Job no: 596793
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Geneva
Level: Consultancy
Location: Switzerland
Categories: Programme Management, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
For every child, the right to Safety.
How can you make a difference?
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s people-centered humanitarian programming by integrating Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), community participation, inclusion, safeguarding and locally led action into UNICEF’s planning, monitoring, reporting and programme management systems. The consultant will map and assess relevant corporate processes, develop practical integration and measurement frameworks, support the incorporation of PCHP and AAP requirements into key organizational guidance and tools, and develop a roadmap to institutionalize these approaches across UNICEF’s humanitarian programming and accountability systems.
If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: TMC0007450 ToR.pdf
Minimum requirements:
- Education: Master’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, data or information management, international development, public policy, social sciences, public health, programme management, organizational development or another relevant field.
- Work Experience:
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, results-based management, programme planning, organizational performance, policy integration or humanitarian programme quality.
- Demonstrated experience developing indicators, indicator metadata, scorecards, results frameworks, monitoring guidance, and quality-assurance or reporting arrangements.
- Proven experience developing or reviewing organizational policies, procedures or programme guidance, including drafting technical language for institutional adoption.
- Experience facilitating cross-divisional consultations and working with senior process owners to agree on feasible entry points, responsibilities and revision schedules.
- Language requirement:
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.
- Skills:
- Strong knowledge of UNICEF programme planning and monitoring architecture, including CPD, CPP, CPA, RBM, GMF and HAC processes, or directly comparable systems.
- Familiarity with Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), community engagement, participation, inclusion and people-centred programming.
- Excellent analytical, facilitation and technical writing skills.
Desirables:
- Knowledge of another UN language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
- A separate financial proposal TMC0007450 Financial Proposal Template.docx
- Technical proposal requirement:
- Candidates must submit an updated CV and a cover letter outlining their relevant experience and suitability for the assignment.
Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not visible on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
Advertised: 04 Nov 2026 W. Europe Standard Time
Deadline: 14 Nov 2026 W. Europe Standard Time
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18).
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities.
