Join our team to develop and strengthen emergency preparedness plans, conduct risk assessments, and contingency planning. These efforts help increase the resilience of affected communities and improve their capacity to respond effectively to crises. The JPO also ensures that emergency responses are well-coordinated, preventing duplication of efforts and maximizing the use of resources.
This post is opened in the context of the Junior Professional Officer (JPO) scheme sponsored by the Government of the Netherlands and is addressed exclusively to the CANDIDATES WITH THE NATIONALITY OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES, excluding Ethiopia, due to the restriction that nationals of the country where the position is located cannot be considered: https://nedworcfoundation.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eligible-countries-DC-JPOs-2025.pdf
For the minimum qualification requirements see the website of Nedworc Foundation:
https://nedworcfoundation.nl/junior-professional-officers-programme/
The maximum age limit is 32 years as of 31 December of the year of application.
Please read the selection criteria and FAQ section carefully before considering applying
UNICEF Eswatini, and more specifically the Lifelong Learning, Protection, and Development section, is looking for a talented young intern who is passionate about working on youth participation, skilling, and empowerment issues and is eager and excited to enhance his/her educational experience through innovative and practical hands-on work assignments. This unique opportunity will allow the intern to actively contribute to UNICEF Eswatini’s mandate and programme priorities, making a meaningful impact on the lives of vulnerable children and communities.
The consultants will be based at the MoH/Immunization program or any other assigned departments/Institutions , with frequent travel to subnational levels to provide technical support, ensuring comprehensive and effective immunization services across the country.
The main function of the post is to boost digital acquisition and retention through digital channels, in order to increase UNICEF income in Ecuador and continue diversifying its sources of income.
To achieve this result, the incumbent will assist with the development of the Digital Fundraising strategy and will be in charge to implement it, covering the full spectrum of digital marketing
UNICEF Lesotho seeks to hire a Early Childhood Development (ECD) Officer who will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for ECD and early learning (grades 1-3) programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative program tasks. This is pertaining to enhancing access to pre-primary education and expansion of Reception Classes in Primary Schools, enhancing the quality of pre-primary and early grades education, cluster-based teacher training and mentoring as well as community mobilization, and advocacy.
The consultant will provide technical and coordination support to UNICEF’s Private and Public Partnerships team and the broader ECO office, focusing on:
-Building internal capacity on private sector engagement and child rights in business.
-Strategic resource mobilization and partnerships with public and private sector in support of priority thematic areas such as Nutrition, ECD/Family Friendly Policies, Climate, Girls Empowerment and financing for children initiatives.
-Ensuring effective cross-sectoral grant coordination and donor engagement in collaboration with Programme teams.
The Social Policy team of the UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking an individual consultant to coordinate the phase II of the pilot implementation of the integrated services model for children with disabilities at sub-national level and devise the strategy for its scale up at national level.
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring two Programme Specialists (Health System Strengthening (HSS)), P3 on a temporary appointment, each to be based in one of the following duty stations of the Pacific Multi Country Office:
• Tarawa, Kiribati
• Nuku’alofa, Tonga, with regular quarterly missions to Tuvalu
Under the technical supervision of the Programme Manager (HSS), UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, Programme Specialists provide technical, managerial and operational leadership for Pacific Healthy Islands Transformation (PHIT) project activities in respective countries (Kiribati, Tonga and Tuvalu). They will act as UNICEF’s primary in-country coordinators, ensuring effective implementation of PHIT activities while maintaining coherence with UNICEF’s broader health and nutrition programming in each of the countries. The roles ensure effective delivery of UNICEF-supported PHIT outputs at country level, aligned with regional designs and supporting to the Centre of Excellence (COE) element for Primary Health Care (PHC) elements; strong partnerships with the Ministry of Health and Project Management Unit (PMU); oversight of local vendors, consultants, and technical partners; alignment of PHIT activities with UNICEF’s broader health and nutrition programming in each country; hands-on support to the PMU for monitoring and evaluation; and compliance with UNICEF policies and donor requirements.
The UNICEF Pacific Multi- Country office is hiring a Driver/Messenger on a temporary appointment to be based in Kiritimati field office in Kiribati. Under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Associate in Kiribati, the Driver/Messenger is responsible for providing reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea is looking for a dedicated Programme Associate to provide specialized programme and administrative support to facilitate the development, implementation and monitoring of UNICEF's Education programmes. The role involves substantial engagement in budget tracking, reporting, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective delivery and compliance with organizational rules.
In partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE), The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) launched the South Africa ECCE Outcomes Fund (“Fund 1.0”) in December 2025. Over three years, five implementing partners (IPs) will open around 1.4k new Early learning programmes (ELPs) and support around 600 existing ones throughout the country. The Outcomes fund is a form of outcomes-based financing, wherein payment to IPs is dependent on their progress towards pre-specified target outcomes. Under this model, EOF, IPs, and pre-financers providing working capital and performance management to the IPs, will frequently collect monitoring and evaluation data related to the interventions.
Fund 1.0 was developed as a way to learn about how to improve ECCE quality, to provide space for innovation, and as an opportunity for the DBE to broaden partnerships with non-state ECCE providers. Towards the scaling objectives of the 2030 ECD strategy and as outlined in the Bana Pele Blueprint, the DBE and EOF are interested in surfacing learnings from Fund 1.0 to inform the design of a future outcomes fund (“ELP Fund 2.0”). To support that effort, EOF is looking to collaborate with a consultant who will serve as a full-time member of the South Africa country team, to lead the learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda for Fund 1.0.
UNICEF is engaging a consultant to facilitate and undertake consultations with key stakeholders, conduct research, analyze findings, draft Volume 4 of the Water under Fire series, prepare its publication and disseminate its results internally and externally.
Based on the established policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLAs), the purpose of the incumbent role is to carry out broad ICT functions and enable the provision of ICT solutions and services and assist in the delivery of results in a small size office.
UNICEF Tajikistan is looking for an experienced, dynamic, results-oriented consultant who will provide to an international consultant to gain insight into the government of Tajikistan and international organisations' efforts to date in improving the quality of care and reducing maternal and newborn mortality, taking into consideration success and failure factors and the root causes of sustainability challenges in enhancing the quality of care and reducing perinatal mortality in the country.
UNICEF Tajikistan is looking for an experienced, dynamic, results-oriented consultant who will work closely with national consultants, the Steering Committee (SC), the MoHSPP’s Maternal and Child Health department and UNICEF/WHO regional offices. The consultant will be the primary technical liaison between UNICEF, WHO, MoHSPP and other development and local partners involved in perinatal healthcare in Tajikistan.
The UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) is looking for highly experienced Staff Counsellor (Multi-Country) based in Nairobi, Kenya. This is a multi-country position and will be expected to travel to country offices as required. Reporting to the Regional Staff Counsellor, the Staff Counsellor will support the newly established Centre Of Excellence in Nairobi and support staff and families with transition. The Staff Counsellor will work in close coordination with Country Management Teams, Emergency Coordinators, People and Culture team, Staff Association, Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs), the UN Medical Clinic and UN Staff Counsellors.
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated Education Specialist (Systems Strengthening) for their education team. Under the guidance and general supervision of the Chief, Education (Level 4), for increased accountability, sustainability and efficiency of the education system, the Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Education programmes for all education system strengthening aspects and education communication and visibility components.
The evaluation further contributes to Impact Result 2 ("350 million more children and young people learning and skilled") by generating evidence on how all-season WASH services impact school enrollment, attendance, retention and learning outcomes—particularly for girls who face barriers related to menstrual hygiene management. Additionally, this evaluation advances Impact Result 5 ("500 million children better protected from disasters, climate and environmental risks") by building critical evidence on the effectiveness of climate-resilient WASH infrastructure in water-scarce settings exposed to extreme weather events, directly supporting UNICEF's commitment to strengthen the resilience of social infrastructure and services to climate hazards.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide thematic evaluation support for the Impact Evaluation on “Accelerating Climate Resilient Water Sanitation and Hygiene Services for Schools and Healthcare Facilities in Karamoja.” The thematic expert will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including the UNICEF Impact Evaluation Specialist, data analyst, and program leads to advise and provide feedback on the technical thematic aspects of this evaluation including robust survey instruments, data analysis and preparation of reports and presentations of the findings.
Under the direct supervision of Emergency Specialist (Preparedness), the MENARO Humanitarian Section seeks to recruit a consultant to lead the design and support the delivery and facilitation of emergency preparedness and response simulation exercises (in particular tabletop simulations) for selected UNICEF Country Offices (CO) and for the Regional Office (RO) in MENA. The consultant will be responsible for designing, developing and facilitating simulation exercises that will test and improve staff emergency response skills and knowledge, as well as country preparedness and response capacities. The consultant will identify, and document critical actions needed and recommendations to strengthen the CO’s and RO’s emergency preparedness based on the outcomes of the simulations.
Working with UNICEF staff at country, regional and headquarter offices, the consultant will enhance staff skills and knowledge related to emergency preparedness and response through simulations and offer practical experience in responding to emergency situations.
Join our team to develop and strengthen emergency preparedness plans, conduct risk assessments, and contingency planning. These efforts help increase the resilience of affected communities and improve their capacity to respond effectively to crises. The JPO also ensures that emergency responses are well-coordinated, preventing duplication of efforts and maximizing the use of resources.
This post is opened in the context of the Junior Professional Officer (JPO) scheme sponsored by the Government of the Netherlands and is addressed exclusively to the CANDIDATES WITH THE NATIONALITY OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES, excluding Ethiopia, due to the restriction that nationals of the country where the position is located cannot be considered: https://nedworcfoundation.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eligible-countries-DC-JPOs-2025.pdf
For the minimum qualification requirements see the website of Nedworc Foundation:
https://nedworcfoundation.nl/junior-professional-officers-programme/
The maximum age limit is 32 years as of 31 December of the year of application.
Please read the selection criteria and FAQ section carefully before considering applying
UNICEF Eswatini, and more specifically the Lifelong Learning, Protection, and Development section, is looking for a talented young intern who is passionate about working on youth participation, skilling, and empowerment issues and is eager and excited to enhance his/her educational experience through innovative and practical hands-on work assignments. This unique opportunity will allow the intern to actively contribute to UNICEF Eswatini’s mandate and programme priorities, making a meaningful impact on the lives of vulnerable children and communities.
The consultants will be based at the MoH/Immunization program or any other assigned departments/Institutions , with frequent travel to subnational levels to provide technical support, ensuring comprehensive and effective immunization services across the country.
The main function of the post is to boost digital acquisition and retention through digital channels, in order to increase UNICEF income in Ecuador and continue diversifying its sources of income.
To achieve this result, the incumbent will assist with the development of the Digital Fundraising strategy and will be in charge to implement it, covering the full spectrum of digital marketing
UNICEF Lesotho seeks to hire a Early Childhood Development (ECD) Officer who will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for ECD and early learning (grades 1-3) programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative program tasks. This is pertaining to enhancing access to pre-primary education and expansion of Reception Classes in Primary Schools, enhancing the quality of pre-primary and early grades education, cluster-based teacher training and mentoring as well as community mobilization, and advocacy.
The consultant will provide technical and coordination support to UNICEF’s Private and Public Partnerships team and the broader ECO office, focusing on:
-Building internal capacity on private sector engagement and child rights in business.
-Strategic resource mobilization and partnerships with public and private sector in support of priority thematic areas such as Nutrition, ECD/Family Friendly Policies, Climate, Girls Empowerment and financing for children initiatives.
-Ensuring effective cross-sectoral grant coordination and donor engagement in collaboration with Programme teams.
The Social Policy team of the UNICEF Thailand Country Office is seeking an individual consultant to coordinate the phase II of the pilot implementation of the integrated services model for children with disabilities at sub-national level and devise the strategy for its scale up at national level.
Under the supervision of the Education Specialist, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring two Programme Specialists (Health System Strengthening (HSS)), P3 on a temporary appointment, each to be based in one of the following duty stations of the Pacific Multi Country Office:
• Tarawa, Kiribati
• Nuku’alofa, Tonga, with regular quarterly missions to Tuvalu
Under the technical supervision of the Programme Manager (HSS), UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, Programme Specialists provide technical, managerial and operational leadership for Pacific Healthy Islands Transformation (PHIT) project activities in respective countries (Kiribati, Tonga and Tuvalu). They will act as UNICEF’s primary in-country coordinators, ensuring effective implementation of PHIT activities while maintaining coherence with UNICEF’s broader health and nutrition programming in each of the countries. The roles ensure effective delivery of UNICEF-supported PHIT outputs at country level, aligned with regional designs and supporting to the Centre of Excellence (COE) element for Primary Health Care (PHC) elements; strong partnerships with the Ministry of Health and Project Management Unit (PMU); oversight of local vendors, consultants, and technical partners; alignment of PHIT activities with UNICEF’s broader health and nutrition programming in each country; hands-on support to the PMU for monitoring and evaluation; and compliance with UNICEF policies and donor requirements.
The UNICEF Pacific Multi- Country office is hiring a Driver/Messenger on a temporary appointment to be based in Kiritimati field office in Kiribati. Under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Associate in Kiribati, the Driver/Messenger is responsible for providing reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea is looking for a dedicated Programme Associate to provide specialized programme and administrative support to facilitate the development, implementation and monitoring of UNICEF's Education programmes. The role involves substantial engagement in budget tracking, reporting, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective delivery and compliance with organizational rules.
In partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE), The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) launched the South Africa ECCE Outcomes Fund (“Fund 1.0”) in December 2025. Over three years, five implementing partners (IPs) will open around 1.4k new Early learning programmes (ELPs) and support around 600 existing ones throughout the country. The Outcomes fund is a form of outcomes-based financing, wherein payment to IPs is dependent on their progress towards pre-specified target outcomes. Under this model, EOF, IPs, and pre-financers providing working capital and performance management to the IPs, will frequently collect monitoring and evaluation data related to the interventions.
Fund 1.0 was developed as a way to learn about how to improve ECCE quality, to provide space for innovation, and as an opportunity for the DBE to broaden partnerships with non-state ECCE providers. Towards the scaling objectives of the 2030 ECD strategy and as outlined in the Bana Pele Blueprint, the DBE and EOF are interested in surfacing learnings from Fund 1.0 to inform the design of a future outcomes fund (“ELP Fund 2.0”). To support that effort, EOF is looking to collaborate with a consultant who will serve as a full-time member of the South Africa country team, to lead the learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda for Fund 1.0.
UNICEF is engaging a consultant to facilitate and undertake consultations with key stakeholders, conduct research, analyze findings, draft Volume 4 of the Water under Fire series, prepare its publication and disseminate its results internally and externally.
Based on the established policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLAs), the purpose of the incumbent role is to carry out broad ICT functions and enable the provision of ICT solutions and services and assist in the delivery of results in a small size office.
UNICEF Tajikistan is looking for an experienced, dynamic, results-oriented consultant who will provide to an international consultant to gain insight into the government of Tajikistan and international organisations' efforts to date in improving the quality of care and reducing maternal and newborn mortality, taking into consideration success and failure factors and the root causes of sustainability challenges in enhancing the quality of care and reducing perinatal mortality in the country.
UNICEF Tajikistan is looking for an experienced, dynamic, results-oriented consultant who will work closely with national consultants, the Steering Committee (SC), the MoHSPP’s Maternal and Child Health department and UNICEF/WHO regional offices. The consultant will be the primary technical liaison between UNICEF, WHO, MoHSPP and other development and local partners involved in perinatal healthcare in Tajikistan.
The UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) is looking for highly experienced Staff Counsellor (Multi-Country) based in Nairobi, Kenya. This is a multi-country position and will be expected to travel to country offices as required. Reporting to the Regional Staff Counsellor, the Staff Counsellor will support the newly established Centre Of Excellence in Nairobi and support staff and families with transition. The Staff Counsellor will work in close coordination with Country Management Teams, Emergency Coordinators, People and Culture team, Staff Association, Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs), the UN Medical Clinic and UN Staff Counsellors.
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated Education Specialist (Systems Strengthening) for their education team. Under the guidance and general supervision of the Chief, Education (Level 4), for increased accountability, sustainability and efficiency of the education system, the Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Education programmes for all education system strengthening aspects and education communication and visibility components.
The evaluation further contributes to Impact Result 2 ("350 million more children and young people learning and skilled") by generating evidence on how all-season WASH services impact school enrollment, attendance, retention and learning outcomes—particularly for girls who face barriers related to menstrual hygiene management. Additionally, this evaluation advances Impact Result 5 ("500 million children better protected from disasters, climate and environmental risks") by building critical evidence on the effectiveness of climate-resilient WASH infrastructure in water-scarce settings exposed to extreme weather events, directly supporting UNICEF's commitment to strengthen the resilience of social infrastructure and services to climate hazards.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide thematic evaluation support for the Impact Evaluation on “Accelerating Climate Resilient Water Sanitation and Hygiene Services for Schools and Healthcare Facilities in Karamoja.” The thematic expert will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including the UNICEF Impact Evaluation Specialist, data analyst, and program leads to advise and provide feedback on the technical thematic aspects of this evaluation including robust survey instruments, data analysis and preparation of reports and presentations of the findings.
Under the direct supervision of Emergency Specialist (Preparedness), the MENARO Humanitarian Section seeks to recruit a consultant to lead the design and support the delivery and facilitation of emergency preparedness and response simulation exercises (in particular tabletop simulations) for selected UNICEF Country Offices (CO) and for the Regional Office (RO) in MENA. The consultant will be responsible for designing, developing and facilitating simulation exercises that will test and improve staff emergency response skills and knowledge, as well as country preparedness and response capacities. The consultant will identify, and document critical actions needed and recommendations to strengthen the CO’s and RO’s emergency preparedness based on the outcomes of the simulations.
Working with UNICEF staff at country, regional and headquarter offices, the consultant will enhance staff skills and knowledge related to emergency preparedness and response through simulations and offer practical experience in responding to emergency situations.
