Join YuWaah (Generation Unlimited India), a dynamic partnership platform working to ensure every young person aged 10–24 is in school, learning, training, or employment by 2030. Since its launch in 2019, YuWaah has become a hub for collaboration between government, civil society, UN agencies, corporates, and youth themselves — amplifying aspirations and driving transformative change.As a Programme Assistant (TA), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring smooth operations and timely delivery of initiatives. This position is central to supporting the Secretariat’s work by managing essential Level 1 transactions and providing critical administrative and logistical support. Your contributions will directly enable YuWaah’s convenings, partnerships, and youth-focused programmes to run seamlessly. The Programme Assistant ensures proper segregation of duties, strengthens internal controls, and provides the backbone for operations that empower young people across India.
DGCA - Website, Editorial and Governance Section is seeking a consultant on Digital Governance Operations for 9 months remotely. The consultant will focus on operational delivery, stakeholder coordination, and implementation tracking, following up on deliverables, and supporting the rollout and adoption of the Web Content Lifecycle and Web Archiving initiatives across the organization.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
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.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Programme Assistant provides a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the section. Incumbent facilitates the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring timely and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations. The incumbent may support one or more programme areas or cross-functional initiatives and often works in coordination with other sections.
Unicef Afghanistan Country Office is looking for an experienced Contract Specialist responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective and efficient procurement of institutional services for the Country Office and ensuring that the contracting function produces affordable and quality outputs with a significant impact on program delivery of much-needed services.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Programme Assistant provides a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the section. Incumbent facilitates the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring timely and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations. The incumbent may support one or more programme areas or cross-functional initiatives and often works in coordination with other sections.
UNICEF Uganda is recruiting a Programme Associate to support the Health Section. The role involves assisting with project planning and implementation, coordinating partnerships and financial processes, managing data and reporting, monitoring grants and budgets, and improving operational efficiency through digital tools. The position also supports communication, knowledge management, capacity-building activities, and provides flexible support during emergencies and across programme areas.
This role supports scaling UNICEF’s Last Mile Supply Monitoring (LMSM) platform by leading technical implementation and development. It involves managing rollouts in multiple earmarked countries, improving system features and performance, collaborating with stakeholders, managing the project execution, and contributing hands-on to backend development and reporting.The successful candidate will have combined skills of technical leadership, backend development, and project management to drive efficient and scalable solutions. The role focuses on improving development processes by implementing DevOps practices, automating release and testing workflows, and enhancing reporting systems. In addition, it involves designing and maintaining backend systems using Django, ensuring code quality, performance, and security, and collaborating with frontend teams to deliver integrated solutions through efficient project planning and execution, including defining scope, managing timelines, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams, while continuously evaluating outcomes for improvement.
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.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide hands-on administrative and technical support across key backend functions, including financial processing, data management, and supporter care. The consultant will play a critical role in maintaining data integrity, ensuring smooth financial reconciliation, and supporting supporter stewardship, thereby enabling the Individual Resource Mobilization Lead to focus on strategic priorities and growth.
Education: Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law, criminal investigation, or related field is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) in a relevant field combined with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.Work Experience: A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in legal activities and/or investigation related functions is required.Experience with an international or multilateral public institution is an asset.Experience working in or with the United Nations Dispute Tribunal, the United Nations Appeals Tribunal, and/or the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal is an asset. This includes, but is not limited to, experience as counsel, in a registry or case management capacity, or in a legal advisory role involving regular analysis of the jurisprudence of these bodies.Experience working with administrative sanctions systems within national, international or multilateral public institutions is an asset. Language: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
As a digital specialist in the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) plays a pivotal role in executing UNICEF’s strategy to scale donor acquisition through digital innovation. In alignment with the PSFR team's strategic emphasis on funnel-based marketing, segmentation, and audience-centric growth, this role leads the planning, execution, and optimization of digital campaigns across platforms such as social media, email, and paid advertising. By leveraging audience insights, campaign analytics, and emerging digital trends, the incumbent ensures that acquisition efforts are both data-driven and responsive to evolving donor behaviors. Their collaboration with the marketing team and focus on maximizing ROI directly supports the team’s broader objectives of expanding reach, enhancing engagement, and driving sustainable revenue growth under the 2026–2030 strategy.
Under the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving on the PSFR team, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) focuses on planning, executing, and evaluating digital marketing campaigns with a goal of acquiring new donors across online platforms (e.g., social media, email, paid advertising). Responsibilities include campaign management across analysis, audience insights, and campaign optimization. This role involves collaborating with the marketing team, analyzing digital campaign data, optimizing campaigns for maximum ROI, and staying updated with the latest digital marketing trends. The incumbent will play a key role in driving the organization's growth by ensuring effective digital marketing efforts.
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.
DGCA Child and Youth Engagement team is seeking a consultant as a UNICEF80 Events Coordinator for 6 months. The event coordinator will:
(i) Lead end-to-end event and activation production, including the conceptualization, planning and execution of two events: one event (Dec 11 morning) in the ECOSOC chamber of the UN HQ with member states and children, and one event in UNICEF House (Dec 11 evening) in UNICEF House with private sector, celebrities, children, musicians, artists, and Goodwill Ambassadors.
(ii) Support the engagement of an external agency to implement an exhibition in the Danny Kaye Hall at UNICEF House to commemorate 80 years.
Join our team and use your experience to make a difference. In this dynamic role, you will be at the heart of our programme operations, managing partnerships, analyzing data for impact, and overseeing grants. Your skills will drive efficiency and support our mission, all within a collaborative environment that values agility and knowledge sharing. If you are a proactive professional ready to contribute to meaningful work for children, we encourage you to apply.
The consultant will provide technical and monitoring implementation support for the Banco Futuro Initiative, working jointly with the LACRO Innovative Finance and Data and Monitoring leads. The role will provide technical inputs to country offices for conducting Child Lens Investing Framework due diligence, defining project-level monitoring frameworks and KPIs, developing Monitoring Reporting and Verification pathways, identifying data and evidence gaps, preparing project recommendation notes, and generating technical inputs for CAF discussions and investor-facing reporting.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for Programme Specialist (Gender and Disability Inclusion) to provide expert technical advice and operational support to country office colleagues and internal and external partners and stakeholders to ensure that gender, disability and adolescent development and participation established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/framework and UN intergovernmental bodies, are integrated in UNICEF’s advocacy, policies, programmes and humanitarian work. This is a Fixed-Term contract with duration of 2 years.
L'efficacité et l'efficacité du soutien apporté par le/la charge(e) de l’Education à la préparation de programmes, à la planification fondée sur des évidences et à la mise en œuvre contribuent à l'obtention de résultats durables pour améliorer les résultats d'apprentissage et l'accès universel à une éducation de qualité, équitable et inclusive. Le succès dans les programmes et projets éducatifs contribue à son tour à maintenir et renforcer la crédibilité et la capacité de l'UNICEF à fournir des services de programmes pour les mères et les enfants qui favorisent une plus grande égalité sociale dans le pays.
Join YuWaah (Generation Unlimited India), a dynamic partnership platform working to ensure every young person aged 10–24 is in school, learning, training, or employment by 2030. Since its launch in 2019, YuWaah has become a hub for collaboration between government, civil society, UN agencies, corporates, and youth themselves — amplifying aspirations and driving transformative change.As a Programme Assistant (TA), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring smooth operations and timely delivery of initiatives. This position is central to supporting the Secretariat’s work by managing essential Level 1 transactions and providing critical administrative and logistical support. Your contributions will directly enable YuWaah’s convenings, partnerships, and youth-focused programmes to run seamlessly. The Programme Assistant ensures proper segregation of duties, strengthens internal controls, and provides the backbone for operations that empower young people across India.
DGCA - Website, Editorial and Governance Section is seeking a consultant on Digital Governance Operations for 9 months remotely. The consultant will focus on operational delivery, stakeholder coordination, and implementation tracking, following up on deliverables, and supporting the rollout and adoption of the Web Content Lifecycle and Web Archiving initiatives across the organization.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
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.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Programme Assistant provides a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the section. Incumbent facilitates the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring timely and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations. The incumbent may support one or more programme areas or cross-functional initiatives and often works in coordination with other sections.
Unicef Afghanistan Country Office is looking for an experienced Contract Specialist responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective and efficient procurement of institutional services for the Country Office and ensuring that the contracting function produces affordable and quality outputs with a significant impact on program delivery of much-needed services.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Programme Assistant provides a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the section. Incumbent facilitates the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring timely and effective execution of tasks aligned with UNICEF rules and regulations. The incumbent may support one or more programme areas or cross-functional initiatives and often works in coordination with other sections.
UNICEF Uganda is recruiting a Programme Associate to support the Health Section. The role involves assisting with project planning and implementation, coordinating partnerships and financial processes, managing data and reporting, monitoring grants and budgets, and improving operational efficiency through digital tools. The position also supports communication, knowledge management, capacity-building activities, and provides flexible support during emergencies and across programme areas.
This role supports scaling UNICEF’s Last Mile Supply Monitoring (LMSM) platform by leading technical implementation and development. It involves managing rollouts in multiple earmarked countries, improving system features and performance, collaborating with stakeholders, managing the project execution, and contributing hands-on to backend development and reporting.The successful candidate will have combined skills of technical leadership, backend development, and project management to drive efficient and scalable solutions. The role focuses on improving development processes by implementing DevOps practices, automating release and testing workflows, and enhancing reporting systems. In addition, it involves designing and maintaining backend systems using Django, ensuring code quality, performance, and security, and collaborating with frontend teams to deliver integrated solutions through efficient project planning and execution, including defining scope, managing timelines, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams, while continuously evaluating outcomes for improvement.
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.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide hands-on administrative and technical support across key backend functions, including financial processing, data management, and supporter care. The consultant will play a critical role in maintaining data integrity, ensuring smooth financial reconciliation, and supporting supporter stewardship, thereby enabling the Individual Resource Mobilization Lead to focus on strategic priorities and growth.
Education: Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law, criminal investigation, or related field is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) in a relevant field combined with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.Work Experience: A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in legal activities and/or investigation related functions is required.Experience with an international or multilateral public institution is an asset.Experience working in or with the United Nations Dispute Tribunal, the United Nations Appeals Tribunal, and/or the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal is an asset. This includes, but is not limited to, experience as counsel, in a registry or case management capacity, or in a legal advisory role involving regular analysis of the jurisprudence of these bodies.Experience working with administrative sanctions systems within national, international or multilateral public institutions is an asset. Language: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
As a digital specialist in the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) plays a pivotal role in executing UNICEF’s strategy to scale donor acquisition through digital innovation. In alignment with the PSFR team's strategic emphasis on funnel-based marketing, segmentation, and audience-centric growth, this role leads the planning, execution, and optimization of digital campaigns across platforms such as social media, email, and paid advertising. By leveraging audience insights, campaign analytics, and emerging digital trends, the incumbent ensures that acquisition efforts are both data-driven and responsive to evolving donor behaviors. Their collaboration with the marketing team and focus on maximizing ROI directly supports the team’s broader objectives of expanding reach, enhancing engagement, and driving sustainable revenue growth under the 2026–2030 strategy.
Under the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving on the PSFR team, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) focuses on planning, executing, and evaluating digital marketing campaigns with a goal of acquiring new donors across online platforms (e.g., social media, email, paid advertising). Responsibilities include campaign management across analysis, audience insights, and campaign optimization. This role involves collaborating with the marketing team, analyzing digital campaign data, optimizing campaigns for maximum ROI, and staying updated with the latest digital marketing trends. The incumbent will play a key role in driving the organization's growth by ensuring effective digital marketing efforts.
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.
DGCA Child and Youth Engagement team is seeking a consultant as a UNICEF80 Events Coordinator for 6 months. The event coordinator will:
(i) Lead end-to-end event and activation production, including the conceptualization, planning and execution of two events: one event (Dec 11 morning) in the ECOSOC chamber of the UN HQ with member states and children, and one event in UNICEF House (Dec 11 evening) in UNICEF House with private sector, celebrities, children, musicians, artists, and Goodwill Ambassadors.
(ii) Support the engagement of an external agency to implement an exhibition in the Danny Kaye Hall at UNICEF House to commemorate 80 years.
Join our team and use your experience to make a difference. In this dynamic role, you will be at the heart of our programme operations, managing partnerships, analyzing data for impact, and overseeing grants. Your skills will drive efficiency and support our mission, all within a collaborative environment that values agility and knowledge sharing. If you are a proactive professional ready to contribute to meaningful work for children, we encourage you to apply.
The consultant will provide technical and monitoring implementation support for the Banco Futuro Initiative, working jointly with the LACRO Innovative Finance and Data and Monitoring leads. The role will provide technical inputs to country offices for conducting Child Lens Investing Framework due diligence, defining project-level monitoring frameworks and KPIs, developing Monitoring Reporting and Verification pathways, identifying data and evidence gaps, preparing project recommendation notes, and generating technical inputs for CAF discussions and investor-facing reporting.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for Programme Specialist (Gender and Disability Inclusion) to provide expert technical advice and operational support to country office colleagues and internal and external partners and stakeholders to ensure that gender, disability and adolescent development and participation established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/framework and UN intergovernmental bodies, are integrated in UNICEF’s advocacy, policies, programmes and humanitarian work. This is a Fixed-Term contract with duration of 2 years.
L'efficacité et l'efficacité du soutien apporté par le/la charge(e) de l’Education à la préparation de programmes, à la planification fondée sur des évidences et à la mise en œuvre contribuent à l'obtention de résultats durables pour améliorer les résultats d'apprentissage et l'accès universel à une éducation de qualité, équitable et inclusive. Le succès dans les programmes et projets éducatifs contribue à son tour à maintenir et renforcer la crédibilité et la capacité de l'UNICEF à fournir des services de programmes pour les mères et les enfants qui favorisent une plus grande égalité sociale dans le pays.
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