The purpose of the consultancy is to provide the technical, facilitation and knowledge-management support that enables ASWA and other UNICEF country programmes to increasingly integrate gender-intentional approaches in their WASH programmes, while consolidating, disseminating and advocating with the evidence and practice on gender-equitable WASH generated through ASWA implementation.
UNICEF seeks a highly qualified WASH/IPC Specialist to be based in Yambio to lead and coordinate Ebola preparedness and response interventions across Western Equatoria, working closely with government authorities, WHO, health partners, and humanitarian actors to strengthen IPC and WASH readiness in high-risk locations.
Therefore the purpose of the post will be under the direct technical supervision of the Chief of WASH and matrix technical coordination with Emergency Health team and daily administrative supervision of the Chief of UNICEF field office in Yambio, the WASH/IPC Specialist will provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for Ebola preparedness and readiness plan implementation and in case there will be any suspected/confirmed case during this assignment s/he will lead on response interventions focused on IPC and WASH.
The incumbent will support preparedness and response activities in health facilities, Infectious Disease Units (IDUs), communities, points of entry and high-risk border locations, ensuring alignment with national preparedness plans, WHO guidance and UNICEF emergency response approaches. The position will strengthen health system readiness, reduce transmission risks, improve protection of health workers and communities, and enhance cross-border preparedness coordination in Western Equatoria State.
Frequent travel to high-risk counties, border areas and points of entry will be required.
Join our UNICEF Ethiopia team in Bahir Dar, with a focus on emergency, to provide professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for WASH programmes/ projects in the Amhara region, from planning to delivery of results. As a WASH Officer, you will prepare, execute, manage, and implement a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate the WASH in emergency programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Working in partnership with Cluster participants, the WASH Cluster Coordinator (Manager) provides leadership and representation for the Cluster. This contributes to the predictability and accountability of humanitarian action, in line with the aims of the cluster approach and IASC principles, and ensures that the humanitarian response is well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, effective and builds the resilience of the affected population. It also contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to fulfil its commitments as Cluster Lead Agency, in line with the CCCs. By identifying opportunities from the onset and throughout the humanitarian response to build resilience of the affected population, for programming and coordination capacity and leadership, the WASH Cluster Coordinator (Manager) also contributes to a smooth phasing out of the internationally led Cluster Leadership.
UNICEF Nepal country office is looking for experienced professional to provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process across Madhesh province (or the provinces covered by Janakpur Field Office).
The WASH Officer (NO-2), based in Hargeisa and reporting to the WASH Specialist, provides technical, operational and administrative support for the implementation of WASH programme activities. The role focuses on drinking water supply, sanitation infrastructure, and WASH hardware projects, while strengthening coordination with local authorities and ensuring quality, accountability and effective programme delivery across Somaliland.
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease affecting Ituri and other affected or at-risk provinces. National authorities, with the support of humanitarian partners, have activated emergency coordination and response mechanisms to contain transmission and protect affected communities.
The outbreak is unfolding in a complex humanitarian environment marked by insecurity, population displacement, high mobility, constrained access to essential services and weak water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control systems. These conditions heighten the risk of transmission in health facilities and communities and require rapid, well-coordinated and technically rigorous WASH/IPC action.
The geographic expansion of the outbreak, the operational complexity of the response and the need to align interventions across national, provincial and health-zone levels require senior leadership. An experienced profile is therefore required to provide the strategic expertise, technical authority and convening capacity needed to lead UNICEF's WASH/IPC response and support Government-led coordination across affected and at-risk areas.
Accordingly, UNICEF seeks to engage a Multisectoral and WASH Data Management Specialist to design, deploy and maintain integrated data management solutions for WASH and related sectoral interventions at national and sub-national levels. The consultant will support the development of digital data collection tools, online and remote-access systems, geospatial analysis, interactive dashboards, visual reporting products and interoperable data export processes aligned with UNICEF-approved and government information systems. The assignment will also strengthen data quality, harmonization, secure data handling and practical use of program information for management, reporting, advocacy and donor engagement.
We are looking for an experienced professional to lead UNICEF Ecuador’s programme pillar on Climate Change, WASH and Emergency Preparedness, driving climate-resilient, risk-informed and sustainable solutions for children.
The UNICEF Nigeria is seeking for a qualified WASH Officer to support the planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WASH programmes that contribute to improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene for children and communities, especially the most vulnerable.
UNICEF Nigeria’s WASH programme is a major component of the Country Programme and operates across development and humanitarian contexts. The Temporary Appointment for a WASH Specialist, TOC, will provide technical guidance and management support for the development, preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of WASH programme priorities, with a particular focus on strengthening theory of change, programme coherence, evidence use, systems strengthening and results-based planning across the WASH portfolio.
UNICEF Mozambique is supporting the Government of Mozambique to implement an integrated programme to strengthen climate-resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in healthcare facilities and surrounding communities.
The consultancy aims to accelerate programme delivery by providing day-to-day implementation support, technical oversight, quality assurance, monitoring, reporting, and coordination across all programme components.
The Procurement Assistant is responsible for executing a broad variety of standardized procurement tasks in compliance with the UNICEF Financial Rules and Regulations, Supply Division Manual and other applicable procurement procedures.The Procurement Assistant will be responsible for assistance for a segment of products in the Child Survival Centre; providing effective services to customers, ensuring accurate and timely monitoring of shipments up to the completion and closure of the order, with the overall goal of meeting the needs and requirements of the customers. In this capacity, the need to project the image of a credible and reliable service provider is imperative to quality of process delivery, and the impact of work directly reflects on the overall reputation of the team in terms of responsiveness to client needs and quality of process execution.
Join UNICEF Supply Division's Health Technology Unit and help ensure children around the world have access to essential health commodities and technologies. In this role, you will manage end-to-end procurement and contracting activities for health technology products, ensuring compliance with UNICEF policies and delivering value, quality, and timely supply to programmes and partners.
Are you passionate about transforming food systems for children and empowering young people to shape healthier, more equitable and sustainable food environments? UNICEF is seeking an experienced Programme Specialist, Children’s Food Practices and Youth Engagement to provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the Food Systems for Children agenda, with a particular focus on First Foods Africa Pillar 3 (Practices), social and behaviour change, social marketing, youth engagement and advocacy. In this role, you will lead global efforts to strengthen food-related practices, behaviours and social norms that influence child and adolescent nutrition outcomes. You will provide technical assistance to country offices, support evidence generation and organizational learning, lead major initiatives including First Foods Africa and Fix My Food, and engage with governments, donors, civil society organizations, private-sector partners and young people to advance food systems transformation. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to global policy, innovation, capacity strengthening and advocacy efforts that improve nutrition outcomes for children and adolescents worldwide.
Shape the employee experience at UNICEF. As a People and Culture (Project) Officer, P-2 (TA), you'll coordinate staff support services, analyze workforce trends, and help guide colleagues through major organizational change. Bring your People and Culture/ HR, project management, and communication skills to a role where people truly come first.
The purpose of this announcement is to establish a pre-screened Experts Pool to support the ADC functions in delivering targeted technical assistance focused on disease elimination, outbreak preparedness and response, and related priorities. Experts are expected to work in close collaboration with UNICEF Programme Division, Centers of Excellence (CoEs), UNICEF country offices, WHO regional and country offices, and partners (e.g., MSF, IFRC, Africa CDC, CDC, JSI) to provide timely technical support applying the latest guidance, tools, and approaches to strengthen country capacity.
Join UNICEF Supply Division to support complex Procurement Services operations for global partners. In this role, you will manage end-to-end procurement transactions, coordinate across business units, and ensure the timely delivery of goods and services while maintaining compliance with UNICEF procurement policies and providing high-quality partner support.
The Administrative Specialist (Field Support & Construction) provides integrated administrative and technical support to field and regional offices. The role encompasses premises leasing, space utilization, property and construction management, as well as common premises projects.
The position ensures compliance with UNICEF policies on premises management, UN standards for space utilization, and financial accountability requirements (IPSAS 43) related to lease premises. It also supports the delivery of safe, cost-effective, and inclusive workplaces across all UNICEF offices.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide the technical, facilitation and knowledge-management support that enables ASWA and other UNICEF country programmes to increasingly integrate gender-intentional approaches in their WASH programmes, while consolidating, disseminating and advocating with the evidence and practice on gender-equitable WASH generated through ASWA implementation.
UNICEF seeks a highly qualified WASH/IPC Specialist to be based in Yambio to lead and coordinate Ebola preparedness and response interventions across Western Equatoria, working closely with government authorities, WHO, health partners, and humanitarian actors to strengthen IPC and WASH readiness in high-risk locations.
Therefore the purpose of the post will be under the direct technical supervision of the Chief of WASH and matrix technical coordination with Emergency Health team and daily administrative supervision of the Chief of UNICEF field office in Yambio, the WASH/IPC Specialist will provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for Ebola preparedness and readiness plan implementation and in case there will be any suspected/confirmed case during this assignment s/he will lead on response interventions focused on IPC and WASH.
The incumbent will support preparedness and response activities in health facilities, Infectious Disease Units (IDUs), communities, points of entry and high-risk border locations, ensuring alignment with national preparedness plans, WHO guidance and UNICEF emergency response approaches. The position will strengthen health system readiness, reduce transmission risks, improve protection of health workers and communities, and enhance cross-border preparedness coordination in Western Equatoria State.
Frequent travel to high-risk counties, border areas and points of entry will be required.
Join our UNICEF Ethiopia team in Bahir Dar, with a focus on emergency, to provide professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for WASH programmes/ projects in the Amhara region, from planning to delivery of results. As a WASH Officer, you will prepare, execute, manage, and implement a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate the WASH in emergency programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Working in partnership with Cluster participants, the WASH Cluster Coordinator (Manager) provides leadership and representation for the Cluster. This contributes to the predictability and accountability of humanitarian action, in line with the aims of the cluster approach and IASC principles, and ensures that the humanitarian response is well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, effective and builds the resilience of the affected population. It also contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to fulfil its commitments as Cluster Lead Agency, in line with the CCCs. By identifying opportunities from the onset and throughout the humanitarian response to build resilience of the affected population, for programming and coordination capacity and leadership, the WASH Cluster Coordinator (Manager) also contributes to a smooth phasing out of the internationally led Cluster Leadership.
UNICEF Nepal country office is looking for experienced professional to provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process across Madhesh province (or the provinces covered by Janakpur Field Office).
The WASH Officer (NO-2), based in Hargeisa and reporting to the WASH Specialist, provides technical, operational and administrative support for the implementation of WASH programme activities. The role focuses on drinking water supply, sanitation infrastructure, and WASH hardware projects, while strengthening coordination with local authorities and ensuring quality, accountability and effective programme delivery across Somaliland.
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease affecting Ituri and other affected or at-risk provinces. National authorities, with the support of humanitarian partners, have activated emergency coordination and response mechanisms to contain transmission and protect affected communities.
The outbreak is unfolding in a complex humanitarian environment marked by insecurity, population displacement, high mobility, constrained access to essential services and weak water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control systems. These conditions heighten the risk of transmission in health facilities and communities and require rapid, well-coordinated and technically rigorous WASH/IPC action.
The geographic expansion of the outbreak, the operational complexity of the response and the need to align interventions across national, provincial and health-zone levels require senior leadership. An experienced profile is therefore required to provide the strategic expertise, technical authority and convening capacity needed to lead UNICEF's WASH/IPC response and support Government-led coordination across affected and at-risk areas.
Accordingly, UNICEF seeks to engage a Multisectoral and WASH Data Management Specialist to design, deploy and maintain integrated data management solutions for WASH and related sectoral interventions at national and sub-national levels. The consultant will support the development of digital data collection tools, online and remote-access systems, geospatial analysis, interactive dashboards, visual reporting products and interoperable data export processes aligned with UNICEF-approved and government information systems. The assignment will also strengthen data quality, harmonization, secure data handling and practical use of program information for management, reporting, advocacy and donor engagement.
We are looking for an experienced professional to lead UNICEF Ecuador’s programme pillar on Climate Change, WASH and Emergency Preparedness, driving climate-resilient, risk-informed and sustainable solutions for children.
The UNICEF Nigeria is seeking for a qualified WASH Officer to support the planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation of WASH programmes that contribute to improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene for children and communities, especially the most vulnerable.
UNICEF Nigeria’s WASH programme is a major component of the Country Programme and operates across development and humanitarian contexts. The Temporary Appointment for a WASH Specialist, TOC, will provide technical guidance and management support for the development, preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of WASH programme priorities, with a particular focus on strengthening theory of change, programme coherence, evidence use, systems strengthening and results-based planning across the WASH portfolio.
UNICEF Mozambique is supporting the Government of Mozambique to implement an integrated programme to strengthen climate-resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in healthcare facilities and surrounding communities.
The consultancy aims to accelerate programme delivery by providing day-to-day implementation support, technical oversight, quality assurance, monitoring, reporting, and coordination across all programme components.
The Procurement Assistant is responsible for executing a broad variety of standardized procurement tasks in compliance with the UNICEF Financial Rules and Regulations, Supply Division Manual and other applicable procurement procedures.The Procurement Assistant will be responsible for assistance for a segment of products in the Child Survival Centre; providing effective services to customers, ensuring accurate and timely monitoring of shipments up to the completion and closure of the order, with the overall goal of meeting the needs and requirements of the customers. In this capacity, the need to project the image of a credible and reliable service provider is imperative to quality of process delivery, and the impact of work directly reflects on the overall reputation of the team in terms of responsiveness to client needs and quality of process execution.
Join UNICEF Supply Division's Health Technology Unit and help ensure children around the world have access to essential health commodities and technologies. In this role, you will manage end-to-end procurement and contracting activities for health technology products, ensuring compliance with UNICEF policies and delivering value, quality, and timely supply to programmes and partners.
Are you passionate about transforming food systems for children and empowering young people to shape healthier, more equitable and sustainable food environments? UNICEF is seeking an experienced Programme Specialist, Children’s Food Practices and Youth Engagement to provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the Food Systems for Children agenda, with a particular focus on First Foods Africa Pillar 3 (Practices), social and behaviour change, social marketing, youth engagement and advocacy. In this role, you will lead global efforts to strengthen food-related practices, behaviours and social norms that influence child and adolescent nutrition outcomes. You will provide technical assistance to country offices, support evidence generation and organizational learning, lead major initiatives including First Foods Africa and Fix My Food, and engage with governments, donors, civil society organizations, private-sector partners and young people to advance food systems transformation. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to global policy, innovation, capacity strengthening and advocacy efforts that improve nutrition outcomes for children and adolescents worldwide.
Shape the employee experience at UNICEF. As a People and Culture (Project) Officer, P-2 (TA), you'll coordinate staff support services, analyze workforce trends, and help guide colleagues through major organizational change. Bring your People and Culture/ HR, project management, and communication skills to a role where people truly come first.
The purpose of this announcement is to establish a pre-screened Experts Pool to support the ADC functions in delivering targeted technical assistance focused on disease elimination, outbreak preparedness and response, and related priorities. Experts are expected to work in close collaboration with UNICEF Programme Division, Centers of Excellence (CoEs), UNICEF country offices, WHO regional and country offices, and partners (e.g., MSF, IFRC, Africa CDC, CDC, JSI) to provide timely technical support applying the latest guidance, tools, and approaches to strengthen country capacity.
Join UNICEF Supply Division to support complex Procurement Services operations for global partners. In this role, you will manage end-to-end procurement transactions, coordinate across business units, and ensure the timely delivery of goods and services while maintaining compliance with UNICEF procurement policies and providing high-quality partner support.
The Administrative Specialist (Field Support & Construction) provides integrated administrative and technical support to field and regional offices. The role encompasses premises leasing, space utilization, property and construction management, as well as common premises projects.
The position ensures compliance with UNICEF policies on premises management, UN standards for space utilization, and financial accountability requirements (IPSAS 43) related to lease premises. It also supports the delivery of safe, cost-effective, and inclusive workplaces across all UNICEF offices.
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