UNICEF seeks a consultant to support the mobilization of catalytic finance for the WASH sector and the preparation of the Sanitation Programme Facility (SPF) in Nigeria.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
Individual Consulting Services Expert Consultant, GSSC Finance section, Budapest, Hungary, 12 months, office-based, with travel. UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) provides Individual Consultant Services (ICS) supporting the contracting and administration of individual consultants across UNICEF. As part of the continued evolution of ICS, UNICEF is seeking to strengthen the way individual consultant talent is identified, accessed, managed and evaluated. Current opportunities include greater use of Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), stronger consultant talent data, simplified access to exceptional expertise, improved rate transparency and stronger guidance for both UNICEF users and consultants
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease affecting Ituri and other affected or at-risk provinces. National authorities, with the support of humanitarian partners, have activated emergency coordination and response mechanisms to contain transmission and protect affected communities.
The outbreak is unfolding in a complex humanitarian environment marked by insecurity, population displacement, high mobility, constrained access to essential services and weak water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control systems. These conditions heighten the risk of transmission in health facilities and communities and require rapid, well-coordinated and technically rigorous WASH/IPC action.
The geographic expansion of the outbreak, the operational complexity of the response and the need to align interventions across national, provincial and health-zone levels require senior leadership. An experienced profile is therefore required to provide the strategic expertise, technical authority and convening capacity needed to lead UNICEF's WASH/IPC response and support Government-led coordination across affected and at-risk areas.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) in Lao PDR
to develop a conceptual framework and roadmap for establishing a school readiness assessment system, drawing on
MoES’ existing School Readiness Competencies (SRC) targeting children aged 5 to under 6 years (one year before primary
grade one entry).
The existing MoES’ SCR sets standards on school readiness across five domains, namely 1) physical development, movement
and hygiene; 2) cognition and learning; 3) language and communication; 4) emotional development; and 5) social
development. SCR is an essential foundation for children aged 3 to 5 years before they enter primary school. Beyond
expanding equitable access to early childhood education, the MoES also aims to ensure the quality of early childhood
education (ECE) translates into children’s school readiness outcomes. Whilst the CRS hves been integrated into the MOES’
ECE curriculum, teacher guides and training, etc., actual assessment on children’s learning and developmental stans against
the CRS has not yet been undertaken to date, nor is a system to undertake such an assessment yet to be established.
UNICEF Ukraine is seeking four committed and technically strong Health Officers to support the delivery of health and nutrition programmes for children and families in the field offices of Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Lviv. Working in a context marked by the impact of war on health systems, increasing mental health needs, immunization equity challenges, and the need for stronger support to children with disabilities and other vulnerabilities, Health Officers will play a key role in advancing UNICEF's mission to ensure every child survives, thrives and reaches their full potential. The successful candidates will provide technical, operational and coordination support across programme planning, implementation, monitoring and partnership-building, contributing to both emergency response and longer-term health system strengthening efforts. They will work closely with government counterparts, health partners and UNICEF teams to improve access to quality child health, nutrition, immunization, early childhood development, mental health and rehabilitation services, particularly for the most vulnerable and conflict-affected populations. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the lives of children in Ukraine by helping to build more resilient, equitable and child-centered health systems at both local and national levels.
UNICEF Mozambique seeks an international consultant to provide 11 months of time-bound technical support on maternal and adolescent nutrition. The consultant will deliver defined outputs to prevent all forms of malnutrition in adolescent girls and women before and during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. The focus is on pregnant adolescents, young mothers and other nutritionally at-risk women.
The assignment responds to time-bound commitments under NutriNorte (EU), the Child Nutrition Fund partnership with Government of Mozambique, and the UN–Ireland Partnership on Child Wasting (2026–2030). It applies the UNICEF Programming Guidance on Maternal Nutrition (2021).
The Procurement Services (PS) mechanism is an integral part of UNICEF programmes of cooperation, and allows UNICEF to make its procurement capacity, scale and expertise available to partners. Advertisement Summary
This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) is issued to identify and assess qualified professionals for potential inclusion in UNICEF's Talent Group for Supply Management. The purpose of this GVA is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates who can be considered for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. While placement in the Talent Group does not guarantee selection for a specific post, it serves as a highly valuable and primary resource for swiftly filling future vacancies.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Chief Nutrition and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team
UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.
Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering strategic partnerships and investment opportunities, practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening, and evidence synthesis and publications. These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Kenya
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
The Social Policy unit in the State of Palestine country office in Gaza duty station is looking for a highly motivated Programme Officer (GRM) at the NOA level, who within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the officer will be responsible for all of the following areas of major duties and key end results for AAP and GRM of Social Policy section.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Learning at UNICEF focuses on building skills that support individual, team, and organizational goals. It’s a shared responsibility between staff, supervisors, and the organization, with plans set during annual career conversations. In line with UNICEF’s Global Learning and Development Policy and PCO L&D strategy, UNICEF Pakistan Country Office is planning to conduct an internal learning need assessment to identify current and future learning needs across its workforce. In line with the Learning and Development Committee (LDC) strategy, UNICEF Pakistan seeks an Individual consultant to handle the 2026 learning needs assessment exercise in PCO within the guidance of the Chief of People & Culture, ensuring recommendations are aligned with the learning and development strategy of PCO and office-wide learning plan.
Objectives
• Review existing learning plan and conduct internal learning gap analysis.
• Identify priority learning and development needs across PCO and develop pillars.
• Recommend targeted interventions, priorities and capacity-building strategies.
• Align recommendations with UNICEF’s strategic goals, LDC guidelines, and the country office learning plan.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) needs a Graphic Design Lead to own the visual and motion identity of its partnership and communications work, and to make that work findable wherever audiences now look: search engines, social platforms and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The consultant will build a unified visual and motion system across OOI’s priority initiatives, produce high-impact assets for partners, donors and the public, and set the production standards that make every image, animation, video and data visual accessible, machine-readable and credible. The assignment is time-bound, with defined, measurable deliverables from December 2026 to June 2027.
UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. These supplies are critical to saving lives, supporting children’s health and education, and protecting them from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. As the UN’s largest end to end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world. SD focuses on three result areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.
Join UNICEF’s digital transformation journey by driving innovative, AI-enabled fundraising and partnership solutions that enhance supporter engagement, collaboration, and operational effectiveness. You will play a key role in shaping and delivering secure, scalable digital platforms that maximize impact for children worldwide.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide close technical supervision, quality assurance, construction planning, progress monitoring, technical guidance and reporting for CRIBS rehabilitation works in Enugu State. The consultant will support timely and quality implementation while final approval, certification, contract management and payment authorization remain with UNICEF staff members.
This position supports UNICEF's digital transformation agenda by strengthening country-level access to digital, data, and AI solutions through the TeamOne collaboration model. The incumbent will help coordinate and facilitate cross-country support, contribute to the implementation and quality assurance of digital solutions using the UNICEF Digital Playbook, and ensure alignment with digital standards, cybersecurity, data protection, interoperability, and governance requirements. The role also supports the identification and triaging of country office digital, data, and AI needs, leveraging data and insights to improve support mechanisms and community engagement. In addition, the incumbent will contribute to knowledge management, learning, and capacity-building initiatives, foster knowledge sharing across UNICEF's digital community, and help strengthen digital capabilities across country offices through collaboration, learning events, and community management activities. This position is ideal for candidates with an interest in digital development, knowledge management, AI and data-driven innovation, stakeholder coordination, and digital capacity building in an international development context.
UNICEF seeks a consultant to support the mobilization of catalytic finance for the WASH sector and the preparation of the Sanitation Programme Facility (SPF) in Nigeria.
UNICEF Lao PDR seeks an experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist to support emergency preparedness, coordination, and response interventions across WASH, Nutrition, Protection, and Education sectors, with a particular focus on child-centred disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, warehouse management, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian coordination, and emergency supply preparedness.
The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.
Individual Consulting Services Expert Consultant, GSSC Finance section, Budapest, Hungary, 12 months, office-based, with travel. UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) provides Individual Consultant Services (ICS) supporting the contracting and administration of individual consultants across UNICEF. As part of the continued evolution of ICS, UNICEF is seeking to strengthen the way individual consultant talent is identified, accessed, managed and evaluated. Current opportunities include greater use of Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), stronger consultant talent data, simplified access to exceptional expertise, improved rate transparency and stronger guidance for both UNICEF users and consultants
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease affecting Ituri and other affected or at-risk provinces. National authorities, with the support of humanitarian partners, have activated emergency coordination and response mechanisms to contain transmission and protect affected communities.
The outbreak is unfolding in a complex humanitarian environment marked by insecurity, population displacement, high mobility, constrained access to essential services and weak water, sanitation, hygiene and infection prevention and control systems. These conditions heighten the risk of transmission in health facilities and communities and require rapid, well-coordinated and technically rigorous WASH/IPC action.
The geographic expansion of the outbreak, the operational complexity of the response and the need to align interventions across national, provincial and health-zone levels require senior leadership. An experienced profile is therefore required to provide the strategic expertise, technical authority and convening capacity needed to lead UNICEF's WASH/IPC response and support Government-led coordination across affected and at-risk areas.
The purpose of the assignment is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) in Lao PDR
to develop a conceptual framework and roadmap for establishing a school readiness assessment system, drawing on
MoES’ existing School Readiness Competencies (SRC) targeting children aged 5 to under 6 years (one year before primary
grade one entry).
The existing MoES’ SCR sets standards on school readiness across five domains, namely 1) physical development, movement
and hygiene; 2) cognition and learning; 3) language and communication; 4) emotional development; and 5) social
development. SCR is an essential foundation for children aged 3 to 5 years before they enter primary school. Beyond
expanding equitable access to early childhood education, the MoES also aims to ensure the quality of early childhood
education (ECE) translates into children’s school readiness outcomes. Whilst the CRS hves been integrated into the MOES’
ECE curriculum, teacher guides and training, etc., actual assessment on children’s learning and developmental stans against
the CRS has not yet been undertaken to date, nor is a system to undertake such an assessment yet to be established.
UNICEF Ukraine is seeking four committed and technically strong Health Officers to support the delivery of health and nutrition programmes for children and families in the field offices of Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Lviv. Working in a context marked by the impact of war on health systems, increasing mental health needs, immunization equity challenges, and the need for stronger support to children with disabilities and other vulnerabilities, Health Officers will play a key role in advancing UNICEF's mission to ensure every child survives, thrives and reaches their full potential. The successful candidates will provide technical, operational and coordination support across programme planning, implementation, monitoring and partnership-building, contributing to both emergency response and longer-term health system strengthening efforts. They will work closely with government counterparts, health partners and UNICEF teams to improve access to quality child health, nutrition, immunization, early childhood development, mental health and rehabilitation services, particularly for the most vulnerable and conflict-affected populations. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the lives of children in Ukraine by helping to build more resilient, equitable and child-centered health systems at both local and national levels.
UNICEF Mozambique seeks an international consultant to provide 11 months of time-bound technical support on maternal and adolescent nutrition. The consultant will deliver defined outputs to prevent all forms of malnutrition in adolescent girls and women before and during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. The focus is on pregnant adolescents, young mothers and other nutritionally at-risk women.
The assignment responds to time-bound commitments under NutriNorte (EU), the Child Nutrition Fund partnership with Government of Mozambique, and the UN–Ireland Partnership on Child Wasting (2026–2030). It applies the UNICEF Programming Guidance on Maternal Nutrition (2021).
The Procurement Services (PS) mechanism is an integral part of UNICEF programmes of cooperation, and allows UNICEF to make its procurement capacity, scale and expertise available to partners. Advertisement Summary
This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) is issued to identify and assess qualified professionals for potential inclusion in UNICEF's Talent Group for Supply Management. The purpose of this GVA is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates who can be considered for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. While placement in the Talent Group does not guarantee selection for a specific post, it serves as a highly valuable and primary resource for swiftly filling future vacancies.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
UNICEF Nigeria Country Office is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Chief Nutrition and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team
UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.
Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering strategic partnerships and investment opportunities, practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening, and evidence synthesis and publications. These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Kenya
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that all children and young people acquire the knowledge and skills needed to learn, thrive, and transition to further education, decent work, and active citizenship. However, many adolescents, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, face barriers to formal education due to interrupted schooling, age-grade mismatches, lack of documentation, and legal restrictions. Flexible learning pathways such as accelerated learning, bridging programmes, alternative delivery models, and links to vocational training can help address these challenges, but their implementation remains inconsistent.
This assignment will address three key gaps: limited documentation of effective practices, barriers to certification and progression, and a lack of practical guidance for displacement settings. Drawing on evidence from PROSPECTS partnership countries, the consultancy will identify and analyze promising approaches, examine certification and transition pathways, and develop practical guidance to support UNICEF country offices and partners in expanding quality, flexible education opportunities for adolescents in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.
Location:United States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Jordan
The Social Policy unit in the State of Palestine country office in Gaza duty station is looking for a highly motivated Programme Officer (GRM) at the NOA level, who within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the officer will be responsible for all of the following areas of major duties and key end results for AAP and GRM of Social Policy section.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Learning at UNICEF focuses on building skills that support individual, team, and organizational goals. It’s a shared responsibility between staff, supervisors, and the organization, with plans set during annual career conversations. In line with UNICEF’s Global Learning and Development Policy and PCO L&D strategy, UNICEF Pakistan Country Office is planning to conduct an internal learning need assessment to identify current and future learning needs across its workforce. In line with the Learning and Development Committee (LDC) strategy, UNICEF Pakistan seeks an Individual consultant to handle the 2026 learning needs assessment exercise in PCO within the guidance of the Chief of People & Culture, ensuring recommendations are aligned with the learning and development strategy of PCO and office-wide learning plan.
Objectives
• Review existing learning plan and conduct internal learning gap analysis.
• Identify priority learning and development needs across PCO and develop pillars.
• Recommend targeted interventions, priorities and capacity-building strategies.
• Align recommendations with UNICEF’s strategic goals, LDC guidelines, and the country office learning plan.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OOI) needs a Graphic Design Lead to own the visual and motion identity of its partnership and communications work, and to make that work findable wherever audiences now look: search engines, social platforms and AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The consultant will build a unified visual and motion system across OOI’s priority initiatives, produce high-impact assets for partners, donors and the public, and set the production standards that make every image, animation, video and data visual accessible, machine-readable and credible. The assignment is time-bound, with defined, measurable deliverables from December 2026 to June 2027.
UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. These supplies are critical to saving lives, supporting children’s health and education, and protecting them from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. As the UN’s largest end to end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world. SD focuses on three result areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.
Join UNICEF’s digital transformation journey by driving innovative, AI-enabled fundraising and partnership solutions that enhance supporter engagement, collaboration, and operational effectiveness. You will play a key role in shaping and delivering secure, scalable digital platforms that maximize impact for children worldwide.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide close technical supervision, quality assurance, construction planning, progress monitoring, technical guidance and reporting for CRIBS rehabilitation works in Enugu State. The consultant will support timely and quality implementation while final approval, certification, contract management and payment authorization remain with UNICEF staff members.
This position supports UNICEF's digital transformation agenda by strengthening country-level access to digital, data, and AI solutions through the TeamOne collaboration model. The incumbent will help coordinate and facilitate cross-country support, contribute to the implementation and quality assurance of digital solutions using the UNICEF Digital Playbook, and ensure alignment with digital standards, cybersecurity, data protection, interoperability, and governance requirements. The role also supports the identification and triaging of country office digital, data, and AI needs, leveraging data and insights to improve support mechanisms and community engagement. In addition, the incumbent will contribute to knowledge management, learning, and capacity-building initiatives, foster knowledge sharing across UNICEF's digital community, and help strengthen digital capabilities across country offices through collaboration, learning events, and community management activities. This position is ideal for candidates with an interest in digital development, knowledge management, AI and data-driven innovation, stakeholder coordination, and digital capacity building in an international development context.
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