To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
Bring your executive support expertise to a role where exceptional organisation helps drive global impact for children. Working closely with the PFP Director, you will connect people, priorities and processes, ensuring the Director’s Office remains responsive, well-coordinated and equipped to advance PFP’s ambitious agenda.
Under the supervision of the Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA) the incumbent will provide strategic guidance, quality assurance and ensure overall management of DGCA to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate and brand for children and their rights across the world.
In particular, the incumbent will guide and manage teams within the Advocacy pillar in DGCA to ensure the timely identification, implementation and monitoring of advocacy and communication strategies to support the achievement of organizational priorities. S/he will establish a systematic approach to identify issues of strategic importance and advocacy opportunities and partnerships for UNICEF, ensuring effective co-ordination of DGCA in support of global priorities, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2026-2029), its Advocacy and Communication Change Strategy and the Global Communications and Advocacy Strategy. Emphasizing team building, s/he will promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective and efficient global advocacy and communications team. The incumbent will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization - including HQ divisions, Regional and Country Offices and National Committees - to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
The Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
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 Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
The consultants will work closely with UNICEF, and relevant stakeholders to develop an integrated package that strengthens children's learning and development in ECED, making them ready to learn and transition into Grade 1. The assignment will include the development of structured daily activity plans (192 days for ECED and at least the first 90 days, but not limited to, for Grade 1 teachers focusing on transition), formative assessment tools, coaching guidance, school readiness and transition resources, parent and caregiver engagement materials, and practical implementation guidance for teachers, schools, and local governments.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region.
Specifically, the regional government deemed it necessary to develop and implement a curriculum that is relevant and contextualized for all children in early childhood in the whole region. Currently, early learning facilities in BARMM are utilizing different curricula depending on its availability and accessibility (e.g. downloaded from websites). In addition, very limited number of Child Development Workers (CDWs) were trained on utilizing the National Early Learning Curriculum (NELC) while the Tahderiyyah Curriculum was only utilized in the Madrasah. With this curriculum, the regional government can issue a memorandum directing all LGUs to follow a standard curriculum, monitor its implementation and document the progress of children. Thus, this consultancy will help the region in developing their own Bangsamoro Early Learning Curriculum that is also anchored in the revised Philippine Early Learning Development Standards (PELDS).
However, before the development process of early learning curriculum will be realized, there is a need to first conduct a comprehensive review process of the existing curricula in the region to assess how they are being implemented, identify what works and the bottlenecks, and provide strategic recommendations on how BARMM can proceed with developing its own early learning curriculum moving forward.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as stipulated in the signed Joint Roling Workplan with the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region. Specifically, the regional government envisions an ECCD framework that is relevant in the context of BARMM and a ECCD policy and program expert is needed to support this important milestone. Where the policy consultant will craft and develop the contextualized ECCD system policy with guidance from the TWG that institutionalizes a whole-of-society approach to ECCD, including mechanisms for private sector engagement, public-private partnerships, and business investments that support early childhood development outcomes in BARMM. This consultancy will provide a robust situation analysis of children in early childhood including the existing environment. This will provide solid evidence on policy actions for the Bangsamoro ECCD policy in the region. This consultancy work is very critical as this will contribute to providing ECCD direction in the region, define its structure and management mechanisms, and guide respective local government units (LGUs) in planning, budgeting and implementation of a comprehensive and integrative ECCD program for children 0 to 8 years old in BARMM.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Join UNICEF as a People and Culture Officer (NOA) and play a key role in supporting the organization’s most valuable asset, its people. In this exciting opportunity, you will work closely with managers, staff, and P&C colleagues to deliver a range of human resources services, including recruitment, talent management, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, and P&C data analytics. Ideal for a proactive professional with strong research, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, the role offers valuable exposure to strategic P&C initiatives, client-focused advisory services, and workplace culture development. This position provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining talent while helping UNICEF create a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce that advances the rights and wellbeing of children around the world.
At UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire, strong financial management helps make every resource count for children. We are seeking a Finance Associate who will contribute to accurate accounting, effective financial monitoring, compliant documentation and timely support to teams, while upholding UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
The efficiency and efficacy of the Senior Finance Associate directly impacts on the optimum, appropriate and effective use of resources and efficient financial recording, accounting and reporting, which in turn facilitates management oversight, decision making and quality control.
The consultant will establish and operationalize UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Social and Behavioural Intelligence function to strengthen the generation, synthesis and use of social and behavioural evidence for programme planning, adaptive management and community-centred decision-making.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
UNICEF seeks to contract an independent Electrical/Solar Engineer to provide time-bound technical oversight and quality assurance for the supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handover of 5 kVA solar power systems at 20 Civil Registry Department (CRD) sub-offices.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a Security Specialist, P3, based in Pemba Field Office, to provide strategic and operational security support in a complex and volatile humanitarian environment. The role will advise senior management on security risk management, support safe programme delivery, strengthen humanitarian access, and coordinate closely with UNDSS, UN agencies, authorities, NGOs and implementing partners. The incumbent will provide security analysis, incident response, emergency preparedness, staff security guidance and capacity building to enable UNICEF to deliver timely and principled support to children and communities affected by conflict, displacement and climate-related emergencies in northern Mozambique.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the People and Culture Officer the People and Culture Associate (Onboarding), GS6 manages complex administrative and transactional tasks to the efficient implementation of a broad range of Human Resources functions for all categories of staff in the office, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF HR rules and regulations.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
To support the implementation of current and future WASH infrastructure construction interventions, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Infrastructure Construction Engineers who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term basis to provide specialized technical support for planning, design, implementation, supervision, quality assurance, and contract management of WASH infrastructure projects, as and when required.
Bring your executive support expertise to a role where exceptional organisation helps drive global impact for children. Working closely with the PFP Director, you will connect people, priorities and processes, ensuring the Director’s Office remains responsive, well-coordinated and equipped to advance PFP’s ambitious agenda.
Under the supervision of the Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA) the incumbent will provide strategic guidance, quality assurance and ensure overall management of DGCA to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate and brand for children and their rights across the world.
In particular, the incumbent will guide and manage teams within the Advocacy pillar in DGCA to ensure the timely identification, implementation and monitoring of advocacy and communication strategies to support the achievement of organizational priorities. S/he will establish a systematic approach to identify issues of strategic importance and advocacy opportunities and partnerships for UNICEF, ensuring effective co-ordination of DGCA in support of global priorities, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2026-2029), its Advocacy and Communication Change Strategy and the Global Communications and Advocacy Strategy. Emphasizing team building, s/he will promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective and efficient global advocacy and communications team. The incumbent will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization - including HQ divisions, Regional and Country Offices and National Committees - to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
The Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
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 Afghanistan's Polio Section requires time-limited, specialized Information Management (IM) expertise to deliver a set of defined technical outputs during a critical six-month program phase (October 2026 – March 2027). This consultancy is temporary in nature, tied to specific deliverables, and required to support the piloting and national scale-up of the polio program 'reset' strategy, which introduces new data systems, monitoring frameworks, and field-level digitization processes that are beyond the current capacity and expertise of the existing Polio Section team.
The consultant will produce defined outputs across three areas: (1) integration of SBC, VCCM, and polio extender monitoring data into the Afghanistan Polio Management Information System (APMIS) to enable real-time analysis under the national 'pull' strategy; (2) structured IM technical support to the M&E team and field offices during the reset pilot phase in the South and Southeast regions; and (3) design and piloting of an AI-assisted digitization workflow for paper-based Registration Books in the East Region, including a proof of concept, field pilot, scale-up concept note, and trend analysis.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
The consultants will work closely with UNICEF, and relevant stakeholders to develop an integrated package that strengthens children's learning and development in ECED, making them ready to learn and transition into Grade 1. The assignment will include the development of structured daily activity plans (192 days for ECED and at least the first 90 days, but not limited to, for Grade 1 teachers focusing on transition), formative assessment tools, coaching guidance, school readiness and transition resources, parent and caregiver engagement materials, and practical implementation guidance for teachers, schools, and local governments.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region.
Specifically, the regional government deemed it necessary to develop and implement a curriculum that is relevant and contextualized for all children in early childhood in the whole region. Currently, early learning facilities in BARMM are utilizing different curricula depending on its availability and accessibility (e.g. downloaded from websites). In addition, very limited number of Child Development Workers (CDWs) were trained on utilizing the National Early Learning Curriculum (NELC) while the Tahderiyyah Curriculum was only utilized in the Madrasah. With this curriculum, the regional government can issue a memorandum directing all LGUs to follow a standard curriculum, monitor its implementation and document the progress of children. Thus, this consultancy will help the region in developing their own Bangsamoro Early Learning Curriculum that is also anchored in the revised Philippine Early Learning Development Standards (PELDS).
However, before the development process of early learning curriculum will be realized, there is a need to first conduct a comprehensive review process of the existing curricula in the region to assess how they are being implemented, identify what works and the bottlenecks, and provide strategic recommendations on how BARMM can proceed with developing its own early learning curriculum moving forward.
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 is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as stipulated in the signed Joint Roling Workplan with the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region. Specifically, the regional government envisions an ECCD framework that is relevant in the context of BARMM and a ECCD policy and program expert is needed to support this important milestone. Where the policy consultant will craft and develop the contextualized ECCD system policy with guidance from the TWG that institutionalizes a whole-of-society approach to ECCD, including mechanisms for private sector engagement, public-private partnerships, and business investments that support early childhood development outcomes in BARMM. This consultancy will provide a robust situation analysis of children in early childhood including the existing environment. This will provide solid evidence on policy actions for the Bangsamoro ECCD policy in the region. This consultancy work is very critical as this will contribute to providing ECCD direction in the region, define its structure and management mechanisms, and guide respective local government units (LGUs) in planning, budgeting and implementation of a comprehensive and integrative ECCD program for children 0 to 8 years old in BARMM.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
Join UNICEF as a People and Culture Officer (NOA) and play a key role in supporting the organization’s most valuable asset, its people. In this exciting opportunity, you will work closely with managers, staff, and P&C colleagues to deliver a range of human resources services, including recruitment, talent management, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, and P&C data analytics. Ideal for a proactive professional with strong research, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, the role offers valuable exposure to strategic P&C initiatives, client-focused advisory services, and workplace culture development. This position provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining talent while helping UNICEF create a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce that advances the rights and wellbeing of children around the world.
At UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire, strong financial management helps make every resource count for children. We are seeking a Finance Associate who will contribute to accurate accounting, effective financial monitoring, compliant documentation and timely support to teams, while upholding UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
The efficiency and efficacy of the Senior Finance Associate directly impacts on the optimum, appropriate and effective use of resources and efficient financial recording, accounting and reporting, which in turn facilitates management oversight, decision making and quality control.
The consultant will establish and operationalize UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Social and Behavioural Intelligence function to strengthen the generation, synthesis and use of social and behavioural evidence for programme planning, adaptive management and community-centred decision-making.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
UNICEF seeks to contract an independent Electrical/Solar Engineer to provide time-bound technical oversight and quality assurance for the supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handover of 5 kVA solar power systems at 20 Civil Registry Department (CRD) sub-offices.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a Security Specialist, P3, based in Pemba Field Office, to provide strategic and operational security support in a complex and volatile humanitarian environment. The role will advise senior management on security risk management, support safe programme delivery, strengthen humanitarian access, and coordinate closely with UNDSS, UN agencies, authorities, NGOs and implementing partners. The incumbent will provide security analysis, incident response, emergency preparedness, staff security guidance and capacity building to enable UNICEF to deliver timely and principled support to children and communities affected by conflict, displacement and climate-related emergencies in northern Mozambique.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the People and Culture Officer the People and Culture Associate (Onboarding), GS6 manages complex administrative and transactional tasks to the efficient implementation of a broad range of Human Resources functions for all categories of staff in the office, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF HR rules and regulations.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
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