The Planning Specialist will play a key role in corporate reporting, development, review, and analysis of strategic planning in UNICEF, encompassing both global planning (the Strategic Plan) and country programme planning related processes. The Specialist will provide technically sound and rigorous analysis of progress and performance of the Strategic Plan in coordination with planning focal points across HQ Divisions and Offices as well as conduct other data analyses related to the Strategic Plan and country programmes, drawing onmultiple data sources. The Specialist will also provide technical support to the rigorous analysis of Country Programme performance and alignment with the UN development system reform.
Based in UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division in Rome, this role strengthens private sector fundraising by providing timely, strategic communications support on media relations and humanitarian emergencies to National Committees and country offices. Working under the Chief, Private Sector Communication and Engagement, you will help ensure partners have accurate programme information and crisis communication guidance, while coordinating closely with Country/Regional Offices, DGCA and EMOPS to align messaging and support emergency fundraising and advocacy.
The Communication and advocacy specialist 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 country office and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team. In a Temporary Assignment context, the incumbent supports continuity and reinforcement of priority communication and advocacy actions during periods of organizational transition, ensuring alignment with the Country Programme, management priorities and partner expectations.
The DRC was certified free of wild poliovirus in 2015 but circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV1 and cVDPV2) remain a significant public health threat. Between 2017 and 2025, the country reported 1,292 variant poliovirus cases. Intensified response efforts reduced cases from 540 in 2022 to 18 in 2025. In 2026, four cVDPV2 cases were detected in Maniema Province, while the latest cVDPV1 case was reported in June 2025 in Tsopo Province. The DRC remains among the highest-risk countries in the WHO African Region, requiring sustained campaigns and stronger routine immunization.
Routine immunization is hindered by persistent bottlenecks, limited cold chain capacity, weak stock management, inadequate temperature monitoring, poor equipment maintenance, stock-outs, and inconsistent data quality, all of which undermine vaccine potency and programme performance.
Under the technical supervision of the Polio Coordinator, the Health Specialist (Data Management – Polio) will strengthen the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 outbreak response, focusing on data quality, equity analysis, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making.
The incumbent will contribute to: (i) improved quality, availability, and use of polio and routine vaccination data; (ii) evidence-based decision-making for outbreak response; (iii) improved performance and equity of vaccination campaigns; (iv) strengthened accountability through digital payment systems; and (v) sustained progress toward interruption of cVDPV transmission in the DRC.
The UNICEF Office in DRC is looking for an experienced Cold Chain Logistics Specialist (Vaccine Management) at P-3 level for a 6-month temporary assignment based in Kalemie, Tanganyika Province.
Working under the Chief of Field Office and the technical guidance of the Immunization Supply Chain Manager in Kinshasa, you will be UNICEF's technical anchor on the ground, supporting the Ministry of Health and provincial EPI teams to strengthen vaccine management, cold chain performance, and logistics coordination for routine immunization, supplementary immunization activities, and the ongoing polio outbreak response.
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence and field reality, a logistician at heart, a coach to national teams, and a trusted partner to government counterparts and GPEI partners alike. You will help shape the systems that keep DRC on the path toward a polio-free future, while building the routine immunization foundations that will protect generations to come.
If you are energized by complex operational challenges, and ready to bring your expertise to one of the most consequential immunization programmes in the world — join UNICEF. Together, we can ensure that no child in DRC is left behind because a vaccine didn't reach them in time.
The UNICEF Office in DRC is looking for an experienced international Cold Chain Logistics Specialist (Vaccine Management) at P-3 level. Based in Kinshasa and working under the guidance of the Immunization Supply Chain Manager, you will support the Ministry of Health and provincial EPI teams to strengthen vaccine management, cold chain performance, and logistics coordination, for routine immunization, supplementary immunization activities, and the ongoing response to polio outbreaks. Your work will translate directly into fewer stock-outs, less wastage, better temperature monitoring, stronger data, and ultimately, more children reached with life-saving vaccines.
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence and field reality, a logistician at heart, a coach to national teams, and a trusted partner to government counterparts and GPEI partners alike. You will help shape the systems that keep DRC on the path toward a polio-free future, while building the routine immunization foundations that will protect generations to come.
If you are that person, passionate about making a lasting difference for children in DRC, energized by complex operational challenges, and ready to bring your expertise to one of the most consequential immunization programs in the world — join UNICEF, the world's leading organization for the defense of children's rights. Together, we can ensure that no child in DRC is left behind because a vaccine didn't reach them in time.
UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office is looking for a Digital Communication Specialist (P-3) to lead and enhance its regional digital and social media communications in support of advocacy for children’s rights.
Reporting to the Regional Chief of Advocacy and Communications, the role focuses on developing and implementing digital, social media, and content strategies, managing high-impact campaigns, overseeing paid digital marketing, and strengthening audience engagement across platforms. The position also supports the social media presence of the Regional Director and contributes to regional capacity building and digital innovation.
We are seeking a creative and strategic digital communications professional with strong editorial skills, experience managing complex digital campaigns, fluency in English and Spanish, and a passion for creating meaningful impact through digital storytelling.
Join UNICEF and help amplify children’s voices across Latin America and the Caribbean.
UNICEF’s Independent Evaluation Office partners in a variety of other ways, from joint and inter-agency evaluation collaborations to networks to strengthen linkages between evaluation and programming (e.g., ALNAP), coordinate its evaluations with those of other agencies (e.g. through the United Nations Evaluation Group, the United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation Office and the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations mechanism) and the broader UN and evidence/evaluation synthesis community (e.g. the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition, the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative). It also partners to communicate its work e.g., through national, regional and global evaluation associations and other Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs).The Evaluation Specialist (Partnerships and National Evaluation Capacity Development) will deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, policy influence and potential resource mobilization within the scope of assignment. S/He will also serve as a focal point and resource for colleagues in the area of national evaluation capacity development (NECD) partnerships, including country-led NECD initiatives. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF’s partnerships and NECD work and influence in support of its mission.
The Programme Specialist (Climate Finance) strengthens UNICEF’s ability to support governments in accessing, designing, and sustaining child-sensitive climate finance investments. By embedding equity, accountability, and rights in technical support, the role ensures that climate finance resources protect and enhance essential services for children—especially the most disadvantaged —directly advancing UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP) 2024–2030.
Under the general supervision and guidance of the Chief Social Policy, the Social Protection/ Cash Transfers Specialist oversees the implementation, monitors, evaluates and improves the delivery and support the implementation of exit strategy, of UNICEF, MSAM and Dutch Embassy cash transfers (HCTs) programme Cash Plus Care : Faaba in Benin, and provides support to the government of Benin in other social protection interventions, including through the assistance in implementing GUPS reform.
UNICEF Office is seeking an experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Advocacy & Communication Specialist in Islamabad, at the P3 level.
UNICEF is looking for Market Research Specialist who drives an audience-informed approach across private-sector fundraising and partnerships in the Americas, while contributing to AMI's global insight streams. Partnering and consulting with teams across Communications, Fundraising and Advocacy to:
1. Listening & scope - surface stakeholder objectives and translate them into clear insight plans
2. Planning & execution - deploy the right blend of qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g., ethnography, focus groups, surveys, depths, media analysis) to address each need.
3. Synthesize & interpret - turn data into compelling narratives and concrete, actionable recommendations.
4. Drive uptake - package findings through workshops, briefs and tools that help teams act decisively on the insights.
5. Collaborate globally - align methodologies and share learnings with peer specialists and managers in Latin America, Europe, and HQ to ensure consistency and cross-pollination of best practice.
6. Evaluation - ensure team's feedback on the effectiveness or not of the insight solutions, both for AMI's accountability and to ensure lessons can be brought into the team.
The Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) helps UNICEF achieve its mission by increasing private-sector income and influence, working with National Committees and country offices to raise over $2 billion annually. Within PFP, the Market Development and Performance Team (MDT) connects national fundraising plans to global priorities and oversees allocation of centrally managed Investment Funds.The Fundraising Specialist (Analyst) is primarily a business analyst role focused on analyzing and interpreting fundraising results, plans, and trends, and clearly communicating robust insights that inform major strategic decisions. The role also includes managing analytical tools and supporting project management of the annual Investment Fund allocation process across 50+ countries.
The Planning Specialist will play a key role in corporate reporting, development, review, and analysis of strategic planning in UNICEF, encompassing both global planning (the Strategic Plan) and country programme planning related processes. The Specialist will provide technically sound and rigorous analysis of progress and performance of the Strategic Plan in coordination with planning focal points across HQ Divisions and Offices as well as conduct other data analyses related to the Strategic Plan and country programmes, drawing onmultiple data sources. The Specialist will also provide technical support to the rigorous analysis of Country Programme performance and alignment with the UN development system reform.
Based in UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division in Rome, this role strengthens private sector fundraising by providing timely, strategic communications support on media relations and humanitarian emergencies to National Committees and country offices. Working under the Chief, Private Sector Communication and Engagement, you will help ensure partners have accurate programme information and crisis communication guidance, while coordinating closely with Country/Regional Offices, DGCA and EMOPS to align messaging and support emergency fundraising and advocacy.
The Communication and advocacy specialist 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 country office and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team. In a Temporary Assignment context, the incumbent supports continuity and reinforcement of priority communication and advocacy actions during periods of organizational transition, ensuring alignment with the Country Programme, management priorities and partner expectations.
The DRC was certified free of wild poliovirus in 2015 but circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV1 and cVDPV2) remain a significant public health threat. Between 2017 and 2025, the country reported 1,292 variant poliovirus cases. Intensified response efforts reduced cases from 540 in 2022 to 18 in 2025. In 2026, four cVDPV2 cases were detected in Maniema Province, while the latest cVDPV1 case was reported in June 2025 in Tsopo Province. The DRC remains among the highest-risk countries in the WHO African Region, requiring sustained campaigns and stronger routine immunization.
Routine immunization is hindered by persistent bottlenecks, limited cold chain capacity, weak stock management, inadequate temperature monitoring, poor equipment maintenance, stock-outs, and inconsistent data quality, all of which undermine vaccine potency and programme performance.
Under the technical supervision of the Polio Coordinator, the Health Specialist (Data Management – Polio) will strengthen the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 outbreak response, focusing on data quality, equity analysis, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making.
The incumbent will contribute to: (i) improved quality, availability, and use of polio and routine vaccination data; (ii) evidence-based decision-making for outbreak response; (iii) improved performance and equity of vaccination campaigns; (iv) strengthened accountability through digital payment systems; and (v) sustained progress toward interruption of cVDPV transmission in the DRC.
The UNICEF Office in DRC is looking for an experienced Cold Chain Logistics Specialist (Vaccine Management) at P-3 level for a 6-month temporary assignment based in Kalemie, Tanganyika Province.
Working under the Chief of Field Office and the technical guidance of the Immunization Supply Chain Manager in Kinshasa, you will be UNICEF's technical anchor on the ground, supporting the Ministry of Health and provincial EPI teams to strengthen vaccine management, cold chain performance, and logistics coordination for routine immunization, supplementary immunization activities, and the ongoing polio outbreak response.
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence and field reality, a logistician at heart, a coach to national teams, and a trusted partner to government counterparts and GPEI partners alike. You will help shape the systems that keep DRC on the path toward a polio-free future, while building the routine immunization foundations that will protect generations to come.
If you are energized by complex operational challenges, and ready to bring your expertise to one of the most consequential immunization programmes in the world — join UNICEF. Together, we can ensure that no child in DRC is left behind because a vaccine didn't reach them in time.
The UNICEF Office in DRC is looking for an experienced international Cold Chain Logistics Specialist (Vaccine Management) at P-3 level. Based in Kinshasa and working under the guidance of the Immunization Supply Chain Manager, you will support the Ministry of Health and provincial EPI teams to strengthen vaccine management, cold chain performance, and logistics coordination, for routine immunization, supplementary immunization activities, and the ongoing response to polio outbreaks. Your work will translate directly into fewer stock-outs, less wastage, better temperature monitoring, stronger data, and ultimately, more children reached with life-saving vaccines.
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence and field reality, a logistician at heart, a coach to national teams, and a trusted partner to government counterparts and GPEI partners alike. You will help shape the systems that keep DRC on the path toward a polio-free future, while building the routine immunization foundations that will protect generations to come.
If you are that person, passionate about making a lasting difference for children in DRC, energized by complex operational challenges, and ready to bring your expertise to one of the most consequential immunization programs in the world — join UNICEF, the world's leading organization for the defense of children's rights. Together, we can ensure that no child in DRC is left behind because a vaccine didn't reach them in time.
UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office is looking for a Digital Communication Specialist (P-3) to lead and enhance its regional digital and social media communications in support of advocacy for children’s rights.
Reporting to the Regional Chief of Advocacy and Communications, the role focuses on developing and implementing digital, social media, and content strategies, managing high-impact campaigns, overseeing paid digital marketing, and strengthening audience engagement across platforms. The position also supports the social media presence of the Regional Director and contributes to regional capacity building and digital innovation.
We are seeking a creative and strategic digital communications professional with strong editorial skills, experience managing complex digital campaigns, fluency in English and Spanish, and a passion for creating meaningful impact through digital storytelling.
Join UNICEF and help amplify children’s voices across Latin America and the Caribbean.
UNICEF’s Independent Evaluation Office partners in a variety of other ways, from joint and inter-agency evaluation collaborations to networks to strengthen linkages between evaluation and programming (e.g., ALNAP), coordinate its evaluations with those of other agencies (e.g. through the United Nations Evaluation Group, the United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation Office and the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations mechanism) and the broader UN and evidence/evaluation synthesis community (e.g. the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition, the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative). It also partners to communicate its work e.g., through national, regional and global evaluation associations and other Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs).The Evaluation Specialist (Partnerships and National Evaluation Capacity Development) will deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, policy influence and potential resource mobilization within the scope of assignment. S/He will also serve as a focal point and resource for colleagues in the area of national evaluation capacity development (NECD) partnerships, including country-led NECD initiatives. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF’s partnerships and NECD work and influence in support of its mission.
The Programme Specialist (Climate Finance) strengthens UNICEF’s ability to support governments in accessing, designing, and sustaining child-sensitive climate finance investments. By embedding equity, accountability, and rights in technical support, the role ensures that climate finance resources protect and enhance essential services for children—especially the most disadvantaged —directly advancing UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP) 2024–2030.
Under the general supervision and guidance of the Chief Social Policy, the Social Protection/ Cash Transfers Specialist oversees the implementation, monitors, evaluates and improves the delivery and support the implementation of exit strategy, of UNICEF, MSAM and Dutch Embassy cash transfers (HCTs) programme Cash Plus Care : Faaba in Benin, and provides support to the government of Benin in other social protection interventions, including through the assistance in implementing GUPS reform.
UNICEF Office is seeking an experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Advocacy & Communication Specialist in Islamabad, at the P3 level.
UNICEF is looking for Market Research Specialist who drives an audience-informed approach across private-sector fundraising and partnerships in the Americas, while contributing to AMI's global insight streams. Partnering and consulting with teams across Communications, Fundraising and Advocacy to:
1. Listening & scope - surface stakeholder objectives and translate them into clear insight plans
2. Planning & execution - deploy the right blend of qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g., ethnography, focus groups, surveys, depths, media analysis) to address each need.
3. Synthesize & interpret - turn data into compelling narratives and concrete, actionable recommendations.
4. Drive uptake - package findings through workshops, briefs and tools that help teams act decisively on the insights.
5. Collaborate globally - align methodologies and share learnings with peer specialists and managers in Latin America, Europe, and HQ to ensure consistency and cross-pollination of best practice.
6. Evaluation - ensure team's feedback on the effectiveness or not of the insight solutions, both for AMI's accountability and to ensure lessons can be brought into the team.
The Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) helps UNICEF achieve its mission by increasing private-sector income and influence, working with National Committees and country offices to raise over $2 billion annually. Within PFP, the Market Development and Performance Team (MDT) connects national fundraising plans to global priorities and oversees allocation of centrally managed Investment Funds.The Fundraising Specialist (Analyst) is primarily a business analyst role focused on analyzing and interpreting fundraising results, plans, and trends, and clearly communicating robust insights that inform major strategic decisions. The role also includes managing analytical tools and supporting project management of the annual Investment Fund allocation process across 50+ countries.
