Remote Opportunity: Home-Based Consultant Vacancy at UNICEF for 2025. Apply Today!

Remote Opportunity: Home-Based Consultant Vacancy at UNICEF for 2025. Apply Now!

• Job no: 581990
• Contract type: Consultant
• Duty Station: New York
• Level: Consultancy
• Location: United States
• Categories: Programme Management
• Deadline: 09 Jul 2025 Eastern Daylight Time

Looking for meaningful remote work in 2025? UNICEF is hiring a home-based consultant to help make a real impact in the lives of children worldwide. Work from home, make a difference—apply today! The purpose of the consultancy is to develop global approaches to the measurement of lead exposure within the context of children’s environmental health and the provision of technical assistance to countries. 

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Responsibilities

• Global guidance on lead exposure measurement:
• Review existing nationally representative lead measurement surveys in low-and middle-income countries and develop a technical note on deciding the appropriate survey platforms, including MICS/DHS, for lead measurement considering their merits/demerits, cost-effectiveness and other considerations to guide national decision making.
• Technical assistance:
• Provide technical support and quality assurance in the design of non-MICS household surveys and studies for sample design, blood lead-level measurement, questionnaire design, field work and analysis and reporting.
• Provide technical assistance and support to all surveys in home based assessments, market assessments and the utilization of modeling and advanced laboratory techniques to establish the primary sources of exposure. 
• Global guidance and support to monitoring Children’s Environmental Health:
• Review global and national approaches to monitoring children’s environmental health.
• Develop a technical guidance on monitoring CEH based on country maturity models taking into account country governance.
• Collaborate with DAPM and external partners to enhance Children’s Environmental Health Profiles.
• Review and enhance country Children’s Environmental Health Assessments; Develop a technical guidance for CEH surveys.

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Qualifications

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or Ph.D) in in Public Health, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Demography, or a related field.

Expertise required:

• Technical expertise on monitoring lead, heavy metals, toxic chemicals and environmental health. 
• Demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous research, analyze complex data, and synthesize information into clear, actionable guidance. 
• Excellent ability to produce high-quality technical notes, protocols, reports, and presentations for diverse audiences (technical experts, policymakers, country-level teams). 
• Demonstrated past experience in design of studies and assessments, and conducting research related to the environment, environmental health, climate x health, child’s health, pollutants and/or toxic metals 
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible and relevant work experience in lead programming in low- and middle-income countries. 
• Previous experience of working with UNICEF and the UN is desirable. 

Knowledge and Skills 

• Knowledge of research, monitoring, and evaluation methods, both quantitative and qualitative, and statistical methods and software 
• Understanding of public health systems and policies related to environment and health 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills