The Child Protection Officer (NOA) will support the coordination, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian child protection interventions in the Dominican Republic, with a focus on children affected by human mobility and other vulnerabilities. The role contributes to the delivery of an integrated response that combines protection, health, nutrition and WASH interventions, ensuring that services are aligned with humanitarian standards and donor requirements.
In response to the protracted conflict in Sudan, UNICEF has rapidly scaled up cash-based interventions across multiple states. UNICEF delivers multi-purpose cash assistance and sector-specific top-ups, including support for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and vulnerable households, while expanding incentive payments for frontline workers in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, and Social and Child Protection. UNICEF maintains a leading role in cash assistance in Sudan, leveraging large-scale delivery systems to reach vulnerable populations efficiently. In the context of the rapid scale-up of humanitarian cash operations across Sudan, UNICEF Sudan Country Office is seeking a Programme Officer (Beneficiary Data) to oversee the beneficiary data lifecycle through the Humanitarian Cash Operations and Programme Ecosystem (HOPE). The role will provide technical support on beneficiary and payee registration, data verification and targeting quality, coordination with Financial Service Providers (FSPs), grievance redress mechanisms, payment verification, and the use of HOPE reporting and dashboards to support implementation, compliance, and reporting
Sudan is among the top four countries in the world with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM), with an estimated 13.6 percent. The nutrition outlook is expected to deteriorate in 2026 due to ongoing conflict since mid of April 2023, food security decline, compromised health and WASH services, and prolonged displacement. The estimated people in need for nutrition services is projected to rise further with the deteriorating nutrition determinants. Currently, the nutrition cluster estimate that 3.67 million children under five will suffer from acute malnutrition during 2024, out of which, 729,000 children will have severe acute malnutrition which put them at immediate risk of death if not treated on timely manner.
Pakistan, with a population exceeding 240 million, faces persistent challenges in poverty, social exclusion, gender inequality, and vulnerability to disasters and emergencies. Over 38% of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with deep disparities at provincial and district levels, exacerbated by social exclusion, discrimination, and violence against marginalized groups, especially women, children, and minorities. The COVID-19 pandemic, recurring natural disasters, and ongoing humanitarian crises have further exposed the fragility of community systems and the urgent need for robust, inclusive, and resilient community engagement mechanisms
Social norms, information gaps, and low trust in public services further hinder service uptake. Technical solutions alone are insufficient; robust community engagement (CE) is essential to expand service reach, strengthen frontline systems, and address behavioral, social, and structural barriers. However, current CE efforts are fragmented and inconsistently linked with service delivery.
Community engagement emerged as one of the most effective components across the SBC portfolio . It relies on trusted local actors, culturally grounded approaches, participatory delivery, and regular interpersonal contact. These strategies helped shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours across sectors including health, WASH, education, nutrition, child protection, and polio.
The SBC formative evaluation highlights that interpersonal, community embedded delivery was the central driver of behaviour change. By leveraging community trust, local insights, and repeated face to face engagement, programmes were able to overcome social barriers, build ownership, and make desired behaviours more practical and acceptable for households.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que pueda apoyarnos en el proceso de diagnóstico, análisis y propuesta de implementación técnica para facilitar el intercambio de datos en el Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN).
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que no brinde acompañamiento técnico el diseño de interfaces de programación de aplicaciones (API) para el fortalecimiento de la gestión de información climática y ambiental.
Many countries continue to face significant challenges in maintaining critical health technologies at PHC level, including cold chain equipment, medical devices, oxygen systems, ICT infrastructure, waste management systems, and solar energy solutions. These challenges are often driven by fragmented maintenance approaches, limited technical capacity, insufficient financing, and weak governance and coordination mechanisms. As a result, equipment downtime remains high, preventive maintenance is limited, and health facilities frequently experience disruptions in essential services.
The lack of an integrated maintenance approach also leads to inefficient use of resources, duplication of efforts across program areas, and limited accountability for equipment performance. In many settings, maintenance responsibilities are distributed across different units without clear coordination, resulting in delayed repairs, inadequate preventive maintenance, and shortened equipment lifespan. These gaps ultimately affect the reliability of health services, including immunization, oxygen delivery, diagnostics, and broader primary health care services.
This assignment aims to develop, pilot, and operationalize an integrated maintenance approach that brings together multiple health technology domains under a coordinated and efficient framework. Through pilot country implementation, baseline assessments, operational model development, and capacity strengthening, the assignment will generate evidence-based approaches tailored to different country contexts, including fragile settings and high-impact countries.
The assignment will also document lessons learned and develop scalable and sustainable models for broader adoption.
The Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for supporting the implementation of a coordinated approach to crisis response in Ecuador, ensuring alignment with international standards. During non-emergency phases, the Humanitarian Affairs Officer will work with the United Nations Resident Coordinator on advocacy campaigns, early warning actions, donor liaison, risk monitoring, information gathering and analysis, disaster preparedness, and rapid response.
UNICEF Surabaya is looking for Social Policy Officer who is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) innovative financing at both national and sub-national levels; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and climate change. Contract duration is for 2 years.
The Chief Health is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of health programs/projects as articulated in the Country Program Document and ongoing VISION 2030 UN Joint programs. The vision for change in health is that, by 2030 caregivers, children and adolescents, especially adolescent girls, access and utilize equitable, gender responsive quality services delivered through a strengthened and integrated primary health care system. These include neonatal, child and adolescent health, nutrition, and development interventions. The ambition of this pillar reaches beyond improving child survival through ending preventable deaths of young children to attain the growth and developmental potential and well-being of all children and adolescents. This area of work also integrates climate resilient WASH, health security, emergency preparedness and response.
UNICEF Mali is looking for a committed and professional Education Officer to support the implementation of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) programmes within the country. In this role, you will contribute to programme design, monitoring, and delivery while providing technical and operational support to ensure quality education outcomes. You will also engage with partners, promote innovation, and strengthen knowledge sharing to enhance programme impact.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
The candidate will be responsible for providing expertise to strengthen national climate–health desk through the development of integrated early warning systems (EWS), predictive analytics, and decision-support tools that translate data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and preparedness. This initiative builds on existing national systems and priorities, including climate-resilient health systems, One Health coordination, and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H‑NAP)
The objective of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Mozambique in developing a comprehensive nutrition program Action Plan for the health sector that guides the planning and implementation of high impact evidence-based actions aimed at promoting nutrition and improving health throughout the life cycle. This Action Plan will contribute to improving the coverage and quality of essential nutritional actions in the Mozambican health system in a sustainable and comprehensive way, especially for vulnerable populations. The Action Plan will also be aligned with the five core pillars of the Government of Mozambique's Five-Year Program (PQG) for 2025–2029, the three key principles of the National Health Policy and the five key shifts proposed in the Lusaka Agenda 2023. To make the development of the national action plan effective, the consultant must ensure alignment with national health strategies and priorities and international standards, in particular with the guidelines of different areas of nutrition action at the level of the National Health System and the Community Health Subsystem, with an emphasis on promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation and its link with other essential sectors (e.g. education, agriculture, industry and commerce, social action, public works, among others)
Angola has made progress in child survival, with under-five mortality declining from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, between 2015 and 2024. This trajectory confirms that targeted investments in primary health care is yielding results. However, these gains remain fragile and uneven, with persistent geographic and socio-economic disparities requiring sustained, equity-focused efforts. At the same time, stagnation in key maternal and child health and nutrition indicators signal systemic bottlenecks. Rates of stunting (40 per cent), wasting (5 per cent), full immunization coverage (28 per cent), and access to WASH have shown limited improvement. This reflects structural challenges across the health system, including access to health care facilities, weak last-mile and community-based service delivery and quality gaps.
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and innovative professional to lead integrated Child Protection and Education initiatives that strengthen national systems, promote safe and inclusive environments, and accelerate sustainable results for children and adolescents at scale.
Provide technical expertise for neonatal components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting neonatal related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing neonatal clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
Provide technical expertise for obstetric/midwifery components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing obstetric clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
This internship offers a valuable opportunity for a student or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in responsible AI for development, digital transformation, innovation portfolio coordination, and the safe and ethical use of emerging technologies within the UN system.
The Child Protection Officer (NOA) will support the coordination, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian child protection interventions in the Dominican Republic, with a focus on children affected by human mobility and other vulnerabilities. The role contributes to the delivery of an integrated response that combines protection, health, nutrition and WASH interventions, ensuring that services are aligned with humanitarian standards and donor requirements.
In response to the protracted conflict in Sudan, UNICEF has rapidly scaled up cash-based interventions across multiple states. UNICEF delivers multi-purpose cash assistance and sector-specific top-ups, including support for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and vulnerable households, while expanding incentive payments for frontline workers in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, and Social and Child Protection. UNICEF maintains a leading role in cash assistance in Sudan, leveraging large-scale delivery systems to reach vulnerable populations efficiently. In the context of the rapid scale-up of humanitarian cash operations across Sudan, UNICEF Sudan Country Office is seeking a Programme Officer (Beneficiary Data) to oversee the beneficiary data lifecycle through the Humanitarian Cash Operations and Programme Ecosystem (HOPE). The role will provide technical support on beneficiary and payee registration, data verification and targeting quality, coordination with Financial Service Providers (FSPs), grievance redress mechanisms, payment verification, and the use of HOPE reporting and dashboards to support implementation, compliance, and reporting
Sudan is among the top four countries in the world with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM), with an estimated 13.6 percent. The nutrition outlook is expected to deteriorate in 2026 due to ongoing conflict since mid of April 2023, food security decline, compromised health and WASH services, and prolonged displacement. The estimated people in need for nutrition services is projected to rise further with the deteriorating nutrition determinants. Currently, the nutrition cluster estimate that 3.67 million children under five will suffer from acute malnutrition during 2024, out of which, 729,000 children will have severe acute malnutrition which put them at immediate risk of death if not treated on timely manner.
Pakistan, with a population exceeding 240 million, faces persistent challenges in poverty, social exclusion, gender inequality, and vulnerability to disasters and emergencies. Over 38% of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with deep disparities at provincial and district levels, exacerbated by social exclusion, discrimination, and violence against marginalized groups, especially women, children, and minorities. The COVID-19 pandemic, recurring natural disasters, and ongoing humanitarian crises have further exposed the fragility of community systems and the urgent need for robust, inclusive, and resilient community engagement mechanisms
Social norms, information gaps, and low trust in public services further hinder service uptake. Technical solutions alone are insufficient; robust community engagement (CE) is essential to expand service reach, strengthen frontline systems, and address behavioral, social, and structural barriers. However, current CE efforts are fragmented and inconsistently linked with service delivery.
Community engagement emerged as one of the most effective components across the SBC portfolio . It relies on trusted local actors, culturally grounded approaches, participatory delivery, and regular interpersonal contact. These strategies helped shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours across sectors including health, WASH, education, nutrition, child protection, and polio.
The SBC formative evaluation highlights that interpersonal, community embedded delivery was the central driver of behaviour change. By leveraging community trust, local insights, and repeated face to face engagement, programmes were able to overcome social barriers, build ownership, and make desired behaviours more practical and acceptable for households.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que pueda apoyarnos en el proceso de diagnóstico, análisis y propuesta de implementación técnica para facilitar el intercambio de datos en el Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN).
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que no brinde acompañamiento técnico el diseño de interfaces de programación de aplicaciones (API) para el fortalecimiento de la gestión de información climática y ambiental.
Many countries continue to face significant challenges in maintaining critical health technologies at PHC level, including cold chain equipment, medical devices, oxygen systems, ICT infrastructure, waste management systems, and solar energy solutions. These challenges are often driven by fragmented maintenance approaches, limited technical capacity, insufficient financing, and weak governance and coordination mechanisms. As a result, equipment downtime remains high, preventive maintenance is limited, and health facilities frequently experience disruptions in essential services.
The lack of an integrated maintenance approach also leads to inefficient use of resources, duplication of efforts across program areas, and limited accountability for equipment performance. In many settings, maintenance responsibilities are distributed across different units without clear coordination, resulting in delayed repairs, inadequate preventive maintenance, and shortened equipment lifespan. These gaps ultimately affect the reliability of health services, including immunization, oxygen delivery, diagnostics, and broader primary health care services.
This assignment aims to develop, pilot, and operationalize an integrated maintenance approach that brings together multiple health technology domains under a coordinated and efficient framework. Through pilot country implementation, baseline assessments, operational model development, and capacity strengthening, the assignment will generate evidence-based approaches tailored to different country contexts, including fragile settings and high-impact countries.
The assignment will also document lessons learned and develop scalable and sustainable models for broader adoption.
The Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for supporting the implementation of a coordinated approach to crisis response in Ecuador, ensuring alignment with international standards. During non-emergency phases, the Humanitarian Affairs Officer will work with the United Nations Resident Coordinator on advocacy campaigns, early warning actions, donor liaison, risk monitoring, information gathering and analysis, disaster preparedness, and rapid response.
UNICEF Surabaya is looking for Social Policy Officer who is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) innovative financing at both national and sub-national levels; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and climate change. Contract duration is for 2 years.
The Chief Health is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of health programs/projects as articulated in the Country Program Document and ongoing VISION 2030 UN Joint programs. The vision for change in health is that, by 2030 caregivers, children and adolescents, especially adolescent girls, access and utilize equitable, gender responsive quality services delivered through a strengthened and integrated primary health care system. These include neonatal, child and adolescent health, nutrition, and development interventions. The ambition of this pillar reaches beyond improving child survival through ending preventable deaths of young children to attain the growth and developmental potential and well-being of all children and adolescents. This area of work also integrates climate resilient WASH, health security, emergency preparedness and response.
UNICEF Mali is looking for a committed and professional Education Officer to support the implementation of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) programmes within the country. In this role, you will contribute to programme design, monitoring, and delivery while providing technical and operational support to ensure quality education outcomes. You will also engage with partners, promote innovation, and strengthen knowledge sharing to enhance programme impact.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
The candidate will be responsible for providing expertise to strengthen national climate–health desk through the development of integrated early warning systems (EWS), predictive analytics, and decision-support tools that translate data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and preparedness. This initiative builds on existing national systems and priorities, including climate-resilient health systems, One Health coordination, and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H‑NAP)
The objective of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Mozambique in developing a comprehensive nutrition program Action Plan for the health sector that guides the planning and implementation of high impact evidence-based actions aimed at promoting nutrition and improving health throughout the life cycle. This Action Plan will contribute to improving the coverage and quality of essential nutritional actions in the Mozambican health system in a sustainable and comprehensive way, especially for vulnerable populations. The Action Plan will also be aligned with the five core pillars of the Government of Mozambique's Five-Year Program (PQG) for 2025–2029, the three key principles of the National Health Policy and the five key shifts proposed in the Lusaka Agenda 2023. To make the development of the national action plan effective, the consultant must ensure alignment with national health strategies and priorities and international standards, in particular with the guidelines of different areas of nutrition action at the level of the National Health System and the Community Health Subsystem, with an emphasis on promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation and its link with other essential sectors (e.g. education, agriculture, industry and commerce, social action, public works, among others)
Angola has made progress in child survival, with under-five mortality declining from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, between 2015 and 2024. This trajectory confirms that targeted investments in primary health care is yielding results. However, these gains remain fragile and uneven, with persistent geographic and socio-economic disparities requiring sustained, equity-focused efforts. At the same time, stagnation in key maternal and child health and nutrition indicators signal systemic bottlenecks. Rates of stunting (40 per cent), wasting (5 per cent), full immunization coverage (28 per cent), and access to WASH have shown limited improvement. This reflects structural challenges across the health system, including access to health care facilities, weak last-mile and community-based service delivery and quality gaps.
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and innovative professional to lead integrated Child Protection and Education initiatives that strengthen national systems, promote safe and inclusive environments, and accelerate sustainable results for children and adolescents at scale.
Provide technical expertise for neonatal components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting neonatal related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing neonatal clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
Provide technical expertise for obstetric/midwifery components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing obstetric clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
This internship offers a valuable opportunity for a student or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in responsible AI for development, digital transformation, innovation portfolio coordination, and the safe and ethical use of emerging technologies within the UN system.
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