Child wasting remains a major cause of preventable illness and death, requiring effective prevention, early identification, treatment, follow-up and relapse prevention across routine, fragile and humanitarian health systems. However, conflict, displacement, climate shocks, food insecurity and financing constraints often weaken service access, quality and continuity. Existing monitoring systems provide limited insight into service readiness, quality of care, referral completion, equity, supply continuity and populations missed by services, while data sources are often fragmented and poorly linked to decision-making. This initiative will strengthen the quality and performance of child wasting services by addressing system-level constraints and integrating quality improvement approaches into national health systems. Led by UNICEF’s Child Nutrition and Development Global Practice, the multi-country programme will support countries across Asia-Pacific and fragile and humanitarian settings through a common technical framework adapted to local contexts, in partnership with ministries of health, regional and country offices, and implementing partners.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Thailand
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s digital fundraising growth by managing and optimizing its global digital fundraising platforms, ensuring a seamless donor experience and maximizing online revenue. The consultant will oversee website development and migration to UNICEF’s new Global Giving Platform, manage donation pages, SEO, conversion optimization and platform integrations, analyze fundraising performance, support market onboarding, and provide strategic and technical guidance to strengthen digital fundraising capabilities across multiple UNICEF offices.
UNICEF's Individual Giving (IG) programme plays a critical role in generating sustainable and flexible income that enables the organization to deliver for children worldwide. Through the acquisition, engagement, retention, and stewardship of individual supporters, the programme seeks to build long-term relationships with donors while maximizing lifetime value and enhancing supporter experience across multiple channels.
As digital fundraising continues to evolve, the volume of supporter data, interaction points, and content requirements has increased significantly. To remain effective and donor-centric, UNICEF is exploring innovative technologies that can support decision-making, improve operational efficiency, strengthen donor engagement, and enable more personalized supporter journeys.
Are you an experienced fundraising professional passionate about building lasting supporter relationships and exploring new ways to grow long-term value? Join UNICEF as a Fund Raising Specialist (IG Legacy Pathways), P-3, based in Rome, and bring your expertise in individual giving and/or legacy fundraising to help markets strengthen donor journeys, develop innovative propositions and unlock legacy opportunities that contribute to sustainable income for children.
The IG systems success specialist will support UNICEF Individual Giving markets in the Asia pacific (EAP) region through enabling users to extract maximum performance out the technology provided (Optimizely CMS, Salesforce sales cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data platforms). They will provide guidance, training, and by working closely with IG team members such as the UNIQ product owner and Marketing cloud strategists, assistance in the development of new features and functionalities which enable donors to become more engaged with UNICEF’s mission and in doing so raises increasing funds for children worldwide.
Are you passionate about using knowledge, digital innovation and AI to make a difference for children in emergencies? UNICEF is looking for a Knowledge Management Specialist (Emergency Fundraising) to help transform how emergency fundraising knowledge is captured, shared and used across its global private sector fundraising network. Based in Rome, this P-3 role offers an exciting opportunity to shape smarter knowledge solutions, strengthen learning and collaboration, and help teams make timely, evidence-based decisions that support humanitarian fundraising.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and forward-looking Partnership Manager (AI & Technology) to build transformative partnerships at the intersection of artificial intelligence and children’s rights. This is a unique opportunity to engage leading AI and technology actors, develop high-value global partnerships, and turn the potential of AI into funding, innovation and influence that deliver meaningful results for children worldwide.
PFP Finance is undertaking a time-bound transition of the private sector grant management function from Geneva to Rome. The locally recruited Geneva positions supporting this function have been abolished and recruitment and onboarding of the new Rome team is being phased. This transition overlaps with year-end closure and a period of sustained grant management activity, creating a temporary operational capacity gap before the new staffing structure is fully in place and operational.
A temporary consultancy is therefore required to deliver a defined package of operational continuity, closure, process-documentation and knowledge-transfer outputs. The technical complexity of the assignment is broadly comparable to Finance Associate (GS-6) work; however, the consultancies are not intended to fill or substitute an established staff post. Although the consultants will need to work with UNICEF systems and applications, they will not exercise delegated authority, supervise staff, approve transactions or policy exceptions, or assume ongoing functional ownership. Accountability for decisions, controls, approvals and risk acceptance remains with UNICEF staff.
The assignment is specifically intended to prevent backlogs and control gaps during the transition, protect monthly and annual closure deadlines and donor commitments, preserve institutional knowledge, and ensure that newly recruited staff receive documented working instructions and a structured handover. The need is temporary and will cease as the Rome team assumes the relevant accountabilities.
The Office of Strategy and Evidence- Innocenti requires an events vendor to support the production of major conferences in Florence. It is crucial that the event be carried out in a highly professional and sophisticated way. This includes maximizing the experience of the participants before, during and after the event. To allow the guests to be fully focused on the content, logistics need to be run smoothly, be well-conceived and emotionally resonant.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the SPA team and will contribute to the following objectives and deliverables of these analytical processes:
•
Assess the current progress towards achieving the Impact Results of the Strategic Plan 2026-2029;
• Analyse the role and effectiveness of its Strategies, Enablers, and Accelerators and assess their effectiveness in enabling evidence-based support to governments and improving outcomes for children;
• Generate evidence-informed recommendations for targeted, actionable corrective actions based on synthesized evidence to guide the implementation and resource allocation of the Strategic Plan towards catalysing the pace of the pursued change towards achieving tangible and transformative outcomes for children;
• Strengthen the practical application of the Strategic Plan’s approach to focus, scale and impact, and differentiation.
Are you willing to support the operational effectiveness and its ability to deliver on the strategic mandate by ensuring efficient, responsive and fit-for-purpose operational services? The incumbent will contribute to a well-governed, efficient and fit-for-purpose Operations function that enables OSE teams to focus on their substantive mandate and supports OSE in delivering high-quality strategy, evidence and knowledge in support of UNICEF’s results for children.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnerships with foundations, faith-based organizations and membership-based organizations by supporting resource mobilization, partnership growth and strategic engagement. The consultant will help implement global partnership strategies, build fundraising capacity across UNICEF markets, support partner cultivation and relationship management, and maximize both financial and non-financial contributions from key partners to advance UNICEF’s goals and increase sustainable income.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with foundations and faith-based and membership organizations by advancing strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and collaboration opportunities. The consultant will support the development of new high-value partnerships, strengthen existing relationships, provide strategic support across the partnership cycle, and help UNICEF maximize partner contributions in funding, advocacy, expertise, influence, and global reach.
The consultant will undertake a revision of UNICEF’s existing Rights & Results Programming (RRP) learning programme, which comprises 3 parts, to ensure its continued relevance and alignment with the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2026–2029, the revised Country Programme Planning (CPP) Guidance, and the organizational changes introduced through the Future Focus Initiative (FFI).
The assignment will preserve the programme’s core approach, structure and learning value while updating its content, references, practical examples, exercises and facilitation materials to reflect the new strategic and operational context. The consultant will work closely with OSE to review, validate and finalize the revised learning package for delivery to UNICEF staff.
UNICEF PFP’s Foundations and FMBO Team supports a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of strategic partnerships, grants and opportunities with foundations, faith-based organizations and other partners. As this portfolio expands, there is an urgent need to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of partnership data so that PFP, Regional Offices, Country Offices, National Committees and Centres of Excellence can make timely, informed decisions and manage partnerships more effectively.
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’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) has ambitious goals to deliver on income
and influence. Donor engagement is an important driver of income. The Supporter Content team delivers
content from emergency responses, donor stewardship content and virtual & immersive experiences
(live, interactive, and compelling, where we use digital technologies to bring to life the work UNICEF is
doing in emergency and non-emergency contexts). To support national committees and fundraisersthere
are internal SharePoint sites for emergency fundraising support, High Value Stewardship services and a
VIRTUAL and Immersive experiences ‘hub’ for fundraisers to preview, and self-serve, everything from
invitations to global events, to films and VR experiences to tips and tricks guidance for staging their own
Virtual and Immersive experiences. Linked to these is UNICEF’s Data Asset Management system called
WeShare which houses and makes available all the content for usersto access and use in their fundraising
efforts.
The Country Programme Planning (CPP) process provides an opportunity for UNICEF Country Offices to critically reflect on the country context, identify strategic priorities, make choices about where UNICEF can contribute most effectively, and translate these choices into coherent country programmes. The process involves a series of analytical and strategic steps, including evidence review, strategic reflection, prioritization, Strategic Moment of Reflection (SMR), engagement with government and other partners, and the development of theories of change and results.
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub works to develop financing solutions that accelerate progress for children and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a global mandate, the Hub brings together innovation, partnerships and investment expertise to address a critical challenge: despite a global SDG financing gap exceeding USD 4 trillion, children remain largely overlooked in investment decision-making. While companies and investors have significant impacts on children’s lives through products, employment, communities and environmental practices, child rights considerations are rarely integrated into investment strategies. This assignment will support UNICEF’s efforts to mobilize capital, strengthen child-focused finance approaches, and promote investment practices that better advance child rights and development outcomes.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Finland
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
Child wasting remains a major cause of preventable illness and death, requiring effective prevention, early identification, treatment, follow-up and relapse prevention across routine, fragile and humanitarian health systems. However, conflict, displacement, climate shocks, food insecurity and financing constraints often weaken service access, quality and continuity. Existing monitoring systems provide limited insight into service readiness, quality of care, referral completion, equity, supply continuity and populations missed by services, while data sources are often fragmented and poorly linked to decision-making. This initiative will strengthen the quality and performance of child wasting services by addressing system-level constraints and integrating quality improvement approaches into national health systems. Led by UNICEF’s Child Nutrition and Development Global Practice, the multi-country programme will support countries across Asia-Pacific and fragile and humanitarian settings through a common technical framework adapted to local contexts, in partnership with ministries of health, regional and country offices, and implementing partners.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Thailand
This assignment aims to support UNICEF’s digital fundraising growth by managing and optimizing its global digital fundraising platforms, ensuring a seamless donor experience and maximizing online revenue. The consultant will oversee website development and migration to UNICEF’s new Global Giving Platform, manage donation pages, SEO, conversion optimization and platform integrations, analyze fundraising performance, support market onboarding, and provide strategic and technical guidance to strengthen digital fundraising capabilities across multiple UNICEF offices.
UNICEF's Individual Giving (IG) programme plays a critical role in generating sustainable and flexible income that enables the organization to deliver for children worldwide. Through the acquisition, engagement, retention, and stewardship of individual supporters, the programme seeks to build long-term relationships with donors while maximizing lifetime value and enhancing supporter experience across multiple channels.
As digital fundraising continues to evolve, the volume of supporter data, interaction points, and content requirements has increased significantly. To remain effective and donor-centric, UNICEF is exploring innovative technologies that can support decision-making, improve operational efficiency, strengthen donor engagement, and enable more personalized supporter journeys.
Are you an experienced fundraising professional passionate about building lasting supporter relationships and exploring new ways to grow long-term value? Join UNICEF as a Fund Raising Specialist (IG Legacy Pathways), P-3, based in Rome, and bring your expertise in individual giving and/or legacy fundraising to help markets strengthen donor journeys, develop innovative propositions and unlock legacy opportunities that contribute to sustainable income for children.
The IG systems success specialist will support UNICEF Individual Giving markets in the Asia pacific (EAP) region through enabling users to extract maximum performance out the technology provided (Optimizely CMS, Salesforce sales cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data platforms). They will provide guidance, training, and by working closely with IG team members such as the UNIQ product owner and Marketing cloud strategists, assistance in the development of new features and functionalities which enable donors to become more engaged with UNICEF’s mission and in doing so raises increasing funds for children worldwide.
Are you passionate about using knowledge, digital innovation and AI to make a difference for children in emergencies? UNICEF is looking for a Knowledge Management Specialist (Emergency Fundraising) to help transform how emergency fundraising knowledge is captured, shared and used across its global private sector fundraising network. Based in Rome, this P-3 role offers an exciting opportunity to shape smarter knowledge solutions, strengthen learning and collaboration, and help teams make timely, evidence-based decisions that support humanitarian fundraising.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and forward-looking Partnership Manager (AI & Technology) to build transformative partnerships at the intersection of artificial intelligence and children’s rights. This is a unique opportunity to engage leading AI and technology actors, develop high-value global partnerships, and turn the potential of AI into funding, innovation and influence that deliver meaningful results for children worldwide.
PFP Finance is undertaking a time-bound transition of the private sector grant management function from Geneva to Rome. The locally recruited Geneva positions supporting this function have been abolished and recruitment and onboarding of the new Rome team is being phased. This transition overlaps with year-end closure and a period of sustained grant management activity, creating a temporary operational capacity gap before the new staffing structure is fully in place and operational.
A temporary consultancy is therefore required to deliver a defined package of operational continuity, closure, process-documentation and knowledge-transfer outputs. The technical complexity of the assignment is broadly comparable to Finance Associate (GS-6) work; however, the consultancies are not intended to fill or substitute an established staff post. Although the consultants will need to work with UNICEF systems and applications, they will not exercise delegated authority, supervise staff, approve transactions or policy exceptions, or assume ongoing functional ownership. Accountability for decisions, controls, approvals and risk acceptance remains with UNICEF staff.
The assignment is specifically intended to prevent backlogs and control gaps during the transition, protect monthly and annual closure deadlines and donor commitments, preserve institutional knowledge, and ensure that newly recruited staff receive documented working instructions and a structured handover. The need is temporary and will cease as the Rome team assumes the relevant accountabilities.
The Office of Strategy and Evidence- Innocenti requires an events vendor to support the production of major conferences in Florence. It is crucial that the event be carried out in a highly professional and sophisticated way. This includes maximizing the experience of the participants before, during and after the event. To allow the guests to be fully focused on the content, logistics need to be run smoothly, be well-conceived and emotionally resonant.
The consultant will work in close coordination with the SPA team and will contribute to the following objectives and deliverables of these analytical processes:
•
Assess the current progress towards achieving the Impact Results of the Strategic Plan 2026-2029;
• Analyse the role and effectiveness of its Strategies, Enablers, and Accelerators and assess their effectiveness in enabling evidence-based support to governments and improving outcomes for children;
• Generate evidence-informed recommendations for targeted, actionable corrective actions based on synthesized evidence to guide the implementation and resource allocation of the Strategic Plan towards catalysing the pace of the pursued change towards achieving tangible and transformative outcomes for children;
• Strengthen the practical application of the Strategic Plan’s approach to focus, scale and impact, and differentiation.
Are you willing to support the operational effectiveness and its ability to deliver on the strategic mandate by ensuring efficient, responsive and fit-for-purpose operational services? The incumbent will contribute to a well-governed, efficient and fit-for-purpose Operations function that enables OSE teams to focus on their substantive mandate and supports OSE in delivering high-quality strategy, evidence and knowledge in support of UNICEF’s results for children.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s partnerships with foundations, faith-based organizations and membership-based organizations by supporting resource mobilization, partnership growth and strategic engagement. The consultant will help implement global partnership strategies, build fundraising capacity across UNICEF markets, support partner cultivation and relationship management, and maximize both financial and non-financial contributions from key partners to advance UNICEF’s goals and increase sustainable income.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with foundations and faith-based and membership organizations by advancing strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and collaboration opportunities. The consultant will support the development of new high-value partnerships, strengthen existing relationships, provide strategic support across the partnership cycle, and help UNICEF maximize partner contributions in funding, advocacy, expertise, influence, and global reach.
The consultant will undertake a revision of UNICEF’s existing Rights & Results Programming (RRP) learning programme, which comprises 3 parts, to ensure its continued relevance and alignment with the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2026–2029, the revised Country Programme Planning (CPP) Guidance, and the organizational changes introduced through the Future Focus Initiative (FFI).
The assignment will preserve the programme’s core approach, structure and learning value while updating its content, references, practical examples, exercises and facilitation materials to reflect the new strategic and operational context. The consultant will work closely with OSE to review, validate and finalize the revised learning package for delivery to UNICEF staff.
UNICEF PFP’s Foundations and FMBO Team supports a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of strategic partnerships, grants and opportunities with foundations, faith-based organizations and other partners. As this portfolio expands, there is an urgent need to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of partnership data so that PFP, Regional Offices, Country Offices, National Committees and Centres of Excellence can make timely, informed decisions and manage partnerships more effectively.
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’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) has ambitious goals to deliver on income
and influence. Donor engagement is an important driver of income. The Supporter Content team delivers
content from emergency responses, donor stewardship content and virtual & immersive experiences
(live, interactive, and compelling, where we use digital technologies to bring to life the work UNICEF is
doing in emergency and non-emergency contexts). To support national committees and fundraisersthere
are internal SharePoint sites for emergency fundraising support, High Value Stewardship services and a
VIRTUAL and Immersive experiences ‘hub’ for fundraisers to preview, and self-serve, everything from
invitations to global events, to films and VR experiences to tips and tricks guidance for staging their own
Virtual and Immersive experiences. Linked to these is UNICEF’s Data Asset Management system called
WeShare which houses and makes available all the content for usersto access and use in their fundraising
efforts.
The Country Programme Planning (CPP) process provides an opportunity for UNICEF Country Offices to critically reflect on the country context, identify strategic priorities, make choices about where UNICEF can contribute most effectively, and translate these choices into coherent country programmes. The process involves a series of analytical and strategic steps, including evidence review, strategic reflection, prioritization, Strategic Moment of Reflection (SMR), engagement with government and other partners, and the development of theories of change and results.
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub works to develop financing solutions that accelerate progress for children and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a global mandate, the Hub brings together innovation, partnerships and investment expertise to address a critical challenge: despite a global SDG financing gap exceeding USD 4 trillion, children remain largely overlooked in investment decision-making. While companies and investors have significant impacts on children’s lives through products, employment, communities and environmental practices, child rights considerations are rarely integrated into investment strategies. This assignment will support UNICEF’s efforts to mobilize capital, strengthen child-focused finance approaches, and promote investment practices that better advance child rights and development outcomes.
Location:Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Finland
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
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