The Legal Affairs Specialist (TA) will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Nutrition Specialist to the preparation, planning and implementation of nutrition programmes/projects contributes to and accelerates the national development efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants and children in the country. This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to mothers and children that promotes greater social equity in the country.
UNICEF’s Operations Centre supports this mandate by providing 24/7 real-time global situational awareness and crisis communication, enabling risk-informed decision-making across the organization. By maintaining a continuous picture of emerging and evolving situations, OPSCEN enables UNICEF’s efforts to support children and families and serves as a vital communication bridge between Headquarters and field offices. This role is for professionals who are comfortable operating at the centre of a global organization. As an OPSCEN Associate, you will serve as a first point of contact for UNICEF personnel in the field and contribute to the team’s shared responsibility for maintaining situational awareness by ensuring the availability of real time data and reporting, in support of timely and coordinated action. Following its relocation from New York to Rome, OPSCEN is entering an exciting new phase, with a clear vision to strengthen its role as UNICEF’s global emergency operations and crisis communication service. This includes expanding and refining its suite of products and services, with a strong emphasis on innovation, application of technology, adaptability, and creative approaches to how information is captured, analyzed, presented, and shared.The work is delivered through a rotational shift system grounded in established operational best practices,ensuring continuity, predictable scheduling, and formal compensatory arrangements. The environment values professionalism, reliability, and mutual accountability; and those selected will undertake a structuredonboarding and training period designed to ensure a clear understanding of OPSCEN’s internal guidelines,processes, tools, and expectations.
The Digital Inclusion - Delivery Solutions Section, based in Geneva, plays a critical role in achieving this goal by ensuring that schools receive high-quality connectivity solutions. This position will be co-managed by Digital Inclusion team and UNICEF Supply Division to support UNICEF Country Offices and their government partners with technical assistance to efficiently procure affordable, quality-assured, and sustainable connectivity.
Under the general guidance of the Digital Inclusion - Delivery Solutions Section Programme Manager and with matrix reporting to UNICEF Supply Division’s Service Contracting Center Chief, the Market Development Manager will be responsible for Implementing a market acceleration strategy to create a more conducive environment for demand and supply to meet with pricing efficiency in the school connectivity market.
UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja, is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Nutrition consultant 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.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the roster of consultants for child rights monitoring specialists. They might be contracted to provide technical assistance/advice to UNICEF in delivering specific products in relation with the three areas mentioned above.
The purpose of this consultant roster is to engage professionals with relevant expertise who can be deployed on short-term assignments to provide technical assistance/advice across a broad range child rights monitoring work. The roster will allow for rapid mobilization of expert services in accordance with the programming needs.
Specific deliverables will be developed for each future collaboration opportunity.
UNICEF China is looking for a seasoned candidate for the position of Partnerships Manager at NO4 level for deepen collaboration with key stakeholders especially Government of China, Member States, UN and partners overseeing global and regional inter-governmental platforms and provide an interface for political socio-economic environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment.
UNICEF supports governments to plan, finance, and deliver climate-resilient basic services and community resilience measures that reduce risks to children. As the pipeline of climate finance project ideas expands, many Country Offices and government partners require specialised support for proposal development, coordination, documentation, results frameworks, and compliance with donor requirements.
To respond to this growing demand, UNICEF is establishing a Global Roster of Climate Finance Expert Consultants. The roster will play a central role in supporting the CoE’s Climate Finance Area during its inception phase by providing Country Offices with timely access to specialised expertise. Consultants will support UNICEF teams to navigate complex donor project cycles efficiently, while ensuring consistency, quality, and on-time delivery of climate finance proposals.
In partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE), The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) launched the South Africa ECCE Outcomes Fund (“Fund 1.0”) in December 2025. Over three years, five implementing partners (IPs) will open around 1.4k new Early learning programmes (ELPs) and support around 600 existing ones throughout the country. The Outcomes fund is a form of outcomes-based financing, wherein payment to IPs is dependent on their progress towards pre-specified target outcomes. Under this model, EOF, IPs, and pre-financers providing working capital and performance management to the IPs, will frequently collect monitoring and evaluation data related to the interventions.
Fund 1.0 was developed as a way to learn about how to improve ECCE quality, to provide space for innovation, and as an opportunity for the DBE to broaden partnerships with non-state ECCE providers. Towards the scaling objectives of the 2030 ECD strategy and as outlined in the Bana Pele Blueprint, the DBE and EOF are interested in surfacing learnings from Fund 1.0 to inform the design of a future outcomes fund (“ELP Fund 2.0”). To support that effort, EOF is looking to collaborate with a consultant who will serve as a full-time member of the South Africa country team, to lead the learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda for Fund 1.0.
El propósito del LTA es contar con apoyo logístico especializado en el seguimiento y gestión operativa de las de alianzas corporativas estratégicas de UNICEF Chile, asegurando el desarrollo de planes anuales, la evaluación de riesgos, la implementación de actividades cocreadas con empresas y la entrega de reportes de impacto de
alta calidad.
El/la consultor/a trabajará estrechamente con el área de Private Sector Fundraising (PFP), para asegurar la coherencia estratégica y maximizar el valor integral de cada alianza (ingresos, visibilidad, influencia y contribución a objetivos país).
The assignment will provide dedicated writing support for Goal Area 1 (Health) reporting, including the Annual Report, Executive Director’s Annual Report (EDAR), Results Assessment Module (RAM) narratives, speechwriting for the Executive Director and Regional Directors for health-related events, and the World Fit for Children Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Report – Health.
The year 2025 marks the final year of implementation of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022–2025. As the programme cycle concludes, all reporting must deliver a comprehensive assessment of progress achieved since 2022, measured against the baselines established in the Strategic Plan. In addition, it is essential that a consistent UNICEF Health voice is maintained across all products, clearly reflecting key results, strategic priorities, and lessons learned. These outputs will provide a critical evidence base to inform the development and implementation of the forthcoming UNICEF Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and support the introduction of the Center of Excellence structure globally.
The Global Roster of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Early Warning Systems (EWS), and Anticipatory Action (AA) Experts will support the Climate Resilience Centre of Excellence (CoE) during its establishment phase by strengthening UNICEF’s technical capacity on child-sensitive disaster risk management. Consultants on the roster will support UNICEF Offices and government partners to design, implement, and scale child-responsive DRR programmes that effectively integrate early warning systems and anticipatory action.
Country Offices and government partners are requesting more frequent and more specialized assistance—often linked to climate shocks, programme scale-up, innovation pilots, and time-sensitive financing opportunities. Meeting this demand requires flexible, timely and high-quality technical support, delivered in close collaboration with the Climate Resilience Centre of Excellence, the Office of Innovation, UNICEF country and regional offices, other programme divisions, and external partners.
To meet this growing need, UNICEF is establishing a Global Roster of Climate Innovation & Technology Experts, which will serve as a stand-by mechanism to provide UNICEF with rapid access to pre-qualified exerts who can design, assess, pilot and scale innovations that strengthen the climate resilience and continuity of essential services, accelerating results for children in the face of a changing climate. It allows the organization to:
• Scale technical capacity on demand as CO and government requests increase
• Mobilize experts rapidly for time-sensitive programme, innovation or financing needs
• Match the right expertise to specific assignments across sectors and regions
• Strengthen collaboration across the CoE, Office of Innovation, COs, ROs, HQ divisions, and partners
• Ensure high-quality, consistent, and timely technical support
UNICEF is establishing a Global Roster of Climate Information Services (CIS) Consultants to enable the rapid deployment of pre-qualified experts in support of country-level efforts to develop, apply, and integrate climate and disaster risk information across sectors and contexts. Consultants on the roster will support Country Offices to access, analyse, and apply data from the global child hazard database, in combination with national and local datasets, to inform evidence-based policy, planning, and programming.
Overall, the roster will provide specialised technical support across three core areas:
1. Climate risk and data analysis
2. Capacity building and institutional strengthening on climate and disaster risk information
3. Integration of climate and disaster risk data into programming
UNICEF Country Office in Croatia is looking for Face-to-Face (F2F) Fundraiser for the direct recruitment of pledge donors during all of 2026. Fundraising activities will be conducted in Zagreb and Rijeka as well as in cities across the country with mobile teams. To reach our fundraising targets, a team of 35 - 50 Fundraisers is required continuously.
The People and Culture Specialist, within their area of responsibility, is accountable for implementing HR services that enhance the capacity of their clients to deliver on their business goals and objectives. In doing so, the incumbent demonstrates the ability to anticipate HR-related needs and develop subsequent plans and solutions that align HR management with business objectives.
Consultation Internationale : Atelier de formation pour les magistrats : Droits de l’enfant, communication adaptée et justice pour enfants – Renforcer les compétences pour une justice respectueuse et centrée sur l’enfant
UNICEF Brazil is welcoming highly qualified candidates to apply for the position of Communication Specialist in Belem. You will contribute to achieving UNICEF´s main goals by developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing, and monitoring advocacy and communication strategies and associated products and activities on an ongoing basis for key target audiences, with a particular focus on the North region of Brazil. You will play a key role in strengthening UNICEF's mission to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
In this position, you will work at local, national and global levels to raise awareness, change behaviours, and engage key audiences in support for children’s and women’s rights, while promoting UNICEF’s mission and programmes in the Legal Amazon Region.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an experienced and qualified individual to support coordination and development of the "Back To My Classroom Campaign" (BTMC). More specifically, will support development of key BTMC documents and tools, including a costed joint operational workplan, a comprehensive communication strategy with advocacy and social mobilization messages, and a digitalized, interoperable monitoring system; (2) strengthen high-level advocacy to keep the rights of out-of-school children on the national agenda, secure ministerial and presidential commitment, and operationalize coordination mechanisms such as a National Steering Committee; and (3) support BTMC campaign implementation by identifying success factors, addressing bottlenecks, enhancing partner mobilization and coordination, building capacity for intersectoral approaches, reinforcing decentralized implementation, and improving monitoring and reporting on progress. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive national or international consultant to be based in the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) in Samoa. The consultancy is for a period of 18 months. The consultant will be based in Apia, Samoa for the entire duration of the assignment.
The primary purpose of the Technical Advisor Education Monitoring, Evaluation and Research is to provide high quality, accurate and evidenced based technical advice and guidance on the monitoring of the MEC annual workplan and the development, implementation, coordination and monitoring of research and evaluative projects implemented by the Ministry. S/he will also contribute to strengthening the understanding and use of data and data analysis to inform decision-making, planning, and reporting across the Ministry. Significant capacity building and skills transfer is expected from approaches used in carrying out the work as well as specific focused training sessions. The Technical Advisor is also expected to assist MEC in setting up systems and processes (e.g. dashboards, guidance, SOPs, etc.) to enable the team to sustain stronger Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning approaches even after completion of the consultancy.
The Legal Affairs Specialist (TA) will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Nutrition Specialist to the preparation, planning and implementation of nutrition programmes/projects contributes to and accelerates the national development efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants and children in the country. This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to mothers and children that promotes greater social equity in the country.
UNICEF’s Operations Centre supports this mandate by providing 24/7 real-time global situational awareness and crisis communication, enabling risk-informed decision-making across the organization. By maintaining a continuous picture of emerging and evolving situations, OPSCEN enables UNICEF’s efforts to support children and families and serves as a vital communication bridge between Headquarters and field offices. This role is for professionals who are comfortable operating at the centre of a global organization. As an OPSCEN Associate, you will serve as a first point of contact for UNICEF personnel in the field and contribute to the team’s shared responsibility for maintaining situational awareness by ensuring the availability of real time data and reporting, in support of timely and coordinated action. Following its relocation from New York to Rome, OPSCEN is entering an exciting new phase, with a clear vision to strengthen its role as UNICEF’s global emergency operations and crisis communication service. This includes expanding and refining its suite of products and services, with a strong emphasis on innovation, application of technology, adaptability, and creative approaches to how information is captured, analyzed, presented, and shared.The work is delivered through a rotational shift system grounded in established operational best practices,ensuring continuity, predictable scheduling, and formal compensatory arrangements. The environment values professionalism, reliability, and mutual accountability; and those selected will undertake a structuredonboarding and training period designed to ensure a clear understanding of OPSCEN’s internal guidelines,processes, tools, and expectations.
The Digital Inclusion - Delivery Solutions Section, based in Geneva, plays a critical role in achieving this goal by ensuring that schools receive high-quality connectivity solutions. This position will be co-managed by Digital Inclusion team and UNICEF Supply Division to support UNICEF Country Offices and their government partners with technical assistance to efficiently procure affordable, quality-assured, and sustainable connectivity.
Under the general guidance of the Digital Inclusion - Delivery Solutions Section Programme Manager and with matrix reporting to UNICEF Supply Division’s Service Contracting Center Chief, the Market Development Manager will be responsible for Implementing a market acceleration strategy to create a more conducive environment for demand and supply to meet with pricing efficiency in the school connectivity market.
UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja, is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Nutrition consultant 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.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the roster of consultants for child rights monitoring specialists. They might be contracted to provide technical assistance/advice to UNICEF in delivering specific products in relation with the three areas mentioned above.
The purpose of this consultant roster is to engage professionals with relevant expertise who can be deployed on short-term assignments to provide technical assistance/advice across a broad range child rights monitoring work. The roster will allow for rapid mobilization of expert services in accordance with the programming needs.
Specific deliverables will be developed for each future collaboration opportunity.
UNICEF China is looking for a seasoned candidate for the position of Partnerships Manager at NO4 level for deepen collaboration with key stakeholders especially Government of China, Member States, UN and partners overseeing global and regional inter-governmental platforms and provide an interface for political socio-economic environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment.
UNICEF supports governments to plan, finance, and deliver climate-resilient basic services and community resilience measures that reduce risks to children. As the pipeline of climate finance project ideas expands, many Country Offices and government partners require specialised support for proposal development, coordination, documentation, results frameworks, and compliance with donor requirements.
To respond to this growing demand, UNICEF is establishing a Global Roster of Climate Finance Expert Consultants. The roster will play a central role in supporting the CoE’s Climate Finance Area during its inception phase by providing Country Offices with timely access to specialised expertise. Consultants will support UNICEF teams to navigate complex donor project cycles efficiently, while ensuring consistency, quality, and on-time delivery of climate finance proposals.
In partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE), The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) launched the South Africa ECCE Outcomes Fund (“Fund 1.0”) in December 2025. Over three years, five implementing partners (IPs) will open around 1.4k new Early learning programmes (ELPs) and support around 600 existing ones throughout the country. The Outcomes fund is a form of outcomes-based financing, wherein payment to IPs is dependent on their progress towards pre-specified target outcomes. Under this model, EOF, IPs, and pre-financers providing working capital and performance management to the IPs, will frequently collect monitoring and evaluation data related to the interventions.
Fund 1.0 was developed as a way to learn about how to improve ECCE quality, to provide space for innovation, and as an opportunity for the DBE to broaden partnerships with non-state ECCE providers. Towards the scaling objectives of the 2030 ECD strategy and as outlined in the Bana Pele Blueprint, the DBE and EOF are interested in surfacing learnings from Fund 1.0 to inform the design of a future outcomes fund (“ELP Fund 2.0”). To support that effort, EOF is looking to collaborate with a consultant who will serve as a full-time member of the South Africa country team, to lead the learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda for Fund 1.0.
El propósito del LTA es contar con apoyo logístico especializado en el seguimiento y gestión operativa de las de alianzas corporativas estratégicas de UNICEF Chile, asegurando el desarrollo de planes anuales, la evaluación de riesgos, la implementación de actividades cocreadas con empresas y la entrega de reportes de impacto de
alta calidad.
El/la consultor/a trabajará estrechamente con el área de Private Sector Fundraising (PFP), para asegurar la coherencia estratégica y maximizar el valor integral de cada alianza (ingresos, visibilidad, influencia y contribución a objetivos país).
The assignment will provide dedicated writing support for Goal Area 1 (Health) reporting, including the Annual Report, Executive Director’s Annual Report (EDAR), Results Assessment Module (RAM) narratives, speechwriting for the Executive Director and Regional Directors for health-related events, and the World Fit for Children Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Report – Health.
The year 2025 marks the final year of implementation of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022–2025. As the programme cycle concludes, all reporting must deliver a comprehensive assessment of progress achieved since 2022, measured against the baselines established in the Strategic Plan. In addition, it is essential that a consistent UNICEF Health voice is maintained across all products, clearly reflecting key results, strategic priorities, and lessons learned. These outputs will provide a critical evidence base to inform the development and implementation of the forthcoming UNICEF Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and support the introduction of the Center of Excellence structure globally.
The Global Roster of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Early Warning Systems (EWS), and Anticipatory Action (AA) Experts will support the Climate Resilience Centre of Excellence (CoE) during its establishment phase by strengthening UNICEF’s technical capacity on child-sensitive disaster risk management. Consultants on the roster will support UNICEF Offices and government partners to design, implement, and scale child-responsive DRR programmes that effectively integrate early warning systems and anticipatory action.
Country Offices and government partners are requesting more frequent and more specialized assistance—often linked to climate shocks, programme scale-up, innovation pilots, and time-sensitive financing opportunities. Meeting this demand requires flexible, timely and high-quality technical support, delivered in close collaboration with the Climate Resilience Centre of Excellence, the Office of Innovation, UNICEF country and regional offices, other programme divisions, and external partners.
To meet this growing need, UNICEF is establishing a Global Roster of Climate Innovation & Technology Experts, which will serve as a stand-by mechanism to provide UNICEF with rapid access to pre-qualified exerts who can design, assess, pilot and scale innovations that strengthen the climate resilience and continuity of essential services, accelerating results for children in the face of a changing climate. It allows the organization to:
• Scale technical capacity on demand as CO and government requests increase
• Mobilize experts rapidly for time-sensitive programme, innovation or financing needs
• Match the right expertise to specific assignments across sectors and regions
• Strengthen collaboration across the CoE, Office of Innovation, COs, ROs, HQ divisions, and partners
• Ensure high-quality, consistent, and timely technical support
UNICEF is establishing a Global Roster of Climate Information Services (CIS) Consultants to enable the rapid deployment of pre-qualified experts in support of country-level efforts to develop, apply, and integrate climate and disaster risk information across sectors and contexts. Consultants on the roster will support Country Offices to access, analyse, and apply data from the global child hazard database, in combination with national and local datasets, to inform evidence-based policy, planning, and programming.
Overall, the roster will provide specialised technical support across three core areas:
1. Climate risk and data analysis
2. Capacity building and institutional strengthening on climate and disaster risk information
3. Integration of climate and disaster risk data into programming
UNICEF Country Office in Croatia is looking for Face-to-Face (F2F) Fundraiser for the direct recruitment of pledge donors during all of 2026. Fundraising activities will be conducted in Zagreb and Rijeka as well as in cities across the country with mobile teams. To reach our fundraising targets, a team of 35 - 50 Fundraisers is required continuously.
The People and Culture Specialist, within their area of responsibility, is accountable for implementing HR services that enhance the capacity of their clients to deliver on their business goals and objectives. In doing so, the incumbent demonstrates the ability to anticipate HR-related needs and develop subsequent plans and solutions that align HR management with business objectives.
Consultation Internationale : Atelier de formation pour les magistrats : Droits de l’enfant, communication adaptée et justice pour enfants – Renforcer les compétences pour une justice respectueuse et centrée sur l’enfant
UNICEF Brazil is welcoming highly qualified candidates to apply for the position of Communication Specialist in Belem. You will contribute to achieving UNICEF´s main goals by developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing, and monitoring advocacy and communication strategies and associated products and activities on an ongoing basis for key target audiences, with a particular focus on the North region of Brazil. You will play a key role in strengthening UNICEF's mission to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
In this position, you will work at local, national and global levels to raise awareness, change behaviours, and engage key audiences in support for children’s and women’s rights, while promoting UNICEF’s mission and programmes in the Legal Amazon Region.
UNICEF Liberia is seeking to hire an experienced and qualified individual to support coordination and development of the "Back To My Classroom Campaign" (BTMC). More specifically, will support development of key BTMC documents and tools, including a costed joint operational workplan, a comprehensive communication strategy with advocacy and social mobilization messages, and a digitalized, interoperable monitoring system; (2) strengthen high-level advocacy to keep the rights of out-of-school children on the national agenda, secure ministerial and presidential commitment, and operationalize coordination mechanisms such as a National Steering Committee; and (3) support BTMC campaign implementation by identifying success factors, addressing bottlenecks, enhancing partner mobilization and coordination, building capacity for intersectoral approaches, reinforcing decentralized implementation, and improving monitoring and reporting on progress. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive national or international consultant to be based in the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) in Samoa. The consultancy is for a period of 18 months. The consultant will be based in Apia, Samoa for the entire duration of the assignment.
The primary purpose of the Technical Advisor Education Monitoring, Evaluation and Research is to provide high quality, accurate and evidenced based technical advice and guidance on the monitoring of the MEC annual workplan and the development, implementation, coordination and monitoring of research and evaluative projects implemented by the Ministry. S/he will also contribute to strengthening the understanding and use of data and data analysis to inform decision-making, planning, and reporting across the Ministry. Significant capacity building and skills transfer is expected from approaches used in carrying out the work as well as specific focused training sessions. The Technical Advisor is also expected to assist MEC in setting up systems and processes (e.g. dashboards, guidance, SOPs, etc.) to enable the team to sustain stronger Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning approaches even after completion of the consultancy.
