Join UNICEF as an Advocacy Specialist (Communication) and help drive meaningful change for children and young people. We are seeking a strategic and results-oriented professional to lead impactful advocacy and communication initiatives, build influential partnerships and coalitions, manage digital and media campaigns, and transform complex policy issues into compelling narratives that inspire action.
UNICEF Sri Lanka is looking for a highly committed and self-sustaining professional who can contribute to the effective delivery of complex administrative and operational support services. The Administrative Associate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day functioning of office operations and service delivery.
Come join us in beautiful, complex, and diverse Malaysia to lead our high-performing child protection team and help deliver lasting results for children. As Chief, you will provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for the development, implementation, and monitoring of child protection programmes, while fostering partnerships with government, donors, UN agencies, the private sector, and business partners. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence national policies, contribute to the Malaysia MADANI framework and the 13th Malaysia Plan, and drive innovation to strengthen systems so that every child is protected, included, healthy, learning and able to realize their full potential.
Surveys conducted in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) over the past 5 years consistently show alarming rates of various forms of malnutrition among both children in adults. In Tonga, nearly six in every ten children and adolescents (5-19 years) are overweight and obese, while over a third of the children have been reported to be anemic. Sub-optimal diets are considered as the main key immediate driver for malnutrition in all its forms. Poor nutrition is a crucial risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Tonga, NCDs are the leading cause of mortality and take up a significant proportion of the health expenditure. Overall purchases from imported items are the main source of food access followed by small-scale agriculture production. Households in the lowest socio-economic quartile have the lowest food expenditure which is mostly on unhealthy foods as these are less expensive. In order to address the multi-faceted burden of malnutrition in Tonga, as the first pacific country to release a national NCD strategy in 2004, the public health efforts have progressed well, notably with the promotion of physical activities and tobacco cessation/control.
The objective of this consultancy is to recommend: i) an evidence-based, context-specific, and fit-for-purpose institutional set-up / structure within Ministry of Health in Tonga, which will allow optimal delivery of nutrition services through health systems and effective coordination of nutrition interventions across sectors; and ii) nutrition human resource capacity needed in other Ministries / entities to delivery in full, required multi-sectoral interventions for nutrition
Join UNICEF as an Advocacy Specialist (Communication) and help drive meaningful change for children and young people. We are seeking a strategic and results-oriented professional to lead impactful advocacy and communication initiatives, build influential partnerships and coalitions, manage digital and media campaigns, and transform complex policy issues into compelling narratives that inspire action.
UNICEF Sri Lanka is looking for a highly committed and self-sustaining professional who can contribute to the effective delivery of complex administrative and operational support services. The Administrative Associate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day functioning of office operations and service delivery.
Come join us in beautiful, complex, and diverse Malaysia to lead our high-performing child protection team and help deliver lasting results for children. As Chief, you will provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for the development, implementation, and monitoring of child protection programmes, while fostering partnerships with government, donors, UN agencies, the private sector, and business partners. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence national policies, contribute to the Malaysia MADANI framework and the 13th Malaysia Plan, and drive innovation to strengthen systems so that every child is protected, included, healthy, learning and able to realize their full potential.
Surveys conducted in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) over the past 5 years consistently show alarming rates of various forms of malnutrition among both children in adults. In Tonga, nearly six in every ten children and adolescents (5-19 years) are overweight and obese, while over a third of the children have been reported to be anemic. Sub-optimal diets are considered as the main key immediate driver for malnutrition in all its forms. Poor nutrition is a crucial risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Tonga, NCDs are the leading cause of mortality and take up a significant proportion of the health expenditure. Overall purchases from imported items are the main source of food access followed by small-scale agriculture production. Households in the lowest socio-economic quartile have the lowest food expenditure which is mostly on unhealthy foods as these are less expensive. In order to address the multi-faceted burden of malnutrition in Tonga, as the first pacific country to release a national NCD strategy in 2004, the public health efforts have progressed well, notably with the promotion of physical activities and tobacco cessation/control.
The objective of this consultancy is to recommend: i) an evidence-based, context-specific, and fit-for-purpose institutional set-up / structure within Ministry of Health in Tonga, which will allow optimal delivery of nutrition services through health systems and effective coordination of nutrition interventions across sectors; and ii) nutrition human resource capacity needed in other Ministries / entities to delivery in full, required multi-sectoral interventions for nutrition
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