Since 24 February 2022, the escalation of the war in Ukraine has severely affected children and families, leaving millions in need of humanitarian assistance and disrupting access to essential services such as health, education, WASH, and social protection. In response, UNICEF has implemented an emergency response while supporting recovery and strengthening national systems. High-quality, timely evidence and evaluation are essential to ensure programmes remain effective, accountable, and responsive to the evolving needs of children. To strengthen its evaluation function, the UNICEF Ukraine Country Office is recruiting an Evaluation Specialist (NO-C) to support the planning, implementation, and dissemination of evaluations and contribute to the office's evidence generation strategy.
Fiji is currently experiencing a rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, with over 2,000 new diagnoses reported in 2025, the highest annual figure on record, and a sharp increase observed over recent years. The epidemic is increasingly affecting young people, women, and the wider community, with rising HIV detection in antenatal settings signaling heightened risk of mother-to-child transmission.
The consultant will support the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) and its partners to design, operationalize, and strengthen integrated, evidence based HIV service delivery models that address key service gaps, including low testing coverage, missed HIV seroconversion during pregnancy, limited psychosocial support, and weak linkages between prevention, testing, and treatment services.
This consultancy will combine strategic guidance with practical implementation support, ensuring that interventions are feasible, scalable, and integrated within existing health systems.
The P&C Officer reports to the Deputy Representative for close guidance, training and supervision. The Officer provides support to the supervisor and colleagues by executing P&C services through applying knowledge of theoretical P&C models, as well as understanding of organizational P&C policies and procedures.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a Retreat Facilitator to to design and facilitate a one-day, in-person team retreat for approximately 18–20 staff members, aimed at strengthening leadership capabilities, enhancing self-awareness, and fostering more effective collaboration within the team.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support field-level data collection for the design and piloting of the School Management and Early Warning System (EWS) in primary schools across the Sahrawi refugee camps. Consultants will work under the supervision of the National Consultant and UNICEF Education team to collect high-quality quantitative and qualitative data from schools, teachers, students, and community stakeholders.
L'UNICEF œuvre pour un Bénin où les enfants et adolescents vivant dans les communautés les plus vulnérables, ont un accès équitable à des services sociaux essentiels de qualité pour un développement holistique y compris en situation d’urgence.
Dans le cadre de son programme pays en appui à la section Survie et Epanouissement de l’Enfant, tant sur le plan programmatique qu’opérationnel, l’Unicef cherche un ou une stagiaire.
UNICEF’s internship programme aims to provide a framework by which current eligible undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds are assigned to UNICEF offices, where their educational experience can be enhanced through practical work assignments that contribute to UNICEF’s mandate. Additionally, the internship programme aims to expose the interns to the work of UNICEF as part of capacity building and skills development, while providing UNICEF offices with the assistance of qualified students specialized in various professional fields.
Under the direct supervision of the Chief Health and Nutrition, the Health Officer (Mental Health) provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results.
Under the guidance of the Representative, the Programme Manager is accountable for programme management, ensuring that programme initiatives are effectively planned, budgeted, implemented and monitored, in accordance with the Country Programme and Country Programme Management Plan, focused on achievement of UNICEF's Priorities. The role also involves close collaboration with the programme sections—such as education, health, child protection, and water and sanitation—to ensure that social policy interventions are integrated and contribute to broader results for children.
UNICEF Guinea Country Office operates in a complex development and humanitarian context, with programmes spanning health, nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and social policy. The Information Communication Technology Technology for Development - ICT/T4D Unit plays a critical role in enabling digital programme delivery, data collection and systems strengthening across all sections and field offices (Kankan, Labé, Nzérékoré). The T4D Associate (G6) reports directly to the T4D Specialist and works in close coordination with programme sections and government counterparts on T4D initiatives. Functional guidance is provided by the Regional ICT/T4D team (WCARO)
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant to provide high‑level insights on the GSSC’s current state and trajectory, to inform decisions that shape its priorities and planning.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dedicated and results-driven Health Officer (Immunization), NO-B, on a fixed-term appointment based in Tarawa, Kiribati. This role will support the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the Health Programme, including Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) activities. It is an exciting opportunity to contribute to stronger health systems and improved immunization outcomes for children and communities in Kiribati.
The principal objective of the Child Protection AoR in north-east Nigeria is to ensure that child protection services for children, including adolescents, and caregivers most affected by the humanitarian crisis are responsive, efficient, effective and inclusive. The Child Protection AoR (CP AoR) is currently co-led by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (MWASD) and UNICEF. In line with the localization strategy, UNICEF will actively support the transitioning of the CP AoR coordination to the Nigerian government. UNICEF works to support the efforts of the Nigerian Government to provide reintegration services to children and women exiting armed groups and those released from detention in north-east Nigeria. The effective reintegration of children is hindered by the impact of armed conflict on societies, such as the absence of livelihood opportunities, weak economies and markets, and a breakdown of social infrastructure, including schools and health facilities. As part of the efforts to scale up reintegration support to children and women, UNICEF will continue to engage and collaborate with civil society organizations and private sector institutions to support the provision of economic and social reintegration support to vulnerable people, including adolescent girls and women, with interventions that address their specific reintegration needs. These programmes aim to help individuals find their way back into civilian life, thereby reducing the likelihood of a return to violence or criminality and preventing the emergence of future conflicts.
UNICEF OOI is seeking for a consultant who will operate as part of a distributed team led by the Office of Innovation, providing direct governance mentoring to country offices, and contributing expert inputs to methodology alignment, guidance products, and institutional learning processes.
The Security Manager (P-4), serving as Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security, provides leadership, analysis, and technical support to strengthen security risk management across the ECAMENA region. The role focuses on guiding country offices, enhancing preparedness and coordination, and integrating security into operations to reduce risks in complex and high-risk environments.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and UNICEF in developing and piloting an integrated parenting support programme within primary health care (PHC) services and selected preschool education (kindergarten) facilities. The consultant will design an evidence-based, culturally appropriate training package based on UNICEF's Early Childhood Development (ECD) guidance, the UNICEF Parenting Framework, and the Child Development Guide for Turkmenistan. The consultancy will include the development of training and facilitation materials, delivery of a Training of Trainers (ToT), piloting of parent education sessions, refinement of the package based on feedback, and preparation of recommendations for institutionalizing and scaling up the programme nationwide.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Operations Officer to join its team in Honiara, Solomon Islands, on a 364-day temporary appointment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operations professional to play a key role in enabling UNICEF’s work for children by providing strategic, risk-informed and solution-oriented operational support across finance, administration, supply and logistics, ICT, human resources, safety and security. Working closely with the Chief Field Office and the Deputy Representative, Operations, the successful candidate will help strengthen systems, support effective programme delivery, and lead a small operations team while championing UNICEF’s core operational pillars: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, and Valuing Partners.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen disaster risk financing (DRF) systems for social sectors in selected Pacific
Island Countries (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) by improving the capacity of governments and
partners to mobilize and deliver financial resources effectively to protect children and essential services during shocks.
The consultancy will support UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) to enhance its role as a strategic partner in DRF
by working closely with Ministries of Finance and line ministries responsible for education, health & nutrition, child
protection, WASH, and social protection to strengthen the integration of social sectors within DRF frameworks. This
includes assessing and improving shock-responsive delivery systems (“money-out”), identifying systemic bottlenecks, and
providing targeted technical support and initial capacity-building to ensure that financial resources translate into timely
and effective support for children.
The assignment will further contribute to elevating the role of social sectors within national DRF approaches, ensuring
that financing mechanisms explicitly account for the protection of essential services and the needs of children in disaster
contexts.
In parallel, the consultancy will facilitate engagement with key regional and international partners, including PCRIC, the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), to align UNICEF’s work
with broader DRF initiatives and promote coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Finally, the consultancy will contribute to the development of donor-ready proposals and a UNICEF DRF roadmap,
ensuring that country-level engagement and systems improvements are translated into actionable strategies,
strengthened partnerships, and resource mobilization opportunities to better protect children from disaster impacts.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sudan is implementing Maternal and Child Cash Transfers Plus for the first 1,000 days of Life (MCCT+). The MCCT+ is an integrated social protection programme that provides vulnerable pregnant women and lactating mothers with regular cash assistance together with skills and access to basic health, nutrition, and protection services. The programme first started in Red Sea and Kassala States with then further expansion to different States, including in River Nile under MCCT+ phase IV. UNICEF Innocenti is collaborating with the UNICEF Sudan on mixed-methods evidence generation on the MCCT+. As part of this, a mixed-method evaluation of the MCCT+ Phase IV started in 2024, involving three waves of data collection: baseline, midline, and endline. The baseline report was finalized in November 2025. The Midline is planned to start in June 2026. It will rely on an exclusive qualitative methodology. These Terms of Reference (ToR) specifically address support for the qualitative midline data collection activities.
Since 24 February 2022, the escalation of the war in Ukraine has severely affected children and families, leaving millions in need of humanitarian assistance and disrupting access to essential services such as health, education, WASH, and social protection. In response, UNICEF has implemented an emergency response while supporting recovery and strengthening national systems. High-quality, timely evidence and evaluation are essential to ensure programmes remain effective, accountable, and responsive to the evolving needs of children. To strengthen its evaluation function, the UNICEF Ukraine Country Office is recruiting an Evaluation Specialist (NO-C) to support the planning, implementation, and dissemination of evaluations and contribute to the office's evidence generation strategy.
Fiji is currently experiencing a rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, with over 2,000 new diagnoses reported in 2025, the highest annual figure on record, and a sharp increase observed over recent years. The epidemic is increasingly affecting young people, women, and the wider community, with rising HIV detection in antenatal settings signaling heightened risk of mother-to-child transmission.
The consultant will support the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) and its partners to design, operationalize, and strengthen integrated, evidence based HIV service delivery models that address key service gaps, including low testing coverage, missed HIV seroconversion during pregnancy, limited psychosocial support, and weak linkages between prevention, testing, and treatment services.
This consultancy will combine strategic guidance with practical implementation support, ensuring that interventions are feasible, scalable, and integrated within existing health systems.
The P&C Officer reports to the Deputy Representative for close guidance, training and supervision. The Officer provides support to the supervisor and colleagues by executing P&C services through applying knowledge of theoretical P&C models, as well as understanding of organizational P&C policies and procedures.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a Retreat Facilitator to to design and facilitate a one-day, in-person team retreat for approximately 18–20 staff members, aimed at strengthening leadership capabilities, enhancing self-awareness, and fostering more effective collaboration within the team.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support field-level data collection for the design and piloting of the School Management and Early Warning System (EWS) in primary schools across the Sahrawi refugee camps. Consultants will work under the supervision of the National Consultant and UNICEF Education team to collect high-quality quantitative and qualitative data from schools, teachers, students, and community stakeholders.
L'UNICEF œuvre pour un Bénin où les enfants et adolescents vivant dans les communautés les plus vulnérables, ont un accès équitable à des services sociaux essentiels de qualité pour un développement holistique y compris en situation d’urgence.
Dans le cadre de son programme pays en appui à la section Survie et Epanouissement de l’Enfant, tant sur le plan programmatique qu’opérationnel, l’Unicef cherche un ou une stagiaire.
UNICEF’s internship programme aims to provide a framework by which current eligible undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds are assigned to UNICEF offices, where their educational experience can be enhanced through practical work assignments that contribute to UNICEF’s mandate. Additionally, the internship programme aims to expose the interns to the work of UNICEF as part of capacity building and skills development, while providing UNICEF offices with the assistance of qualified students specialized in various professional fields.
Under the direct supervision of the Chief Health and Nutrition, the Health Officer (Mental Health) provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results.
Under the guidance of the Representative, the Programme Manager is accountable for programme management, ensuring that programme initiatives are effectively planned, budgeted, implemented and monitored, in accordance with the Country Programme and Country Programme Management Plan, focused on achievement of UNICEF's Priorities. The role also involves close collaboration with the programme sections—such as education, health, child protection, and water and sanitation—to ensure that social policy interventions are integrated and contribute to broader results for children.
UNICEF Guinea Country Office operates in a complex development and humanitarian context, with programmes spanning health, nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and social policy. The Information Communication Technology Technology for Development - ICT/T4D Unit plays a critical role in enabling digital programme delivery, data collection and systems strengthening across all sections and field offices (Kankan, Labé, Nzérékoré). The T4D Associate (G6) reports directly to the T4D Specialist and works in close coordination with programme sections and government counterparts on T4D initiatives. Functional guidance is provided by the Regional ICT/T4D team (WCARO)
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant to provide high‑level insights on the GSSC’s current state and trajectory, to inform decisions that shape its priorities and planning.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dedicated and results-driven Health Officer (Immunization), NO-B, on a fixed-term appointment based in Tarawa, Kiribati. This role will support the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the Health Programme, including Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) activities. It is an exciting opportunity to contribute to stronger health systems and improved immunization outcomes for children and communities in Kiribati.
The principal objective of the Child Protection AoR in north-east Nigeria is to ensure that child protection services for children, including adolescents, and caregivers most affected by the humanitarian crisis are responsive, efficient, effective and inclusive. The Child Protection AoR (CP AoR) is currently co-led by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (MWASD) and UNICEF. In line with the localization strategy, UNICEF will actively support the transitioning of the CP AoR coordination to the Nigerian government. UNICEF works to support the efforts of the Nigerian Government to provide reintegration services to children and women exiting armed groups and those released from detention in north-east Nigeria. The effective reintegration of children is hindered by the impact of armed conflict on societies, such as the absence of livelihood opportunities, weak economies and markets, and a breakdown of social infrastructure, including schools and health facilities. As part of the efforts to scale up reintegration support to children and women, UNICEF will continue to engage and collaborate with civil society organizations and private sector institutions to support the provision of economic and social reintegration support to vulnerable people, including adolescent girls and women, with interventions that address their specific reintegration needs. These programmes aim to help individuals find their way back into civilian life, thereby reducing the likelihood of a return to violence or criminality and preventing the emergence of future conflicts.
UNICEF OOI is seeking for a consultant who will operate as part of a distributed team led by the Office of Innovation, providing direct governance mentoring to country offices, and contributing expert inputs to methodology alignment, guidance products, and institutional learning processes.
The Security Manager (P-4), serving as Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security, provides leadership, analysis, and technical support to strengthen security risk management across the ECAMENA region. The role focuses on guiding country offices, enhancing preparedness and coordination, and integrating security into operations to reduce risks in complex and high-risk environments.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and UNICEF in developing and piloting an integrated parenting support programme within primary health care (PHC) services and selected preschool education (kindergarten) facilities. The consultant will design an evidence-based, culturally appropriate training package based on UNICEF's Early Childhood Development (ECD) guidance, the UNICEF Parenting Framework, and the Child Development Guide for Turkmenistan. The consultancy will include the development of training and facilitation materials, delivery of a Training of Trainers (ToT), piloting of parent education sessions, refinement of the package based on feedback, and preparation of recommendations for institutionalizing and scaling up the programme nationwide.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Operations Officer to join its team in Honiara, Solomon Islands, on a 364-day temporary appointment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operations professional to play a key role in enabling UNICEF’s work for children by providing strategic, risk-informed and solution-oriented operational support across finance, administration, supply and logistics, ICT, human resources, safety and security. Working closely with the Chief Field Office and the Deputy Representative, Operations, the successful candidate will help strengthen systems, support effective programme delivery, and lead a small operations team while championing UNICEF’s core operational pillars: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, and Valuing Partners.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen disaster risk financing (DRF) systems for social sectors in selected Pacific
Island Countries (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) by improving the capacity of governments and
partners to mobilize and deliver financial resources effectively to protect children and essential services during shocks.
The consultancy will support UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) to enhance its role as a strategic partner in DRF
by working closely with Ministries of Finance and line ministries responsible for education, health & nutrition, child
protection, WASH, and social protection to strengthen the integration of social sectors within DRF frameworks. This
includes assessing and improving shock-responsive delivery systems (“money-out”), identifying systemic bottlenecks, and
providing targeted technical support and initial capacity-building to ensure that financial resources translate into timely
and effective support for children.
The assignment will further contribute to elevating the role of social sectors within national DRF approaches, ensuring
that financing mechanisms explicitly account for the protection of essential services and the needs of children in disaster
contexts.
In parallel, the consultancy will facilitate engagement with key regional and international partners, including PCRIC, the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), to align UNICEF’s work
with broader DRF initiatives and promote coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Finally, the consultancy will contribute to the development of donor-ready proposals and a UNICEF DRF roadmap,
ensuring that country-level engagement and systems improvements are translated into actionable strategies,
strengthened partnerships, and resource mobilization opportunities to better protect children from disaster impacts.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sudan is implementing Maternal and Child Cash Transfers Plus for the first 1,000 days of Life (MCCT+). The MCCT+ is an integrated social protection programme that provides vulnerable pregnant women and lactating mothers with regular cash assistance together with skills and access to basic health, nutrition, and protection services. The programme first started in Red Sea and Kassala States with then further expansion to different States, including in River Nile under MCCT+ phase IV. UNICEF Innocenti is collaborating with the UNICEF Sudan on mixed-methods evidence generation on the MCCT+. As part of this, a mixed-method evaluation of the MCCT+ Phase IV started in 2024, involving three waves of data collection: baseline, midline, and endline. The baseline report was finalized in November 2025. The Midline is planned to start in June 2026. It will rely on an exclusive qualitative methodology. These Terms of Reference (ToR) specifically address support for the qualitative midline data collection activities.
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