The Partnerships Specialist contributes to strengthening UNICEF's strategic positioning with IFIs by monitoring institutional and political developments, identifying opportunities for policy influence, resource mobilization, and strategic collaboration, and supporting high-level engagement with senior partner counterparts. The position provides strategic analysis, partnership guidance, and coordination across the organization to ensure coherent and effective engagement with IFIs. The incumbent serves as a resource for colleagues on IFI-related partnership opportunities and contributes to positioning UNICEF as a trusted partner in advancing sustainable development outcomes for children.
The core objective of this assignment is to co-create or lead on data projects, support capacity building where applicable and developing data & analytics products, primarily using cutting-edge data and data science models to support horizontal initiatives across UNICEF’s core programmes on health, education, WASH and country climate initiatives and in particular the Automated SitRep, a tool that supports the Office of Emergency Programmes with data to support regional and country based emergencies and the Air Quality Model creation for Malaysia.
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.
The post is based in Islamabad with regular field travel and reports to the Chief Child Nutrition and Development, with matrix reporting to the Chief SBC. The Specialist will work closely with Nutrition, ECD, SBC, Health, WASH, Gender, Social Protection, Supply and field teams to strengthen implementation of integrated Nutrition and ECD interventions through practical SBC support, community engagement, frontline worker capacity building and use of field feedback to improve programme delivery.
Care-related social protection provides income support and services to caregivers, primarily women, to help meet the costs of care. It provides financial or in-kind support to those who give or require care, in connection with life events such as childbirth, disability, aging, or chronic illness. It is a core feature of inclusive care and support systems. As part of Selangor‘s latest Care Economy Policy and the Selangor Early Childhood Development Policy and Action Plan, there is a concerted push towards enhancing women‘s labour force participation across Selangor by supporting their care responsibilities while simultaneously improving early childhood development outcomes, including nutrition and childcare access. Efforts to consolidate or improve these existing schemes could help pave the way towards ensuring all mothers and children are able to access support. Recognising this, Selangor, Malaysia’s most urbanised and economically developed state has had in place several care-related social protection schemes aimed at supporting working parents or legal guardians who care for children 0-6 years old to enable their workforce participation and improve early childhood development outcomes, among other goals. These are all varied standalone schemes which have slightly different aims and modalities and are also administered by different agencies under the Selangor government.
Care-related social protection provides income support and services to caregivers, primarily women, to help meet the costs of care. It provides financial or in-kind support to those who give or require care, in connection with life events such as childbirth, disability, aging, or chronic illness. It is a core feature of inclusive care and support systems. As part of Selangor‘s latest Care Economy Policy and the Selangor Early Childhood Development Policy and Action Plan, there is a concerted push towards enhancing women‘s labour force participation across Selangor by supporting their care responsibilities while simultaneously improving early childhood development outcomes, including nutrition and childcare access. Efforts to consolidate or improve these existing schemes could help pave the way towards ensuring all mothers and children are able to access support. Recognising this, Selangor, Malaysia’s most urbanised and economically developed state has had in place several care-related social protection schemes aimed at supporting working parents or legal guardians who care for children 0-6 years old to enable their workforce participation and improve early childhood development outcomes, among other goals. These are all varied standalone schemes which have slightly different aims and modalities, and are also administered by different agencies under the Selangor government
The Supply and Logistics Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Operations as per the Country Office (CO) set-up and is responsible for managing the supply chains of a small sized country office, and/or small sized emergency response operation, or elements of the supply chains of a larger supply operation. The supply chain operations include planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in country transport and distribution, as well as monitoring of supplies, services and construction works.
UNICEF Ukraine continues to document the impact of the war on children and families while implementing communication, advocacy, fundraising and social and behaviour change campaigns across multiple sectors. Strategic engagement of influencers, celebrities and opinion leaders is essential to amplify UNICEF's messages, expand public outreach, strengthen advocacy efforts and increase support for children's rights.
UNICEF Ukraine continues to document the impact of the war on children and families while implementing communication, advocacy, fundraising and social and behaviour change campaigns across multiple sectors. Strategic engagement of influencers, celebrities and opinion leaders is essential to amplify UNICEF's messages, expand public outreach, strengthen advocacy efforts and increase support for children's rights.
The Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) Consultant will support the National Department of Health (NDOH), UNICEF, and
nutrition partners to prepare for and respond to the nutrition consequences of the El Niño-induced drought. The consultant
will strengthen nutrition sector coordination, emergency preparedness and contingency planning, nutrition surveillance and
early warning systems, partner capacity, and the delivery of nutrition services and supplies to affected populations. In
addition, the consultant will support the preparation of the national nutrition survey and strengthen national and
subnational capacity for the prevention, detection, and management of acute malnutrition among children. Overall, the
consultant will facilitate a timely, evidence-based, and coordinated nutrition response aimed at preventing and treating
acute malnutrition while safeguarding essential nutrition services during the Elnino driven drought emergency.
The Fada Field Office is located in eastern Burkina Faso and covers four regions: Nakambe, Goulmou, Tapoa and Sirba.The Fada Field Office will play a key role in advancing the objectives of the 2027–2030 Country Programme, which adopts geographic and demographic targeting as a key implementation approach. Covering the regions of Goulmou, Sirba, Tapoa, and Nakambé, areas that face some of the highest levels of child deprivation in the country, the Field Office will be central to ensuring that program interventions effectively reach the most vulnerable children and populations, thereby contributing to more equitable and impactful results.Given the public health and humanitarian challenges in the Area of Responsibility, the position requires strong capacity to lead multisectoral field programming, with expertise in health or public health. The incumbent will provide strategic oversight of interventions that strengthen access to essential health services, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, immunization, disease prevention and surveillance, community health, emergency preparedness and response, while ensuring effective integration with nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and social policy.
Are you a seasoned Communication professional/expert looking to make a meaningful impact within a short period? UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire is hiring a Chief of Communication lead its Communication Section for 6 months. In this key role, you will be responsible for a range of tasks and deliver impactful results in the following area within your scope of work: Communication Strategy, Media Relations, Networking and partnerships, Celebrities and special events, Global Priorities and Campaigns, Resource Mobilization support, Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Capacity Building and support. If you are a team player with excellent communication skills and expertise and have a passion for UNICEF's work, we invite you to apply for this challenging and rewarding role
UNICEF Benin is looking for a Construction Officer to provide technical support to the planning, procurement and monitoring of construction projects. Based in Cotonou, Benin, the role will work closely with Programme and Operations teams, Government counterparts, engineering firms and construction companies to help ensure that construction activities are delivered effectively, safely and in line with quality, accessibility and sustainability standards.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking for an Operations Manager who will be accountable for operations functions, facilitate change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts.
Under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Manager, Gaza, the Nutrition Specialist will provide technical, operational and coordination support for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of UNICEF-supported nutrition programmes across Gaza. You will lead and support key strategic areas including:
Emergency nutrition response, Nutrition in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), Adolescent nutrition and Children Over Five Agenda, Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)Management and oversight of H&N extenders supporting nutrition activities, Nutrition information management, analysis and visualization through Power BI, development of knowledge management products, Partner management, programme monitoring, reporting and donor accountability, OIC for the Nutrition Manager when required.
You will contribute to maintaining UNICEF's commitments under the Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in Humanitarian Action while supporting recovery and resilience-building interventions.
The consultancy will provide dedicated national technical and operational support to the ECG Deep Dive Analysis so that the assessment is firmly grounded in Kosovo's legal, policy, institutional, service-delivery and subnational context. The local consultant will support the identification, collection and review of national and municipal evidence; facilitate access to institutions and data holders; contribute to stakeholder and service mapping; support qualitative fieldwork and contextual interpretation; and help verify findings, recommendations, indicators and institutional responsibilities. The assignment will strengthen the completeness, accuracy and practical relevance of the Deep Dive while avoiding duplication of the international consultant's technical-lead role.
Under the guidance and general supervision of the Chief Education, with a dotted line to the Deputy Representative, Programme, the Programme Manager provides technical leadership,programme management and coordination support to advance RISE Kenya’s objective of establishing multiple, flexible and safe learning pathways to quality formal and non-formalsecondary education, skills development and transition opportunities for out-of-school adolescents and youth. The role will support system capacity building, technology-enabled learning, data and evidence generation, and youth engagement to drive scalable, inclusive and sustainable education
This assignment aims to assess the extent to which the Common Rules are reflected in national legislation, policies, institutions and programmes across selected Inter-American countries; document promising practices and implementation gaps in restorative justice; and develop practical recommendations to accelerate implementation. The assignment will also contribute to operationalizing UNICEF’s Reimagine Justice for Children agenda, particularly its principles on diversion and prevention of detention.
UNICEF Maldives is seeking a Children and Climate Change Officer who will lead UNICEF Maldives’ work on climate change by supporting the planning, partnerships, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of children and climate change initiatives, with a priority focus on climate-resilient education and youth climate action. The position contributes to strengthening national and subnational implementation of climate education priorities, facilitating coordination with government and partners, supporting evidence generation and programme monitoring, and advancing climate finance project preparation processes under the guidance of the supervisor and relevant technical leads.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry (MOHMI) to strengthen and modernize the policy and standards framework for primary health care (PHC), with particular attention to maternal and child health services and home visiting. The assignment will support greater alignment between the regulatory framework, service standards, clinical guidance, workforce responsibilities, supervision and quality improvement mechanisms, contributing to more consistent and quality-oriented PHC service delivery.
The Partnerships Specialist contributes to strengthening UNICEF's strategic positioning with IFIs by monitoring institutional and political developments, identifying opportunities for policy influence, resource mobilization, and strategic collaboration, and supporting high-level engagement with senior partner counterparts. The position provides strategic analysis, partnership guidance, and coordination across the organization to ensure coherent and effective engagement with IFIs. The incumbent serves as a resource for colleagues on IFI-related partnership opportunities and contributes to positioning UNICEF as a trusted partner in advancing sustainable development outcomes for children.
The core objective of this assignment is to co-create or lead on data projects, support capacity building where applicable and developing data & analytics products, primarily using cutting-edge data and data science models to support horizontal initiatives across UNICEF’s core programmes on health, education, WASH and country climate initiatives and in particular the Automated SitRep, a tool that supports the Office of Emergency Programmes with data to support regional and country based emergencies and the Air Quality Model creation for Malaysia.
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.
The post is based in Islamabad with regular field travel and reports to the Chief Child Nutrition and Development, with matrix reporting to the Chief SBC. The Specialist will work closely with Nutrition, ECD, SBC, Health, WASH, Gender, Social Protection, Supply and field teams to strengthen implementation of integrated Nutrition and ECD interventions through practical SBC support, community engagement, frontline worker capacity building and use of field feedback to improve programme delivery.
Care-related social protection provides income support and services to caregivers, primarily women, to help meet the costs of care. It provides financial or in-kind support to those who give or require care, in connection with life events such as childbirth, disability, aging, or chronic illness. It is a core feature of inclusive care and support systems. As part of Selangor‘s latest Care Economy Policy and the Selangor Early Childhood Development Policy and Action Plan, there is a concerted push towards enhancing women‘s labour force participation across Selangor by supporting their care responsibilities while simultaneously improving early childhood development outcomes, including nutrition and childcare access. Efforts to consolidate or improve these existing schemes could help pave the way towards ensuring all mothers and children are able to access support. Recognising this, Selangor, Malaysia’s most urbanised and economically developed state has had in place several care-related social protection schemes aimed at supporting working parents or legal guardians who care for children 0-6 years old to enable their workforce participation and improve early childhood development outcomes, among other goals. These are all varied standalone schemes which have slightly different aims and modalities and are also administered by different agencies under the Selangor government.
Care-related social protection provides income support and services to caregivers, primarily women, to help meet the costs of care. It provides financial or in-kind support to those who give or require care, in connection with life events such as childbirth, disability, aging, or chronic illness. It is a core feature of inclusive care and support systems. As part of Selangor‘s latest Care Economy Policy and the Selangor Early Childhood Development Policy and Action Plan, there is a concerted push towards enhancing women‘s labour force participation across Selangor by supporting their care responsibilities while simultaneously improving early childhood development outcomes, including nutrition and childcare access. Efforts to consolidate or improve these existing schemes could help pave the way towards ensuring all mothers and children are able to access support. Recognising this, Selangor, Malaysia’s most urbanised and economically developed state has had in place several care-related social protection schemes aimed at supporting working parents or legal guardians who care for children 0-6 years old to enable their workforce participation and improve early childhood development outcomes, among other goals. These are all varied standalone schemes which have slightly different aims and modalities, and are also administered by different agencies under the Selangor government
The Supply and Logistics Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Operations as per the Country Office (CO) set-up and is responsible for managing the supply chains of a small sized country office, and/or small sized emergency response operation, or elements of the supply chains of a larger supply operation. The supply chain operations include planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, in country transport and distribution, as well as monitoring of supplies, services and construction works.
UNICEF Ukraine continues to document the impact of the war on children and families while implementing communication, advocacy, fundraising and social and behaviour change campaigns across multiple sectors. Strategic engagement of influencers, celebrities and opinion leaders is essential to amplify UNICEF's messages, expand public outreach, strengthen advocacy efforts and increase support for children's rights.
UNICEF Ukraine continues to document the impact of the war on children and families while implementing communication, advocacy, fundraising and social and behaviour change campaigns across multiple sectors. Strategic engagement of influencers, celebrities and opinion leaders is essential to amplify UNICEF's messages, expand public outreach, strengthen advocacy efforts and increase support for children's rights.
The Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) Consultant will support the National Department of Health (NDOH), UNICEF, and
nutrition partners to prepare for and respond to the nutrition consequences of the El Niño-induced drought. The consultant
will strengthen nutrition sector coordination, emergency preparedness and contingency planning, nutrition surveillance and
early warning systems, partner capacity, and the delivery of nutrition services and supplies to affected populations. In
addition, the consultant will support the preparation of the national nutrition survey and strengthen national and
subnational capacity for the prevention, detection, and management of acute malnutrition among children. Overall, the
consultant will facilitate a timely, evidence-based, and coordinated nutrition response aimed at preventing and treating
acute malnutrition while safeguarding essential nutrition services during the Elnino driven drought emergency.
The Fada Field Office is located in eastern Burkina Faso and covers four regions: Nakambe, Goulmou, Tapoa and Sirba.The Fada Field Office will play a key role in advancing the objectives of the 2027–2030 Country Programme, which adopts geographic and demographic targeting as a key implementation approach. Covering the regions of Goulmou, Sirba, Tapoa, and Nakambé, areas that face some of the highest levels of child deprivation in the country, the Field Office will be central to ensuring that program interventions effectively reach the most vulnerable children and populations, thereby contributing to more equitable and impactful results.Given the public health and humanitarian challenges in the Area of Responsibility, the position requires strong capacity to lead multisectoral field programming, with expertise in health or public health. The incumbent will provide strategic oversight of interventions that strengthen access to essential health services, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, immunization, disease prevention and surveillance, community health, emergency preparedness and response, while ensuring effective integration with nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and social policy.
Are you a seasoned Communication professional/expert looking to make a meaningful impact within a short period? UNICEF Cote d'Ivoire is hiring a Chief of Communication lead its Communication Section for 6 months. In this key role, you will be responsible for a range of tasks and deliver impactful results in the following area within your scope of work: Communication Strategy, Media Relations, Networking and partnerships, Celebrities and special events, Global Priorities and Campaigns, Resource Mobilization support, Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Capacity Building and support. If you are a team player with excellent communication skills and expertise and have a passion for UNICEF's work, we invite you to apply for this challenging and rewarding role
UNICEF Benin is looking for a Construction Officer to provide technical support to the planning, procurement and monitoring of construction projects. Based in Cotonou, Benin, the role will work closely with Programme and Operations teams, Government counterparts, engineering firms and construction companies to help ensure that construction activities are delivered effectively, safely and in line with quality, accessibility and sustainability standards.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking for an Operations Manager who will be accountable for operations functions, facilitate change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts.
Under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Manager, Gaza, the Nutrition Specialist will provide technical, operational and coordination support for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of UNICEF-supported nutrition programmes across Gaza. You will lead and support key strategic areas including:
Emergency nutrition response, Nutrition in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), Adolescent nutrition and Children Over Five Agenda, Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)Management and oversight of H&N extenders supporting nutrition activities, Nutrition information management, analysis and visualization through Power BI, development of knowledge management products, Partner management, programme monitoring, reporting and donor accountability, OIC for the Nutrition Manager when required.
You will contribute to maintaining UNICEF's commitments under the Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in Humanitarian Action while supporting recovery and resilience-building interventions.
The consultancy will provide dedicated national technical and operational support to the ECG Deep Dive Analysis so that the assessment is firmly grounded in Kosovo's legal, policy, institutional, service-delivery and subnational context. The local consultant will support the identification, collection and review of national and municipal evidence; facilitate access to institutions and data holders; contribute to stakeholder and service mapping; support qualitative fieldwork and contextual interpretation; and help verify findings, recommendations, indicators and institutional responsibilities. The assignment will strengthen the completeness, accuracy and practical relevance of the Deep Dive while avoiding duplication of the international consultant's technical-lead role.
Under the guidance and general supervision of the Chief Education, with a dotted line to the Deputy Representative, Programme, the Programme Manager provides technical leadership,programme management and coordination support to advance RISE Kenya’s objective of establishing multiple, flexible and safe learning pathways to quality formal and non-formalsecondary education, skills development and transition opportunities for out-of-school adolescents and youth. The role will support system capacity building, technology-enabled learning, data and evidence generation, and youth engagement to drive scalable, inclusive and sustainable education
This assignment aims to assess the extent to which the Common Rules are reflected in national legislation, policies, institutions and programmes across selected Inter-American countries; document promising practices and implementation gaps in restorative justice; and develop practical recommendations to accelerate implementation. The assignment will also contribute to operationalizing UNICEF’s Reimagine Justice for Children agenda, particularly its principles on diversion and prevention of detention.
UNICEF Maldives is seeking a Children and Climate Change Officer who will lead UNICEF Maldives’ work on climate change by supporting the planning, partnerships, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of children and climate change initiatives, with a priority focus on climate-resilient education and youth climate action. The position contributes to strengthening national and subnational implementation of climate education priorities, facilitating coordination with government and partners, supporting evidence generation and programme monitoring, and advancing climate finance project preparation processes under the guidance of the supervisor and relevant technical leads.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry (MOHMI) to strengthen and modernize the policy and standards framework for primary health care (PHC), with particular attention to maternal and child health services and home visiting. The assignment will support greater alignment between the regulatory framework, service standards, clinical guidance, workforce responsibilities, supervision and quality improvement mechanisms, contributing to more consistent and quality-oriented PHC service delivery.
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