UNICEF Global Programme Division is seeking an individual consultant to provide technical support and guidance on key initiatives under gender-transformative education programmes, with a focus on the empowerment of girls, skills building for girls, and young people’s transition to decent work.

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UNICEF Global Programme Division is seeking an individual consultant to provide technical support and guidance on key initiatives under gender-transformative education programmes, with a focus on the empowerment of girls, skills building for girls, and young people’s transition to decent work. The consultant will function as a skills-focused resource, contributing to the design and refinement of strategies, including inputs to emerging priorities such as green skills. The role will support the coordination and delivery of key regional moments, including a regional summit focusing on green skills for girls, Green advocacy and partnerships with and for girls, ensuring alignment across partners such as ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), SEAMEO (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization) UN agencies, private sector actors, and youth networks. It will also involve facilitating structured consultations with young people to inform programme direction and partnerships, and ensuring coherence across regional collaboration efforts. The assignment is office-based, with an initial duration of four months. The consultant will undertake the following assignments:

• Coordinate with ASEAN, SEAMEO and UN agencies for the organization of one Community of Practice Meeting (August), one regional workshop (sept/Oct) and one side event for a regional event (Nov).
• Coordinate and collate UNICEF Country Office inputs, ensuring quality and cohesion to track deliverables, for Donor progress and annual reports (Oct 2026 and April 2027).
• Provide technical inputs to the development of strategies and approaches on girls’ skills and transition to decent work, including integration of green skills within gender-transformative education programmes;
• Support the planning and coordination of key regional engagements, including the Green Skills Summit and meetings, ensuring timely preparation of concept notes, agendas, and partner inputs;
• Organize and facilitate consultations with young people to inform programme design, partnerships, and advocacy priorities focusing on gender transformative climate resilience for children, through education and skills building; and
• Contribute to overall programme coordination, including tracking deliverables, consolidating inputs, and ensuring quality and coherence of outputs related to programmes focusing on gender transformative climate resilience for children, through education and skills building.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: Download File TMC0002260 ToR.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

Minimum requirements: (Qualification/Experience/ Knowledge/Expertise/Skills)

  • Education: Master’s degree in gender, education, social science, international development, adolescent development or related field.
  • Work Experience:
    • At least five (5) years of progressively responsible relevant work experience in working with adolescents, cross-sectoral programme design, knowledge management, with recognized technical expertise in the following areas of adolescent and skills programming: adolescent girls’ empowerment, partnerships with and for young people
    • Proven experience of coordinating high-level events such as donor roundtable, launch events, advocacy events, with a focus on the empowerment of girls, skills building and green skills
  • Skills: Strong writing skills for a variety of purposes: reports, proposals, advocacy packages, etc.

Desirables:

•     Knowledge and experience of working with diverse networks across Asia-Pacific with non-profits, social entrepreneurs, youth-led organizations, is an asset.

•     Work experience with countries in Asia-Pacific, especially through UNICEF, 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 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. 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):

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.

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