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.
The purpose of this Terms of Reference is to establish a Generic Consultant Roster of technically qualified individual consultants who can be considered for future specialized WASH consultancy assignments supporting UNICEF Pakistan's programme at national and provincial levels.
Under the supervision of the Representative, and in close collaboration with the Deputy Representatives, Chief of Education (PAAF Project Manager), the Chief WASH, the Chief Supply/Construction, Operations, Security and Field Offices, the Project Coordinator will be responsible for the strategic, operational and technical coordination of the PAAF project.
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop a prioritized and costed WASH Action Plan for monastic schools and nunneries that addresses identified infrastructure and service gaps, supports compliance with the National Standards for WASH in Schools and Monastic Institutions 2024, and strengthens transparent, accountable, and efficient resource allocation and fund management. The action plan will provide an evidence-based framework for investment prioritization, resource mobilization, coordinated implementation, and sustainable delivery of inclusive, safe, climate resilient and reliable WASH services
Join UNICEF Cambodia as an Operations Associate. You will contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Cambodia by providing comprehensive operational support to ensure the effective, equitable, and efficient functioning of UNICEF’s operations.
UNICEF Angola is seeking qualified Angolan nationals to apply for the position of Health and Nutrition Specialist.This exciting opportunity is for a dedicated professional who is passionate about improving the health, nutrition, and well-being of children and women in Angola. The successful candidate will contribute to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of UNICEF-supported health and nutrition programmes, working closely with government counterparts, partners, and stakeholders to achieve sustainable results for children.
The Zimbabwe Country Office offers an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic People & Culture team and play a strategic role in shaping an inclusive, high-performing workforce. In this role, you will oversee the full employee lifecycle, providing timely, client-focused HR advisory services and ensuring fair, policy-compliant solutions.You will lead key people initiatives—including recruitment, performance management, and staff development—while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through coaching, learning initiatives, and data-driven insights, you will strengthen workforce capacity and contribute to organizational effectiveness.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Representative, the Chief is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of education programmes/projects. This includes strategic planning and formulation, as well as delivery of results on strengthening national education systems to improve learning outcomes, access to quality, equitable and inclusive pre-primary, primary secondary education and TVET, especially for children and young people who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society. Incumbent leads a group of professional and support staff to develop and manage the education programme in the country.The Chief is responsible for establishing the plans of action and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results,
Social and Behaviour Change in UNICEF is a cross-cutting programme strategy that addresses the cognitive, social and structural determinants of social change in both development and humanitarian contexts. SBC uses the latest in social and behavioral sciences to understand people, their beliefs, values, and the socio-cultural norms that shape their lives, with the aim of engaging them and increasing their influence in the design of solutions for sustainable behavior and social change. SBC is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate, with corporate results across sectors revolving around social and behavioral practices like immunization, breastfeeding, hygiene, and positive discipline.
The consultant will:
(i) lead the development and submission of a detailed inception proposal setting out how they will deliver the outputs of the consultancy, including their understanding of the assignment, proposed methodology and workplan; (ii) facilitate the national-level programme review meeting and capture all comments, feedback and recommendations raised by FMoH, SMoH, IPs, UNICEF and WHO;
(iii) support the articulation of these into the programme design, translating them into work plan activities, costed budgets and the results framework;
(iv) support the development of the operational design of the programme, responding to the context of Darfur and Kordofan states in shaping the design and budget;
(v) support coordination with UNICEF, FMoH and WHO throughout, ensuring the design reflects a jointly validated, cross-institutional consensus; and
(vi) help ensure the programme design aligns with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) strategies and the Sudan Health Strategy for health system strengthening.
The Tuvalu Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) undertook a systems enabling factor analysis (EFA). Part of this analysis looks into domestic financing volumes, modalities, guiding principles and regulations and utilization. An independent review of the Tuvalu EFA identified both equity and efficiency of education spend as issues of concern to sustainably providing quality education in the country. Based on this, Tuvalu has requested technical and on the ground support to undertake an expenditure review of the sector.
Join UNICEF Madagascar as Chief, Child Protection (P-4), a strategic leadership role offering the opportunity to drive UNICEF’s efforts to strengthen child protection systems, prevent and respond to violence against children, and support the delivery of quality protection services. Based in Antananarivo, the position works closely with government counterparts, development and humanitarian partners, civil society organizations and communities to advance children’s rights and achieve sustainable results for the most vulnerable children across Madagascar.
UNICEF Malaysia is supporting the Selangor state to assess the design and implementation of the IMPAK programme, including its reach, relevance and perceived usefulness and support to informal childcare providers and family caregivers in the home, as well as the reported application of knowledge and skills gained across a range of dimensions. The assessment will identify programme strengths, implementation gaps and opportunities, examine the feasibility and requirements for scale-up and structured competency-based certification pathways that complement existing certification systems, and determine the adaptations needed to scale up such a programme to support a wider group of beneficiaries, and integrate disability-inclusive care.
UNICEF Malaysia is supporting the Selangor state to assess the design and implementation of the IMPAK programme, including its reach, relevance and perceived usefulness and support to informal childcare providers and family caregivers in the home, as well as the reported application of knowledge and skills gained across a range of dimensions. The assessment will identify programme strengths, implementation gaps and opportunities, examine the feasibility and requirements for scale-up and structured competency-based certification pathways that complement existing certification systems, and determine the adaptations needed to scale up such a programme to support a wider group of beneficiaries, and integrate disability-inclusive care.
Under the supervision of the UNICEF Zimbabwe Chief, Social Policy, and in close technical collaboration with the UNICEF Zimbabwe Research and Evaluation Officer, ZIMSTAT, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, the Statistics Specialist, Data Collection Unit in the Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti, and other relevant partners, this assignment will contribute to the following outcomes: (1) Coordinate the implementation of the second school-based field test of the Foundational Learning Module (FLM2.0b) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in October 2026 for reporting on SDG 4.1.1b (late primary); (2) Coordinate the implementation of the third household based field test of the Foundational Learning Module (FLM2.0b) in Zimbabwe in Masvingo in January 2027; (3) Support the finalization of the guidance to roll out FLM2.0b in MICS 8 and dissemination of the module (4) Lead the secondary analysis of the Zimbabwe MICS 7 Foundational Learning Skills Module including cleaned analysis outputs, syntax/code files where applicable, documentation of indicators and analytical methods, and updated Country Office data repository entries in agreed formats and (5) provide related technical support to the Zimbabwe Country Office on MICS, learning assessment, data analysis, documentation, data repository management, and evidence-use activities that are directly linked to the above assignment and agreed in advance with the Chief of Social Policy.
TUNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Manager to lead child protection programmes, strengthen systems, and advocate for children’s rights and well-being. The role focuses on programme management, partnerships, policy support, innovation, and delivering sustainable results for vulnerable children and adolescents.
An exciting and challenging opportunity is now available within the UNICEF Eritrea Country Office for a highly motivated and dedicated Deputy Representative, Operations (P-4). As a Strategic Business Partner and Deputy to the Head of Office, the incumbent will provide senior leadership for the Operations function and contribute to office-wide strategic, programme and management decisions. The incumbent will ensure that operational services, systems and controls enable effective programme delivery, safeguard UNICEF resources, support staff and partners, and provide timely, risk-informed and solution-oriented advice in the Eritrean operating context
Join UNICEF’s Global Programme Division and help shape public finance solutions that improve the lives of children worldwide. As a Social Policy Specialist (Public Finance for Children), you will play a key role in advancing child-sensitive public finance policies, systems, and investments that help reduce multidimensional child poverty and inequality.Working within UNICEF’s Child Poverty Centre of Excellence, you will provide technical leadership and strategic guidance, support evidence generation and knowledge management, strengthen capacity development and institutional learning, foster partnerships and resource mobilization, and contribute to programme planning, monitoring, and quality assurance. You will collaborate with UNICEF offices, governments, international financial institutions, UN partners, academia, and civil society to develop innovative financing solutions and strengthen national systems for children.This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated professional to influence policy, drive meaningful change, and support sustainable investments that deliver lasting results for children across diverse country contexts.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore threefold:
(i) to produce an updated Pacific ECE status report with a clear narrative on access, quality and equity, including contribution of ECE to foundational learning, an updated status on ECE systems, and best practice documented across the 15 PICs;
(ii) to finalise the Pacific ECE Systems and Planning Toolkit and support countries to apply it to strengthen their national ECE systems; and
(iii) to provide dedicated technical support to Fiji to develop, socialise and build capacity around a costed implementation plan for its Pre Primary Policy in line with the education sector plan.
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.
The purpose of this Terms of Reference is to establish a Generic Consultant Roster of technically qualified individual consultants who can be considered for future specialized WASH consultancy assignments supporting UNICEF Pakistan's programme at national and provincial levels.
Under the supervision of the Representative, and in close collaboration with the Deputy Representatives, Chief of Education (PAAF Project Manager), the Chief WASH, the Chief Supply/Construction, Operations, Security and Field Offices, the Project Coordinator will be responsible for the strategic, operational and technical coordination of the PAAF project.
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop a prioritized and costed WASH Action Plan for monastic schools and nunneries that addresses identified infrastructure and service gaps, supports compliance with the National Standards for WASH in Schools and Monastic Institutions 2024, and strengthens transparent, accountable, and efficient resource allocation and fund management. The action plan will provide an evidence-based framework for investment prioritization, resource mobilization, coordinated implementation, and sustainable delivery of inclusive, safe, climate resilient and reliable WASH services
Join UNICEF Cambodia as an Operations Associate. You will contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Cambodia by providing comprehensive operational support to ensure the effective, equitable, and efficient functioning of UNICEF’s operations.
UNICEF Angola is seeking qualified Angolan nationals to apply for the position of Health and Nutrition Specialist.This exciting opportunity is for a dedicated professional who is passionate about improving the health, nutrition, and well-being of children and women in Angola. The successful candidate will contribute to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of UNICEF-supported health and nutrition programmes, working closely with government counterparts, partners, and stakeholders to achieve sustainable results for children.
The Zimbabwe Country Office offers an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic People & Culture team and play a strategic role in shaping an inclusive, high-performing workforce. In this role, you will oversee the full employee lifecycle, providing timely, client-focused HR advisory services and ensuring fair, policy-compliant solutions.You will lead key people initiatives—including recruitment, performance management, and staff development—while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through coaching, learning initiatives, and data-driven insights, you will strengthen workforce capacity and contribute to organizational effectiveness.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Representative, the Chief is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of education programmes/projects. This includes strategic planning and formulation, as well as delivery of results on strengthening national education systems to improve learning outcomes, access to quality, equitable and inclusive pre-primary, primary secondary education and TVET, especially for children and young people who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society. Incumbent leads a group of professional and support staff to develop and manage the education programme in the country.The Chief is responsible for establishing the plans of action and overseeing work progress to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/project results,
Social and Behaviour Change in UNICEF is a cross-cutting programme strategy that addresses the cognitive, social and structural determinants of social change in both development and humanitarian contexts. SBC uses the latest in social and behavioral sciences to understand people, their beliefs, values, and the socio-cultural norms that shape their lives, with the aim of engaging them and increasing their influence in the design of solutions for sustainable behavior and social change. SBC is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate, with corporate results across sectors revolving around social and behavioral practices like immunization, breastfeeding, hygiene, and positive discipline.
The consultant will:
(i) lead the development and submission of a detailed inception proposal setting out how they will deliver the outputs of the consultancy, including their understanding of the assignment, proposed methodology and workplan; (ii) facilitate the national-level programme review meeting and capture all comments, feedback and recommendations raised by FMoH, SMoH, IPs, UNICEF and WHO;
(iii) support the articulation of these into the programme design, translating them into work plan activities, costed budgets and the results framework;
(iv) support the development of the operational design of the programme, responding to the context of Darfur and Kordofan states in shaping the design and budget;
(v) support coordination with UNICEF, FMoH and WHO throughout, ensuring the design reflects a jointly validated, cross-institutional consensus; and
(vi) help ensure the programme design aligns with Universal Health Coverage (UHC) strategies and the Sudan Health Strategy for health system strengthening.
The Tuvalu Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MEHRD) undertook a systems enabling factor analysis (EFA). Part of this analysis looks into domestic financing volumes, modalities, guiding principles and regulations and utilization. An independent review of the Tuvalu EFA identified both equity and efficiency of education spend as issues of concern to sustainably providing quality education in the country. Based on this, Tuvalu has requested technical and on the ground support to undertake an expenditure review of the sector.
Join UNICEF Madagascar as Chief, Child Protection (P-4), a strategic leadership role offering the opportunity to drive UNICEF’s efforts to strengthen child protection systems, prevent and respond to violence against children, and support the delivery of quality protection services. Based in Antananarivo, the position works closely with government counterparts, development and humanitarian partners, civil society organizations and communities to advance children’s rights and achieve sustainable results for the most vulnerable children across Madagascar.
UNICEF Malaysia is supporting the Selangor state to assess the design and implementation of the IMPAK programme, including its reach, relevance and perceived usefulness and support to informal childcare providers and family caregivers in the home, as well as the reported application of knowledge and skills gained across a range of dimensions. The assessment will identify programme strengths, implementation gaps and opportunities, examine the feasibility and requirements for scale-up and structured competency-based certification pathways that complement existing certification systems, and determine the adaptations needed to scale up such a programme to support a wider group of beneficiaries, and integrate disability-inclusive care.
UNICEF Malaysia is supporting the Selangor state to assess the design and implementation of the IMPAK programme, including its reach, relevance and perceived usefulness and support to informal childcare providers and family caregivers in the home, as well as the reported application of knowledge and skills gained across a range of dimensions. The assessment will identify programme strengths, implementation gaps and opportunities, examine the feasibility and requirements for scale-up and structured competency-based certification pathways that complement existing certification systems, and determine the adaptations needed to scale up such a programme to support a wider group of beneficiaries, and integrate disability-inclusive care.
Under the supervision of the UNICEF Zimbabwe Chief, Social Policy, and in close technical collaboration with the UNICEF Zimbabwe Research and Evaluation Officer, ZIMSTAT, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, the Statistics Specialist, Data Collection Unit in the Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti, and other relevant partners, this assignment will contribute to the following outcomes: (1) Coordinate the implementation of the second school-based field test of the Foundational Learning Module (FLM2.0b) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in October 2026 for reporting on SDG 4.1.1b (late primary); (2) Coordinate the implementation of the third household based field test of the Foundational Learning Module (FLM2.0b) in Zimbabwe in Masvingo in January 2027; (3) Support the finalization of the guidance to roll out FLM2.0b in MICS 8 and dissemination of the module (4) Lead the secondary analysis of the Zimbabwe MICS 7 Foundational Learning Skills Module including cleaned analysis outputs, syntax/code files where applicable, documentation of indicators and analytical methods, and updated Country Office data repository entries in agreed formats and (5) provide related technical support to the Zimbabwe Country Office on MICS, learning assessment, data analysis, documentation, data repository management, and evidence-use activities that are directly linked to the above assignment and agreed in advance with the Chief of Social Policy.
TUNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Manager to lead child protection programmes, strengthen systems, and advocate for children’s rights and well-being. The role focuses on programme management, partnerships, policy support, innovation, and delivering sustainable results for vulnerable children and adolescents.
An exciting and challenging opportunity is now available within the UNICEF Eritrea Country Office for a highly motivated and dedicated Deputy Representative, Operations (P-4). As a Strategic Business Partner and Deputy to the Head of Office, the incumbent will provide senior leadership for the Operations function and contribute to office-wide strategic, programme and management decisions. The incumbent will ensure that operational services, systems and controls enable effective programme delivery, safeguard UNICEF resources, support staff and partners, and provide timely, risk-informed and solution-oriented advice in the Eritrean operating context
Join UNICEF’s Global Programme Division and help shape public finance solutions that improve the lives of children worldwide. As a Social Policy Specialist (Public Finance for Children), you will play a key role in advancing child-sensitive public finance policies, systems, and investments that help reduce multidimensional child poverty and inequality.Working within UNICEF’s Child Poverty Centre of Excellence, you will provide technical leadership and strategic guidance, support evidence generation and knowledge management, strengthen capacity development and institutional learning, foster partnerships and resource mobilization, and contribute to programme planning, monitoring, and quality assurance. You will collaborate with UNICEF offices, governments, international financial institutions, UN partners, academia, and civil society to develop innovative financing solutions and strengthen national systems for children.This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated professional to influence policy, drive meaningful change, and support sustainable investments that deliver lasting results for children across diverse country contexts.
The purpose of this consultancy is therefore threefold:
(i) to produce an updated Pacific ECE status report with a clear narrative on access, quality and equity, including contribution of ECE to foundational learning, an updated status on ECE systems, and best practice documented across the 15 PICs;
(ii) to finalise the Pacific ECE Systems and Planning Toolkit and support countries to apply it to strengthen their national ECE systems; and
(iii) to provide dedicated technical support to Fiji to develop, socialise and build capacity around a costed implementation plan for its Pre Primary Policy in line with the education sector plan.
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