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 UNICEF Syria and provide leadership and representation of the Sector. you will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Sector that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency.
UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office (MENARO) invites qualified subject matter experts and individual consultants to express their interest in being included in the Regional Roster. There are four key areas that UNICEF is looking for experts in:
1. Social Protection.
2. Cash-based Transfers.
3. Public Finance for Children.
4. Child Poverty.
5. Local governance including child friendly cities, and urbanization.
Under the guidance of the Chief Field Operations and Emergency, is accountable for managing and leading UNICEF Area Operations in the west area covering the Darfur states within a country programme. The CFO represents UNICEF in his/her Area of Responsibility (AoR), leads and oversees the various program sectors and operational service teams ensuring the delivery of quality results in accordance with UNICEF’s programme of cooperation, country programme management plan, humanitarian response plan and overall vision set forward by the Representative.
Under the direct supervision of the Chief Field Operations and Emergency (CFOE), the Programme Specialist (Field Operations) will assist the CFOE in overseeing and supporting UNICEF’s field operations in Sudan. This role involves addressing a range of programmatic, operational and coordination issues, focusing on the needs of field offices, and facilitating communication and coordination between field offices, programme sections and operations, ensuring timely support.
The programme specialist will contribute to the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of program activities at the field level, as well as emergency preparedness and response. This will involve close coordination with country office program sections, operations and field offices to ensure the survival, wellbeing of children, mothers, and affected communities, in accordance with the obligations of the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in humanitarian action.
Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational, and administrative support, concentrating particularly on planning and monitoring throughout the education program/project lifecycle within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
The post is based in Farchana, Chad to support cross border operations, with possibility to travel to Darfur states as per operational needs. It reports to the Humanitarian Affairs Specialist, P4 in the Sudan CO and works closely with Darfur CFOs and the Field Operations and Emergency Unit. The post requires travel to different field offices in Darfur with frequent extended working hours. The post also requires close collaboration and coordination with other access focal points in other UN and humanitarian agencies covering Darfur and engagement with state and non-state actors at various levels.
The incumbent must be able to give expert technical advice on issues pertaining to humanitarian access & Civil-military coordination to the West Area Office and its operations staff across functional profiles, as well as advice to Sudan CO/FO leadership through clear, realistic, and actionable recommendations on strategic humanitarian access issues. The incumbent must be able to support the West Area Office in setting up sustainable and inclusive humanitarian access environment, while both leveraging and contributing to inter-agency coordinated access efforts. Increased, sustained, and coordinated humanitarian access towards timely and coordinated response, ensuring cost-effective and rapid delivery of assistance and protection with a strategy based on equity, will have a direct impact on the survival of those in crisis – especially women and children.
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.
The Immunization Specialist (Coverage, Equity & Zero dose Catch-up) will support priority countries in West and Central African Region to implement and monitor the Big catch-up interventions, while primarily leading the closing equity gaps in immunization through Essential Routine immunization recovery process with focus on the 3-prong approach: Catch-up on past cohorts of zero-doze children that accumulated during the C-19 pandemic, Restore immunization programmes returning to the trajectory towards reaching IA2030 goals, Strengthen immunization programmes to sustainably reach zero-dose children through PHC and community systems.
The overall purpose of this assignment is to map out and analyse models, including management and implementation strategies/approaches, for the integrated delivery of health, nutrition and essential social services at the community level. This analysis aims to identify what approaches/strategies are effective and which are not with the ultimate purpose of informing policy and programming.
UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for a knowledge management (Qualitative research) consultant to accompany the BRS Programme MEAL Taskforce from the inception phase and throughout implementation.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support local government of Karnali Province in the adaptation of the School Education Sector Plan (SESP). The consultant will be engaged for 12 months and will be based in Surkhet field office.
UNICEF's West and Central African Regional Office is looking for a ICT Associate to perform procedural and some specialized activities pertaining to UNICEF’s ICT systems, which include desktop administration and server operations.
UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa is recruiting a regional Communication Specialist who will be accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the · West and Central Africa, and at a global level.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Consultant to develop training modules on disability for substitute families. This task is focused on strengthening the training on disability provided to professional subsitute carers by the Centres for Children and Families (CDRs, former children’s homes) in order to increase the confidence of both staff and substitute caregivers in their abilities to provide substitute care for children with complex medical needs or disabilities.
If you are a committed, resourceful professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
The UNICEF Refugee Response Office (RRO) in Poland is seeking a senior national consultant to provide strategic technical expertise for the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programme priorities within the Health and Nutrition section. The Senior National Consultant will also offer technical support and contribute to the implementation of the multisectoral MHPSS interventions across various sections, including Health, Child Protection, Education, Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), and Social and Behavior Change (SBC).
This is a consultancy contract (considered non-staff), full-time, on-site in Warsaw, for a period of up to 31 December 2025.
The Contracts Officer reports to the Contracts Manager, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in the Water, Sanitation and Education Centre, Supply Division.
The position provides contractual and transactional support and is responsible for managing the procurement and supply chains of WASH contracting team that includes planning, procurement, contracting, inspection, delivery, warehousing, transport, as well as monitoring of supplies and emergency orders.
The institutional building of Africa CDC will require a dedicated team focusing on the day-to-day collaborative engagement with Africa CDC staff to further support skills transfer and coordination of the Africa CDC and UNICEF Expanded partnership joint workplan activities. Under the supervision of the Principal Coordinator the Risk and Compliance Manager will be responsible for leading the strengthening of risk assurance and compliance efforts in the context of the Africa CDC and UNICEF expanded partnership. He/she will provide advice, share best practices and support to build Africa CDC Supply Chain Division’s internal controls framework and further support the strengthening of Africa CDC’s governance, risk management, and control processes.
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 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 UNICEF Syria and provide leadership and representation of the Sector. you will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Sector that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency.
UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office (MENARO) invites qualified subject matter experts and individual consultants to express their interest in being included in the Regional Roster. There are four key areas that UNICEF is looking for experts in:
1. Social Protection.
2. Cash-based Transfers.
3. Public Finance for Children.
4. Child Poverty.
5. Local governance including child friendly cities, and urbanization.
Under the guidance of the Chief Field Operations and Emergency, is accountable for managing and leading UNICEF Area Operations in the west area covering the Darfur states within a country programme. The CFO represents UNICEF in his/her Area of Responsibility (AoR), leads and oversees the various program sectors and operational service teams ensuring the delivery of quality results in accordance with UNICEF’s programme of cooperation, country programme management plan, humanitarian response plan and overall vision set forward by the Representative.
Under the direct supervision of the Chief Field Operations and Emergency (CFOE), the Programme Specialist (Field Operations) will assist the CFOE in overseeing and supporting UNICEF’s field operations in Sudan. This role involves addressing a range of programmatic, operational and coordination issues, focusing on the needs of field offices, and facilitating communication and coordination between field offices, programme sections and operations, ensuring timely support.
The programme specialist will contribute to the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of program activities at the field level, as well as emergency preparedness and response. This will involve close coordination with country office program sections, operations and field offices to ensure the survival, wellbeing of children, mothers, and affected communities, in accordance with the obligations of the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in humanitarian action.
Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational, and administrative support, concentrating particularly on planning and monitoring throughout the education program/project lifecycle within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
The post is based in Farchana, Chad to support cross border operations, with possibility to travel to Darfur states as per operational needs. It reports to the Humanitarian Affairs Specialist, P4 in the Sudan CO and works closely with Darfur CFOs and the Field Operations and Emergency Unit. The post requires travel to different field offices in Darfur with frequent extended working hours. The post also requires close collaboration and coordination with other access focal points in other UN and humanitarian agencies covering Darfur and engagement with state and non-state actors at various levels.
The incumbent must be able to give expert technical advice on issues pertaining to humanitarian access & Civil-military coordination to the West Area Office and its operations staff across functional profiles, as well as advice to Sudan CO/FO leadership through clear, realistic, and actionable recommendations on strategic humanitarian access issues. The incumbent must be able to support the West Area Office in setting up sustainable and inclusive humanitarian access environment, while both leveraging and contributing to inter-agency coordinated access efforts. Increased, sustained, and coordinated humanitarian access towards timely and coordinated response, ensuring cost-effective and rapid delivery of assistance and protection with a strategy based on equity, will have a direct impact on the survival of those in crisis – especially women and children.
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.
The Immunization Specialist (Coverage, Equity & Zero dose Catch-up) will support priority countries in West and Central African Region to implement and monitor the Big catch-up interventions, while primarily leading the closing equity gaps in immunization through Essential Routine immunization recovery process with focus on the 3-prong approach: Catch-up on past cohorts of zero-doze children that accumulated during the C-19 pandemic, Restore immunization programmes returning to the trajectory towards reaching IA2030 goals, Strengthen immunization programmes to sustainably reach zero-dose children through PHC and community systems.
The overall purpose of this assignment is to map out and analyse models, including management and implementation strategies/approaches, for the integrated delivery of health, nutrition and essential social services at the community level. This analysis aims to identify what approaches/strategies are effective and which are not with the ultimate purpose of informing policy and programming.
UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for a knowledge management (Qualitative research) consultant to accompany the BRS Programme MEAL Taskforce from the inception phase and throughout implementation.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support local government of Karnali Province in the adaptation of the School Education Sector Plan (SESP). The consultant will be engaged for 12 months and will be based in Surkhet field office.
UNICEF's West and Central African Regional Office is looking for a ICT Associate to perform procedural and some specialized activities pertaining to UNICEF’s ICT systems, which include desktop administration and server operations.
UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa is recruiting a regional Communication Specialist who will be accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the · West and Central Africa, and at a global level.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Consultant to develop training modules on disability for substitute families. This task is focused on strengthening the training on disability provided to professional subsitute carers by the Centres for Children and Families (CDRs, former children’s homes) in order to increase the confidence of both staff and substitute caregivers in their abilities to provide substitute care for children with complex medical needs or disabilities.
If you are a committed, resourceful professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
The UNICEF Refugee Response Office (RRO) in Poland is seeking a senior national consultant to provide strategic technical expertise for the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programme priorities within the Health and Nutrition section. The Senior National Consultant will also offer technical support and contribute to the implementation of the multisectoral MHPSS interventions across various sections, including Health, Child Protection, Education, Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), and Social and Behavior Change (SBC).
This is a consultancy contract (considered non-staff), full-time, on-site in Warsaw, for a period of up to 31 December 2025.
The Contracts Officer reports to the Contracts Manager, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in the Water, Sanitation and Education Centre, Supply Division.
The position provides contractual and transactional support and is responsible for managing the procurement and supply chains of WASH contracting team that includes planning, procurement, contracting, inspection, delivery, warehousing, transport, as well as monitoring of supplies and emergency orders.
The institutional building of Africa CDC will require a dedicated team focusing on the day-to-day collaborative engagement with Africa CDC staff to further support skills transfer and coordination of the Africa CDC and UNICEF Expanded partnership joint workplan activities. Under the supervision of the Principal Coordinator the Risk and Compliance Manager will be responsible for leading the strengthening of risk assurance and compliance efforts in the context of the Africa CDC and UNICEF expanded partnership. He/she will provide advice, share best practices and support to build Africa CDC Supply Chain Division’s internal controls framework and further support the strengthening of Africa CDC’s governance, risk management, and control processes.
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.