Pakistan, with a population exceeding 240 million, faces persistent challenges in poverty, social exclusion, gender inequality, and vulnerability to disasters and emergencies. Over 38% of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with deep disparities at provincial and district levels, exacerbated by social exclusion, discrimination, and violence against marginalized groups, especially women, children, and minorities. The COVID-19 pandemic, recurring natural disasters, and ongoing humanitarian crises have further exposed the fragility of community systems and the urgent need for robust, inclusive, and resilient community engagement mechanisms
Social norms, information gaps, and low trust in public services further hinder service uptake. Technical solutions alone are insufficient; robust community engagement (CE) is essential to expand service reach, strengthen frontline systems, and address behavioral, social, and structural barriers. However, current CE efforts are fragmented and inconsistently linked with service delivery.
Community engagement emerged as one of the most effective components across the SBC portfolio . It relies on trusted local actors, culturally grounded approaches, participatory delivery, and regular interpersonal contact. These strategies helped shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours across sectors including health, WASH, education, nutrition, child protection, and polio.
The SBC formative evaluation highlights that interpersonal, community embedded delivery was the central driver of behaviour change. By leveraging community trust, local insights, and repeated face to face engagement, programmes were able to overcome social barriers, build ownership, and make desired behaviours more practical and acceptable for households.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que pueda apoyarnos en el proceso de diagnóstico, análisis y propuesta de implementación técnica para facilitar el intercambio de datos en el Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN).
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que no brinde acompañamiento técnico el diseño de interfaces de programación de aplicaciones (API) para el fortalecimiento de la gestión de información climática y ambiental.
Many countries continue to face significant challenges in maintaining critical health technologies at PHC level, including cold chain equipment, medical devices, oxygen systems, ICT infrastructure, waste management systems, and solar energy solutions. These challenges are often driven by fragmented maintenance approaches, limited technical capacity, insufficient financing, and weak governance and coordination mechanisms. As a result, equipment downtime remains high, preventive maintenance is limited, and health facilities frequently experience disruptions in essential services.
The lack of an integrated maintenance approach also leads to inefficient use of resources, duplication of efforts across program areas, and limited accountability for equipment performance. In many settings, maintenance responsibilities are distributed across different units without clear coordination, resulting in delayed repairs, inadequate preventive maintenance, and shortened equipment lifespan. These gaps ultimately affect the reliability of health services, including immunization, oxygen delivery, diagnostics, and broader primary health care services.
This assignment aims to develop, pilot, and operationalize an integrated maintenance approach that brings together multiple health technology domains under a coordinated and efficient framework. Through pilot country implementation, baseline assessments, operational model development, and capacity strengthening, the assignment will generate evidence-based approaches tailored to different country contexts, including fragile settings and high-impact countries.
The assignment will also document lessons learned and develop scalable and sustainable models for broader adoption.
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 Surabaya is looking for Social Policy Officer who is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) innovative financing at both national and sub-national levels; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and climate change. Contract duration is for 2 years.
The Chief Health is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of health programs/projects as articulated in the Country Program Document and ongoing VISION 2030 UN Joint programs. The vision for change in health is that, by 2030 caregivers, children and adolescents, especially adolescent girls, access and utilize equitable, gender responsive quality services delivered through a strengthened and integrated primary health care system. These include neonatal, child and adolescent health, nutrition, and development interventions. The ambition of this pillar reaches beyond improving child survival through ending preventable deaths of young children to attain the growth and developmental potential and well-being of all children and adolescents. This area of work also integrates climate resilient WASH, health security, emergency preparedness and response.
UNICEF Mali is looking for a committed and professional Education Officer to support the implementation of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) programmes within the country. In this role, you will contribute to programme design, monitoring, and delivery while providing technical and operational support to ensure quality education outcomes. You will also engage with partners, promote innovation, and strengthen knowledge sharing to enhance programme impact.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Tanzania in strengthening its engagement with the Ministry of Youth (MoY) through the design and operationalization of integrated digital Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) systems. The assignment will use MoY as a strategic entry point and institutional anchor to develop and demonstrate a scalable digital engagement ecosystem, which can be adapted and applied across other priority sectors and line ministries.
UNICEF en Cuba se complace en anunciar la vacante de Asistente de Programa , nivel G-5 con nombramiento a término fijo (Fixed Term Appointment). UNICEF Cuba comienza en 2026 un nuevo CPD (2026-2030) y esta posición desempeña funciones intersectoriales de planificación de programas y operaciones, asegurando una coordinación fluida entre los equipos técnicos, las unidades de operaciones y los socios externos o proveedores de servicios para facilitar el desarrollo, la implementación y el seguimiento de los programas de UNICEF para asegurar una ejecución eficaz y el cumplimiento de las normas organizacionales.
Te animamos a consultar la descripción del pefil y si te consideras una candidatura potencial y cumples los requerimientos, bienvenida tu postulación a esta excelente oportunidad de ser parte del equipo de UNICEF en Cuba.
Under the general supervision of the Senior Adviser Innovation – Systems & Services (P5), the Innovation Manager (Design & Connect) provides strategic leadership of the Design & Connect pillar, providing strategic direction, design leadership, and connective capacity across OOI’s work.The role combines strategic leadership, people management, and hands-on advisory support, and shapes how UNICEF engages with countries and systems on innovation through structured, design-led engagement and applied innovation governance, ensuring that innovation efforts are prioritised, routed and institutionalised in a coherent and disciplined manner.The incumbent provides strategic direction for country intake and triage, Innovation Ecosystem development (including innovation culture and decision infrastructure), and coordination of Design & Connect sub-teams, while delegating operational delivery to P3 roles in line with the approved organigram.
UNICEF LACRO is seeking a highly experienced Senior Consultant to lead the development of a strategic roadmap to strengthen partnerships with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. This high-impact assignment offers a unique opportunity to shape innovative collaborations, influence development financing, and drive scalable solutions that improve outcomes for children and adolescents across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The candidate will be responsible for providing expertise to strengthen national climate–health desk through the development of integrated early warning systems (EWS), predictive analytics, and decision-support tools that translate data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and preparedness. This initiative builds on existing national systems and priorities, including climate-resilient health systems, One Health coordination, and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H‑NAP)
Angola has made progress in child survival, with under-five mortality declining from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, between 2015 and 2024. This trajectory confirms that targeted investments in primary health care is yielding results. However, these gains remain fragile and uneven, with persistent geographic and socio-economic disparities requiring sustained, equity-focused efforts. At the same time, stagnation in key maternal and child health and nutrition indicators signal systemic bottlenecks. Rates of stunting (40 per cent), wasting (5 per cent), full immunization coverage (28 per cent), and access to WASH have shown limited improvement. This reflects structural challenges across the health system, including access to health care facilities, weak last-mile and community-based service delivery and quality gaps.
The Operations function is a strategic Business Partner role, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment: To generate evidence and operational insights on the impact of conflict on nutrition vulnerabilities, access, utilization, quality, and integration of nutrition services in urban and peri-urban displacement-hosting areas in Sudan, and to provide actionable recommendations to strengthen urban nutrition
programming.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF National Response in Italy, under the supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager and in collaboration with the National Coordinator, in documenting and designing procedures and governance tools for national and local Youth Advisory Boards (YAB). This work is required to establish the framework for the 3-year YAB project and model implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, ensuring alignment with the signed institutional agreement.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section of UNICEF works with National Committees and Country Offices to grow fundraising income. Within this, the Individual Giving (IG) team provides global strategic guidance to enhance fundraising performance, focusing on increasing net revenue through data-driven, technology-enabled, and collaborative approaches.The Fundraising Specialist (Individual Giving) is a strategic leadership role that supports key fundraising markets in developing and executing effective IG strategies. Acting as a trusted advisor and country focal point, the role helps markets grow sustainably, improve efficiency, manage risks, and align with the global IG strategy. Based in Europe, the specialist also collaborates with headquarters teams and local stakeholders to define growth pathways and ensure coordinated, future-focused fundraising efforts.
Identity Management Interagency Collaboration Consultant, Global Cash hub, Social Policy Global Practice, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, home based without travel
UNICEF The Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to lead the development of a Digital and AI Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT for 12 months with travel.
Pakistan, with a population exceeding 240 million, faces persistent challenges in poverty, social exclusion, gender inequality, and vulnerability to disasters and emergencies. Over 38% of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with deep disparities at provincial and district levels, exacerbated by social exclusion, discrimination, and violence against marginalized groups, especially women, children, and minorities. The COVID-19 pandemic, recurring natural disasters, and ongoing humanitarian crises have further exposed the fragility of community systems and the urgent need for robust, inclusive, and resilient community engagement mechanisms
Social norms, information gaps, and low trust in public services further hinder service uptake. Technical solutions alone are insufficient; robust community engagement (CE) is essential to expand service reach, strengthen frontline systems, and address behavioral, social, and structural barriers. However, current CE efforts are fragmented and inconsistently linked with service delivery.
Community engagement emerged as one of the most effective components across the SBC portfolio . It relies on trusted local actors, culturally grounded approaches, participatory delivery, and regular interpersonal contact. These strategies helped shift knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours across sectors including health, WASH, education, nutrition, child protection, and polio.
The SBC formative evaluation highlights that interpersonal, community embedded delivery was the central driver of behaviour change. By leveraging community trust, local insights, and repeated face to face engagement, programmes were able to overcome social barriers, build ownership, and make desired behaviours more practical and acceptable for households.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que pueda apoyarnos en el proceso de diagnóstico, análisis y propuesta de implementación técnica para facilitar el intercambio de datos en el Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN).
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que no brinde acompañamiento técnico el diseño de interfaces de programación de aplicaciones (API) para el fortalecimiento de la gestión de información climática y ambiental.
Many countries continue to face significant challenges in maintaining critical health technologies at PHC level, including cold chain equipment, medical devices, oxygen systems, ICT infrastructure, waste management systems, and solar energy solutions. These challenges are often driven by fragmented maintenance approaches, limited technical capacity, insufficient financing, and weak governance and coordination mechanisms. As a result, equipment downtime remains high, preventive maintenance is limited, and health facilities frequently experience disruptions in essential services.
The lack of an integrated maintenance approach also leads to inefficient use of resources, duplication of efforts across program areas, and limited accountability for equipment performance. In many settings, maintenance responsibilities are distributed across different units without clear coordination, resulting in delayed repairs, inadequate preventive maintenance, and shortened equipment lifespan. These gaps ultimately affect the reliability of health services, including immunization, oxygen delivery, diagnostics, and broader primary health care services.
This assignment aims to develop, pilot, and operationalize an integrated maintenance approach that brings together multiple health technology domains under a coordinated and efficient framework. Through pilot country implementation, baseline assessments, operational model development, and capacity strengthening, the assignment will generate evidence-based approaches tailored to different country contexts, including fragile settings and high-impact countries.
The assignment will also document lessons learned and develop scalable and sustainable models for broader adoption.
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 Surabaya is looking for Social Policy Officer who is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) innovative financing at both national and sub-national levels; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and climate change. Contract duration is for 2 years.
The Chief Health is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of health programs/projects as articulated in the Country Program Document and ongoing VISION 2030 UN Joint programs. The vision for change in health is that, by 2030 caregivers, children and adolescents, especially adolescent girls, access and utilize equitable, gender responsive quality services delivered through a strengthened and integrated primary health care system. These include neonatal, child and adolescent health, nutrition, and development interventions. The ambition of this pillar reaches beyond improving child survival through ending preventable deaths of young children to attain the growth and developmental potential and well-being of all children and adolescents. This area of work also integrates climate resilient WASH, health security, emergency preparedness and response.
UNICEF Mali is looking for a committed and professional Education Officer to support the implementation of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) programmes within the country. In this role, you will contribute to programme design, monitoring, and delivery while providing technical and operational support to ensure quality education outcomes. You will also engage with partners, promote innovation, and strengthen knowledge sharing to enhance programme impact.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Tanzania in strengthening its engagement with the Ministry of Youth (MoY) through the design and operationalization of integrated digital Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) systems. The assignment will use MoY as a strategic entry point and institutional anchor to develop and demonstrate a scalable digital engagement ecosystem, which can be adapted and applied across other priority sectors and line ministries.
UNICEF en Cuba se complace en anunciar la vacante de Asistente de Programa , nivel G-5 con nombramiento a término fijo (Fixed Term Appointment). UNICEF Cuba comienza en 2026 un nuevo CPD (2026-2030) y esta posición desempeña funciones intersectoriales de planificación de programas y operaciones, asegurando una coordinación fluida entre los equipos técnicos, las unidades de operaciones y los socios externos o proveedores de servicios para facilitar el desarrollo, la implementación y el seguimiento de los programas de UNICEF para asegurar una ejecución eficaz y el cumplimiento de las normas organizacionales.
Te animamos a consultar la descripción del pefil y si te consideras una candidatura potencial y cumples los requerimientos, bienvenida tu postulación a esta excelente oportunidad de ser parte del equipo de UNICEF en Cuba.
Under the general supervision of the Senior Adviser Innovation – Systems & Services (P5), the Innovation Manager (Design & Connect) provides strategic leadership of the Design & Connect pillar, providing strategic direction, design leadership, and connective capacity across OOI’s work.The role combines strategic leadership, people management, and hands-on advisory support, and shapes how UNICEF engages with countries and systems on innovation through structured, design-led engagement and applied innovation governance, ensuring that innovation efforts are prioritised, routed and institutionalised in a coherent and disciplined manner.The incumbent provides strategic direction for country intake and triage, Innovation Ecosystem development (including innovation culture and decision infrastructure), and coordination of Design & Connect sub-teams, while delegating operational delivery to P3 roles in line with the approved organigram.
UNICEF LACRO is seeking a highly experienced Senior Consultant to lead the development of a strategic roadmap to strengthen partnerships with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. This high-impact assignment offers a unique opportunity to shape innovative collaborations, influence development financing, and drive scalable solutions that improve outcomes for children and adolescents across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The candidate will be responsible for providing expertise to strengthen national climate–health desk through the development of integrated early warning systems (EWS), predictive analytics, and decision-support tools that translate data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and preparedness. This initiative builds on existing national systems and priorities, including climate-resilient health systems, One Health coordination, and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H‑NAP)
Angola has made progress in child survival, with under-five mortality declining from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, between 2015 and 2024. This trajectory confirms that targeted investments in primary health care is yielding results. However, these gains remain fragile and uneven, with persistent geographic and socio-economic disparities requiring sustained, equity-focused efforts. At the same time, stagnation in key maternal and child health and nutrition indicators signal systemic bottlenecks. Rates of stunting (40 per cent), wasting (5 per cent), full immunization coverage (28 per cent), and access to WASH have shown limited improvement. This reflects structural challenges across the health system, including access to health care facilities, weak last-mile and community-based service delivery and quality gaps.
The Operations function is a strategic Business Partner role, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment: To generate evidence and operational insights on the impact of conflict on nutrition vulnerabilities, access, utilization, quality, and integration of nutrition services in urban and peri-urban displacement-hosting areas in Sudan, and to provide actionable recommendations to strengthen urban nutrition
programming.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF National Response in Italy, under the supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager and in collaboration with the National Coordinator, in documenting and designing procedures and governance tools for national and local Youth Advisory Boards (YAB). This work is required to establish the framework for the 3-year YAB project and model implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, ensuring alignment with the signed institutional agreement.
The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section of UNICEF works with National Committees and Country Offices to grow fundraising income. Within this, the Individual Giving (IG) team provides global strategic guidance to enhance fundraising performance, focusing on increasing net revenue through data-driven, technology-enabled, and collaborative approaches.The Fundraising Specialist (Individual Giving) is a strategic leadership role that supports key fundraising markets in developing and executing effective IG strategies. Acting as a trusted advisor and country focal point, the role helps markets grow sustainably, improve efficiency, manage risks, and align with the global IG strategy. Based in Europe, the specialist also collaborates with headquarters teams and local stakeholders to define growth pathways and ensure coordinated, future-focused fundraising efforts.
Identity Management Interagency Collaboration Consultant, Global Cash hub, Social Policy Global Practice, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, home based without travel
UNICEF The Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to lead the development of a Digital and AI Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT for 12 months with travel.
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