UNICEF Pacific’s multi-country Child Protection Program for 2023–2027 aims to strengthen child protection systems across 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories. The program seeks to invest in three interlinked areas—child protection systems and data, workforce capacity and service provision, and family and community behaviour change—and is explicitly aligned with regional and national development frameworks. Implementation is supported through a mix of regional and sub-regional institutions (including CROP agencies such as the University of the South Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and SPC), national governments, civil society and faith-based organisations to ensure localization, reach and sustainability.
UNICEF India Country Office is looking for an experienced and committed Education Specialist to support the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of education programmes aimed at improving equitable and inclusive learning outcomes for children, especially those who are marginalized, disadvantaged, and affected by climate-related vulnerabilities. Working under the guidance of the Chief of Field Office and with technical support from the Chief of Education, the incumbent will apply innovative and differentiated strategies including advocacy, partnerships, convergence, and systems strengthening to advance education priorities in an upstream programming context. The role contributes to UNICEF’s mission of promoting the rights of every child and supporting resilient, equitable development across India
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
Sudan is among the top four countries in the world with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM), with an estimated 13.6 percent. The nutrition outlook is expected to deteriorate in 2026 due to ongoing conflict since mid of April 2023, food security decline, compromised health and WASH services, and prolonged displacement. The estimated people in need for nutrition services is projected to rise further with the deteriorating nutrition determinants. Currently, the nutrition cluster estimate that 3.67 million children under five will suffer from acute malnutrition during 2024, out of which, 729,000 children will have severe acute malnutrition which put them at immediate risk of death if not treated on timely manner.
Le/la consultante sera responsable de la conduite du processus de développement de la stratégie, de la revue documentaire à la validation finale de la Stratégie, en assurant sa cohérence, son ancrage institutionnel et son caractère inclusif et opérationnel. Il/elle veillera notamment à assurer l’articulation entre les différentes sources d’information (consultations, revue documentaire, étude, analyse), et à traduire les contributions en orientations stratégiques claires et opérationnelles.
Graphic Design Consultant – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – Partnerships, Advocacy and Resource Mobilization New York, USA, Home based (no travel required)
El objetivo de esta consultoría es brindar asistencia técnica a organismos provinciales y municipales de niñez para fortalecer sus sistemas de protección integral, mediante la elaboración de diagnósticos, la formulación e implementación de planes de mejora y el desarrollo de capacidades institucionales.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment: To generate evidence and operational insights on the impact of conflict on nutrition vulnerabilities, access, utilization, quality, and integration of nutrition services in urban and peri-urban displacement-hosting areas in Sudan, and to provide actionable recommendations to strengthen urban nutrition
programming.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF National Response in Italy, under the supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager and in collaboration with the National Coordinator, in documenting and designing procedures and governance tools for national and local Youth Advisory Boards (YAB). This work is required to establish the framework for the 3-year YAB project and model implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, ensuring alignment with the signed institutional agreement.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section of UNICEF works with National Committees and Country Offices to grow fundraising income. Within this, the Individual Giving (IG) team provides global strategic guidance to enhance fundraising performance, focusing on increasing net revenue through data-driven, technology-enabled, and collaborative approaches.The Fundraising Specialist (Individual Giving) is a strategic leadership role that supports key fundraising markets in developing and executing effective IG strategies. Acting as a trusted advisor and country focal point, the role helps markets grow sustainably, improve efficiency, manage risks, and align with the global IG strategy. Based in Europe, the specialist also collaborates with headquarters teams and local stakeholders to define growth pathways and ensure coordinated, future-focused fundraising efforts.
Identity Management Interagency Collaboration Consultant, Global Cash hub, Social Policy Global Practice, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, home based without travel
UNICEF The Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to lead the development of a Digital and AI Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT for 12 months with travel.
The Evaluation Specialist (Impact Evaluation& AI/Machine Learning) generates rigorous impact evidence that enables UNICEF to scale cost-effective interventions and optimize resource allocation for children. Through innovative methodologies and standardized frameworks, the role accelerates evidence generation and enhances its credibility while building institutional impact evaluation capacity across country offices. This strengthens UNICEF's ability to demonstrate programmatic impact, attract donor investment, and maximize outcomes for children globally.
The Innovation Manager (Innovative Financing) leads the design and implementation of innovative financing strategies to increase funding for solutions benefiting children. This includes advising OOI teams, identifying financing opportunities, and managing external partnerships to execute new financing models and platforms.
The Health Officer will provide professional technical assistance and operational support for the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and coordination of public health emergency and health in emergencies interventions
The GBV Officer will be responsible for providing technical support to UNICEF GBV and Child Protection partners particularly women-led organizations on GBV case management, psychosocial support (PSS), safe identification and referral of vulnerable children, and strengthening referral pathways.
Under the overall supervision of the Child Protection Specialist, this consultancy will cover:
1. Technical expert support to UNICEF for development, review, and quality assurance of justice for children (J4C) capacity building materials and other working products;
2. Technical expert and advisory support to UNICEF in J4C advocacy, policy and system development, coordination, and strategic communication.
Pakistan, with a population exceeding 240 million, faces persistent challenges in poverty, social exclusion, gender inequality, and vulnerability to disasters and emergencies. Over 38% of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with deep disparities at provincial and district levels, exacerbated by social exclusion, discrimination, and violence against marginalized groups, especially women, children, and minorities. The COVID-19 pandemic, recurring natural disasters, and ongoing humanitarian crises have further exposed the fragility of community systems and the urgent need for robust, inclusive, and resilient community engagement mechanisms
Social norms, information gaps, and low trust in public services further hinder service uptake. Technical solutions alone are insufficient; robust community engagement (CE) is essential to expand service reach, strengthen frontline systems, and address behavioral, social, and structural barriers. However, current CE efforts are fragmented and inconsistently linked with service delivery.
Community engagement emerged as one of the most effective components across the SBC portfolio . It relies on trusted local actors, culturally grounded approaches, participatory delivery, and regular interpersonal contact. These strategies helped shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours across sectors including health, WASH, education, nutrition, child protection, and polio.
The SBC formative evaluation highlights that interpersonal, community embedded delivery was the central driver of behaviour change. By leveraging community trust, local insights, and repeated face to face engagement, programmes were able to overcome social barriers, build ownership, and make desired behaviours more practical and acceptable for households.
UNICEF Pacific’s multi-country Child Protection Program for 2023–2027 aims to strengthen child protection systems across 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories. The program seeks to invest in three interlinked areas—child protection systems and data, workforce capacity and service provision, and family and community behaviour change—and is explicitly aligned with regional and national development frameworks. Implementation is supported through a mix of regional and sub-regional institutions (including CROP agencies such as the University of the South Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and SPC), national governments, civil society and faith-based organisations to ensure localization, reach and sustainability.
UNICEF India Country Office is looking for an experienced and committed Education Specialist to support the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of education programmes aimed at improving equitable and inclusive learning outcomes for children, especially those who are marginalized, disadvantaged, and affected by climate-related vulnerabilities. Working under the guidance of the Chief of Field Office and with technical support from the Chief of Education, the incumbent will apply innovative and differentiated strategies including advocacy, partnerships, convergence, and systems strengthening to advance education priorities in an upstream programming context. The role contributes to UNICEF’s mission of promoting the rights of every child and supporting resilient, equitable development across India
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
Sudan is among the top four countries in the world with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM), with an estimated 13.6 percent. The nutrition outlook is expected to deteriorate in 2026 due to ongoing conflict since mid of April 2023, food security decline, compromised health and WASH services, and prolonged displacement. The estimated people in need for nutrition services is projected to rise further with the deteriorating nutrition determinants. Currently, the nutrition cluster estimate that 3.67 million children under five will suffer from acute malnutrition during 2024, out of which, 729,000 children will have severe acute malnutrition which put them at immediate risk of death if not treated on timely manner.
Le/la consultante sera responsable de la conduite du processus de développement de la stratégie, de la revue documentaire à la validation finale de la Stratégie, en assurant sa cohérence, son ancrage institutionnel et son caractère inclusif et opérationnel. Il/elle veillera notamment à assurer l’articulation entre les différentes sources d’information (consultations, revue documentaire, étude, analyse), et à traduire les contributions en orientations stratégiques claires et opérationnelles.
Graphic Design Consultant – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – Partnerships, Advocacy and Resource Mobilization New York, USA, Home based (no travel required)
El objetivo de esta consultoría es brindar asistencia técnica a organismos provinciales y municipales de niñez para fortalecer sus sistemas de protección integral, mediante la elaboración de diagnósticos, la formulación e implementación de planes de mejora y el desarrollo de capacidades institucionales.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment: To generate evidence and operational insights on the impact of conflict on nutrition vulnerabilities, access, utilization, quality, and integration of nutrition services in urban and peri-urban displacement-hosting areas in Sudan, and to provide actionable recommendations to strengthen urban nutrition
programming.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF National Response in Italy, under the supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager and in collaboration with the National Coordinator, in documenting and designing procedures and governance tools for national and local Youth Advisory Boards (YAB). This work is required to establish the framework for the 3-year YAB project and model implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, ensuring alignment with the signed institutional agreement.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section of UNICEF works with National Committees and Country Offices to grow fundraising income. Within this, the Individual Giving (IG) team provides global strategic guidance to enhance fundraising performance, focusing on increasing net revenue through data-driven, technology-enabled, and collaborative approaches.The Fundraising Specialist (Individual Giving) is a strategic leadership role that supports key fundraising markets in developing and executing effective IG strategies. Acting as a trusted advisor and country focal point, the role helps markets grow sustainably, improve efficiency, manage risks, and align with the global IG strategy. Based in Europe, the specialist also collaborates with headquarters teams and local stakeholders to define growth pathways and ensure coordinated, future-focused fundraising efforts.
Identity Management Interagency Collaboration Consultant, Global Cash hub, Social Policy Global Practice, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, home based without travel
UNICEF The Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to lead the development of a Digital and AI Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT for 12 months with travel.
The Evaluation Specialist (Impact Evaluation& AI/Machine Learning) generates rigorous impact evidence that enables UNICEF to scale cost-effective interventions and optimize resource allocation for children. Through innovative methodologies and standardized frameworks, the role accelerates evidence generation and enhances its credibility while building institutional impact evaluation capacity across country offices. This strengthens UNICEF's ability to demonstrate programmatic impact, attract donor investment, and maximize outcomes for children globally.
The Innovation Manager (Innovative Financing) leads the design and implementation of innovative financing strategies to increase funding for solutions benefiting children. This includes advising OOI teams, identifying financing opportunities, and managing external partnerships to execute new financing models and platforms.
The Health Officer will provide professional technical assistance and operational support for the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and coordination of public health emergency and health in emergencies interventions
The GBV Officer will be responsible for providing technical support to UNICEF GBV and Child Protection partners particularly women-led organizations on GBV case management, psychosocial support (PSS), safe identification and referral of vulnerable children, and strengthening referral pathways.
Under the overall supervision of the Child Protection Specialist, this consultancy will cover:
1. Technical expert support to UNICEF for development, review, and quality assurance of justice for children (J4C) capacity building materials and other working products;
2. Technical expert and advisory support to UNICEF in J4C advocacy, policy and system development, coordination, and strategic communication.
Pakistan, with a population exceeding 240 million, faces persistent challenges in poverty, social exclusion, gender inequality, and vulnerability to disasters and emergencies. Over 38% of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with deep disparities at provincial and district levels, exacerbated by social exclusion, discrimination, and violence against marginalized groups, especially women, children, and minorities. The COVID-19 pandemic, recurring natural disasters, and ongoing humanitarian crises have further exposed the fragility of community systems and the urgent need for robust, inclusive, and resilient community engagement mechanisms
Social norms, information gaps, and low trust in public services further hinder service uptake. Technical solutions alone are insufficient; robust community engagement (CE) is essential to expand service reach, strengthen frontline systems, and address behavioral, social, and structural barriers. However, current CE efforts are fragmented and inconsistently linked with service delivery.
Community engagement emerged as one of the most effective components across the SBC portfolio . It relies on trusted local actors, culturally grounded approaches, participatory delivery, and regular interpersonal contact. These strategies helped shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours across sectors including health, WASH, education, nutrition, child protection, and polio.
The SBC formative evaluation highlights that interpersonal, community embedded delivery was the central driver of behaviour change. By leveraging community trust, local insights, and repeated face to face engagement, programmes were able to overcome social barriers, build ownership, and make desired behaviours more practical and acceptable for households.
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