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.
The purpose of this individual consultancy is to strengthen UNICEF’s Social and Community Listening (SCL) capacity of UNICEF SBC teams at global level. The consultancy is hosted by the Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) PG HQ team, transitioning into the new Global Programme Division. The expert is meant to provide targeted advisory support to leverage SCL within specific global programme priorities, with a focus on immunization demand, public health emergencies & climate, and a third sectoral priority to be determined, while supporting ROs and COs with, training, technical support, and knowledge products.
The support and expected deliverables will enable UNICEF to systematically capture, analyse, and act on community and digital insights, while also integrating misinformation management and sectoral applications. This work builds on the progress made by SBC teams globally in scaling up SCL and will support the mainstreaming of the frameworks, guides, and technical guidance developed by the SBC HQ team in 2024–2025. By combining strategic positioning of SCL to inform global and country programmes and the provision of capacity building, evidence generation, and knowledge management technical support, the consultant will ensure that SCL becomes an operational tool for decision-making, and programme design across global, regional, and country levels.
UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU), in partnership with the African Union Commission’s Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), is the hiring entity for this consultancy. GenU and the AU have joined forces to launch EmPowerHer Africa—a flagship programme aiming to empower 50 million adolescent girls and young women by 2030. The programme seeks to expand access to market-relevant skills, entrepreneurship pathways, financial inclusion mechanisms, and supportive policy environments across Africa. The consultancy will be physically and administratively based within the AU WGYD, emphasizing the Youth Directorate
PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY:
To provide technical and operational support to monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) across the WYFEI Initiative through AU/UNICEF EmPowerHer Africa. This will ensure results-based implementation, rigorous reporting, enhanced accountability, capacity building, and strategic learning for scale-up.
Aligned with UNICEF’s strategic positioning of ECD in the next Strategic Plan, the objective of this consultancy is to support the ECD Team in: (i) ensuring timely data quality assurance through internal monitoring mechanisms for UNICEF-supported and implemented ECD programmes globally in 2025; (ii) producing analytical quantitative and qualitative updates and visuals for annual and donor reporting; (iii) developing a consolidated summary report of global ECD results for the current Strategic Plan (SP) period; (iv) providing technical inputs to UNICEF progress and global reports (e.g., Global Annual Results Report GARR); and (v) extracting illustrative examples and case studies from country reports to supplement ECD 2025 result statements in reports with field stories.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
Under the supervision of the Contracts Specialist, the Senior Contracts Associate provides a broad range of high level transactional, procedural and administrative tasks in support of service contracting activities carried out by Headquarters Divisions/Offices, ensuring timely and efficient output that is in compliance with UNICEF rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is an international household survey programme developed and supported by UNICEF. MICS is designed to collect data on key indicators that are used to assess the situation of children and women. Over the past three decades, MICS has continuously evolved to respond to changing data needs, expanding from 28 indicators in the first round in the mid-1990s to more than 250 indicators in the current seventh round, and has become a key source of data on child protection, early childhood education, and a major source of data on child health and nutrition. In addition to being a data collection tool to generate data for monitoring the progress towards national goals and global commitments for promoting the welfare of children, MICS provided valuable data for MDG and recently for SDG monitoring and reporting.
Under the overall supervision of the Household Survey Specialist, the Global Blood Testing Consultant has the responsibility for finalising the standard MICS questionnaire modules and associated protocols. In collaboration with the Global MICS Team in UNICEF Headquarters (HQ) and Regional Offices (ROs), and the respective UNICEF Country Offices (COs), as well the UNICEF Programme Group staff on Climate, Environment, Energy & Disaster and national partners, the Consultant will support the preparation, implementation, and completion of up to three MICS surveys (or similar UNICEF-supported survey) in relation to the blood testing component. When possible, the consultant will further provide input to UNICEF’s global efforts and support to data collection including blood sample, outside the MICS Programme.
Designs and protocols will follow those established for other components of the MICS Programme. The Consultant will work together with the Global MICS Team’s experts on sampling, data processing, and household survey support.
The Office of Innovation is looking for a seasoned innovation leader to build effective climate innovation pathways for global and country-level programmes. The Climate Innovation Specialist will support the development and implementation of UNICEF’s climate innovation strategy and service offer for 2026–2030, working in close collaboration with the Children and Climate Center of Excellence and the Programme Group. The consultant will coordinate the climate venture pipeline, operationalize innovative financing mechanisms, and strengthen country engagement and partnerships to scale climate-smart solutions that advance child health, resilience, and environmental sustainability across UNICEF programmes. We are looking for someone passionate about lifting others, a champion for cross-sectoral collaboration, and an expert in navigating complex stakeholder spaces without losing momentum. In return, we’ll give you one of the most flexible working environments in the UN system and an inspiring opportunity to contribute to building more sustainable futures for every child.
This role will assist the Social & Behavior Change Specialist in UNICEF Guinea to develop, implement and monitor effective and engaging advocacy campaigns involving young people. Under the leadership of the Social & Behavior Change Specialist NOC #133370 role will support the development and implementation and monitoring of youth advocacy campaign strategies, partnerships management, and content creation.
Join our UNICEF Colombia team and make a difference in the lives of children and adolescents!
UNICEF Colombia is looking for a professional passionate for the improvement of health and nutrition conditions for children and adolescents, professional with experience in program management and/or technical expertise in child survival and healthcare, and with knowledge of emergency situations. Experience in policy formulation, management, promotion, and public health policies focused on children is an asset.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical, coordination, and capacity-building support to UNICEF Guinea for the implementation of the project “Reaching Every Child: Gender-Responsive Polio Strategies in Dubreka”, which is part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Gender Equality Strategy. The consultant will contribute to strengthening gender-responsive planning, delivery, and monitoring of polio immunisation services in Dubreka, a high-risk prefecture with persistent coverage gaps due to social and gender-related barriers.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations.
The Finance Officer is responsible for providing support to the supervisors and colleagues in the office by administering and executing a variety of professional and technical financial transactions and processes, applying theoretical skills and thorough knowledge of organizational goals, objectives, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to complete the tasks.
The Finance Officer 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 Regulations and Rules, policies, procedures, guidelines, standards of accountability, and ethics
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations.
The Supply and Logistics Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Operations as per the Country Office (CO) set-up and is responsible for managing the supply chains of a small sized country office, and/or small sized emergency response operation, or elements of the supply chains of a larger supply operation. The supply chain operations include planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in country transport and distribution, as well as monitoring of supplies, services and construction works. The incumbent supports management collaboration with programmes in defining supply interventions to meet programmatic needs and achieve results for children, and provides technical and advisory support to governments, national systems and partners on supply chain management.
Under the general guidance of the supervisor, the Social Policy officer is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and HIV.
The consultant will support UNICEF Guinea-Bissau with delivering the final draft Country Programme Document, with adherence to corporate guidance contained in the UNICEF CPP Guidance Note 2022, as well as the CPD development guidelines and template. Working under the supervision of the UNICEF Guinea-Bissau’s Deputy Representative Programme in collaboration with the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Section, the consultant is expected to collaborate with all Country Office sections and the Regional Office PM&E team (WCARO) to ensure robust internal and external engagement process and collective reflections by country office, through video calls or simple phone calls, with the selected parties during in completing key preparatory phases/documents as part of the country programme planning will be articulated in the Country Programme Document (2027-2031).
UNICEF Angola is recruiting a qualified designer to develop a high-quality and engaging Logo for the Minha Kamba Program to position and promote girls’ access to comprehensive information on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and to protection.
Support the UNICEF Angola Country Office (ACO) on quality review of reporting, knowledge management and evidence generation activities to ensure high-quality products developed, when the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation team’s human resource capacity is constrained during year-end reporting and planning period.
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.
The purpose of this individual consultancy is to strengthen UNICEF’s Social and Community Listening (SCL) capacity of UNICEF SBC teams at global level. The consultancy is hosted by the Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) PG HQ team, transitioning into the new Global Programme Division. The expert is meant to provide targeted advisory support to leverage SCL within specific global programme priorities, with a focus on immunization demand, public health emergencies & climate, and a third sectoral priority to be determined, while supporting ROs and COs with, training, technical support, and knowledge products.
The support and expected deliverables will enable UNICEF to systematically capture, analyse, and act on community and digital insights, while also integrating misinformation management and sectoral applications. This work builds on the progress made by SBC teams globally in scaling up SCL and will support the mainstreaming of the frameworks, guides, and technical guidance developed by the SBC HQ team in 2024–2025. By combining strategic positioning of SCL to inform global and country programmes and the provision of capacity building, evidence generation, and knowledge management technical support, the consultant will ensure that SCL becomes an operational tool for decision-making, and programme design across global, regional, and country levels.
UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU), in partnership with the African Union Commission’s Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (WGYD), is the hiring entity for this consultancy. GenU and the AU have joined forces to launch EmPowerHer Africa—a flagship programme aiming to empower 50 million adolescent girls and young women by 2030. The programme seeks to expand access to market-relevant skills, entrepreneurship pathways, financial inclusion mechanisms, and supportive policy environments across Africa. The consultancy will be physically and administratively based within the AU WGYD, emphasizing the Youth Directorate
PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY:
To provide technical and operational support to monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) across the WYFEI Initiative through AU/UNICEF EmPowerHer Africa. This will ensure results-based implementation, rigorous reporting, enhanced accountability, capacity building, and strategic learning for scale-up.
Aligned with UNICEF’s strategic positioning of ECD in the next Strategic Plan, the objective of this consultancy is to support the ECD Team in: (i) ensuring timely data quality assurance through internal monitoring mechanisms for UNICEF-supported and implemented ECD programmes globally in 2025; (ii) producing analytical quantitative and qualitative updates and visuals for annual and donor reporting; (iii) developing a consolidated summary report of global ECD results for the current Strategic Plan (SP) period; (iv) providing technical inputs to UNICEF progress and global reports (e.g., Global Annual Results Report GARR); and (v) extracting illustrative examples and case studies from country reports to supplement ECD 2025 result statements in reports with field stories.
The consultant will work in the Data and Analytics Section of the Office of Strategy and Evidence to support projects and activities related to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and information extraction.
In particular, the consultant will:
• Maintain and optimize the vaccine stockout machine learning model already trained for UNICEF’s Program Group Immunization Division, ensuring its accuracy, performance, and sustainability.
• Continue to enhance methods for large-scale data and information extraction from diverse and unstructured document sources for the West Central Africa Region Social Policy teams and the WASH Analytics team before moving to additional domains.
• Support the development of automated briefs and reports generation pipelines.
• Test, evaluate, and implement robust frameworks for (semi)-automated GenAI report and data quality assurance.
• Contribute to geospatial (GIS) and AI-related initiatives, particularly as part of the Frontier Data Network Ahead of the Storm project.
• Provide technical advice on AI/ML approaches.
• Build reproducible workflows and contribute to machine learning and GenAI knowledge transfer within the team
Under the supervision of the Contracts Specialist, the Senior Contracts Associate provides a broad range of high level transactional, procedural and administrative tasks in support of service contracting activities carried out by Headquarters Divisions/Offices, ensuring timely and efficient output that is in compliance with UNICEF rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is an international household survey programme developed and supported by UNICEF. MICS is designed to collect data on key indicators that are used to assess the situation of children and women. Over the past three decades, MICS has continuously evolved to respond to changing data needs, expanding from 28 indicators in the first round in the mid-1990s to more than 250 indicators in the current seventh round, and has become a key source of data on child protection, early childhood education, and a major source of data on child health and nutrition. In addition to being a data collection tool to generate data for monitoring the progress towards national goals and global commitments for promoting the welfare of children, MICS provided valuable data for MDG and recently for SDG monitoring and reporting.
Under the overall supervision of the Household Survey Specialist, the Global Blood Testing Consultant has the responsibility for finalising the standard MICS questionnaire modules and associated protocols. In collaboration with the Global MICS Team in UNICEF Headquarters (HQ) and Regional Offices (ROs), and the respective UNICEF Country Offices (COs), as well the UNICEF Programme Group staff on Climate, Environment, Energy & Disaster and national partners, the Consultant will support the preparation, implementation, and completion of up to three MICS surveys (or similar UNICEF-supported survey) in relation to the blood testing component. When possible, the consultant will further provide input to UNICEF’s global efforts and support to data collection including blood sample, outside the MICS Programme.
Designs and protocols will follow those established for other components of the MICS Programme. The Consultant will work together with the Global MICS Team’s experts on sampling, data processing, and household survey support.
The Office of Innovation is looking for a seasoned innovation leader to build effective climate innovation pathways for global and country-level programmes. The Climate Innovation Specialist will support the development and implementation of UNICEF’s climate innovation strategy and service offer for 2026–2030, working in close collaboration with the Children and Climate Center of Excellence and the Programme Group. The consultant will coordinate the climate venture pipeline, operationalize innovative financing mechanisms, and strengthen country engagement and partnerships to scale climate-smart solutions that advance child health, resilience, and environmental sustainability across UNICEF programmes. We are looking for someone passionate about lifting others, a champion for cross-sectoral collaboration, and an expert in navigating complex stakeholder spaces without losing momentum. In return, we’ll give you one of the most flexible working environments in the UN system and an inspiring opportunity to contribute to building more sustainable futures for every child.
This role will assist the Social & Behavior Change Specialist in UNICEF Guinea to develop, implement and monitor effective and engaging advocacy campaigns involving young people. Under the leadership of the Social & Behavior Change Specialist NOC #133370 role will support the development and implementation and monitoring of youth advocacy campaign strategies, partnerships management, and content creation.
Join our UNICEF Colombia team and make a difference in the lives of children and adolescents!
UNICEF Colombia is looking for a professional passionate for the improvement of health and nutrition conditions for children and adolescents, professional with experience in program management and/or technical expertise in child survival and healthcare, and with knowledge of emergency situations. Experience in policy formulation, management, promotion, and public health policies focused on children is an asset.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical, coordination, and capacity-building support to UNICEF Guinea for the implementation of the project “Reaching Every Child: Gender-Responsive Polio Strategies in Dubreka”, which is part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Gender Equality Strategy. The consultant will contribute to strengthening gender-responsive planning, delivery, and monitoring of polio immunisation services in Dubreka, a high-risk prefecture with persistent coverage gaps due to social and gender-related barriers.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations.
The Finance Officer is responsible for providing support to the supervisors and colleagues in the office by administering and executing a variety of professional and technical financial transactions and processes, applying theoretical skills and thorough knowledge of organizational goals, objectives, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to complete the tasks.
The Finance Officer 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 Regulations and Rules, policies, procedures, guidelines, standards of accountability, and ethics
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations.
The Supply and Logistics Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Operations as per the Country Office (CO) set-up and is responsible for managing the supply chains of a small sized country office, and/or small sized emergency response operation, or elements of the supply chains of a larger supply operation. The supply chain operations include planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in country transport and distribution, as well as monitoring of supplies, services and construction works. The incumbent supports management collaboration with programmes in defining supply interventions to meet programmatic needs and achieve results for children, and provides technical and advisory support to governments, national systems and partners on supply chain management.
Under the general guidance of the supervisor, the Social Policy officer is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and HIV.
The consultant will support UNICEF Guinea-Bissau with delivering the final draft Country Programme Document, with adherence to corporate guidance contained in the UNICEF CPP Guidance Note 2022, as well as the CPD development guidelines and template. Working under the supervision of the UNICEF Guinea-Bissau’s Deputy Representative Programme in collaboration with the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Section, the consultant is expected to collaborate with all Country Office sections and the Regional Office PM&E team (WCARO) to ensure robust internal and external engagement process and collective reflections by country office, through video calls or simple phone calls, with the selected parties during in completing key preparatory phases/documents as part of the country programme planning will be articulated in the Country Programme Document (2027-2031).
UNICEF Angola is recruiting a qualified designer to develop a high-quality and engaging Logo for the Minha Kamba Program to position and promote girls’ access to comprehensive information on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and to protection.
Support the UNICEF Angola Country Office (ACO) on quality review of reporting, knowledge management and evidence generation activities to ensure high-quality products developed, when the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation team’s human resource capacity is constrained during year-end reporting and planning period.
