UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a consultant for conducting a rapid assessment of the playful parental engagement programme in four states 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 Health Officer provides professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results. He/she will provide technical assistance in the development of health work plans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development, Maternal and Child Health, Health, and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF's immunization plus goals and objectives for the country. As a key partner of in Primary Health Care Particularly Immunization UNICEF has the mandate to provide technical assistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of health programmes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet this obligation.
Under the supervision and guidance of the Nutrition Specialist, the programme associate supports the respective section (s) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement, and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Plan, create, and curate social media content, maintain and update editorial calendars, collect and collate multimedia information from different departments.
- Monitor various sources for new content and information about what is happening in and around the UN related to child, adolescent and maternal health
- Create visuals, quote cards and other materials as requested using online tools (such as Canva or Adobe Photoshop).
- Acts as focal point on social media matters, monitoring and reporting on the latest trends and developments, responding to queries, and participating in monitoring and evaluation.
- Attend press conferences and events to gather quotes, take photos and videos which can be used in social media posts.
- Draft posts for Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
- Research trends and posts from partners and suggest retweets/reposts; monitor the social media accounts for followers' comments and questions.
- Research latest social media trends for the visualization and communication of child health related topics/issues; assist the Office of the Director’s team in researching iconography in the Office's image databases and online using the Office's photo library; research concepts for campaigns and introduce ideas through clear visual and verbal presentations; respond to requests for drafting posts and creating engaging visuals, graphics, videos for the Office's social media channels.
- Support UNGA, WHS, GHNM events with updates to social media on relevant topics and discussions.
If yes, please indicate the number of hours/months of direct interpersonal contact with children, or work in their immediately physical proximity, with limited supervision by a more senior member of personnel:
The consultant will have the following scope of work:
• Prepare a set of analytical briefs based on the results of the UNICEF’s Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination surveys;
• Develop data visualizations and programmatic insight decks related to UNICEF’s ‘Internet of Good Things’ results;
• Develop insight decks and related monitoring tools for the community engagement mapping of UNICEF programmes and for the Harmful Behaviors and Violence Against Children Behavioral Surveys Study;
• Provide SBC Research Technical Advice for regional offices and country offices designs for SBC research and data analysis related to the deployment of the Implementation Toolkit for Monitoring for Social and Behaviour Change Programming.
The updated synthesis report will cover UNICEF evaluations conducted between 2026 and 2023. This extended timeframe will allow for a comprehensive analysis of trends and developments in disability inclusion practices within UNICEF evaluations.
The scope of the synthesis will include:
• All types of evaluations conducted by UNICEF during the specified period, including program evaluations, thematic evaluations, country-level evaluations, and global evaluations.
• Evaluation of disability inclusion across all UNICEF program areas, including but not limited to health, education, child protection, WASH and social inclusion.
• Analysis of disability inclusion practices in evaluations across all UNICEF regions, allowing for comparative insights and identification of region-specific trends or challenges.
• Examination of both centralized and decentralized evaluations to provide a comprehensive picture of disability inclusion practices across different levels of the organization.
UNICEF would like to engage the services of writers / Designers for documenting UNICEF activities and programmes for different audiences such as the general public, donors, supporters and partners.
UNICEF would like to engage consultants to provide simultaneous interpretation services and writing translation for UNICEF WCARO, ensuring clear and accurate translation (French to English and English to French) enabling accurate translations of various documents, effective communication during meetings, conferences, and events as well as facilitating communication with stakeholders, partners, and donors across the region.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, support the Country Office establishes and deepens financial and non-financial partnerships with resource partners, through partnerships development, relationships and contributions management, and donor reporting. The key result is that adequate resources are mobilized to implement the UNICEF Niger country programme and reach expected results for women and children.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Communication Specialist, the consultant will assist the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland communication team in (1) development and production of multimedia content to increase media reach and visibility effectiveness, (2) web-related activities and (3) creating and integrating content creation strategy and plan into the RRO Communications Strategy, where relevant.
The role of the Content Creation and Multimedia Consultant will be crucial for supporting the office's communication efforts, with a focus on donor recognition, and visibility. The consultant will coordinate the content creation strategy and plan to promote the office’s ongoing work in the areas of education, child protection, health, and social and behaviour change.
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Under the supervision of Chief of Health and Nutrition, the Health Specialist will support the development and preparation of the health programme and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the health programme (e.g. health system strengthening especially on strengthening primary health care system, maternal, neonatal, child survival/development) within the country programme.
The Health Specialist will provide technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
We are looking for a positive, self-motivated individual, excited by the opportunity to help the mission of UNICEF. The Finance Associate (G6) will support the Master Data Management Team in the delivery of quality, efficient and secure Master Data Management services. The Finance Associate will have a thorough understanding of risk areas associated with Master Data Management and will act upon detecting suspicious transactions. The Finance Associate will take corrective actions ensuring adherence to procedures and related policies and be responsible for maintaining up to date standard operating procedures.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Child Protection Consultant to assist the ECARO Child Protection team in legal and policy analysis, technical support and coordination.
UNICEF Geneva EMOPS is seeking a qualified WASH Insecurity Analysis Coordinator to support the Global WASH Cluster to continue the implementation of the WIA in five countries, promote institutionalization of the WIA, and to support proposal development.
To support education and employment of Ukrainian adolescents and youth (aged 10 to 24) inside and outside Ukraine, UNICEF developed a regional initiative – PATHWAYS – that aims to provide them with opportunities for continued education, skills building and a successful transition to employment. The three pathways are:
1. Access to and completion of formal secondary education and/or TVET: Support students to enroll and remain in secondary education or TVET, gaining critical knowledge and skills for their well-being and future employment.
2. First job opportunities: Partnering with private and public sectors to provide (paid) internships or apprenticeships for secondary school/TVET students in industries (including green jobs) that are aligned with adolescents’ professional aspirations to prepare them for their future transition to the labour market.
3. Flexible learning and upskilling: For youth currently in employment, create opportunities for additional skilling and/or continuation of their regular schooling while working
The Programme Manager (Connectivity Credits Lead) is entrusted with spearheading the creation and strategic evolution of the Global Connectivity Marketplace. This role involves comprehensive responsibility for the marketplace's concept development, ensuring it is grounded in a solid understanding of the regulatory, legal, and financial landscapes.
The Programme Manager is the architect behind the platform's operational framework, harmonizing the efforts of a specialized team across geographies, notably in Geneva and Barcelona. In partnership with global tech leaders and governments, particularly the Swiss Government, the incumbent is instrumental in fostering relationships that enhance the marketplace's international functionality and influence.
The Market Development Specialist (Innovative Finance) at UNICEF's Giga initiative plays a crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Tasked with the intricate job of understanding and navigating unconventional asset markets, this position is central to developing a unique marketplace for connectivity credits. The role demands a deep dive into financial modeling, leveraging innovative technologies such as blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) to build a transparent and efficient trading platform.
In this position, the specialist is responsible for tailoring market strategies to diverse regulatory and economic landscapes across various countries. This involves close collaboration with in-country teams to understand local market dynamics and regulatory constraints. The success in this position not only advances Giga's goal of global connectivity but also bridges the digital divide, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a consultant for conducting a rapid assessment of the playful parental engagement programme in four states 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 Health Officer provides professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results. He/she will provide technical assistance in the development of health work plans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development, Maternal and Child Health, Health, and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF's immunization plus goals and objectives for the country. As a key partner of in Primary Health Care Particularly Immunization UNICEF has the mandate to provide technical assistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of health programmes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet this obligation.
Under the supervision and guidance of the Nutrition Specialist, the programme associate supports the respective section (s) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement, and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Plan, create, and curate social media content, maintain and update editorial calendars, collect and collate multimedia information from different departments.
- Monitor various sources for new content and information about what is happening in and around the UN related to child, adolescent and maternal health
- Create visuals, quote cards and other materials as requested using online tools (such as Canva or Adobe Photoshop).
- Acts as focal point on social media matters, monitoring and reporting on the latest trends and developments, responding to queries, and participating in monitoring and evaluation.
- Attend press conferences and events to gather quotes, take photos and videos which can be used in social media posts.
- Draft posts for Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
- Research trends and posts from partners and suggest retweets/reposts; monitor the social media accounts for followers' comments and questions.
- Research latest social media trends for the visualization and communication of child health related topics/issues; assist the Office of the Director’s team in researching iconography in the Office's image databases and online using the Office's photo library; research concepts for campaigns and introduce ideas through clear visual and verbal presentations; respond to requests for drafting posts and creating engaging visuals, graphics, videos for the Office's social media channels.
- Support UNGA, WHS, GHNM events with updates to social media on relevant topics and discussions.
If yes, please indicate the number of hours/months of direct interpersonal contact with children, or work in their immediately physical proximity, with limited supervision by a more senior member of personnel:
The consultant will have the following scope of work:
• Prepare a set of analytical briefs based on the results of the UNICEF’s Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination surveys;
• Develop data visualizations and programmatic insight decks related to UNICEF’s ‘Internet of Good Things’ results;
• Develop insight decks and related monitoring tools for the community engagement mapping of UNICEF programmes and for the Harmful Behaviors and Violence Against Children Behavioral Surveys Study;
• Provide SBC Research Technical Advice for regional offices and country offices designs for SBC research and data analysis related to the deployment of the Implementation Toolkit for Monitoring for Social and Behaviour Change Programming.
The updated synthesis report will cover UNICEF evaluations conducted between 2026 and 2023. This extended timeframe will allow for a comprehensive analysis of trends and developments in disability inclusion practices within UNICEF evaluations.
The scope of the synthesis will include:
• All types of evaluations conducted by UNICEF during the specified period, including program evaluations, thematic evaluations, country-level evaluations, and global evaluations.
• Evaluation of disability inclusion across all UNICEF program areas, including but not limited to health, education, child protection, WASH and social inclusion.
• Analysis of disability inclusion practices in evaluations across all UNICEF regions, allowing for comparative insights and identification of region-specific trends or challenges.
• Examination of both centralized and decentralized evaluations to provide a comprehensive picture of disability inclusion practices across different levels of the organization.
UNICEF would like to engage the services of writers / Designers for documenting UNICEF activities and programmes for different audiences such as the general public, donors, supporters and partners.
UNICEF would like to engage consultants to provide simultaneous interpretation services and writing translation for UNICEF WCARO, ensuring clear and accurate translation (French to English and English to French) enabling accurate translations of various documents, effective communication during meetings, conferences, and events as well as facilitating communication with stakeholders, partners, and donors across the region.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, support the Country Office establishes and deepens financial and non-financial partnerships with resource partners, through partnerships development, relationships and contributions management, and donor reporting. The key result is that adequate resources are mobilized to implement the UNICEF Niger country programme and reach expected results for women and children.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Communication Specialist, the consultant will assist the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland communication team in (1) development and production of multimedia content to increase media reach and visibility effectiveness, (2) web-related activities and (3) creating and integrating content creation strategy and plan into the RRO Communications Strategy, where relevant.
The role of the Content Creation and Multimedia Consultant will be crucial for supporting the office's communication efforts, with a focus on donor recognition, and visibility. The consultant will coordinate the content creation strategy and plan to promote the office’s ongoing work in the areas of education, child protection, health, and social and behaviour change.
Readvertisement. Those who have applied, need not resubmit their applications.
Under the supervision of Chief of Health and Nutrition, the Health Specialist will support the development and preparation of the health programme and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the health programme (e.g. health system strengthening especially on strengthening primary health care system, maternal, neonatal, child survival/development) within the country programme.
The Health Specialist will provide technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
We are looking for a positive, self-motivated individual, excited by the opportunity to help the mission of UNICEF. The Finance Associate (G6) will support the Master Data Management Team in the delivery of quality, efficient and secure Master Data Management services. The Finance Associate will have a thorough understanding of risk areas associated with Master Data Management and will act upon detecting suspicious transactions. The Finance Associate will take corrective actions ensuring adherence to procedures and related policies and be responsible for maintaining up to date standard operating procedures.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Child Protection Consultant to assist the ECARO Child Protection team in legal and policy analysis, technical support and coordination.
UNICEF Geneva EMOPS is seeking a qualified WASH Insecurity Analysis Coordinator to support the Global WASH Cluster to continue the implementation of the WIA in five countries, promote institutionalization of the WIA, and to support proposal development.
To support education and employment of Ukrainian adolescents and youth (aged 10 to 24) inside and outside Ukraine, UNICEF developed a regional initiative – PATHWAYS – that aims to provide them with opportunities for continued education, skills building and a successful transition to employment. The three pathways are:
1. Access to and completion of formal secondary education and/or TVET: Support students to enroll and remain in secondary education or TVET, gaining critical knowledge and skills for their well-being and future employment.
2. First job opportunities: Partnering with private and public sectors to provide (paid) internships or apprenticeships for secondary school/TVET students in industries (including green jobs) that are aligned with adolescents’ professional aspirations to prepare them for their future transition to the labour market.
3. Flexible learning and upskilling: For youth currently in employment, create opportunities for additional skilling and/or continuation of their regular schooling while working
The Programme Manager (Connectivity Credits Lead) is entrusted with spearheading the creation and strategic evolution of the Global Connectivity Marketplace. This role involves comprehensive responsibility for the marketplace's concept development, ensuring it is grounded in a solid understanding of the regulatory, legal, and financial landscapes.
The Programme Manager is the architect behind the platform's operational framework, harmonizing the efforts of a specialized team across geographies, notably in Geneva and Barcelona. In partnership with global tech leaders and governments, particularly the Swiss Government, the incumbent is instrumental in fostering relationships that enhance the marketplace's international functionality and influence.
The Market Development Specialist (Innovative Finance) at UNICEF's Giga initiative plays a crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Tasked with the intricate job of understanding and navigating unconventional asset markets, this position is central to developing a unique marketplace for connectivity credits. The role demands a deep dive into financial modeling, leveraging innovative technologies such as blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) to build a transparent and efficient trading platform.
In this position, the specialist is responsible for tailoring market strategies to diverse regulatory and economic landscapes across various countries. This involves close collaboration with in-country teams to understand local market dynamics and regulatory constraints. The success in this position not only advances Giga's goal of global connectivity but also bridges the digital divide, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.