The Chief, Child Protection reports to the Deputy Representative for general guidance and direction. The Chief is responsible for managing and leading all stages of child protection programmes/projects from strategic planning and formulation to achieving concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm and to protect their rights to survival, development and well being as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies.
The Chief is responsible for leading and managing the child protection section and establishing the plans of action to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results, according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
This consultancy is to support ADAP’s work in humanitarian contexts by building UNICEF’s global capacity to use the Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation (Adolescent Kit) as a programmatic resource to effectively reach, support and engage adolescents ages 10-18, and by enhancing and expanding the guidance, activities, training materials, digital resources and supplies that compose the Kit. This consultancy will be managed by UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) team.
UNICEF ECARO O/P Istanbul Turkiye, is looking for a highly motivated Regional Staff Counselor at the P4 level who under the supervision of the Regional Director will be expected to provide expertise to UNICEF management and staff of the regional and country offices in Europe and Central Asia and the staff based in UNICEF Geneva; to support the overall well-being of UNICEF staff and their families, as well as teams in UNICEF offices in the region.
UNICEF Moldova is hiring a Partnerships Officer, NO- (FT), to support senior management in deepening collaboration with key stakeholders and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF and influence in support of its mission.
The Malawi Country Office offers an exciting and rewarding career opportunity for you to join our dynamic PPM team where you will be responsible for carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor the UNICEF Malawi country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. This position offers you a unique opportunity to profoundly impact and influence on ensuring more vulnerable children’s live in the resilient communities of Malawi and benefit from quality, evidence-based development programmes. You will contribute to the overall achievement of transformative results for children.
Under the general guidance of the supervisor (Chief CRM and Evaluation), the incumbent is responsible for leading UNICEF's work to mainstream disability in all aspects of its humanitarian and recovery programming, in the context of the Country Programme Document and HAC. The role is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UNICEF Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy as key reference frameworks.
The incumbent will work across all programme sections and field offices as well as key stakeholders to ensure disability inclusion and disability-sensitive programming across humanitarian and recovery spheres. A critical aspect of this role will be providing technical guidance and coordination of inclusive programming to ensure cohesive and comprehensive approaches to inclusion of all children with disabilities in UNICEF-supported services. The incumbent will also work with partners to ensure that policy and legislative frameworks in line with international standards are in place so no child is left behind.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of social policy specialist and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF/Zambia is looking for an experienced and dedicated professional to provide technical and operational support as per the country office set-up. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the supply chains of the Zambia country office, with a particular focus on supporting the provision of Procurement Services to development partners. If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you.
UNICEF office for Europe and Central Asia is looking for a Project Managing consultant for the Initiative "Promoting a comprehensive, prevention-oriented approach to children’s health”
We are seeking a highly skilled data scientist / AI researcher to join our team and support the strategic AI school mapping project. The successful candidate will support the development of machine learning models to map school locations and ICT infrastructure as well as to generate new insights that will help Giga achieve its goal of connecting every school to the internet.
UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub-Office of Innovation is looking for an experienced Strategic Design Lead to bring demonstrable design leadership and expertise to key initiatives of the Hub. A successful candidate has the ability to act as a decisive design team lead, product owner, mentor, trainer, team player and partner, crafting thoughtful concepts driven by strategic insight and demonstrating how unconventional thinking can lead to world-class sustainable solutions. You master the human-centered design process and methodologies inside and out and are also able to transfer that knowledge to the team through guidelines, templates, training and hands-on support. When needed, you create prototypes, facilitate workshops, and offer design support as necessary, while keeping your eye on ultimate strategic goals.
The purpose of this assignment is to develop a national roadmap and costed action plan, to accelerate progress on Child Survival action in Mozambique (2025-2030), in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) “Good health and well-being” and the Mozambican government's commitment to ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years.
PROGRAMME AREA AND SPECIFIC PROJECT AREA:
The objective of the Child Survival Action Plan is to support Mozambique's targets for reducing under-five mortality, improve core indicators, expand coverage, and enhance the quality of high-impact MNCH interventions to manage morbidity and mortality, while strengthening primary healthcare platforms. The focus will be on operationalizing and scaling up quality MNCH interventions currently limited across the service delivery spectrum.
UNICEF Greece Country Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, is implementing two major health programmes aimed at addressing the rising challenges of child obesity and mental health. Communication plays a pivotal role in the success of these initiatives by raising public awareness, engaging key stakeholders, and ensuring accurate information reaches affected communities. The Communication Officer will play a key role in developing and implementing communication strategies that align with the programme goals.
The Internal Audit Section is under the leadership and management of the Deputy Director, Audit who in tum reports to the Director of OIAL. The Internal Audit Section has four units, each led by a Chief reporting to the Deputy Director. The Chiefs Audit along with the Deputy Director, constitute the leadership team for the Internal Audit Section. Each Chief, within a matrix management structure, leads and manages a unit with assigned staff and a portfolio of assurance and advisory. The Chief is responsible for providing leadership in identifying and prioritizing assurance and advisory activities in assigned areas and in the planning and execution of all engagements in a potfolio of work. The position is also responsible for supervising staff assigned to the unit and portfolio of work, including managing performance, and ensuring quality of outputs. Governed by the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing of the IIA, internal audits accomplish OIAI's mission by using a systematic, disciplined approach to assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of Organization's governance, risk management and control processes
VISION-SAP Associate (Business Processes) is to provide transaction processing support for users (Programme and Operations sections) in
Kyiv and Zonal Offices, ensuring that all VISION related transactions are acted upon, reports generated as may be necessary, effective and
efficient solutions are provided and incidents and queries on the system appropriately addressed. Under the general supervision of VISION-SAP
Officer (Business Processes), incumbent performs a variety of data information gathering, input and manipulation, report generation and
dissemination using VISION. S/he is responsible for user support in first line functions: provides business support for country and zone offices;
communicates with user sections.
The Programme Manager reports to the Senior Progamme Manager (Social Recovery Office) for general guidance and direction, and is responsible for leading, managing and supervising all stages of the Office’s programming 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.
The Education and Climate teams at the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), and Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka Country Offices are seeking a consultant to support work on Education and Climate under the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). They will focus primarily on consolidating regional knowledge on the intersection between education and climate in the region, as well as on activity reporting, conducting the review of climate related education data and documents.
This consultancy will have a total of 230 days to be completed between January 2025 and January 2026. Preferably based in Kathmandu, Nepal for the duration of the contract but remote-based consultancy is also an acceptable option.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Deputy Representative, operations in Nigeria and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
Le Bureau de l'UNICEF Comores souhaite mobiliser un consultant international, juriste spécialiste, pour accompagner le Gouvernement, à travers ministère de l’Intérieur, de la Décentralisation et de l'Administration territoriale et des Relations avec les institutions en vue d’élaborer et de finaliser le projet de décret devant régir l’administration, le fonctionnement, les compétences de l’ Agence Nationale de l’ Etat civil aux Comores, conforme aux normes internationales et nationales.
The purpose of this assignment is to shed light on other factors that interact with gender inequality, specifically the age of mothers, and how this may influence un- or undervaccination rates. This analysis will yield insights on maternal age-based targeting in immunization programmes, including the value of adolescent mother-focused immunization efforts.
The Chief, Child Protection reports to the Deputy Representative for general guidance and direction. The Chief is responsible for managing and leading all stages of child protection programmes/projects from strategic planning and formulation to achieving concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm and to protect their rights to survival, development and well being as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies.
The Chief is responsible for leading and managing the child protection section and establishing the plans of action to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results, according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.
This consultancy is to support ADAP’s work in humanitarian contexts by building UNICEF’s global capacity to use the Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation (Adolescent Kit) as a programmatic resource to effectively reach, support and engage adolescents ages 10-18, and by enhancing and expanding the guidance, activities, training materials, digital resources and supplies that compose the Kit. This consultancy will be managed by UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) team.
UNICEF ECARO O/P Istanbul Turkiye, is looking for a highly motivated Regional Staff Counselor at the P4 level who under the supervision of the Regional Director will be expected to provide expertise to UNICEF management and staff of the regional and country offices in Europe and Central Asia and the staff based in UNICEF Geneva; to support the overall well-being of UNICEF staff and their families, as well as teams in UNICEF offices in the region.
UNICEF Moldova is hiring a Partnerships Officer, NO- (FT), to support senior management in deepening collaboration with key stakeholders and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF and influence in support of its mission.
The Malawi Country Office offers an exciting and rewarding career opportunity for you to join our dynamic PPM team where you will be responsible for carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor the UNICEF Malawi country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. This position offers you a unique opportunity to profoundly impact and influence on ensuring more vulnerable children’s live in the resilient communities of Malawi and benefit from quality, evidence-based development programmes. You will contribute to the overall achievement of transformative results for children.
Under the general guidance of the supervisor (Chief CRM and Evaluation), the incumbent is responsible for leading UNICEF's work to mainstream disability in all aspects of its humanitarian and recovery programming, in the context of the Country Programme Document and HAC. The role is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UNICEF Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy as key reference frameworks.
The incumbent will work across all programme sections and field offices as well as key stakeholders to ensure disability inclusion and disability-sensitive programming across humanitarian and recovery spheres. A critical aspect of this role will be providing technical guidance and coordination of inclusive programming to ensure cohesive and comprehensive approaches to inclusion of all children with disabilities in UNICEF-supported services. The incumbent will also work with partners to ensure that policy and legislative frameworks in line with international standards are in place so no child is left behind.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of social policy specialist and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF/Zambia is looking for an experienced and dedicated professional to provide technical and operational support as per the country office set-up. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the supply chains of the Zambia country office, with a particular focus on supporting the provision of Procurement Services to development partners. If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you.
UNICEF office for Europe and Central Asia is looking for a Project Managing consultant for the Initiative "Promoting a comprehensive, prevention-oriented approach to children’s health”
We are seeking a highly skilled data scientist / AI researcher to join our team and support the strategic AI school mapping project. The successful candidate will support the development of machine learning models to map school locations and ICT infrastructure as well as to generate new insights that will help Giga achieve its goal of connecting every school to the internet.
UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub-Office of Innovation is looking for an experienced Strategic Design Lead to bring demonstrable design leadership and expertise to key initiatives of the Hub. A successful candidate has the ability to act as a decisive design team lead, product owner, mentor, trainer, team player and partner, crafting thoughtful concepts driven by strategic insight and demonstrating how unconventional thinking can lead to world-class sustainable solutions. You master the human-centered design process and methodologies inside and out and are also able to transfer that knowledge to the team through guidelines, templates, training and hands-on support. When needed, you create prototypes, facilitate workshops, and offer design support as necessary, while keeping your eye on ultimate strategic goals.
The purpose of this assignment is to develop a national roadmap and costed action plan, to accelerate progress on Child Survival action in Mozambique (2025-2030), in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) “Good health and well-being” and the Mozambican government's commitment to ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years.
PROGRAMME AREA AND SPECIFIC PROJECT AREA:
The objective of the Child Survival Action Plan is to support Mozambique's targets for reducing under-five mortality, improve core indicators, expand coverage, and enhance the quality of high-impact MNCH interventions to manage morbidity and mortality, while strengthening primary healthcare platforms. The focus will be on operationalizing and scaling up quality MNCH interventions currently limited across the service delivery spectrum.
UNICEF Greece Country Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, is implementing two major health programmes aimed at addressing the rising challenges of child obesity and mental health. Communication plays a pivotal role in the success of these initiatives by raising public awareness, engaging key stakeholders, and ensuring accurate information reaches affected communities. The Communication Officer will play a key role in developing and implementing communication strategies that align with the programme goals.
The Internal Audit Section is under the leadership and management of the Deputy Director, Audit who in tum reports to the Director of OIAL. The Internal Audit Section has four units, each led by a Chief reporting to the Deputy Director. The Chiefs Audit along with the Deputy Director, constitute the leadership team for the Internal Audit Section. Each Chief, within a matrix management structure, leads and manages a unit with assigned staff and a portfolio of assurance and advisory. The Chief is responsible for providing leadership in identifying and prioritizing assurance and advisory activities in assigned areas and in the planning and execution of all engagements in a potfolio of work. The position is also responsible for supervising staff assigned to the unit and portfolio of work, including managing performance, and ensuring quality of outputs. Governed by the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing of the IIA, internal audits accomplish OIAI's mission by using a systematic, disciplined approach to assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of Organization's governance, risk management and control processes
VISION-SAP Associate (Business Processes) is to provide transaction processing support for users (Programme and Operations sections) in
Kyiv and Zonal Offices, ensuring that all VISION related transactions are acted upon, reports generated as may be necessary, effective and
efficient solutions are provided and incidents and queries on the system appropriately addressed. Under the general supervision of VISION-SAP
Officer (Business Processes), incumbent performs a variety of data information gathering, input and manipulation, report generation and
dissemination using VISION. S/he is responsible for user support in first line functions: provides business support for country and zone offices;
communicates with user sections.
The Programme Manager reports to the Senior Progamme Manager (Social Recovery Office) for general guidance and direction, and is responsible for leading, managing and supervising all stages of the Office’s programming 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.
The Education and Climate teams at the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), and Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka Country Offices are seeking a consultant to support work on Education and Climate under the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP). They will focus primarily on consolidating regional knowledge on the intersection between education and climate in the region, as well as on activity reporting, conducting the review of climate related education data and documents.
This consultancy will have a total of 230 days to be completed between January 2025 and January 2026. Preferably based in Kathmandu, Nepal for the duration of the contract but remote-based consultancy is also an acceptable option.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Deputy Representative, operations in Nigeria and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
Le Bureau de l'UNICEF Comores souhaite mobiliser un consultant international, juriste spécialiste, pour accompagner le Gouvernement, à travers ministère de l’Intérieur, de la Décentralisation et de l'Administration territoriale et des Relations avec les institutions en vue d’élaborer et de finaliser le projet de décret devant régir l’administration, le fonctionnement, les compétences de l’ Agence Nationale de l’ Etat civil aux Comores, conforme aux normes internationales et nationales.
The purpose of this assignment is to shed light on other factors that interact with gender inequality, specifically the age of mothers, and how this may influence un- or undervaccination rates. This analysis will yield insights on maternal age-based targeting in immunization programmes, including the value of adolescent mother-focused immunization efforts.
