Join UNICEF’s Global WASH Practice and help accelerate access to safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation services for children and communities worldwide. Based in Nairobi, you will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to governments and UNICEF Country Offices, driving sanitation system strengthening, sector financing, policy reform, innovation, and equitable service delivery. You will lead global efforts across sanitation, WASH in Schools, and Menstrual Health and Hygiene, while supporting climate resilience, governance reforms, digital solutions, and resource mobilization. Working with partners across development and humanitarian settings, you will help shape policies, strengthen institutions, mobilize investments, and scale sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families. This is a unique opportunity to influence global WASH priorities and contribute to UNICEF’s mission of leaving no child behind
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate WASH Specialist to join the WASH team. The Specialist serves as UNICEF's lead technical advisor on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) systems strengthening, WASH sector engagement, WASH policy engagement, service delivery models, and decentralized implementation. The position provides technical leadership for integrated Climate-Resilient WASH, Child Survival, Nutrition, Health and Emergency Preparedness and Response programmes.
Join UNICEF as a WASH Officer and support the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes. Your role will provide technical, operational and administrative support to ensure the effective delivery of WASH interventions, strengthen partnerships with government and development partners, and contribute to programme results that improve child health, well-being and equitable access to essential services. The position also supports humanitarian preparedness and emergency response activities, knowledge management, innovation initiatives, and capacity-building efforts to strengthen sustainable WASH systems and outcomes.
The WASH Officer reports to the Chief of Health and Nutrition (P-4), the position contributes to the achievement of UNICEF Mexico´s child survival and development goals by advancing and integrated health, nutrition and WASH agenda. The incumbent provides technical and operational leadership to strengthen WASH systems and services, with a particular focus on community and institutional capacities that support improved child health and nutrition outcomes, including prevention of stunting. The role supportsthe development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme, while fostering intersectoral collaboration, advocacy and strategic engagement with government counterparts and key stakeholders to accelerate sustainable and scalable results for children.
Can you influence the decisions that shape Angola’s WASH agenda? Are you a respected WASH professional with the experience to guide policy, strengthen institutions, and mobilize partners towards a common vision? Do you thrive on turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions that improve the lives of children and communities? UNICEF Angola is seeking an exceptional WASH Specialist to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise and partnership engagement in support of equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services across the country. If you are ready to shape systems, influence change, and leave a lasting legacy for children in Angola, we encourage you to apply. For every child, safe water, sanitation, and a healthier future.
Do you have a passion for bringing safe, reliable, and climate-resilient water supply systems to communities, schools, and health facilities most in need?
UNICEF Pacific seeks to establish long term agreement one or multiple individual Water Supply Engineering Consultants for up to 300 working days, as and when required, over 36 months across Pacific Island countries. The consultant(s) will be home-based with extensive travel for site assessments and supervision, with periods at home/office for design, reporting and planning activities.
S/he will provide specialized technical expertise in site and water source assessments, water supply system design, hydraulic modelling, quality assurance, and technical documentation. The consultant(s) will support the design, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance planning of climate- and disaster-resilient water supply systems for communities, schools and health facilities, ensuring systems are safe, reliable, efficient, durable and resilient to Pacific environmental conditions.
Under the supervision of the WASH Officer, the WASH Technical Consultant for Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is accountable for the timely and quality implementation of the WASH-MHM program, under the CER Output 5.2, with particular focus on the promoting Menstrual Hygiene Management and the institutionalization of the Oky Menstrual Period Tracking App in the Philippines.
The implementation Oky under the TUSIP program and the emerging climate-environment agenda for MHM has expanded the opportunity to reach more adolescents in the Philippines. To maximize this opportunity, the WASH-MHM program, particularly the Oky project, requires continued personnel support for technical assistance delivery, marketing and user acquisition, and systems strengthening. UNICEF needs the services of a dedicated consultant to support Oky Philippines and WASH-MHM tasks/activities and provide technical assistance to CSO and government implementing partners
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.
To expand the pool of specialized expertise available to support WASH financing initiatives, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Financing Experts who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term consultancy assignments on need basis.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant as Service Design Advisor who will provide external benchmarking, industry insight, and specialist service-design advice across the four priority service streams. The Advisor will engage relevant Global Business Services and Shared Services leaders, professional networks, and specialized service providers; identify proven practices and emerging approaches; and translate findings into practical recommendations for the project team.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will work inder the strategic direction of BPM and in collaboration with the service line business owners, the Service Design Investment Project Manager (IPM) will provide the overall service design vision and framework, project management, governance support and cross-service coherence.
The Technician Associate provides hands-on technical support for automated warehouse equipment and related infrastructure to help ensure the safe, reliable and efficient operation of material handling systems and associated equipment. The position reports to the Senior Technical Associate, WIMC, and collaborates with Warehouse Operations, technical colleagues, Engineering and Quality functions, and external maintenance and automation service providers. Contributes to maintaining compliance with applicable international and regulatory standards in supply chain operations, especially for regulated products such medicines. Adherence to mandatory training requirements and internal procedures to maintain product safety and quality throughout the supply chain.
UNICEF Supply Division operates a major humanitarian supply hub supporting the procurement, storage and distribution of essential supplies to children and families worldwide. The Copenhagen warehouse uses automated material handling equipment (MHE), warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse control systems (WCS), conveyors, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), packaging equipment and associated control infrastructure. Reliable interaction between warehouse systems and physical equipment is essential to safe and uninterrupted warehouse operations. To strengthen in-house WMS and controls capability, support business continuity and retain operational knowledge, the Technical Associate (Warehouse Management Systems and Controls) provides daily systems support, fault diagnosis, maintenance coordination and continuous improvement in the automated warehouse environment.
Under the direct guidance and supervision of the Head of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, the Emergency Officer (AAP and Safeguarding/PSEA) will be responsible for coordinating and/or supporting the design and implementation of strategies and action plans to scale up AAP interventions and processes under the 2023-2026 Country Programme, ensuring that the views and priorities of affected population are incorporated into all stages of the programme cycle and effectively inform the work plans implemented with State organizations, Civil Society and Communities. The incumbent will also act as the Country Office technical focal point for Safeguarding and PSEA, supporting the Head of Office and the Country Management Team in the implementation of the UNICEF Policy on Safeguarding.
This assignment aims to support Education Cannot Wait (ECW) in strengthening the design, implementation, monitoring and quality assurance of education programmes in crisis-affected contexts. The consultant will provide technical and operational support for ECW’s country investments, including CORE programmes and the Acceleration Facility, while promoting high standards in protection, gender and inclusion, localization, climate resilience, safeguarding and accountability. The role will also contribute to strategic planning, portfolio management and programme performance, helping ensure high-quality, results-based education responses for children affected by emergencies.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), established under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT), houses the National Assessment Wing (NAW), which is mandated to design and implement assessments that measure student learning outcomes at national scale, including the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the Foundational Learning Study (FLS).
With technical support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) delivered principally through Dr. Abdullah Ferdous, Principal Researcher/Psychometrician and funding channelled through the World Bank's Data & Research in Education (DARE) technical assistance programme, NAW/PIE has successfully developed, piloted and administered NAT-2026 and FLS-2026. FLS-2026 is Pakistan's first nationally representative assessment of Grade 3 literacy and numeracy, anchored in the Federal Foundational Learning Policy 2024 and designed for alignment with the Global Proficiency Framework (GPF) and Minimum Proficiency Levels (MPLs) so that Pakistan can report against SDG indicator 4.1.1.
The objective of this assignment is for UNICEF Pakistan to provide targeted technical assistance to NAW/PIE for the specific set of NAT- and FLS-related activities that fall outside the current World Bank/DARE scope, so that Pakistan's first national foundational learning evidence base is completed, benchmarked, and reported to international standards without loss of methodological continuity or delay.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health to develop a context-appropriate, evidence-based NPM in Lao PDR, aligned with global and regional guidance and adapted to the national food environment.
The NPM will be developed through a Technical Working Group (TWG), following a structured approach that includes defining scope, adapting suitable WHO NPMs, identifying food categories, setting nutrient thresholds, and validating the model with different stakeholders, among others.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MoHHS) in Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), to strengthen breastfeeding promotion through improving implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in two main hospitals and their surrounding communities. Background Promotion of breastfeeding is a high impact intervention that plays a crucial role in ensuring children receive adequate nourishment. Breastfed children have a significantly reduced risk for both wasting and later childhood overweight or obesity. In RMI, one in every three children under five years of age are stunted. Nearly 5% of children in the same age group are overweight and another 4% are wasted. Sub-optimal infant feeding, including limited breastfeeding, is considered to be a critical driver of malnutrition in this context. In 1991, UNICEF and WHO jointly launched the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BHFI), which consolidated evidence on promoting breastfeeding within health facilities. The BFHI included “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”, which were subsequently updated in guidelines published in 2018. These guidelines titled, “Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding” are intended for use in health facilities providing maternity and newborn services to promote breastfeeding. As outlined in UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Program Document (MCPD) for 2023- 2027, UNICEF is committed to supporting the RMI and other Pacific island countries in strengthening capacities for improved, affordable, and equitable quality primary health care and nutrition services, including during emergencies. Within this framework, UNICEF works with MoHs and other partners to ensure that the health care systems are conducive to protect, promote and support breastfeeding practices The BFHI was previously implemented in the major hospital (Majuro) in RMI.
The primary objective of consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services
(MoHHS) in Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) and the State Department of Health in Federated States of Micronesia
(FSM) to scale up care for children with wasting and nutritional oedema based on 2023 WHO normative guidance. The
consultancy aims at strengthening the capacity of the Ministries of health to deliver Integrated Management of Acute
Malnutrition (IMAM) services with the expected quality of care, integrated into primary health care services and
supported by adequate monitoring and reporting.
Join UNICEF’s Global WASH Practice and help accelerate access to safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation services for children and communities worldwide. Based in Nairobi, you will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to governments and UNICEF Country Offices, driving sanitation system strengthening, sector financing, policy reform, innovation, and equitable service delivery. You will lead global efforts across sanitation, WASH in Schools, and Menstrual Health and Hygiene, while supporting climate resilience, governance reforms, digital solutions, and resource mobilization. Working with partners across development and humanitarian settings, you will help shape policies, strengthen institutions, mobilize investments, and scale sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families. This is a unique opportunity to influence global WASH priorities and contribute to UNICEF’s mission of leaving no child behind
UNICEF Zimbabwe seeks to hire a passionate WASH Specialist to join the WASH team. The Specialist serves as UNICEF's lead technical advisor on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) systems strengthening, WASH sector engagement, WASH policy engagement, service delivery models, and decentralized implementation. The position provides technical leadership for integrated Climate-Resilient WASH, Child Survival, Nutrition, Health and Emergency Preparedness and Response programmes.
Join UNICEF as a WASH Officer and support the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes. Your role will provide technical, operational and administrative support to ensure the effective delivery of WASH interventions, strengthen partnerships with government and development partners, and contribute to programme results that improve child health, well-being and equitable access to essential services. The position also supports humanitarian preparedness and emergency response activities, knowledge management, innovation initiatives, and capacity-building efforts to strengthen sustainable WASH systems and outcomes.
The WASH Officer reports to the Chief of Health and Nutrition (P-4), the position contributes to the achievement of UNICEF Mexico´s child survival and development goals by advancing and integrated health, nutrition and WASH agenda. The incumbent provides technical and operational leadership to strengthen WASH systems and services, with a particular focus on community and institutional capacities that support improved child health and nutrition outcomes, including prevention of stunting. The role supportsthe development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme, while fostering intersectoral collaboration, advocacy and strategic engagement with government counterparts and key stakeholders to accelerate sustainable and scalable results for children.
Can you influence the decisions that shape Angola’s WASH agenda? Are you a respected WASH professional with the experience to guide policy, strengthen institutions, and mobilize partners towards a common vision? Do you thrive on turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions that improve the lives of children and communities? UNICEF Angola is seeking an exceptional WASH Specialist to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise and partnership engagement in support of equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services across the country. If you are ready to shape systems, influence change, and leave a lasting legacy for children in Angola, we encourage you to apply. For every child, safe water, sanitation, and a healthier future.
Do you have a passion for bringing safe, reliable, and climate-resilient water supply systems to communities, schools, and health facilities most in need?
UNICEF Pacific seeks to establish long term agreement one or multiple individual Water Supply Engineering Consultants for up to 300 working days, as and when required, over 36 months across Pacific Island countries. The consultant(s) will be home-based with extensive travel for site assessments and supervision, with periods at home/office for design, reporting and planning activities.
S/he will provide specialized technical expertise in site and water source assessments, water supply system design, hydraulic modelling, quality assurance, and technical documentation. The consultant(s) will support the design, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance planning of climate- and disaster-resilient water supply systems for communities, schools and health facilities, ensuring systems are safe, reliable, efficient, durable and resilient to Pacific environmental conditions.
Under the supervision of the WASH Officer, the WASH Technical Consultant for Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is accountable for the timely and quality implementation of the WASH-MHM program, under the CER Output 5.2, with particular focus on the promoting Menstrual Hygiene Management and the institutionalization of the Oky Menstrual Period Tracking App in the Philippines.
The implementation Oky under the TUSIP program and the emerging climate-environment agenda for MHM has expanded the opportunity to reach more adolescents in the Philippines. To maximize this opportunity, the WASH-MHM program, particularly the Oky project, requires continued personnel support for technical assistance delivery, marketing and user acquisition, and systems strengthening. UNICEF needs the services of a dedicated consultant to support Oky Philippines and WASH-MHM tasks/activities and provide technical assistance to CSO and government implementing partners
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.
To expand the pool of specialized expertise available to support WASH financing initiatives, UNICEF Indonesia seeks to establish a roster of qualified WASH Financing Experts who may be engaged as individual consultants on a short-term or long-term consultancy assignments on need basis.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant as Service Design Advisor who will provide external benchmarking, industry insight, and specialist service-design advice across the four priority service streams. The Advisor will engage relevant Global Business Services and Shared Services leaders, professional networks, and specialized service providers; identify proven practices and emerging approaches; and translate findings into practical recommendations for the project team.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will work inder the strategic direction of BPM and in collaboration with the service line business owners, the Service Design Investment Project Manager (IPM) will provide the overall service design vision and framework, project management, governance support and cross-service coherence.
The Technician Associate provides hands-on technical support for automated warehouse equipment and related infrastructure to help ensure the safe, reliable and efficient operation of material handling systems and associated equipment. The position reports to the Senior Technical Associate, WIMC, and collaborates with Warehouse Operations, technical colleagues, Engineering and Quality functions, and external maintenance and automation service providers. Contributes to maintaining compliance with applicable international and regulatory standards in supply chain operations, especially for regulated products such medicines. Adherence to mandatory training requirements and internal procedures to maintain product safety and quality throughout the supply chain.
UNICEF Supply Division operates a major humanitarian supply hub supporting the procurement, storage and distribution of essential supplies to children and families worldwide. The Copenhagen warehouse uses automated material handling equipment (MHE), warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse control systems (WCS), conveyors, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), packaging equipment and associated control infrastructure. Reliable interaction between warehouse systems and physical equipment is essential to safe and uninterrupted warehouse operations. To strengthen in-house WMS and controls capability, support business continuity and retain operational knowledge, the Technical Associate (Warehouse Management Systems and Controls) provides daily systems support, fault diagnosis, maintenance coordination and continuous improvement in the automated warehouse environment.
Under the direct guidance and supervision of the Head of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, the Emergency Officer (AAP and Safeguarding/PSEA) will be responsible for coordinating and/or supporting the design and implementation of strategies and action plans to scale up AAP interventions and processes under the 2023-2026 Country Programme, ensuring that the views and priorities of affected population are incorporated into all stages of the programme cycle and effectively inform the work plans implemented with State organizations, Civil Society and Communities. The incumbent will also act as the Country Office technical focal point for Safeguarding and PSEA, supporting the Head of Office and the Country Management Team in the implementation of the UNICEF Policy on Safeguarding.
This assignment aims to support Education Cannot Wait (ECW) in strengthening the design, implementation, monitoring and quality assurance of education programmes in crisis-affected contexts. The consultant will provide technical and operational support for ECW’s country investments, including CORE programmes and the Acceleration Facility, while promoting high standards in protection, gender and inclusion, localization, climate resilience, safeguarding and accountability. The role will also contribute to strategic planning, portfolio management and programme performance, helping ensure high-quality, results-based education responses for children affected by emergencies.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
The Pakistan Institute of Education (PIE), established under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT), houses the National Assessment Wing (NAW), which is mandated to design and implement assessments that measure student learning outcomes at national scale, including the National Achievement Test (NAT) and the Foundational Learning Study (FLS).
With technical support from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) delivered principally through Dr. Abdullah Ferdous, Principal Researcher/Psychometrician and funding channelled through the World Bank's Data & Research in Education (DARE) technical assistance programme, NAW/PIE has successfully developed, piloted and administered NAT-2026 and FLS-2026. FLS-2026 is Pakistan's first nationally representative assessment of Grade 3 literacy and numeracy, anchored in the Federal Foundational Learning Policy 2024 and designed for alignment with the Global Proficiency Framework (GPF) and Minimum Proficiency Levels (MPLs) so that Pakistan can report against SDG indicator 4.1.1.
The objective of this assignment is for UNICEF Pakistan to provide targeted technical assistance to NAW/PIE for the specific set of NAT- and FLS-related activities that fall outside the current World Bank/DARE scope, so that Pakistan's first national foundational learning evidence base is completed, benchmarked, and reported to international standards without loss of methodological continuity or delay.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health to develop a context-appropriate, evidence-based NPM in Lao PDR, aligned with global and regional guidance and adapted to the national food environment.
The NPM will be developed through a Technical Working Group (TWG), following a structured approach that includes defining scope, adapting suitable WHO NPMs, identifying food categories, setting nutrient thresholds, and validating the model with different stakeholders, among others.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MoHHS) in Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), to strengthen breastfeeding promotion through improving implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in two main hospitals and their surrounding communities. Background Promotion of breastfeeding is a high impact intervention that plays a crucial role in ensuring children receive adequate nourishment. Breastfed children have a significantly reduced risk for both wasting and later childhood overweight or obesity. In RMI, one in every three children under five years of age are stunted. Nearly 5% of children in the same age group are overweight and another 4% are wasted. Sub-optimal infant feeding, including limited breastfeeding, is considered to be a critical driver of malnutrition in this context. In 1991, UNICEF and WHO jointly launched the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BHFI), which consolidated evidence on promoting breastfeeding within health facilities. The BFHI included “Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding”, which were subsequently updated in guidelines published in 2018. These guidelines titled, “Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding” are intended for use in health facilities providing maternity and newborn services to promote breastfeeding. As outlined in UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Program Document (MCPD) for 2023- 2027, UNICEF is committed to supporting the RMI and other Pacific island countries in strengthening capacities for improved, affordable, and equitable quality primary health care and nutrition services, including during emergencies. Within this framework, UNICEF works with MoHs and other partners to ensure that the health care systems are conducive to protect, promote and support breastfeeding practices The BFHI was previously implemented in the major hospital (Majuro) in RMI.
The primary objective of consultancy is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services
(MoHHS) in Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) and the State Department of Health in Federated States of Micronesia
(FSM) to scale up care for children with wasting and nutritional oedema based on 2023 WHO normative guidance. The
consultancy aims at strengthening the capacity of the Ministries of health to deliver Integrated Management of Acute
Malnutrition (IMAM) services with the expected quality of care, integrated into primary health care services and
supported by adequate monitoring and reporting.