Child Protection Case management and Information Management Consultant, ESA, Child Protection, Amman COE, Jordan, Remote with possible travel funded by CO
COE Nairobi is seeking qualified candidates for the consultancy on Hand Hygiene and WASH in Schools, Global Practice for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Nairobi, Kenya, remote with travel for 6.5 months.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of nutrition clusters/sector coordination mechanisms at the country/CoE level to prepare for, plan and deliver quality, predictable, timely, effective, and integrated nutrition responses through provision of quality cluster/sector coordination-related support, including during transition/deactivation phases and capacity strengthen with more focus on emergency response preparedness and coordination blended training.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide global and country technical support to UNICEF Country Offices and the Centre of Excellence from Amman, Jordan, on immunization data systems, with a focus on strengthening the quality, completeness, and use of Electronic Joint Reporting Form (eJRF) data and WUENIC estimates.
The consultant will support data-driven decision-making to improve immunization programme performance, reduce the number of zero-dose children, and strengthen advocacy for children’s rights in immunization.
The consultant will operate through a collaborative and iterative approach, working closely with time zone health specialists and country teams to review, validate, and interpret immunization data. This will include real-time technical support during key reporting periods (e.g., eJRF submission cycles), remote engagement with multiple countries, and continuous feedback loops to improve data quality and consistency.
The assignment will emphasize hands-on technical accompaniment, including joint data review sessions, direct support to data entry and validation processes, and co-development of analytical outputs. The consultant will ensure alignment between country-reported data and global estimates (WUENIC), while supporting the translation of data into actionable insights.
UNICEF’s Global Digital Education Team is seeking a dynamic Evidence and Evaluation Specialist to help drive the rollout of UNICEF’s Digital Education & AI Strategy 2025–2030. In this role, you will support the coordination of the research and M&E across Cohort 1 countries of the Digital Education Strategy implementation, engage closely with UNICEF’s country offices and partners, provide expert technical advisory services, manage independent research contracts, turn KPIs and monitoring data into actionable insights, and coordinate multi-country evidence generation on cutting-edge digital education programming.
The consultant will work with the UNICEF Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation Hub Team, the Education Centre of Excellence, and UNICEF Country Offices to coordinate monitoring, evaluation, and research approaches to understand progress, performance, and emerging evidence on the implementation of a range of digital education activities, with a particular focus on the effect of these implementations on learning and skilling outcomes.
The successful candidate will be a part of UNICEF’s Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation team based in Finland. The consultant may work on site or in a hybrid modality and is expected to be available during the EET time zone.
Limited travel may be required in line with the 2026–2027 workplan. For such travel, the Consultant is not required to include an estimated duty-related travel budget in the all-inclusive fee. UNICEF will provide the duty travel budget when travel is approved and will reimburse actual costs incurred upon submission of receipts, in accordance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
UNICEF’s Global Digital Education Team is seeking a dynamic Research and M&E Coordinator to help drive the rollout of UNICEF’s Digital Education & AI Strategy 2025–2030. In this role, you will support the coordination of the research and M&E across Cohort 1 countries of the Digital Education Strategy implementation, engage closely with UNICEF’s country offices and partners, provide expert technical advisory services, manage independent research contracts, turn KPIs and monitoring data into actionable insights, and coordinate multi-country evidence generation on cutting-edge digital education programming.
UNICEF’s Immunization Section, Health, Center of Excellence, Global Program Division, is seeking to hire a qualified individual consultant to provide technical and analytical support to the New Vaccine Introduction, Integrated Delivery and Reach Team.
UNICEF, as a key partner in the global immunization agenda, continues to support countries in introducing, scaling up, and sustaining equitable access to new and underutilized vaccines. The organization plays a leading role in vaccine introduction, system strengthening, and delivery optimization, working closely with governments, Gavi, WHO, and other partners.
With the acceleration of Gavi 6.0 strategy implementation and increasing country demand for support in new vaccine introductions (NVIs) and vaccine portfolio optimization, UNICEF provides high-quality, coordinated, and evidence-based global thought leadership and technical assistance to countries. This includes optimizing country vaccine portfolios, guiding investment prioritization, and ensuring readiness and long-term integration into primary health care and health systems strengthening frameworks. In furtherance of this effort, UNICEF would like to contract senior technical experts to carry out the below tasks.
As part of preparations for its next Country Programme Document (CPD) 2028-2032, the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office (CO) is undertaking a comprehensive evidence synthesis process that includes a Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR). This review is critical to inform the CPD design, ensuring alignment with the UNICEF SP and UGEAP, and strengthen the integration of gender equality approaches across the CO’s strategic priorities.
This role is being established to strengthen the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit by bringing in dedicated media analysis expertise. The Junior Media Insights Consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting monitoring, tracking, and analyzing media coverage and performance data, while also contributing to broader desk research activities that support the team's insight outputs. The role suits an early-career analyst with a background in media monitoring, content analysis, or communications research.
The Office of Innovation (OOI) is a creative, interactive and agile team in UNICEF that sits at the unique intersection of working on material global issues, start up thinking, technology and partnerships that can scale solutions. OOI is looking for an experienced DS/ML Advisor to provide technical support and guidance to the DS/ML related work at OOI as well as across UNICEF through engagements at HQ, Regional and Country level for 12 months.
The Oky Digital Disability Inclusion Consultant will work alongside the DCOE Senior Advisor / Oky Business Owner as a member of the Oky core team, providing disability inclusion and digital accessibility expertise, technical guidance, and quality assurance across the Oky ecosystem. The consultant will provide direction and validation on disability inclusion activities by Oky franchise partners, Unicef country offices, technology vendors, content specialists, and Organizations of People with Disabilities (OPDs), and will support accessibility adaptations and user acquisition amongst and with girls with disabilities and their caregivers in Oky's existing and new markets.
The consultant will provide technical guidance and targeted support for: (i) the implementation of the LP in both regions – WCA and ESA (ii) the rollout of the Accessible Digital Textbooks initiative in implementing and at interested countries with introduction of the digital inclusion pathway for educators; and, (iii) technically support the CoE Digital Education Specialist and the LIH Innovation Manager with facilitating regional knowledge exchange and respond to country technical assistance requests for the continuity of learning using the LP and other digital learning interventions for out-of-school children, displaced children and children affected by climate and other emergencies.
Working closely with COEs and global teams, the consultant will support the implementation, monitoring, and strengthening of digital learning programmes to expand inclusive and equitable learning opportunities across West, Central and Eastern Africa, in support of Nairobi COE and ADT Initiative with the Global Learning Innovation Hub.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide ongoing subject-specific technical support to the MoES for the development, piloting, finalization, and institutionalization of CBE-aligned Math and Geometry TLMs for Grades 7 and 8, building on results achieved under Phase I and ensuring coherence, sequencing, and quality across the curriculum, CPL, and assessment workstreams of Component 2.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant to support UNICEF Innocenti’s comparative research on formal youth governance mechanisms in national and multilateral arenas, contributing to the learning, documentation, and synthesis agenda connected to the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education.
To conduct an independent Final evaluation of “The implementation of the National Child Protection Programme for 2022–2026”, UNICEF is seeking a team of an International Consultant – Evaluation Team Leader and a National consultant (under a separate ToR). The Team Leader will oversee the entire evaluation process, ensuring alignment with objectives and timelines, and maintaining quality and compliance with evaluation standards.
UNICEF China is supporting efforts to advance healthier food environments for children through evidence generation, policy dialogue and strategic advocacy. As part of this agenda, UNICEF China aims to explore the feasibility and policy relevance of fiscal measures, including sugar-sweetened beverage taxation and related healthy food fiscal policies.
The objective of this mission is to provide specialised technical assistance to support the preparation, coordination, design, organisation and delivery of the National Education Forum, which will bring together the sector’s key stakeholders. The Forum should ensure a participatory and inclusive process geared towards concrete and actionable outcomes, recognising the severity of the learning crisis in Guinea-Bissau.
UNICEF and the World Bank, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), seek to engage a national public finance consultant. The consultant will work closely with the national social protection consultant, representatives from MoGCSP (including the National Social Protection Coordinator), the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, UNICEF, and the World Bank to implement the assignment.
Under the overall supervision of Chief Social Policy, Planning, and Monitoring, UNICEF Liberia, the Public Finance consultant will provide technical support in fiscal space analysis, budget review, costing of the National Social Protection Policy and Strategy (NSPSS), and development of a financing plan. The consultant will also provide support to the education sector by reviewing the budget for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and presenting the findings to key stakeholders, including legislators and traditional leaders.
To provide continuous technical guidance, system strengthening and capacity building required to scale, stabilize and optimize the Integrated Birth Registration Ecosystem across 30 UNICEF-supported states, ensuring interoperability between Vital Reg, DHIS, NBS and NIMC, and embedding sustainability through knowledge transfer to NPC technical teams.
Child Protection Case management and Information Management Consultant, ESA, Child Protection, Amman COE, Jordan, Remote with possible travel funded by CO
COE Nairobi is seeking qualified candidates for the consultancy on Hand Hygiene and WASH in Schools, Global Practice for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Nairobi, Kenya, remote with travel for 6.5 months.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of nutrition clusters/sector coordination mechanisms at the country/CoE level to prepare for, plan and deliver quality, predictable, timely, effective, and integrated nutrition responses through provision of quality cluster/sector coordination-related support, including during transition/deactivation phases and capacity strengthen with more focus on emergency response preparedness and coordination blended training.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide global and country technical support to UNICEF Country Offices and the Centre of Excellence from Amman, Jordan, on immunization data systems, with a focus on strengthening the quality, completeness, and use of Electronic Joint Reporting Form (eJRF) data and WUENIC estimates.
The consultant will support data-driven decision-making to improve immunization programme performance, reduce the number of zero-dose children, and strengthen advocacy for children’s rights in immunization.
The consultant will operate through a collaborative and iterative approach, working closely with time zone health specialists and country teams to review, validate, and interpret immunization data. This will include real-time technical support during key reporting periods (e.g., eJRF submission cycles), remote engagement with multiple countries, and continuous feedback loops to improve data quality and consistency.
The assignment will emphasize hands-on technical accompaniment, including joint data review sessions, direct support to data entry and validation processes, and co-development of analytical outputs. The consultant will ensure alignment between country-reported data and global estimates (WUENIC), while supporting the translation of data into actionable insights.
UNICEF’s Global Digital Education Team is seeking a dynamic Evidence and Evaluation Specialist to help drive the rollout of UNICEF’s Digital Education & AI Strategy 2025–2030. In this role, you will support the coordination of the research and M&E across Cohort 1 countries of the Digital Education Strategy implementation, engage closely with UNICEF’s country offices and partners, provide expert technical advisory services, manage independent research contracts, turn KPIs and monitoring data into actionable insights, and coordinate multi-country evidence generation on cutting-edge digital education programming.
The consultant will work with the UNICEF Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation Hub Team, the Education Centre of Excellence, and UNICEF Country Offices to coordinate monitoring, evaluation, and research approaches to understand progress, performance, and emerging evidence on the implementation of a range of digital education activities, with a particular focus on the effect of these implementations on learning and skilling outcomes.
The successful candidate will be a part of UNICEF’s Global Digital Education and Learning Innovation team based in Finland. The consultant may work on site or in a hybrid modality and is expected to be available during the EET time zone.
Limited travel may be required in line with the 2026–2027 workplan. For such travel, the Consultant is not required to include an estimated duty-related travel budget in the all-inclusive fee. UNICEF will provide the duty travel budget when travel is approved and will reimburse actual costs incurred upon submission of receipts, in accordance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
UNICEF’s Global Digital Education Team is seeking a dynamic Research and M&E Coordinator to help drive the rollout of UNICEF’s Digital Education & AI Strategy 2025–2030. In this role, you will support the coordination of the research and M&E across Cohort 1 countries of the Digital Education Strategy implementation, engage closely with UNICEF’s country offices and partners, provide expert technical advisory services, manage independent research contracts, turn KPIs and monitoring data into actionable insights, and coordinate multi-country evidence generation on cutting-edge digital education programming.
UNICEF’s Immunization Section, Health, Center of Excellence, Global Program Division, is seeking to hire a qualified individual consultant to provide technical and analytical support to the New Vaccine Introduction, Integrated Delivery and Reach Team.
UNICEF, as a key partner in the global immunization agenda, continues to support countries in introducing, scaling up, and sustaining equitable access to new and underutilized vaccines. The organization plays a leading role in vaccine introduction, system strengthening, and delivery optimization, working closely with governments, Gavi, WHO, and other partners.
With the acceleration of Gavi 6.0 strategy implementation and increasing country demand for support in new vaccine introductions (NVIs) and vaccine portfolio optimization, UNICEF provides high-quality, coordinated, and evidence-based global thought leadership and technical assistance to countries. This includes optimizing country vaccine portfolios, guiding investment prioritization, and ensuring readiness and long-term integration into primary health care and health systems strengthening frameworks. In furtherance of this effort, UNICEF would like to contract senior technical experts to carry out the below tasks.
As part of preparations for its next Country Programme Document (CPD) 2028-2032, the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office (CO) is undertaking a comprehensive evidence synthesis process that includes a Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR). This review is critical to inform the CPD design, ensuring alignment with the UNICEF SP and UGEAP, and strengthen the integration of gender equality approaches across the CO’s strategic priorities.
This role is being established to strengthen the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit by bringing in dedicated media analysis expertise. The Junior Media Insights Consultant will be primarily responsible for supporting monitoring, tracking, and analyzing media coverage and performance data, while also contributing to broader desk research activities that support the team's insight outputs. The role suits an early-career analyst with a background in media monitoring, content analysis, or communications research.
The Office of Innovation (OOI) is a creative, interactive and agile team in UNICEF that sits at the unique intersection of working on material global issues, start up thinking, technology and partnerships that can scale solutions. OOI is looking for an experienced DS/ML Advisor to provide technical support and guidance to the DS/ML related work at OOI as well as across UNICEF through engagements at HQ, Regional and Country level for 12 months.
The Oky Digital Disability Inclusion Consultant will work alongside the DCOE Senior Advisor / Oky Business Owner as a member of the Oky core team, providing disability inclusion and digital accessibility expertise, technical guidance, and quality assurance across the Oky ecosystem. The consultant will provide direction and validation on disability inclusion activities by Oky franchise partners, Unicef country offices, technology vendors, content specialists, and Organizations of People with Disabilities (OPDs), and will support accessibility adaptations and user acquisition amongst and with girls with disabilities and their caregivers in Oky's existing and new markets.
The consultant will provide technical guidance and targeted support for: (i) the implementation of the LP in both regions – WCA and ESA (ii) the rollout of the Accessible Digital Textbooks initiative in implementing and at interested countries with introduction of the digital inclusion pathway for educators; and, (iii) technically support the CoE Digital Education Specialist and the LIH Innovation Manager with facilitating regional knowledge exchange and respond to country technical assistance requests for the continuity of learning using the LP and other digital learning interventions for out-of-school children, displaced children and children affected by climate and other emergencies.
Working closely with COEs and global teams, the consultant will support the implementation, monitoring, and strengthening of digital learning programmes to expand inclusive and equitable learning opportunities across West, Central and Eastern Africa, in support of Nairobi COE and ADT Initiative with the Global Learning Innovation Hub.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide ongoing subject-specific technical support to the MoES for the development, piloting, finalization, and institutionalization of CBE-aligned Math and Geometry TLMs for Grades 7 and 8, building on results achieved under Phase I and ensuring coherence, sequencing, and quality across the curriculum, CPL, and assessment workstreams of Component 2.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant to support UNICEF Innocenti’s comparative research on formal youth governance mechanisms in national and multilateral arenas, contributing to the learning, documentation, and synthesis agenda connected to the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education.
To conduct an independent Final evaluation of “The implementation of the National Child Protection Programme for 2022–2026”, UNICEF is seeking a team of an International Consultant – Evaluation Team Leader and a National consultant (under a separate ToR). The Team Leader will oversee the entire evaluation process, ensuring alignment with objectives and timelines, and maintaining quality and compliance with evaluation standards.
UNICEF China is supporting efforts to advance healthier food environments for children through evidence generation, policy dialogue and strategic advocacy. As part of this agenda, UNICEF China aims to explore the feasibility and policy relevance of fiscal measures, including sugar-sweetened beverage taxation and related healthy food fiscal policies.
The objective of this mission is to provide specialised technical assistance to support the preparation, coordination, design, organisation and delivery of the National Education Forum, which will bring together the sector’s key stakeholders. The Forum should ensure a participatory and inclusive process geared towards concrete and actionable outcomes, recognising the severity of the learning crisis in Guinea-Bissau.
UNICEF and the World Bank, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), seek to engage a national public finance consultant. The consultant will work closely with the national social protection consultant, representatives from MoGCSP (including the National Social Protection Coordinator), the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, UNICEF, and the World Bank to implement the assignment.
Under the overall supervision of Chief Social Policy, Planning, and Monitoring, UNICEF Liberia, the Public Finance consultant will provide technical support in fiscal space analysis, budget review, costing of the National Social Protection Policy and Strategy (NSPSS), and development of a financing plan. The consultant will also provide support to the education sector by reviewing the budget for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and presenting the findings to key stakeholders, including legislators and traditional leaders.
To provide continuous technical guidance, system strengthening and capacity building required to scale, stabilize and optimize the Integrated Birth Registration Ecosystem across 30 UNICEF-supported states, ensuring interoperability between Vital Reg, DHIS, NBS and NIMC, and embedding sustainability through knowledge transfer to NPC technical teams.
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