The nutrition consultant will provide technical and operational support across the nutrition programme, with a particular focus on the prevention and treatment of wasting in Ethiopia. The role includes supporting programme planning, implementation, monitoring, results reporting, and proposal development. The consultancy will contribute to national efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants, and children, while strengthening UNICEF’s capacity to deliver high-quality and equitable nutrition programmes.
The Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for supporting the implementation of a coordinated approach to crisis response in Ecuador, ensuring alignment with international standards. During non-emergency phases, the Humanitarian Affairs Officer will work with the United Nations Resident Coordinator on advocacy campaigns, early warning actions, donor liaison, risk monitoring, information gathering and analysis, disaster preparedness, and rapid response.
UNICEF 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 Botswana works in partnership with Government, civil society, and development partners to advance the rights and wellbeing of children and adolescents. Under its Country Programme, UNICEF supports Botswana’s efforts to:
• Strengthen equitable and quality education systems,
• Improve public finance for children,
• Enhance data systems and evidence-based planning, and
• Promote institutional effectiveness and accountability in child-focused sectors.
UNICEF Ecuador is seeking a dynamic Communication Officer (Media Visibility & Advocacy) to support strategic advocacy, media engagement, and public positioning efforts that advance children’s rights and influence national dialogue and decision-making.
The Digital Education Officer provides technical, operational, and administrative support for digital transformation in education programmes. The role contributes to research, data collection, and analysis on digital education trends, such as school connectivity, digital learning, and data use, while applying UNICEF procedures to support programme development and implementation. It also supports UNICEF’s involvement in digital initiatives, including school connectivity under the Giga initiative, and contributes to digital transformation efforts across other programme areas (e.g. health, nutrition, and social protection), including activity design.
Child Protection Case management and Information Management Consultant, ESA, Child Protection, Amman COE, Jordan, Remote with possible travel funded by CO
Digital Learning and Teacher Consultant, Global Programme Division Education Center of Excellence, Digital Education and Learning Innovation Global Hub - Helsinki, Finland, Office-based with travel
Join UNICEF’s Cox’s Bazar Field Office as a Senior Security Associate and play a key role in safeguarding personnel, assets, and operations in one of the world’s most dynamic humanitarian environments. This position is responsible for security risk management, emergency preparedness, security coordination, and partnership building with UN agencies, government counterparts, and security stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings at least 7 years of security-related experience, strong analytical and operational skills, and the ability to support critical field operations in complex settings. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute directly to UNICEF’s mission while helping ensure the safety and continuity of life-saving programs.
The objective of this mission is to provide specialised technical assistance to support the preparation, coordination, design, organisation and delivery of the National Education Forum, which will bring together the sector’s key stakeholders. The Forum should ensure a participatory and inclusive process geared towards concrete and actionable outcomes, recognising the severity of the learning crisis in Guinea-Bissau.
UNICEF and the World Bank, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), seek to engage a national public finance consultant. The consultant will work closely with the national social protection consultant, representatives from MoGCSP (including the National Social Protection Coordinator), the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, UNICEF, and the World Bank to implement the assignment.
Under the overall supervision of Chief Social Policy, Planning, and Monitoring, UNICEF Liberia, the Public Finance consultant will provide technical support in fiscal space analysis, budget review, costing of the National Social Protection Policy and Strategy (NSPSS), and development of a financing plan. The consultant will also provide support to the education sector by reviewing the budget for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and presenting the findings to key stakeholders, including legislators and traditional leaders.
UNICEF - Burkina Faso is recruiting a Health Specialist - NO-3, FT, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
Under the supervision of the chief Emergency, the Programme Specialist (Cholera) coordinates the preparation and response to cholera outbreaks in the national territory of the DRC and more broadly supports the direct implementation of emergency cholera program in the East (North Kivu, South Kivu, Tanganika)
To provide continuous technical guidance, system strengthening and capacity building required to scale, stabilize and optimize the Integrated Birth Registration Ecosystem across 30 UNICEF-supported states, ensuring interoperability between Vital Reg, DHIS, NBS and NIMC, and embedding sustainability through knowledge transfer to NPC technical teams.
Provide ongoing technical advisory, solution design, and implementation support for Supply Division digitalization initiatives leveraging Microsoft Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and related Microsoft cloud services. The assignment will support the design, enhancement, integration, automation, reporting, and optimization of low-code enterprise solutions, workflows, analytics platforms, and digital business processes across Supply Division operations for 11 months.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health in Lesotho in strengthening digital health systems to enable more responsive, accountable, and resilient health service delivery. The consultancy will focus on enhancing social accountability by improving the visibility and functionality of community health governance structures, including more effective tracking and monitoring of Community Health Committees and related platforms.
The Accounting & Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant / report producer to develop and support the launch of a global report on private sector engagement in education. This report will build on the existing UNICEF in-house work, which reviews and analyses the triple crises of learning, resource and employability. The report will elaborate on the private sector’s triple roles of being provider, financier and broker. The report will also consider the time frame, system levels and intervention areas for private sector engagement.
Afghanistan Country Office is seeking an experienced Information Management Officer responsible for providing technical and operational support to the Project Management Unit (PMU) on all beneficiary data issues and is responsible for managing the data analytics and information systems necessary for implementing Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) and Incentive Payments projects, ensuring full compliance with data protection policies and security requirements.
The nutrition consultant will provide technical and operational support across the nutrition programme, with a particular focus on the prevention and treatment of wasting in Ethiopia. The role includes supporting programme planning, implementation, monitoring, results reporting, and proposal development. The consultancy will contribute to national efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants, and children, while strengthening UNICEF’s capacity to deliver high-quality and equitable nutrition programmes.
The Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for supporting the implementation of a coordinated approach to crisis response in Ecuador, ensuring alignment with international standards. During non-emergency phases, the Humanitarian Affairs Officer will work with the United Nations Resident Coordinator on advocacy campaigns, early warning actions, donor liaison, risk monitoring, information gathering and analysis, disaster preparedness, and rapid response.
UNICEF 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 Botswana works in partnership with Government, civil society, and development partners to advance the rights and wellbeing of children and adolescents. Under its Country Programme, UNICEF supports Botswana’s efforts to:
• Strengthen equitable and quality education systems,
• Improve public finance for children,
• Enhance data systems and evidence-based planning, and
• Promote institutional effectiveness and accountability in child-focused sectors.
UNICEF Ecuador is seeking a dynamic Communication Officer (Media Visibility & Advocacy) to support strategic advocacy, media engagement, and public positioning efforts that advance children’s rights and influence national dialogue and decision-making.
The Digital Education Officer provides technical, operational, and administrative support for digital transformation in education programmes. The role contributes to research, data collection, and analysis on digital education trends, such as school connectivity, digital learning, and data use, while applying UNICEF procedures to support programme development and implementation. It also supports UNICEF’s involvement in digital initiatives, including school connectivity under the Giga initiative, and contributes to digital transformation efforts across other programme areas (e.g. health, nutrition, and social protection), including activity design.
Child Protection Case management and Information Management Consultant, ESA, Child Protection, Amman COE, Jordan, Remote with possible travel funded by CO
Digital Learning and Teacher Consultant, Global Programme Division Education Center of Excellence, Digital Education and Learning Innovation Global Hub - Helsinki, Finland, Office-based with travel
Join UNICEF’s Cox’s Bazar Field Office as a Senior Security Associate and play a key role in safeguarding personnel, assets, and operations in one of the world’s most dynamic humanitarian environments. This position is responsible for security risk management, emergency preparedness, security coordination, and partnership building with UN agencies, government counterparts, and security stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings at least 7 years of security-related experience, strong analytical and operational skills, and the ability to support critical field operations in complex settings. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute directly to UNICEF’s mission while helping ensure the safety and continuity of life-saving programs.
The objective of this mission is to provide specialised technical assistance to support the preparation, coordination, design, organisation and delivery of the National Education Forum, which will bring together the sector’s key stakeholders. The Forum should ensure a participatory and inclusive process geared towards concrete and actionable outcomes, recognising the severity of the learning crisis in Guinea-Bissau.
UNICEF and the World Bank, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), seek to engage a national public finance consultant. The consultant will work closely with the national social protection consultant, representatives from MoGCSP (including the National Social Protection Coordinator), the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, UNICEF, and the World Bank to implement the assignment.
Under the overall supervision of Chief Social Policy, Planning, and Monitoring, UNICEF Liberia, the Public Finance consultant will provide technical support in fiscal space analysis, budget review, costing of the National Social Protection Policy and Strategy (NSPSS), and development of a financing plan. The consultant will also provide support to the education sector by reviewing the budget for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and presenting the findings to key stakeholders, including legislators and traditional leaders.
UNICEF - Burkina Faso is recruiting a Health Specialist - NO-3, FT, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
Under the supervision of the chief Emergency, the Programme Specialist (Cholera) coordinates the preparation and response to cholera outbreaks in the national territory of the DRC and more broadly supports the direct implementation of emergency cholera program in the East (North Kivu, South Kivu, Tanganika)
To provide continuous technical guidance, system strengthening and capacity building required to scale, stabilize and optimize the Integrated Birth Registration Ecosystem across 30 UNICEF-supported states, ensuring interoperability between Vital Reg, DHIS, NBS and NIMC, and embedding sustainability through knowledge transfer to NPC technical teams.
Provide ongoing technical advisory, solution design, and implementation support for Supply Division digitalization initiatives leveraging Microsoft Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and related Microsoft cloud services. The assignment will support the design, enhancement, integration, automation, reporting, and optimization of low-code enterprise solutions, workflows, analytics platforms, and digital business processes across Supply Division operations for 11 months.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health in Lesotho in strengthening digital health systems to enable more responsive, accountable, and resilient health service delivery. The consultancy will focus on enhancing social accountability by improving the visibility and functionality of community health governance structures, including more effective tracking and monitoring of Community Health Committees and related platforms.
The Accounting & Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant / report producer to develop and support the launch of a global report on private sector engagement in education. This report will build on the existing UNICEF in-house work, which reviews and analyses the triple crises of learning, resource and employability. The report will elaborate on the private sector’s triple roles of being provider, financier and broker. The report will also consider the time frame, system levels and intervention areas for private sector engagement.
Afghanistan Country Office is seeking an experienced Information Management Officer responsible for providing technical and operational support to the Project Management Unit (PMU) on all beneficiary data issues and is responsible for managing the data analytics and information systems necessary for implementing Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) and Incentive Payments projects, ensuring full compliance with data protection policies and security requirements.
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