Home-Based Opportunity: UNICEF is Hiring for Remote Consultancy in 2025. Apply Today!

Home-Based Opportunity: UNICEF is Hiring for Remote Consultancy in 2025. Apply Today!

• Job no: 582147
• Contract type: Consultant
• Duty Station: Florence
• Level: Consultancy
• Categories: Child Protection
• Advertised: 11 Jul 2025 Greenwich Standard Time

UNICEF is offering a valuable remote consultancy opportunity in 2025 for skilled professionals seeking meaningful, home-based work. Contribute to impactful global initiatives from anywhere in the world—submit your application today and make a difference! In this context, the German National Committee is planning to conduct a study, together with UNICEF Innocenti Global Office of Research and Foresight, on the situation of children in return processes using Germany as a case study. This research will not only shed light on the German national implementation of return processes but also assess the implications current developments at the EU level. This approach makes the study highly relevant for both the German context and the broader work of the organization on behalf of children engaged in contexts of return.

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Responsibilities

• 1. Landscaping the Current German Asylum and Returns Context:
• a. What is the demographic profile and key asylum and return trends in Germany, and what are the main challenges to children’s rights – particularly in the context of return – as already identified in existing literature?
• b. What existing child protection services and systems are in place to support the needs and rights of children engaged in voluntary return and/or deportation in Germany, including those provided by national, UN (UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF), and civil society actors?
• c. How are children´s experiences in voluntary and forced return processes described at different milestones – including whilst in Germany awaiting return, the actual return event, and longer-term efforts to reintegrate into communities of arrival? What are the main obstacles and challenges described? What can be understood about their near-term plans and aspirations?
• 2. Policy Analysis and Trends:
• a. How do these findings apply to the CRC, German and EU legal frameworks, and recent developments such as the EU Returns Directive and the Pact on Migration and Asylum? What systematic gaps emerge across legal and practical levels, and what realistic, child-rights-based policy options could address them?
• b. How do Governments cooperate on returns and how do they ensure that the rights and needs of children are considered and ensured?
• c. What are the challenges and opportunities of Germany´s federal system?
• d. How do current political narratives and policy trends in Germany and at the EU level shape return procedures for children, and what implications does this have for child rights advocacy?
• 3. Policy Recommendations:
• a. What needs to be done, at policy levels, to ensure a safe return based on the CRC? What key advocacy messages should support such efforts?
• b. How can lessons learned from the German case study inform broader advocacy and programming across EU member states?

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Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in political science, anthropology, sociology, social work, psychology, economics, public health/social policy, sociology, or relevant fields in areas of UNICEF work is required. 
• A minimum of eight years of professional research experience and defined publication record in child migration issues in the European/German context. Specific expertise on German and EU asylum and return/reintegration policies and procedures strongly desirable.
• Strong expertise in research and analysis, including mixed-methods study design, and hands-on experience in literature review and synthesis, key informant interviews, data collection, and analysis.
• Excellent communication skills experience, including in written, verbal presentation, group facilitation and convening roles.
• Experience in working on evidence generation within a UNICEF and/or International Organization context.
• Excellent coordination and programme management skills and experience, with proven record of experience and deliverables in project coordination and workflow management.
• Strong fundraising skills and experience, including familiarity with donor engagement, resource mobilization, and working with a diversity of organizational stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Professional, respectful and fully committed to maintaining ethical behaviors. 
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset. 
• Fluency in written and spoken English and German is essential. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.