Being part of GSSC, the Strategic Business and Change Management Section (previously titled as Service Quality Management Section) works within with the Director’s Office guiding the strategic direction of the GSSC and its journey to Global Business Services (GBS), is responsible for strategic planning, change management, partnership engagement, UN reform, communications and branding It furthermore covers all internal GSSC quality assurance, productivity analysis, forecasting and chargeback support, performance, service level agreement (SLA) and key performance indicator (KPI) management, efficiency reporting and benefits realization.
Are you a dedicated and highly experienced professional with a passion for making a difference in the lives of every child?
UNICEF Ghana is seeking for a dynamic and highly experienced professional to assume the role of Social Policy Manager (Public Finance for Children), P4. The incumbent will join a dynamic team working to address child poverty in all its manifestations, tackle inequalities, alleviate human suffering through shock responsive social protection, and influence public spending decisions to advance child rights.
This fixed-Term Position is based in Accra and reports to the Chief, Social Policy, P4.
Accra-Ghana is a very good family-duty station. The people of Ghana have a rich cultural heritage and vibrant traditions, which offer a welcoming atmosphere and diverse experiences for you to explore and enjoy.
Ghana has stunning natural beauty, including beautiful coastlines, green national parks such as Kakum National Park, Boti Falls, Wli Agumatsa Waterfalls, etc., and iconic landscapes, making it a desired destination.
Join us in driving impactful change and making a difference for the Ghanaian child.
The consultant will develop and collaborate on content development that showcases UNICEF’s climate action successes, lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that contribute to advancing UNICEF’s mission to protect children and secure their rights in the face of the climate crisis.
Additional expertise, engagement and support under this new responsibility which is rapidly evolving due to the Pathfinding component and expansion of Pathfinding countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in particular the Office of the Special Representative will be required to further enhance expert capacity through a further period of at least six months service to support the Pathfinding initiative in the Office of the
SRSG and to expand engagement in particular with countries and partners in the MENA region.
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant to provide technical assistance in finalising the revised Results-Based Financing (RBF) support mechanism
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will work remotely ensuring availability to work at times suitable to the Pacific Islands region when required. All costs related to the work will be included in the financial proposal and subsequent contract (90 days remote/30 days in-country for Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tuvalu). Daily monitoring and supervision will be provided by the ECD Specialist in collaboration with the Chief of Education and the Deputy Representative. This includes analyzing existing policies, identifying gaps, and aligning efforts with regional frameworks such as the Pasifika Call to Action on ECD. The consultant will collaborate closely with Pacific Island governments, ensuring the participation of key ministries, and will engage with regional bodies like the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Pacific Community (SPC), and the University of the South Pacific (USP).
UNICEF Zambia is currently hiring a consultant to develop a standardised training manual for facilitators to train and build capacities of relevant stakeholders working with and for adolescents in the provision of an integrated adolescent services.
UNICEF Brazil is looking for a Programme Assistant to work in our Social Policy area providing technical, operational, and administrative assistance. This exciting opportunity will also work to facilitate the communication within the other teams in Brasilia and partners. UNICEF presence in Brazil is through its main office in Brasilia and another 9 field offices around the country.
This job opportunity is presential and for Brazilians only or candidates with a work permit for Brazil.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
Under the overall direction and guidance of the Nutrition Manager, the Nutrition Specialist supports the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects leveraging food systems, mobilizing innovative business solutions to improve access to nutritious foods, positioning nutrition into climate change agenda, linking social protection with nutrition and in strengthening. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
Under the guidance of the Emergency Specialist, Standby Arrangements, Emergency Officer will manage and strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with organizations that collaborate as ‘standby partners’ to enable UNICEF to provide adequate, effective and efficient deployment of human resources in situations and frontline service delivery capacity in emergencies.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide expert technical support to strengthen water, wastewater, and district heating services in Kryvyi Rih, ensuring that children and families have reliable access to safe water and sanitation. Given the ongoing war in Ukraine and the destruction of critical infrastructure such as the Kakhovka dam, this assignment will focus on restoring deteriorating systems and mitigating public health risks from poor water quality and sewage treatment. The consultant will work closely with local utilities, including Kryvbass VodoKanal, and two heating service providers to enhance technical capacity and implement sustainable, long-term solutions. This will help address the urgent need for infrastructure rehabilitation, while aligning efforts with UNICEF's broader WASH program objectives of improving water and sanitation access for over 4.5 million people across affected areas.
The consultant will play a critical role in supporting UNICEF’s WASH programming in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. The consultant will focus on coordinating donor relations, mobilizing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. As part of government's efforts to rehabilitate water, wastewater, and heating systems in a city with 700,000 residents, the coordinator will bridge communication between stakeholders, donors, and implementing partners. The consultant will ensure that financial and technical support from donors is optimally utilized to address critical infrastructure degradation, rising public health risks, and to maintain emergency services for vulnerable populations, especially children, affected by the ongoing war.
This vacancy has been re-advertised to reflect an update in language requirements - The incumbent will be accountable for effective planning, contracting, procurement and
monitoring of end-to-end of all institutional service contracts for the Country Office, and coordinate all aspects of the contracting processes including establishment of performance indicators, and assessment of fit for purpose of services.
The main objectives of the national consultancy is to 1) facilitate and provide technical, capacity and coordination support in successful completion of the Child Marriage Study, liaising with international experts, the Strategic Research Centre, and participating UN agencies 2) to support the delivery of Gender Norms Strategy by ensuring inter-agency Programing, action planning, and coordination; 3) to support in documenting, share and report on processes and outcomes.
UNICEF Pakistan Country Office is seeking a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of an Education Specialist to join the Education Team on a fixed term basis in Islamabad Office.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will be supervised on a day-to-day basis including contract management by the Early Childhood Education Specialist with relevant guidance, provided by the UNICEF Pacific Education Chief of Education. The consultant is expected to closely collaborate with ECE Officer at UNICEF Pacific and education specialists and officers at Field Offices, through out the consultancy for technical guidance.
The consultant is expected to travel for in-person work, including in-person engagement in key meetings and consultations, and may work remotely the remainder of the time. When working remotely, the consultant is expected to be available for discussions as required during working hours of the country. All costs associated with the travel (including living allowances and any other costs) are to be included in the total contract value. This will be based on the indicative list of countries included in this TOR, with a contract amendment required if travel plans or costs change significantly.
This role supports key projects including Windows 11 migration, Cloud Printing, Secure Access deployment, and workspace relocations amid UNICEF House renovations—enhancing operational efficiency and user experience across UNICEF’s New York office
The incumbent will be responsible for cutting edge technical support and advice in developing, reviewing and/or adopting QA policies around International Product Standards, ISO driven Quality Management Systems and regulatory reliance frameworks of both stringent and maturing regulatory authorities, the latter particularly in areas where UNICEF will be fostering a localization agenda to move manufacturing closer to end-users. The position requires close collaboration with product specialists and procurement teams in UNICEF and in partner organisations, specialised technical working groups and other major stakeholders to harmonize QA policies and provide consistency and commonality in QA methods and requirements. Environmental and Social Sustainability is of growing importance in UNICEF, and a key contribution of this position will be further development and implementation of UNICEF sustainable procurement policies and procedures.
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. The Communication Associate (Digital Мedia) contributes to the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of an advocacy and communication strategy, to promote respect for children’s and women’s rights and support UNICEF's mission in Bulgaria.
O objectivo desta consultoria é de desenvolver e imprimir 480 cartazes (detalhes indicados adiante) em formato A3 que transmitam de maneira clara, educativa e visualmente atraente mensagens
Being part of GSSC, the Strategic Business and Change Management Section (previously titled as Service Quality Management Section) works within with the Director’s Office guiding the strategic direction of the GSSC and its journey to Global Business Services (GBS), is responsible for strategic planning, change management, partnership engagement, UN reform, communications and branding It furthermore covers all internal GSSC quality assurance, productivity analysis, forecasting and chargeback support, performance, service level agreement (SLA) and key performance indicator (KPI) management, efficiency reporting and benefits realization.
Are you a dedicated and highly experienced professional with a passion for making a difference in the lives of every child?
UNICEF Ghana is seeking for a dynamic and highly experienced professional to assume the role of Social Policy Manager (Public Finance for Children), P4. The incumbent will join a dynamic team working to address child poverty in all its manifestations, tackle inequalities, alleviate human suffering through shock responsive social protection, and influence public spending decisions to advance child rights.
This fixed-Term Position is based in Accra and reports to the Chief, Social Policy, P4.
Accra-Ghana is a very good family-duty station. The people of Ghana have a rich cultural heritage and vibrant traditions, which offer a welcoming atmosphere and diverse experiences for you to explore and enjoy.
Ghana has stunning natural beauty, including beautiful coastlines, green national parks such as Kakum National Park, Boti Falls, Wli Agumatsa Waterfalls, etc., and iconic landscapes, making it a desired destination.
Join us in driving impactful change and making a difference for the Ghanaian child.
The consultant will develop and collaborate on content development that showcases UNICEF’s climate action successes, lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that contribute to advancing UNICEF’s mission to protect children and secure their rights in the face of the climate crisis.
Additional expertise, engagement and support under this new responsibility which is rapidly evolving due to the Pathfinding component and expansion of Pathfinding countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in particular the Office of the Special Representative will be required to further enhance expert capacity through a further period of at least six months service to support the Pathfinding initiative in the Office of the
SRSG and to expand engagement in particular with countries and partners in the MENA region.
UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual consultant to provide technical assistance in finalising the revised Results-Based Financing (RBF) support mechanism
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will work remotely ensuring availability to work at times suitable to the Pacific Islands region when required. All costs related to the work will be included in the financial proposal and subsequent contract (90 days remote/30 days in-country for Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tuvalu). Daily monitoring and supervision will be provided by the ECD Specialist in collaboration with the Chief of Education and the Deputy Representative. This includes analyzing existing policies, identifying gaps, and aligning efforts with regional frameworks such as the Pasifika Call to Action on ECD. The consultant will collaborate closely with Pacific Island governments, ensuring the participation of key ministries, and will engage with regional bodies like the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Pacific Community (SPC), and the University of the South Pacific (USP).
UNICEF Zambia is currently hiring a consultant to develop a standardised training manual for facilitators to train and build capacities of relevant stakeholders working with and for adolescents in the provision of an integrated adolescent services.
UNICEF Brazil is looking for a Programme Assistant to work in our Social Policy area providing technical, operational, and administrative assistance. This exciting opportunity will also work to facilitate the communication within the other teams in Brasilia and partners. UNICEF presence in Brazil is through its main office in Brasilia and another 9 field offices around the country.
This job opportunity is presential and for Brazilians only or candidates with a work permit for Brazil.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
Under the overall direction and guidance of the Nutrition Manager, the Nutrition Specialist supports the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects leveraging food systems, mobilizing innovative business solutions to improve access to nutritious foods, positioning nutrition into climate change agenda, linking social protection with nutrition and in strengthening. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
Under the guidance of the Emergency Specialist, Standby Arrangements, Emergency Officer will manage and strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with organizations that collaborate as ‘standby partners’ to enable UNICEF to provide adequate, effective and efficient deployment of human resources in situations and frontline service delivery capacity in emergencies.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide expert technical support to strengthen water, wastewater, and district heating services in Kryvyi Rih, ensuring that children and families have reliable access to safe water and sanitation. Given the ongoing war in Ukraine and the destruction of critical infrastructure such as the Kakhovka dam, this assignment will focus on restoring deteriorating systems and mitigating public health risks from poor water quality and sewage treatment. The consultant will work closely with local utilities, including Kryvbass VodoKanal, and two heating service providers to enhance technical capacity and implement sustainable, long-term solutions. This will help address the urgent need for infrastructure rehabilitation, while aligning efforts with UNICEF's broader WASH program objectives of improving water and sanitation access for over 4.5 million people across affected areas.
The consultant will play a critical role in supporting UNICEF’s WASH programming in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. The consultant will focus on coordinating donor relations, mobilizing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. As part of government's efforts to rehabilitate water, wastewater, and heating systems in a city with 700,000 residents, the coordinator will bridge communication between stakeholders, donors, and implementing partners. The consultant will ensure that financial and technical support from donors is optimally utilized to address critical infrastructure degradation, rising public health risks, and to maintain emergency services for vulnerable populations, especially children, affected by the ongoing war.
This vacancy has been re-advertised to reflect an update in language requirements - The incumbent will be accountable for effective planning, contracting, procurement and
monitoring of end-to-end of all institutional service contracts for the Country Office, and coordinate all aspects of the contracting processes including establishment of performance indicators, and assessment of fit for purpose of services.
The main objectives of the national consultancy is to 1) facilitate and provide technical, capacity and coordination support in successful completion of the Child Marriage Study, liaising with international experts, the Strategic Research Centre, and participating UN agencies 2) to support the delivery of Gender Norms Strategy by ensuring inter-agency Programing, action planning, and coordination; 3) to support in documenting, share and report on processes and outcomes.
UNICEF Pakistan Country Office is seeking a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of an Education Specialist to join the Education Team on a fixed term basis in Islamabad Office.
UNICEF Pacific is in search of a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will be supervised on a day-to-day basis including contract management by the Early Childhood Education Specialist with relevant guidance, provided by the UNICEF Pacific Education Chief of Education. The consultant is expected to closely collaborate with ECE Officer at UNICEF Pacific and education specialists and officers at Field Offices, through out the consultancy for technical guidance.
The consultant is expected to travel for in-person work, including in-person engagement in key meetings and consultations, and may work remotely the remainder of the time. When working remotely, the consultant is expected to be available for discussions as required during working hours of the country. All costs associated with the travel (including living allowances and any other costs) are to be included in the total contract value. This will be based on the indicative list of countries included in this TOR, with a contract amendment required if travel plans or costs change significantly.
This role supports key projects including Windows 11 migration, Cloud Printing, Secure Access deployment, and workspace relocations amid UNICEF House renovations—enhancing operational efficiency and user experience across UNICEF’s New York office
The incumbent will be responsible for cutting edge technical support and advice in developing, reviewing and/or adopting QA policies around International Product Standards, ISO driven Quality Management Systems and regulatory reliance frameworks of both stringent and maturing regulatory authorities, the latter particularly in areas where UNICEF will be fostering a localization agenda to move manufacturing closer to end-users. The position requires close collaboration with product specialists and procurement teams in UNICEF and in partner organisations, specialised technical working groups and other major stakeholders to harmonize QA policies and provide consistency and commonality in QA methods and requirements. Environmental and Social Sustainability is of growing importance in UNICEF, and a key contribution of this position will be further development and implementation of UNICEF sustainable procurement policies and procedures.
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. The Communication Associate (Digital Мedia) contributes to the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of an advocacy and communication strategy, to promote respect for children’s and women’s rights and support UNICEF's mission in Bulgaria.
O objectivo desta consultoria é de desenvolver e imprimir 480 cartazes (detalhes indicados adiante) em formato A3 que transmitam de maneira clara, educativa e visualmente atraente mensagens
