Care-related social protection provides income support and services to caregivers, primarily women, to help meet the costs of care. It provides financial or in-kind support to those who give or require care, in connection with life events such as childbirth, disability, aging, or chronic illness. It is a core feature of inclusive care and support systems. As part of Selangor‘s latest Care Economy Policy and the Selangor Early Childhood Development Policy and Action Plan, there is a concerted push towards enhancing women‘s labour force participation across Selangor by supporting their care responsibilities while simultaneously improving early childhood development outcomes, including nutrition and childcare access. Efforts to consolidate or improve these existing schemes could help pave the way towards ensuring all mothers and children are able to access support. Recognising this, Selangor, Malaysia’s most urbanised and economically developed state has had in place several care-related social protection schemes aimed at supporting working parents or legal guardians who care for children 0-6 years old to enable their workforce participation and improve early childhood development outcomes, among other goals. These are all varied standalone schemes which have slightly different aims and modalities, and are also administered by different agencies under the Selangor government
The Supply and Logistics Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Operations as per the Country Office (CO) set-up and is responsible for managing the supply chains of a small sized country office, and/or small sized emergency response operation, or elements of the supply chains of a larger supply operation. The supply chain operations include planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in country transport and distribution, as well as monitoring of supplies, services and construction works.
La consultoría apoyará la realización de un diagnóstico interinstitucional y la implementación de un Plan de Acción Interinstitucional en Salud Mental y Apoyo Psicosocial. También brindará asistencia técnica para revisar y ajustar la Estrategia de Escuela de Valores para madres, padres y cuidadores (EV) y para adolescentes (EVA), incluyendo sus manuales de facilitación; elaborar 14 cartillas para padres, madres y cuidadores y 14 cartillas para adolescentes; facilitar tres talleres de formación de formadores dirigidos al personal del MIFAM; desarrollar siete talleres con redes comunitarias y organizaciones aliadas; y formular un plan de acción para la implementación de la Estrategia de Prevención de las Uniones Tempranas.
Si deseas obtener más información sobre esta consultoría, incluidos los entregables detallados y los resultados esperados, por favor revisa los Términos de Referencia completos adjuntos.
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.
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 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.
Under the guidance of the Representative, the Programme Manager is accountable for programme management, ensuring that programme initiatives are effectively planned, budgeted, implemented and monitored, in accordance with the Country Programme and Country Programme Management Plan, focused on achievement of UNICEF's Priorities. The role also involves close collaboration with the programme sections—such as education, health, child protection, and water and sanitation—to ensure that social policy interventions are integrated and contribute to broader results for children.
Are you a strategic, solutions-oriented People and Culture professional ready to help shape a high-performing, inclusive and resilient workforce in a complex operating environment? UNICEF Mali is looking for a People and Culture Manager, P-4, to provide authoritative HR leadership, trusted advisory support and practical people solutions that enable the Country Office to deliver results for children across Mali. Reporting directly to the Country Representative, you will partner with senior management and programme leaders to align people strategies with country priorities; strengthen workforce planning, talent, performance, learning and organizational design; and promote a workplace culture grounded in UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
Under the supervision of the DBSA Principal: Climate and Nature Finance, the Specialist (Seconded) will provide technical, financial and programme management support to the DBSA’s Climate and Nature Finance team for the design, operationalisation, fundraising and implementation of Biodiversity projects. The assignment specifically integrates youth economic participation, green skills development, digital credentialing and outcomes-based finance aligned with UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited (GenU).
UNICEF Cambodia Country Office works in partnership with the Royal Government of Cambodia, civil society, communities, and development partners to promote and protect the rights of every child, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Country Programme focuses on improving child survival, development, protection, and participation, with particular attention to the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, thereby advancing equity and sustainable national development.
The Administrative Assistant (GS‑4) is based in the UNICEF Cambodia Country Office in Phnom Penh and provides administrative, secretarial, and operational support to the assigned unit within the Operations/Administration function. The post contributes to the effective functioning of the unit by ensuring the smooth flow of information, timely coordination of administrative processes, and compliance with UNICEF rules, policies, and procedures.
This assignment aims to support and enhance UNICEF’s flagship digital learning platform, FunDoo, a chat-based life coach that helps young people develop 21st century and employability skills while accessing information on careers, mental health, climate change, and gender-based violence. The consultant will provide technical leadership for the RapidPro platform, manage dashboards and data systems, support global country deployments, develop and customize learning flows, strengthen analytics and backend infrastructure, and build the capacity of country teams to implement and scale FunDoo across multiple countries.
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s FunDoo platform, a digital, chat-based learning solution that equips young people with 21st century and employability skills. The consultant will support global deployment and monitoring, develop and adapt learning content, test and improve user experience based on feedback, and contribute to reporting, documentation, and knowledge management.
Development of a practical guide on integrating HIV services into Primary Health Care (PHC) platforms in low HIV burden countries. The consultant will review existing evidence and global guidance, identify effective integration models, and produce a user-friendly operational guide with practical tools, entry points, and country examples to support sustainable, people-centered HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care services.
UNICEF is looking for a competent Senior Software Engineer consultant to develop additional functional and technical features to be implemented to enhance the beneficiary data management experience for UNICEF Country Offices.
The incumbent will be the lead in the team on Regional Development Banks (RDB) engagement (Inter American Development Bank (IDB), Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), Asian Development Bank (ADB), African Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Caribbean Development Bank (CBD)). For ADB, AfDB, IsDB and CAF the incumbent will work closely with the relevant Regional Offices on strategic engagement.
Join UNICEF Jordan to support critical ementation of the evaluations of the Country Programme’s Costed Evaluation Plan and for evaluations triggered by other requirements. Under the supervision of the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME), and working closely with the Regional Office Multi-Country Evaluation Specialist (MCES), the Evaluation Officer will support the effective planning, management, quality assurance, dissemination, and use of evaluations and research across the UNICEF country programme, in line with the UNICEF Evaluation Policy, UNEG Norms and Standards, and the JCO Evaluation Strategy.
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.
El estudio busca analizar la evolución, el desempeño y la articulación de los servicios de educación y formación técnica, así como de capacitación laboral para adolescentes y jóvenes de hasta 18 años en el Perú. Examinará la relación entre la oferta y cobertura de estos servicios, sus resultados en la transición escuela-trabajo, los mecanismos de financiamiento público y la arquitectura institucional que los sustenta. A partir de ello, identificará brechas, desafíos y oportunidades de mejora para fortalecer las trayectorias formativas y laborales de los jóvenes.
Asimismo, la investigación generará evidencia técnica para apoyar la agenda de abogacía e incidencia política de UNICEF en el marco del Programa de Cooperación 2027-2031. Se enfocará en identificar intervenciones prioritarias, oportunidades de fortalecimiento institucional, necesidades de coordinación entre actores públicos y privados, y opciones para mejorar la eficiencia y sostenibilidad del gasto público.
Los objetivos específicos incluyen analizar la evolución de la oferta y cobertura de la formación técnica y la capacitación laboral durante la última década; evaluar los resultados de inserción laboral y transición escuela-trabajo; examinar las tendencias de financiamiento y ejecución presupuestal; identificar desafíos normativos, institucionales y operativos que afectan la gobernanza del sistema; y formular recomendaciones y una hoja de ruta de incidencia para orientar las prioridades programáticas de UNICEF.
El trabajo requiere experiencia especializada en investigación aplicada, educación y formación técnica, capacitación para el empleo, análisis de mercado laboral y presupuesto público, así como capacidad para integrar evidencia cuantitativa, financiera e institucional en recomendaciones de política pública.
Care-related social protection provides income support and services to caregivers, primarily women, to help meet the costs of care. It provides financial or in-kind support to those who give or require care, in connection with life events such as childbirth, disability, aging, or chronic illness. It is a core feature of inclusive care and support systems. As part of Selangor‘s latest Care Economy Policy and the Selangor Early Childhood Development Policy and Action Plan, there is a concerted push towards enhancing women‘s labour force participation across Selangor by supporting their care responsibilities while simultaneously improving early childhood development outcomes, including nutrition and childcare access. Efforts to consolidate or improve these existing schemes could help pave the way towards ensuring all mothers and children are able to access support. Recognising this, Selangor, Malaysia’s most urbanised and economically developed state has had in place several care-related social protection schemes aimed at supporting working parents or legal guardians who care for children 0-6 years old to enable their workforce participation and improve early childhood development outcomes, among other goals. These are all varied standalone schemes which have slightly different aims and modalities, and are also administered by different agencies under the Selangor government
The Supply and Logistics Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Operations as per the Country Office (CO) set-up and is responsible for managing the supply chains of a small sized country office, and/or small sized emergency response operation, or elements of the supply chains of a larger supply operation. The supply chain operations include planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in country transport and distribution, as well as monitoring of supplies, services and construction works.
La consultoría apoyará la realización de un diagnóstico interinstitucional y la implementación de un Plan de Acción Interinstitucional en Salud Mental y Apoyo Psicosocial. También brindará asistencia técnica para revisar y ajustar la Estrategia de Escuela de Valores para madres, padres y cuidadores (EV) y para adolescentes (EVA), incluyendo sus manuales de facilitación; elaborar 14 cartillas para padres, madres y cuidadores y 14 cartillas para adolescentes; facilitar tres talleres de formación de formadores dirigidos al personal del MIFAM; desarrollar siete talleres con redes comunitarias y organizaciones aliadas; y formular un plan de acción para la implementación de la Estrategia de Prevención de las Uniones Tempranas.
Si deseas obtener más información sobre esta consultoría, incluidos los entregables detallados y los resultados esperados, por favor revisa los Términos de Referencia completos adjuntos.
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.
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 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.
Under the guidance of the Representative, the Programme Manager is accountable for programme management, ensuring that programme initiatives are effectively planned, budgeted, implemented and monitored, in accordance with the Country Programme and Country Programme Management Plan, focused on achievement of UNICEF's Priorities. The role also involves close collaboration with the programme sections—such as education, health, child protection, and water and sanitation—to ensure that social policy interventions are integrated and contribute to broader results for children.
Are you a strategic, solutions-oriented People and Culture professional ready to help shape a high-performing, inclusive and resilient workforce in a complex operating environment? UNICEF Mali is looking for a People and Culture Manager, P-4, to provide authoritative HR leadership, trusted advisory support and practical people solutions that enable the Country Office to deliver results for children across Mali. Reporting directly to the Country Representative, you will partner with senior management and programme leaders to align people strategies with country priorities; strengthen workforce planning, talent, performance, learning and organizational design; and promote a workplace culture grounded in UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
Under the supervision of the DBSA Principal: Climate and Nature Finance, the Specialist (Seconded) will provide technical, financial and programme management support to the DBSA’s Climate and Nature Finance team for the design, operationalisation, fundraising and implementation of Biodiversity projects. The assignment specifically integrates youth economic participation, green skills development, digital credentialing and outcomes-based finance aligned with UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited (GenU).
UNICEF Cambodia Country Office works in partnership with the Royal Government of Cambodia, civil society, communities, and development partners to promote and protect the rights of every child, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Country Programme focuses on improving child survival, development, protection, and participation, with particular attention to the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, thereby advancing equity and sustainable national development.
The Administrative Assistant (GS‑4) is based in the UNICEF Cambodia Country Office in Phnom Penh and provides administrative, secretarial, and operational support to the assigned unit within the Operations/Administration function. The post contributes to the effective functioning of the unit by ensuring the smooth flow of information, timely coordination of administrative processes, and compliance with UNICEF rules, policies, and procedures.
This assignment aims to support and enhance UNICEF’s flagship digital learning platform, FunDoo, a chat-based life coach that helps young people develop 21st century and employability skills while accessing information on careers, mental health, climate change, and gender-based violence. The consultant will provide technical leadership for the RapidPro platform, manage dashboards and data systems, support global country deployments, develop and customize learning flows, strengthen analytics and backend infrastructure, and build the capacity of country teams to implement and scale FunDoo across multiple countries.
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s FunDoo platform, a digital, chat-based learning solution that equips young people with 21st century and employability skills. The consultant will support global deployment and monitoring, develop and adapt learning content, test and improve user experience based on feedback, and contribute to reporting, documentation, and knowledge management.
Development of a practical guide on integrating HIV services into Primary Health Care (PHC) platforms in low HIV burden countries. The consultant will review existing evidence and global guidance, identify effective integration models, and produce a user-friendly operational guide with practical tools, entry points, and country examples to support sustainable, people-centered HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care services.
UNICEF is looking for a competent Senior Software Engineer consultant to develop additional functional and technical features to be implemented to enhance the beneficiary data management experience for UNICEF Country Offices.
The incumbent will be the lead in the team on Regional Development Banks (RDB) engagement (Inter American Development Bank (IDB), Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), Asian Development Bank (ADB), African Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Caribbean Development Bank (CBD)). For ADB, AfDB, IsDB and CAF the incumbent will work closely with the relevant Regional Offices on strategic engagement.
Join UNICEF Jordan to support critical ementation of the evaluations of the Country Programme’s Costed Evaluation Plan and for evaluations triggered by other requirements. Under the supervision of the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME), and working closely with the Regional Office Multi-Country Evaluation Specialist (MCES), the Evaluation Officer will support the effective planning, management, quality assurance, dissemination, and use of evaluations and research across the UNICEF country programme, in line with the UNICEF Evaluation Policy, UNEG Norms and Standards, and the JCO Evaluation Strategy.
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.
El estudio busca analizar la evolución, el desempeño y la articulación de los servicios de educación y formación técnica, así como de capacitación laboral para adolescentes y jóvenes de hasta 18 años en el Perú. Examinará la relación entre la oferta y cobertura de estos servicios, sus resultados en la transición escuela-trabajo, los mecanismos de financiamiento público y la arquitectura institucional que los sustenta. A partir de ello, identificará brechas, desafíos y oportunidades de mejora para fortalecer las trayectorias formativas y laborales de los jóvenes.
Asimismo, la investigación generará evidencia técnica para apoyar la agenda de abogacía e incidencia política de UNICEF en el marco del Programa de Cooperación 2027-2031. Se enfocará en identificar intervenciones prioritarias, oportunidades de fortalecimiento institucional, necesidades de coordinación entre actores públicos y privados, y opciones para mejorar la eficiencia y sostenibilidad del gasto público.
Los objetivos específicos incluyen analizar la evolución de la oferta y cobertura de la formación técnica y la capacitación laboral durante la última década; evaluar los resultados de inserción laboral y transición escuela-trabajo; examinar las tendencias de financiamiento y ejecución presupuestal; identificar desafíos normativos, institucionales y operativos que afectan la gobernanza del sistema; y formular recomendaciones y una hoja de ruta de incidencia para orientar las prioridades programáticas de UNICEF.
El trabajo requiere experiencia especializada en investigación aplicada, educación y formación técnica, capacitación para el empleo, análisis de mercado laboral y presupuesto público, así como capacidad para integrar evidencia cuantitativa, financiera e institucional en recomendaciones de política pública.
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