Overall, the project aspires to enable Greece to efficiently protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and their families, including those at risk. In addition, the project is expected to produce additional effects in the short and/or medium term (outcome): namely, to support the Greek authorities in safeguarding the rights of children and operationalizing an effective and mature child protection system.
The Senior Programme Associate (G‑7) is embedded within the Programme Section, reporting to Chief of field Office, the Section Chief or a Principal Programme Specialist/Manager. Positioned at the functional categories of technical, operational, and financial areas the incumbent partners closely with other teams/sections (Program, Operations, Finance, Supply), as well as with external stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), and HQ-based units to implement strategic priorities into concrete activities on the ground. Depending on programme needs of the hiring office, the role may span sectoral portfolios (e.g., WASH, Nutrition, Education) or cross‑cutting themes (e.g., emergency preparedness).
Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Janakpur Field Office the Senior Programme Associate supports leading and coordinating programme support functions across the project cycle, specializing in planning, budgeting, CSO partnership management, monitoring, reporting, and closing‑out financial commitments. The role ensures that programme activities are technically robust, financially sound, and fully compliant with UNICEF policies and donor agreement. The incumbent of this position contributes to informed decisions by presenting synthesized data, flagging risks, and recommending corrective measures, to achieve results aligning with programme goals. The role ensures quality programme financial management, compliance with UNICEF policies, effective utilization of resources, and coordination with government and implementing partners. Janakpur field office engaged with Province, local government to provide technical and financial support in program implementation, capacity building and system strengthening and government and managed different sector program management and partnership (Heath, Nutrition, WASH, Child protection, SPG, Education, Planning/DRR, SBC etc.)
The Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs (MoSCFA) is benefiting from technical support under a project aimed at strengthening child protection governance and child rights monitoring in Greece, funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by UNICEF, in cooperation with the European Commission’s Reform and Investment Task Force (SG REFORM).
Overall, the project aspires to enable Greece to efficiently protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and their families, including those at risk. In addition, the project is expected to produce additional effects in the short and/or medium term (outcome): namely, to support the Greek authorities in safeguarding the rights of children and operationalizing an effective and mature child protection system.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Education in developing child friendly, a realistic and costed National Action Plan for the expansion of pre-primary education in Eritrea, based on the needs assessments and implementation plans submitted by all Zobas.
The consultancy will also support the development of a Multisectoral Early Childhood Development (ECD) Coordination Framework that defines institutional arrangements, roles and responsibilities, governance structures, and coordination mechanisms among key sectors and stakeholders involved in supporting young children's development.
Through a consultative process, the consultant will consolidate Zoba-level requirements, estimate resource and financing needs, identify implementation priorities, and propose practical coordination arrangements to support effective delivery of integrated ECD services.
The purpose of this assignment is to review existing health and nutrition policies, strategies and guidelines for adoption of the essential maternal nutrition package within the Essential Primary Health Services, and development of maternal nutrition training package for health workers.
Join UNICEF Supply Division's Health Technology Unit and help ensure children around the world have access to essential health commodities and technologies. In this role, you will manage end-to-end procurement and contracting activities for health technology products, ensuring compliance with UNICEF policies and delivering value, quality, and timely supply to programmes and partners.
This is a re-advertisement of the position. Those who applied to the previous advertisement do not need to re-apply; they are still being considered.
The Innovation Specialist (P3 TA) – Connect operates under the strategic direction of the Innovation Manager (Design and Connect), and is responsible for providing project oversight, coordination, and quality assurance for UNICEF’s SPARK and COMPASS initiatives within the Office of Innovation. The position serves as a central point of integration between strategy, delivery capacity, and country engagement, ensuring that these initiatives are implemented coherently, to a high standard, and in alignment with Office of Innovation priorities.
UNICEF Montenegro is looking for professional Individual national consultancy for technical and IT systems assessment of child- and youth-centred data interoperability.
Under the Kigoma Regional Secretariat and UNICEF, and in close collaboration with the PMO-RALG, the consultant will
provide technical assistance to develop a five-year costed Kigoma Multisectoral Nutrition Strategy and response plan.
The assignment will involve reviewing the regional nutrition situation, analyzing the key determinants of malnutrition,
facilitating stakeholder consultations, developing a multisectoral Theory of Change, and preparing a costed strategy,
response plan and results framework to guide coordinated implementation.
Are you passionate about transforming food systems for children and empowering young people to shape healthier, more equitable and sustainable food environments? UNICEF is seeking an experienced Programme Specialist, Children’s Food Practices and Youth Engagement to provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the Food Systems for Children agenda, with a particular focus on First Foods Africa Pillar 3 (Practices), social and behaviour change, social marketing, youth engagement and advocacy. In this role, you will lead global efforts to strengthen food-related practices, behaviours and social norms that influence child and adolescent nutrition outcomes. You will provide technical assistance to country offices, support evidence generation and organizational learning, lead major initiatives including First Foods Africa and Fix My Food, and engage with governments, donors, civil society organizations, private-sector partners and young people to advance food systems transformation. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to global policy, innovation, capacity strengthening and advocacy efforts that improve nutrition outcomes for children and adolescents worldwide.
Under the overall supervision of the Climate Change, DRR and Emergency Preparedness Specialist, the consultant will provide technical support for data visualization and the design and production of UNICEF reports, publications, and communication materials in the areas of Climate Change, DRR, Health, Nutrition and Child Rights Monitoring.
UNICEF Education programme provides a variety of education support across regions to the most marginalized learners in Myanmar. This includes providing learning and teaching material in different languages, refurbishing learning spaces, and providing supplementary education through community hubs and outreach programmes. A key innovation of the educational programme is its emphasis on alternative learning pathways that can be adapted to Myanmar's complex context. The initiative employs a community-based learning approach, with community-based learning spaces supporting
learners from early childhood through secondary education levels. These spaces are equipped with curated libraries, learning materials, and technology, including the Learning Passport. This assignment will support the Education Section in expanding its implementation of digital learning opportunities for both foundational literacy and numeracy as well as providing skilling opportunities to adolescents
The Education Specialist (Learning Assessment) will provide high-level technical assistance and strategic support to advance UNICEF’s global agenda on learning assessment, with a particular focus on early learning and foundational learning. The role supports UNICEF Country and Regional Offices, governments and partners to strengthen national learning assessment systems and their use for informing sector policy, planning, financing, school monitoring and classroom instruction to improve learning outcomes. Based in UNICEF’s Centre of Excellence in Bangkok, the position contributes to global standard-setting, development of methodologies, partnerships and evidence generation to promote equity-driven, inclusive and actionable learning assessments. The role also supports the implementation of UNICEF’s Every Child Learns Education Strategy 2019–2030 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2026–2029, helping countries strengthen education systems and improve learning outcomes for children and adolescents.
The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE), under the leadership of the Chief Data Officer, is implementing a portfolio of data governance initiatives designed to operationalize UNICEF's Data Governance Framework and accelerate data maturity across the organization. To support the delivery, operationalization and socialization of these initiatives, UNICEF seeks an experienced consultant with strong knowledge of data governance, technical expertise in data management, and experience in organizational change in international and multilateral environments. The consultancy is remote / home-based. The team is in Florence, Italy and the consultant is expected to be available CET working hours.
The Deputy Regional Director (DRD) will be part of the regional leadership team. The successful candidate will be one of the two Deputy Regional Directors to support the Regional Director in the management of the Regional Office, ensuring coordination and synergy across multiple functional areas to consolidate a range of integrated and multi-sectoral approaches in support of the Regional Agenda for Children and the UNICEF Strategic Plan (2026-2029). This will be achieved in close collaboration with the twenty-four country offices, headquarter divisions and with a wide range of programmatic and cross sectoral practice areas in the Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
The Deputy Regional Director, working in close collaboration with country senior management, is accountable for ensuring that each of the 24 Country Offices is optimally guided and connected to the right competencies, as well as supported through integrated, differentiated and multi-country delivery mechanisms that enable Country Offices to achieve sustainable results at scale. Accountability for programme delivery and country results remains with Country Representatives.
Join UNICEF's global Data & Analytics team and help generate the evidence that drives action for children worldwide. As a Statistics & Monitoring Officer (Nutrition), you will play a key role in strengthening global nutrition monitoring by managing and analyzing large-scale datasets, maintaining UNICEF's global nutrition databases, and producing high-quality statistics and estimates that inform policies, programmes, and advocacy efforts. Working closely with international experts, governments, and development partners, you will contribute to global monitoring initiatives, support countries in building their nutrition data and monitoring capacities, and help make critical evidence accessible to diverse audiences. This exciting opportunity offers the chance to combine advanced analytical skills, innovation, and collaboration to improve the quality, availability, and use of nutrition data, ultimately contributing to better outcomes for children and women around the world.
UNICEF Ethiopia Education section seeks to engage a qualified consultant to provide technical and strategic support for the design, configuration, and operationalization of RapidPro for emergency education data collection by the Ministry of Education, Ethiopia. The consultancy will focus on ensuring that RapidPro is context-appropriate, government-aligned, technically sustainable, and capable of delivering timely, validated, and actionable data to support emergency preparedness and response in the education sector.
Bhutan is increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change, with rising temperature variability, changing weather patterns, and growing pressure on natural resources affecting children’s learning environments. Many schools, particularly in remote areas, rely heavily on fuelwood for cooking and heating, contributing to deforestation and indoor air pollution. At the same time, frequent power outages and inefficient energy systems disrupt teaching and learning, limit access to digital education, and compromise safety. School infrastructure is often not climate resilient. Poor insulation, lack of heating or cooling, and inadequate lighting affect student comfort, concentration, and performance, while weak waste management systems pose environmental and health risks.
The consultant will provide strategic programming and design, technical guidance and support to UNICEF and government partners to operationalize the Climate Smart School Initiative, oversee technical quality, support strengthening stakeholder coordination, develop implementation frameworks, support capacity building, establish monitoring systems, and contribute to national scale-up of climate-smart school models.
UNICEF China is seeking an experienced Marketing Officer at NO1 level to support the Individual Fundraising team’s acquisition, conversion, and retention efforts across all channels, including digital and social media, telemarketing, offline activations, and other donor engagement modalities.
Shape the employee experience at UNICEF. As a People and Culture (Project) Officer, P-2 (TA), you'll coordinate staff support services, analyze workforce trends, and help guide colleagues through major organizational change. Bring your People and Culture/ HR, project management, and communication skills to a role where people truly come first.
Overall, the project aspires to enable Greece to efficiently protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and their families, including those at risk. In addition, the project is expected to produce additional effects in the short and/or medium term (outcome): namely, to support the Greek authorities in safeguarding the rights of children and operationalizing an effective and mature child protection system.
The Senior Programme Associate (G‑7) is embedded within the Programme Section, reporting to Chief of field Office, the Section Chief or a Principal Programme Specialist/Manager. Positioned at the functional categories of technical, operational, and financial areas the incumbent partners closely with other teams/sections (Program, Operations, Finance, Supply), as well as with external stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), and HQ-based units to implement strategic priorities into concrete activities on the ground. Depending on programme needs of the hiring office, the role may span sectoral portfolios (e.g., WASH, Nutrition, Education) or cross‑cutting themes (e.g., emergency preparedness).
Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Janakpur Field Office the Senior Programme Associate supports leading and coordinating programme support functions across the project cycle, specializing in planning, budgeting, CSO partnership management, monitoring, reporting, and closing‑out financial commitments. The role ensures that programme activities are technically robust, financially sound, and fully compliant with UNICEF policies and donor agreement. The incumbent of this position contributes to informed decisions by presenting synthesized data, flagging risks, and recommending corrective measures, to achieve results aligning with programme goals. The role ensures quality programme financial management, compliance with UNICEF policies, effective utilization of resources, and coordination with government and implementing partners. Janakpur field office engaged with Province, local government to provide technical and financial support in program implementation, capacity building and system strengthening and government and managed different sector program management and partnership (Heath, Nutrition, WASH, Child protection, SPG, Education, Planning/DRR, SBC etc.)
The Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs (MoSCFA) is benefiting from technical support under a project aimed at strengthening child protection governance and child rights monitoring in Greece, funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by UNICEF, in cooperation with the European Commission’s Reform and Investment Task Force (SG REFORM).
Overall, the project aspires to enable Greece to efficiently protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and their families, including those at risk. In addition, the project is expected to produce additional effects in the short and/or medium term (outcome): namely, to support the Greek authorities in safeguarding the rights of children and operationalizing an effective and mature child protection system.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Education in developing child friendly, a realistic and costed National Action Plan for the expansion of pre-primary education in Eritrea, based on the needs assessments and implementation plans submitted by all Zobas.
The consultancy will also support the development of a Multisectoral Early Childhood Development (ECD) Coordination Framework that defines institutional arrangements, roles and responsibilities, governance structures, and coordination mechanisms among key sectors and stakeholders involved in supporting young children's development.
Through a consultative process, the consultant will consolidate Zoba-level requirements, estimate resource and financing needs, identify implementation priorities, and propose practical coordination arrangements to support effective delivery of integrated ECD services.
The purpose of this assignment is to review existing health and nutrition policies, strategies and guidelines for adoption of the essential maternal nutrition package within the Essential Primary Health Services, and development of maternal nutrition training package for health workers.
Join UNICEF Supply Division's Health Technology Unit and help ensure children around the world have access to essential health commodities and technologies. In this role, you will manage end-to-end procurement and contracting activities for health technology products, ensuring compliance with UNICEF policies and delivering value, quality, and timely supply to programmes and partners.
This is a re-advertisement of the position. Those who applied to the previous advertisement do not need to re-apply; they are still being considered.
The Innovation Specialist (P3 TA) – Connect operates under the strategic direction of the Innovation Manager (Design and Connect), and is responsible for providing project oversight, coordination, and quality assurance for UNICEF’s SPARK and COMPASS initiatives within the Office of Innovation. The position serves as a central point of integration between strategy, delivery capacity, and country engagement, ensuring that these initiatives are implemented coherently, to a high standard, and in alignment with Office of Innovation priorities.
UNICEF Montenegro is looking for professional Individual national consultancy for technical and IT systems assessment of child- and youth-centred data interoperability.
Under the Kigoma Regional Secretariat and UNICEF, and in close collaboration with the PMO-RALG, the consultant will
provide technical assistance to develop a five-year costed Kigoma Multisectoral Nutrition Strategy and response plan.
The assignment will involve reviewing the regional nutrition situation, analyzing the key determinants of malnutrition,
facilitating stakeholder consultations, developing a multisectoral Theory of Change, and preparing a costed strategy,
response plan and results framework to guide coordinated implementation.
Are you passionate about transforming food systems for children and empowering young people to shape healthier, more equitable and sustainable food environments? UNICEF is seeking an experienced Programme Specialist, Children’s Food Practices and Youth Engagement to provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the Food Systems for Children agenda, with a particular focus on First Foods Africa Pillar 3 (Practices), social and behaviour change, social marketing, youth engagement and advocacy. In this role, you will lead global efforts to strengthen food-related practices, behaviours and social norms that influence child and adolescent nutrition outcomes. You will provide technical assistance to country offices, support evidence generation and organizational learning, lead major initiatives including First Foods Africa and Fix My Food, and engage with governments, donors, civil society organizations, private-sector partners and young people to advance food systems transformation. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to global policy, innovation, capacity strengthening and advocacy efforts that improve nutrition outcomes for children and adolescents worldwide.
Under the overall supervision of the Climate Change, DRR and Emergency Preparedness Specialist, the consultant will provide technical support for data visualization and the design and production of UNICEF reports, publications, and communication materials in the areas of Climate Change, DRR, Health, Nutrition and Child Rights Monitoring.
UNICEF Education programme provides a variety of education support across regions to the most marginalized learners in Myanmar. This includes providing learning and teaching material in different languages, refurbishing learning spaces, and providing supplementary education through community hubs and outreach programmes. A key innovation of the educational programme is its emphasis on alternative learning pathways that can be adapted to Myanmar's complex context. The initiative employs a community-based learning approach, with community-based learning spaces supporting
learners from early childhood through secondary education levels. These spaces are equipped with curated libraries, learning materials, and technology, including the Learning Passport. This assignment will support the Education Section in expanding its implementation of digital learning opportunities for both foundational literacy and numeracy as well as providing skilling opportunities to adolescents
The Education Specialist (Learning Assessment) will provide high-level technical assistance and strategic support to advance UNICEF’s global agenda on learning assessment, with a particular focus on early learning and foundational learning. The role supports UNICEF Country and Regional Offices, governments and partners to strengthen national learning assessment systems and their use for informing sector policy, planning, financing, school monitoring and classroom instruction to improve learning outcomes. Based in UNICEF’s Centre of Excellence in Bangkok, the position contributes to global standard-setting, development of methodologies, partnerships and evidence generation to promote equity-driven, inclusive and actionable learning assessments. The role also supports the implementation of UNICEF’s Every Child Learns Education Strategy 2019–2030 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2026–2029, helping countries strengthen education systems and improve learning outcomes for children and adolescents.
The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE), under the leadership of the Chief Data Officer, is implementing a portfolio of data governance initiatives designed to operationalize UNICEF's Data Governance Framework and accelerate data maturity across the organization. To support the delivery, operationalization and socialization of these initiatives, UNICEF seeks an experienced consultant with strong knowledge of data governance, technical expertise in data management, and experience in organizational change in international and multilateral environments. The consultancy is remote / home-based. The team is in Florence, Italy and the consultant is expected to be available CET working hours.
The Deputy Regional Director (DRD) will be part of the regional leadership team. The successful candidate will be one of the two Deputy Regional Directors to support the Regional Director in the management of the Regional Office, ensuring coordination and synergy across multiple functional areas to consolidate a range of integrated and multi-sectoral approaches in support of the Regional Agenda for Children and the UNICEF Strategic Plan (2026-2029). This will be achieved in close collaboration with the twenty-four country offices, headquarter divisions and with a wide range of programmatic and cross sectoral practice areas in the Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
The Deputy Regional Director, working in close collaboration with country senior management, is accountable for ensuring that each of the 24 Country Offices is optimally guided and connected to the right competencies, as well as supported through integrated, differentiated and multi-country delivery mechanisms that enable Country Offices to achieve sustainable results at scale. Accountability for programme delivery and country results remains with Country Representatives.
Join UNICEF's global Data & Analytics team and help generate the evidence that drives action for children worldwide. As a Statistics & Monitoring Officer (Nutrition), you will play a key role in strengthening global nutrition monitoring by managing and analyzing large-scale datasets, maintaining UNICEF's global nutrition databases, and producing high-quality statistics and estimates that inform policies, programmes, and advocacy efforts. Working closely with international experts, governments, and development partners, you will contribute to global monitoring initiatives, support countries in building their nutrition data and monitoring capacities, and help make critical evidence accessible to diverse audiences. This exciting opportunity offers the chance to combine advanced analytical skills, innovation, and collaboration to improve the quality, availability, and use of nutrition data, ultimately contributing to better outcomes for children and women around the world.
UNICEF Ethiopia Education section seeks to engage a qualified consultant to provide technical and strategic support for the design, configuration, and operationalization of RapidPro for emergency education data collection by the Ministry of Education, Ethiopia. The consultancy will focus on ensuring that RapidPro is context-appropriate, government-aligned, technically sustainable, and capable of delivering timely, validated, and actionable data to support emergency preparedness and response in the education sector.
Bhutan is increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change, with rising temperature variability, changing weather patterns, and growing pressure on natural resources affecting children’s learning environments. Many schools, particularly in remote areas, rely heavily on fuelwood for cooking and heating, contributing to deforestation and indoor air pollution. At the same time, frequent power outages and inefficient energy systems disrupt teaching and learning, limit access to digital education, and compromise safety. School infrastructure is often not climate resilient. Poor insulation, lack of heating or cooling, and inadequate lighting affect student comfort, concentration, and performance, while weak waste management systems pose environmental and health risks.
The consultant will provide strategic programming and design, technical guidance and support to UNICEF and government partners to operationalize the Climate Smart School Initiative, oversee technical quality, support strengthening stakeholder coordination, develop implementation frameworks, support capacity building, establish monitoring systems, and contribute to national scale-up of climate-smart school models.
UNICEF China is seeking an experienced Marketing Officer at NO1 level to support the Individual Fundraising team’s acquisition, conversion, and retention efforts across all channels, including digital and social media, telemarketing, offline activations, and other donor engagement modalities.
Shape the employee experience at UNICEF. As a People and Culture (Project) Officer, P-2 (TA), you'll coordinate staff support services, analyze workforce trends, and help guide colleagues through major organizational change. Bring your People and Culture/ HR, project management, and communication skills to a role where people truly come first.
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