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.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we 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. We offer our 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. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
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For every child, the right to innovate
UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the explorative curiosity that turn this energy into new ideas and scalable solutions.
UNICEF's Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world's children by focusing on where new markets and industries can collectively come together to meet their vital needs. One way we do this is to co-design and explore new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public and private sectors in order to deliver fast and lasting results for children and their communities.
Our team
We're an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies, practices and partnerships. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:
Looking at the 2-5-year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and to see how UNICEF can work with the private sector on doing better business while improving essential services for children;
Investing in early-stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 02-year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open-source technology solutions from start-ups based in emerging economies;
Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct targeted industry research into the philanthropic sector of the global technology industry focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain/digital assets/finance, data science, and open source/digital public goods to propose at least 5 high-potential products or engagement strategies that UNICEF can use to:
Engage with technology foundations and philanthropists from the industry worldwide
Raise funds and explore creative joint financing approaches
Increase global brand awareness
Specific objectives include:
Map the technology industry philanthropic sector landscape to identify priority geographical markets, platforms, foundations and individuals with the highest potential for UNICEF engagement.
Document best-in-class examples of social impact and charitable collaborations in the philanthropic sector of the technology industry.
Conduct targeted interviews or virtual roundtables with key industry stakeholders to understand motivations, partnership preferences, and barriers to collaboration.
Co-create five pilot concepts with indicative budgets, timelines, and expected outcomes for social impact programme reach, brand engagement, and fundraising/financing.
Your main responsibilities will be:
1. Strategic Intelligence and Market Mapping
Conduct targeted analysis of relevant partners with mission alignment to UNICEF
Identify and profile the top 20–25 foundations, platforms or high net-worth individuals with strong potential alignment with UNICEF’s mission and objectives.
Provide insight into market trends and models relevant to collaborative social impact engagement.
2. Primary Insights from the Industry
Conduct 8–10 in-depth interviews with senior representatives from the industry.
Capture key findings on their social responsibility theses and preferred partnership models.
Summarize actionable insights for UNICEF on partnership design and positioning of compelling partnership offers.
3. Benchmarking and Case Studies
Produce a Best Practice Compendium of 10–15 concise, visual case studies highlighting successful technology philanthropy-for-social impact collaborations.
Analyze partnership mechanics, resource generation models, audience reach, social impact outcomes and lessons learned.
4. Pilot Concept Development
Co-design 5 pilot concepts that illustrate how UNICEF could operationalize partnerships within different areas of the technology philanthropy ecosystem.
Each concept should include:
Description of the activation or collaboration model
Potential partners and target audiences
Implementation steps and estimated timeline
Resource requirements and projected ROI (social impact reach, brand awareness, fundraising)
5. Validation and Knowledge Sharing
Facilitate a virtual validation workshop with relevant UNICEF stakeholders to test findings
Facilitate an in-person and virtual design workshop to secure alignment on next steps.
Deliver design workshop materials including slides, facilitation notes, and a short summary of feedback and agreed actions.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: ToR for Global Tech Philanthropy Consultant_final.pdf
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Minimum requirements:
Education: A university degree (Batchelor’s or higher) in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or other relevant field is mandatory. Work Experience: A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in industry research, especially in the technology industry and philanthropy sectors. A demonstrated passion to bridge the best in technology and innovation for equitable social good. Familiarity with social responsibility theses or nonprofit-business partnerships Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills. Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.Desirables: