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.
The Evaluation Specialist (Impact Evaluation& AI/Machine Learning) generates rigorous impact evidence that enables UNICEF to scale cost-effective interventions and optimize resource allocation for children. Through innovative methodologies and standardized frameworks, the role accelerates evidence generation and enhances its credibility while building institutional impact evaluation capacity across country offices. This strengthens UNICEF's ability to demonstrate programmatic impact, attract donor investment, and maximize outcomes for children globally.
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.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
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.
Join our UNICEF Colombia team and make a difference in the lives of children and adolescents!
We are looking for a Payment Associate to support the integrity and performance of our recurring revenue stream. Under the supervision of the Data Base Officer (NOA), you will manage and optimize end‑to‑end payment processes for individual donors, ensuring accurate and timely transactions across banks, acquirers, gateways, and Salesforce.
You will help reduce involuntary churn by maintaining high‑quality financial data, analyzing rejection drivers, and identifying opportunities to improve approval rates.
As part of the Business Intelligence team, you will provide insights on payment performance, support platform integrations, and ensure reliable, well‑governed transactional data.
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 en Cuba se complace en anunciar 2 puestos vacantes de Asociados/as de Programa , nivel G-6 con nombramiento a término fijo (Fixed Term Appointment). UNICEF Cuba comienza en 2026 un nuevo CPD (2026-2030) y estas posiciones contribuirán al apoyo especializado, tanto programático como administrativo, para facilitar el desarrollo, la implementación y el seguimiento de los programas de UNICEF. Esta función implica una participación sustancial en el análisis de datos, el seguimiento presupuestario, la elaboración de informes y la coordinación con actores internos y externos, a fin de asegurar una ejecución eficaz y el cumplimiento de las normas organizacionales.
Te animamos a consultar la descripción del pefil y si te consideras una candidatura potencial y cumples los requerimientos, bienvenida tu postulación a esta excelente oportunidad de ser parte del equipo de UNICEF en Cuba.
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)
Join UNICEF as a Senior Operations Associate. You will contribute to the promotion of children's rights by ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations in our Global Office in Istanbul , keeping people, processes, and services moving so our teams can focus on what matters most.
National consultancy support development of the revised National Action Plan for implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in Viet Nam.
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 seeking a dynamic and strategic People and Culture Manager to lead and transform human resources services across Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam.Join us if you are an accomplished HR professional who thrives in complexity, partners confidently with senior leaders, and is passionate about shaping an inclusive, high‑performing organisational culture that enables results for children.
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.
The Evaluation Specialist (Impact Evaluation& AI/Machine Learning) generates rigorous impact evidence that enables UNICEF to scale cost-effective interventions and optimize resource allocation for children. Through innovative methodologies and standardized frameworks, the role accelerates evidence generation and enhances its credibility while building institutional impact evaluation capacity across country offices. This strengthens UNICEF's ability to demonstrate programmatic impact, attract donor investment, and maximize outcomes for children globally.
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.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
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.
Join our UNICEF Colombia team and make a difference in the lives of children and adolescents!
We are looking for a Payment Associate to support the integrity and performance of our recurring revenue stream. Under the supervision of the Data Base Officer (NOA), you will manage and optimize end‑to‑end payment processes for individual donors, ensuring accurate and timely transactions across banks, acquirers, gateways, and Salesforce.
You will help reduce involuntary churn by maintaining high‑quality financial data, analyzing rejection drivers, and identifying opportunities to improve approval rates.
As part of the Business Intelligence team, you will provide insights on payment performance, support platform integrations, and ensure reliable, well‑governed transactional data.
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 en Cuba se complace en anunciar 2 puestos vacantes de Asociados/as de Programa , nivel G-6 con nombramiento a término fijo (Fixed Term Appointment). UNICEF Cuba comienza en 2026 un nuevo CPD (2026-2030) y estas posiciones contribuirán al apoyo especializado, tanto programático como administrativo, para facilitar el desarrollo, la implementación y el seguimiento de los programas de UNICEF. Esta función implica una participación sustancial en el análisis de datos, el seguimiento presupuestario, la elaboración de informes y la coordinación con actores internos y externos, a fin de asegurar una ejecución eficaz y el cumplimiento de las normas organizacionales.
Te animamos a consultar la descripción del pefil y si te consideras una candidatura potencial y cumples los requerimientos, bienvenida tu postulación a esta excelente oportunidad de ser parte del equipo de UNICEF en Cuba.
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)
Join UNICEF as a Senior Operations Associate. You will contribute to the promotion of children's rights by ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations in our Global Office in Istanbul , keeping people, processes, and services moving so our teams can focus on what matters most.
National consultancy support development of the revised National Action Plan for implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in Viet Nam.
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 seeking a dynamic and strategic People and Culture Manager to lead and transform human resources services across Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam.Join us if you are an accomplished HR professional who thrives in complexity, partners confidently with senior leaders, and is passionate about shaping an inclusive, high‑performing organisational culture that enables results for children.
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