UNICEF Nigeria Field Office in Maiduguri, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person 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.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
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 seeks to generate robust and actionable evidence through a gender-responsive rapid market assessment. This assessment will inform the design of a targeted Skills4Girls programme aimed at supporting adolescent girls’ transition to economic empowerment in Katsina State. The programme will provide girls aged 15–19 with high-quality, market-aligned vocational, entrepreneurship, and livelihood skills, complemented by financial literacy training. It will also identify feasible and safe economic sectors, analyse labour market demand and skills gaps, and examine systemic and gender-related barriers affecting girls’ economic participation.
The purpose of this consultancy is to lead the Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR) for UNICEF Burundi and support the Country Office in identifying priority gender equality issues, strengthening gender-responsive programming, and aligning programme strategies with the UNICEF Gender Equality Action Plan (UGEAP) 2026–2029 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support Generation Unlimited (GenU) in strengthening strategic engagement with the GenU Global Leadership Council and other influential leaders to advance employability, employment and entrepreneurship for young people, working with GenU leadership and across the GenU Global Team.
This Long-Term Agreement for Services (LTAS) will provide UNICEF with a pool of individual consultants who can support SBC in Emergency initiatives, across the different levels of the organization and across continents. The agreement will enable teams to request training, workshops, data and feedback generation and analysis, tailored strategies and guidance. It also creates a mechanism to maintain shared learning through communities of practice, case studies, knowledge products, and routine communication channels.
The Cameroun CO is looking for a Construction Specialist for the coordination of the construction activities under the Education Programme. He will collaborate closely with UNICEF Operations in defining construction interventions to meet programmatic needs and achieve results for children and provides technical and advisory support to Government and partners on construction project management.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
We are seeking a committed and creative professional for the position of Emergency Officer, P-2, Temporary Position, Office of Emergency Operations, for 6 months, Off Emergency Prog, O/P Rome. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, join UNICEF — the world’s leading organization dedicated to promoting and protecting children’s rights.
Join UNICEF Supply Division as a Quality Assurance Specialist and help ensure that life-saving pharmaceutical and nutrition products reach children worldwide safely and to the highest quality standards. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of quality, global health, and humanitarian supply chains through inspections, audits, and international collaboration. The selected candidate must be willing and able to travel to the duty stations, including emergency locations, as operational needs arise. This is a non-rotational and highly specialized position.
UNICEF Eswatini Country Office is looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Social Policy Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing 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) social protection coverage and impact on children; (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
The Supply and Logistics Specialist position is established for deployment in small to medium-sized Country Offices (COs), or within larger COs as part of an integrated Supply and Logistics structure. The incumbent contributes to the effective management of supply chain operations, ensuring the timely, efficient, and compliant delivery of goods and services in support of programme implementation and organizational objectives. This role plays a critical part in strengthening supply chain systems and supporting sustainable results for children.
The Procurement Services Specialist will provide guidance, oversight, and direction on Procurement Services, national budgeting for essential supplies for children and supply financing solutions. Directly related to this support, the position will serve as focal point to identify opportunities in adjacent areas such as market access, market intelligence, market development and national supply chain strengthening.
The Immunization Specialist is accountable for providing technical assistance in the development of immunisation workplans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development,Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF'simmunization plus goals and objectives for the country.The Immunization Specialist will provide support to all the five field offices with more focus on Central-South Somalia tosupport the immunization programme and ongoing response activities for cVDPV2 outbreak and other vaccinepreventable diseases. Much more attention will also be required to reduce the zero-dose children burden in the country.As a key partner of Immunisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has the mandate to provide technicalassistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of immunizationprogrammes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet thisobligation.Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunisation programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on genderdisaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.
The CARE4Health project, funded by the European Union, has supported the restoration of essential health services and strengthening of health systems in conflict-affected and underserved areas of Ethiopia. As the project approaches closure in October 2026, UNICEF now requires dedicated capacity primarily to coordinate the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, and full project close-out process, while ensuring that remaining closure-critical activities are completed to the required quality and within the agreed timeframe.
This consultancy is therefore required as a dedicated project closure coordination function. The consultant will lead day-to-day coordination of the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, final reporting, closure documentation, stakeholder dissemination, and follow-up of remaining closure actions, including any outstanding construction-related matters. The role is intended to ensure that CARE4Health closes in a systematic, well-documented, and audit-ready manner, with all major deliverables completed to UNICEF and donor standards.
UNICEF Nigeria Field Office in Maiduguri, Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person 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.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
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 seeks to generate robust and actionable evidence through a gender-responsive rapid market assessment. This assessment will inform the design of a targeted Skills4Girls programme aimed at supporting adolescent girls’ transition to economic empowerment in Katsina State. The programme will provide girls aged 15–19 with high-quality, market-aligned vocational, entrepreneurship, and livelihood skills, complemented by financial literacy training. It will also identify feasible and safe economic sectors, analyse labour market demand and skills gaps, and examine systemic and gender-related barriers affecting girls’ economic participation.
The purpose of this consultancy is to lead the Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR) for UNICEF Burundi and support the Country Office in identifying priority gender equality issues, strengthening gender-responsive programming, and aligning programme strategies with the UNICEF Gender Equality Action Plan (UGEAP) 2026–2029 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support Generation Unlimited (GenU) in strengthening strategic engagement with the GenU Global Leadership Council and other influential leaders to advance employability, employment and entrepreneurship for young people, working with GenU leadership and across the GenU Global Team.
This Long-Term Agreement for Services (LTAS) will provide UNICEF with a pool of individual consultants who can support SBC in Emergency initiatives, across the different levels of the organization and across continents. The agreement will enable teams to request training, workshops, data and feedback generation and analysis, tailored strategies and guidance. It also creates a mechanism to maintain shared learning through communities of practice, case studies, knowledge products, and routine communication channels.
The Cameroun CO is looking for a Construction Specialist for the coordination of the construction activities under the Education Programme. He will collaborate closely with UNICEF Operations in defining construction interventions to meet programmatic needs and achieve results for children and provides technical and advisory support to Government and partners on construction project management.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is responding to its 17th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, confirmed in May 2026 and affecting Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu provinces. The situation remains complex and evolving, with transmission occurring in both community and health-care settings. Response efforts are led by national authorities in a context shaped by health system limitations, logistical constraints, insecurity, displacement, and diverse community perceptions influencing health-seeking behaviors.
UNICEF supports the Government through a multi-sectoral approach, focusing on community engagement, surveillance, infection prevention, and the continuity of essential services for vulnerable populations.
This context requires strong coordination, adaptability, and cultural sensitivity to support effective and equitable response efforts, particularly for children and at-risk communities.
We are seeking a committed and creative professional for the position of Emergency Officer, P-2, Temporary Position, Office of Emergency Operations, for 6 months, Off Emergency Prog, O/P Rome. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, join UNICEF — the world’s leading organization dedicated to promoting and protecting children’s rights.
Join UNICEF Supply Division as a Quality Assurance Specialist and help ensure that life-saving pharmaceutical and nutrition products reach children worldwide safely and to the highest quality standards. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of quality, global health, and humanitarian supply chains through inspections, audits, and international collaboration. The selected candidate must be willing and able to travel to the duty stations, including emergency locations, as operational needs arise. This is a non-rotational and highly specialized position.
UNICEF Eswatini Country Office is looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Social Policy Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing 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) social protection coverage and impact on children; (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
The Supply and Logistics Specialist position is established for deployment in small to medium-sized Country Offices (COs), or within larger COs as part of an integrated Supply and Logistics structure. The incumbent contributes to the effective management of supply chain operations, ensuring the timely, efficient, and compliant delivery of goods and services in support of programme implementation and organizational objectives. This role plays a critical part in strengthening supply chain systems and supporting sustainable results for children.
The Procurement Services Specialist will provide guidance, oversight, and direction on Procurement Services, national budgeting for essential supplies for children and supply financing solutions. Directly related to this support, the position will serve as focal point to identify opportunities in adjacent areas such as market access, market intelligence, market development and national supply chain strengthening.
The Immunization Specialist is accountable for providing technical assistance in the development of immunisation workplans, ensuring alignment with national health goals and targets in conjunction with Child Survival and Development,Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF'simmunization plus goals and objectives for the country.The Immunization Specialist will provide support to all the five field offices with more focus on Central-South Somalia tosupport the immunization programme and ongoing response activities for cVDPV2 outbreak and other vaccinepreventable diseases. Much more attention will also be required to reduce the zero-dose children burden in the country.As a key partner of Immunisation and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF has the mandate to provide technicalassistance to the country through advocacy, coordination, planning implementation, and monitoring of immunizationprogrammes. The organization relies on highly trained and experienced personnel of staff and consultants to meet thisobligation.Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunisation programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on genderdisaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming.
The CARE4Health project, funded by the European Union, has supported the restoration of essential health services and strengthening of health systems in conflict-affected and underserved areas of Ethiopia. As the project approaches closure in October 2026, UNICEF now requires dedicated capacity primarily to coordinate the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, and full project close-out process, while ensuring that remaining closure-critical activities are completed to the required quality and within the agreed timeframe.
This consultancy is therefore required as a dedicated project closure coordination function. The consultant will lead day-to-day coordination of the end-line evaluation, audit readiness, final reporting, closure documentation, stakeholder dissemination, and follow-up of remaining closure actions, including any outstanding construction-related matters. The role is intended to ensure that CARE4Health closes in a systematic, well-documented, and audit-ready manner, with all major deliverables completed to UNICEF and donor standards.
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