The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a Review of Gender Integration across UNICEF Ghana Country Programme to assess the integration, quality and strategic positioning of gender equality across programme planning, implementation, monitoring, organizational systems and partnerships.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Assistant and provide a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the section. You will facilitate the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring timely and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations. You may support one or more programme areas or cross-functional initiatives and often work in coordination with other sections with the goal of promoting the rights of every child, everywhere.
UNICEF is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the ADEPT Programme, working with governments, UNICEF offices, and global partners to improve importation and customs clearance processes for vaccines, medicines, and other essential supplies. The role will lead country engagement, diagnostics, stakeholder coordination, and process improvement initiatives to strengthen supply chain efficiency and accelerate the delivery of critical products for children.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the SPA team and will contribute to the following objectives and deliverables of these analytical processes:
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Assess the current progress towards achieving the Impact Results of the Strategic Plan 2026-2029;
• Analyse the role and effectiveness of its Strategies, Enablers, and Accelerators and assess their effectiveness in enabling evidence-based support to governments and improving outcomes for children;
• Generate evidence-informed recommendations for targeted, actionable corrective actions based on synthesized evidence to guide the implementation and resource allocation of the Strategic Plan towards catalysing the pace of the pursued change towards achieving tangible and transformative outcomes for children;
• Strengthen the practical application of the Strategic Plan’s approach to focus, scale and impact, and differentiation.
This assignment aims to support interagency efforts to strengthen people-centred and locally led humanitarian action by analyzing how humanitarian agencies have advanced localization, accountability to affected populations, participation, inclusion and community engagement following recent humanitarian reform initiatives. The consultant will conduct stocktaking and analysis of agency and country-level approaches, identify gaps and good practices, develop knowledge products and recommendations, and facilitate learning and dialogue across interagency platforms to promote more accountable, inclusive and responsive humanitarian action.
Are you passionate about transforming education and creating better learning opportunities for every child? UNICEF Rwanda CO is looking for an experienced and strategic professional to join our team as Chief of Education. Bring your leadership, expertise, and passion to help shape impactful education programmes and deliver lasting results for children.
Are you passionate about transforming education and creating better learning opportunities for every child? Rwanda CO is looking for a talented and committed Education Specialist to bring expertise, innovation, and energy to our education programme.
Are you passionate about equipping young people with the skills they need to learn, thrive and build brighter futures?Rwanda CO is looking for a motivated and dynamic Education Skills Officer to join our team on a Temporary Appointment and contribute to meaningful results for children and young people.
As a Strategic Business Partner and Deputy for the Representative, the incumbent will be responsible to lead for results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in Sudan humanitarian-resilience-peace development nexus, in a highly complex risk-prone operating environment, where both the authorities and the international community look to the UN for an at scale programme delivery including humanitarian response in remote, hard-to-reach areas of the country
The DR serves as principal support and adviser on the overall management of the CO, development of CO policies and strategies; and under delegated authority, for coordinating and managing all phases of the Country Office Program from formulation to delivery of results in accordance with the UNICEF Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework, ethics and integrity. The DR advocates the office culture change to create and retain a work environment based on UNICEF values and competencies as well as matrix management structures based on cross-silo collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Join UNICEF State of Palestine as a Security Associate (Access and Coordination), G-6, in East Jerusalem, and play a key role in supporting safe and well-coordinated staff movements into and out of Gaza, alongside broader security operations across the West Bank and Jerusalem. We are looking for a proactive, highly organized professional with exceptional attention to detail, strong coordination and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a complex and dynamic operational environment. Knowledge of the UN Security Management System (UNSMS) is an asset.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly qualified and experienced professional to join its team as Chief of Health (P-5), based in Aden. This is a unique opportunity to have a role on the strategic and effective planning and formulation of health programmes/projects and the achievement of sustainable results. This will directly impact the improvement of the health of the most marginalized and vulnerable women and children in the country, and this in turn contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to protect the rights of children and promote greater social equality to enable children to survive, develop and reach their full potential in society. If you are ready to take on a challenging and impactful leadership role, we encourage you to apply.
Join UNICEF and help deliver quality, inclusive education for conflict-affected children in Homs and Hama. The role supports education programme planning, monitoring, partner engagement, and implementation while working closely with government counterparts, NGOs, and humanitarian partners. Ideal candidates will have experience in education programming, data analysis, stakeholder coordination, and a strong commitment to improving learning outcomes for vulnerable children.
Join UNICEF Madagascar as a Partnerships Specialist and help build strategic collaborations with companies, foundations, and business networks to mobilize resources and advance children's rights. This role combines private sector engagement, resource mobilization, and advocacy to drive sustainable impact for children while promoting responsible business practices across key industries.
UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (P-3) to support and strengthen child protection programmes for children affected by armed conflict, displacement, migration, and other protection risks. The position will lead programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and partnership building, with a focus on Children Associated with Armed Conflict (CAAC), Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM), family tracing and reunification, reintegration, case management, and community-based child protection services.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound technical support to UNICEF Bangladesh’s Education Programme and Generation Unlimited (GenU) agenda through the development and delivery of specific outputs that strengthen pathways from learning to earning for adolescents and young people.
The main purposes of this assignment are to understand the risk of SEA (SEARA) occurring and how the humanitarian response is addressing SEA risks, with a specific focus on the Child Protection, Health & Nutrition Sector in Myanmar. Additionally, the assignment aims to provide findings and recommendations to promote safer projects, and to inform capacity development by the PSEA team, enhancing the appropriate response to and prevention of SEA. The consultant will conduct mixed research (desk review and primary data collection), analyze the results and prioritize SEA risks in Child Protection, Health and Nutrition Sector. The assessment will offer proof to support SEA initiatives that promote safe child protection, health and nutrition service environment for all children. The final report will include recommendations, a risk register, and mitigation measures with practical tools for those sectors.
UNICEF Thailand is seeking a dynamic, experienced, and dedicated professional for the role of Deputy Representative, Operations (P-4) within its Bangkok Common Services Centre (CSC), offering a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful operations and organizational excellence. The Operations function is a strategic Business Partner role within the Senior Management Team, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children. The function supports the Head of Office on managing the office and monitoring operations and programmes as needed, while providing advice on best and innovative management practices to enhance office performance.
UNICEF China is seeking a qualified intern to support its Communications and Advocacy Section's work on content development, social media engagement, media monitoring and advocacy campaigns.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct a Review of Gender Integration across UNICEF Ghana Country Programme to assess the integration, quality and strategic positioning of gender equality across programme planning, implementation, monitoring, organizational systems and partnerships.
Join UNICEF as a Programme Assistant and provide a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the section. You will facilitate the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring timely and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations. You may support one or more programme areas or cross-functional initiatives and often work in coordination with other sections with the goal of promoting the rights of every child, everywhere.
UNICEF is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the ADEPT Programme, working with governments, UNICEF offices, and global partners to improve importation and customs clearance processes for vaccines, medicines, and other essential supplies. The role will lead country engagement, diagnostics, stakeholder coordination, and process improvement initiatives to strengthen supply chain efficiency and accelerate the delivery of critical products for children.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the SPA team and will contribute to the following objectives and deliverables of these analytical processes:
•
Assess the current progress towards achieving the Impact Results of the Strategic Plan 2026-2029;
• Analyse the role and effectiveness of its Strategies, Enablers, and Accelerators and assess their effectiveness in enabling evidence-based support to governments and improving outcomes for children;
• Generate evidence-informed recommendations for targeted, actionable corrective actions based on synthesized evidence to guide the implementation and resource allocation of the Strategic Plan towards catalysing the pace of the pursued change towards achieving tangible and transformative outcomes for children;
• Strengthen the practical application of the Strategic Plan’s approach to focus, scale and impact, and differentiation.
This assignment aims to support interagency efforts to strengthen people-centred and locally led humanitarian action by analyzing how humanitarian agencies have advanced localization, accountability to affected populations, participation, inclusion and community engagement following recent humanitarian reform initiatives. The consultant will conduct stocktaking and analysis of agency and country-level approaches, identify gaps and good practices, develop knowledge products and recommendations, and facilitate learning and dialogue across interagency platforms to promote more accountable, inclusive and responsive humanitarian action.
Are you passionate about transforming education and creating better learning opportunities for every child? UNICEF Rwanda CO is looking for an experienced and strategic professional to join our team as Chief of Education. Bring your leadership, expertise, and passion to help shape impactful education programmes and deliver lasting results for children.
Are you passionate about transforming education and creating better learning opportunities for every child? Rwanda CO is looking for a talented and committed Education Specialist to bring expertise, innovation, and energy to our education programme.
Are you passionate about equipping young people with the skills they need to learn, thrive and build brighter futures?Rwanda CO is looking for a motivated and dynamic Education Skills Officer to join our team on a Temporary Appointment and contribute to meaningful results for children and young people.
As a Strategic Business Partner and Deputy for the Representative, the incumbent will be responsible to lead for results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in Sudan humanitarian-resilience-peace development nexus, in a highly complex risk-prone operating environment, where both the authorities and the international community look to the UN for an at scale programme delivery including humanitarian response in remote, hard-to-reach areas of the country
The DR serves as principal support and adviser on the overall management of the CO, development of CO policies and strategies; and under delegated authority, for coordinating and managing all phases of the Country Office Program from formulation to delivery of results in accordance with the UNICEF Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework, ethics and integrity. The DR advocates the office culture change to create and retain a work environment based on UNICEF values and competencies as well as matrix management structures based on cross-silo collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Join UNICEF State of Palestine as a Security Associate (Access and Coordination), G-6, in East Jerusalem, and play a key role in supporting safe and well-coordinated staff movements into and out of Gaza, alongside broader security operations across the West Bank and Jerusalem. We are looking for a proactive, highly organized professional with exceptional attention to detail, strong coordination and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a complex and dynamic operational environment. Knowledge of the UN Security Management System (UNSMS) is an asset.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly qualified and experienced professional to join its team as Chief of Health (P-5), based in Aden. This is a unique opportunity to have a role on the strategic and effective planning and formulation of health programmes/projects and the achievement of sustainable results. This will directly impact the improvement of the health of the most marginalized and vulnerable women and children in the country, and this in turn contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to protect the rights of children and promote greater social equality to enable children to survive, develop and reach their full potential in society. If you are ready to take on a challenging and impactful leadership role, we encourage you to apply.
Join UNICEF and help deliver quality, inclusive education for conflict-affected children in Homs and Hama. The role supports education programme planning, monitoring, partner engagement, and implementation while working closely with government counterparts, NGOs, and humanitarian partners. Ideal candidates will have experience in education programming, data analysis, stakeholder coordination, and a strong commitment to improving learning outcomes for vulnerable children.
Join UNICEF Madagascar as a Partnerships Specialist and help build strategic collaborations with companies, foundations, and business networks to mobilize resources and advance children's rights. This role combines private sector engagement, resource mobilization, and advocacy to drive sustainable impact for children while promoting responsible business practices across key industries.
UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (P-3) to support and strengthen child protection programmes for children affected by armed conflict, displacement, migration, and other protection risks. The position will lead programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and partnership building, with a focus on Children Associated with Armed Conflict (CAAC), Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM), family tracing and reunification, reintegration, case management, and community-based child protection services.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound technical support to UNICEF Bangladesh’s Education Programme and Generation Unlimited (GenU) agenda through the development and delivery of specific outputs that strengthen pathways from learning to earning for adolescents and young people.
The main purposes of this assignment are to understand the risk of SEA (SEARA) occurring and how the humanitarian response is addressing SEA risks, with a specific focus on the Child Protection, Health & Nutrition Sector in Myanmar. Additionally, the assignment aims to provide findings and recommendations to promote safer projects, and to inform capacity development by the PSEA team, enhancing the appropriate response to and prevention of SEA. The consultant will conduct mixed research (desk review and primary data collection), analyze the results and prioritize SEA risks in Child Protection, Health and Nutrition Sector. The assessment will offer proof to support SEA initiatives that promote safe child protection, health and nutrition service environment for all children. The final report will include recommendations, a risk register, and mitigation measures with practical tools for those sectors.
UNICEF Thailand is seeking a dynamic, experienced, and dedicated professional for the role of Deputy Representative, Operations (P-4) within its Bangkok Common Services Centre (CSC), offering a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful operations and organizational excellence. The Operations function is a strategic Business Partner role within the Senior Management Team, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children. The function supports the Head of Office on managing the office and monitoring operations and programmes as needed, while providing advice on best and innovative management practices to enhance office performance.
UNICEF China is seeking a qualified intern to support its Communications and Advocacy Section's work on content development, social media engagement, media monitoring and advocacy campaigns.
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