UNICEF Burkina Faso desire recruter un (01) Consultant National pour l'Élaboration du Dossier d'Investissement de la Stratégie Nationale de Santé Communautaire (SNSC) 2024-2028.
Le bureau de l'UNICEF au Burkina Faso souhaite évaluer les compétences actuelles du personnel de santé communautaire par rapport aux besoins du programme pays, afin de formuler des recommandations pour combler les écarts identifiés. Le contexte sécuritaire difficile lié à la crise du Sahel affecte le moral des équipes et la continuité des programmes.
Cette initiative vise à élaborer un dossier d’investissement en santé communautaire, avec des stratégies pour renforcer les capacités du personnel, améliorer leur résilience et optimiser les structures existantes, afin d’assurer une réponse plus efficace aux besoins de santé des communautés.
UNICEF Burkina Faso desire recruter un (01) Consultant international pour l'Élaboration du Dossier d'Investissement de la Stratégie Nationale de Santé Communautaire (SNSC) 2024-2028.
Le bureau de l'UNICEF au Burkina Faso souhaite évaluer les compétences actuelles du personnel de santé communautaire par rapport aux besoins du programme pays, afin de formuler des recommandations pour combler les écarts identifiés. Le contexte sécuritaire difficile lié à la crise du Sahel affecte le moral des équipes et la continuité des programmes.
Cette initiative vise à élaborer un dossier d’investissement en santé communautaire, avec des stratégies pour renforcer les capacités du personnel, améliorer leur résilience et optimiser les structures existantes, afin d’assurer une réponse plus efficace aux besoins de santé des communautés.
The Market Research Specialist will support UNICEF Supply Division and Giga to implement interventions aimed at incentivizing the telecommunications industry to improve availability and affordability of school connectivity solutions. This role will support, with solid market research and evidence, the development and implementation of procurement strategies for school connectivity. Demand forecasts and market shaping strategies will be developed where needed to help UNICEF accelerate market development, improve availability of connectivity solutions for schools, and reduce prices for this essential service for children. High-quality business intelligence will be maintained and kept up to date to inform UNICEF’s strategic engagement with key industry suppliers, ensuring core business are postured to meet the needs of children.
If you are a committed, resourceful 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.
We are looking for a Child Protection Officer (Social Service Workforce Strengthening) who will be responsible for providing professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. This Temporary Appointment is for 364 days.
Candidates applying for positions in the NO category must possess the nationality of the country of the duty station, with the exception of internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in the country independently of UNICEF appointment. If not a national of Poland, proof of residence/work permit may be required.
This position is subject to local recruitment. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
If you are a committed, 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 Iraq country office is looking for a qualified Security Specialist (head of unit) at the P-3 level to be based in Baghdad Iraq.
Under the general supervision and overall guidance of the Operations Manager, the post is responsible for carrying out proactive and systematic quality assurance activities of all activities implemented under the UNICEF Ukraine Country office, in order to provide an independent and objective assessment of the rationale, adequacy and effectiveness of the Country Office's risk management and operations internal control framework, processes and systems.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support the Family Welfare Division (FWD) to develop national integrated home-based maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition handbook. The consultant will be engaged for 6 months.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to develop implementation guideline of Skill Health Personnel (SHP) and Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) modular training package in Nepal. The consultant will be engaged for 30 working days within 5 months.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
The position supports the strengthening of UNICEF's supply chain through comprehensive logistics information analysis, expertise in logistics information systems, and technical assistance to Country Offices (CO) in the effective use of information systems and VISION warehouse modules. The incumbent will also play a key role in enhancing global logistics performance by providing regular monitoring and analysis, enabling Supply Division (SD) management, Country Offices, and Regional Offices to take timely and informed corrective actions.
Additionally, the role supports UNICEF’s end-to-end delivery monitoring and visibility strategy by working closely with Country Offices, Regional Offices, procurement centers, and emergency units. The incumbent will contribute to the development and enhancement of delivery models, systems strengthening, risk mitigation, monitoring tools, and capacity-building initiatives, thereby reinforcing the effectiveness and resilience of UNICEF's supply chains.
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.
UNICEF is seeking candidates to support the HR Administration and HR Payroll & Offboarding Sections as Human Resources Assistants at the GS-5 level in the Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest, Hungary. This is a great opportunity for career development in a fast-paced, multicultural context and for taking the first step towards an international career as part of the UN family.
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 Philippines is looking for a Education Specialist who would provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance in the programming process for the education section activities in the Mindanao Field Office (MFO).
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office seeks to recruit a Procurement Services Manager who will work closely with colleagues in Health Section, Supply Division and the respective Departments of Government of Nigeria to manage all aspects of Procurement Services. S/he will provide vision, technical leadership and coordination of technical support to regional and country office for strengthening national Cold Chain Logistics and Supply Management systems. S/he will also work with partners to develop/update the national strategies, tools and guidance on CCL&VM policies, procedures and systems.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of programme assistant for polio for the country office and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. We are looking for someone who enjoys thinking out of the box and a high-paced working environment, is solution-oriented, and able to quickly establish strong working relations with others. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF Burkina Faso desire recruter un (01) Consultant National pour l'Élaboration du Dossier d'Investissement de la Stratégie Nationale de Santé Communautaire (SNSC) 2024-2028.
Le bureau de l'UNICEF au Burkina Faso souhaite évaluer les compétences actuelles du personnel de santé communautaire par rapport aux besoins du programme pays, afin de formuler des recommandations pour combler les écarts identifiés. Le contexte sécuritaire difficile lié à la crise du Sahel affecte le moral des équipes et la continuité des programmes.
Cette initiative vise à élaborer un dossier d’investissement en santé communautaire, avec des stratégies pour renforcer les capacités du personnel, améliorer leur résilience et optimiser les structures existantes, afin d’assurer une réponse plus efficace aux besoins de santé des communautés.
UNICEF Burkina Faso desire recruter un (01) Consultant international pour l'Élaboration du Dossier d'Investissement de la Stratégie Nationale de Santé Communautaire (SNSC) 2024-2028.
Le bureau de l'UNICEF au Burkina Faso souhaite évaluer les compétences actuelles du personnel de santé communautaire par rapport aux besoins du programme pays, afin de formuler des recommandations pour combler les écarts identifiés. Le contexte sécuritaire difficile lié à la crise du Sahel affecte le moral des équipes et la continuité des programmes.
Cette initiative vise à élaborer un dossier d’investissement en santé communautaire, avec des stratégies pour renforcer les capacités du personnel, améliorer leur résilience et optimiser les structures existantes, afin d’assurer une réponse plus efficace aux besoins de santé des communautés.
The Market Research Specialist will support UNICEF Supply Division and Giga to implement interventions aimed at incentivizing the telecommunications industry to improve availability and affordability of school connectivity solutions. This role will support, with solid market research and evidence, the development and implementation of procurement strategies for school connectivity. Demand forecasts and market shaping strategies will be developed where needed to help UNICEF accelerate market development, improve availability of connectivity solutions for schools, and reduce prices for this essential service for children. High-quality business intelligence will be maintained and kept up to date to inform UNICEF’s strategic engagement with key industry suppliers, ensuring core business are postured to meet the needs of children.
If you are a committed, resourceful 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.
We are looking for a Child Protection Officer (Social Service Workforce Strengthening) who will be responsible for providing professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. This Temporary Appointment is for 364 days.
Candidates applying for positions in the NO category must possess the nationality of the country of the duty station, with the exception of internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in the country independently of UNICEF appointment. If not a national of Poland, proof of residence/work permit may be required.
This position is subject to local recruitment. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
If you are a committed, 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 Iraq country office is looking for a qualified Security Specialist (head of unit) at the P-3 level to be based in Baghdad Iraq.
Under the general supervision and overall guidance of the Operations Manager, the post is responsible for carrying out proactive and systematic quality assurance activities of all activities implemented under the UNICEF Ukraine Country office, in order to provide an independent and objective assessment of the rationale, adequacy and effectiveness of the Country Office's risk management and operations internal control framework, processes and systems.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support the Family Welfare Division (FWD) to develop national integrated home-based maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition handbook. The consultant will be engaged for 6 months.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to develop implementation guideline of Skill Health Personnel (SHP) and Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) modular training package in Nepal. The consultant will be engaged for 30 working days within 5 months.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
The position supports the strengthening of UNICEF's supply chain through comprehensive logistics information analysis, expertise in logistics information systems, and technical assistance to Country Offices (CO) in the effective use of information systems and VISION warehouse modules. The incumbent will also play a key role in enhancing global logistics performance by providing regular monitoring and analysis, enabling Supply Division (SD) management, Country Offices, and Regional Offices to take timely and informed corrective actions.
Additionally, the role supports UNICEF’s end-to-end delivery monitoring and visibility strategy by working closely with Country Offices, Regional Offices, procurement centers, and emergency units. The incumbent will contribute to the development and enhancement of delivery models, systems strengthening, risk mitigation, monitoring tools, and capacity-building initiatives, thereby reinforcing the effectiveness and resilience of UNICEF's supply chains.
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.
UNICEF is seeking candidates to support the HR Administration and HR Payroll & Offboarding Sections as Human Resources Assistants at the GS-5 level in the Global Shared Services Centre in Budapest, Hungary. This is a great opportunity for career development in a fast-paced, multicultural context and for taking the first step towards an international career as part of the UN family.
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 Philippines is looking for a Education Specialist who would provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance in the programming process for the education section activities in the Mindanao Field Office (MFO).
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office seeks to recruit a Procurement Services Manager who will work closely with colleagues in Health Section, Supply Division and the respective Departments of Government of Nigeria to manage all aspects of Procurement Services. S/he will provide vision, technical leadership and coordination of technical support to regional and country office for strengthening national Cold Chain Logistics and Supply Management systems. S/he will also work with partners to develop/update the national strategies, tools and guidance on CCL&VM policies, procedures and systems.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of programme assistant for polio for the country office and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. We are looking for someone who enjoys thinking out of the box and a high-paced working environment, is solution-oriented, and able to quickly establish strong working relations with others. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.