Join UNICEF and make tech work for impact! As our Digital Impact Assistant, you’ll keep our team connected and efficient by delivering fast, reliable IT support, ensuring smooth implementation of digital initiatives, and maintaining accurate systems and documentation. Your role helps drive innovation, enhance user experience, and keep communication flowing—so we can focus on what matters most: improving the lives of children worldwide.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
This consultancy will provide senior technical and strategic support to UNICEF India to design and operationalize the early phase of a catalytic financing facility.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
UNICEF India is seeking a national individual consultancy to provide technical support to strengthen public financing for education, including education financing strategy, capacity strengthening, quality assurance of the Samagra Shiksha diagnostic study, and evidence-based education financing analysis and policy support, for a period of 11.5 months.
Join UNICEF as Chief (Professional Practices), Internal Audit. Lead the strategy, quality, innovation, and transformation of UNICEF’s global internal audit function, driving risk-based assurance, audit excellence, and data-driven insights across a complex international organization. This senior leadership role is ideal for a seasoned audit professional with extensive experience in internal audit, risk management, quality assurance, and audit modernization who is passionate about strengthening governance and organizational impact.
Under the general supervision of the Chief, Education Research Unit, the incumbent will provide programme implementation, monitoring, and operational support to the relevant units, with a particular focus on supporting effective resource management.
As part of the UNICEF India Country Programme (2023–2027) and the approved Rolling Work Plan (2026–2027), UNICEF Rajasthan proposes to engage an Individual Consultant to provide technical assistance to the Government of Rajasthan, particularly the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), for strengthening Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQMS) system to ensure equitable, climate-resilient and safely managed drinking water services
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide support to the CPDD team in the areas of ECD and with respect to some specific topics within child protection, namely birth registration, violence and children living outside of family care. The consultant will be supervised by the Senior Adviser, Statistics, Child Protection, Development and Disability within the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence - Innocenti.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated product ownership for the development and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, ensuring that business needs, as defined by the AI Business Owner, are translated into clear product requirements, prioritised use cases, and implementable features. The Product Owner will support alignment between stakeholders, technical teams and governance functions to ensure that AI products are user-centred, operationally relevant, responsibly designed, and delivered in line with agreed priorities, quality standards and organisational requirements.
The core objective of this assignment is to co-create or lead on data projects, support capacity building where applicable and developing data & analytics products, primarily using cutting-edge data and data science models to support horizontal initiatives across UNICEF’s core programmes on health, education, WASH and country climate initiatives and in particular the Automated SitRep, a tool that supports the Office of Emergency Programmes with data to support regional and country based emergencies and the Air Quality Model creation for Malaysia.
Working in close partnership with DPC, GPD and OED, the consultant will design and build the architecture of a structured technical leadership track with a proposal for how to organize, establish, implement, maintain and govern it.
UNICEF works to realize every child’s rights, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF supports resilient systems and communities through risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness. As humanitarian and development financing becomes increasingly constrained, UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) plays a critical role in mobilizing private sector partnerships and resources to drive results for children.
Under the supervision of the Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA) the incumbent will provide strategic guidance, quality assurance and ensure overall management of DGCA to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate and brand for children and their rights across the world.
In particular, the incumbent will guide and manage teams within the Advocacy pillar in DGCA to ensure the timely identification, implementation and monitoring of advocacy and communication strategies to support the achievement of organizational priorities. S/he will establish a systematic approach to identify issues of strategic importance and advocacy opportunities and partnerships for UNICEF, ensuring effective co-ordination of DGCA in support of global priorities, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2026-2029), its Advocacy and Communication Change Strategy and the Global Communications and Advocacy Strategy. Emphasizing team building, s/he will promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective and efficient global advocacy and communications team. The incumbent will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization - including HQ divisions, Regional and Country Offices and National Committees - to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
Join UNICEF and make tech work for impact! As our Digital Impact Assistant, you’ll keep our team connected and efficient by delivering fast, reliable IT support, ensuring smooth implementation of digital initiatives, and maintaining accurate systems and documentation. Your role helps drive innovation, enhance user experience, and keep communication flowing—so we can focus on what matters most: improving the lives of children worldwide.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
This consultancy will provide senior technical and strategic support to UNICEF India to design and operationalize the early phase of a catalytic financing facility.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
UNICEF India is seeking a national individual consultancy to provide technical support to strengthen public financing for education, including education financing strategy, capacity strengthening, quality assurance of the Samagra Shiksha diagnostic study, and evidence-based education financing analysis and policy support, for a period of 11.5 months.
Join UNICEF as Chief (Professional Practices), Internal Audit. Lead the strategy, quality, innovation, and transformation of UNICEF’s global internal audit function, driving risk-based assurance, audit excellence, and data-driven insights across a complex international organization. This senior leadership role is ideal for a seasoned audit professional with extensive experience in internal audit, risk management, quality assurance, and audit modernization who is passionate about strengthening governance and organizational impact.
Under the general supervision of the Chief, Education Research Unit, the incumbent will provide programme implementation, monitoring, and operational support to the relevant units, with a particular focus on supporting effective resource management.
As part of the UNICEF India Country Programme (2023–2027) and the approved Rolling Work Plan (2026–2027), UNICEF Rajasthan proposes to engage an Individual Consultant to provide technical assistance to the Government of Rajasthan, particularly the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), for strengthening Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQMS) system to ensure equitable, climate-resilient and safely managed drinking water services
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide support to the CPDD team in the areas of ECD and with respect to some specific topics within child protection, namely birth registration, violence and children living outside of family care. The consultant will be supervised by the Senior Adviser, Statistics, Child Protection, Development and Disability within the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence - Innocenti.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated product ownership for the development and delivery of AI-enabled solutions, ensuring that business needs, as defined by the AI Business Owner, are translated into clear product requirements, prioritised use cases, and implementable features. The Product Owner will support alignment between stakeholders, technical teams and governance functions to ensure that AI products are user-centred, operationally relevant, responsibly designed, and delivered in line with agreed priorities, quality standards and organisational requirements.
The core objective of this assignment is to co-create or lead on data projects, support capacity building where applicable and developing data & analytics products, primarily using cutting-edge data and data science models to support horizontal initiatives across UNICEF’s core programmes on health, education, WASH and country climate initiatives and in particular the Automated SitRep, a tool that supports the Office of Emergency Programmes with data to support regional and country based emergencies and the Air Quality Model creation for Malaysia.
Working in close partnership with DPC, GPD and OED, the consultant will design and build the architecture of a structured technical leadership track with a proposal for how to organize, establish, implement, maintain and govern it.
UNICEF works to realize every child’s rights, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF supports resilient systems and communities through risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness. As humanitarian and development financing becomes increasingly constrained, UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) plays a critical role in mobilizing private sector partnerships and resources to drive results for children.
Under the supervision of the Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA) the incumbent will provide strategic guidance, quality assurance and ensure overall management of DGCA to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate and brand for children and their rights across the world.
In particular, the incumbent will guide and manage teams within the Advocacy pillar in DGCA to ensure the timely identification, implementation and monitoring of advocacy and communication strategies to support the achievement of organizational priorities. S/he will establish a systematic approach to identify issues of strategic importance and advocacy opportunities and partnerships for UNICEF, ensuring effective co-ordination of DGCA in support of global priorities, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2026-2029), its Advocacy and Communication Change Strategy and the Global Communications and Advocacy Strategy. Emphasizing team building, s/he will promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective and efficient global advocacy and communications team. The incumbent will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization - including HQ divisions, Regional and Country Offices and National Committees - to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
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