UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in producing the donors’ reports; to support for the already scheduled reports to be submitted until the end of September 2025 as well as support for the development of new donor proposals and support in grants management through review of reprogramming requests and coordination of verification exercises as needed.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB 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.
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basiswithpublic 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 country office, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
The Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all UCHI Nutrition Programme activities in their allocated districts. Additionally, the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will back-stop the District Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, in close collaboration with the District Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinating Committee (DMECC) with the aim of strengthening the government systems.
The position supports the strengthening of UNICEF's supply chain through comprehensive logistics information analysis, expertise in logistics information systems, and technical assistance to Country Offices (CO) in the effective use of information systems and VISION warehouse modules. The incumbent will also play a key role in enhancing global logistics performance by providing regular monitoring and analysis, enabling Supply Division (SD) management, Country Offices, and Regional Offices to take timely and informed corrective actions.
Additionally, the role supports UNICEF’s end-to-end delivery monitoring and visibility strategy by working closely with Country Offices, Regional Offices, procurement centers, and emergency units. The incumbent will contribute to the development and enhancement of delivery models, systems strengthening, risk mitigation, monitoring tools, and capacity-building initiatives, thereby reinforcing the effectiveness and resilience of UNICEF's supply chains.
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.
Giga’s mission is to support governments to connect all schools in the world by 2030, so children and young people can have access to information, opportunity, and choice. Alongside internet connectivity, it is essential that students and teachers have the necessary devices like tablets and computers for accessing the wealth of resources available on the Internet for education. Meaningful connectivity is characterized by sufficient speed, an adequate device, enough data, and frequent connection. Giga collaborates with the industry and governmental bodies to ensure that schools receive high-speed, quality-assured connectivity with sufficient data for educational purposes. This consultancy will assist UNICEF in building a framework, leveraging Giga’s experience in connectivity, to integrate cost-effective and adequate devices for schools that are connected.
The Device Expert will survey the supplier landscape and available solutions, spot market trends, advise on suitable device specifications for education according to different schools and countries’ context, and outline strategies to procure devices economically, utilizing Giga’s experience in connecting schools, procurement, and partnerships with various organizations.
Join us as the Senior Health Adviser, Integrated Service Delivery, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing collaboration between immunization and other UNICEF programs, such as maternal and child health, nutrition, education, WASH, and social protection, supported by Gavi.
UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office (MENARO) invites qualified subject matter experts and individual consultants to express their interest in being included in the Regional Roster. There are four key areas that UNICEF is looking for experts in:
1. Social Protection.
2. Cash-based Transfers.
3. Public Finance for Children.
4. Child Poverty.
5. Local governance including child friendly cities, and urbanization.
Sous la direction du Chef de section du programme Education, en étroite collaboration/orientation technique avec le JPO chargé de l'inclusion des personnes handicapées et le P4 gestionnaire du programme Genre, et sous la supervision directe du P3 / Spécialiste en Education – Accès, Inclusion et Qualité basés à Antananarivo, le/la consultant(e) individuel (le) sera responsable de l’élaboration, par un processus inclusif et multisectoriel, du document de la SNEIG à Madagascar, incluant un plan opérationnel budgétisé.
The Child Protection Officer will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by UNICEF and provide technical support to the Protection Sector that is accountable for coordinating actions aiming at responding to the needs of those who are affected by the emergency. In his/her effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the CPiE Specialist is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, to support the coordination of sectoral responses and inter-sectoral collaboration at national and the sub-national level in the field of CPiE.
UNICEF Iran seeks an experienced, committed and highly motivated Deputy Representative, Operations at the P-4 level. As a Strategic Business Partner and Deputy for the Head of the Office, the incumbent will be responsible to lead for results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in all operational contexts.
Building on the results of the Shock Responsive Social Protection Readiness Assessment, National consultant is expected to support drafting the National Action Plan on improving the shock responsiveness of the social protection system by introducing Humanitarian Cash Transfers into the country’s social transfers support system, administered by the Pension Fund of Turkmenistan at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Turkmenistan.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of programme assistant for polio for the country office and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. We are looking for someone who enjoys thinking out of the box and a high-paced working environment, is solution-oriented, and able to quickly establish strong working relations with others. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in producing the donors’ reports; to support for the already scheduled reports to be submitted until the end of September 2025 as well as support for the development of new donor proposals and support in grants management through review of reprogramming requests and coordination of verification exercises as needed.
UNICEF Togo is seeking for a passionate and skilled Health & Nutrition Officer, NOB 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.
The review of UNICEF's Operations Centre (OPSCEN) is part of the EMOPS initiative to improve support to field offices and enhance crisis response. Since its 1996 establishment, OPSCEN has provided 24/7 global information and communication services, starting with the Kosovo crisis in 1999. The upcoming “OPSCEN of the Future/OPSCEN 2.0” review will evaluate OPSCEN’s capabilities, services, and future needs to boost efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support UNICEF’s senior leaders in decision-making for global Level 3 emergencies. This review will align with the “EMOPS 2.0” strategy and build on previous assessments to improve business continuity, knowledge management, and visibility.
The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so. UNICEF’S evaluation function, along with the evaluation units of many other UN agencies, are a part of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), an interagency professional network that aims to promote, strengthen and advocate for a robust, influential, independent and credible evaluation function throughout the UN system. In the past few years, as a part of these efforts to understand and promote the use of evaluative methods, the UNEG Methods Working Group has developed a compendium of methods (Issue I and II) with illustrative examples and organized dedicated learning seminars. These endeavors received very positive informal feedback, but they were not necessarily based on systematic assessment of methods currently used or misused by the UN evaluation community. We know relatively little of the extent to which standard social science methods and specific evaluative approaches were applied in UN evaluation practice- what are the common patterns in approaches used? what are some of the systematic issues related to the methodological approaches of UN evaluations?
The main objective of the Quality Review is to provide an evidence base on the quality of the CPDs submitted in 2024 and to determine the extent to which they:
- Convey UNICEF’s commitment to foundational norms and programming principles.
- Adhere to the relevant guidance or guidelines.
- Are results-based, coherent and convincing: conveying UNICEF’s relevance, strategic positioning, comparative advantage or value-added in the country
The main objective of the review of the Country Programme Planning is to determine the extent to which the Country Offices:
- Adhered to the new CPP guidance.
- Promoted the reflection and conceptualization of systemic changes necessary to contribute to outcome-level results in the lives of children.
- Have designed country programmes for scale and impact, that effectively leverage partnerships towards the realization of higher results for children.
- Have benefitted from the strategic intentions of the new CPP methodology aimed at:
o Strengthening the evidence base and linking evidence better to programme interventions
o Better reflecting on government and partners' contributions and commitment in line with National Development Plans
o Clearly laying out the systemic changes that need to occur for Outcomes to be achieved
o Better combining emergency and development interventions towards these systemic changes
o Providing clear “visibility” of the private sector in our work (if applicable)
Accountable for developing, managing, coordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basiswithpublic 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 country office, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition
The Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all UCHI Nutrition Programme activities in their allocated districts. Additionally, the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Consultants will back-stop the District Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, in close collaboration with the District Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinating Committee (DMECC) with the aim of strengthening the government systems.
The position supports the strengthening of UNICEF's supply chain through comprehensive logistics information analysis, expertise in logistics information systems, and technical assistance to Country Offices (CO) in the effective use of information systems and VISION warehouse modules. The incumbent will also play a key role in enhancing global logistics performance by providing regular monitoring and analysis, enabling Supply Division (SD) management, Country Offices, and Regional Offices to take timely and informed corrective actions.
Additionally, the role supports UNICEF’s end-to-end delivery monitoring and visibility strategy by working closely with Country Offices, Regional Offices, procurement centers, and emergency units. The incumbent will contribute to the development and enhancement of delivery models, systems strengthening, risk mitigation, monitoring tools, and capacity-building initiatives, thereby reinforcing the effectiveness and resilience of UNICEF's supply chains.
The Senior Procurement Services Specialist, with support from the PS Manager and the PS Specialist through a matrix management set-up, will lead the sub-unit and will work in collaboration especially with Policy and Partnership unit (PnP) but also across PSC as well as with other centers to provide strategic leadership and support at the different phases of special projects and new initiatives (preparing of CE cover letters for complex and sensitive projects and transactions, managing and having oversight of all operational aspects falling under Procurement Services, ensuring correctness of transaction documents, consistent quality review and signatory in line with set table of authority), streamlining and monitoring of transactions (including oversight on KPIs) and partnership management from an operational aspect (e.g. African Union) with particular focus on both supporting PnP as well as on facilitating BU engagement throughout the process.
Giga’s mission is to support governments to connect all schools in the world by 2030, so children and young people can have access to information, opportunity, and choice. Alongside internet connectivity, it is essential that students and teachers have the necessary devices like tablets and computers for accessing the wealth of resources available on the Internet for education. Meaningful connectivity is characterized by sufficient speed, an adequate device, enough data, and frequent connection. Giga collaborates with the industry and governmental bodies to ensure that schools receive high-speed, quality-assured connectivity with sufficient data for educational purposes. This consultancy will assist UNICEF in building a framework, leveraging Giga’s experience in connectivity, to integrate cost-effective and adequate devices for schools that are connected.
The Device Expert will survey the supplier landscape and available solutions, spot market trends, advise on suitable device specifications for education according to different schools and countries’ context, and outline strategies to procure devices economically, utilizing Giga’s experience in connecting schools, procurement, and partnerships with various organizations.
Join us as the Senior Health Adviser, Integrated Service Delivery, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing collaboration between immunization and other UNICEF programs, such as maternal and child health, nutrition, education, WASH, and social protection, supported by Gavi.
UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office (MENARO) invites qualified subject matter experts and individual consultants to express their interest in being included in the Regional Roster. There are four key areas that UNICEF is looking for experts in:
1. Social Protection.
2. Cash-based Transfers.
3. Public Finance for Children.
4. Child Poverty.
5. Local governance including child friendly cities, and urbanization.
Sous la direction du Chef de section du programme Education, en étroite collaboration/orientation technique avec le JPO chargé de l'inclusion des personnes handicapées et le P4 gestionnaire du programme Genre, et sous la supervision directe du P3 / Spécialiste en Education – Accès, Inclusion et Qualité basés à Antananarivo, le/la consultant(e) individuel (le) sera responsable de l’élaboration, par un processus inclusif et multisectoriel, du document de la SNEIG à Madagascar, incluant un plan opérationnel budgétisé.
The Child Protection Officer will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by UNICEF and provide technical support to the Protection Sector that is accountable for coordinating actions aiming at responding to the needs of those who are affected by the emergency. In his/her effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the CPiE Specialist is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, to support the coordination of sectoral responses and inter-sectoral collaboration at national and the sub-national level in the field of CPiE.
UNICEF Iran seeks an experienced, committed and highly motivated Deputy Representative, Operations at the P-4 level. As a Strategic Business Partner and Deputy for the Head of the Office, the incumbent will be responsible to lead for results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in all operational contexts.
Building on the results of the Shock Responsive Social Protection Readiness Assessment, National consultant is expected to support drafting the National Action Plan on improving the shock responsiveness of the social protection system by introducing Humanitarian Cash Transfers into the country’s social transfers support system, administered by the Pension Fund of Turkmenistan at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Turkmenistan.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office in Abuja, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of programme assistant for polio for the country office and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. We are looking for someone who enjoys thinking out of the box and a high-paced working environment, is solution-oriented, and able to quickly establish strong working relations with others. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.