Adolescent Girls Skills4Girls & HPV Plus Consultant

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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Deadline: 18/09/2025
  • Location: Kenya
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Youth Health
BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment: 

UNICEF is committed to advancing gender equality and the empowerment of all girls and women. Building on UNICEF’s comparative advantages, lessons learned from prior Action Plans, as well as evidence of proven strategies to effect change at scale, UNICEF will have a special focus on advancing adolescent girls rights. This includes targeting commitments to adolescent girls in each sectoral area and through multisectoral, at-scale programming. UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the adolescent girls’ agenda. Specifically, this consultancy will focus on:

-           Provision of technical, programmatic, and strategic support to new global adolescent girls’ initiatives, including under Skills4Girls, HPV Plus, and related portfolios

-           Provision of support for reporting and donor engagement, for 2 major Global Adolescent Girls initiatives.

-           Support knowledge and evidence generation as well as specialist support for girl-centered monitoring and evaluation.

Scope of Work: 

The consultant, under the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Gender Equality will be responsible for the following tasks:

1. Strategy, Policy & Programmatic Support

•  Prepare key guidance and technical resources for the Skills4Girls and HPV Plus global initiatives– with a focus on resources at design and inception phase

•  Provide tailored technical assistance to at least 16 Country Offices across two years

•  Provide technical support for the allocation and monitoring of global adolescent girl grants

2. Evidence, Evaluation & Learning Support

•  Identify and synthesize good practices in programme design, scale-up, cost-effectiveness, and government uptake of proven solutions.
•  Produce regular learning products to support knowledge generation and dissemination.
•  Contribute to the design and quality assurance of evaluation processes to advance the learning agenda of key global initiatives

3. Reporting, Donor Engagement & Advocacy Support to Global Initiatives

•  Support the preparation of annual portfolio reports (2025, 2026, 2027) and one mid-year HPV Plus report (2026)
•  Contribute to at least 10 high-level engagement moments with donors and partners through development of briefing notes, presentations, and result summaries, support to field visits, in-person and virtual support to global advocacy moments and strategic events.

4. Partnerships support
•  Support new partnerships based on programmatic reporting and insights from research 


Qualifications
  • Advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in the social sciences (i.e. sociology,demography, psychology, political science, social policy or economics), public health,public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health/Immunization, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Protection, Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, etc.) is required.  
  • Academic credentials in gender and/or adolescence.   
  • Excellent English oral and written skills;
  • Minimum five years of relevant professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender/adolescent girls and development in key issue areas that are the focus of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan is required – some experience working on HPV and skills programming with a strong gender equality/girls focus is essential.  
  • Proven expertise in drafting quality research and programmatic outputs for different stakeholders and audiences is required.  
  • Fluency in English is required. 

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