UNICEF's Office of Innovation is looking for a dedicated Innovation Manager who serves as a critical link between UNICEF country offices, Regional Offices, and the Office of Innovation (OOI) at headquarters, facilitating a dynamic exchange of ideas, strategies and resources.
UNICEF Zambia is currently hiring a consultant to review implementation modalities and progress of the Single Window Initiative across the different single window districts.
The purpose of this job is to provide overall support across the team’s strategy, which is “Connecting the Field with the Private Sector”. UNICEF is a large and decentralized organization, with a complex structure of HQ, Regional Offices, Country Offices, and National Committees. The dialogue between all of these parties is critical to successful partnerships, but the ways in which they are currently achieved could be streamlined and more strategic. The Programme Officer will contribute to the efforts of UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division by supporting research and analysis for effective private sector engagement, contributing to capacity building initiatives, and facilitating knowledge management and internal communications within the organization.
La oficina de UNICEF Uruguay busca un consultor/a que se incorpore al área de Recaudación de Fondos para trabajar en análisis avanzado de datos e inteligencia predictiva.
The consultant will support in planning and executing key priorities under the global strategy; work with global and country teams to deliver results to partners; strengthening P2E’s MERL approach; conceptualizing, planning, and reporting results from P2E-enabled learning-to-earning pathways, including exploring integrations with other innovative solutions; coordinating the activation and management of P2E platforms; and supporting in crowding in additional resourcing.
To drive awareness and advocacy around the youth skills-to-opportunity gap and inspire action to better prepare young people for the future of work and life, GenU’s communications approach involves strengthening its executive thought leadership to drive peer-to-peer engagement and leveraging the reach and influence of its public-private-youth partners. To implement these strategies, GenU requires the services of a social media content consultant who will shape messaging and assets for executive leadership tailored for a diverse set of audiences, monitor results and conversations for community engagement and inform optimized content approach for LinkedIn.
The consultant will play a pivotal role in ensuring that P2E content aligns with the global content taxonomy, meets global standards, and addresses the evolving needs of young people across multiple countries. They will update the Global Library with relevant and up-to-date content for P2E users. Key responsibilities include developing a global accreditation and certification framework for P2E, providing content support for countries, assisting the Global Coordinator, and supporting the localization and contextualization of content.
This role is being established to support an assessment and delivery of improved audience and market insights in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. Audience and Market Insight (AMI) have no current resourcing dedicated to LAC, and this limits both the understanding of LAC, but also the available capabilities to support fundraising, communications, and advocacy activities in the region. There are four main areas have been identified that require support:
- Insight planning: identifying the research needs of Communications, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiefs in LAC, and how those needs can be met by a multi-year program of insight.
- Localization of findings: supporting AMI global team to optimize and tailor local and global reporting and workshops to the needs of local markets, supporting the more effective communication and implementation of findings.
- Development of resource plan: the role will work with the Chief of AMI, in alignment with the LACRO Chiefs of PFP and Communications to determine a sustainable resourcing plan that accompanies the insight plan.
- Establishing audience fundamentals: work with countries to assess the addressable audiences for communications, advocacy, and fundraising.
- Understanding of LAC audiences: aid AMI and LACRO in being connected to and understanding the addressable needs of audiences in LAC, and how local teams are prioritizing and engaging them.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Section (PSFP) within the UNICEF Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) works with National Committees and UNICEF Country Offices to maximize revenue and drive income growth. Within PSFP, the Virtual Hub serves an incubator the digital function for 16 markets across MENA, ECARO, and Singapore, while acting as a testing ground for new technologies, marketing channels, and
other types of innovation. The vision is to become the largest and most successful non-profit digital fundraising program in the world. The VH Martech consultant will focus on managing the marketing technology strategy and activation, with the goal of improving performance across media platforms such as META, TikTok, Google, Bing, Yandex, email, and other programmatic ads. Responsibilities include orchestrating new audiences, maintaining the customer experience, ensuring an optimization plan aligns with business goals, and establishing continuous testing with rapid innovation adaptation. Ultimately, the VH Martech consultant is responsible for the cookie-less advertising and audience-first fundraising and marketing strategy of the Virtual Hub.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Section (PSFP) within the UNICEF Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) works with National Committees and UNICEF Country Offices to maximize revenue and drive income growth. Within PSFP, the Digital Fundraising team is implementing a new Digital Revenue Strategy aimed at inspiring, collaborating, and enabling markets to improve digital fundraising results. The vision: is to become the largest and most successful non-profit digital fundraising program in the world. The strategy’s overall objective is to increase donations by enhancing digital capabilities and integrating digital channels to support activities such as telemarketing, face-to-face fundraising, DRTV, and telethons. As a Digital Paid Media Specialist (Paid Social and Paid Search), the consultant will focus on driving performance marketing and ad operations across paid media channels, including Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, Google, Bing, and YouTube. The primary focus will be on Paid Social, Paid Search, and programmatic display, with additional exposure to mobile DSP, video DSP, and direct publisher buys (through direct buys or affiliate marketing). This role also involves providing digital marketing consultancy across Meta and Google ads.
The National Committee Relations oversees the Joint Strategic Plans (JSPs) with 32 National Committees. Joint Strategic Plans (JSPs) are jointly developed and mutually agreed between UNICEF and each National Committee. The JSPs set out multi-year objectives, goals and strategies for the National Committee, as well as how UNICEF will support implementation.
The digitalization of the JSPs on the IMPACT Platform has enabled UNICEF and National Committees to access key data sources that provide insights into the joint strategies on income and influence, to achieve overall impact for children worldwide. To best maximize opportunities of engagement with National Committees and private sector partnerships, it is critical that JSPs are accompanied with data visualization tools that facilitate informed and faster decision making by using the right data at the right time. Furthermore, it is critical that National Committees also have access to important information and data from UNICEF systems to facilitate and maximize private sector fundraising and advocacy engagement in high income countries.
The Representative serves as the accredited Rep of UNICEF in the country and reports to the Regional Director for general direction and oversight. S/he is responsible for establishing dialogue with the Government to develop the framework of cooperation in the country and for working closely and collaboratively with the Government and national institutions, stakeholders and partners, to develop the Government-UNICEF Country Programme of Cooperation in active support of efforts to advance children’s rights as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, other international treaties/frameworks, the SDGs, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the programme associate supports the respective section (s) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with a range of staff in the CO, external partners and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track.
The aim of this Consultancy is to provide technical support to the authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in developing a universal child benefit programme for all children up to 18 years of age. This includes preparing various cost scenarios and analyses based on the expansion of coverage and the adequacy of the benefit amount. The scenarios will consider different income groups of families and focus on ensuring universal access for all children, with differentiated adequacy of the benefit amount based on the families’ economic situation. This approach will transform the programme from a social transfer into an investment in the future of children and the development of human capital.
Considering the new guidance for country programme planning, the findings of the 2022 audit report, the oversight and quality assurance demand driven by the programme components and the need for routine application of informed programming principles, ICO needs to scale up its PME functions across the office both in depth and coverage. This calls for an improved and integrated budget planning, monitoring and management, more robust oversight of HACT and implementing partners, regular field presence to monitor programme delivery and quality, improved and institutionalized outcome and impact monitoring of the interventions/programmes and evidence generation through study, research, and evaluation efforts in line with accountability and informed programming principles. Accordingly, ICO is considering increasing the required capacity by having a PME specialist, a PME officer and a senior budget associate on board. While the PM officer position will have a dotted line to the Deputy Representative Operations and the finance officer for a harmonized and coordinated oversight of the financial aspects of the HACT, it will also support addressing the growing demand from the donor community for improved monitoring of the deliverables and results.
This position is only open for national candidates.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria, seeks a passionate and skilled Adolescent Development Specialist and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
Le but de la consultation est de fournir un soutien technique pour une coordination et une mise en œuvre efficaces des transferts sociaux monétaires, les activités de renforcement des capacités des intervenants sociaux et de l’ensemble des activités programmées.
UNICEF Moldova is hiring a SBC (VaGBaW) Officer, NO-B to be responsible for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based, inclusive and innovative SBC strategies in support of the child protection section with a focus on VAGBaW prevention and response programme.
The Education section of UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a remote-based consultant for an estimated 130 working days to support building implementation research into inclusive digital learning programmes. The innovations in education research portfolio embeds implementation research into large-scale and cross-country innovative partnerships and programmes, these innovations include digital learning, low tech, and no tech solutions. The overall aim of the research portfolio is to inform improvements in innovations in education delivery to improve all children’s learning, and to synthesize lessons across countries to build global public goods.
If you are a committed, resourceful professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
We are looking for a Programme Officer who will be involved in the careful planning and effective implementation of the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) activities that directly impacts on programme execution, delivery of sustainable results, and promoting national ownership and accountability for programme resources. This Temporary Appointment is for 364 days.
Candidates applying for positions in the NO category must possess the nationality of the country of the duty station, with the exception of internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in the country independently of UNICEF appointment. If not a national of Poland, proof of residence/work permit may be required.
This position is subject to local recruitment. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
UNICEF's Office of Innovation is looking for a dedicated Innovation Manager who serves as a critical link between UNICEF country offices, Regional Offices, and the Office of Innovation (OOI) at headquarters, facilitating a dynamic exchange of ideas, strategies and resources.
UNICEF Zambia is currently hiring a consultant to review implementation modalities and progress of the Single Window Initiative across the different single window districts.
The purpose of this job is to provide overall support across the team’s strategy, which is “Connecting the Field with the Private Sector”. UNICEF is a large and decentralized organization, with a complex structure of HQ, Regional Offices, Country Offices, and National Committees. The dialogue between all of these parties is critical to successful partnerships, but the ways in which they are currently achieved could be streamlined and more strategic. The Programme Officer will contribute to the efforts of UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division by supporting research and analysis for effective private sector engagement, contributing to capacity building initiatives, and facilitating knowledge management and internal communications within the organization.
La oficina de UNICEF Uruguay busca un consultor/a que se incorpore al área de Recaudación de Fondos para trabajar en análisis avanzado de datos e inteligencia predictiva.
The consultant will support in planning and executing key priorities under the global strategy; work with global and country teams to deliver results to partners; strengthening P2E’s MERL approach; conceptualizing, planning, and reporting results from P2E-enabled learning-to-earning pathways, including exploring integrations with other innovative solutions; coordinating the activation and management of P2E platforms; and supporting in crowding in additional resourcing.
To drive awareness and advocacy around the youth skills-to-opportunity gap and inspire action to better prepare young people for the future of work and life, GenU’s communications approach involves strengthening its executive thought leadership to drive peer-to-peer engagement and leveraging the reach and influence of its public-private-youth partners. To implement these strategies, GenU requires the services of a social media content consultant who will shape messaging and assets for executive leadership tailored for a diverse set of audiences, monitor results and conversations for community engagement and inform optimized content approach for LinkedIn.
The consultant will play a pivotal role in ensuring that P2E content aligns with the global content taxonomy, meets global standards, and addresses the evolving needs of young people across multiple countries. They will update the Global Library with relevant and up-to-date content for P2E users. Key responsibilities include developing a global accreditation and certification framework for P2E, providing content support for countries, assisting the Global Coordinator, and supporting the localization and contextualization of content.
This role is being established to support an assessment and delivery of improved audience and market insights in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. Audience and Market Insight (AMI) have no current resourcing dedicated to LAC, and this limits both the understanding of LAC, but also the available capabilities to support fundraising, communications, and advocacy activities in the region. There are four main areas have been identified that require support:
- Insight planning: identifying the research needs of Communications, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiefs in LAC, and how those needs can be met by a multi-year program of insight.
- Localization of findings: supporting AMI global team to optimize and tailor local and global reporting and workshops to the needs of local markets, supporting the more effective communication and implementation of findings.
- Development of resource plan: the role will work with the Chief of AMI, in alignment with the LACRO Chiefs of PFP and Communications to determine a sustainable resourcing plan that accompanies the insight plan.
- Establishing audience fundamentals: work with countries to assess the addressable audiences for communications, advocacy, and fundraising.
- Understanding of LAC audiences: aid AMI and LACRO in being connected to and understanding the addressable needs of audiences in LAC, and how local teams are prioritizing and engaging them.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Section (PSFP) within the UNICEF Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) works with National Committees and UNICEF Country Offices to maximize revenue and drive income growth. Within PSFP, the Virtual Hub serves an incubator the digital function for 16 markets across MENA, ECARO, and Singapore, while acting as a testing ground for new technologies, marketing channels, and
other types of innovation. The vision is to become the largest and most successful non-profit digital fundraising program in the world. The VH Martech consultant will focus on managing the marketing technology strategy and activation, with the goal of improving performance across media platforms such as META, TikTok, Google, Bing, Yandex, email, and other programmatic ads. Responsibilities include orchestrating new audiences, maintaining the customer experience, ensuring an optimization plan aligns with business goals, and establishing continuous testing with rapid innovation adaptation. Ultimately, the VH Martech consultant is responsible for the cookie-less advertising and audience-first fundraising and marketing strategy of the Virtual Hub.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Section (PSFP) within the UNICEF Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) works with National Committees and UNICEF Country Offices to maximize revenue and drive income growth. Within PSFP, the Digital Fundraising team is implementing a new Digital Revenue Strategy aimed at inspiring, collaborating, and enabling markets to improve digital fundraising results. The vision: is to become the largest and most successful non-profit digital fundraising program in the world. The strategy’s overall objective is to increase donations by enhancing digital capabilities and integrating digital channels to support activities such as telemarketing, face-to-face fundraising, DRTV, and telethons. As a Digital Paid Media Specialist (Paid Social and Paid Search), the consultant will focus on driving performance marketing and ad operations across paid media channels, including Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, Google, Bing, and YouTube. The primary focus will be on Paid Social, Paid Search, and programmatic display, with additional exposure to mobile DSP, video DSP, and direct publisher buys (through direct buys or affiliate marketing). This role also involves providing digital marketing consultancy across Meta and Google ads.
The National Committee Relations oversees the Joint Strategic Plans (JSPs) with 32 National Committees. Joint Strategic Plans (JSPs) are jointly developed and mutually agreed between UNICEF and each National Committee. The JSPs set out multi-year objectives, goals and strategies for the National Committee, as well as how UNICEF will support implementation.
The digitalization of the JSPs on the IMPACT Platform has enabled UNICEF and National Committees to access key data sources that provide insights into the joint strategies on income and influence, to achieve overall impact for children worldwide. To best maximize opportunities of engagement with National Committees and private sector partnerships, it is critical that JSPs are accompanied with data visualization tools that facilitate informed and faster decision making by using the right data at the right time. Furthermore, it is critical that National Committees also have access to important information and data from UNICEF systems to facilitate and maximize private sector fundraising and advocacy engagement in high income countries.
The Representative serves as the accredited Rep of UNICEF in the country and reports to the Regional Director for general direction and oversight. S/he is responsible for establishing dialogue with the Government to develop the framework of cooperation in the country and for working closely and collaboratively with the Government and national institutions, stakeholders and partners, to develop the Government-UNICEF Country Programme of Cooperation in active support of efforts to advance children’s rights as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, other international treaties/frameworks, the SDGs, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the programme associate supports the respective section (s) by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with a range of staff in the CO, external partners and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He provides regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track.
The aim of this Consultancy is to provide technical support to the authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in developing a universal child benefit programme for all children up to 18 years of age. This includes preparing various cost scenarios and analyses based on the expansion of coverage and the adequacy of the benefit amount. The scenarios will consider different income groups of families and focus on ensuring universal access for all children, with differentiated adequacy of the benefit amount based on the families’ economic situation. This approach will transform the programme from a social transfer into an investment in the future of children and the development of human capital.
Considering the new guidance for country programme planning, the findings of the 2022 audit report, the oversight and quality assurance demand driven by the programme components and the need for routine application of informed programming principles, ICO needs to scale up its PME functions across the office both in depth and coverage. This calls for an improved and integrated budget planning, monitoring and management, more robust oversight of HACT and implementing partners, regular field presence to monitor programme delivery and quality, improved and institutionalized outcome and impact monitoring of the interventions/programmes and evidence generation through study, research, and evaluation efforts in line with accountability and informed programming principles. Accordingly, ICO is considering increasing the required capacity by having a PME specialist, a PME officer and a senior budget associate on board. While the PM officer position will have a dotted line to the Deputy Representative Operations and the finance officer for a harmonized and coordinated oversight of the financial aspects of the HACT, it will also support addressing the growing demand from the donor community for improved monitoring of the deliverables and results.
This position is only open for national candidates.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria, seeks a passionate and skilled Adolescent Development Specialist and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to making a difference and getting results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and dynamic team.
Le but de la consultation est de fournir un soutien technique pour une coordination et une mise en œuvre efficaces des transferts sociaux monétaires, les activités de renforcement des capacités des intervenants sociaux et de l’ensemble des activités programmées.
UNICEF Moldova is hiring a SBC (VaGBaW) Officer, NO-B to be responsible for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based, inclusive and innovative SBC strategies in support of the child protection section with a focus on VAGBaW prevention and response programme.
The Education section of UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight is seeking a remote-based consultant for an estimated 130 working days to support building implementation research into inclusive digital learning programmes. The innovations in education research portfolio embeds implementation research into large-scale and cross-country innovative partnerships and programmes, these innovations include digital learning, low tech, and no tech solutions. The overall aim of the research portfolio is to inform improvements in innovations in education delivery to improve all children’s learning, and to synthesize lessons across countries to build global public goods.
If you are a committed, resourceful professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
We are looking for a Programme Officer who will be involved in the careful planning and effective implementation of the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) activities that directly impacts on programme execution, delivery of sustainable results, and promoting national ownership and accountability for programme resources. This Temporary Appointment is for 364 days.
Candidates applying for positions in the NO category must possess the nationality of the country of the duty station, with the exception of internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in the country independently of UNICEF appointment. If not a national of Poland, proof of residence/work permit may be required.
This position is subject to local recruitment. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.
