The Regional Chief of Communication is accountable for developing, implementing, managing and monitoring a regional advocacy and communication strategy and associated products, partnerships and activities. He/ She will support resource mobilization, global priority and campaign initiatives, especially those of importance to the work of the National Committees. Advise, provide guidance and build communication capacity of staff and others throughout the region. The incumbent will co-ordinate and guide regional monitoring and evaluation of communication, and also provide recommendations on global, regional and country communication policy development, support and advocacy and communication activities. The incumbent will also advice on the articulation of policies and strategies, with an emphasis on those that promote gender equality and equity.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) and overall guidance of the Deputy Representative, the incumbent will be accountable for supporting the implementation of the Country Office’s resource mobilization strategy and monitoring of UNICEF’s partnerships and donor reporting. The duties and responsibilities detailed below will be accomplished in coordination with the programme sections, the Budget Officer (NO-B), and the Communications, Advocacy and Partnership (CAP) team. The post is crucial to accomplishing the RCO’s significantly increased volume of work in resource mobilization and donor reporting.
The Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) is seeking a passionate and dedicated individual to join our dynamic team as the Regional Adviser, Social & Behavior Change. Under the direct supervision and general guidance of the Deputy Regional Director and in close collaboration with Regional Advisers, the incumbent will be responsible for the design, management, execution, monitoring and evaluation of regional strategies related to the program Social and Behavior Change (SBC). The successful candidate will also provide expert advice, technical support and quality assurance to country offices in South Asia Region on policies, operational strategies and M&E tools related to SBC. The adviser will provide expert guidance to accelerate and sustain results in gender equality, social inclusion, child survival, development, learning achievements and protection. If you are passionate and committed to making a difference, we would love to hear from you!
If you are a driven, committed, creative professional who is passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF LAC Regional Office located in Panama City is seeking an Operations Manager who will function as a Strategic Business Partner for LACRO Senior Management Team, Country Offices Deputy Representatives Operations, Operations Managers and the LACR Operations community assuring the best use of UNICEF’s assets in alignment with solid management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children. Apply now!!!
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Knowledge Management and Communication Consultant to maintain and further develop UNICEF ECARO Evaluation SharePoint and external ECARO Evaluation Web Page.
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) has an exciting job opportunity for a Technology for Development Specialist (T4D), NO-C, Fixed Term and Nepal Country Office has a similar vacancy at Temporary Appointment for 364 days. Therefore, this vacancy announcement will be used to fill these two positions.
UNICEF supports vulnerable children and women in over 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Country Offices and national governments develop multi-year Country Programmes to address child rights gaps among the most vulnerable children.
At the end of the programme cycle, Country Programme Evaluation assesses strategic aspects for accountability and learning. Managed by Regional Evaluation Advisors and conducted by external evaluation team, the evaluation inform the next programme cycle. In MENA, evaluations are planned for Libya and Palestine in 2025, and Algeria, Egypt, and Jordan in 2026.
Country Programme Evaluation covers the entire programme over multiple years. UNICEF’s internal systems collect and manage large volumes of data, but this data has been underutilized in evaluations. AI technologies, like machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP), can automate analyses, enhancing decision-making and understanding of programme results.
AI use in UNICEF evaluations is emerging, aiming to improve accuracy, efficiency, and depth. NLP has been tested for identifying themes, extracting insights, and detecting trends in evaluations. It also transcribes and analyzes interviews and meetings, and conducts sentiment analysis on social media data. The MENA Regional Office is piloting for an evaluation synthesis. The office is now planning to expand AI use in Country Programme Evaluations.
Under the overall direction of the Regional SBC Specialist (Emergencies) of UNICEF LACRO and in the framework, we are seeking for a SBC Intern with the skills to create engaging and creative content for UNICEF IoGT and Virtual Campus platforms. The intern we are seeking is creative, dynamic, self-driven, up to date and passionate about the latest technologies and techniques and can apply them to generate content.
The Regional Chief of Supply advise and provide guidance, oversight and direction to the regional office and all offices within WCAR on supply chain management, including procurement services, through direct support, capacity building, development of the supply community and strategic promotion of supply-programme integration in support of the country offices’ programme management to achieve results for children.
UNICEF ESARO and Burundi Country Office, with the financial support from the Government of Netherlands, is seeking a consultant for a period of 12 months to analyse both secondary and primary data, existing policies and programs, key gaps, and recommend strategic areas of focus to improve school-age children and adolescent nutrition in Burundi.
The UNICEF Tanzania office is recruiting a Risk & Compliance Specialist based in Dar es Salaam. Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations, the Risk and Compliance Specialist will be responsible for strengthening risk assurance and compliance efforts in the context of a medium scale country office.
El propósito de esta consultoría es proveer asistencia técnica especializada para revisar los indicadores de riesgo y seguridad escolar para producir una versión simplificada que pueda ser completada por los centros escolares. Una vez completada, se busca integrarla en un sistema automatizado y centralizado, de forma que mejore las capacidades operativas del MINERD, en el marco del proyecto ECHO y el sistema ANACAONA.
UNICEF Costa Rica se encuentra en la búsqueda de un consultor para garantizar y supervisar las acciones de infraestructura WASH y la correcta ejecución de las obras o adecuaciones que se requieran realizar en el EMISUR con el fin de garantizar estándares de calidad adecuados para la emergencia humanitaria. Asímismo, la correcta planificación, ejecución y seguimiento de la obra del proyecto, cumpliendo con los requisitos técnicos y legales establecidos, asegurando su operación óptima y el cumplimiento de la normativa aplicable, en colaboración con la Comisión Nacional de Emergencia (CNE) y otras entidades gubernamentales.
The UNICEF Tanzania Country office is seeking to engage a highly experienced, proactive, and committed Deputy Representative Programme for 4 months based in Dar es Salaam, working closely with the Representative to ensure optimal management of resources and programmatic activities.
The Mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) represents a major public health emergency, with increasing spread across multiple provinces.
The response to this epidemic, according to the DRC's national response plan, is structured around several pillars, including vaccination, which faces multiple challenges, particularly due to the introduction of a new vaccine and a vaccination strategy focused on specific populations.
In response to these challenges, UNICEF DRC is mobilizing an international Immunization Specialist at the P3 level to support the vaccination response to Mpox and other health emergencies, in a context where other epidemics such as measles, polio, and meningitis are also present.
UNICEF is looking for a consultant to undertake following three deliverables:
1. Conduct a mapping of Early Childhood Development (ECD) policies, programmes and interventions in
the Middle East and North Africa countries with a specific focus on early years.
2. Develop a regional ECD roadmap to define the MENA ECD narrative and operationalize the UNICFE’s global
vision on ECD.
3. Build tools and capacities of the ECD country offices focal points UNICEF’s MENA ECD narrative through remote
support and a face-to-face training.
This assignment will primarily focus on understanding the programming landscape and defining the narrative and
roadmap for ECD during early years through the lens of gender and disability. It will also provide updates to the
existing parenting landscape.
Considering the new guidance for country programme planning, the findings of the 2022 audit report, the oversight and quality assurance demand driven by the programme components and the need for routine application of informed programming principles, ICO needs to scale up its PME functions across the office both in depth and coverage. This calls for an improved and integrated budget planning, monitoring and management, more robust oversight of HACT and implementing partners, regular field presence to monitor programme delivery and quality, improved and institutionalized outcome and impact monitoring of the interventions/programmes and evidence generation through study, research, and evaluation efforts in line with accountability and informed programming principles. Accordingly, ICO is considering increasing the required capacity by having a PME specialist, a PME officer and a senior budget associate on board. While the PM officer position will have a dotted line to the Deputy Representative Operations and the finance officer for a harmonized and coordinated oversight of the financial aspects of the HACT, it will also support addressing the growing demand from the donor community for improved monitoring of the deliverables and results.
This position is only open for national candidates.
The Planning and Monitoring Officer will provide technical support throughout planning and monitoring function of UNICEF Bangladesh. This will include support to programme performance monitoring, preparation, and monitoring of Dhaka and other field offices including Cox’s Bazar, as well as support in information/data collection, statistics and data analysis, preparation of reports to enhance the use of data, and in implementing training programmes at national and sub-national data collection, monitoring, planning and capacity building with special attention to the interest, concern, and participation of primary stakeholders. The Planning and Monitoring Officer will also support both planning and monitoring functions of UNICEF Bangladesh. S/he will support in work planning process, information management, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM), Implementation monitoring and partners’ reporting functions of the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Team of UNICEF Bangladesh.
UNICEF Moldova is looking to contract a national consultant who will provide technical support to the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Education and Research in revision of the classification of national educational programmes and propose amendments to the Code of Education to comply with international definitions related to education levels in line with the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011) – follow up on the recommendations of the Sectoral Evaluation Report of Education Statistics of the Republic of Moldova (2021), conducted by Eurostat.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens addressing inequity not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries.
The Regional Chief of Communication is accountable for developing, implementing, managing and monitoring a regional advocacy and communication strategy and associated products, partnerships and activities. He/ She will support resource mobilization, global priority and campaign initiatives, especially those of importance to the work of the National Committees. Advise, provide guidance and build communication capacity of staff and others throughout the region. The incumbent will co-ordinate and guide regional monitoring and evaluation of communication, and also provide recommendations on global, regional and country communication policy development, support and advocacy and communication activities. The incumbent will also advice on the articulation of policies and strategies, with an emphasis on those that promote gender equality and equity.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) and overall guidance of the Deputy Representative, the incumbent will be accountable for supporting the implementation of the Country Office’s resource mobilization strategy and monitoring of UNICEF’s partnerships and donor reporting. The duties and responsibilities detailed below will be accomplished in coordination with the programme sections, the Budget Officer (NO-B), and the Communications, Advocacy and Partnership (CAP) team. The post is crucial to accomplishing the RCO’s significantly increased volume of work in resource mobilization and donor reporting.
The Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) is seeking a passionate and dedicated individual to join our dynamic team as the Regional Adviser, Social & Behavior Change. Under the direct supervision and general guidance of the Deputy Regional Director and in close collaboration with Regional Advisers, the incumbent will be responsible for the design, management, execution, monitoring and evaluation of regional strategies related to the program Social and Behavior Change (SBC). The successful candidate will also provide expert advice, technical support and quality assurance to country offices in South Asia Region on policies, operational strategies and M&E tools related to SBC. The adviser will provide expert guidance to accelerate and sustain results in gender equality, social inclusion, child survival, development, learning achievements and protection. If you are passionate and committed to making a difference, we would love to hear from you!
If you are a driven, committed, creative professional who is passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF LAC Regional Office located in Panama City is seeking an Operations Manager who will function as a Strategic Business Partner for LACRO Senior Management Team, Country Offices Deputy Representatives Operations, Operations Managers and the LACR Operations community assuring the best use of UNICEF’s assets in alignment with solid management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children. Apply now!!!
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Knowledge Management and Communication Consultant to maintain and further develop UNICEF ECARO Evaluation SharePoint and external ECARO Evaluation Web Page.
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) has an exciting job opportunity for a Technology for Development Specialist (T4D), NO-C, Fixed Term and Nepal Country Office has a similar vacancy at Temporary Appointment for 364 days. Therefore, this vacancy announcement will be used to fill these two positions.
UNICEF supports vulnerable children and women in over 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Country Offices and national governments develop multi-year Country Programmes to address child rights gaps among the most vulnerable children.
At the end of the programme cycle, Country Programme Evaluation assesses strategic aspects for accountability and learning. Managed by Regional Evaluation Advisors and conducted by external evaluation team, the evaluation inform the next programme cycle. In MENA, evaluations are planned for Libya and Palestine in 2025, and Algeria, Egypt, and Jordan in 2026.
Country Programme Evaluation covers the entire programme over multiple years. UNICEF’s internal systems collect and manage large volumes of data, but this data has been underutilized in evaluations. AI technologies, like machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP), can automate analyses, enhancing decision-making and understanding of programme results.
AI use in UNICEF evaluations is emerging, aiming to improve accuracy, efficiency, and depth. NLP has been tested for identifying themes, extracting insights, and detecting trends in evaluations. It also transcribes and analyzes interviews and meetings, and conducts sentiment analysis on social media data. The MENA Regional Office is piloting for an evaluation synthesis. The office is now planning to expand AI use in Country Programme Evaluations.
Under the overall direction of the Regional SBC Specialist (Emergencies) of UNICEF LACRO and in the framework, we are seeking for a SBC Intern with the skills to create engaging and creative content for UNICEF IoGT and Virtual Campus platforms. The intern we are seeking is creative, dynamic, self-driven, up to date and passionate about the latest technologies and techniques and can apply them to generate content.
The Regional Chief of Supply advise and provide guidance, oversight and direction to the regional office and all offices within WCAR on supply chain management, including procurement services, through direct support, capacity building, development of the supply community and strategic promotion of supply-programme integration in support of the country offices’ programme management to achieve results for children.
UNICEF ESARO and Burundi Country Office, with the financial support from the Government of Netherlands, is seeking a consultant for a period of 12 months to analyse both secondary and primary data, existing policies and programs, key gaps, and recommend strategic areas of focus to improve school-age children and adolescent nutrition in Burundi.
The UNICEF Tanzania office is recruiting a Risk & Compliance Specialist based in Dar es Salaam. Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations, the Risk and Compliance Specialist will be responsible for strengthening risk assurance and compliance efforts in the context of a medium scale country office.
El propósito de esta consultoría es proveer asistencia técnica especializada para revisar los indicadores de riesgo y seguridad escolar para producir una versión simplificada que pueda ser completada por los centros escolares. Una vez completada, se busca integrarla en un sistema automatizado y centralizado, de forma que mejore las capacidades operativas del MINERD, en el marco del proyecto ECHO y el sistema ANACAONA.
UNICEF Costa Rica se encuentra en la búsqueda de un consultor para garantizar y supervisar las acciones de infraestructura WASH y la correcta ejecución de las obras o adecuaciones que se requieran realizar en el EMISUR con el fin de garantizar estándares de calidad adecuados para la emergencia humanitaria. Asímismo, la correcta planificación, ejecución y seguimiento de la obra del proyecto, cumpliendo con los requisitos técnicos y legales establecidos, asegurando su operación óptima y el cumplimiento de la normativa aplicable, en colaboración con la Comisión Nacional de Emergencia (CNE) y otras entidades gubernamentales.
The UNICEF Tanzania Country office is seeking to engage a highly experienced, proactive, and committed Deputy Representative Programme for 4 months based in Dar es Salaam, working closely with the Representative to ensure optimal management of resources and programmatic activities.
The Mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) represents a major public health emergency, with increasing spread across multiple provinces.
The response to this epidemic, according to the DRC's national response plan, is structured around several pillars, including vaccination, which faces multiple challenges, particularly due to the introduction of a new vaccine and a vaccination strategy focused on specific populations.
In response to these challenges, UNICEF DRC is mobilizing an international Immunization Specialist at the P3 level to support the vaccination response to Mpox and other health emergencies, in a context where other epidemics such as measles, polio, and meningitis are also present.
UNICEF is looking for a consultant to undertake following three deliverables:
1. Conduct a mapping of Early Childhood Development (ECD) policies, programmes and interventions in
the Middle East and North Africa countries with a specific focus on early years.
2. Develop a regional ECD roadmap to define the MENA ECD narrative and operationalize the UNICFE’s global
vision on ECD.
3. Build tools and capacities of the ECD country offices focal points UNICEF’s MENA ECD narrative through remote
support and a face-to-face training.
This assignment will primarily focus on understanding the programming landscape and defining the narrative and
roadmap for ECD during early years through the lens of gender and disability. It will also provide updates to the
existing parenting landscape.
Considering the new guidance for country programme planning, the findings of the 2022 audit report, the oversight and quality assurance demand driven by the programme components and the need for routine application of informed programming principles, ICO needs to scale up its PME functions across the office both in depth and coverage. This calls for an improved and integrated budget planning, monitoring and management, more robust oversight of HACT and implementing partners, regular field presence to monitor programme delivery and quality, improved and institutionalized outcome and impact monitoring of the interventions/programmes and evidence generation through study, research, and evaluation efforts in line with accountability and informed programming principles. Accordingly, ICO is considering increasing the required capacity by having a PME specialist, a PME officer and a senior budget associate on board. While the PM officer position will have a dotted line to the Deputy Representative Operations and the finance officer for a harmonized and coordinated oversight of the financial aspects of the HACT, it will also support addressing the growing demand from the donor community for improved monitoring of the deliverables and results.
This position is only open for national candidates.
The Planning and Monitoring Officer will provide technical support throughout planning and monitoring function of UNICEF Bangladesh. This will include support to programme performance monitoring, preparation, and monitoring of Dhaka and other field offices including Cox’s Bazar, as well as support in information/data collection, statistics and data analysis, preparation of reports to enhance the use of data, and in implementing training programmes at national and sub-national data collection, monitoring, planning and capacity building with special attention to the interest, concern, and participation of primary stakeholders. The Planning and Monitoring Officer will also support both planning and monitoring functions of UNICEF Bangladesh. S/he will support in work planning process, information management, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM), Implementation monitoring and partners’ reporting functions of the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Team of UNICEF Bangladesh.
UNICEF Moldova is looking to contract a national consultant who will provide technical support to the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Education and Research in revision of the classification of national educational programmes and propose amendments to the Code of Education to comply with international definitions related to education levels in line with the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011) – follow up on the recommendations of the Sectoral Evaluation Report of Education Statistics of the Republic of Moldova (2021), conducted by Eurostat.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens addressing inequity not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries.
