UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a WASH Manager and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team
People & Culture Specialist (Talent Development) supports the Digital Impact Division in strengthening its talent and learning ecosystem. The role acts as the focal point for all learning and development work for the Division, ensuring that learning initiatives are designed and delivered in a clear and practical way. It focuses on talent development, digital learning, and knowledge management, including emerging technologies such as AI. The Specialist supports the development of the capabilities needed for digital impact and transformation across the digital impact community, working closely with the Global Learning Centre (GLC) and contributing to upskilling efforts for the Global Digital Advisors (TeamOne). The incumbent will support learning and talent development priorities by leveraging workforce and skills insights to inform succession planning and the design of learning pathways for future roles. He/she will work closely with chiefs, managers, Human Resources Business Partners, Subject Matter Experts, regional and country offices, principal Digital Advisors, as well as collaborating with GLC to ensure alignment and relevance.
In partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE), The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) launched the South Africa ECCE Outcomes Fund (“Fund 1.0”) in December 2025. Over three years, five implementing partners (IPs) will open around 1.4k new Early learning programmes (ELPs) and support around 600 existing ones throughout the country. The Outcomes fund is a form of outcomes-based financing, wherein payment to IPs is dependent on their progress towards pre-specified target outcomes. Under this model, EOF, IPs, and pre-financers providing working capital and performance management to the IPs, will frequently collect monitoring and evaluation data related to the interventions.
Fund 1.0 was developed as a way to learn about how to improve ECCE quality, to provide space for innovation, and as an opportunity for the DBE to broaden partnerships with non-state ECCE providers. Towards the scaling objectives of the 2030 ECD strategy and as outlined in the Bana Pele Blueprint, the DBE and EOF are interested in surfacing learnings from Fund 1.0 to inform the design of a future outcomes fund (“ELP Fund 2.0”). To support that effort, EOF is looking to collaborate with a consultant who will serve as a full-time member of the South Africa country team, to lead the learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda for Fund 1.0.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking for a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Budget Officer with the Operations team and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
Provision for overall supervision, monitoring, administration, management and other relevant engineering support for the refurbishment of (a) child witness rooms that are planned to be established in High Courts in 34 locations throughout Sri Lanka, (b) refurbishment of Children’s Unit of the Attorney General’s Department to make the working environment of officers convenient and orderly with placement of furniture for document storage and filing and (c) any other design or engineering support as required in other project sites, such as Judicial Medical Officer’s Offices or University Forensic Medicine Departments. This activity is part of the ‘Support to Justice Sector Project (JURE)’ funded by the European Union, in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, and implemented by UNDP and UNICEF Sri Lanka
Benin is a middle-income country that faces many challenges in guaranteeing the rights of every child. Ranked 158th out of 191 countries on the Human Development Index (UNDP, 2021/2022), it has significant disparities between urban and rural areas, and between girls and boys. Since 1977, UNICEF has been working closely with the government, civil society, technical and financial partners, young people and communities to improve access to education, health services, protection, water, sanitation, nutrition and social policies for children.
The 2024-2026 cooperation program pays particular attention to girls' education, protection against violence, community health, and the fight against child labor. Present in the field through its offices in Cotonou, Natitingou and Parakou, UNICEF is committed to working alongside the most vulnerable communities to guarantee concrete, lasting results.
The UNICEF Benin office is looking for committed, creative and motivated professionals to make a difference in the life of every Beninese child.
The UNICEF Cameroun CO is looking for a SBC Specialist for Emergency RCCE, AAP, and Polio who will provide technical leadership and coordination to ensure the design, implementation, and monitoring of timely and community-driven behavior change strategies across emergencies. The SBC Specialist will also coordination RCCE preparedness and response by helping to strengthen and sustain national RCCE interventions, processes, and capacities with specific focus on participatory community engagement and mainstreaming of AAP principles and processes.
The P4 Disability Inclusion Specialist is a strategically vital role for UNICEF Ukraine, designed to address a critical gap in disability-inclusive technical expertise at a time when national reform momentum and donor expectations are rapidly increasing. The position is essential not only for the Social Policy Section and the Social Recovery Unit, but for the broader country office and the country programme leadership areas (Better Start, Better Learning and Skills and Better Care), enabling UNICEF to effectively engage in and influence disability-inclusive reforms and where applicable, support service delivery scalable models. To ensure comprehensive support and alignment across the organisation, the role will have a dotted reporting line to the Deputy Representative – Programmes, while being line-managed by the Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis to ensure strong technical leadership and integration within core social policy workstreams.
This position will equip UNICEF Ukraine to provide high-level, technically sound guidance that ensures disability inclusion is embedded in the design and implementation of national reforms. It will support the development of inclusive policies, legislation, and service delivery systems that align with international standards and UNICEF’s strategic priorities.
We are seeking a dedicated professional to support programme design, planning, implementation, and evaluation. In this role, you will contribute to monitoring the situation of children’s rights, strengthening national capacities for data and evidence generation, and ensuring that UNICEF’s programmes and advocacy remain grounded in child rights principles.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed professional to work in the role of an Education Officer and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
The purpose of this consultancy is to design, deliver, and pilot competency-based capacity-building programme for teachers and other education professionals in model preschools and schools, aligned with the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework.
As part of its ongoing evolution, the GSSC is piloting a Remote Support Hub (RSH) model to provide location-independent operational, human resources and administrative services to small Country Offices. UNICEF GSSC is looking for an individual passionate in creating, maintaining and updating the shared knowledge for the Remote Support Hub), ensuring clear structure, human-centered design and ease of navigation in UNICEF’s knowledge platforms (SharePoint, ServiceNow) to improve the user experience.
Technical Assistance to Country Offices Provide technical support to designated or transitioning L2/L3 Country Offices in child‑focused recovery planning and programme design, including adapting recovery tools and participating in joint missions. Maintain and coordinate a roster of recovery specialists.Multistakeholder Recovery Assessment and Planning Support national and multistakeholder recovery assessments and frameworks to ensure children’s and women’s needs and rights are integrated into planning, budgeting, service delivery, and recovery financing strategies.Focused Support to State of Palestine and Syria Refine UNICEF recovery strategies, identify technical and operational requirements, and support Programme Budget Reviews, Strategic Moments of Reflection, and annual programme reviews. Liaise with interagency partners, donors, and global mechanisms to promote coherence in recovery assessment, planning, and financing.Global Coordination and Positioning Represent UNICEF in global mechanisms related to recovery assessment and planning, contribute to interagency policy, tools, and standards, and support whole‑of‑house coordination on recovery
Ukraine is facing one of the most complex youth development challenges in Europe. UNICEF seeks to promote integrated learning-to-earning pathways, linking training, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship into coherent transitions toward sustainable employment, aligned with labor market demand and national recovery priorities, and responsive to current and emerging labor market needs.
UNICEF’s Adolescent Development & Participation (ADAP) program in Ukraine is positioned at the center of these national priorities. the Programme Officer will coordinate UNICEF Ukraine’s work on youth employment, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship, contributing directly to the ADAP strategy’s economic opportunities and livelihoods outcomes. The Officer will design, implement, and scale evidence-based models that increase access to decent work and entrepreneurship pathways for young people, with particular focus on the most vulnerable groups, including displaced youth, NEETs, and youth in rural or conflict-affected areas. The role will require close collaboration with national and local government partners (e.g., Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Youth and Sports, local hromadas), as well as strategic engagement with private sector, CSO, and UN partners to create integrated, sustainable, and replicable youth employment solutions aligned with the EU Youth Guarantee and national recovery priorities. This position is pivotal for strengthening systems, scaling impact, and ensuring continuity in youth economic programming.
UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) will host the in‑person Regional People and Culture Network Meeting (PCNM) in Nairobi in the last week of May. This biennial event brings together People and Culture Leads and Operations Managers from 23 country offices to review HR trends, address emerging issues, share best practices, and strengthen human resources support across the region.
The meeting will convene 30–40 participants, including representatives from each office and guest presenters from UNICEF’s Division of People and Culture (DPC) and the Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC). To broaden participation, selected sessions will be streamed online via Teams, with some speakers joining virtually.
ESARO seeks an experienced facilitator to guide the overall agenda design, maintain smooth session flow and transitions, integrate team‑building activities, and engage both in‑person and virtual participants. The facilitator may also lead a session on the Future of Work, the evolving People and Culture function, and Change Management.
To provide international technical leadership for the design and delivery of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) training programme, including module design, quality assurance, and facilitation of Training-of-Trainers (ToT) and selected roll-out training sessions, in close coordination with the National Agency for Social Protection (NASP), UNICEF and national trainers.
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high‑threat environments. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation, the assignment contributes to an impartial assessment of UNICEF’s “Staying and Delivering” approach, examining relevance, effectiveness, progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners while generating learning to guide future humanitarian action. The consultant will support the Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) by assisting the Team Leader, contributing to design, data collection and analysis, drafting report sections, and guiding or leading specific field components.
Under direct supervision of the Programme Specialist (Social Sector) and in cooperation with all relevant UNICEF sections (Child Protection, SBC, Communications and Partnerships) the National Consultant will provide high quality support in designing and implementing UNICEF program interventions.
UNICEF China Country Office is seeking a Partnerships Specialist (Innovative Finance) at the NOC level (limited 2 years), based in Beijing, to advance innovative financing solutions for children. Under the supervision of the Chief of Private Sector Partnerships and Fundraising, the incumbent will lead the design and implementation of innovative finance initiatives, engage China-based private-sector partners and financial institutions, and help mobilize and align capital to accelerate results for children in China and beyond.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a WASH Manager and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team
People & Culture Specialist (Talent Development) supports the Digital Impact Division in strengthening its talent and learning ecosystem. The role acts as the focal point for all learning and development work for the Division, ensuring that learning initiatives are designed and delivered in a clear and practical way. It focuses on talent development, digital learning, and knowledge management, including emerging technologies such as AI. The Specialist supports the development of the capabilities needed for digital impact and transformation across the digital impact community, working closely with the Global Learning Centre (GLC) and contributing to upskilling efforts for the Global Digital Advisors (TeamOne). The incumbent will support learning and talent development priorities by leveraging workforce and skills insights to inform succession planning and the design of learning pathways for future roles. He/she will work closely with chiefs, managers, Human Resources Business Partners, Subject Matter Experts, regional and country offices, principal Digital Advisors, as well as collaborating with GLC to ensure alignment and relevance.
In partnership with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE), The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF) launched the South Africa ECCE Outcomes Fund (“Fund 1.0”) in December 2025. Over three years, five implementing partners (IPs) will open around 1.4k new Early learning programmes (ELPs) and support around 600 existing ones throughout the country. The Outcomes fund is a form of outcomes-based financing, wherein payment to IPs is dependent on their progress towards pre-specified target outcomes. Under this model, EOF, IPs, and pre-financers providing working capital and performance management to the IPs, will frequently collect monitoring and evaluation data related to the interventions.
Fund 1.0 was developed as a way to learn about how to improve ECCE quality, to provide space for innovation, and as an opportunity for the DBE to broaden partnerships with non-state ECCE providers. Towards the scaling objectives of the 2030 ECD strategy and as outlined in the Bana Pele Blueprint, the DBE and EOF are interested in surfacing learnings from Fund 1.0 to inform the design of a future outcomes fund (“ELP Fund 2.0”). To support that effort, EOF is looking to collaborate with a consultant who will serve as a full-time member of the South Africa country team, to lead the learning, scaling, and evidence synthesis agenda for Fund 1.0.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking for a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Budget Officer with the Operations team and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
Provision for overall supervision, monitoring, administration, management and other relevant engineering support for the refurbishment of (a) child witness rooms that are planned to be established in High Courts in 34 locations throughout Sri Lanka, (b) refurbishment of Children’s Unit of the Attorney General’s Department to make the working environment of officers convenient and orderly with placement of furniture for document storage and filing and (c) any other design or engineering support as required in other project sites, such as Judicial Medical Officer’s Offices or University Forensic Medicine Departments. This activity is part of the ‘Support to Justice Sector Project (JURE)’ funded by the European Union, in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, and implemented by UNDP and UNICEF Sri Lanka
Benin is a middle-income country that faces many challenges in guaranteeing the rights of every child. Ranked 158th out of 191 countries on the Human Development Index (UNDP, 2021/2022), it has significant disparities between urban and rural areas, and between girls and boys. Since 1977, UNICEF has been working closely with the government, civil society, technical and financial partners, young people and communities to improve access to education, health services, protection, water, sanitation, nutrition and social policies for children.
The 2024-2026 cooperation program pays particular attention to girls' education, protection against violence, community health, and the fight against child labor. Present in the field through its offices in Cotonou, Natitingou and Parakou, UNICEF is committed to working alongside the most vulnerable communities to guarantee concrete, lasting results.
The UNICEF Benin office is looking for committed, creative and motivated professionals to make a difference in the life of every Beninese child.
The UNICEF Cameroun CO is looking for a SBC Specialist for Emergency RCCE, AAP, and Polio who will provide technical leadership and coordination to ensure the design, implementation, and monitoring of timely and community-driven behavior change strategies across emergencies. The SBC Specialist will also coordination RCCE preparedness and response by helping to strengthen and sustain national RCCE interventions, processes, and capacities with specific focus on participatory community engagement and mainstreaming of AAP principles and processes.
The P4 Disability Inclusion Specialist is a strategically vital role for UNICEF Ukraine, designed to address a critical gap in disability-inclusive technical expertise at a time when national reform momentum and donor expectations are rapidly increasing. The position is essential not only for the Social Policy Section and the Social Recovery Unit, but for the broader country office and the country programme leadership areas (Better Start, Better Learning and Skills and Better Care), enabling UNICEF to effectively engage in and influence disability-inclusive reforms and where applicable, support service delivery scalable models. To ensure comprehensive support and alignment across the organisation, the role will have a dotted reporting line to the Deputy Representative – Programmes, while being line-managed by the Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis to ensure strong technical leadership and integration within core social policy workstreams.
This position will equip UNICEF Ukraine to provide high-level, technically sound guidance that ensures disability inclusion is embedded in the design and implementation of national reforms. It will support the development of inclusive policies, legislation, and service delivery systems that align with international standards and UNICEF’s strategic priorities.
We are seeking a dedicated professional to support programme design, planning, implementation, and evaluation. In this role, you will contribute to monitoring the situation of children’s rights, strengthening national capacities for data and evidence generation, and ensuring that UNICEF’s programmes and advocacy remain grounded in child rights principles.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed professional to work in the role of an Education Officer and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
The purpose of this consultancy is to design, deliver, and pilot competency-based capacity-building programme for teachers and other education professionals in model preschools and schools, aligned with the Inclusive Education Programmatic Framework.
As part of its ongoing evolution, the GSSC is piloting a Remote Support Hub (RSH) model to provide location-independent operational, human resources and administrative services to small Country Offices. UNICEF GSSC is looking for an individual passionate in creating, maintaining and updating the shared knowledge for the Remote Support Hub), ensuring clear structure, human-centered design and ease of navigation in UNICEF’s knowledge platforms (SharePoint, ServiceNow) to improve the user experience.
Technical Assistance to Country Offices Provide technical support to designated or transitioning L2/L3 Country Offices in child‑focused recovery planning and programme design, including adapting recovery tools and participating in joint missions. Maintain and coordinate a roster of recovery specialists.Multistakeholder Recovery Assessment and Planning Support national and multistakeholder recovery assessments and frameworks to ensure children’s and women’s needs and rights are integrated into planning, budgeting, service delivery, and recovery financing strategies.Focused Support to State of Palestine and Syria Refine UNICEF recovery strategies, identify technical and operational requirements, and support Programme Budget Reviews, Strategic Moments of Reflection, and annual programme reviews. Liaise with interagency partners, donors, and global mechanisms to promote coherence in recovery assessment, planning, and financing.Global Coordination and Positioning Represent UNICEF in global mechanisms related to recovery assessment and planning, contribute to interagency policy, tools, and standards, and support whole‑of‑house coordination on recovery
Ukraine is facing one of the most complex youth development challenges in Europe. UNICEF seeks to promote integrated learning-to-earning pathways, linking training, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship into coherent transitions toward sustainable employment, aligned with labor market demand and national recovery priorities, and responsive to current and emerging labor market needs.
UNICEF’s Adolescent Development & Participation (ADAP) program in Ukraine is positioned at the center of these national priorities. the Programme Officer will coordinate UNICEF Ukraine’s work on youth employment, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship, contributing directly to the ADAP strategy’s economic opportunities and livelihoods outcomes. The Officer will design, implement, and scale evidence-based models that increase access to decent work and entrepreneurship pathways for young people, with particular focus on the most vulnerable groups, including displaced youth, NEETs, and youth in rural or conflict-affected areas. The role will require close collaboration with national and local government partners (e.g., Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Youth and Sports, local hromadas), as well as strategic engagement with private sector, CSO, and UN partners to create integrated, sustainable, and replicable youth employment solutions aligned with the EU Youth Guarantee and national recovery priorities. This position is pivotal for strengthening systems, scaling impact, and ensuring continuity in youth economic programming.
UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) will host the in‑person Regional People and Culture Network Meeting (PCNM) in Nairobi in the last week of May. This biennial event brings together People and Culture Leads and Operations Managers from 23 country offices to review HR trends, address emerging issues, share best practices, and strengthen human resources support across the region.
The meeting will convene 30–40 participants, including representatives from each office and guest presenters from UNICEF’s Division of People and Culture (DPC) and the Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC). To broaden participation, selected sessions will be streamed online via Teams, with some speakers joining virtually.
ESARO seeks an experienced facilitator to guide the overall agenda design, maintain smooth session flow and transitions, integrate team‑building activities, and engage both in‑person and virtual participants. The facilitator may also lead a session on the Future of Work, the evolving People and Culture function, and Change Management.
To provide international technical leadership for the design and delivery of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) training programme, including module design, quality assurance, and facilitation of Training-of-Trainers (ToT) and selected roll-out training sessions, in close coordination with the National Agency for Social Protection (NASP), UNICEF and national trainers.
This consultancy is an opportunity to support UNICEF’s global evaluation on humanitarian access and principled action in complex, high‑threat environments. Building on the 2019 Coverage and Quality evaluation, the assignment contributes to an impartial assessment of UNICEF’s “Staying and Delivering” approach, examining relevance, effectiveness, progress, challenges, and key influencing factors. The evaluation aims to strengthen accountability to affected populations and partners while generating learning to guide future humanitarian action. The consultant will support the Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) by assisting the Team Leader, contributing to design, data collection and analysis, drafting report sections, and guiding or leading specific field components.
Under direct supervision of the Programme Specialist (Social Sector) and in cooperation with all relevant UNICEF sections (Child Protection, SBC, Communications and Partnerships) the National Consultant will provide high quality support in designing and implementing UNICEF program interventions.
UNICEF China Country Office is seeking a Partnerships Specialist (Innovative Finance) at the NOC level (limited 2 years), based in Beijing, to advance innovative financing solutions for children. Under the supervision of the Chief of Private Sector Partnerships and Fundraising, the incumbent will lead the design and implementation of innovative finance initiatives, engage China-based private-sector partners and financial institutions, and help mobilize and align capital to accelerate results for children in China and beyond.
