The consultant will support the UNICEF Country Office in Serbia by identifying and leveraging funding opportunities and analysing strategic partnerships and approaches in the field of migration in Serbia to strengthen programming for children on the move. This includes conducting a targeted desk review to identify potential national, European and international funding sources relevant to UNICEF Country Office in Serbia, with a strong focus on private funds and foundations providing grants addressing migration issues relevant for unaccompanied and separated children (UASC).
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a WASH Officer (Engineer) at the NOB level to be based in Tarawa, Kiribati. The WASH Officer will report to the WASH Specialist and provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The WASH Officer will prepare, and implement a variety of technical, management, and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme. Specifically, this position will provide dedicated WASH engineering expertise to the WASH Programme in the country office including working closely with key government stakeholders and selected contractors in planning of improvement works and to provide close technical oversight and regular reporting of implementation of the construction works.
Under the supervision of the Health Officer, supported by the Social and Behaviour Change Manager, the consultant will undertake a mixed method case study on Elma-funded implementation of the RED Strategy with the National Department of Health, the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provincial Departments of Health, and selected district health teams, to strengthen the EPI programme, and develop tailored strategies to reach zero dose and under immunised children.
The objective of the assignment is to explore and describe the operational effectiveness, barriers, facilitators, and outcomes of the RED Strategy implementation in selected urban districts, and to generate actionable insights for scaling and strengthening immunisation services.
For every child, the right to Immunisation.
Under the supervision of UNICEF Uzbekistan’s Child Protection Officer and in collaboration with NASP and the Uzbekistan Columbia Centre, the consultant will review and enhance existing foster care training materials. This includes integrating trauma-informed care and positive parenting approaches, developing supplementary modules to support children with complex psychosocial needs, and conducting a Training of Trainers for key stakeholders. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive, culturally appropriate training package tailored to Uzbekistan’s context.
The Nutrition section is seeking to hire a Nutrition Officer in Abuja office who will support the implementation of the National Nutrition SBC Strategy, First Food Africa Initiative and Food System interventions aimed to contribute to enhancing dietary diversity, preventing common childhood illnesses and improving MIYCN; diets, services and care practices. The position will be responsible for initiating, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the progress of key deliverables of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Officer will provide technical guidance throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/ projects.
Under the overall supervision of the Deputy Representative and direct supervision of the Innovation Specialist, the consultant will support UNICEF/GenU South Africa by:
1. Creating an integration strategy to align/embed GenU with government efforts, particularly the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention.
2. Conducting a comprehensive scoping of the private sector landscape related to youth opportunities.
3. Developing a strategy for private sector engagement around youth livelihoods, skilling, and employment.
4. Conduct comprehensive scoping on digital marketplace systems in South Africa that offer work/gig opportunities to self-employed/entrepreneurial youth.
For every child, the right to sustainable development and empowerment, through innovation.
The immunisation team is developing an integrated package to promote data use for decision-making and provide timely and actionable data analytics to support global, national, and subnational advocacy and immunization delivery efforts. The package consists of a set of analytical products including subnational and monthly-level administrative datasets, and slide decks for visualizing subnational and monthly analytics, triangulated with other immunization-related data. These products will be used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to monitoring, planning and advocacy. When working with administrative data, there are often multiple data quality challenges that need to be addressed. As such, there is a need for support with cleaning data from administrative systems, compiling and reconciling shapefiles, and production of cleaned subnational and monthly-level databases to materialise this vision.
Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.
The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate these above areas of immunisation database management, immunisation data cleaning and processing, and data analytics support under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (Immunisaiton) and in collaboration with other team members.
UNICEF Jordan Country Office is seeking to hire a passionate, dynamic, and collaborative ICT Intern, to play an active role in supporting the ICT team and gaining hands-on experience in a professional environment on a range of ICT related and knowledge management tasks. The intern will provide first-level ICT support, receiving, processing, and logging service requests from staff. They will also assist in troubleshooting and resolving hardware and software issues, ensuring that end-users have the support they need to work efficiently. In addition to routine support, the intern will help maintain UNICEF standard applications and ICT equipment, while also contributing to cloud solutions and Microsoft platform operations, including automation support. They will provide technical and operational assistance for conferencing and audiovisual equipment, helping to set up and ensure smooth operations for meetings and events, both virtual and hybrid.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will source, pilot and scale transformational and frontier climate resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. One of those solutions is Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) technology, a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic induction to map sustainable deep groundwater sources.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for the Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) solution, to support multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to lead the development of a Federal Ministry of Education of Nigeria, SBC strategy 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.
Join UNICEF as Programme Officer (Nutrition and Environmental Health). You will provide professional, technical, and operational support throughout the programming process for the nutrition, environmental health and selected health interventions within the Country Programme, and to the broader goal areas of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020–2030, and UNICEF Health strategies.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a National Consultant to support capacity building of stakeholders in delivering preventive nutrition interventions. The duration of this assignment is 12 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be office based in UNICEF.
Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, is currently recruiting two interns to join its Finance and Operations Section and Quality Education Section.
Hosted by UNICEF, the ECW Secretariat offers meaningful internship experiences for qualified students and recent graduates seeking to gain hands-on exposure to international development work, with a focus on education in emergency contexts. These internships provide a unique opportunity to contribute to ECW’s mission while developing professional skills in a dynamic, multicultural environment
The WASH Officer reports to the WASH Specialist for supervision. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme The position is required to provide technical assistance and support for WASH programme design, planning and implementation. It will also support partnerships, the processing of financial requests and liquidations, field program monitoring activities, including data analysis, progress reporting as well as capacity building. This is in support of the planned objectives of the UNICEF annual work plan.
The Supply and Logistics Officer performs highly skilled work on UNICEF supply chains, and manages the more complex cases and client requests, which frequently requires the evaluation of difficult situations and adaptation of procedures and processes to resolve such cases.
The WASH Officer reports to the WASH Specialist for supervision. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme The position is required to provide technical assistance and support for WASH programme design, planning and implementation. It will also support partnerships, the processing of financial requests and liquidations, field program monitoring activities, including data analysis, progress reporting as well as capacity building. This is in support of the planned objectives of the UNICEF annual work plan.
The overall goal is to further support the integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation and environmental issues into the education system. The purpose of the consultancy is to build the capacity of local experts in green school standards conceptualization and its roll out in Kazakhstan. This consultancy aims to guide the established technical working group in developing standards and self-assessment tools for green schools and capacities for implementation nationwide.
UNICEF is planning to engage an international expert in Behavioral Science to support the evidence generation on inclusive education uptake related behaviours and development of Social and Behaviour Change strategy on inclusive education.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:
1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.
The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.
The consultant will support the UNICEF Country Office in Serbia by identifying and leveraging funding opportunities and analysing strategic partnerships and approaches in the field of migration in Serbia to strengthen programming for children on the move. This includes conducting a targeted desk review to identify potential national, European and international funding sources relevant to UNICEF Country Office in Serbia, with a strong focus on private funds and foundations providing grants addressing migration issues relevant for unaccompanied and separated children (UASC).
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a WASH Officer (Engineer) at the NOB level to be based in Tarawa, Kiribati. The WASH Officer will report to the WASH Specialist and provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The WASH Officer will prepare, and implement a variety of technical, management, and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme. Specifically, this position will provide dedicated WASH engineering expertise to the WASH Programme in the country office including working closely with key government stakeholders and selected contractors in planning of improvement works and to provide close technical oversight and regular reporting of implementation of the construction works.
Under the supervision of the Health Officer, supported by the Social and Behaviour Change Manager, the consultant will undertake a mixed method case study on Elma-funded implementation of the RED Strategy with the National Department of Health, the Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provincial Departments of Health, and selected district health teams, to strengthen the EPI programme, and develop tailored strategies to reach zero dose and under immunised children.
The objective of the assignment is to explore and describe the operational effectiveness, barriers, facilitators, and outcomes of the RED Strategy implementation in selected urban districts, and to generate actionable insights for scaling and strengthening immunisation services.
For every child, the right to Immunisation.
Under the supervision of UNICEF Uzbekistan’s Child Protection Officer and in collaboration with NASP and the Uzbekistan Columbia Centre, the consultant will review and enhance existing foster care training materials. This includes integrating trauma-informed care and positive parenting approaches, developing supplementary modules to support children with complex psychosocial needs, and conducting a Training of Trainers for key stakeholders. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive, culturally appropriate training package tailored to Uzbekistan’s context.
The Nutrition section is seeking to hire a Nutrition Officer in Abuja office who will support the implementation of the National Nutrition SBC Strategy, First Food Africa Initiative and Food System interventions aimed to contribute to enhancing dietary diversity, preventing common childhood illnesses and improving MIYCN; diets, services and care practices. The position will be responsible for initiating, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the progress of key deliverables of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Officer will provide technical guidance throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/ projects.
Under the overall supervision of the Deputy Representative and direct supervision of the Innovation Specialist, the consultant will support UNICEF/GenU South Africa by:
1. Creating an integration strategy to align/embed GenU with government efforts, particularly the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention.
2. Conducting a comprehensive scoping of the private sector landscape related to youth opportunities.
3. Developing a strategy for private sector engagement around youth livelihoods, skilling, and employment.
4. Conduct comprehensive scoping on digital marketplace systems in South Africa that offer work/gig opportunities to self-employed/entrepreneurial youth.
For every child, the right to sustainable development and empowerment, through innovation.
The immunisation team is developing an integrated package to promote data use for decision-making and provide timely and actionable data analytics to support global, national, and subnational advocacy and immunization delivery efforts. The package consists of a set of analytical products including subnational and monthly-level administrative datasets, and slide decks for visualizing subnational and monthly analytics, triangulated with other immunization-related data. These products will be used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to monitoring, planning and advocacy. When working with administrative data, there are often multiple data quality challenges that need to be addressed. As such, there is a need for support with cleaning data from administrative systems, compiling and reconciling shapefiles, and production of cleaned subnational and monthly-level databases to materialise this vision.
Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.
The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate these above areas of immunisation database management, immunisation data cleaning and processing, and data analytics support under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (Immunisaiton) and in collaboration with other team members.
UNICEF Jordan Country Office is seeking to hire a passionate, dynamic, and collaborative ICT Intern, to play an active role in supporting the ICT team and gaining hands-on experience in a professional environment on a range of ICT related and knowledge management tasks. The intern will provide first-level ICT support, receiving, processing, and logging service requests from staff. They will also assist in troubleshooting and resolving hardware and software issues, ensuring that end-users have the support they need to work efficiently. In addition to routine support, the intern will help maintain UNICEF standard applications and ICT equipment, while also contributing to cloud solutions and Microsoft platform operations, including automation support. They will provide technical and operational assistance for conferencing and audiovisual equipment, helping to set up and ensure smooth operations for meetings and events, both virtual and hybrid.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a
WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will source, pilot and scale transformational and frontier climate resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. One of those solutions is Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) technology, a geophysical method that uses electromagnetic induction to map sustainable deep groundwater sources.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by outlining the scaling pathway, approach and key considerations for the Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) solution, to support multi-country and multi-region scale.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an international consultant to lead the development of a Federal Ministry of Education of Nigeria, SBC strategy 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.
Join UNICEF as Programme Officer (Nutrition and Environmental Health). You will provide professional, technical, and operational support throughout the programming process for the nutrition, environmental health and selected health interventions within the Country Programme, and to the broader goal areas of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020–2030, and UNICEF Health strategies.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a National Consultant to support capacity building of stakeholders in delivering preventive nutrition interventions. The duration of this assignment is 12 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be office based in UNICEF.
Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, is currently recruiting two interns to join its Finance and Operations Section and Quality Education Section.
Hosted by UNICEF, the ECW Secretariat offers meaningful internship experiences for qualified students and recent graduates seeking to gain hands-on exposure to international development work, with a focus on education in emergency contexts. These internships provide a unique opportunity to contribute to ECW’s mission while developing professional skills in a dynamic, multicultural environment
The WASH Officer reports to the WASH Specialist for supervision. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme The position is required to provide technical assistance and support for WASH programme design, planning and implementation. It will also support partnerships, the processing of financial requests and liquidations, field program monitoring activities, including data analysis, progress reporting as well as capacity building. This is in support of the planned objectives of the UNICEF annual work plan.
The Supply and Logistics Officer performs highly skilled work on UNICEF supply chains, and manages the more complex cases and client requests, which frequently requires the evaluation of difficult situations and adaptation of procedures and processes to resolve such cases.
The WASH Officer reports to the WASH Specialist for supervision. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme The position is required to provide technical assistance and support for WASH programme design, planning and implementation. It will also support partnerships, the processing of financial requests and liquidations, field program monitoring activities, including data analysis, progress reporting as well as capacity building. This is in support of the planned objectives of the UNICEF annual work plan.
The overall goal is to further support the integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation and environmental issues into the education system. The purpose of the consultancy is to build the capacity of local experts in green school standards conceptualization and its roll out in Kazakhstan. This consultancy aims to guide the established technical working group in developing standards and self-assessment tools for green schools and capacities for implementation nationwide.
UNICEF is planning to engage an international expert in Behavioral Science to support the evidence generation on inclusive education uptake related behaviours and development of Social and Behaviour Change strategy on inclusive education.
Climate change, disasters and environmental degradation threaten child rights and essential services, especially in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
The Center of Excellence on Climate Resilience for Children, in partnership with the Education in Emergencies (EiE) team, seeks a consultant to:
1. Promote child-responsive priorities in global DRR and climate loss and damage (L&D) processes and finance.
2. Support countries and partners to strengthen the resilience of child-critical sectors.
3. Empower children and youth as climate champions through EiE programming to enhance skills development and participation.
The consultant will provide technical, policy and capacity-building support to UNICEF staff, governments and partners, aligning with UNICEF’s 2023–2030 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). This includes advancing SCAP’s integration across intergovernmental processes and national policies.
