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.
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 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.
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.
We are seeking an experienced Connectivity Credits Technical Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The Technical Expert will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for the development of the Giga Connectivity Credits Marketplace (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/how-connectivity-credits-could-help-billions-get-online/), a blockchain-based system designed to incentivize companies to provide sustained internet access to underserved communities.
If you have a passion for creating impact and a desire to contribute to closing the digital divide, join us as we empower every young person with information, opportunity, and choice. Your work will not only connect schools but also spark socio-economic growth by turning education into a gateway for community-wide advancement.
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.
Under the direct supervision of the Business Analysis Manager (Partnerships) - UNISON, the Business Analysis Officer is expected to work in the planning, design, development, testing and roll-out of any new requirements identified by Public Partnerships users, and to support public sector partnerships stakeholders to understand and derive value from UNISON. The incumbent will be a vital link between the business and technical teams and be responsible for drafting documents, conducting trainings, and consulting and coordinating with relevant HQ teams as well as Country Offices and Regional Offices, to support effective integration and drive user adoption for public sector partnerships.
This role is expected to take ownership for coordination across teams working on public sector partnerships, responding to operational issues, and communicating to the wider UNISON business and technical teams. The incumbent will demonstrate strong ability to effectively self-manage priorities and be able to collaborate effectively between end users and technical teams.
The incumbent will work closely with the technical team (Salesforce Solution lead, Integration developer, Salesforce support resources, contracted providers of Salesforce apps) in the rollout and adoption of any new technical solutions. While the focus will be primarily on solutions and uptake for teams working on public sector partnerships across the organization, the incumbent is expected to be familiar with and backstop on the general workings of UNISON for private sector partnerships as well, and to contribute to synergies within the system across public and private sector processes and functions.
The Emergency section in ECARO is looking to recruit a motivated Emergency Officer P2 TA in its O/P Istanbul Turkiye, whom under the supervision of the Regional Advisor Emergency will will support the UNICEF ECARO Emergency and Partnerships Teams in the coordination and management of the ongoing Ukraine Refugee Response, as well as other humanitarian responses, by contributing to work streams around reporting, coordination, response planning and preparedness. Under the supervision of the Regional Emergency Adviser, and in close collaboration with the emergency and partnerships teams, regional sections and country teams, the Emergency Officer will ensure fulfilment of internal and external proposal, appeal development and reporting requirements and support internal coordination of the Ukraine Refugee Response and provide support to the regional Emergency Team to implement the region-wide emergency preparedness and response agenda.
The WASH Specialist (Private Sector and Urban Sanitation) reports to WASH Specialist (Level 3) for guidance and general supervision. The Specialist supports the development, preparation, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH programme within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes, to facilitate the administration and achievement of the WASH-related output results in the country programme. The support provided by the WASH specialist will enable the country office to achieve the WASH-related output results of the country programme around urban sanitation and private sector management. This, in turn, will contribute to the achievement of the outcome results of the country programme document. When done effectively, the achievement of the outcome results will improve child survival, growth and development and reduce inequalities in the country.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is now recruiting a full-time dedicated resource person to provide programmatic and operational support to priority countries in the region to strengthen social protection and HCT delivery in fragile settings and emergencies.
The regional office post is based in Dakar, Senegal. The post holder will be part of the regional Social Policy team, which provides technical support and oversight to UNICEF country programmes in the fields of social protection, including cash transfers, public finance for children, local governance, and child poverty. The post contributes critically to the unit’s work on social protection, with a special focus on fragile settings and emergencies.
The supervisor of the post is the Regional Social Policy Advisor. At the regional level, the staff member will work closely with the Emergency team, the RO’s Cash Task Force, and sector focal points. At global level, the team member will be part of UNICEF’s global Child Poverty and Social Protection team, and work closely with the global Humanitarian Cash Transfer Team. The staff member will support the RO to provide overall regional guidance as well as provide direct support to priority country offices in the region.
The Chief of Youth Engagement Section is to ensure that UNICEF has a proactive and strategic approach to the engagement of young people in advocacy and communication at global level and that from HQ it adequately supports youth engagement capacities and initiatives at regional and global level.
Under the supervision of the Uruguay Country Office Representative P-5, the Fundraising Manager NO-C will envision and guide the implementation of the resource mobilization strategy, emphasizing global core resources, and seize new opportunities that contribute to Uruguay’s country programme and global PFP priorities.
UNICEF's West and Central African Regional Office is looking for a ICT Associate to perform procedural and some specialized activities pertaining to UNICEF’s ICT systems, which include desktop administration and server operations.
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
The Individual Giving (IG) team in the Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), based in Geneva provides global support to over 50 UNICEF fundraising National Committees (Natcoms) and Country Offices (COs). The IG team is seeking a Planning and Analytics Consultant with capabilities in planning and metrics development and monitoring to join the Individual Giving Fundraising Team, Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP).
In this role, the hired consultant will be responsible for planning and validating IG activities with a focus on Individual Giving fundraising performance. Candidates with a business performance analysis background will be particularly suitable for this role.
The MHPSS in CPHA and EQUIP Help Desk Consultant will support the development, roll out and uptake of the EQUIP competency assessment tools, existing and newly developed tools, material and manuals.
The consultant will provide training and support to build the capacity of development and humanitarian actors from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), academic institutions, governments, among other implementing partners in using the EQUIP platform, assessment tools and entire workforce package across different sectors and areas of work to strengthen the cross-sectoral and MHPSS response. The consultant will also support the field testing and further development of new EQUIP operational competency assessment tools.
UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa is recruiting a regional Communication Specialist who will be accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the · West and Central Africa, and at a global level.
If you are a talented, motivated and experienced professional, we invite you to join the UNICEF Croatia team in delivering results for children as Consultant for Inclusive Education. The consultant is expected to support the education part of the programme Supporting protection and integration of children and families in migration in Croatia, but also to contribute to programmes oriented at the inclusion of Roma students and the prevention of dropout.
As focal point of administrative management services in the UNICEF Global Shared Services Center and Central Services Center (CSC), Budapest, the incumbent is accountable for delivery of efficient and cost-effective administrative support services, providing guidance and management of administrative staff. Ensures the office’s administrative operations and services are in compliance with the organization's policy, procedures, rules and regulations. The Administrative Officer reports to the Operations Manager P4 and ensures that the unit is providing added value through innovative approaches.
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.
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 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.
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.
We are seeking an experienced Connectivity Credits Technical Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The Technical Expert will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for the development of the Giga Connectivity Credits Marketplace (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/how-connectivity-credits-could-help-billions-get-online/), a blockchain-based system designed to incentivize companies to provide sustained internet access to underserved communities.
If you have a passion for creating impact and a desire to contribute to closing the digital divide, join us as we empower every young person with information, opportunity, and choice. Your work will not only connect schools but also spark socio-economic growth by turning education into a gateway for community-wide advancement.
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.
Under the direct supervision of the Business Analysis Manager (Partnerships) - UNISON, the Business Analysis Officer is expected to work in the planning, design, development, testing and roll-out of any new requirements identified by Public Partnerships users, and to support public sector partnerships stakeholders to understand and derive value from UNISON. The incumbent will be a vital link between the business and technical teams and be responsible for drafting documents, conducting trainings, and consulting and coordinating with relevant HQ teams as well as Country Offices and Regional Offices, to support effective integration and drive user adoption for public sector partnerships.
This role is expected to take ownership for coordination across teams working on public sector partnerships, responding to operational issues, and communicating to the wider UNISON business and technical teams. The incumbent will demonstrate strong ability to effectively self-manage priorities and be able to collaborate effectively between end users and technical teams.
The incumbent will work closely with the technical team (Salesforce Solution lead, Integration developer, Salesforce support resources, contracted providers of Salesforce apps) in the rollout and adoption of any new technical solutions. While the focus will be primarily on solutions and uptake for teams working on public sector partnerships across the organization, the incumbent is expected to be familiar with and backstop on the general workings of UNISON for private sector partnerships as well, and to contribute to synergies within the system across public and private sector processes and functions.
The Emergency section in ECARO is looking to recruit a motivated Emergency Officer P2 TA in its O/P Istanbul Turkiye, whom under the supervision of the Regional Advisor Emergency will will support the UNICEF ECARO Emergency and Partnerships Teams in the coordination and management of the ongoing Ukraine Refugee Response, as well as other humanitarian responses, by contributing to work streams around reporting, coordination, response planning and preparedness. Under the supervision of the Regional Emergency Adviser, and in close collaboration with the emergency and partnerships teams, regional sections and country teams, the Emergency Officer will ensure fulfilment of internal and external proposal, appeal development and reporting requirements and support internal coordination of the Ukraine Refugee Response and provide support to the regional Emergency Team to implement the region-wide emergency preparedness and response agenda.
The WASH Specialist (Private Sector and Urban Sanitation) reports to WASH Specialist (Level 3) for guidance and general supervision. The Specialist supports the development, preparation, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH programme within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes, to facilitate the administration and achievement of the WASH-related output results in the country programme. The support provided by the WASH specialist will enable the country office to achieve the WASH-related output results of the country programme around urban sanitation and private sector management. This, in turn, will contribute to the achievement of the outcome results of the country programme document. When done effectively, the achievement of the outcome results will improve child survival, growth and development and reduce inequalities in the country.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is now recruiting a full-time dedicated resource person to provide programmatic and operational support to priority countries in the region to strengthen social protection and HCT delivery in fragile settings and emergencies.
The regional office post is based in Dakar, Senegal. The post holder will be part of the regional Social Policy team, which provides technical support and oversight to UNICEF country programmes in the fields of social protection, including cash transfers, public finance for children, local governance, and child poverty. The post contributes critically to the unit’s work on social protection, with a special focus on fragile settings and emergencies.
The supervisor of the post is the Regional Social Policy Advisor. At the regional level, the staff member will work closely with the Emergency team, the RO’s Cash Task Force, and sector focal points. At global level, the team member will be part of UNICEF’s global Child Poverty and Social Protection team, and work closely with the global Humanitarian Cash Transfer Team. The staff member will support the RO to provide overall regional guidance as well as provide direct support to priority country offices in the region.
The Chief of Youth Engagement Section is to ensure that UNICEF has a proactive and strategic approach to the engagement of young people in advocacy and communication at global level and that from HQ it adequately supports youth engagement capacities and initiatives at regional and global level.
Under the supervision of the Uruguay Country Office Representative P-5, the Fundraising Manager NO-C will envision and guide the implementation of the resource mobilization strategy, emphasizing global core resources, and seize new opportunities that contribute to Uruguay’s country programme and global PFP priorities.
UNICEF's West and Central African Regional Office is looking for a ICT Associate to perform procedural and some specialized activities pertaining to UNICEF’s ICT systems, which include desktop administration and server operations.
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
The Individual Giving (IG) team in the Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), based in Geneva provides global support to over 50 UNICEF fundraising National Committees (Natcoms) and Country Offices (COs). The IG team is seeking a Planning and Analytics Consultant with capabilities in planning and metrics development and monitoring to join the Individual Giving Fundraising Team, Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP).
In this role, the hired consultant will be responsible for planning and validating IG activities with a focus on Individual Giving fundraising performance. Candidates with a business performance analysis background will be particularly suitable for this role.
The MHPSS in CPHA and EQUIP Help Desk Consultant will support the development, roll out and uptake of the EQUIP competency assessment tools, existing and newly developed tools, material and manuals.
The consultant will provide training and support to build the capacity of development and humanitarian actors from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), academic institutions, governments, among other implementing partners in using the EQUIP platform, assessment tools and entire workforce package across different sectors and areas of work to strengthen the cross-sectoral and MHPSS response. The consultant will also support the field testing and further development of new EQUIP operational competency assessment tools.
UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa is recruiting a regional Communication Specialist who will be accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the · West and Central Africa, and at a global level.
If you are a talented, motivated and experienced professional, we invite you to join the UNICEF Croatia team in delivering results for children as Consultant for Inclusive Education. The consultant is expected to support the education part of the programme Supporting protection and integration of children and families in migration in Croatia, but also to contribute to programmes oriented at the inclusion of Roma students and the prevention of dropout.
As focal point of administrative management services in the UNICEF Global Shared Services Center and Central Services Center (CSC), Budapest, the incumbent is accountable for delivery of efficient and cost-effective administrative support services, providing guidance and management of administrative staff. Ensures the office’s administrative operations and services are in compliance with the organization's policy, procedures, rules and regulations. The Administrative Officer reports to the Operations Manager P4 and ensures that the unit is providing added value through innovative approaches.