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Youth Investment Case Consultant - Generation Unlimited, NYHQ, remote. Req# 584320 United States
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director Programmes, and direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist, and working closely with the Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, and in collaboration with the Generation Unlimited (GenU) Programme Team, the Youth Investment Case Consultant will synthesize a knowledge product to provide a robust, evidence-based “Investment Case” targeted at global decision-makers, with the aim to mobilize substantial resources to support youth transitions from learning to earning across the world, in accordance with the collaboration between UNICEF Generation Unlimited and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). The consultant will facilitate research, synthesis, drafting, and stakeholder coordination required for the development of the investment case during October 2025 to July 2026.
Consultant, Senior Technical Expert on Children's Environmental Health, CEED PG, NYHQ remote, Req #584319 United States
The purpose of the consultancy is to develop high-quality technical content on children’s environmental health and support capacity development and CEH global leadership. UNICEF requires a senior expert in Children's Environmental Health to support high-level content development, strengthen technical collaboration, and expand capacity development initiatives for a global audience. This is a 12 month consultancy and the consultant will be responsible for spearheading the development and quality assurance of a suite of technical knowledge products. This includes the conceptualization of an advanced lecture series on Children's Environmental Health (CEH) for medical professionals, creating comprehensive global guidance for healthy environments where children live, learn, and play, and authoring and/or quality assuring a series of evidence-based policy briefs on high-priority topics. A key function of this role will be to serve as a primary technical reviewer for UNICEF's CEH publications, providing rigorous quality assurance for technical reports, country-level analyses, and other global guidance documents to ensure they are evidence-based and of the highest standard. Furthermore, the consultant will play a critical role in expanding UNICEF's technical collaboration and capacity development efforts. This involves support to the identification of key technical partners, including academic institutions, WHO CEH collaborating centers, and professional networks to enhance evidence generation and knowledge sharing. The role will also focus on strengthening the capacity of stakeholders by mapping existing development programs in LMICs, serving as a key resource person for a global webinar series, engaging leading experts to create impactful videos for policymakers, and providing on-demand technical review and strategic advice for country-level documents and programme strategies to ensure alignment with global best practices.
GAP Hub Consultant, NYHQ Global Programme Division, Gender Section, remote. Req#584317 United States
Gender equality is essential to realizing the mandate of UNICEF to uphold the rights of all children. UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2022-25 elaborates the steps required to accelerate progress on gender equality across the five Goal Areas of the Strategic Plan - health and nutrition, education, child protection, protection and water and sanitation, and social protection - as well as within institutional systems and processes, with clear indicators and monitoring mechanisms to track change. As mandated by the Executive Board of UNICEF, a report is prepared every year on the status of implementation of the GAP, to be presented at the annual session of the Board. The global annual report is based on Country Office annual reporting on GAP priorities across goal areas through the Results and Assessment Module, as well as using data from other corporate platforms like Vision and the Emergency Preparedness Platform. In addition to the annual report to the Board, UNICEF prepares reports for the UN System-Wide Action Plan on Gender Equality, the UN Gender Equality Action Plan, and for donors to the gender equality portfolio. To support these reporting requirements, the Gender Equality Section of the Programme Group seeks a consultant to support the following tasks: 1) Support data quality assurance and aggregation for annual reporting 2) Facilitate the production of various gender reports to document gender results, challenges and lessons.
Programme Associate, GS6, Temporary Appointment (TA), 3 months, Cúcuta, Colombia. Post No. 134389 Colombia
Join our UNICEF Colombia team and make a difference in the lives of children and adolescents! UNICEF Colombia is looking a programme associate to provide support for the facilitation of activities and meetings for the formulation of the Territorial Action Plan in coordination with United Nations agencies, funds, and programs. and serve as a liaison for humanitarian response actions in the Catatumbo area within the framework of the humanitarian Nexus.
Senior Programme Associate (Monitoring and Evaluation), GS-7, FT, #133967, Montevideo – Uruguay, LAC Uruguay
Join UNICEF as a Senior Programme Associate (M&E). You will contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Uruguay by supporting the planning, monitoring and evaluation activities of the Country Office, including information/data collection, data analysis, programme and financial monitoring and reporting, budget and grants monitoring, and administrative and operational support to M&E activities.
Senior Finance Associate, GS-7, FT, #133964, Montevideo – Uruguay, LAC Uruguay
Join UNICEF as a Senior Finance Associate (GS-7). You will contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Uruguay by administering and executing a variety of technical and professional transactions/initiatives in financial management and services, applying theoretical skills and acquiring thorough knowledge of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and organizational goals and objectives, Financial Regulations and Rules, policies and procedures through the performance of tasks.
CON 35-2025 LTA Servicios de Traducción e Interpretación Simultánea (3 años) Argentina
UNICEF busca celebrar un acuerdo a largo plazo con personas físicas que brinden servicios de traducción y/o interpretación simultánea de calidad, oportunos y profesionales en inglés e idiomas oficiales, a saber, árabe, italiano, chino, inglés, francés, ruso y español. Como resultado de esta solicitud de, UNICEF se reserva el derecho de establecer acuerdos a largo plazo no exclusivos con múltiples individuos por el plazo de tres años, y sujeto a las necesidades y al desempeño satisfactorio por parte del prestador de servicios.
National Consultancy: Postnatal Care Gap Analysis and Guideline Revision, TANZANIA. United Republic of Tanzania
Despite national guidelines and global commitments, the low coverage and inconsistent quality of PNC services indicate a disconnect between policy and practice. A systematic gap analysis is required to understand where, why, and how PNC services are falling short. This will inform strategic investments, innovations, and improvements that are rooted in evidence and tailored to the Tanzanian context.  The findings from this analysis will support the Ministry of Health, development partners, and implementing actors in designing context-appropriate solutions to ensure that every mother and newborn receives high-quality, timely, and respectful care during the postnatal period.
Health & Nutrition Specialist, NO-3, Fixe Term, Brazzaville-Congo,#00014926 Congo
The UNICEF Congo country office is looking for a professional to fill the position of Health & Nutrition Specialist
Early Childhood Education Specialist, NO-2, Fixe term, Brazzaville-Congo, #00133086 Congo
The UNICEF Congo country office is looking for a professional to fill the position of Early Childhood Education Specialist
Programme Manager (RR & Transparency), P-4, TA (364 days), # 134306, BRIDGE, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland Switzerland
The purpose of this job is to continue the implementation and accelerate progress towards the Flexible Funding strategy, in particular Core Resources (RR) – unrestricted funding in UNICEF – in the context of global fundraising and donor reporting. Overall, the role will directly support RR fundraising, communication and advocacy efforts while also strengthening overall transparency, results, and accountability mechanisms linked to reporting. At this time of ODA contraction, UNICEF needs to ensure that public and private sector partners, alike, have confidence in UNICEF’s results and reporting. This role will lead, on behalf of the BRIDGE Team and the cross-divisional Flexible Funding Team, the customization of RR content for each audience, be the senior technical specialist on flexible funding within PFP and PPD and the wider organization, and support strategic initiatives across the organization, including the change management journey around flexible funding that has been underway for several years. This role will also require technical support to flexible funding overall, which is RR and thematic funding or softly earmarked funding for a sector or geography to drive the organization-wide agenda.
National Consultant -Construction Engineer, Harare, Zimbabwe, 74 days (Open to Zimbabwean Nationals Only) Zimbabwe
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a Consulta Construction Engineer to provide oversight and quality assurance for the paving of Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) sites and solarisation of the PSA plants at Chinhoyi and Lupane Provincial Hospitals and quality assurance for the construction of three (3) health posts in Chiredzi District, Masvingo Province.
Gender Programme Specialist (Child Health & Nutrition) NO-3, Fixed-Term, Maputo, Mozambique (#133613) Open to Mozambican nationals only Mozambique
The Gender Programme Specialist will provide technical assistance throughout stages of programming to facilitate the management, monitoring and delivery of results contributing to gender equality and to contribute to the development, implementation, and monitoring of high quality gender programming across sectors and gender institutional benchmarks in alignment with the Country Programme Document (CPD) and the global Gender Equality Action Plan 2026-2030.
Senior Contracts Associate,GS7, Temporary Appointment (364 days), SCC, Budapest, Hungary, # 584291 Hungary
Under the supervision of the Contracts Specialist, the Senior Contracts Associate provides a broad range of high level transactional, procedural and administrative tasks in support of service contracting activities carried out by Headquarters Divisions/Offices, ensuring timely and efficient output that is in compliance with UNICEF rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
Monitoring Specialist (Data & Analytics) P-3, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Maputo, Mozambique (#134388) Mozambique
The Monitoring Specialist (Data & Analytics) will: i) Establish a Monitoring and Information Management (MIM) Hub under the Planning & Monitoring Section to ensure one overall integrated planning, monitoring and data system for the Country Office. ii) Ensure coordination of an effectively functioning decentralized monitoring system which enables centralization and analysis of programmatic data to inform planning and decision-making, using innovative approaches where possible and as needed. iii) Ensure quality evidence-based and results-based information is available to meet UNICEF corporate reporting requirements and donor reporting to ensure UNICEF accountability to beneficiaries, Government, donors and other stakeholders. iv) Coordinate capacity building in monitoring, data and information management for UNICEF Mozambique Sections, Field Offices, Clusters and UNICEF partners.
Executive Assistant,GS5, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark Denmark
Executive Assistant,GS5, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
Programme Associate, GS-6/FT, Manakara, Madagascar#129230 (reservé aux candidats de nationalité Malagasy) Madagascar
Sous la supervision et la direction du Chef du bureau de zone de Manakara, l’associé (e) au programme appuie la section en mettant en oeuvre une série de mesures procédurales, administratives et opérationnelles pour aider à élaborer, mettre en oeuvre et monitorer le programme de pays et le fonctionnement de la section élargie, en assurant une exécution rapide et efficace et conforme aux règles et règlements de l’UNICEF. L’Associé (e) est demandé(e) de travailler avec beaucoup d’autres équipes dans le bureau pays, des partenaires externes, et les autres agences afin de mener le mandat de l’UNICEF à bien.
Internal Vacancy Announcement; Education Officer, NOA, TA (364 days) Rumbek, South Sudan (for South Sudanese Only) South Sudan
The Education Officer will provide dedicated support for GPE-funded activities in Rumbek and surrounding areas, where UNICEF currently has no education staff presence. By strengthening field-level monitoring, coordination, and partner support, the officer will help bridge critical implementation gaps, ensure timely response to challenges, and enhance data-driven reporting. This will improve the quality and effectiveness of GPE-funded interventions, while reinforcing UNICEF’s credibility with government counterparts, donors, and local communities.
Human Resources Associate, GS-6/FT, Antananarivo, Madagascar#108666 Madagascar
Sous la supervision et l’orientation directes du People and Culture Manager, l’Associé(e) aux Ressources Humaines apporte un appui administratif, procédural et opérationnel à la mise en œuvre efficace d’un large éventail de fonctions en matière de ressources humaines pour toutes les catégories de personnel de son bureau, en veillant à une prestation précise et ponctuelle, conforme aux règles et règlements des ressources humaines de l’UNICEF.
Consultant(e) National(e), chargé(e) de la réalisation de l’étude sur la prévalence des violences et de protection de l’enfant en milieu scolaire à Madagascar, 06 mois Madagascar
L'objectif de cette consultance est d’appuyer techniquement le Ministère de L’Education Nationale pour réaliser une étude approfondie sur la prévalence et les différentes formes de violences en milieu scolaire à Madagascar et d'etablir un état des lieux complet des systèmes nationaux de protection des enfants contre ces violences au milieu scolaire. Le tout en conformité avec les standards et cadres légaux nationaux et internationaux.

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