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Call for Applications: Join UNICEF’s Roster of research consultants – Global Office of Research and Foresight (Remote/Work from home)

Ednah Carrick February 20, 2026

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Closing Date: 31 March 2026

Call for Applications: Join UNICEF’s Roster of research consultants – Global Office of Research and Foresight (Remote/Work from home)

Roster of research consultants – Harmful Practices, Gender, Rights, and Protection unit, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight (Remote/Work from home)

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. UNICEF is committed, passionate, and proud of what they do for as long as they 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. UNICEF offers its 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. UNICEF welcomes everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

For every child, the right to answers

UNICEF Innocenti tackles the questions of greatest importance for children, both current and emerging. It equips thought leaders and decision-makers with the evidence they need to build a better, safer world for children. The office undertakes research using primary and secondary data representing the voices of children and families. It uses foresight to set the agenda for children, including horizon scanning, trends analysis and scenario development. The office produces a diverse and dynamic library of high-level reports and policy papers and provides a platform for debate and advocacy.

UNICEF Innocenti’s Gender, Rights, and Protection team leads research to inform and accelerate the elimination of harmful practices. Through the STAR (Strategic Technical Assistance for Research) Initiative to End Harmful Practices, the team works to strengthen the generation, synthesis, and use of robust evidence to support UNICEF and UNFPA efforts under the Global Programme to End Child Marriage and the Joint Programme to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF welcome applications from candidates with one or more of the following profiles to join its Roster of research consultants:

Mixed Methods and Implementation Research – Cash Transfers and Social Protection – Experience with quantitative and/or qualitative evaluations of cash transfer and social protection interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
Mixed Methods Research – Adolescent Girls, Gender, Health, Harmful Practices (Child Marriage and FGM) – Experience in evaluating health and development programmes targeting adolescent girls, with a strong focus on gender and conducting systematic and scoping reviews of mixed methods research.
Mixed Methods Research – Technical Research Support on Harmful Practices (Child Marriage and FGM): Experience supporting country and regional-level research on harmful practices, including methodological design, data analysis, and interpretation.
Research Facilitation, Synthesis, Communication and Uptake: Skills in facilitating research workshops, engaging with stakeholders, and developing knowledge translation tools to strengthen research use in policy and programming.

To qualify as an advocate for every child please review the Annex here: Annex 1 Skillset.pdf

with detailed information for applicants about the skillsets requested by the unit, including a description of the type of work and specific competencies required. Please note that any application missing any of the minimum requirements indicated in the Annex will not be considered.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process to persons with disabilities. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.