Wellbeing Webinar Series Facilitation - Burnout

Low Value Consultancy: Wellbeing Webinar Series Facilitation - Burnout

UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund

Remote | Nairobi

International

Consultant - Contractors Agreement level

Speaks English

Application deadline: October 05, 2026 (6 days)

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Summary by Impactpool

UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series on burnout prevention and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver interactive sessions providing evidence-based tools for understanding burnout, regulating stress, and enhancing self-care practices. Responsibilities include customizing content, delivering webinars, developing participant materials, and coordinating with the Regional Staff Counsellor. The role requires expertise in psychology or related fields and experience in multicultural organizational environments.

Candidate Requirements:

Advanced degree in Psychology or related field

Minimum 7 years of experience in mental health and wellbeing

Experience designing and facilitating webinars on burnout and resilience

Experience in UN or international organizations

Strong understanding of workplace wellbeing challenges

Excellent communication skills in English

UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series focused on burnout prevention, recovery, resilience, and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver two cohorts of interactive sessions, providing participants with practical, evidence-based tools to better understand burnout, regulate stress, strengthen resilience, enhance self-care practices, and reconnect with purpose in both their professional and personal lives. The assignment requires demonstrated expertise in psychology, counselling, staff wellbeing, or a related field, along with experience facilitating engaging virtual learning programmes within multicultural and complex organizational environments. Experience working with the United Nations system or international organizations and delivering similar wellbeing initiatives is highly desirable.

Contract Duration

- 5.5 months

Tentative start Date-

10 October 2026

Working Relationship

: The consultant will report to the Regional Staff Counsellor.

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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The consultant will design and deliver a 2 cohort groups of a four-part virtual webinar series on burnout prevention, recovery, and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The series will provide participants with practical, evidence-based tools to better understand burnout, strengthen resilience, regulate stress, enhance self-care practices, and reconnect with purpose and meaning in their professional and personal lives. The sessions will draw on psychological principles, nature-based wellbeing approaches, and interactive learning methods to promote engagement and application of learning.

The consultant will be responsible for:

Customizing webinar content to align with the UNICEF context and audience.

Delivering eight interactive virtual webinars (90 minutes each) on burnout awareness, stress regulation, resilience, and purpose.

Developing and providing participant materials, reflection exercises, and practical wellbeing tools to support learning between sessions.

Incorporating interactive methodologies to encourage participation and application of learning.

Coordinating with the Regional Staff Counsellor on planning, scheduling, and delivery requirements.

Providing a brief final report summarizing activities delivered, participation, key themes, and recommendations for sustaining staff wellbeing following the series.

The consultancy will culminate in a debrief session with UNICEF Regional Staff Counsellor to review feedback, lessons learned, and opportunities for future staff wellbeing programming.

Deliverable

Timeline

Preparation, customization of content, coordination and planning

Oct-10

Delivery of Session 1: Understanding Burnout

Oct-12

Delivery of Session 2: Stress Regulation and Sustainable Self-Care

Oct-21

Delivery of Session 3: Moving from Burnout to Recovery

Nov-04

Delivery of Session 4: Reconnecting with Purpose

Nov-18

Cohort 2:

Delivery of Session 1: Understanding Burnout

Feb-03

Delivery of Session 2: Stress Regulation and Sustainable Self-Care

Feb-10

Delivery of Session 3: Moving from Burnout to Recovery

Feb-17

Delivery of Session 4: Reconnecting with Purpose

Feb-24

Final report, debrief meeting and recommendations

Mar-10

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education:

Advanced degree in Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Organizational Psychology, or a related mental health field.

Experience

Minimum 7 years of experience in mental health, staff wellbeing, burnout prevention, resilience building, and psychosocial support.

Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating webinars, workshops, or group interventions focused on burnout, stress management, wellbeing, and resilience.

Experience working within the United Nations system, international organizations, or similarly complex multicultural environments.

Strong understanding of workplace wellbeing challenges in humanitarian, development, and high-pressure operational settings.

Language:

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Desirables:

Previous experience delivering similar burnout-focused programmes for UN agencies or international organizations is highly desirable.

Knowledge of an additional UN language is desirable.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)

Cover letter

An all-inclusive financial proposal

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter:

UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children.

The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone

, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage

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. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found

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Summary by Impactpool

UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series on burnout prevention and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver interactive sessions providing evidence-based tools for understanding burnout, regulating stress, and enhancing self-care practices. Responsibilities include customizing content, delivering webinars, developing participant materials, and coordinating with the Regional Staff Counsellor. The role requires expertise in psychology or related fields and experience in multicultural organizational environments.

Candidate Requirements:

Advanced degree in Psychology or related field

Minimum 7 years of experience in mental health and wellbeing

Experience designing and facilitating webinars on burnout and resilience

Experience in UN or international organizations

Strong understanding of workplace wellbeing challenges

Excellent communication skills in English

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Low Value Consultancy: Wellbeing Webinar Series Facilitation - Burnout

UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund

Remote | Nairobi

International

Consultant - Contractors Agreement level

Speaks English

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