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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Program Management Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: United Hosted Funds, Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), London, UK

Duration: July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026

Home/Office Based: Remote

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment: We are seeking to recruit an expert to provide technical advice on EOF’s programs at all phases throughout the program cycle.

Scope of Work: As Program Management Consultant, you will provide technical advice and guidance on the scoping, design and launch of EOF’s programs. The consultant will be supervised by the EOF’s Program Manager and collaborate with all members of EOF’s central team.

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

1. Deliverable 1: Design and facilitate four learning sessions of 60-90 minutes each for EOF’s team on lessons-learned from the design of programmes. Due Date: 31 December 2025
2. Deliverable 2: In consultation with EOF’s leadership team, draft narrative reports for donors. Incorporate feedback from EOF’s technical program and partnerships team. Due Date: 30 June 2026
3. Deliverable 3: Draft and finalize a concept development report for one of EOF’s programs, including but not limited to: political economy and sector analysis, theory of change, stakeholder analysis and engagement plans. Due Date: 31 January 2026
4. Deliverable 4: In consultation with EOF’s Programme Manager, finalize the program design for one of EOF’s programs. Due Date: 30 June 2026
5. Deliverable 5: Executive summaries drafted for EOF’s Program Manager with associated documentation (program workplan, risk register, and decision log) also updated ahead of the executive summaries being finalized. Due Dates: 31 October 2025, 31 December 2025, 30 June 2026

Travel: Estimated three mission travels in total, each estimated 8 working days.

Qualifications

1. Education: An advanced degree is required (Masters or above) in political science, economics, finance, business, education, international development, or a related field. A Bachelor degree with an additional 2 years’ relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of Master degree.
2. Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a relevant area is required. This includes education, international development, public policy, think-tanks, charity, or management consulting.
• Experience in programme management, preferably in an international development or global education context, is required.
• Fluency in English is required.

Desirable:

• Experience with innovative finance, particularly the design and implementation of outcomes funds, is strongly preferred.
• Experience with basic education, early childhood care and education (ECCE) or skills-for-employment is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in one or more of EOF’s programme countries is preferred. At present, this is Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tunisia.
• Experience in evaluation design or management is preferred.
• Fluency in French, Arabic or Spanish is preferred.

Requirements:

1. Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and upload copy of academic credentials.
2. Financial proposal that will include/reflect:

• The costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
• Travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
• Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
• Indicate your availability.

- Any emergent/unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.

- At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

- Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information: With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

For every Child, you demonstrate… UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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.

Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.