UNICEF Office of Innovation is seeking a communication consultant to support the planning, development and creation of UPSHIFT advocacy and communication activites to support global advocacy efforts to showcase the impact of UPSHIFT on young people 21st century skills development, engagment and transition from learning to earning.
The successful candidate will be a part of the Portfolio, Culture, and Scale team based in Stockholm and will work under the direct supervision of the UPSHIFT global lead and in close collaboration with the Partnerships and Communicaiton team. The consultant will work remotely and is expected to be available along CET time zone during the active engagement of the assignment.
The UNICEF Office of Innovation is Looking for several interns. The Interns will gain practical experience by participating in activities across diverse portfolio areas at the Office of Innovation. Multiple interns will be recruited. Applicants are asked to specify their top two preferred areas of interest. Available positions within the innovation thematic and portfolio areas include:
• Governance Intern
• Humanitarian Intern
• Health Intern
• Climate, Energy, and Infrastructure Intern
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Knowledge Management intern
• UPSHIFT Intern
• Design Intern
Join us as the next Finance Officer for UNICEF Mexico!
Are you passionate about making a difference? You'll support the Chief of Fundraising and Partnerships with accurate financial data, monitor the annual budget, targets, and cash flow, and prepare updates for management at national and international levels.
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Join us as the next Communication Officer (Marketing) for UNICEF Mexico!
Are you passionate about making a difference? As our next Communication Officer (Marketing), you'll play a key part in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of marketing and communication strategies aimed at raising funds and collaborating with companies and other private sector actors to promote and protect child rights.
If you’re ready to drive impactful results and contribute to a meaningful change, read the full advertisement and apply today!
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products reports to the Chief CSD for general guidance and direction. The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for providing technical support to the Ministry of Health for the quantification of drugs at the national level and for the ordering as well as planning of the supply and distribution of drugs to targeted Health districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination of the activities of the European Union project and to maintain contact between the Ministry of Health and the EU project implementing partners in the 7 targeted Health Districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination between the Ministry of Health, the health regions, the health districts and the implementation partners in terms of drug supply management. He will work strategically to plan and formulate actions to sustain the national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm and to protect their rights to survival, development, and well-being, as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for establishing the action plan and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable UE project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
UNICEF Maldives Country Office is offering two exciting 6-month internships in the Child Protection and Education sections. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop essential skills while making a difference in the lives of children. Apply now and be part of a team dedicated to creating a brighter future!
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Nutrition Officer on a temporary appointment of 364 days, to be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Under the supervision of the Maternal & Child Health Specialist, this Nutrition Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the nutrition programmes/projects in Solomon Islands, from development planning to delivery of results. In doing so, the incumbent implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of results in maternal, infant, child, and adolescent nutrition programmes/projects with special attention to multiple systems engagement (food, education, health, social protection) and multi-sectoral coordinated actions to reduce the triple burden of malnutrition, including in emergencies.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a WASH Officer (Engineer) at the NOB level to be based in Tarawa, Kiribati. The WASH Officer will report to the WASH Specialist and provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The WASH Officer will prepare, and implement a variety of technical, management, and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme. Specifically, this position will provide dedicated WASH engineering expertise to the WASH Programme in the country office including working closely with key government stakeholders and selected contractors in planning of improvement works and to provide close technical oversight and regular reporting of implementation of the construction works.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Construction Officer (Education) on a temporary appointment to be based in the Multi-Country Office in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Under the supervision of the Chief Field Office and Education Specialist, the Construction Officer (Education) will oversee and coordinate education infrastructure projects, ensuring quality, timeliness, and compliance with UNICEF's sustainability and resilience principle.
The post is based in the Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa (MENARO) based in Amman and reports to the Regional Staff Counsellor with a non-negotiable condition for travel to Gaza and other Level 3 Emergencies locations. The Staff Counsellor will implement and contribute to a resiliency and stress management programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff in Gaza and Level 3 Emergencies. The work will be carried out from the preventive and curative perspective at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
UNICEF Belize Country Office is seeking an experienced Education Consultant to provide technical and operational support to the implementation of its education programme, with a particular focus on the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Systems Capacity Grant.
The consultant will support programme planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring and reporting processes. S/he will work closely with UNICEF staff and partners—including government counterparts, NGOs and UN agencies—to ensure effective delivery of results, support capacity building, and contribute to key initiatives such as curriculum reform, the Safe School Initiative, and GIGA.
Key deliverables include:
An inception report and draft workplan;
A partnership engagement framework and education coalition action plan;
A resource mobilization strategy;
Communication materials to support education advocacy;
Strengthened monitoring and reporting tools and frameworks;
Monthly progress reports and a final comprehensive report with recommendations.
This is a national consultancy, office-based in Belize, with an expected duration of 11 months (July 2025 to June 2026).
We are looking for a candidate with a master’s degree in education, social sciences, public policy, or a related field, and demonstrated experience in education programme management, stakeholder engagement, and resource mobilization. Fluency in English and strong writing skills are essential.
Objetivo general: Elaborar una Revisión Programática de Genero (RPG) para la Oficina de UNICEF El Salvador, que analice los resultados del Plan de Acción de Género (2022-2025) en el contexto nacional, identifique las brechas persistentes, sus causas y proponga soluciones para fortalecer la
Join us as the next Digital Communication Officer for UNICEF Mexico!
Are you passionate about making a difference? As our next Digital Communication Officer, you'll play a key part in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the digital and social media components of our advocacy and communication strategy. Your efforts will help bring the issues affecting children in Mexico into the public eye.
If you’re ready to drive impactful results and contribute to a meaningful change, read the full advertisement and apply today!
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
The “Knowledge at UNICEF (K@U)” platform (https://knowledge.unicef.org) provides UNICEF offices with an external UNICEF branded web publishing platform which allows them to easily share UNICEF technical knowledge products and makes it easy for UNICEF partners to access them and engage around them. The platform has been developed to help position UNICEF as a global knowledge leader for children, and ensure that UNICEF as an organization manages, documents, shares knowledge effectively. The platform allows finalized technical content that is already stored on UNICEF’s internal Enterprise Content Management system in SharePoint to be shared publicly through the K@U site ensuring a single source of truth with consistency between internal and external versions of a document.
The platform has been live since January 2023, and pilots are already underway.
The assignment for this consultancy is to assist the KM specialist with the management and rollout of the platform with country and regional offices, and global thematic groups.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert guidance on the development of a research and thought leadership agenda on the debt crisis and its impacts on children. The consultant will support the shaping of the research direction, advise on the production of key outputs, and contribute to the delivery of a flagship publication. This includes identifying and engaging contributing authors, facilitating research activities, supporting coherence across outputs, and advising on the preparation of a final book that synthesizes findings and policy insights.
Papua New Guinea Country Office is looking for 12 SBC consultants to provide technical and operational SBC expertise, supervision and coordination of the national polio communication response, including planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation.
PNG Country Office is looking for 4 consultants to support the provincial polio outbreak response team (PEOC) and EPI focal/manager for the preparation and implementation of activities for the response to the cVDPV2 outbreak.
Under the overall direction of the Chief Advocacy and Communication, the Partnerships Specialist will be responsible for the development, planning, and guidance of private sector fundraising, leveraging and partnership strategies and activities within the South Africa Country Office (SACO), and serves as private sector fundraising, leveraging, non-financial support, and partnerships specialist for SACO.
UNICEF seeks to hire an experienced, results oriented Individual consultant to assist UNICEF Lesotho Country Office to develop an ECE investment case for Lesotho. The investment case aims to demonstrate the value and impact of early learning on children, society and the nation as a whole. It provides evidence-based arguments to policymakers, highlighting how ECE can lead to better educational outcomes, increased economic productivity, and reduced social inequalities, among many benefits.
UNICEF Office of Innovation is seeking a communication consultant to support the planning, development and creation of UPSHIFT advocacy and communication activites to support global advocacy efforts to showcase the impact of UPSHIFT on young people 21st century skills development, engagment and transition from learning to earning.
The successful candidate will be a part of the Portfolio, Culture, and Scale team based in Stockholm and will work under the direct supervision of the UPSHIFT global lead and in close collaboration with the Partnerships and Communicaiton team. The consultant will work remotely and is expected to be available along CET time zone during the active engagement of the assignment.
The UNICEF Office of Innovation is Looking for several interns. The Interns will gain practical experience by participating in activities across diverse portfolio areas at the Office of Innovation. Multiple interns will be recruited. Applicants are asked to specify their top two preferred areas of interest. Available positions within the innovation thematic and portfolio areas include:
• Governance Intern
• Humanitarian Intern
• Health Intern
• Climate, Energy, and Infrastructure Intern
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Knowledge Management intern
• UPSHIFT Intern
• Design Intern
Join us as the next Finance Officer for UNICEF Mexico!
Are you passionate about making a difference? You'll support the Chief of Fundraising and Partnerships with accurate financial data, monitor the annual budget, targets, and cash flow, and prepare updates for management at national and international levels.
If you're ready to drive impactful results, read the full advertisement and apply today!
Join us as the next Communication Officer (Marketing) for UNICEF Mexico!
Are you passionate about making a difference? As our next Communication Officer (Marketing), you'll play a key part in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of marketing and communication strategies aimed at raising funds and collaborating with companies and other private sector actors to promote and protect child rights.
If you’re ready to drive impactful results and contribute to a meaningful change, read the full advertisement and apply today!
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products reports to the Chief CSD for general guidance and direction. The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for providing technical support to the Ministry of Health for the quantification of drugs at the national level and for the ordering as well as planning of the supply and distribution of drugs to targeted Health districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination of the activities of the European Union project and to maintain contact between the Ministry of Health and the EU project implementing partners in the 7 targeted Health Districts; He is responsible to ensure the coordination between the Ministry of Health, the health regions, the health districts and the implementation partners in terms of drug supply management. He will work strategically to plan and formulate actions to sustain the national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm and to protect their rights to survival, development, and well-being, as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
The pharmacist officer in charge of quantification and quality assurance of health products is responsible for establishing the action plan and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable UE project results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
UNICEF Maldives Country Office is offering two exciting 6-month internships in the Child Protection and Education sections. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop essential skills while making a difference in the lives of children. Apply now and be part of a team dedicated to creating a brighter future!
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Nutrition Officer on a temporary appointment of 364 days, to be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Under the supervision of the Maternal & Child Health Specialist, this Nutrition Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the nutrition programmes/projects in Solomon Islands, from development planning to delivery of results. In doing so, the incumbent implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of results in maternal, infant, child, and adolescent nutrition programmes/projects with special attention to multiple systems engagement (food, education, health, social protection) and multi-sectoral coordinated actions to reduce the triple burden of malnutrition, including in emergencies.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a WASH Officer (Engineer) at the NOB level to be based in Tarawa, Kiribati. The WASH Officer will report to the WASH Specialist and provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The WASH Officer will prepare, and implement a variety of technical, management, and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme. Specifically, this position will provide dedicated WASH engineering expertise to the WASH Programme in the country office including working closely with key government stakeholders and selected contractors in planning of improvement works and to provide close technical oversight and regular reporting of implementation of the construction works.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a Construction Officer (Education) on a temporary appointment to be based in the Multi-Country Office in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Under the supervision of the Chief Field Office and Education Specialist, the Construction Officer (Education) will oversee and coordinate education infrastructure projects, ensuring quality, timeliness, and compliance with UNICEF's sustainability and resilience principle.
The post is based in the Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa (MENARO) based in Amman and reports to the Regional Staff Counsellor with a non-negotiable condition for travel to Gaza and other Level 3 Emergencies locations. The Staff Counsellor will implement and contribute to a resiliency and stress management programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff in Gaza and Level 3 Emergencies. The work will be carried out from the preventive and curative perspective at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
UNICEF Belize Country Office is seeking an experienced Education Consultant to provide technical and operational support to the implementation of its education programme, with a particular focus on the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Systems Capacity Grant.
The consultant will support programme planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring and reporting processes. S/he will work closely with UNICEF staff and partners—including government counterparts, NGOs and UN agencies—to ensure effective delivery of results, support capacity building, and contribute to key initiatives such as curriculum reform, the Safe School Initiative, and GIGA.
Key deliverables include:
An inception report and draft workplan;
A partnership engagement framework and education coalition action plan;
A resource mobilization strategy;
Communication materials to support education advocacy;
Strengthened monitoring and reporting tools and frameworks;
Monthly progress reports and a final comprehensive report with recommendations.
This is a national consultancy, office-based in Belize, with an expected duration of 11 months (July 2025 to June 2026).
We are looking for a candidate with a master’s degree in education, social sciences, public policy, or a related field, and demonstrated experience in education programme management, stakeholder engagement, and resource mobilization. Fluency in English and strong writing skills are essential.
Objetivo general: Elaborar una Revisión Programática de Genero (RPG) para la Oficina de UNICEF El Salvador, que analice los resultados del Plan de Acción de Género (2022-2025) en el contexto nacional, identifique las brechas persistentes, sus causas y proponga soluciones para fortalecer la
Join us as the next Digital Communication Officer for UNICEF Mexico!
Are you passionate about making a difference? As our next Digital Communication Officer, you'll play a key part in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the digital and social media components of our advocacy and communication strategy. Your efforts will help bring the issues affecting children in Mexico into the public eye.
If you’re ready to drive impactful results and contribute to a meaningful change, read the full advertisement and apply today!
The Social & Economic Policy (SEP) unit at UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is establishing a Roster of Consultants with pre-qualified candidates who can be contracted quickly to provide a range of research services. These may include quantitative or qualitative data collection activities, data analysis (quantitative and/or qualitative), literature reviews, writing research outputs such as reports, briefs or academic articles, amongst others.
The “Knowledge at UNICEF (K@U)” platform (https://knowledge.unicef.org) provides UNICEF offices with an external UNICEF branded web publishing platform which allows them to easily share UNICEF technical knowledge products and makes it easy for UNICEF partners to access them and engage around them. The platform has been developed to help position UNICEF as a global knowledge leader for children, and ensure that UNICEF as an organization manages, documents, shares knowledge effectively. The platform allows finalized technical content that is already stored on UNICEF’s internal Enterprise Content Management system in SharePoint to be shared publicly through the K@U site ensuring a single source of truth with consistency between internal and external versions of a document.
The platform has been live since January 2023, and pilots are already underway.
The assignment for this consultancy is to assist the KM specialist with the management and rollout of the platform with country and regional offices, and global thematic groups.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert guidance on the development of a research and thought leadership agenda on the debt crisis and its impacts on children. The consultant will support the shaping of the research direction, advise on the production of key outputs, and contribute to the delivery of a flagship publication. This includes identifying and engaging contributing authors, facilitating research activities, supporting coherence across outputs, and advising on the preparation of a final book that synthesizes findings and policy insights.
Papua New Guinea Country Office is looking for 12 SBC consultants to provide technical and operational SBC expertise, supervision and coordination of the national polio communication response, including planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation.
PNG Country Office is looking for 4 consultants to support the provincial polio outbreak response team (PEOC) and EPI focal/manager for the preparation and implementation of activities for the response to the cVDPV2 outbreak.
Under the overall direction of the Chief Advocacy and Communication, the Partnerships Specialist will be responsible for the development, planning, and guidance of private sector fundraising, leveraging and partnership strategies and activities within the South Africa Country Office (SACO), and serves as private sector fundraising, leveraging, non-financial support, and partnerships specialist for SACO.
UNICEF seeks to hire an experienced, results oriented Individual consultant to assist UNICEF Lesotho Country Office to develop an ECE investment case for Lesotho. The investment case aims to demonstrate the value and impact of early learning on children, society and the nation as a whole. It provides evidence-based arguments to policymakers, highlighting how ECE can lead to better educational outcomes, increased economic productivity, and reduced social inequalities, among many benefits.
