Join UNICEF’s Global Programme Division to strengthen the financial backbone of our global immunization work. As Programme Budget Specialist, you will support effective planning, allocation and monitoring of health and immunization resources, with a strong focus on multi‑country and non‑Gavi grants. You will drive budget oversight, grant performance tracking, KPI monitoring, and high‑quality donor financial reporting, ensuring transparency and timely implementation across HQ, Regional and Country Offices. This role is ideal for someone who excels in financial analysis, dashboarding, and cross‑functional coordination, and is motivated by improving systems that help deliver results for children at scale.
To provide technical and coordination support at Council of Governors (CoG) for all UNICEF work plan with CoGensuring that CoG’s devolution implementation more strongly reflects children’s priorities; financing for children’s services increases; evidence and knowledge management on children is generated, digitized and utilized; upscale of good practices from counties on children issues is undertaken; intergovernmental and county policies better include children’s issues; and ultimately key indicators on children’s welfare improve in aspects like health, nutrition, education, social protection, child protection, water and sanitation; and whole UNICEF’s work plan with CoG is well managed, tracked and communicated while providing opportunities for leveraging and networking with other partners. See the attached UNICEF-CoG work plan 2026.
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s leadership of the Regional Working Group (RWG) Secretariat for Immunization in West and Central Africa during its chairing period. The consultant will ensure the effective coordination, monitoring and continuity of RWG governance across 24 countries, supporting implementation of Gavi 6.0 processes, the VPOP framework and National Immunization Strategy development. As a core member of the RWG Secretariat and Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Working Group, the consultant will coordinate partner engagement, strengthen technical working groups, manage monitoring dashboards and reporting, and ensure timely follow‑up of RWG recommendations to advance IA2030 immunization goals across the region.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide global and country technical support to UNICEF Country Offices and the Centre of Excellence from Nairobi, Kenya, on immunization data systems, with a focus on strengthening the quality, completeness, and use of Electronic Joint Reporting Form (eJRF) data and WUENIC estimates. The consultant will support data-driven decision-making to improve immunization programme performance, reduce the number of zeroThe consultant will operate through a collaborative and iterative approach, working closely with time zone health specialists and country teams to review, validate, and interpret immunization data. This will include real-time technical support during key reporting periods (e.g., eJRF submission cycles), remote engagement with multiple countries, and continuous feedback loops to improve data quality and consistency. The assignment will emphasize hands-on technical accompaniment, including joint data review sessions, direct support to data entry and validation processes, and co-development of analytical outputs. The consultant will ensure alignment between country-reported data and global estimates (WUENIC), while supporting the translation of data into actionable insights.
Join our team to provide strategic digital technology guidance to Country Offices, Regional Offices, and GPD Centres of Excellence (CoEs), with a strong focus on Digital Public Goods (DPGs), while working closely with a multidisciplinary team of technologists, analysts, and data scientists.
Join UNICEF’s Global Programme Division to strengthen the financial backbone of our global immunization work. As Programme Budget Specialist, you will support effective planning, allocation and monitoring of health and immunization resources, with a strong focus on multi‑country and non‑Gavi grants. You will drive budget oversight, grant performance tracking, KPI monitoring, and high‑quality donor financial reporting, ensuring transparency and timely implementation across HQ, Regional and Country Offices. This role is ideal for someone who excels in financial analysis, dashboarding, and cross‑functional coordination, and is motivated by improving systems that help deliver results for children at scale.
To provide technical and coordination support at Council of Governors (CoG) for all UNICEF work plan with CoGensuring that CoG’s devolution implementation more strongly reflects children’s priorities; financing for children’s services increases; evidence and knowledge management on children is generated, digitized and utilized; upscale of good practices from counties on children issues is undertaken; intergovernmental and county policies better include children’s issues; and ultimately key indicators on children’s welfare improve in aspects like health, nutrition, education, social protection, child protection, water and sanitation; and whole UNICEF’s work plan with CoG is well managed, tracked and communicated while providing opportunities for leveraging and networking with other partners. See the attached UNICEF-CoG work plan 2026.
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s leadership of the Regional Working Group (RWG) Secretariat for Immunization in West and Central Africa during its chairing period. The consultant will ensure the effective coordination, monitoring and continuity of RWG governance across 24 countries, supporting implementation of Gavi 6.0 processes, the VPOP framework and National Immunization Strategy development. As a core member of the RWG Secretariat and Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Working Group, the consultant will coordinate partner engagement, strengthen technical working groups, manage monitoring dashboards and reporting, and ensure timely follow‑up of RWG recommendations to advance IA2030 immunization goals across the region.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide global and country technical support to UNICEF Country Offices and the Centre of Excellence from Nairobi, Kenya, on immunization data systems, with a focus on strengthening the quality, completeness, and use of Electronic Joint Reporting Form (eJRF) data and WUENIC estimates. The consultant will support data-driven decision-making to improve immunization programme performance, reduce the number of zeroThe consultant will operate through a collaborative and iterative approach, working closely with time zone health specialists and country teams to review, validate, and interpret immunization data. This will include real-time technical support during key reporting periods (e.g., eJRF submission cycles), remote engagement with multiple countries, and continuous feedback loops to improve data quality and consistency. The assignment will emphasize hands-on technical accompaniment, including joint data review sessions, direct support to data entry and validation processes, and co-development of analytical outputs. The consultant will ensure alignment between country-reported data and global estimates (WUENIC), while supporting the translation of data into actionable insights.
Join our team to provide strategic digital technology guidance to Country Offices, Regional Offices, and GPD Centres of Excellence (CoEs), with a strong focus on Digital Public Goods (DPGs), while working closely with a multidisciplinary team of technologists, analysts, and data scientists.
