Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, support the Country Office establishes and deepens financial and non-financial partnerships with resource partners, through partnerships development, relationships and contributions management, and donor reporting. The key result is that adequate resources are mobilized to implement the UNICEF Niger country programme and reach expected results for women and children.
To support education and employment of Ukrainian adolescents and youth (aged 10 to 24) inside and outside Ukraine, UNICEF developed a regional initiative – PATHWAYS – that aims to provide them with opportunities for continued education, skills building and a successful transition to employment. The three pathways are:
1. Access to and completion of formal secondary education and/or TVET: Support students to enroll and remain in secondary education or TVET, gaining critical knowledge and skills for their well-being and future employment.
2. First job opportunities: Partnering with private and public sectors to provide (paid) internships or apprenticeships for secondary school/TVET students in industries (including green jobs) that are aligned with adolescents’ professional aspirations to prepare them for their future transition to the labour market.
3. Flexible learning and upskilling: For youth currently in employment, create opportunities for additional skilling and/or continuation of their regular schooling while working
The Programme Manager (Connectivity Credits Lead) is entrusted with spearheading the creation and strategic evolution of the Global Connectivity Marketplace. This role involves comprehensive responsibility for the marketplace's concept development, ensuring it is grounded in a solid understanding of the regulatory, legal, and financial landscapes.
The Programme Manager is the architect behind the platform's operational framework, harmonizing the efforts of a specialized team across geographies, notably in Geneva and Barcelona. In partnership with global tech leaders and governments, particularly the Swiss Government, the incumbent is instrumental in fostering relationships that enhance the marketplace's international functionality and influence.
The Market Development Specialist (Innovative Finance) at UNICEF's Giga initiative plays a crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Tasked with the intricate job of understanding and navigating unconventional asset markets, this position is central to developing a unique marketplace for connectivity credits. The role demands a deep dive into financial modeling, leveraging innovative technologies such as blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) to build a transparent and efficient trading platform.
In this position, the specialist is responsible for tailoring market strategies to diverse regulatory and economic landscapes across various countries. This involves close collaboration with in-country teams to understand local market dynamics and regulatory constraints. The success in this position not only advances Giga's goal of global connectivity but also bridges the digital divide, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
UNICEF is seeking for a Pilot Project Coordinator (Connectivity Credits) to join Giga, a UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the establishment of the Connectivity Credits system. Tasked with being a bridge between on-the-ground implementation in specific pilot countries, and a digital product team that is building a scalable global marketplace, this role is key to ensuring that what the Connectivity Credits becomes is based on learnings from real users and stakeholders in countries.
Success in this role will mean that Connectivity Credits is proven as a viable and attractive method for financing local, small ISPs that can connect the second half of the world, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
We are seeking an experienced Connectivity Credits Technical Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The Technical Expert will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for the development of the Giga Connectivity Credits Marketplace (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/how-connectivity-credits-could-help-billions-get-online/), a blockchain-based system designed to incentivize companies to provide sustained internet access to underserved communities.
If you have a passion for creating impact and a desire to contribute to closing the digital divide, join us as we empower every young person with information, opportunity, and choice. Your work will not only connect schools but also spark socio-economic growth by turning education into a gateway for community-wide advancement.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built, we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Under the direct supervision of the Business Analysis Manager (Partnerships) - UNISON, the Business Analysis Officer is expected to work in the planning, design, development, testing and roll-out of any new requirements identified by Public Partnerships users, and to support public sector partnerships stakeholders to understand and derive value from UNISON. The incumbent will be a vital link between the business and technical teams and be responsible for drafting documents, conducting trainings, and consulting and coordinating with relevant HQ teams as well as Country Offices and Regional Offices, to support effective integration and drive user adoption for public sector partnerships.
This role is expected to take ownership for coordination across teams working on public sector partnerships, responding to operational issues, and communicating to the wider UNISON business and technical teams. The incumbent will demonstrate strong ability to effectively self-manage priorities and be able to collaborate effectively between end users and technical teams.
The incumbent will work closely with the technical team (Salesforce Solution lead, Integration developer, Salesforce support resources, contracted providers of Salesforce apps) in the rollout and adoption of any new technical solutions. While the focus will be primarily on solutions and uptake for teams working on public sector partnerships across the organization, the incumbent is expected to be familiar with and backstop on the general workings of UNISON for private sector partnerships as well, and to contribute to synergies within the system across public and private sector processes and functions.
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Under the supervision of Chief of Health and Nutrition, the Health Specialist will support the development and preparation of the health programme and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the health programme (e.g. health system strengthening especially on strengthening primary health care system, maternal, neonatal, child survival/development) within the country programme.
The Health Specialist will provide technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
The Emergency section in ECARO is looking to recruit a motivated Emergency Officer P2 TA in its O/P Istanbul Turkiye, whom under the supervision of the Regional Advisor Emergency will will support the UNICEF ECARO Emergency and Partnerships Teams in the coordination and management of the ongoing Ukraine Refugee Response, as well as other humanitarian responses, by contributing to work streams around reporting, coordination, response planning and preparedness. Under the supervision of the Regional Emergency Adviser, and in close collaboration with the emergency and partnerships teams, regional sections and country teams, the Emergency Officer will ensure fulfilment of internal and external proposal, appeal development and reporting requirements and support internal coordination of the Ukraine Refugee Response and provide support to the regional Emergency Team to implement the region-wide emergency preparedness and response agenda.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is now recruiting a full-time dedicated resource person to provide programmatic and operational support to priority countries in the region to strengthen social protection and HCT delivery in fragile settings and emergencies.
The regional office post is based in Dakar, Senegal. The post holder will be part of the regional Social Policy team, which provides technical support and oversight to UNICEF country programmes in the fields of social protection, including cash transfers, public finance for children, local governance, and child poverty. The post contributes critically to the unit’s work on social protection, with a special focus on fragile settings and emergencies.
The supervisor of the post is the Regional Social Policy Advisor. At the regional level, the staff member will work closely with the Emergency team, the RO’s Cash Task Force, and sector focal points. At global level, the team member will be part of UNICEF’s global Child Poverty and Social Protection team, and work closely with the global Humanitarian Cash Transfer Team. The staff member will support the RO to provide overall regional guidance as well as provide direct support to priority country offices in the region.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support local government of Karnali Province in the adaptation of the School Education Sector Plan (SESP). The consultant will be engaged for 12 months and will be based in Surkhet field office.
UNICEF Honduras is looking for an Administrative Assistant to executing a broad variety of routine tasks and some specialized for the respective section, requiring thorough knowledge of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and policies.
The Chief of Youth Engagement Section is to ensure that UNICEF has a proactive and strategic approach to the engagement of young people in advocacy and communication at global level and that from HQ it adequately supports youth engagement capacities and initiatives at regional and global level.
The Child Protection Specialist will provide strategic leadership on the area of alternative care in the UNICEF Malaysia Country Office, improve the evidence base for systemic reform of the alternative care system in Malaysia, and will engage in dialogue for sustainable programme development, advocacy, partnership and coalition building.
UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa is recruiting a regional Communication Specialist who will be accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the · West and Central Africa, and at a global level.
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional Consultant (Evaluation) to work with EOF’s program team and provide strategic and technical advice on the design and implementation of country-level monitoring, evaluation and learning across all three of our portfolios: early childhood care and education, basic education, and skills for employment.
As focal point of administrative management services in the UNICEF Global Shared Services Center and Central Services Center (CSC), Budapest, the incumbent is accountable for delivery of efficient and cost-effective administrative support services, providing guidance and management of administrative staff. Ensures the office’s administrative operations and services are in compliance with the organization's policy, procedures, rules and regulations. The Administrative Officer reports to the Operations Manager P4 and ensures that the unit is providing added value through innovative approaches.
The ICT Specialist (Salesforce) reports to the Systems Analyst, with the Chief of PFP-ICT as the Second Reporting Officer.
The PFP division aims to target ambitious goals in its 2022-25 strategic plan built around income, influence, partnership, and cross-cutting areas of work, focusing on digital first. The related business activities require support to the large-scale and complex UNICEF business applications and information systems pillars used by the PFP division and the PSFR countries, as well as COs and HQs with partnership and/or fundraising operations. These pillars include Supporter Relationship Management, Marketing and Fundraising Management, Communication and Advocacy, Analytics & Business Intelligence, and Knowledge Management.
This post is based in Valencia, a headquarters duty station, and is part of the PFP-ICT Applications Support unit, which manages and supports the analysis of business requirements for applications, the identification or development, the implementation as well as the operations of business application solutions.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, support the Country Office establishes and deepens financial and non-financial partnerships with resource partners, through partnerships development, relationships and contributions management, and donor reporting. The key result is that adequate resources are mobilized to implement the UNICEF Niger country programme and reach expected results for women and children.
To support education and employment of Ukrainian adolescents and youth (aged 10 to 24) inside and outside Ukraine, UNICEF developed a regional initiative – PATHWAYS – that aims to provide them with opportunities for continued education, skills building and a successful transition to employment. The three pathways are:
1. Access to and completion of formal secondary education and/or TVET: Support students to enroll and remain in secondary education or TVET, gaining critical knowledge and skills for their well-being and future employment.
2. First job opportunities: Partnering with private and public sectors to provide (paid) internships or apprenticeships for secondary school/TVET students in industries (including green jobs) that are aligned with adolescents’ professional aspirations to prepare them for their future transition to the labour market.
3. Flexible learning and upskilling: For youth currently in employment, create opportunities for additional skilling and/or continuation of their regular schooling while working
The Programme Manager (Connectivity Credits Lead) is entrusted with spearheading the creation and strategic evolution of the Global Connectivity Marketplace. This role involves comprehensive responsibility for the marketplace's concept development, ensuring it is grounded in a solid understanding of the regulatory, legal, and financial landscapes.
The Programme Manager is the architect behind the platform's operational framework, harmonizing the efforts of a specialized team across geographies, notably in Geneva and Barcelona. In partnership with global tech leaders and governments, particularly the Swiss Government, the incumbent is instrumental in fostering relationships that enhance the marketplace's international functionality and influence.
The Market Development Specialist (Innovative Finance) at UNICEF's Giga initiative plays a crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Tasked with the intricate job of understanding and navigating unconventional asset markets, this position is central to developing a unique marketplace for connectivity credits. The role demands a deep dive into financial modeling, leveraging innovative technologies such as blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) to build a transparent and efficient trading platform.
In this position, the specialist is responsible for tailoring market strategies to diverse regulatory and economic landscapes across various countries. This involves close collaboration with in-country teams to understand local market dynamics and regulatory constraints. The success in this position not only advances Giga's goal of global connectivity but also bridges the digital divide, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
UNICEF is seeking for a Pilot Project Coordinator (Connectivity Credits) to join Giga, a UNICEF-ITU initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the establishment of the Connectivity Credits system. Tasked with being a bridge between on-the-ground implementation in specific pilot countries, and a digital product team that is building a scalable global marketplace, this role is key to ensuring that what the Connectivity Credits becomes is based on learnings from real users and stakeholders in countries.
Success in this role will mean that Connectivity Credits is proven as a viable and attractive method for financing local, small ISPs that can connect the second half of the world, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
We are seeking an experienced Connectivity Credits Technical Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The Technical Expert will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for the development of the Giga Connectivity Credits Marketplace (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/how-connectivity-credits-could-help-billions-get-online/), a blockchain-based system designed to incentivize companies to provide sustained internet access to underserved communities.
If you have a passion for creating impact and a desire to contribute to closing the digital divide, join us as we empower every young person with information, opportunity, and choice. Your work will not only connect schools but also spark socio-economic growth by turning education into a gateway for community-wide advancement.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built, we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Under the direct supervision of the Business Analysis Manager (Partnerships) - UNISON, the Business Analysis Officer is expected to work in the planning, design, development, testing and roll-out of any new requirements identified by Public Partnerships users, and to support public sector partnerships stakeholders to understand and derive value from UNISON. The incumbent will be a vital link between the business and technical teams and be responsible for drafting documents, conducting trainings, and consulting and coordinating with relevant HQ teams as well as Country Offices and Regional Offices, to support effective integration and drive user adoption for public sector partnerships.
This role is expected to take ownership for coordination across teams working on public sector partnerships, responding to operational issues, and communicating to the wider UNISON business and technical teams. The incumbent will demonstrate strong ability to effectively self-manage priorities and be able to collaborate effectively between end users and technical teams.
The incumbent will work closely with the technical team (Salesforce Solution lead, Integration developer, Salesforce support resources, contracted providers of Salesforce apps) in the rollout and adoption of any new technical solutions. While the focus will be primarily on solutions and uptake for teams working on public sector partnerships across the organization, the incumbent is expected to be familiar with and backstop on the general workings of UNISON for private sector partnerships as well, and to contribute to synergies within the system across public and private sector processes and functions.
Readvertisement. Those who have applied, need not resubmit their applications.
Under the supervision of Chief of Health and Nutrition, the Health Specialist will support the development and preparation of the health programme and will be responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the health programme (e.g. health system strengthening especially on strengthening primary health care system, maternal, neonatal, child survival/development) within the country programme.
The Health Specialist will provide technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
The Emergency section in ECARO is looking to recruit a motivated Emergency Officer P2 TA in its O/P Istanbul Turkiye, whom under the supervision of the Regional Advisor Emergency will will support the UNICEF ECARO Emergency and Partnerships Teams in the coordination and management of the ongoing Ukraine Refugee Response, as well as other humanitarian responses, by contributing to work streams around reporting, coordination, response planning and preparedness. Under the supervision of the Regional Emergency Adviser, and in close collaboration with the emergency and partnerships teams, regional sections and country teams, the Emergency Officer will ensure fulfilment of internal and external proposal, appeal development and reporting requirements and support internal coordination of the Ukraine Refugee Response and provide support to the regional Emergency Team to implement the region-wide emergency preparedness and response agenda.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is now recruiting a full-time dedicated resource person to provide programmatic and operational support to priority countries in the region to strengthen social protection and HCT delivery in fragile settings and emergencies.
The regional office post is based in Dakar, Senegal. The post holder will be part of the regional Social Policy team, which provides technical support and oversight to UNICEF country programmes in the fields of social protection, including cash transfers, public finance for children, local governance, and child poverty. The post contributes critically to the unit’s work on social protection, with a special focus on fragile settings and emergencies.
The supervisor of the post is the Regional Social Policy Advisor. At the regional level, the staff member will work closely with the Emergency team, the RO’s Cash Task Force, and sector focal points. At global level, the team member will be part of UNICEF’s global Child Poverty and Social Protection team, and work closely with the global Humanitarian Cash Transfer Team. The staff member will support the RO to provide overall regional guidance as well as provide direct support to priority country offices in the region.
UNICEF Nepal Country Office is looking for committed professional and expert to support local government of Karnali Province in the adaptation of the School Education Sector Plan (SESP). The consultant will be engaged for 12 months and will be based in Surkhet field office.
UNICEF Honduras is looking for an Administrative Assistant to executing a broad variety of routine tasks and some specialized for the respective section, requiring thorough knowledge of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and policies.
The Chief of Youth Engagement Section is to ensure that UNICEF has a proactive and strategic approach to the engagement of young people in advocacy and communication at global level and that from HQ it adequately supports youth engagement capacities and initiatives at regional and global level.
The Child Protection Specialist will provide strategic leadership on the area of alternative care in the UNICEF Malaysia Country Office, improve the evidence base for systemic reform of the alternative care system in Malaysia, and will engage in dialogue for sustainable programme development, advocacy, partnership and coalition building.
UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa is recruiting a regional Communication Specialist who will be accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the · West and Central Africa, and at a global level.
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional Consultant (Evaluation) to work with EOF’s program team and provide strategic and technical advice on the design and implementation of country-level monitoring, evaluation and learning across all three of our portfolios: early childhood care and education, basic education, and skills for employment.
As focal point of administrative management services in the UNICEF Global Shared Services Center and Central Services Center (CSC), Budapest, the incumbent is accountable for delivery of efficient and cost-effective administrative support services, providing guidance and management of administrative staff. Ensures the office’s administrative operations and services are in compliance with the organization's policy, procedures, rules and regulations. The Administrative Officer reports to the Operations Manager P4 and ensures that the unit is providing added value through innovative approaches.
The ICT Specialist (Salesforce) reports to the Systems Analyst, with the Chief of PFP-ICT as the Second Reporting Officer.
The PFP division aims to target ambitious goals in its 2022-25 strategic plan built around income, influence, partnership, and cross-cutting areas of work, focusing on digital first. The related business activities require support to the large-scale and complex UNICEF business applications and information systems pillars used by the PFP division and the PSFR countries, as well as COs and HQs with partnership and/or fundraising operations. These pillars include Supporter Relationship Management, Marketing and Fundraising Management, Communication and Advocacy, Analytics & Business Intelligence, and Knowledge Management.
This post is based in Valencia, a headquarters duty station, and is part of the PFP-ICT Applications Support unit, which manages and supports the analysis of business requirements for applications, the identification or development, the implementation as well as the operations of business application solutions.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.