatives as well as the climate mitigation and adaptation efforts of neighboring countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and regional coordination mechanisms like SICA, CCCCC, and the Mexico-Guatemala-Belize Trilateral Cooperation. The analysis will utilize evidence to provide actionable recommendations for key stakeholders, including government agencies, UNICEF, and regional partners, on how to effectively mitigate and adapt to climate change. These recommendations will aim to strengthen efforts to safeguard children’s rights and ensure a sustainable, climate-resilient future for Belize.
Interested applicants should submit a CV, methodology proposal, financial proposal, references, and a sample of previous work.
For full details on responsibilities, deliverables, and qualifications, please refer to the attached Terms of Reference.
As a part of the GenU Programmes Team, under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director Programmes, under the direct supervision of the Senior Advisor, Global Programmes, in collaboration with the Global P2E Coordinator, P2E Content Specialist, UNICEF and GenU partners, the Digital Strategy & ICT Consultant will support GenU’s broader digital initiatives, ensuring cross-programme ICT support by:
• Developing and implementing a digital strategy that enables a portfolio approach to digital scaling across GenU programmes.
• Providing ICT technical expertise across P2E, GVI, imaGen Ventures, and other initiatives requiring digital infrastructure support.
• Overseeing platform integrations and technical alignment between Learning Passport, ICTD, and other digital solutions.
• Enhancing back-end system management, data security, and cost optimization to ensure sustainability and compliance.
This role is critical for ensuring that all GenU digital programs are technically sound, scalable, and cost-efficient.
UNICEF is looking for an International Consultant to support the Ministry of Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography in designing and piloting a Minimum of Three Social Services at Municipal Level in Montenegro.
