Under the supervision and guidance of the Finance Officer the Finance Associate (Payments) will supervise, review and direct payments for the assigned area of responsibility. The Finance Associate will provide guidance and support to UNICEF offices and divisions in response to queries on payments within the area of assignment ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures and related policies, taking corrective action where required.
Under the guidance of the Senior Adviser Resource Mobilization, The Finance Manager is responsible for implementing a robust financial strategy for managing the finances of UNICEF’s polio eradication programme, including assessing the financial requirements of the programme, ensuring all approved activities are funded and developing and implementing strategies to improve monitoring and oversight. The Finance Manager ensures that funding proposals are consistent with programme strategies and budgetary ceilings. This staff member also represents UNICEF in several GPEI working groups, serves as Co-Chair of the Financial Management Group with WHO and leads on reporting on financial matters to GPEI senior management. The Finance Manager acts as a liaison between the Polio Programme and the Division of Financial and Administrative Management for all financial and budgetary elements of the Polio Eradication Programme. The Finance Manager also oversees preparation of the GPEI and UNICEF quarterly expenditure reporting as well as financial gaps analysis, building on the GPEI and UNICEF resource mobilization strategy. The post also provides support to regional and country offices for in-country resource mobilization efforts both with private and public sector donors.
The Finance/Budget Manager, when supervising support staff, will be responsible for
planning and guiding work in progress and for reviewing work completed by subordinate
staff to verify accuracy and compliance with International Public Sector Accounting
Standards (IPSAS), UNICEF Financial Regulation and Rules, policies, procedures,
guidelines, standards of accountability, and ethics.
The incumbent under the general guidance of the Deputy Representative Operations P5,
will oversee the management of the finance functions and budget for the office and is
expected to exhibit a high level of maturity and set high quality objectives, both internally
and externally, to deliver results.
The purpose of the Finance Assistant role is to support the financial operations of the office through the execution of a variety of standard financial, administrative, and accounting tasks. By handling routine processes such as payment verification, bank reconciliations, expenditure monitoring, and financial reporting, the Finance Assistant ensures that transactions are accurate, complete, and compliant with UNICEF’s financial rules, regulations, and policies.
In addition to managing day-to-day financial tasks, the incumbent plays a critical role in identifying and addressing discrepancies, assisting with internal and external audits, and maintaining proper financial documentation. By performing these responsibilities effectively, the Finance Assistant enables senior finance and operations staff to focus on strategic decision-making, program support, and broader financial planning.
The role requires a strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to work with financial systems to process large volumes of data efficiently. Through these efforts, the Finance Assistant helps ensure that financial resources are used optimally, contributing to the organization’s mission of delivering results for children.
UNICEF - Burkina Faso is recruiting a Youth Engagement (Adolescent) Officer - NOB, FT, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international consultant to conduct Health Care Waste Assessment in Kiribati. The consultant will work under the general guidance and direct supervision of the Chief of WASH with support from the WASH Officer.
Join UNICEF Peru as a Finance Officer. You will contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Peru by managing and executing financial transactions and services with direct impact on meeting organizational/staff needs and program delivery of goals and objectives. This in turn contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility of UNICEF as an effective and responsible manager of funds entrusted to the organization and to furthering UNICEF’s image as a competent organization for delivering cost effective and sustainable program results.
The Acquisition Marketing Specialist plays a key role in the Fundraising team, contributing significantly to the development of donor acquisition initiatives under a digital first umbrella that promotes UNICEF's mission and increase donations
Reporting to the Deputy Director Operations and Finance, the incumbent will lead risk management in UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division. This includes leading global projects to manage operational risks that could affect fundraising from the private sector in UNICEF Country Offices, managing change initiatives in Operations and Finance, managing oversight activities, and advising the Deputy Director for Operations and Finance.
The position is also responsible for leading change initiatives to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies in operational processes involving National Committees (NCs) and country offices (COs), supporting the Divisions overall internal control mechanisms, and developing and coordinating an Operations Community to ensure efficient knowledge sharing and mainstreaming of best practices.
One of the biggest opportunities for fundraising, advocacy, and brand potential lies in enlisting and engaging millions of individuals, through new and existing channels, to contribute their money, voice, and time in support of UNICEF’s goals for children. The Adviser (Supporter Engagement Strategy) is the co-lead for developing and rolling out this strategy. Under the supervision of the Chief of Individual Giving, PFP with a dotted reporting line to the Deputy Director, Solutions, ICTD, and in close consultation with the Supporter Strategy Steering Committee, the post is responsible for coordinating and leading the implementation of UNICEF’s supporter strategy, advising the Supporter Strategy Steering Committee on critical elements of the strategy roll out and the development of a post-implementation model to drive business uplift from the strategy and technology rollout. This includes working with different divisions, country offices, and NatComs in across-organizational way.
Under the guidance of the Regional Chief of Programme and Planning, in coordination with the Deputy Regional Director, the Budget Officer contributes is responsible for budget management, including monitoring and financial reporting, with a focus on programmes, including the Emergency section. The post will also provide Secretariat support to the LACRO Budget Advisory Group, jointly with the Budget Officer from Operations.
The GSSC Finance Section is looking for a self-motivated, results-driven individual who can work independently and as team lead for ensuring quality of work, performance delivery, service excellence and compliance of the responsible technical unit. The efficiency and efficacy of the support provided by the Finance Officer results in the timely and accurate management of financial services globally in compliance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
UNICEF seeks a Fundraising Specialist (Personalization & Experimentation) to work with the Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva to provide support to teams across UNICEF.
The main purpose of the job is to support markets with experimentation &testing, audience personalization, CRO, and audience-centricity campaigns.
To achieve these results, the professional will support four geographical squads (Central 1, Central 2, Aurora, Sunrise) to ensure Optimizely tool implementation (new global giving CRO platform) and correct application of the personalization strategy across 25 new markets that were onboarded this year. The goal is to increase their digital fundraising activities and maximize results, providing additional capacity and capability by ensuring the squads have correct test and learn measurement framework across the whole year for both cash and pledge campaigns. The incumbent will provide technical fundraising expertise and guidance on optimizing personalization experiences and testing to maximize revenue.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is recruiting a Social Policy Specialist (Social Protection and Disability) to provide technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking a Social Policy Specialist (PF4C) to provide technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy related to public finance for children (PF4C)
UNICEF Sierra Leone seeks a Health Specialist (Systems Strengthening) will lead the health system strengthening component of UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Health and Nutrition programme while ensuring the fulfilment of the overall programme monitoring and reporting requirements, including support for different health and nutrition related studies/research.
UNICEF/Haiti is seeking for a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Finance Associate with the Finance team and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
The purpose of this position is to provide leadership and oversight management to SD’s portfolio of innovative financing tools to support the timely availability of affordable essential supplies. Timely access requires good forecasting, planning, and adequate budgeting, financing, and execution on that financing. However, funding delays, market constraints, and other factors jeopardize systematic access and are a leading cause of commodity stockouts in countries. . The position will lead the deployment of pre-financing interventions to help bridge these short-term funding gaps and deploy risk financing to improve access and market dynamics of these supply of critical essential commodities supplies. The position will oversee UNICEF’s main tool for supply pre-financing and other supply financing interventions, the Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII), which is deployed to improve access to vaccines and other non-immunization commodities.
UNICEF Brazil is searching for an experienced Fundraising Associate to increase the fundraising resources and focus on individual donors’ pledges, supporting on the implementation of digital campaigns. The associate will be based in Brasilia, reporting to the Fundraising Officer (Digital), part of the Individual Giving retention area of the Resource Mobilization & Partnership at UNICEF Brazil.
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.
This job opportunity is presential and for Brazilians only or candidates with a work permit for Brazil.
Joining UNICEF Ghana means being part of a dynamic team that values collaboration, innovation, and leadership. If you are experienced and fits the job profile, then we are on the lookout for you.
Join our team as Administrative and Finance Specialist, P3, where you will lead and manage efficient administrative operations in the country office. The role involves providing policy guidance, ensuring compliance with organizational procedures, and collaborating with operations management to support efficient administrative operations of the office and country programs. You will also be responsible for staff capacity development and driving continuous improvement in administrative services.
This fixed-term position reports directly to the Deputy Representative, Operations (P4).
We are looking for a highly skilled professional with a proven track record in administrative service management functions. Please note that this opportunity is not open to Ghanaian nationals.
Under the supervision and guidance of the Finance Officer the Finance Associate (Payments) will supervise, review and direct payments for the assigned area of responsibility. The Finance Associate will provide guidance and support to UNICEF offices and divisions in response to queries on payments within the area of assignment ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures and related policies, taking corrective action where required.
Under the guidance of the Senior Adviser Resource Mobilization, The Finance Manager is responsible for implementing a robust financial strategy for managing the finances of UNICEF’s polio eradication programme, including assessing the financial requirements of the programme, ensuring all approved activities are funded and developing and implementing strategies to improve monitoring and oversight. The Finance Manager ensures that funding proposals are consistent with programme strategies and budgetary ceilings. This staff member also represents UNICEF in several GPEI working groups, serves as Co-Chair of the Financial Management Group with WHO and leads on reporting on financial matters to GPEI senior management. The Finance Manager acts as a liaison between the Polio Programme and the Division of Financial and Administrative Management for all financial and budgetary elements of the Polio Eradication Programme. The Finance Manager also oversees preparation of the GPEI and UNICEF quarterly expenditure reporting as well as financial gaps analysis, building on the GPEI and UNICEF resource mobilization strategy. The post also provides support to regional and country offices for in-country resource mobilization efforts both with private and public sector donors.
The Finance/Budget Manager, when supervising support staff, will be responsible for
planning and guiding work in progress and for reviewing work completed by subordinate
staff to verify accuracy and compliance with International Public Sector Accounting
Standards (IPSAS), UNICEF Financial Regulation and Rules, policies, procedures,
guidelines, standards of accountability, and ethics.
The incumbent under the general guidance of the Deputy Representative Operations P5,
will oversee the management of the finance functions and budget for the office and is
expected to exhibit a high level of maturity and set high quality objectives, both internally
and externally, to deliver results.
The purpose of the Finance Assistant role is to support the financial operations of the office through the execution of a variety of standard financial, administrative, and accounting tasks. By handling routine processes such as payment verification, bank reconciliations, expenditure monitoring, and financial reporting, the Finance Assistant ensures that transactions are accurate, complete, and compliant with UNICEF’s financial rules, regulations, and policies.
In addition to managing day-to-day financial tasks, the incumbent plays a critical role in identifying and addressing discrepancies, assisting with internal and external audits, and maintaining proper financial documentation. By performing these responsibilities effectively, the Finance Assistant enables senior finance and operations staff to focus on strategic decision-making, program support, and broader financial planning.
The role requires a strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to work with financial systems to process large volumes of data efficiently. Through these efforts, the Finance Assistant helps ensure that financial resources are used optimally, contributing to the organization’s mission of delivering results for children.
UNICEF - Burkina Faso is recruiting a Youth Engagement (Adolescent) Officer - NOB, FT, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international consultant to conduct Health Care Waste Assessment in Kiribati. The consultant will work under the general guidance and direct supervision of the Chief of WASH with support from the WASH Officer.
Join UNICEF Peru as a Finance Officer. You will contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Peru by managing and executing financial transactions and services with direct impact on meeting organizational/staff needs and program delivery of goals and objectives. This in turn contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility of UNICEF as an effective and responsible manager of funds entrusted to the organization and to furthering UNICEF’s image as a competent organization for delivering cost effective and sustainable program results.
The Acquisition Marketing Specialist plays a key role in the Fundraising team, contributing significantly to the development of donor acquisition initiatives under a digital first umbrella that promotes UNICEF's mission and increase donations
Reporting to the Deputy Director Operations and Finance, the incumbent will lead risk management in UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division. This includes leading global projects to manage operational risks that could affect fundraising from the private sector in UNICEF Country Offices, managing change initiatives in Operations and Finance, managing oversight activities, and advising the Deputy Director for Operations and Finance.
The position is also responsible for leading change initiatives to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies in operational processes involving National Committees (NCs) and country offices (COs), supporting the Divisions overall internal control mechanisms, and developing and coordinating an Operations Community to ensure efficient knowledge sharing and mainstreaming of best practices.
One of the biggest opportunities for fundraising, advocacy, and brand potential lies in enlisting and engaging millions of individuals, through new and existing channels, to contribute their money, voice, and time in support of UNICEF’s goals for children. The Adviser (Supporter Engagement Strategy) is the co-lead for developing and rolling out this strategy. Under the supervision of the Chief of Individual Giving, PFP with a dotted reporting line to the Deputy Director, Solutions, ICTD, and in close consultation with the Supporter Strategy Steering Committee, the post is responsible for coordinating and leading the implementation of UNICEF’s supporter strategy, advising the Supporter Strategy Steering Committee on critical elements of the strategy roll out and the development of a post-implementation model to drive business uplift from the strategy and technology rollout. This includes working with different divisions, country offices, and NatComs in across-organizational way.
Under the guidance of the Regional Chief of Programme and Planning, in coordination with the Deputy Regional Director, the Budget Officer contributes is responsible for budget management, including monitoring and financial reporting, with a focus on programmes, including the Emergency section. The post will also provide Secretariat support to the LACRO Budget Advisory Group, jointly with the Budget Officer from Operations.
The GSSC Finance Section is looking for a self-motivated, results-driven individual who can work independently and as team lead for ensuring quality of work, performance delivery, service excellence and compliance of the responsible technical unit. The efficiency and efficacy of the support provided by the Finance Officer results in the timely and accurate management of financial services globally in compliance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
UNICEF seeks a Fundraising Specialist (Personalization & Experimentation) to work with the Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva to provide support to teams across UNICEF.
The main purpose of the job is to support markets with experimentation &testing, audience personalization, CRO, and audience-centricity campaigns.
To achieve these results, the professional will support four geographical squads (Central 1, Central 2, Aurora, Sunrise) to ensure Optimizely tool implementation (new global giving CRO platform) and correct application of the personalization strategy across 25 new markets that were onboarded this year. The goal is to increase their digital fundraising activities and maximize results, providing additional capacity and capability by ensuring the squads have correct test and learn measurement framework across the whole year for both cash and pledge campaigns. The incumbent will provide technical fundraising expertise and guidance on optimizing personalization experiences and testing to maximize revenue.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is recruiting a Social Policy Specialist (Social Protection and Disability) to provide technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results.
UNICEF Sierra Leone is seeking a Social Policy Specialist (PF4C) to provide technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy related to public finance for children (PF4C)
UNICEF Sierra Leone seeks a Health Specialist (Systems Strengthening) will lead the health system strengthening component of UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Health and Nutrition programme while ensuring the fulfilment of the overall programme monitoring and reporting requirements, including support for different health and nutrition related studies/research.
UNICEF/Haiti is seeking for a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Finance Associate with the Finance team and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
The purpose of this position is to provide leadership and oversight management to SD’s portfolio of innovative financing tools to support the timely availability of affordable essential supplies. Timely access requires good forecasting, planning, and adequate budgeting, financing, and execution on that financing. However, funding delays, market constraints, and other factors jeopardize systematic access and are a leading cause of commodity stockouts in countries. . The position will lead the deployment of pre-financing interventions to help bridge these short-term funding gaps and deploy risk financing to improve access and market dynamics of these supply of critical essential commodities supplies. The position will oversee UNICEF’s main tool for supply pre-financing and other supply financing interventions, the Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII), which is deployed to improve access to vaccines and other non-immunization commodities.
UNICEF Brazil is searching for an experienced Fundraising Associate to increase the fundraising resources and focus on individual donors’ pledges, supporting on the implementation of digital campaigns. The associate will be based in Brasilia, reporting to the Fundraising Officer (Digital), part of the Individual Giving retention area of the Resource Mobilization & Partnership at UNICEF Brazil.
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.
This job opportunity is presential and for Brazilians only or candidates with a work permit for Brazil.
Joining UNICEF Ghana means being part of a dynamic team that values collaboration, innovation, and leadership. If you are experienced and fits the job profile, then we are on the lookout for you.
Join our team as Administrative and Finance Specialist, P3, where you will lead and manage efficient administrative operations in the country office. The role involves providing policy guidance, ensuring compliance with organizational procedures, and collaborating with operations management to support efficient administrative operations of the office and country programs. You will also be responsible for staff capacity development and driving continuous improvement in administrative services.
This fixed-term position reports directly to the Deputy Representative, Operations (P4).
We are looking for a highly skilled professional with a proven track record in administrative service management functions. Please note that this opportunity is not open to Ghanaian nationals.
