UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the operationalization and implementation of MHPSS integration within education sector priorities. The assignment will include the provision of technical assistance to country offices, tailored to the specific needs of specific partnerships and a Joint Programme on Mental Health. In addition, the consultant will contribute to knowledge management efforts and support global advocacy initiatives to advance education-based MHPSS.
This is a remote-based consultancy with flexibility for international travel as required and agreed upon with supervisor. The consultant will be expected to work closely with the education global practice and health and education Centers of Excellence, country teams as well as global partners.
To meet the growing need for engagement with donors, UNICEF PFP would like to engage the services of a professional, creative, and efficient production manager, who will focus on supporting the production of global virtual experiences (VEs) and bespoke VEs in close collaboration with the Virtual Experiences Task Force, the Partnership Recognition and Impact (PRI) team and other PFP teams.
The role will work collaboratively with stakeholders to strategize, conceptualize, plan, produce and coordinate all production aspects of the Virtual Experiences to ensure smooth and efficient running of the events, maximum impact of the events for the audiences as well as postproduction follow up and monitoring and evaluation of impact. The role, under the supervision of the Communications Specialist (Producer - Virtual Experiences) will play a role in planning and communicating with, and advising senior colleagues, UNICEF leadership and high value partners who are participating in the Virtual Experiences.
To meet the growing need for engagement with donors, UNICEF PFP would like to engage the services of a professional, creative, and efficient vision mixer, who will be responsible the technical execution of live virtual events designed to engage donors, helping to advance UNICEF’s mandate and to profile children’s stories across the globe.
This consultancy requires professional vision mixing and video editing experience. The incumbent will be responsible for providing technical production support for the VEs by seamlessly running the multimedia material when needed during rehearsals and live events, supporting the technical aspects of the live crossing (usually done on mobile phones) to the field locations, as well as basic editing such as broll/cutaways, photo loops, toping and tailing and uploads to youtube and WeShare (UNICEF’s digital asset management platform). The consultancy will also support the broader Supporter Content team in editing video content as needed.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:
1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.
The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.
UNICEF requires the services of an external consultant to support the Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) in enhancing its data engineering, report automation, and AI-based analytics, while simultaneously migrating primary responsibility for its technology stack to the platforms team of the Digital Impact Division (DID). The consultancy will focus on:
• Building and optimizing data pipelines across the data lifecycle using an array of modern cloud services and data architectures, including LLMs, analytics platforms, and data lakehouses.
• Developing report automation workflows for flagship publications, including The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) and The State of Africa’s Children (SOAC).
• Advancing UNICEF’s use of generative AI across the data lifecycle, from automated data extraction to RAG-based report generation, contextualization, and localization, including designing and implementing QA strategies using emerging AI-testing frameworks.
• Supporting indicator data, structuring, storage, and consultation processes with field offices and member states.
• Technology and analytics support to the Frontier Data Network as it migrates to DID.
• Together with the DID Platforms Team facilitate the technology transition of PaaS, Saas and bespoke full-stack apps built on varying enterprise-grade software languages from the Data and Analytics Section (D&A) of OSE to DID.
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.
Consultant will provide technical support to enrich and guide the development and implementation of three key anti-bullying initiatives identified by Sultan Qaboos University and the Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNICEF Oman. The consultant’s role will be primarily remote, and in case of international consultant in-country missions might be required.
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.
Join UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) during a pivotal moment of change and help ensure continuity, accountability, and impact. As Senior Adviser, you will lead the wrap-up of ongoing Innovation Nodes initiatives, safeguard institutional knowledge, and drive high-quality reporting and results consolidation. You will also coordinate the development of UNICEF’s 2026 resource plan and oversee the structured handover of planning, reporting, and results-based management processes to Global Programme Division (GPD), ICTD, and other corporate partners.This is a unique opportunity to bridge innovation and corporate functions, provide strategic leadership, and strengthen UNICEF’s ability to deliver for children by ensuring a smooth and effective transition.
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 consultant will support UNICEF Guinea-Bissau with delivering the final draft Country Programme Document, with adherence to corporate guidance contained in the UNICEF CPP Guidance Note 2022, as well as the CPD development guidelines and template. Working under the supervision of the UNICEF Guinea-Bissau’s Deputy Representative Programme in collaboration with the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Section, the consultant is expected to collaborate with all Country Office sections and the Regional Office PM&E team (WCARO) to ensure robust internal and external engagement process and collective reflections by country office, through video calls or simple phone calls, with the selected parties during in completing key preparatory phases/documents as part of the country programme planning will be articulated in the Country Programme Document (2027-2031).
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.
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.
The assignment will involve quality assurance for accuracy of the information presented, editing for English/French and logical flow and will also involve cross-checking information and data to ensure consistency and coherence
UNICEF Namibia is inviting qualified and suitable individuals to submit their applications to play a leading role in advocating for the rights of children, to help benefit from quality, equitable and inclusive education, are healthy and protected, meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. In dealing with this fundamental issue, UNICEF Namibia works with the Government of the Republic of Namibia (GRN), in particular the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture (MEIYSAC), civil society, media, tertiary education institutions, development partners, communities, children and young people and other UN agencies to:
a) Ensure access to quality inclusive and equitable education to all children
b) Resources are equitably distributed to meet the needs of children from the most marginalized communities and those with disabilities.
c) Ensure that schools are safe and children are protected from abuse and violence.
d) Strengthen parental and community involvement in education.
Under the supervision of the Health Officer, supported by the Social and Behaviour Change Manager, the consultant will undertake a mixed method case study on Elma-funded implementation of the RED Strategy with the National Department of Health, the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provincial Departments of Health, and selected district health teams, to strengthen the EPI programme, and develop tailored strategies to reach zero dose and under immunised children.
The objective of the assignment is to explore and describe the operational effectiveness, barriers, facilitators, and outcomes of the RED Strategy implementation in selected urban districts, and to generate actionable insights for scaling and strengthening immunisation services.
For every child, the right to Immunisation.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the operationalization and implementation of MHPSS integration within education sector priorities. The assignment will include the provision of technical assistance to country offices, tailored to the specific needs of specific partnerships and a Joint Programme on Mental Health. In addition, the consultant will contribute to knowledge management efforts and support global advocacy initiatives to advance education-based MHPSS.
This is a remote-based consultancy with flexibility for international travel as required and agreed upon with supervisor. The consultant will be expected to work closely with the education global practice and health and education Centers of Excellence, country teams as well as global partners.
To meet the growing need for engagement with donors, UNICEF PFP would like to engage the services of a professional, creative, and efficient production manager, who will focus on supporting the production of global virtual experiences (VEs) and bespoke VEs in close collaboration with the Virtual Experiences Task Force, the Partnership Recognition and Impact (PRI) team and other PFP teams.
The role will work collaboratively with stakeholders to strategize, conceptualize, plan, produce and coordinate all production aspects of the Virtual Experiences to ensure smooth and efficient running of the events, maximum impact of the events for the audiences as well as postproduction follow up and monitoring and evaluation of impact. The role, under the supervision of the Communications Specialist (Producer - Virtual Experiences) will play a role in planning and communicating with, and advising senior colleagues, UNICEF leadership and high value partners who are participating in the Virtual Experiences.
To meet the growing need for engagement with donors, UNICEF PFP would like to engage the services of a professional, creative, and efficient vision mixer, who will be responsible the technical execution of live virtual events designed to engage donors, helping to advance UNICEF’s mandate and to profile children’s stories across the globe.
This consultancy requires professional vision mixing and video editing experience. The incumbent will be responsible for providing technical production support for the VEs by seamlessly running the multimedia material when needed during rehearsals and live events, supporting the technical aspects of the live crossing (usually done on mobile phones) to the field locations, as well as basic editing such as broll/cutaways, photo loops, toping and tailing and uploads to youtube and WeShare (UNICEF’s digital asset management platform). The consultancy will also support the broader Supporter Content team in editing video content as needed.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:
1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.
The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.
UNICEF requires the services of an external consultant to support the Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) in enhancing its data engineering, report automation, and AI-based analytics, while simultaneously migrating primary responsibility for its technology stack to the platforms team of the Digital Impact Division (DID). The consultancy will focus on:
• Building and optimizing data pipelines across the data lifecycle using an array of modern cloud services and data architectures, including LLMs, analytics platforms, and data lakehouses.
• Developing report automation workflows for flagship publications, including The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) and The State of Africa’s Children (SOAC).
• Advancing UNICEF’s use of generative AI across the data lifecycle, from automated data extraction to RAG-based report generation, contextualization, and localization, including designing and implementing QA strategies using emerging AI-testing frameworks.
• Supporting indicator data, structuring, storage, and consultation processes with field offices and member states.
• Technology and analytics support to the Frontier Data Network as it migrates to DID.
• Together with the DID Platforms Team facilitate the technology transition of PaaS, Saas and bespoke full-stack apps built on varying enterprise-grade software languages from the Data and Analytics Section (D&A) of OSE to DID.
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.
Consultant will provide technical support to enrich and guide the development and implementation of three key anti-bullying initiatives identified by Sultan Qaboos University and the Ministry of Education, in partnership with UNICEF Oman. The consultant’s role will be primarily remote, and in case of international consultant in-country missions might be required.
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.
Join UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) during a pivotal moment of change and help ensure continuity, accountability, and impact. As Senior Adviser, you will lead the wrap-up of ongoing Innovation Nodes initiatives, safeguard institutional knowledge, and drive high-quality reporting and results consolidation. You will also coordinate the development of UNICEF’s 2026 resource plan and oversee the structured handover of planning, reporting, and results-based management processes to Global Programme Division (GPD), ICTD, and other corporate partners.This is a unique opportunity to bridge innovation and corporate functions, provide strategic leadership, and strengthen UNICEF’s ability to deliver for children by ensuring a smooth and effective transition.
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 consultant will support UNICEF Guinea-Bissau with delivering the final draft Country Programme Document, with adherence to corporate guidance contained in the UNICEF CPP Guidance Note 2022, as well as the CPD development guidelines and template. Working under the supervision of the UNICEF Guinea-Bissau’s Deputy Representative Programme in collaboration with the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Section, the consultant is expected to collaborate with all Country Office sections and the Regional Office PM&E team (WCARO) to ensure robust internal and external engagement process and collective reflections by country office, through video calls or simple phone calls, with the selected parties during in completing key preparatory phases/documents as part of the country programme planning will be articulated in the Country Programme Document (2027-2031).
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.
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.
The assignment will involve quality assurance for accuracy of the information presented, editing for English/French and logical flow and will also involve cross-checking information and data to ensure consistency and coherence
UNICEF Namibia is inviting qualified and suitable individuals to submit their applications to play a leading role in advocating for the rights of children, to help benefit from quality, equitable and inclusive education, are healthy and protected, meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. In dealing with this fundamental issue, UNICEF Namibia works with the Government of the Republic of Namibia (GRN), in particular the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture (MEIYSAC), civil society, media, tertiary education institutions, development partners, communities, children and young people and other UN agencies to:
a) Ensure access to quality inclusive and equitable education to all children
b) Resources are equitably distributed to meet the needs of children from the most marginalized communities and those with disabilities.
c) Ensure that schools are safe and children are protected from abuse and violence.
d) Strengthen parental and community involvement in education.
Under the supervision of the Health Officer, supported by the Social and Behaviour Change Manager, the consultant will undertake a mixed method case study on Elma-funded implementation of the RED Strategy with the National Department of Health, the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provincial Departments of Health, and selected district health teams, to strengthen the EPI programme, and develop tailored strategies to reach zero dose and under immunised children.
The objective of the assignment is to explore and describe the operational effectiveness, barriers, facilitators, and outcomes of the RED Strategy implementation in selected urban districts, and to generate actionable insights for scaling and strengthening immunisation services.
For every child, the right to Immunisation.
