Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
If you are a committed, creative 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.
UNICEF is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as stipulated in the signed Joint Roling Workplan with the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region. Specifically, the regional government envisions an ECCD framework that is relevant in the context of BARMM and a ECCD policy and program expert is needed to support this important milestone. Where the policy consultant will craft and develop the contextualized ECCD system policy with guidance from the TWG that institutionalizes a whole-of-society approach to ECCD, including mechanisms for private sector engagement, public-private partnerships, and business investments that support early childhood development outcomes in BARMM. This consultancy will provide a robust situation analysis of children in early childhood including the existing environment. This will provide solid evidence on policy actions for the Bangsamoro ECCD policy in the region. This consultancy work is very critical as this will contribute to providing ECCD direction in the region, define its structure and management mechanisms, and guide respective local government units (LGUs) in planning, budgeting and implementation of a comprehensive and integrative ECCD program for children 0 to 8 years old in BARMM.
If you are a committed, creative 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.
UNICEF is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region.
Specifically, the regional government deemed it necessary to develop and implement a curriculum that is relevant and contextualized for all children in early childhood in the whole region. Currently, early learning facilities in BARMM are utilizing different curricula depending on its availability and accessibility (e.g. downloaded from websites). In addition, very limited number of Child Development Workers (CDWs) were trained on utilizing the National Early Learning Curriculum (NELC) while the Tahderiyyah Curriculum was only utilized in the Madrasah. With this curriculum, the regional government can issue a memorandum directing all LGUs to follow a standard curriculum, monitor its implementation and document the progress of children. Thus, this consultancy will help the region in developing their own Bangsamoro Early Learning Curriculum that is also anchored in the revised Philippine Early Learning Development Standards (PELDS).
However, before the development process of early learning curriculum will be realized, there is a need to first conduct a comprehensive review process of the existing curricula in the region to assess how they are being implemented, identify what works and the bottlenecks, and provide strategic recommendations on how BARMM can proceed with developing its own early learning curriculum moving forward.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
Join UNICEF as a People and Culture Officer (NOA) and play a key role in supporting the organization’s most valuable asset, its people. In this exciting opportunity, you will work closely with managers, staff, and P&C colleagues to deliver a range of human resources services, including recruitment, talent management, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, and P&C data analytics. Ideal for a proactive professional with strong research, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, the role offers valuable exposure to strategic P&C initiatives, client-focused advisory services, and workplace culture development. This position provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining talent while helping UNICEF create a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce that advances the rights and wellbeing of children around the world.
At UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire, strong financial management helps make every resource count for children. We are seeking a Finance Associate who will contribute to accurate accounting, effective financial monitoring, compliant documentation and timely support to teams, while upholding UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
The consultant will establish and operationalize UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Social and Behavioural Intelligence function to strengthen the generation, synthesis and use of social and behavioural evidence for programme planning, adaptive management and community-centred decision-making.
The efficiency and efficacy of the Senior Finance Associate directly impacts on the optimum, appropriate and effective use of resources and efficient financial recording, accounting and reporting, which in turn facilitates management oversight, decision making and quality control.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the People and Culture Officer the People and Culture Associate (Onboarding), GS6 manages complex administrative and transactional tasks to the efficient implementation of a broad range of Human Resources functions for all categories of staff in the office, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF HR rules and regulations.
UNICEF seeks to contract an independent Electrical/Solar Engineer to provide time-bound technical oversight and quality assurance for the supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handover of 5 kVA solar power systems at 20 Civil Registry Department (CRD) sub-offices.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a Security Specialist, P3, based in Pemba Field Office, to provide strategic and operational security support in a complex and volatile humanitarian environment. The role will advise senior management on security risk management, support safe programme delivery, strengthen humanitarian access, and coordinate closely with UNDSS, UN agencies, authorities, NGOs and implementing partners. The incumbent will provide security analysis, incident response, emergency preparedness, staff security guidance and capacity building to enable UNICEF to deliver timely and principled support to children and communities affected by conflict, displacement and climate-related emergencies in northern Mozambique.
Join UNICEF as a Child Protection Officer (Prevention) and help shape a safer future for children in Madagascar. Support the design, implementation and scale-up of evidence-based strategies to prevent violence against children, child marriage and other protection risks, while strengthening national and community systems that protect every child's right to grow up safe and free from harm. If you are passionate about child rights, committed to achieving results for the most vulnerable children, and eager to contribute to a stronger and more resilient child protection system, we encourage you to apply and become part of UNICEF's mission to ensure that every child survives, thrives and reaches their full potential.
This is a Temporary Appointment position for initial 364 days. This is extendable subject to funding availability and programme requirements. Interested Myanmar national applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
The consultant will be office-based, and will participate in field missions organized by Health and Nutrition team and report directly to Chief of Health and Nutrition, who will be the focal point to organize the deployment in coordination with Health and Nutrition team 2-3 times per week. In parallel, the consultant will work in close collaboration with the Health and Nutrition Officer in La Guaira, Capital District and Miranda to ensure coordinated planning.
L’Administrateur en Protection de l’Enfant, sous la supervision du Spécialiste Protection de l’Enfant, fournira une assistance technique, opérationnelle et administrative pour la programmation, la mise en oeuvre et le suivi des progrès vers l’atteinte des résultats visant à accélérer i) la mise à l’échelle des interventions de prévention de mariage des enfants et de promotion de l’autonomisation des adolescentes ; et ii) l’amélioration de la visibilité des interventions au niveau des régions cibles, notamment des partenariats stratégiques clés dans les régions de Niamey, Tillabéri et Dosso.
UNICEF Eswatini Country Office is looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Social Policy Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services
Child marriage and early union remain significant challenges in Viet Nam, particularly among ethnic minority girls, rural communities and poorer households. The prevalence increased from 10.6% in 2014 to 14.6% in 2021, affecting millions of girls. Child marriage is driven by a combination of poverty, school dropout, limited access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and services, and harmful gender and social norms. At the same time, it further exacerbates gender inequality, increases the risk of adolescent pregnancy, limits educational and economic opportunities, and contributes to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Although Viet Nam has laws prohibiting underage marriage, enforcement is inconsistent and harmful social norms continue to sustain the practice.
UNICEF is engaging a national M&E consultant to support the development of a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework that will guide the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of the intervention’s implementation process, results and emerging results, including through baseline and endline assessments.
UNICEF in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy. The duration of this assignment is 4 months, starting as soon as possible and the consultant shall be home based.
If you are a committed, creative 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.
UNICEF is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as stipulated in the signed Joint Roling Workplan with the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region. Specifically, the regional government envisions an ECCD framework that is relevant in the context of BARMM and a ECCD policy and program expert is needed to support this important milestone. Where the policy consultant will craft and develop the contextualized ECCD system policy with guidance from the TWG that institutionalizes a whole-of-society approach to ECCD, including mechanisms for private sector engagement, public-private partnerships, and business investments that support early childhood development outcomes in BARMM. This consultancy will provide a robust situation analysis of children in early childhood including the existing environment. This will provide solid evidence on policy actions for the Bangsamoro ECCD policy in the region. This consultancy work is very critical as this will contribute to providing ECCD direction in the region, define its structure and management mechanisms, and guide respective local government units (LGUs) in planning, budgeting and implementation of a comprehensive and integrative ECCD program for children 0 to 8 years old in BARMM.
If you are a committed, creative 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.
UNICEF is committed in supporting the institutionalization of the early childhood care and development (ECCD) system in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Likewise, UNICEF is a member of the Bangsamoro ECCD Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) and is working closely with the government in advancing the ECCD agenda in the region.
Specifically, the regional government deemed it necessary to develop and implement a curriculum that is relevant and contextualized for all children in early childhood in the whole region. Currently, early learning facilities in BARMM are utilizing different curricula depending on its availability and accessibility (e.g. downloaded from websites). In addition, very limited number of Child Development Workers (CDWs) were trained on utilizing the National Early Learning Curriculum (NELC) while the Tahderiyyah Curriculum was only utilized in the Madrasah. With this curriculum, the regional government can issue a memorandum directing all LGUs to follow a standard curriculum, monitor its implementation and document the progress of children. Thus, this consultancy will help the region in developing their own Bangsamoro Early Learning Curriculum that is also anchored in the revised Philippine Early Learning Development Standards (PELDS).
However, before the development process of early learning curriculum will be realized, there is a need to first conduct a comprehensive review process of the existing curricula in the region to assess how they are being implemented, identify what works and the bottlenecks, and provide strategic recommendations on how BARMM can proceed with developing its own early learning curriculum moving forward.
Under the leadership of MEHRD, and in collaboration with DFAT and other members of the Education Development Partners Coordination Group (EDPCG), the international consultant will produce a rigorous, Solomon Islands-specific economic analysis of the cost of providing free PPY and ECE to all children through existing programmes; a set of costed scenarios with five-year projections, financing options and explicit trade-off analysis; and a policy paper that serves both as an information document and as an advocacy instrument for increasing public financing for free early learning.
Join UNICEF as a People and Culture Officer (NOA) and play a key role in supporting the organization’s most valuable asset, its people. In this exciting opportunity, you will work closely with managers, staff, and P&C colleagues to deliver a range of human resources services, including recruitment, talent management, learning and development, performance management, workforce planning, and P&C data analytics. Ideal for a proactive professional with strong research, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, the role offers valuable exposure to strategic P&C initiatives, client-focused advisory services, and workplace culture development. This position provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to attracting, developing, and retaining talent while helping UNICEF create a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce that advances the rights and wellbeing of children around the world.
At UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire, strong financial management helps make every resource count for children. We are seeking a Finance Associate who will contribute to accurate accounting, effective financial monitoring, compliant documentation and timely support to teams, while upholding UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.
The consultant will establish and operationalize UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Social and Behavioural Intelligence function to strengthen the generation, synthesis and use of social and behavioural evidence for programme planning, adaptive management and community-centred decision-making.
The efficiency and efficacy of the Senior Finance Associate directly impacts on the optimum, appropriate and effective use of resources and efficient financial recording, accounting and reporting, which in turn facilitates management oversight, decision making and quality control.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the People and Culture Officer the People and Culture Associate (Onboarding), GS6 manages complex administrative and transactional tasks to the efficient implementation of a broad range of Human Resources functions for all categories of staff in the office, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF HR rules and regulations.
UNICEF seeks to contract an independent Electrical/Solar Engineer to provide time-bound technical oversight and quality assurance for the supply, installation, testing, commissioning and handover of 5 kVA solar power systems at 20 Civil Registry Department (CRD) sub-offices.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking motivated interns in Journalism, Communication, or related fields to support its Partnership, Advocacy and Communication (PAC) Section. The internship offers hands-on experience in media monitoring, audiovisual production, digital content creation, storytelling, advocacy, and private-sector partnerships. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or currently enrolled students with strong communication skills, an interest in humanitarian and development work, knowledge of audiovisual production, and a commitment to promoting children's rights, peace, and sustainable development in a multicultural environment.
Oky is an open-source mobile menstruation education and period tracking application co-created by UNICEF with and for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. The platform delivers safe, evidence based, and girl centered digital support to address stigma, misinformation, and limited access to quality information on menstruation and adolescent
health, while contributing to closing the gender digital divide. Oky is designed to reflect girls’ digital realities, including constraints related to connectivity, device access, literacy, safeguarding, privacy, and data protection. The solution is now scaling globally through a growing network of localized country deployments alongside a maintained global version.
As Oky deployments expand, there is a growing need for structured monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems,
MEL advisory to Oky country deployment teams, guidance on research and evaluation design, facilitation of evaluation
exercises, capturing lessons learned to inform cross-country and cross-regional learning, and strengthening the overall
evidence base on Oky’s effectiveness, reach, and impact pathways, including the updating the Theory of Change (ToC),
including indicators and data collection methods online and offline.
UNICEF Mozambique is seeking a Security Specialist, P3, based in Pemba Field Office, to provide strategic and operational security support in a complex and volatile humanitarian environment. The role will advise senior management on security risk management, support safe programme delivery, strengthen humanitarian access, and coordinate closely with UNDSS, UN agencies, authorities, NGOs and implementing partners. The incumbent will provide security analysis, incident response, emergency preparedness, staff security guidance and capacity building to enable UNICEF to deliver timely and principled support to children and communities affected by conflict, displacement and climate-related emergencies in northern Mozambique.
Join UNICEF as a Child Protection Officer (Prevention) and help shape a safer future for children in Madagascar. Support the design, implementation and scale-up of evidence-based strategies to prevent violence against children, child marriage and other protection risks, while strengthening national and community systems that protect every child's right to grow up safe and free from harm. If you are passionate about child rights, committed to achieving results for the most vulnerable children, and eager to contribute to a stronger and more resilient child protection system, we encourage you to apply and become part of UNICEF's mission to ensure that every child survives, thrives and reaches their full potential.
This is a Temporary Appointment position for initial 364 days. This is extendable subject to funding availability and programme requirements. Interested Myanmar national applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
The consultant will be office-based, and will participate in field missions organized by Health and Nutrition team and report directly to Chief of Health and Nutrition, who will be the focal point to organize the deployment in coordination with Health and Nutrition team 2-3 times per week. In parallel, the consultant will work in close collaboration with the Health and Nutrition Officer in La Guaira, Capital District and Miranda to ensure coordinated planning.
L’Administrateur en Protection de l’Enfant, sous la supervision du Spécialiste Protection de l’Enfant, fournira une assistance technique, opérationnelle et administrative pour la programmation, la mise en oeuvre et le suivi des progrès vers l’atteinte des résultats visant à accélérer i) la mise à l’échelle des interventions de prévention de mariage des enfants et de promotion de l’autonomisation des adolescentes ; et ii) l’amélioration de la visibilité des interventions au niveau des régions cibles, notamment des partenariats stratégiques clés dans les régions de Niamey, Tillabéri et Dosso.
UNICEF Eswatini Country Office is looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Social Policy Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services
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