The UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office is hiring a Social Policy Officer at the NO-A level on a temporary appointment contract to be based in the Solomon Islands Field Office. Under the supervision of the Social Policy Specialist, the Social Policy Officer is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy, from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results.
Guinea is a middle-income country facing significant challenges in child development and deprivation. According to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report, Guinea has an HDI of 0.480, ranking 178th out of 191 countries in 2023, reflecting its ongoing struggle with poverty and social development challenges. Since 1984, UNICEF has worked with the government and various partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to improve conditions for children.
The population of Guinea is projected to be around 15.2 million in 2025, with 63.4% living in rural areas and women comprising approximately 50.3% of the population. The annual growth rate remains steady at about 2.8%. Children under the age of 18 account for roughly 51% of the population, underscoring the critical need for child-focused interventions in areas such as health, education, and protection (World Population Review).
he Driver, at the G-2 level, provides reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
The Administrative & Finance Officer is responsible for executing a broad variety of standardized administrative and financial tasks requiring thorough knowledge of UNICEF administrative and financial procedures, processes, and policies. This post mainly supports the Operations Officer in the Field Office for delivery of efficient and cost-effective administrative support services, providing guidance for operations of administrative support services. This post ensures the office’s administrative operations and services are in compliance with the organization's administrative policy, procedures, rules and regulations. In this capacity, the need to project the image of a credible and reliable service provider is imperative to quality of process delivery, and the impact of work directly reflects on the overall reputation of the team in terms of responsiveness to client needs and quality of process execution. This post may supervise general service staff.
Under direct supervision of the Deputy Representative, the Planning and Monitoring Contractor will provide professional support throughout the programme cycle in preparing, coordinating, leading, managing and implementing a variety of tasks that contribute to the design, development, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on UNICEF programmes, and ensure that programs are designed and implemented for maximum impact for children.
The Market Research Manager, under the overall guidance and direction of the Chief of Audience and Market Insights, is accountable for managing market research projects, playing a key role in the formulation of UNICEF and PFP strategies, and ensuring the growth in the effective use of audience and market insight for hard-to-reach audiences.
The role holder is responsible for establishing research plans and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of goals according to plans, resource allocation, and strategies, and through collaboration that meets the requirements from the UNICEF Competency Framework as well as our organizational values.
The role holder will have shared responsibility for strategic recommendations for high value teams when delivering work that includes but is not limited to situation analysis, trends, brand tracking, audience quality, research that can support media plans, and measurement frameworks. Additionally, the role holder will have responsibilities in decision making concerning AMI funds and human resources that have a significant impact on hard-to-reach audience projects.
UNICEF Timor-Leste is seeking for a National/International Consultant to develop Performance-Based Incentive guidelines for Community Health Volunteers in Timor-Leste
Consultant International pour Appui technique à l’élaboration de la stratégie nationale de la triple élimination de la transmission Mère-Enfant du VIH, de la syphilis et de l’hépatite B
You will be accountable for the accomplishment of the stated key end-results by providing professional expertise and assistance in information/data collection, statistics and data analysis, monitoring, preparation of reports, communication and partnership, and in implementing training programmes for national and sub-national data collection, monitoringcapacity building with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of primary stakeholders.
Since November 2022, and in response to such operational challenges, The Italy outpost of the UNICEF Regional office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) has been working in the framework of the EU-funded Project “PROTECT”, whose aim is strengthening the capacity of the Italian protection and reception system from arrival to all the subsequent reception phases, to ensure protection and care for the most vulnerable refugee and migrant children, including those transitioning to adulthood, UASC, families, and women survived/at risk of gender-based violence. As the project, which has 27-months duration, is entering its final phases, UNICEF is gearing up towards the preparation and finalization of the final project evaluation. The final evaluation is a key deliverable of the project and needs to be carried out by external personnel, against an evaluation plan already agreed by the Donor.
Against the above-described context, UNICEF is seeking to hire n. 2 Consultants:
n. 1 Senior Evaluation Consultant & Team leader(Consultant 1)
n. 1 Junior Evaluation Consultant (Consultant 2)
UNICEF Honduras busca consultor/a nacional o internacional para realizar evaluación de las iniciativas a nivel municipal de planes de preparación y respuesta a emergencia, planes de seguridad del agua y acción climática infantil
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.
UNICEF en Panamá aborda los principales desafíos que impactan la vida de los niños, niñas y adolescentes,implementando programas para contribuir a mejorar su calidad de vida y a garantizar de sus derechos, plasmados en la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño.
UNICEF está comprometido con la diversidad y la inclusión dentro de su equipo de trabajo, y alienta a todos los candidatos, independientemente de su género, nacionalidad, origen religioso y étnico, incluidas las personas que viven con discapacidades, a postularse para formar parte de la organización.
UNICEF is establishing a dedicated team to lead and develop UNISON, the organization’s Salesforce-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Recognizing the importance of nurturing and optimizing partnerships to ensure critical resourcing and support to its work, UNICEF rolled out UNISON globally for public and private partnership management. While the project phase comes to an end in December 2024, the UNISON team will continue to foster this ongoing change in the way the organization manages partnerships, working to increase uptake and systematic usage of UNISON across the spectrum of internal stakeholders and supporting the tool’s evolution. The goal is to maintain and manage all donor partner relationships on UNISON globally, driving revenue growth and promoting partnership knowledge-sharing and coordination; tracking income and pipeline funding, and enabling increased financial and non-financial support to drive results for children.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Associates perform procedural and some specialized activities pertaining to UNICEF’s ICT systems, which include desktop administration and server operations. Specialized activities typically pertain to the installation and routine configuration of ICT system components and user orientation. Procedural activities include all other processes that may not require the application of specialized information technology training and knowledge, such as maintaining technical and user documentation and/or serving as focal point for receipt and processing of user requests.
This position is placed in Kharkiv Field Office of UNICEF. The incumbent is expected to have frequent trips to Dnipro Field Office to provide support there, when needed.
UNICEF Uzbekistan, in collaboration with the National Agency for Social Protection (NASP) under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, seeks to undertake a consultancy with the overall objective of operationalizing and strengthening the formal foster care system. The consultancy will focus on developing key components necessary to ensure a well-organized, standardized, and supported foster care system in line with international best practices and the specific cultural context of Uzbekistan.
Under the direct supervision of the Partnerships Manager, this post will develop new partnerships and manage key existing partnerships with the sector. The incumbent will develop and implement fundraising strategies to focus on maximizing value from India-based major donors and foundations in support of the country programme’s priority focus.
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
UNICEF is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and development aid to children worldwide.
In the context of public partnerships, Partnerships Risk Management is an organizational and strategic function that enables the division to anticipate, identify and mitigate risks associated with public sector funding to UNICEF, which amounted to over $6 billion in 2023.
Positioned within the Systems, Analytics, Risk, Planning and Operations (SARPO) team of PPD and under the supervision of the Partnerships Risk Specialist, the Partnerships Risk Management Intern will be an integral part of the Partnerships Risk team within PPD and contribute to the day-to-day operations, with a focus on tasks related to compliance and monitoring, donor agreements review and tracking of obligations from a public partnerships perspective, UNICEF knowledge management in the field of risk and related policies, and analytics. The internship offers a dynamic set of assignments and will provide exposure to the operations of UNICEF as an agency of the United Nations, with a specific focus on public partnerships risk management.
UNICEF Country Office in Greece (GCO) is seeking to establish a Long-term Agreement (LTA) with a Public Health – Nutrition Consultant to provide overall technical and scientific support in the development of policies, nutrition strategies, researches and the implementation of various programme activities focusing on addressing child obesity, emphasizing the issues of nutrition, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles for children across prevention levels.
The UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office is hiring a Social Policy Officer at the NO-A level on a temporary appointment contract to be based in the Solomon Islands Field Office. Under the supervision of the Social Policy Specialist, the Social Policy Officer is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy, from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results.
Guinea is a middle-income country facing significant challenges in child development and deprivation. According to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report, Guinea has an HDI of 0.480, ranking 178th out of 191 countries in 2023, reflecting its ongoing struggle with poverty and social development challenges. Since 1984, UNICEF has worked with the government and various partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations, to improve conditions for children.
The population of Guinea is projected to be around 15.2 million in 2025, with 63.4% living in rural areas and women comprising approximately 50.3% of the population. The annual growth rate remains steady at about 2.8%. Children under the age of 18 account for roughly 51% of the population, underscoring the critical need for child-focused interventions in areas such as health, education, and protection (World Population Review).
he Driver, at the G-2 level, provides reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
The Administrative & Finance Officer is responsible for executing a broad variety of standardized administrative and financial tasks requiring thorough knowledge of UNICEF administrative and financial procedures, processes, and policies. This post mainly supports the Operations Officer in the Field Office for delivery of efficient and cost-effective administrative support services, providing guidance for operations of administrative support services. This post ensures the office’s administrative operations and services are in compliance with the organization's administrative policy, procedures, rules and regulations. In this capacity, the need to project the image of a credible and reliable service provider is imperative to quality of process delivery, and the impact of work directly reflects on the overall reputation of the team in terms of responsiveness to client needs and quality of process execution. This post may supervise general service staff.
Under direct supervision of the Deputy Representative, the Planning and Monitoring Contractor will provide professional support throughout the programme cycle in preparing, coordinating, leading, managing and implementing a variety of tasks that contribute to the design, development, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on UNICEF programmes, and ensure that programs are designed and implemented for maximum impact for children.
The Market Research Manager, under the overall guidance and direction of the Chief of Audience and Market Insights, is accountable for managing market research projects, playing a key role in the formulation of UNICEF and PFP strategies, and ensuring the growth in the effective use of audience and market insight for hard-to-reach audiences.
The role holder is responsible for establishing research plans and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of goals according to plans, resource allocation, and strategies, and through collaboration that meets the requirements from the UNICEF Competency Framework as well as our organizational values.
The role holder will have shared responsibility for strategic recommendations for high value teams when delivering work that includes but is not limited to situation analysis, trends, brand tracking, audience quality, research that can support media plans, and measurement frameworks. Additionally, the role holder will have responsibilities in decision making concerning AMI funds and human resources that have a significant impact on hard-to-reach audience projects.
UNICEF Timor-Leste is seeking for a National/International Consultant to develop Performance-Based Incentive guidelines for Community Health Volunteers in Timor-Leste
Consultant International pour Appui technique à l’élaboration de la stratégie nationale de la triple élimination de la transmission Mère-Enfant du VIH, de la syphilis et de l’hépatite B
You will be accountable for the accomplishment of the stated key end-results by providing professional expertise and assistance in information/data collection, statistics and data analysis, monitoring, preparation of reports, communication and partnership, and in implementing training programmes for national and sub-national data collection, monitoringcapacity building with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of primary stakeholders.
Since November 2022, and in response to such operational challenges, The Italy outpost of the UNICEF Regional office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) has been working in the framework of the EU-funded Project “PROTECT”, whose aim is strengthening the capacity of the Italian protection and reception system from arrival to all the subsequent reception phases, to ensure protection and care for the most vulnerable refugee and migrant children, including those transitioning to adulthood, UASC, families, and women survived/at risk of gender-based violence. As the project, which has 27-months duration, is entering its final phases, UNICEF is gearing up towards the preparation and finalization of the final project evaluation. The final evaluation is a key deliverable of the project and needs to be carried out by external personnel, against an evaluation plan already agreed by the Donor.
Against the above-described context, UNICEF is seeking to hire n. 2 Consultants:
n. 1 Senior Evaluation Consultant & Team leader(Consultant 1)
n. 1 Junior Evaluation Consultant (Consultant 2)
UNICEF Honduras busca consultor/a nacional o internacional para realizar evaluación de las iniciativas a nivel municipal de planes de preparación y respuesta a emergencia, planes de seguridad del agua y acción climática infantil
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.
UNICEF en Panamá aborda los principales desafíos que impactan la vida de los niños, niñas y adolescentes,implementando programas para contribuir a mejorar su calidad de vida y a garantizar de sus derechos, plasmados en la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño.
UNICEF está comprometido con la diversidad y la inclusión dentro de su equipo de trabajo, y alienta a todos los candidatos, independientemente de su género, nacionalidad, origen religioso y étnico, incluidas las personas que viven con discapacidades, a postularse para formar parte de la organización.
UNICEF is establishing a dedicated team to lead and develop UNISON, the organization’s Salesforce-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Recognizing the importance of nurturing and optimizing partnerships to ensure critical resourcing and support to its work, UNICEF rolled out UNISON globally for public and private partnership management. While the project phase comes to an end in December 2024, the UNISON team will continue to foster this ongoing change in the way the organization manages partnerships, working to increase uptake and systematic usage of UNISON across the spectrum of internal stakeholders and supporting the tool’s evolution. The goal is to maintain and manage all donor partner relationships on UNISON globally, driving revenue growth and promoting partnership knowledge-sharing and coordination; tracking income and pipeline funding, and enabling increased financial and non-financial support to drive results for children.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Associates perform procedural and some specialized activities pertaining to UNICEF’s ICT systems, which include desktop administration and server operations. Specialized activities typically pertain to the installation and routine configuration of ICT system components and user orientation. Procedural activities include all other processes that may not require the application of specialized information technology training and knowledge, such as maintaining technical and user documentation and/or serving as focal point for receipt and processing of user requests.
This position is placed in Kharkiv Field Office of UNICEF. The incumbent is expected to have frequent trips to Dnipro Field Office to provide support there, when needed.
UNICEF Uzbekistan, in collaboration with the National Agency for Social Protection (NASP) under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, seeks to undertake a consultancy with the overall objective of operationalizing and strengthening the formal foster care system. The consultancy will focus on developing key components necessary to ensure a well-organized, standardized, and supported foster care system in line with international best practices and the specific cultural context of Uzbekistan.
Under the direct supervision of the Partnerships Manager, this post will develop new partnerships and manage key existing partnerships with the sector. The incumbent will develop and implement fundraising strategies to focus on maximizing value from India-based major donors and foundations in support of the country programme’s priority focus.
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
UNICEF is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and development aid to children worldwide.
In the context of public partnerships, Partnerships Risk Management is an organizational and strategic function that enables the division to anticipate, identify and mitigate risks associated with public sector funding to UNICEF, which amounted to over $6 billion in 2023.
Positioned within the Systems, Analytics, Risk, Planning and Operations (SARPO) team of PPD and under the supervision of the Partnerships Risk Specialist, the Partnerships Risk Management Intern will be an integral part of the Partnerships Risk team within PPD and contribute to the day-to-day operations, with a focus on tasks related to compliance and monitoring, donor agreements review and tracking of obligations from a public partnerships perspective, UNICEF knowledge management in the field of risk and related policies, and analytics. The internship offers a dynamic set of assignments and will provide exposure to the operations of UNICEF as an agency of the United Nations, with a specific focus on public partnerships risk management.
UNICEF Country Office in Greece (GCO) is seeking to establish a Long-term Agreement (LTA) with a Public Health – Nutrition Consultant to provide overall technical and scientific support in the development of policies, nutrition strategies, researches and the implementation of various programme activities focusing on addressing child obesity, emphasizing the issues of nutrition, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles for children across prevention levels.