The post is based in Islamabad with regular field travel and reports to the Chief Child Nutrition and Development, with matrix reporting to the Chief SBC. The Specialist will work closely with Nutrition, ECD, SBC, Health, WASH, Gender, Social Protection, Supply and field teams to strengthen implementation of integrated Nutrition and ECD interventions through practical SBC support, community engagement, frontline worker capacity building and use of field feedback to improve programme delivery.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The consultant will:
(i) lead the development and submission of a detailed inception proposal setting out how they will deliver the outputs of the consultancy, including their understanding of the assignment, proposed methodology and workplan; (ii) facilitate the national-level programme review meeting and capture all comments, feedback and recommendations raised by FMoH, SMoH, IPs, UNICEF and WHO;
(iii) support the articulation of these into the programme design, translating them into work plan activities, costed budgets and the results framework;
(iv) support the development of the operational design of the programme, responding to the context of Darfur and Kordofan states in shaping the design and budget;
(v) support coordination with UNICEF, FMoH and WHO throughout, ensuring the design reflects a jointly validated, cross-institutional consensus; and
(vi) help ensure the programme design aligns with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) strategies and the Sudan Health Strategy for health system strengthening.
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative and solutions-oriented Supply and Logistics leader who demonstrates UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability, and who can manage ambiguity, build partnerships, innovate, think and act strategically, and drive impactful results for children. Your leadership will directly enable UNICEF Mali to deliver essential goods, services and construction works where they are needed most. By strengthening supply chain performance, risk management and partner capacity, you will help protect UNICEF’s credibility as a trusted steward of resources and a reliable partner for children in complex humanitarian settings.If you are motivated by operational problem-solving, field-oriented delivery and the opportunity to help UNICEF reach children in some of the hardest-to-access areas, this role offers a meaningful platform to make a measurable difference
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) Officer (Growth Marketing Lead, Digital Fundraising) based in Jakarta. The implementation of an audience-focused marketing-led approach to the engagement of mass-market Individuals audiences is a key pillar of UNICEF Indonesia’s ambitious growth strategy. By achieving a clear understanding of the demographics, behaviours and motivations of specific audience segments UNICEF will then be best placed to create tailored audience-focused products and engagement methods along with integrated supporter journeys. These journeys will span all aspects of the engagement funnel – from pre-acquisition positioning all the way through to ongoing retention, donor care and value maximization. A key element of this new approach will be to scale-up UNICEF’s digital fundraising approaches as part of the overall approach to supporter engagement. Under the supervision and guidance of the PSFR Specialist (Head of Supporter Marketing), this role will bring growth marketing specialist expertise and skills to digital fundraising and marketing, owning the donor acquisition funnel and efficiency metrics (CPA, LTV, ROAS). This is a Fixed-Term contract for 2 years duration.
Re-advertisement: applicants who had previously applied will be considered and need not re-apply.
The Fada Field Office is located in eastern Burkina Faso and covers four regions: Nakambe, Goulmou, Tapoa and Sirba.The Fada Field Office will play a key role in advancing the objectives of the 2027–2030 Country Programme, which adopts geographic and demographic targeting as a key implementation approach. Covering the regions of Goulmou, Sirba, Tapoa, and Nakambé, areas that face some of the highest levels of child deprivation in the country, the Field Office will be central to ensuring that program interventions effectively reach the most vulnerable children and populations, thereby contributing to more equitable and impactful results.Given the public health and humanitarian challenges in the Area of Responsibility, the position requires strong capacity to lead multisectoral field programming, with expertise in health or public health. The incumbent will provide strategic oversight of interventions that strengthen access to essential health services, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, immunization, disease prevention and surveillance, community health, emergency preparedness and response, while ensuring effective integration with nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and social policy.
Individual consultant: Data interpretation and utilization, Global Education Practice – Financing, Data, Economics and Assessment for Learning and Skills (FinDEALS) Team, Nairobi, Kenya, 14 months, remote with travel
Dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre du paquet d’interventions multisectorielles visant à soutenir la rétention des filles dans 66 collèges, notamment à travers le Projet de Renforcement du Système Éducatif de Base (PRSEB) financé par la Banque mondiale et le projet WASH financé par la KfW, l’UNICEF Côte d’Ivoire recrute un(e) Spécialiste en Responsabilité Environnementale et Sociale (ESS) et en Gestion des Plaintes et Recours (GRM).
UNICEF Pakistan seeks qualified consultants across complementary areas of expertise to perform a range of duties in support of UNICEF and government partners, contributing to the development and strengthening of systems that protect children from climate- and disaster-related risks.
Communications Consultant - Digital Content & Engagement Lead, UNICEF Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden - Partnerships and Communication Team, Stockholm, Sweden & Remote with travel, 6 months
This position covers a broad range of HR functions, however, depending on the context, the incumbent may focus on all, some, or only one or two areas with great depth.
The Immunization Specialist (Vaccine and Cold Chain Management) will help ensure that every child and woman has equitable access to life-saving vaccines by strengthening vaccine supply chains, cold chain systems, and immunization programme performance. Through technical support, capacity building, and data-driven planning, the position will contribute to increasing immunization coverage, reducing vaccine-preventable diseases, and reaching underserved and hard-to-reach communities across Zambia.
We are recruiting an Executive Associate GS6 Temporary Appointment (6 months) to provide high-level executive, administrative and coordination support to the UNICEF Representative and ensure the smooth functioning of the Front Office. If you are committed to delivering efficient and impactful support for UNICEF’s work for children, this is your opportunity to make a difference.
The Health Specialist is accountable for providing technical assistance in the development of immunisation workplans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development,Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF'simmunization plus goals and objectives for the country.The Immunization Specialist will provide support to all the five field offices with more focus on Central-South Somalia tosupport the immunization programme and ongoing response activities for cVDPV2 outbreak and other vaccinepreventable diseases. Much more attention will also be required to reduce the zero-dose children burden in the country.As a key partner of Immunisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has the mandate to provide technicalassistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of immunizationprogrammes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet thisobligation.Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunisation programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on genderdisaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.
UNICEF is looking for the strong professional in the area of Cash Transfers. Under the supervision of the Programme Specialist - Cash Transfers (which is the Head of the Cash Transfer Programme), the Social Policy Specialist (Cash Transfers), hereinafter referred to as the Cash Transfer Specialist will support UNICEF Ukraine’s cash transfer programme by helping design, implement, monitor, and improve four cash assistance interventions, while ensuring timely, accountable, and risk-informed delivery to vulnerable and conflict-affected children and families. The position also works closely with government partners, particularly the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity, to strengthen and expand government-led social protection systems and support the transition from humanitarian cash assistance to sustainable, shock-responsive social protection mechanisms.
Join UNICEF as a Partnerships Officer (Temporary Appointment), P-2 in Suva, Fiji, and help advance children’s rights and wellbeing across the Pacific by strengthening strategic partnerships. Working with governments, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders, you will support partnership development, resource mobilization, advocacy, and knowledge sharing while contributing to collaborative solutions that deliver lasting impact for children throughout the region.
Join UNICEF as Chief (Professional Practices), Internal Audit. Lead the strategy, quality, innovation, and transformation of UNICEF’s global internal audit function, driving risk-based assurance, audit excellence, and data-driven insights across a complex international organization. This senior leadership role is ideal for a seasoned audit professional with extensive experience in internal audit, risk management, quality assurance, and audit modernization who is passionate about strengthening governance and organizational impact.
The post is based in Islamabad with regular field travel and reports to the Chief Child Nutrition and Development, with matrix reporting to the Chief SBC. The Specialist will work closely with Nutrition, ECD, SBC, Health, WASH, Gender, Social Protection, Supply and field teams to strengthen implementation of integrated Nutrition and ECD interventions through practical SBC support, community engagement, frontline worker capacity building and use of field feedback to improve programme delivery.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The consultant will:
(i) lead the development and submission of a detailed inception proposal setting out how they will deliver the outputs of the consultancy, including their understanding of the assignment, proposed methodology and workplan; (ii) facilitate the national-level programme review meeting and capture all comments, feedback and recommendations raised by FMoH, SMoH, IPs, UNICEF and WHO;
(iii) support the articulation of these into the programme design, translating them into work plan activities, costed budgets and the results framework;
(iv) support the development of the operational design of the programme, responding to the context of Darfur and Kordofan states in shaping the design and budget;
(v) support coordination with UNICEF, FMoH and WHO throughout, ensuring the design reflects a jointly validated, cross-institutional consensus; and
(vi) help ensure the programme design aligns with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) strategies and the Sudan Health Strategy for health system strengthening.
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative and solutions-oriented Supply and Logistics leader who demonstrates UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability, and who can manage ambiguity, build partnerships, innovate, think and act strategically, and drive impactful results for children. Your leadership will directly enable UNICEF Mali to deliver essential goods, services and construction works where they are needed most. By strengthening supply chain performance, risk management and partner capacity, you will help protect UNICEF’s credibility as a trusted steward of resources and a reliable partner for children in complex humanitarian settings.If you are motivated by operational problem-solving, field-oriented delivery and the opportunity to help UNICEF reach children in some of the hardest-to-access areas, this role offers a meaningful platform to make a measurable difference
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) Officer (Growth Marketing Lead, Digital Fundraising) based in Jakarta. The implementation of an audience-focused marketing-led approach to the engagement of mass-market Individuals audiences is a key pillar of UNICEF Indonesia’s ambitious growth strategy. By achieving a clear understanding of the demographics, behaviours and motivations of specific audience segments UNICEF will then be best placed to create tailored audience-focused products and engagement methods along with integrated supporter journeys. These journeys will span all aspects of the engagement funnel – from pre-acquisition positioning all the way through to ongoing retention, donor care and value maximization. A key element of this new approach will be to scale-up UNICEF’s digital fundraising approaches as part of the overall approach to supporter engagement. Under the supervision and guidance of the PSFR Specialist (Head of Supporter Marketing), this role will bring growth marketing specialist expertise and skills to digital fundraising and marketing, owning the donor acquisition funnel and efficiency metrics (CPA, LTV, ROAS). This is a Fixed-Term contract for 2 years duration.
Re-advertisement: applicants who had previously applied will be considered and need not re-apply.
The Fada Field Office is located in eastern Burkina Faso and covers four regions: Nakambe, Goulmou, Tapoa and Sirba.The Fada Field Office will play a key role in advancing the objectives of the 2027–2030 Country Programme, which adopts geographic and demographic targeting as a key implementation approach. Covering the regions of Goulmou, Sirba, Tapoa, and Nakambé, areas that face some of the highest levels of child deprivation in the country, the Field Office will be central to ensuring that program interventions effectively reach the most vulnerable children and populations, thereby contributing to more equitable and impactful results.Given the public health and humanitarian challenges in the Area of Responsibility, the position requires strong capacity to lead multisectoral field programming, with expertise in health or public health. The incumbent will provide strategic oversight of interventions that strengthen access to essential health services, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, immunization, disease prevention and surveillance, community health, emergency preparedness and response, while ensuring effective integration with nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and social policy.
Individual consultant: Data interpretation and utilization, Global Education Practice – Financing, Data, Economics and Assessment for Learning and Skills (FinDEALS) Team, Nairobi, Kenya, 14 months, remote with travel
Dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre du paquet d’interventions multisectorielles visant à soutenir la rétention des filles dans 66 collèges, notamment à travers le Projet de Renforcement du Système Éducatif de Base (PRSEB) financé par la Banque mondiale et le projet WASH financé par la KfW, l’UNICEF Côte d’Ivoire recrute un(e) Spécialiste en Responsabilité Environnementale et Sociale (ESS) et en Gestion des Plaintes et Recours (GRM).
UNICEF Pakistan seeks qualified consultants across complementary areas of expertise to perform a range of duties in support of UNICEF and government partners, contributing to the development and strengthening of systems that protect children from climate- and disaster-related risks.
Communications Consultant - Digital Content & Engagement Lead, UNICEF Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden - Partnerships and Communication Team, Stockholm, Sweden & Remote with travel, 6 months
This position covers a broad range of HR functions, however, depending on the context, the incumbent may focus on all, some, or only one or two areas with great depth.
The Immunization Specialist (Vaccine and Cold Chain Management) will help ensure that every child and woman has equitable access to life-saving vaccines by strengthening vaccine supply chains, cold chain systems, and immunization programme performance. Through technical support, capacity building, and data-driven planning, the position will contribute to increasing immunization coverage, reducing vaccine-preventable diseases, and reaching underserved and hard-to-reach communities across Zambia.
We are recruiting an Executive Associate GS6 Temporary Appointment (6 months) to provide high-level executive, administrative and coordination support to the UNICEF Representative and ensure the smooth functioning of the Front Office. If you are committed to delivering efficient and impactful support for UNICEF’s work for children, this is your opportunity to make a difference.
The Health Specialist is accountable for providing technical assistance in the development of immunisation workplans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development,Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF'simmunization plus goals and objectives for the country.The Immunization Specialist will provide support to all the five field offices with more focus on Central-South Somalia tosupport the immunization programme and ongoing response activities for cVDPV2 outbreak and other vaccinepreventable diseases. Much more attention will also be required to reduce the zero-dose children burden in the country.As a key partner of Immunisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has the mandate to provide technicalassistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of immunizationprogrammes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet thisobligation.Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunisation programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on genderdisaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.
UNICEF is looking for the strong professional in the area of Cash Transfers. Under the supervision of the Programme Specialist - Cash Transfers (which is the Head of the Cash Transfer Programme), the Social Policy Specialist (Cash Transfers), hereinafter referred to as the Cash Transfer Specialist will support UNICEF Ukraine’s cash transfer programme by helping design, implement, monitor, and improve four cash assistance interventions, while ensuring timely, accountable, and risk-informed delivery to vulnerable and conflict-affected children and families. The position also works closely with government partners, particularly the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity, to strengthen and expand government-led social protection systems and support the transition from humanitarian cash assistance to sustainable, shock-responsive social protection mechanisms.
Join UNICEF as a Partnerships Officer (Temporary Appointment), P-2 in Suva, Fiji, and help advance children’s rights and wellbeing across the Pacific by strengthening strategic partnerships. Working with governments, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders, you will support partnership development, resource mobilization, advocacy, and knowledge sharing while contributing to collaborative solutions that deliver lasting impact for children throughout the region.
Join UNICEF as Chief (Professional Practices), Internal Audit. Lead the strategy, quality, innovation, and transformation of UNICEF’s global internal audit function, driving risk-based assurance, audit excellence, and data-driven insights across a complex international organization. This senior leadership role is ideal for a seasoned audit professional with extensive experience in internal audit, risk management, quality assurance, and audit modernization who is passionate about strengthening governance and organizational impact.
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