UNICEF State of Palestine is seeking for International Individual Consultant for Senior Health and Nutrition Recovery Consultant - RDNA. The duration of this assignment is 3 Months, home-based assignment.
This remote consultancy aims to support UNICEF Guinea Bissau CO in editing and finalization of the contributions of sectoral and cross sectoral programs to the Outcome and Outputs level RAM assessments and the compilation of the Country Office Annual Report (COAR) ensuring that all corporate deadlines set in the global instruction are respected.
In a changing context and in light of FFI and funding cuts, efficiency with our human resources and the possibility of generating additional potential regular resources are necessary now more than ever. We are keen to embrace the new operating modalities to maximise all opportunities for additional RR.
We have seen to date the possibility and benefit of increased revenue via the Cluster modality.
The purpose of this consultancy is to review via a data-based approach the potential for increased direct fundraising efficiency in COs, ROs, and Clusters.
UNICEF and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the welfare cost associated with homicides and suicides of children and adolescents in Brazil and to estimate intangible costs related to morbidity (loss of quality of life) resulting from VAC in Brazil, in order to subsidize the estimation of the economic cost of VAC in Brazil conducted by the UNICEF and the Ipea to support evidence-based public policy formulation.
UNICEF and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the prevalence of VAC in Brazil and the loss of productivity over the life cycle of individuals who experienced violence during childhood and adolescence, as an indirect tangible cost, in order to subsidize the estimation of the economic cost of VAC in Brazil conducted by the UNICEF and the Ipea to support evidence-based policy formulation.
UNICEF and Ipea are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the direct costs of VAC in Brazil, contributing to the broader analysis of the economic cost of VAC being conducted by UNICEF and IPEA to support evidence-based public policy formulation.
Following the outcomes of COP and the growing expectation that UN agencies shift from advocacy to structured, investable partnership propositions, UNICEF must rapidly strengthen its internal alignment and external positioning on climate partnership engagement. Governments, donors, investors, and private-sector actors are actively seeking credible partners capable of shaping and delivering the next generation of climate adaptation finance and resilience solutions.
At present, UNICEF’s engagement across climate finance, partnerships, and programmatic channels remains fragmented, risking duplication of outreach, missed opportunities, and weakened institutional influence in global decision-making processes, including the New Quantified Collective Goal (NQCG).
To address this, UNICEF Partnerships Division seeks to engage a senior expert consultant to:
1. Develop a clear and compelling Climate Partnerships Strategy – defining how UNICEF will engage governments, private investors, impact funds, philanthropic actors, multilateral institutions, and corporate partners in advancing climate adaptation and resilience for children.
2. Lead a coordinated information-gathering and intelligence process – ensuring that data, policy signals, partner insights, internal reporting, and regional perspectives are consolidated into a coherent UNICEF contribution to the evolving global climate finance architecture.
3. Strengthen internal alignment across the Partnerships Cone and Programme Division around priority partners, approaches, and messaging.
This consultancy will enable UNICEF to speak with one coherent voice, grounded by evidence and structured propositions, thereby strengthening its visibility, credibility, and capacity to secure transformational climate partnerships at a pivotal moment fin global climate governance.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following areas of work (specific deliverables further outlined in the table below):
• Contribute to advance the GBV/Nutrition integrated programming in targeted humanitarian contexts;
• Support the next phase of operationalizing UNICEF’s institutional commitments on local women-led organizations;
• Support further advancement of UNICEF’s work on GBV and Public Health Emergencies (PHE);
• Participate in the technical working group and support deliverables on SRHR in humanitarian settings; especially focused on adolescent girls, as part of the joint UN 2gether 4 SRHR programme in ESA region;
• Support work planning and launch of implementation for UNICEF’s new partnership with the World Bank and UNHCR (funded by The Netherlands MFA Prospects Opportunity Fund).
The consultancy will be home-based with travels to emergency-affected contexts relevant to the above tasks, as feasible
Content Strategy Section of DGCA is seeking a consultant to strengthen UNICEF’s visual storytelling capacity by providing imagery support to the photo team, including
In 2023, UNICEF received support from the Republic of Korea to implement the largest-ever global WASH in HCFs programme, under the programme “Maintaining and Strengthening Essential Health Services through ACT-A Investments”. After two years, the programme is winding down activities in the 34 programme countries. This consultancy will support the final workplanning, reporting, and documentation of the ACT-A programme. The consultant will also strategize around future resource mobilization and support global advocacy on WASH in HCFs, including faith-based action.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
To provide direct technical expertise to countries on Vaccine Prioritization and Optimization processes, ensuring timely, evidence-based assistance to selected Gavi-eligible low- and middle-income countries. The consultant will strengthen the planning, coordination, strategy design, documentation, and deployment of technical assistance for new vaccine introductions, optimization, and prioritization aligned with Gavi’s Country Vaccine Budgets. Notably, the consultant will be responsible for supporting countries to plan and submit applications to access consolidated cash grants from Gavi.
The consultant’s role involves producing pilot-specific reports and strategic analyses that assess innovation quality, youth engagement, implementation progress, and overall impact across the Yoma ecosystem.
The Research Specialist (Education) will coordinate research activities under ongoing projects such as Data Must Speak (DMS), Women in Learning Leadership (WiLL), and Teachers for All, while also contributing to the design and development of new initiatives. The role includes conducting research using mixed methods, with a strong emphasis on quantitative approaches to generate nuanced insights into education systems, policies, practices, and outcomes.The incumbent will provide guidance to UNICEF Country Offices undertaking education research, ensuring coherence with UNICEF’s global priorities and those of UNICEF Innocenti. In close collaboration with partners, the Research Specialist will work to strengthen evidence generation, foster innovation, and enhance the influence of applied research on education policy and practice.
The Research Specialist (Education) will coordinate research activities under ongoing projects such as Data Must Speak (DMS), Women in Learning Leadership (WiLL), and Teachers for All, while also contributing to the design and development of new initiatives. The role includes conducting research using mixed methods, with a strong emphasis on qualitative approaches to generate nuanced insights into education systems, policies, practices, and outcomes.The incumbent will provide guidance to UNICEF Country Offices undertaking education research, ensuring coherence with UNICEF’s global priorities and those of UNICEF Innocenti. In close collaboration with partners, the Research Specialist will work to strengthen evidence generation, foster innovation, and enhance the influence of applied research on education policy and practice.
UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified Consultant for regional stakeholder consultation and advisory engagement to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) in coordinating regional-level engagement and feedback within the framework of the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) project for the development of the new Child Protection and Family Support legislation.
UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO) is looking for a qualified consultant to ensure that essential humanitarian performance monitoring and reporting functions continue uninterrupted; that data systems are functional and usable in the new region; and that institutional knowledge, guidance, and tools are consolidated to support a smooth transfer to the new ECA–MENA regional structure.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti generates rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to strengthen education programmes and systems. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to the design, implementation, and analysis of education research activities.
EMOPS is seeking a consultant to provide People-Centered Capacity Development: Strengthening education and protection collaboration and leadership of Women-Led Organizations (WLOs) in coordination. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as this consultancy requires women-only consultations.
UNICEF Brazil is seeking a senior expert consultant with robust child protection experience to support programme delivery, including through Selo and Agenda Cidade UNICEF strategies. The consultant is expected to provide technical support to the national and subnational child protection teams, collaborating with relevant Ministries and national entities, providing analysis and recommendations to UNICEF Brazil.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The purpose of this assignment is to support operationalize and strengthen World Bank Grievance Redressal Mechanism (GRM) within UNICEF-supported project structures, ensuring that grievance and feedback systems are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of affected populations. The assignment will support the development and rollout of GRM procedures and tools, build the capacity of implementing partners, ensure timely and confidential case management, and monitor performance against agreed KPIs and Service Level Agreements. It will also provide incidents reporting, inform adaptive programming, and generate evidence-based recommendations to improve accountability, service delivery, and alignment with World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) and UNICEF’s accountability framework.
UNICEF State of Palestine is seeking for International Individual Consultant for Senior Health and Nutrition Recovery Consultant - RDNA. The duration of this assignment is 3 Months, home-based assignment.
This remote consultancy aims to support UNICEF Guinea Bissau CO in editing and finalization of the contributions of sectoral and cross sectoral programs to the Outcome and Outputs level RAM assessments and the compilation of the Country Office Annual Report (COAR) ensuring that all corporate deadlines set in the global instruction are respected.
In a changing context and in light of FFI and funding cuts, efficiency with our human resources and the possibility of generating additional potential regular resources are necessary now more than ever. We are keen to embrace the new operating modalities to maximise all opportunities for additional RR.
We have seen to date the possibility and benefit of increased revenue via the Cluster modality.
The purpose of this consultancy is to review via a data-based approach the potential for increased direct fundraising efficiency in COs, ROs, and Clusters.
UNICEF and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the welfare cost associated with homicides and suicides of children and adolescents in Brazil and to estimate intangible costs related to morbidity (loss of quality of life) resulting from VAC in Brazil, in order to subsidize the estimation of the economic cost of VAC in Brazil conducted by the UNICEF and the Ipea to support evidence-based public policy formulation.
UNICEF and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the prevalence of VAC in Brazil and the loss of productivity over the life cycle of individuals who experienced violence during childhood and adolescence, as an indirect tangible cost, in order to subsidize the estimation of the economic cost of VAC in Brazil conducted by the UNICEF and the Ipea to support evidence-based policy formulation.
UNICEF and Ipea are partnering to produce robust and detailed evidence on the economic costs of VAC in Brazil. The proposed assignment aims to estimate the direct costs of VAC in Brazil, contributing to the broader analysis of the economic cost of VAC being conducted by UNICEF and IPEA to support evidence-based public policy formulation.
Following the outcomes of COP and the growing expectation that UN agencies shift from advocacy to structured, investable partnership propositions, UNICEF must rapidly strengthen its internal alignment and external positioning on climate partnership engagement. Governments, donors, investors, and private-sector actors are actively seeking credible partners capable of shaping and delivering the next generation of climate adaptation finance and resilience solutions.
At present, UNICEF’s engagement across climate finance, partnerships, and programmatic channels remains fragmented, risking duplication of outreach, missed opportunities, and weakened institutional influence in global decision-making processes, including the New Quantified Collective Goal (NQCG).
To address this, UNICEF Partnerships Division seeks to engage a senior expert consultant to:
1. Develop a clear and compelling Climate Partnerships Strategy – defining how UNICEF will engage governments, private investors, impact funds, philanthropic actors, multilateral institutions, and corporate partners in advancing climate adaptation and resilience for children.
2. Lead a coordinated information-gathering and intelligence process – ensuring that data, policy signals, partner insights, internal reporting, and regional perspectives are consolidated into a coherent UNICEF contribution to the evolving global climate finance architecture.
3. Strengthen internal alignment across the Partnerships Cone and Programme Division around priority partners, approaches, and messaging.
This consultancy will enable UNICEF to speak with one coherent voice, grounded by evidence and structured propositions, thereby strengthening its visibility, credibility, and capacity to secure transformational climate partnerships at a pivotal moment fin global climate governance.
Under the supervision of the GBViE Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following areas of work (specific deliverables further outlined in the table below):
• Contribute to advance the GBV/Nutrition integrated programming in targeted humanitarian contexts;
• Support the next phase of operationalizing UNICEF’s institutional commitments on local women-led organizations;
• Support further advancement of UNICEF’s work on GBV and Public Health Emergencies (PHE);
• Participate in the technical working group and support deliverables on SRHR in humanitarian settings; especially focused on adolescent girls, as part of the joint UN 2gether 4 SRHR programme in ESA region;
• Support work planning and launch of implementation for UNICEF’s new partnership with the World Bank and UNHCR (funded by The Netherlands MFA Prospects Opportunity Fund).
The consultancy will be home-based with travels to emergency-affected contexts relevant to the above tasks, as feasible
Content Strategy Section of DGCA is seeking a consultant to strengthen UNICEF’s visual storytelling capacity by providing imagery support to the photo team, including
In 2023, UNICEF received support from the Republic of Korea to implement the largest-ever global WASH in HCFs programme, under the programme “Maintaining and Strengthening Essential Health Services through ACT-A Investments”. After two years, the programme is winding down activities in the 34 programme countries. This consultancy will support the final workplanning, reporting, and documentation of the ACT-A programme. The consultant will also strategize around future resource mobilization and support global advocacy on WASH in HCFs, including faith-based action.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
To provide direct technical expertise to countries on Vaccine Prioritization and Optimization processes, ensuring timely, evidence-based assistance to selected Gavi-eligible low- and middle-income countries. The consultant will strengthen the planning, coordination, strategy design, documentation, and deployment of technical assistance for new vaccine introductions, optimization, and prioritization aligned with Gavi’s Country Vaccine Budgets. Notably, the consultant will be responsible for supporting countries to plan and submit applications to access consolidated cash grants from Gavi.
The consultant’s role involves producing pilot-specific reports and strategic analyses that assess innovation quality, youth engagement, implementation progress, and overall impact across the Yoma ecosystem.
The Research Specialist (Education) will coordinate research activities under ongoing projects such as Data Must Speak (DMS), Women in Learning Leadership (WiLL), and Teachers for All, while also contributing to the design and development of new initiatives. The role includes conducting research using mixed methods, with a strong emphasis on quantitative approaches to generate nuanced insights into education systems, policies, practices, and outcomes.The incumbent will provide guidance to UNICEF Country Offices undertaking education research, ensuring coherence with UNICEF’s global priorities and those of UNICEF Innocenti. In close collaboration with partners, the Research Specialist will work to strengthen evidence generation, foster innovation, and enhance the influence of applied research on education policy and practice.
The Research Specialist (Education) will coordinate research activities under ongoing projects such as Data Must Speak (DMS), Women in Learning Leadership (WiLL), and Teachers for All, while also contributing to the design and development of new initiatives. The role includes conducting research using mixed methods, with a strong emphasis on qualitative approaches to generate nuanced insights into education systems, policies, practices, and outcomes.The incumbent will provide guidance to UNICEF Country Offices undertaking education research, ensuring coherence with UNICEF’s global priorities and those of UNICEF Innocenti. In close collaboration with partners, the Research Specialist will work to strengthen evidence generation, foster innovation, and enhance the influence of applied research on education policy and practice.
UNICEF Czech Republic RRO is looking for a qualified Consultant for regional stakeholder consultation and advisory engagement to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) in coordinating regional-level engagement and feedback within the framework of the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) project for the development of the new Child Protection and Family Support legislation.
UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO) is looking for a qualified consultant to ensure that essential humanitarian performance monitoring and reporting functions continue uninterrupted; that data systems are functional and usable in the new region; and that institutional knowledge, guidance, and tools are consolidated to support a smooth transfer to the new ECA–MENA regional structure.
The Education Unit at UNICEF Innocenti generates rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to strengthen education programmes and systems. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to the design, implementation, and analysis of education research activities.
EMOPS is seeking a consultant to provide People-Centered Capacity Development: Strengthening education and protection collaboration and leadership of Women-Led Organizations (WLOs) in coordination. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as this consultancy requires women-only consultations.
UNICEF Brazil is seeking a senior expert consultant with robust child protection experience to support programme delivery, including through Selo and Agenda Cidade UNICEF strategies. The consultant is expected to provide technical support to the national and subnational child protection teams, collaborating with relevant Ministries and national entities, providing analysis and recommendations to UNICEF Brazil.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The purpose of this assignment is to support operationalize and strengthen World Bank Grievance Redressal Mechanism (GRM) within UNICEF-supported project structures, ensuring that grievance and feedback systems are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of affected populations. The assignment will support the development and rollout of GRM procedures and tools, build the capacity of implementing partners, ensure timely and confidential case management, and monitor performance against agreed KPIs and Service Level Agreements. It will also provide incidents reporting, inform adaptive programming, and generate evidence-based recommendations to improve accountability, service delivery, and alignment with World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) and UNICEF’s accountability framework.
