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WASH Innovation Pipeline Review Consultancy, Office of Innovation, Denmark, 3 months (remote) in Denmark
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children. The Hub is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the global WASH innovation ecosystem, mapping how different actors support innovations from concept to scale across humanitarian and development contexts. The consultant will analyse innovation pipelines, assess support mechanisms across the innovation journey, evaluate the scale readiness of selected innovations using the Hub’s 5D Framework, and identify gaps, overlaps, and strategic opportunities to strengthen coordination and accelerate promising solutions to national and multi country scale. This role will generate actionable insights to help UNICEF and partners better align efforts, optimise resources, and advance transformative WASH innovations for children and young people.
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WASH Innovation Portfolio Approach Consultant, Copenhagen, Denmark, Office of Innovation, 4 months (Remote) in Denmark
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children. The Hub seeks an experienced innovation and portfolio design specialist to lead the development of Portfolio 2.0—a strengthened, tiered approach to sourcing, supporting, and scaling transformational WASH innovations that accelerate progress toward SDG 6. The consultant will design and document a refined operating model for defined solution groups, develop an updated governance framework and tailored terms and conditions, establish a sourcing and coordination mechanism for innovations, and produce a comprehensive resourcing model to enable effective portfolio management. This consultancy offers a unique opportunity to shape how UNICEF identifies, nurtures, and scales high impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.impact, climate resilient WASH innovations that can deliver meaningful, system level change for children and young people globally.
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Consultant – WASH Innovation Capacity Development Strategy, Office of Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 months (remote) in Denmark
UNICEF’s Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is seeking a consultant to develop a Capacity Building Strategy that will equip UNICEF Country Offices, regional teams, governments, and key partners with the capabilities needed to adopt, adapt, and accelerate innovative WASH solutions at scale. Building on the Hub’s vision to drive transformational, climate‑resilient WASH innovations, the strategy will strengthen the ability of national and local actors to deploy emerging technologies, leverage innovative financing, and embed evidence‑driven approaches into programmes that address the most pressing WASH challenges. This assignment forms a critical pillar of the Hub’s next phase (2026–2029), as UNICEF expands its leadership in elevating high‑impact solutions towards multi‑regional adoption. The consultant will work closely with the WASH Innovation Hub, the new WASH Global Program, global WASH networks, UNICEF Country Offices, and a diverse ecosystem of partners to define the competencies, systems, and resources needed to strengthen innovation capacity across contexts. This includes documenting existing capacity approaches, identifying gaps, synthesising global best practice, and proposing a coherent framework with clear pathways, milestones, and enabling conditions for sustained capacity development. The resulting strategy will help position UNICEF’s new Nairobi‑based WASH Centre of Excellence and the Hub as global drivers of capability strengthening—empowering governments, practitioners, and local innovators to deliver climate‑resilient WASH services at scale, and ultimately shaping a more equitable, water‑secure future for every child.
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Consultant- WASH Innovation Technical Writer, Office of Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 months part-time (remote) in Denmark
The WASH Hub is part of the UNICEF Centre of Excellence for WASH, Global Program Division. The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services. The Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. The Hub is seeking technical writing, copy-editing, and proof-reading support for the development of on-demand knowledge and communications products in the thematic areas of WASH, innovation, scaling, impact and innovative/blended financing for both internal and external audiences such as UNICEF country offices, governments, implementing partners and donors. The Hub seeks an experienced writer to develop technical products such as field notes, advocacy notes, reports, concept notes and workshop summaries for both technical and non-technical audiences on an ad-hoc, part-time basis.
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Consultancy: Technical Advisor for WASH Data Integration Solutions, Copenhagen, Denmark, Office of Innovation, 6 months (Remote) in Denmark
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the Hub’) is accelerating the scaling of transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations for vulnerable children and their families, and strong collaboration is at the heart of this mission. The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. This consultancy will strengthen the Hub’s role as a global catalyst, bringing together innovators, practitioners, researchers, and communities to solve the most pressing WASH challenges facing children. For this consultancy, the WASH Hub seeks the service of an individual to support with technical guidance on the cocreation and testing of an innovative solution, guiding and providing the design for piloting, documentation and learning from demonstration sites so that the final solution translates into actionable, scalable value for WASH programming. This also includes but is not limited to, coordinating inputs from different actors with UNICEF, supporting the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) established to support the process, advising teams on scaling pathways, and contributing to technical and sector discussions.
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