Unicef Central African Republic is looking for its WASH programme a high caliber staff to fill the fixed-term position of Chief WASH at P4 Level based in Bangui.
We are looking for an ICT Officer (Quality Assurance) to assist in the preparation and execution of Quality Assurance plans to ensure that products and services align with UNICEF business objectives and performance measures.
Under the supervision of the Supply and Logistics Manager (WIMC), the incumbent will be responsible for effective replenishment of standard stock materials in SD managed warehouses with optimal stock levels to meet demand.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking for a consultant to support research activities for the assessment of quantitative impacts/outcomes of the Maternal and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) programme in Sudan as well as provide technical assistance on programme and post-distribution monitoring.
The Finance Management Support Team as part of the Finance Section has the responsibility to support effective risk management, compliance, financial planning, budgeting and decision-making. They bring financial expertise and ensure the organization's financial health and success, lead process improvement in order to significantly enhance efficiency by providing specialized knowledge, guidance, and support across the organization. is to support the Finance and Master Data Management Sections with taking the lead on process efficiencies and improvements to guide the Section’s decision making.
We are looking for a Business Analyst (Management Cone), who under the guidance of the Senior ICT Business Relationship Manager, identifies, proposes, and develops, the IT business demand and strategic investments as well as the execution of ICT projects for the cluster, ensuring they align with the technology that provides maximum efficiency and effectiveness. The incumbent cultivates, establishes and maintains effective and value-added working relationships with the business and ICT counterparts, and collaborates with business stakeholders and ICT counterparts for the delivery of technology solutions, service management, and risk management, participating for the development of strong business cases in support of organizational goals.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a qualified candidate to join our team as a Staff Counsellor based in Gaza to develop and implement a stress management programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff management in the State of Palestine, with a focus on Gaza Field Office.
The purpose of this assignment to review and gather lessons learned from countries who have experience in operationalizing these interventions and to document those operational learnings in the form of practical recommendations in order to support future implementation and roll out of recent programmatic shifts related to the new WHO Guideline recommendations.
This review should explore boosters and challenges in the implementation of these interventions and will draw similarities, strengths across contexts in order to provide practical solutions and recommendations on how these interventions can be taken to scale once adapted to the latest WHO Evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations/solutions should focus on the short, medium and long term and should span across different programmatic aspects and levels of the national health system.
Under the overall guidance and direction of the Director, the People and Culture Manager is accountable for the implementation and execution of the talent management strategies for all the Global PPD offices. The incumbent will provide authoritative technical guidance; and ensure operational support to clients on all matters about human resource planning, outreach, recruitment and selection, performance management, career development, and succession planning ensuring compliance with UNICEF Human Resources regulations and policies, whilst promoting a strong client-based culture. The incumbent will have a matrix line to Chief HRBP who will provide technical guidance and support.
As accountable for staff administration and wellbeing, the post holder leads on efficient business processes and innovative approaches to timely and accurate staff administration and support. The HR Manager 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.
We are seeking a highly skilled data scientist to join our team and support the analysis and processing of a diverse range of datasets including geospatial data, school location data, mobile coverage data, internet Quality of Service (QoS) data, Internet Provider’s data, connectivity pricing data and other socioeconomic data. The successful candidate will support the development of machine learning and/or statistical models to generate new insights that will help Giga achieve its goal of connecting every school to the internet, with a particular focus on developing models to help UNICEF and governments to scale up the procurement of affordable school connectivity services.
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.
The Technical Specialist for Connectivity Solutions will significantly enhance the capacity of UNICEF and Giga to deliver high-quality, reliable, and sustainable connectivity solutions to schools. By ensuring the implementation of robust technical standards and quality assurance measures, the specialist will contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of school connectivity projects. This role will help bridge the digital divide, providing children in unconnected schools with access to educational resources and opportunities, thus supporting UNICEF’s mission to promote equity and the right to education for every child. The specialist’s work in monitoring and adapting service requirements, evaluating suppliers, and managing product portfolios will ensure that connectivity solutions are fit for purpose, cost-effective, and aligned with the latest industry advancements. This will ultimately lead to improved educational outcomes and a stronger foundation for the future development of connected learning environments globally.
The Senior Adviser Health will be instrumental in embedding gender considerations into immunization program design, implementation, and monitoring for Gavi-supported initiatives.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide guidance and support to three Country Offices (COs) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan – in UNICEF’s South Asia region which are undertaking costing exercises (including a financial gap analysis), cost-effectiveness, and fiscal space analyses for community health and nutrition. Each CO will employ the services of a national consultant, who will be primarily responsible for the additional data collection analysis required to develop these knowledge products. It is worth noting that COs are building on previous work that has already been conducted, with Community Health Worker strategies and nutrition plans already fully or partially costed, supported by Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies.
The role of the consultant will be to harmonize the approach taken across the COs, and to provide detailed guidance and hands-on support to COs with methodological guidance, guiding and reviewing data collection and analysis, and supporting the drafting of succinct knowledge products that are suitable for advocacy purposes. This will involve the development of guidance and template documents.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN.
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 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.
Join us as the Senior Health Adviser, Integrated Service Delivery, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing collaboration between immunization and other UNICEF programs, such as maternal and child health, nutrition, education, WASH, and social protection, supported by Gavi.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for an experience and energetic candidate to take up the role of Programme Officer based in Bhairahawa Field Office under Fixed Term appointment.
The key role of Information Technology Assistants (Customer Care) is to support users in all locations (country offices, regional offices, and headquarters) and to ensure that effective and efficient solutions are provided to all incidents and queries on IT infrastructure, Business and GSSC services. In addition, IT Assistants are expected to handle other tasks or projects assigned by the supervisor. These positions require the successful candidate to work in 24x7 shifts.
The vacancy is created to fill any temporary and regular IT Assistant (Customer Care) GS-5 level positions in BIS.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
Unicef Central African Republic is looking for its WASH programme a high caliber staff to fill the fixed-term position of Chief WASH at P4 Level based in Bangui.
We are looking for an ICT Officer (Quality Assurance) to assist in the preparation and execution of Quality Assurance plans to ensure that products and services align with UNICEF business objectives and performance measures.
Under the supervision of the Supply and Logistics Manager (WIMC), the incumbent will be responsible for effective replenishment of standard stock materials in SD managed warehouses with optimal stock levels to meet demand.
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking for a consultant to support research activities for the assessment of quantitative impacts/outcomes of the Maternal and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) programme in Sudan as well as provide technical assistance on programme and post-distribution monitoring.
The Finance Management Support Team as part of the Finance Section has the responsibility to support effective risk management, compliance, financial planning, budgeting and decision-making. They bring financial expertise and ensure the organization's financial health and success, lead process improvement in order to significantly enhance efficiency by providing specialized knowledge, guidance, and support across the organization. is to support the Finance and Master Data Management Sections with taking the lead on process efficiencies and improvements to guide the Section’s decision making.
We are looking for a Business Analyst (Management Cone), who under the guidance of the Senior ICT Business Relationship Manager, identifies, proposes, and develops, the IT business demand and strategic investments as well as the execution of ICT projects for the cluster, ensuring they align with the technology that provides maximum efficiency and effectiveness. The incumbent cultivates, establishes and maintains effective and value-added working relationships with the business and ICT counterparts, and collaborates with business stakeholders and ICT counterparts for the delivery of technology solutions, service management, and risk management, participating for the development of strong business cases in support of organizational goals.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a qualified candidate to join our team as a Staff Counsellor based in Gaza to develop and implement a stress management programme aimed at attending to the psychological needs of UNICEF staff management in the State of Palestine, with a focus on Gaza Field Office.
The purpose of this assignment to review and gather lessons learned from countries who have experience in operationalizing these interventions and to document those operational learnings in the form of practical recommendations in order to support future implementation and roll out of recent programmatic shifts related to the new WHO Guideline recommendations.
This review should explore boosters and challenges in the implementation of these interventions and will draw similarities, strengths across contexts in order to provide practical solutions and recommendations on how these interventions can be taken to scale once adapted to the latest WHO Evidence-based recommendations. These recommendations/solutions should focus on the short, medium and long term and should span across different programmatic aspects and levels of the national health system.
Under the overall guidance and direction of the Director, the People and Culture Manager is accountable for the implementation and execution of the talent management strategies for all the Global PPD offices. The incumbent will provide authoritative technical guidance; and ensure operational support to clients on all matters about human resource planning, outreach, recruitment and selection, performance management, career development, and succession planning ensuring compliance with UNICEF Human Resources regulations and policies, whilst promoting a strong client-based culture. The incumbent will have a matrix line to Chief HRBP who will provide technical guidance and support.
As accountable for staff administration and wellbeing, the post holder leads on efficient business processes and innovative approaches to timely and accurate staff administration and support. The HR Manager 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.
We are seeking a highly skilled data scientist to join our team and support the analysis and processing of a diverse range of datasets including geospatial data, school location data, mobile coverage data, internet Quality of Service (QoS) data, Internet Provider’s data, connectivity pricing data and other socioeconomic data. The successful candidate will support the development of machine learning and/or statistical models to generate new insights that will help Giga achieve its goal of connecting every school to the internet, with a particular focus on developing models to help UNICEF and governments to scale up the procurement of affordable school connectivity services.
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.
The Technical Specialist for Connectivity Solutions will significantly enhance the capacity of UNICEF and Giga to deliver high-quality, reliable, and sustainable connectivity solutions to schools. By ensuring the implementation of robust technical standards and quality assurance measures, the specialist will contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of school connectivity projects. This role will help bridge the digital divide, providing children in unconnected schools with access to educational resources and opportunities, thus supporting UNICEF’s mission to promote equity and the right to education for every child. The specialist’s work in monitoring and adapting service requirements, evaluating suppliers, and managing product portfolios will ensure that connectivity solutions are fit for purpose, cost-effective, and aligned with the latest industry advancements. This will ultimately lead to improved educational outcomes and a stronger foundation for the future development of connected learning environments globally.
The Senior Adviser Health will be instrumental in embedding gender considerations into immunization program design, implementation, and monitoring for Gavi-supported initiatives.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to provide guidance and support to three Country Offices (COs) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan – in UNICEF’s South Asia region which are undertaking costing exercises (including a financial gap analysis), cost-effectiveness, and fiscal space analyses for community health and nutrition. Each CO will employ the services of a national consultant, who will be primarily responsible for the additional data collection analysis required to develop these knowledge products. It is worth noting that COs are building on previous work that has already been conducted, with Community Health Worker strategies and nutrition plans already fully or partially costed, supported by Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies.
The role of the consultant will be to harmonize the approach taken across the COs, and to provide detailed guidance and hands-on support to COs with methodological guidance, guiding and reviewing data collection and analysis, and supporting the drafting of succinct knowledge products that are suitable for advocacy purposes. This will involve the development of guidance and template documents.
Furthermore, the consultant will be responsible for bringing these work streams together to produce regional overview documents for South Asia which synthesize the CO investment cases and costing exercises, producing a compelling regional narrative for investing in CHN.
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 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.
Join us as the Senior Health Adviser, Integrated Service Delivery, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing collaboration between immunization and other UNICEF programs, such as maternal and child health, nutrition, education, WASH, and social protection, supported by Gavi.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for an experience and energetic candidate to take up the role of Programme Officer based in Bhairahawa Field Office under Fixed Term appointment.
The key role of Information Technology Assistants (Customer Care) is to support users in all locations (country offices, regional offices, and headquarters) and to ensure that effective and efficient solutions are provided to all incidents and queries on IT infrastructure, Business and GSSC services. In addition, IT Assistants are expected to handle other tasks or projects assigned by the supervisor. These positions require the successful candidate to work in 24x7 shifts.
The vacancy is created to fill any temporary and regular IT Assistant (Customer Care) GS-5 level positions in BIS.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.