Guinea is a middle-income country facing significant challenges in child development and deprivation. According to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report, Guinea has an HDI of 0.480, ranking 178th out of 191 countries in 2023, reflecting its ongoing struggle with poverty and social development challenges. Since 1984, UNICEF has worked with the government and various partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to improve conditions for children.
The population of Guinea is projected to be around 15.2 million in 2025, with 63.4% living in rural areas and women comprising approximately 50.3% of the population. The annual growth rate remains steady at about 2.8%. Children under the age of 18 account for roughly 51% of the population, underscoring the critical need for child-focused interventions in areas such as health, education, and protection (World Population Review).
The Junior Data and Research Consultant will sit within UNICEF’s exciting and dynamic Product Innovation Centre (PIC). This team drives research and development (R&D) and scale of new innovative products to improve the lives of children across the world. This consultancy will support the team with data, research, and knowledge management to scope, validate and drive scale of specified new products as well as to visualize and share the impact of the Centre. The consultant should prove a flair for data visualization and dashboards design and a passion for utilizing data to activate decision-making for impact.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea is recruiting for a Child Protection Officer. This post is only open to nationals of Papua New Guinea. The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme 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.
The assignment entails providing technical support to UNICEF’s role in supporting the monitoring the Cross-Cutting Agenda for Children and Adolescents (ATCA, in its Portuguese acronym) within the Federal Multi-Year Plan (PPA) for 2024-2027. The primary responsibilities include strengthening the monitoring process by evaluating key issues that the National PPA's cross-cutting agenda for children must address.
ESARO is looking for a dynamic and talent individual to be part of our emergency response to the 21 country offices across the region, focused on Risk Communication and Community Engagement. If you believe you have the skills and experience for this position, we would love for you to apply.
Please note that this is an emergency role and we would expect someone to join within 31 days of accepting the offer.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Assistant. You will contribute to the promotion of children's rights in Bolivia by giving administrative support, assist in coordinating program activities, facilitating communication between program teams, maintain accurate records of program activities and conducting initiatives to enhances programe efficiency.
The KM Specialist will be responsible for strengthening the KM Strategy to ensure 1) its activities meet the knowledge generation and sharing needs of the Polio SBC colleagues at HQ, regional, and country level, 2) the strategy is aligned with UNICEF’s Global Knowledge Management Strategy and 3) activities leverage any new approaches or tools available at UNICEF, which involves staying up to date with new approaches in KM, at UNICEF as well as connecting with other KM colleagues and polio SBC colleagues across UNICEF.
Under the direct guidance of the Deputy Rep Operations, the incumbent manages the supply and logistics operations of a complex nature with significant impact on programme delivery, services, supply and logistic, processes and systems, requiring advanced professional technical mastery and expertise in support of operations and programme objectives. Accountable for effective planning, contracting, procurement of both supplies and services, distribution, inventory management of UNICEF's supplies, in support of the Country Programmes.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for a Programme Associate to support the Child Protection Section in the West and Central Africa Regional Office (RO) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations.
UNICEF is establishing a dedicated team to lead and develop UNISON, the organization’s Salesforce-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Recognizing the importance of nurturing and optimizing partnerships to ensure critical resourcing and support to its work, UNICEF rolled out UNISON globally for public and private partnership management. While the project phase comes to an end in December 2024, the UNISON team will continue to foster this ongoing change in the way the organization manages partnerships, working to increase uptake and systematic usage of UNISON across the spectrum of internal stakeholders and supporting the tool’s evolution. The goal is to maintain and manage all donor partner relationships on UNISON globally, driving revenue growth and promoting partnership knowledge-sharing and coordination; tracking income and pipeline funding, and enabling increased financial and non-financial support to drive results for children.
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 environment in which UNICEF operates in Iraq is evolving rapidly. Iraq is an upper-middle income country and UNICEF’s work, and priorities are transitioning from humanitarian response interventions and service delivery towards development and upstream work and engagement, while keeping the country prepare to be able to respond to emergency. Against this backdrop, the Office finalized its Country Programme Management Plan (CPMP) and the PBR in support of a new Country Programme for the years 2025-2029.
Provide support to develop an efficient and sustainable model for protection and social inclusion of Ukrainian refugee children and families by improving coordination, referral and enhancing access to services under the Blue Grid initiative.
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 is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and development aid to children worldwide.
In the context of public partnerships, Partnerships Risk Management is an organizational and strategic function that enables the division to anticipate, identify and mitigate risks associated with public sector funding to UNICEF, which amounted to over $6 billion in 2023.
Positioned within the Systems, Analytics, Risk, Planning and Operations (SARPO) team of PPD and under the supervision of the Partnerships Risk Specialist, the Partnerships Risk Management Intern will be an integral part of the Partnerships Risk team within PPD and contribute to the day-to-day operations, with a focus on tasks related to compliance and monitoring, donor agreements review and tracking of obligations from a public partnerships perspective, UNICEF knowledge management in the field of risk and related policies, and analytics. The internship offers a dynamic set of assignments and will provide exposure to the operations of UNICEF as an agency of the United Nations, with a specific focus on public partnerships risk management.
UNICEF Uganda is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for consultancy at a senior professional level for guiding learning and foresight for the 2026–2030 Country Programme. UNICEF has launched independent evaluations of its Child Protection (Outcome 3) and Basic Education and Adolescent Development (Outcome 2) Programmes. These evaluations are expected to offer forward-looking recommendations to inform the prioritization process. In contrast, given the extensive assessments and evaluations already conducted under Outcome 1 – Child Survival and Development (CSD), UNICEF has adopted a meta-analysis approach, which is more cost-effective, and efficient, and reduces respondent fatigue. Under the overall guidance of the Chief Child survival and Development, and the Chief Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, the consultancy will aim to collate and synthesize available evidence to; 1. Assess the relevance and coherence of UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health (RMNCAH), HIV, nutrition, and WASH services,
2. Appraise progress towards achievement of intended results for children and women,
3. Determine the efficiency of UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health (RMNCAH), HIV, nutrition, and WASH services in targeted 29 districts.
4. Assess the sustainability of UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health, nutrition, and WASH services.
5. Propose collective foresight leaning recommendations for scaling and adapting UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health, nutrition and WASH services.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — will not only give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
UNICEF’s mission in Moldova is to make sure every child in the country is healthy, educated and safe from harm, therefore having the best start in life and a fair chance to reach her or his full potential and benefit from the country’s prosperity. We believe children have a right to live in a more equitable society, where their voices are heard, and needs met as a matter of priority in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Digital Communication Officer supports the Digital Unit and is responsible for working closely with the Digital Communication Specialist to implement the communication and advocacy strategy with a focus on social media management, content creation, including with young people, community management, planning and coordination, reporting and analyzing.
UNICEF China is seeking a consultant with specific technical expertise of strengthening social service workforce in child protection, particularly developing skills/competency-based training for para professionals.
Malawi is beset by a learning poverty, with less than 20 per cent of children (7-13 years) in Malawi possessing foundational literacy skills and less than 15 per cent having foundational numeracy skills. UNICEF Malawi’s Education programme is therefore prioritizing inclusive foundational learning, focusing its resources on the youngest learners to ensure they are ready for school and equipped with the literacy and numeracy skills essential for lifelong productivity and well-being. Across its work, UNICEF promotes equity and inclusion in all its initiatives, implementing programmes that expand education services for children with disabilities, supporting the enrollment and retention of girls in schools, ensuring continuity of learning during emergencies while it , and prioritizes the most disadvantaged schools and communities, ensuring that limited resources are strategically directed where they can have the greatest impact, particularly in light of rising inequities and hardships across the country..
As the Education Officer focusing on Equity and Inclusion, you will be at the forefront of ensuring that children in Malawi who are the most marginalized and disadvantaged – children with disabilities, girls, children from rural and remote areas, and the like – are given education opportunities that allow them to develop to their full potential.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF ROSA, all eight UNICEF Country Offices (COs) in the region and key stakeholders with high quality technical support on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), informed by best available evidence and sector/international standards. This requires cross-sectoral engagement and collaboration with country offices. The incumbent will report to the Regional Advisors for Child Protection and Health. The consultant will nurture regional and country specific collaboration to inform policies, systems strengthening and service delivery. The MHPSS Consultant will contribute to the delivery of inclusive, age appropriate and multi-sectoral mental health services for migrant/refugee children and children with disabilities. Gender transformation will be integral part of the key functions of the Consultant.
Guinea is a middle-income country facing significant challenges in child development and deprivation. According to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report, Guinea has an HDI of 0.480, ranking 178th out of 191 countries in 2023, reflecting its ongoing struggle with poverty and social development challenges. Since 1984, UNICEF has worked with the government and various partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to improve conditions for children.
The population of Guinea is projected to be around 15.2 million in 2025, with 63.4% living in rural areas and women comprising approximately 50.3% of the population. The annual growth rate remains steady at about 2.8%. Children under the age of 18 account for roughly 51% of the population, underscoring the critical need for child-focused interventions in areas such as health, education, and protection (World Population Review).
The Junior Data and Research Consultant will sit within UNICEF’s exciting and dynamic Product Innovation Centre (PIC). This team drives research and development (R&D) and scale of new innovative products to improve the lives of children across the world. This consultancy will support the team with data, research, and knowledge management to scope, validate and drive scale of specified new products as well as to visualize and share the impact of the Centre. The consultant should prove a flair for data visualization and dashboards design and a passion for utilizing data to activate decision-making for impact.
UNICEF Papua New Guinea is recruiting for a Child Protection Officer. This post is only open to nationals of Papua New Guinea. The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme 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.
The assignment entails providing technical support to UNICEF’s role in supporting the monitoring the Cross-Cutting Agenda for Children and Adolescents (ATCA, in its Portuguese acronym) within the Federal Multi-Year Plan (PPA) for 2024-2027. The primary responsibilities include strengthening the monitoring process by evaluating key issues that the National PPA's cross-cutting agenda for children must address.
ESARO is looking for a dynamic and talent individual to be part of our emergency response to the 21 country offices across the region, focused on Risk Communication and Community Engagement. If you believe you have the skills and experience for this position, we would love for you to apply.
Please note that this is an emergency role and we would expect someone to join within 31 days of accepting the offer.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Assistant. You will contribute to the promotion of children's rights in Bolivia by giving administrative support, assist in coordinating program activities, facilitating communication between program teams, maintain accurate records of program activities and conducting initiatives to enhances programe efficiency.
The KM Specialist will be responsible for strengthening the KM Strategy to ensure 1) its activities meet the knowledge generation and sharing needs of the Polio SBC colleagues at HQ, regional, and country level, 2) the strategy is aligned with UNICEF’s Global Knowledge Management Strategy and 3) activities leverage any new approaches or tools available at UNICEF, which involves staying up to date with new approaches in KM, at UNICEF as well as connecting with other KM colleagues and polio SBC colleagues across UNICEF.
Under the direct guidance of the Deputy Rep Operations, the incumbent manages the supply and logistics operations of a complex nature with significant impact on programme delivery, services, supply and logistic, processes and systems, requiring advanced professional technical mastery and expertise in support of operations and programme objectives. Accountable for effective planning, contracting, procurement of both supplies and services, distribution, inventory management of UNICEF's supplies, in support of the Country Programmes.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for a Programme Associate to support the Child Protection Section in the West and Central Africa Regional Office (RO) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations.
UNICEF is establishing a dedicated team to lead and develop UNISON, the organization’s Salesforce-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Recognizing the importance of nurturing and optimizing partnerships to ensure critical resourcing and support to its work, UNICEF rolled out UNISON globally for public and private partnership management. While the project phase comes to an end in December 2024, the UNISON team will continue to foster this ongoing change in the way the organization manages partnerships, working to increase uptake and systematic usage of UNISON across the spectrum of internal stakeholders and supporting the tool’s evolution. The goal is to maintain and manage all donor partner relationships on UNISON globally, driving revenue growth and promoting partnership knowledge-sharing and coordination; tracking income and pipeline funding, and enabling increased financial and non-financial support to drive results for children.
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 environment in which UNICEF operates in Iraq is evolving rapidly. Iraq is an upper-middle income country and UNICEF’s work, and priorities are transitioning from humanitarian response interventions and service delivery towards development and upstream work and engagement, while keeping the country prepare to be able to respond to emergency. Against this backdrop, the Office finalized its Country Programme Management Plan (CPMP) and the PBR in support of a new Country Programme for the years 2025-2029.
Provide support to develop an efficient and sustainable model for protection and social inclusion of Ukrainian refugee children and families by improving coordination, referral and enhancing access to services under the Blue Grid initiative.
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 is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and development aid to children worldwide.
In the context of public partnerships, Partnerships Risk Management is an organizational and strategic function that enables the division to anticipate, identify and mitigate risks associated with public sector funding to UNICEF, which amounted to over $6 billion in 2023.
Positioned within the Systems, Analytics, Risk, Planning and Operations (SARPO) team of PPD and under the supervision of the Partnerships Risk Specialist, the Partnerships Risk Management Intern will be an integral part of the Partnerships Risk team within PPD and contribute to the day-to-day operations, with a focus on tasks related to compliance and monitoring, donor agreements review and tracking of obligations from a public partnerships perspective, UNICEF knowledge management in the field of risk and related policies, and analytics. The internship offers a dynamic set of assignments and will provide exposure to the operations of UNICEF as an agency of the United Nations, with a specific focus on public partnerships risk management.
UNICEF Uganda is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for consultancy at a senior professional level for guiding learning and foresight for the 2026–2030 Country Programme. UNICEF has launched independent evaluations of its Child Protection (Outcome 3) and Basic Education and Adolescent Development (Outcome 2) Programmes. These evaluations are expected to offer forward-looking recommendations to inform the prioritization process. In contrast, given the extensive assessments and evaluations already conducted under Outcome 1 – Child Survival and Development (CSD), UNICEF has adopted a meta-analysis approach, which is more cost-effective, and efficient, and reduces respondent fatigue. Under the overall guidance of the Chief Child survival and Development, and the Chief Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, the consultancy will aim to collate and synthesize available evidence to; 1. Assess the relevance and coherence of UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health (RMNCAH), HIV, nutrition, and WASH services,
2. Appraise progress towards achievement of intended results for children and women,
3. Determine the efficiency of UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health (RMNCAH), HIV, nutrition, and WASH services in targeted 29 districts.
4. Assess the sustainability of UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health, nutrition, and WASH services.
5. Propose collective foresight leaning recommendations for scaling and adapting UNICEF supported interventions geared at strengthening access and quality to health, nutrition and WASH services.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — will not only give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
UNICEF’s mission in Moldova is to make sure every child in the country is healthy, educated and safe from harm, therefore having the best start in life and a fair chance to reach her or his full potential and benefit from the country’s prosperity. We believe children have a right to live in a more equitable society, where their voices are heard, and needs met as a matter of priority in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Digital Communication Officer supports the Digital Unit and is responsible for working closely with the Digital Communication Specialist to implement the communication and advocacy strategy with a focus on social media management, content creation, including with young people, community management, planning and coordination, reporting and analyzing.
UNICEF China is seeking a consultant with specific technical expertise of strengthening social service workforce in child protection, particularly developing skills/competency-based training for para professionals.
Malawi is beset by a learning poverty, with less than 20 per cent of children (7-13 years) in Malawi possessing foundational literacy skills and less than 15 per cent having foundational numeracy skills. UNICEF Malawi’s Education programme is therefore prioritizing inclusive foundational learning, focusing its resources on the youngest learners to ensure they are ready for school and equipped with the literacy and numeracy skills essential for lifelong productivity and well-being. Across its work, UNICEF promotes equity and inclusion in all its initiatives, implementing programmes that expand education services for children with disabilities, supporting the enrollment and retention of girls in schools, ensuring continuity of learning during emergencies while it , and prioritizes the most disadvantaged schools and communities, ensuring that limited resources are strategically directed where they can have the greatest impact, particularly in light of rising inequities and hardships across the country..
As the Education Officer focusing on Equity and Inclusion, you will be at the forefront of ensuring that children in Malawi who are the most marginalized and disadvantaged – children with disabilities, girls, children from rural and remote areas, and the like – are given education opportunities that allow them to develop to their full potential.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF ROSA, all eight UNICEF Country Offices (COs) in the region and key stakeholders with high quality technical support on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), informed by best available evidence and sector/international standards. This requires cross-sectoral engagement and collaboration with country offices. The incumbent will report to the Regional Advisors for Child Protection and Health. The consultant will nurture regional and country specific collaboration to inform policies, systems strengthening and service delivery. The MHPSS Consultant will contribute to the delivery of inclusive, age appropriate and multi-sectoral mental health services for migrant/refugee children and children with disabilities. Gender transformation will be integral part of the key functions of the Consultant.