Safe Online is seeking a consultant to support the fund management portfolio, including key systems, platforms, and processes to maximise the Safe Online’s return on investment from its Safe Online grants and support its grantee network in sharing and leveraging learning. This role will contribute to the assessment of the portfolio’s needs, manage technical assistance, identify opportunities, and guide cohorts and technical collaboration between grantees and other Safe Online partners.
The National Consultant will work in close coordination with the International Expert, the Orken Institute and UNICEF Kazakhstan to support the development and contextual adaptation of operational tools for the child protection system (including Standard Operating Procedures on case management, inter-agency procedures, a Monitoring and Evaluation framework, and ethical and legal data-handling standards) and to assist the co-design and roll-out of an eighty-hour in-service training programme and a sixteen-hour specialized course on responding to violence against children, including sexual abuse and online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
This assignment helps ensure the ranking of UNICEF’s Parenting Hub on traditional search engines and strengthens its visibility in AI platforms. It takes place during a period of transition, limited staffing and major technological shifts in these areas. Operating under a deliverables-based contract, the consultant will play a critical role in researching keyword gaps and opportunities, developing content to rank on search engines and feature in AI responses, as well as tracking and optimizing performance.
Working closely with the Web Editorial team, the consultant will combine an editorial and technical lens to develop and optimize content that is 1. Engaging and useful for its target audience, and 2. Maximizes the likelihood of the audience discovering this content on search engines and AI platforms. The work will directly support UNICEF’s Parenting Hub by ensuring the accessibility, visibility and relevance of content, which is key to our ability to achieve our digital goals and grant deliverables.
The Consultant will support the Corporate Partnerships team at PFP and designated National Committees and UNICEF country offices by:
- Facilitating understanding and use of agreement templates and tools.
- Supporting the drafting and negotiation of business terms for private sector partnership agreements.
- Providing guidance on negotiations and alignment with UNICEF policies.
- Monitoring and tracking agreements through the approval process.
- Supporting post-signature contract management (remedial actions, amendments, terminations).
- Acting as a knowledge center for best practices in agreements and partnership management.
UNICEF works towards the realization of every child’s right, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals. UNICEF prioritizes risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness strategies to support resilient communities, protecting their development gains from external shocks, even as the overall humanitarian funding environment becomes ever more stretched with availability of flexible funds to mitigate, prevent and respond to new crises becoming extremely limited. UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to advancing UNICEF’s mission to strengthen systems and drive collective action to help children survive and thrive, focusing on fostering partnerships that leverage and maximize the potential of the private sector to achieve results for children.
UNICEF in North Macedonia is hiring a National Consultant for legal review and adaptation of key healthcare laws. This is home-based, short-term consultancy in a duration of four months.
This is an internship opportunity at UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub to advance the Hub’s Edtech for Good initiative that includes the EdTech for Good Framework, the Learning Cabinet and the Blue Unicorn Portfolio. We are looking for two enthusiastic, fast-learning, early-career professionals with a strong interest in education, digital learning, and EdTech.
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant to for supporting the vaccination programme in the planning, use, stock management, capacity building, immunization supply chain management, disposal (if necessary) and tracking of all vaccines and cold chain equipment used in Routine Immunization (RI) and Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIA).
This assignment is a specialized consultancy designed to accelerate progress in strategic data and statistics system work during the organizational transition. It aligns with UNICEF’s commitment to act as “One UNICEF”—a unified team making courageous decisions and collaborating across the evidence ecosystem to achieve results for children at scale.
UNICEF Mozambique is looking to recruit a Programme Associate (G-6) for the Beira Field Office. We are seeking a motivated and experienced professional with strong skills in administration, budget management, planning, and organization to support the effective implementation of programmes. If you are passionate about driving positive change for children, we encourage you to apply.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
The Programme Specialist (Digital Research) will be a central part of the Digital Engagement and Protection unit, supporting its flagship project Disrupting Harm and help coordinate research projects across the unit's portfolio. With an expanding area of work and increasing demand for high-quality evidence on the impact of digital transformation on children’s lives, this role will be responsible for project planning, timeline management, budget monitoring, reporting, stakeholder engagement and communications.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support for the Nutrition programme through a comprehensive landscape analysis of childhood overweight and obesity in Lebanon. The consultant will adapt UNICEF’s global protocol to the local context, facilitate a stakeholder validation workshop to identify priority actions, and develop a final report with policy recommendations to support national efforts in preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
UNICEF Tajikistan is seeking a qualified and motivated candidate for the position of Nutrition Specialist, who will lead the Nutrition Portfolio.
The Nutrition Specialist will support the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. UNICEF through its programs works tirelessly to save their lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, at UNICEF we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
BACKGROUND
Digital health is a broad multidisciplinary concept that embraces intersections between technology and healthcare. The scope of digital health includes mobile health (mHealth), electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), digitized health information systems and real-time monitoring of health services and systems, tracking and monitoring of medical supplies and equipment through the supply chain, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, personalized medicine as well as geospatial data and technologies applied too health care (“geospatial health”). Geospatial health is an interdisciplinary field that combines geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and public health to understand how location and place influence health outcomes. Geospatial health combines GPS, satellite imagery, advanced mapping software and mobile health apps to collect and analyze location-based health data, highly intersects with the digital health field.
In recent years, country demand for global guidelines and deployment support for digital health and geospatial health has increased, following the experiences and lessons learned from digital health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing access to information, and increasing digital literacy alongside a concurrently widening digital divide. As part of UNICEF’s new Strategic Plan, Programme Group (PG) Health created the Digital Health & Information Systems (DHIS) unit under the Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Section (MNCAH). DHIS supports the use of digital health interventions and data to strengthen programmes across all sections in program group Health whereas facilitating Regional Offices to support country level digital health interventions.
UNICEF has previously advertised and maintained Digital Health Rosters, with the initial version launched in 2019 and subsequently updated in 2021. Both rosters have been actively used to support regional and country office digital health consultancies, attracting a mix of short and long-term candidates. These consultancies have contributed to the implementation of a wide range of digital health interventions, including digital health strategy development, data digitization, and geospatial mapping.
Given that the current rosters have been in use for nearly four years and considering the evolving demands in the digital health landscape, along with the updated Program Group Health Strategic Plan, there is a need to review and update the digital health roster. This should include revised terms of reference that align with emerging priorities and technical requirements.
UNICEF works towards the realization of every child’s right, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF fosters partnerships to strengthen systems and drive collective action to help children survive and thrive. UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to advancing this mission, focusing on maximizing the potential of the private sector to achieve results for children.
The Innovative Financing for Children (IF4C) function is central to these efforts. It develops and implements innovative financing tools to mobilize resources for children's welfare globally. These initiatives address critical issues such as resource mobilization, catalytic capital, innovative financing, climate change, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction, targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized children and adolescents. Linked to this, IF4C has identified an ongoing need for capacity strengthening and knowledge management expertise to ensure the operational effectiveness of its portfolio of initiatives and projects.
The UNICEF Innovative Finance Hub in Helsinki is seeking a Communications Intern to support both external and internal communications, with a particular focus on Child-Lens Investing (CLI). This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the communications efforts of a global initiative that mobilizes capital for children. The Hub is looking for an enthusiastic, fast-learning early-career professional with a strong interest in communications and children’s rights.
Safe Online is seeking a consultant to support the fund management portfolio, including key systems, platforms, and processes to maximise the Safe Online’s return on investment from its Safe Online grants and support its grantee network in sharing and leveraging learning. This role will contribute to the assessment of the portfolio’s needs, manage technical assistance, identify opportunities, and guide cohorts and technical collaboration between grantees and other Safe Online partners.
The National Consultant will work in close coordination with the International Expert, the Orken Institute and UNICEF Kazakhstan to support the development and contextual adaptation of operational tools for the child protection system (including Standard Operating Procedures on case management, inter-agency procedures, a Monitoring and Evaluation framework, and ethical and legal data-handling standards) and to assist the co-design and roll-out of an eighty-hour in-service training programme and a sixteen-hour specialized course on responding to violence against children, including sexual abuse and online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
This assignment helps ensure the ranking of UNICEF’s Parenting Hub on traditional search engines and strengthens its visibility in AI platforms. It takes place during a period of transition, limited staffing and major technological shifts in these areas. Operating under a deliverables-based contract, the consultant will play a critical role in researching keyword gaps and opportunities, developing content to rank on search engines and feature in AI responses, as well as tracking and optimizing performance.
Working closely with the Web Editorial team, the consultant will combine an editorial and technical lens to develop and optimize content that is 1. Engaging and useful for its target audience, and 2. Maximizes the likelihood of the audience discovering this content on search engines and AI platforms. The work will directly support UNICEF’s Parenting Hub by ensuring the accessibility, visibility and relevance of content, which is key to our ability to achieve our digital goals and grant deliverables.
The Consultant will support the Corporate Partnerships team at PFP and designated National Committees and UNICEF country offices by:
- Facilitating understanding and use of agreement templates and tools.
- Supporting the drafting and negotiation of business terms for private sector partnership agreements.
- Providing guidance on negotiations and alignment with UNICEF policies.
- Monitoring and tracking agreements through the approval process.
- Supporting post-signature contract management (remedial actions, amendments, terminations).
- Acting as a knowledge center for best practices in agreements and partnership management.
UNICEF works towards the realization of every child’s right, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals. UNICEF prioritizes risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness strategies to support resilient communities, protecting their development gains from external shocks, even as the overall humanitarian funding environment becomes ever more stretched with availability of flexible funds to mitigate, prevent and respond to new crises becoming extremely limited. UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to advancing UNICEF’s mission to strengthen systems and drive collective action to help children survive and thrive, focusing on fostering partnerships that leverage and maximize the potential of the private sector to achieve results for children.
UNICEF in North Macedonia is hiring a National Consultant for legal review and adaptation of key healthcare laws. This is home-based, short-term consultancy in a duration of four months.
This is an internship opportunity at UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub to advance the Hub’s Edtech for Good initiative that includes the EdTech for Good Framework, the Learning Cabinet and the Blue Unicorn Portfolio. We are looking for two enthusiastic, fast-learning, early-career professionals with a strong interest in education, digital learning, and EdTech.
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant to for supporting the vaccination programme in the planning, use, stock management, capacity building, immunization supply chain management, disposal (if necessary) and tracking of all vaccines and cold chain equipment used in Routine Immunization (RI) and Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIA).
This assignment is a specialized consultancy designed to accelerate progress in strategic data and statistics system work during the organizational transition. It aligns with UNICEF’s commitment to act as “One UNICEF”—a unified team making courageous decisions and collaborating across the evidence ecosystem to achieve results for children at scale.
UNICEF Mozambique is looking to recruit a Programme Associate (G-6) for the Beira Field Office. We are seeking a motivated and experienced professional with strong skills in administration, budget management, planning, and organization to support the effective implementation of programmes. If you are passionate about driving positive change for children, we encourage you to apply.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
The Programme Specialist (Digital Research) will be a central part of the Digital Engagement and Protection unit, supporting its flagship project Disrupting Harm and help coordinate research projects across the unit's portfolio. With an expanding area of work and increasing demand for high-quality evidence on the impact of digital transformation on children’s lives, this role will be responsible for project planning, timeline management, budget monitoring, reporting, stakeholder engagement and communications.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support for the Nutrition programme through a comprehensive landscape analysis of childhood overweight and obesity in Lebanon. The consultant will adapt UNICEF’s global protocol to the local context, facilitate a stakeholder validation workshop to identify priority actions, and develop a final report with policy recommendations to support national efforts in preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
UNICEF Tajikistan is seeking a qualified and motivated candidate for the position of Nutrition Specialist, who will lead the Nutrition Portfolio.
The Nutrition Specialist will support the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. UNICEF through its programs works tirelessly to save their lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, at UNICEF we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
BACKGROUND
Digital health is a broad multidisciplinary concept that embraces intersections between technology and healthcare. The scope of digital health includes mobile health (mHealth), electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), digitized health information systems and real-time monitoring of health services and systems, tracking and monitoring of medical supplies and equipment through the supply chain, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, personalized medicine as well as geospatial data and technologies applied too health care (“geospatial health”). Geospatial health is an interdisciplinary field that combines geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and public health to understand how location and place influence health outcomes. Geospatial health combines GPS, satellite imagery, advanced mapping software and mobile health apps to collect and analyze location-based health data, highly intersects with the digital health field.
In recent years, country demand for global guidelines and deployment support for digital health and geospatial health has increased, following the experiences and lessons learned from digital health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing access to information, and increasing digital literacy alongside a concurrently widening digital divide. As part of UNICEF’s new Strategic Plan, Programme Group (PG) Health created the Digital Health & Information Systems (DHIS) unit under the Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Section (MNCAH). DHIS supports the use of digital health interventions and data to strengthen programmes across all sections in program group Health whereas facilitating Regional Offices to support country level digital health interventions.
UNICEF has previously advertised and maintained Digital Health Rosters, with the initial version launched in 2019 and subsequently updated in 2021. Both rosters have been actively used to support regional and country office digital health consultancies, attracting a mix of short and long-term candidates. These consultancies have contributed to the implementation of a wide range of digital health interventions, including digital health strategy development, data digitization, and geospatial mapping.
Given that the current rosters have been in use for nearly four years and considering the evolving demands in the digital health landscape, along with the updated Program Group Health Strategic Plan, there is a need to review and update the digital health roster. This should include revised terms of reference that align with emerging priorities and technical requirements.
UNICEF works towards the realization of every child’s right, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF fosters partnerships to strengthen systems and drive collective action to help children survive and thrive. UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to advancing this mission, focusing on maximizing the potential of the private sector to achieve results for children.
The Innovative Financing for Children (IF4C) function is central to these efforts. It develops and implements innovative financing tools to mobilize resources for children's welfare globally. These initiatives address critical issues such as resource mobilization, catalytic capital, innovative financing, climate change, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction, targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized children and adolescents. Linked to this, IF4C has identified an ongoing need for capacity strengthening and knowledge management expertise to ensure the operational effectiveness of its portfolio of initiatives and projects.
The UNICEF Innovative Finance Hub in Helsinki is seeking a Communications Intern to support both external and internal communications, with a particular focus on Child-Lens Investing (CLI). This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the communications efforts of a global initiative that mobilizes capital for children. The Hub is looking for an enthusiastic, fast-learning early-career professional with a strong interest in communications and children’s rights.
