Consultancy : Adolescent Girls Skills4Girls & HPV Plus Consultant - Req.#583774

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Vacancy Announcement : Consultant

Consultancy Title : Adolescent Girls Skills4Girls & HPV Plus Consultant

Section / Division / Duty Station : Global Programme Division, Gender Section – Programme Group

Duration : November 1, 2025 to November 1, 2027

Home / Office Based : Nairobi - REMOTE

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

2. Evidence, Evaluation & Learning Support

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

4. Partnerships support

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

Deliver key design & inception phase technical resources for Skills4Girls

30 November 2025

Deliver key design & inception phase technical resources for HPV Plus

30 November 2025

Support design of multi-country evaluation for HPV Plus Initiative

31 December 2025

Deliver 2025 end-of-year portfolio report - Skills4Girls Initiative & HPV Plus Initiative

30 January 2026

Deliver annual case studies in the Skills4Girls and HPV Initiatives

30 February 2026

Support communication & partner assets for the Skills4Girls initiative

30 April 2026

Support communication & partner assets for the HPV Plus initiative

30 May 2026

Support 5 partnerships proposals

30 June 2026

2026 Mid-year portfolio report - set aside funding on HPV Plus Initiative

31 August 2026

Support x5 strategic donor and other key-stakeholders engagement moments with key assets

30 September 2026

Produce short brief on adolescent girls portfolio monitoring

1 October 2026

Support 5 partnerships proposals

30 November 2026

Tailored programmatic support in girl-centered programming, monitoring and evaluation

30 December 2026

2026 end-of-year portfolio report - Skills4Girls Initiative & HPV Plus Initiative

30 January 2027

Deliver annual case studies in the Skills4Girls and HPV Initiatives

30 February 2027

Support 5 partnerships proposals

30 March 2027

Support x5 strategic donor and other key-stakeholders engagement moments with key assets

30 April 2027

Produce short brief on adolescent girls portfolio monitoring

1 November 2027

Tailored programmatic support in girl-centered programming, monitoring and evaluation

30 July 2027

2027 end-of-year portfolio report - Skills4Girls Initiative & HPV Plus Initiative

1 November 2027

Travel : Assume travel to x3 country contexts

Qualifications

1) Education

Language Proficiency :

Excellent English oral and written skills; proficiency in another UN language (Spanish, French or Arabic) desirable

2) Knowledge / Expertise / Skills required :

Requirements :

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

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

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