In Niger, the combined effects of climate disruptions (droughts, floods), recurrent food and nutrition crises, insecurity in border areas (Tillabéri, Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi), and weak state presence in certain zones have led to a progressive deterioration of livelihoods. Health, water, education, and child protection systems are all severely affected, limiting children's access to essential social services and deepening their vulnerability.The primary objective is to provide technical support to the Country Office, programme sections, and partners (government, civil society, technical and financial partners) in the conceptualization, contextualization, strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, research and evaluation of resilience programming.Specifically, the Resilience Coordinator will dedicate a substantial amount of time to supporting the Deputy Representative Programmes to coordinate UNICEF's contributions to the large scale, ambitious, resiliencepartnership between BMZ, GIZ, UNICEF and WFP. The work will go beyond strengthening the capacity to "bounce back" from disruptions, addressing the complexity of human and community systems, their potential to adapt and persist through changing circumstances, and the implications for children's rights and well-being.
The consultancy aims to provide overall technical support to UNICEF-supported health projects, particularly in the areas of procurement, technical specification development, installation, commissioning, monitoring, operation and maintenance, and quality assurance of medical equipment. This includes essential diagnostic and newborn care equipment such as sphygmomanometers, glucometers, bilirubinometers, hematology analyzers, and SCANU-related equipment including radiant warmers, phototherapy machines, and bubble CPAP systems.
The UNICEF Angola Country Office is supporting the Ministry of Education (MED) to address a persistent learning crisis, characterized by a high proportion of children out of the school system, low foundational learning outcomes, high rates of overage learners, and persistent inequities in access to quality education. Many children progress through the system without acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills, particularly those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.
Given the scale, geographic spread, and operational complexity of these interventions, dedicated technical consultancy support is required to support effective coordination, monitoring, and implementation follow-up/ The consultant will support quality implementation of AIC, CFS, and the new Libraries without Walls component in Huila and Cunene provinces, including coordination with education authorities, monitoring, data management, and documentation of results and lessons learned.
Benin is a middle-income country that faces many challenges in guaranteeing the rights of everychild. Ranked 158th out of 191 countries on the Human Development Index (UNDP, 2021/2022), ithas significant disparities between urban and rural areas, and between girls and boys. Since 1977,UNICEF has been working closely with the government, civil society, technical and financialpartners, young people and communities to improve access to education, health services,protection, water, sanitation, nutrition and social policies for children.The 2024-2026 cooperation program pays particular attention to girls' education, protectionagainst violence, community health, and the fight against child labor. Present in the field throughits offices in Cotonou, Natitingou and Parakou, UNICEF is committed to working alongside themost vulnerable communities to guarantee concrete, lasting results.Social Policy is a standalone section.
The role of the individual consultant aligns directly with the optimization of the PHC concept by ensuring vaccines are accessible at the community level, increasing coverage, and ensuring timely delivery of vaccines and other PHC commodities using the new initiatives such as DRIVE [Direct Delivery of Routine Immunization Vaccines and other PHC commodities for equity]. Their efforts in optimizing the cold chain and vaccine stock management system within PHC settings are crucial for maintaining vaccine potency, reducing wastage, and ensuring the efficacy of immunization supply chain activities. The consultant will also contribute to achieving broader health goals like universal health coverage (UHC) and the Immunization Agenda 2030 by supporting innovative supply chain technologies and the effective management of health commodities.
This intervention, implemented by WFP and UNICEF, is an integrated Nutrition, Health, Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Livelihoods programme. The objective is to provide households with sustainable food security and livelihoods that enable them to produce, access and afford nutritious food. In addition, these interventions will help communities produce sufficient food to sell their surplus, and to add value and connect with higher value markets to boost household income and savings. This in turn will further improve their access to education, health, and WASH services.The candidate will be responsible for field level management and coordination of JRP activities across the four districts, including interface with communities, partners, and local authorities.
UNICEF’s Child Protection and Migration Programme is seeking an experienced individual consultant to develop a landmark global resource: a Practical Handbook for Governments on Developing, Financing, and Implementing a National Action Plan (NAP) to End Child Marriage. Designed as a global public good, the handbook will provide governments with practical, evidence-informed guidance to strengthen national leadership, planning, financing, implementation and accountability for ending child marriage.
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.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the integration of child protection and GBV prevention and response within WASH Sectors in Liberia, ensuring that WASH policies, programmes, and investments contribute to safer environments and reduced violence risks for children, adolescents, and women.
This temporary consultancy supports the Acre State Secretariat of Social Assistance and Human Rights (SEASDH) in strengthening emergency preparedness against severe, dual climate risks in Brazil. Utilizing UNICEF-developed technical guidelines, the consultant will deliver targeted strategies for municipal social assistance to address flooding and drought impacts on vulnerable populations. The initiative focuses on enhancing shock-responsive social protection to protect children and families in high-risk areas.
Assistance at the municipal and state levels across Brazil. The initiative will result in technical guidelines for the elaboration of contingency plans that can be tailored to the specific territorial risk profiles of different states and municipalities.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen child protection data and information management systems in Cambodia, with a particular focus on improving the functionality, integration, and utilization of PRIMERO and CPIMS to support evidence-based planning, budgeting, and capacity building and service delivery at both national and subnational levels.
The assignment will prioritize target provinces with a high concentration of children in the context of migration—Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey, and Battambang—as well as UNICEF focus provinces, including Preah Vihear, Rattanakiri, and Siem Reap.
The assignment will contribute to enhancing government capacity to effectively collect, generate, analyze, and use child protection data, strengthen the quality and consistency of case management, and ensure that child protection priorities are systematically integrated into subnational planning and budgeting processes.
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.
ECA PSFR Cluster seeks a Direct Response Television (DRTV) Specialist to support ECA PSFR Cluster with DRTV market development, to implement the 2026/2027 DRTV activity constituting one campaign implemented in 2 waves:
- Wave 1: Mid-October until Mid-December 2026 and
- Wave 2: January 2027
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen disaster risk financing (DRF) systems for social sectors in selected Pacific
Island Countries (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) by improving the capacity of governments and
partners to mobilize and deliver financial resources effectively to protect children and essential services during shocks.
The consultancy will support UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) to enhance its role as a strategic partner in DRF
by working closely with Ministries of Finance and line ministries responsible for education, health & nutrition, child
protection, WASH, and social protection to strengthen the integration of social sectors within DRF frameworks. This
includes assessing and improving shock-responsive delivery systems (“money-out”), identifying systemic bottlenecks, and
providing targeted technical support and initial capacity-building to ensure that financial resources translate into timely
and effective support for children.
The assignment will further contribute to elevating the role of social sectors within national DRF approaches, ensuring
that financing mechanisms explicitly account for the protection of essential services and the needs of children in disaster
contexts.
In parallel, the consultancy will facilitate engagement with key regional and international partners, including PCRIC, the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), to align UNICEF’s work
with broader DRF initiatives and promote coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Finally, the consultancy will contribute to the development of donor-ready proposals and a UNICEF DRF roadmap,
ensuring that country-level engagement and systems improvements are translated into actionable strategies,
strengthened partnerships, and resource mobilization opportunities to better protect children from disaster impacts.
UNICEF Haiti is looking for a passionate and results-driven Advocacy and Communication Officer to join our team in Port-au-Prince. If you're passionate about using strategic communications to drive change for children, this is your opportunity to make an impact. Reporting to the Chief of Communication, you will lead and support high-impact advocacy campaigns, media engagement, strategic partnerships, and digital communications to influence policy, mobilize support, and amplify children's voices. Your work will help strengthen UNICEF's visibility, secure greater commitment for children's rights, and deliver meaningful results for every child in Haiti.
Under the supervision of the Communication Specialist (NO-3), and in close coordination with the Advocacy and Media Officer and the Digital Communication Officer, the Communication Associate (GS-6) provides technical and administrative support to the implementation of communication strategies. This includes supporting the planning, production, and monitoring of digital and media content, campaigns, and communication activities.
In this context, UNICEF Senegal is supporting interventions aimed at improving girls’ education, vocational training, inclusive education and empowerment, while promoting gender-transformative and disability-inclusive approaches enabling children and adolescents to develop their full potential.UNICEF Senegal is also engaged in initiatives related to inclusive education, assistive technology and disability inclusion in partnership with government counterparts, WHO, ATscale and other stakeholders, as well as regional and global initiatives related to girls’ education and gender equality in education, including the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI) and collaboration with the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI).UNICEF Senegal is therefore recruiting an Education Officer to support the interventions of the Education Section related to girls’ education, inclusive education, assistive technology and empowerment of vulnerable children and adolescents.
The P&C Officer reports to the Deputy Representative for close guidance, training and supervision. The Officer provides support to the supervisor and colleagues by executing P&C services through applying knowledge of theoretical P&C models, as well as understanding of organizational P&C policies and procedures.
UNICEF is seeking a qualified national or international consultant to support the Ministry of Health in Lesotho in strengthening the country’s environmental health framework.
The consultant will review, update, and finalize the National Environmental Health Policy to ensure alignment with national priorities, global standards, and emerging issues such as climate resilience. Additionally, they will develop a costed Environmental Health Strategic Plan (2027–2031), including priority interventions, implementation arrangements, financing strategies, and a monitoring and evaluation framework.
This assignment aims to deliver a comprehensive and actionable policy and strategic plan aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and relevant global environmental health frameworks.
In Niger, the combined effects of climate disruptions (droughts, floods), recurrent food and nutrition crises, insecurity in border areas (Tillabéri, Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi), and weak state presence in certain zones have led to a progressive deterioration of livelihoods. Health, water, education, and child protection systems are all severely affected, limiting children's access to essential social services and deepening their vulnerability.The primary objective is to provide technical support to the Country Office, programme sections, and partners (government, civil society, technical and financial partners) in the conceptualization, contextualization, strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, research and evaluation of resilience programming.Specifically, the Resilience Coordinator will dedicate a substantial amount of time to supporting the Deputy Representative Programmes to coordinate UNICEF's contributions to the large scale, ambitious, resiliencepartnership between BMZ, GIZ, UNICEF and WFP. The work will go beyond strengthening the capacity to "bounce back" from disruptions, addressing the complexity of human and community systems, their potential to adapt and persist through changing circumstances, and the implications for children's rights and well-being.
The consultancy aims to provide overall technical support to UNICEF-supported health projects, particularly in the areas of procurement, technical specification development, installation, commissioning, monitoring, operation and maintenance, and quality assurance of medical equipment. This includes essential diagnostic and newborn care equipment such as sphygmomanometers, glucometers, bilirubinometers, hematology analyzers, and SCANU-related equipment including radiant warmers, phototherapy machines, and bubble CPAP systems.
The UNICEF Angola Country Office is supporting the Ministry of Education (MED) to address a persistent learning crisis, characterized by a high proportion of children out of the school system, low foundational learning outcomes, high rates of overage learners, and persistent inequities in access to quality education. Many children progress through the system without acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills, particularly those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.
Given the scale, geographic spread, and operational complexity of these interventions, dedicated technical consultancy support is required to support effective coordination, monitoring, and implementation follow-up/ The consultant will support quality implementation of AIC, CFS, and the new Libraries without Walls component in Huila and Cunene provinces, including coordination with education authorities, monitoring, data management, and documentation of results and lessons learned.
Benin is a middle-income country that faces many challenges in guaranteeing the rights of everychild. Ranked 158th out of 191 countries on the Human Development Index (UNDP, 2021/2022), ithas significant disparities between urban and rural areas, and between girls and boys. Since 1977,UNICEF has been working closely with the government, civil society, technical and financialpartners, young people and communities to improve access to education, health services,protection, water, sanitation, nutrition and social policies for children.The 2024-2026 cooperation program pays particular attention to girls' education, protectionagainst violence, community health, and the fight against child labor. Present in the field throughits offices in Cotonou, Natitingou and Parakou, UNICEF is committed to working alongside themost vulnerable communities to guarantee concrete, lasting results.Social Policy is a standalone section.
The role of the individual consultant aligns directly with the optimization of the PHC concept by ensuring vaccines are accessible at the community level, increasing coverage, and ensuring timely delivery of vaccines and other PHC commodities using the new initiatives such as DRIVE [Direct Delivery of Routine Immunization Vaccines and other PHC commodities for equity]. Their efforts in optimizing the cold chain and vaccine stock management system within PHC settings are crucial for maintaining vaccine potency, reducing wastage, and ensuring the efficacy of immunization supply chain activities. The consultant will also contribute to achieving broader health goals like universal health coverage (UHC) and the Immunization Agenda 2030 by supporting innovative supply chain technologies and the effective management of health commodities.
This intervention, implemented by WFP and UNICEF, is an integrated Nutrition, Health, Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Livelihoods programme. The objective is to provide households with sustainable food security and livelihoods that enable them to produce, access and afford nutritious food. In addition, these interventions will help communities produce sufficient food to sell their surplus, and to add value and connect with higher value markets to boost household income and savings. This in turn will further improve their access to education, health, and WASH services.The candidate will be responsible for field level management and coordination of JRP activities across the four districts, including interface with communities, partners, and local authorities.
UNICEF’s Child Protection and Migration Programme is seeking an experienced individual consultant to develop a landmark global resource: a Practical Handbook for Governments on Developing, Financing, and Implementing a National Action Plan (NAP) to End Child Marriage. Designed as a global public good, the handbook will provide governments with practical, evidence-informed guidance to strengthen national leadership, planning, financing, implementation and accountability for ending child marriage.
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.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the integration of child protection and GBV prevention and response within WASH Sectors in Liberia, ensuring that WASH policies, programmes, and investments contribute to safer environments and reduced violence risks for children, adolescents, and women.
This temporary consultancy supports the Acre State Secretariat of Social Assistance and Human Rights (SEASDH) in strengthening emergency preparedness against severe, dual climate risks in Brazil. Utilizing UNICEF-developed technical guidelines, the consultant will deliver targeted strategies for municipal social assistance to address flooding and drought impacts on vulnerable populations. The initiative focuses on enhancing shock-responsive social protection to protect children and families in high-risk areas.
Assistance at the municipal and state levels across Brazil. The initiative will result in technical guidelines for the elaboration of contingency plans that can be tailored to the specific territorial risk profiles of different states and municipalities.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen child protection data and information management systems in Cambodia, with a particular focus on improving the functionality, integration, and utilization of PRIMERO and CPIMS to support evidence-based planning, budgeting, and capacity building and service delivery at both national and subnational levels.
The assignment will prioritize target provinces with a high concentration of children in the context of migration—Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey, and Battambang—as well as UNICEF focus provinces, including Preah Vihear, Rattanakiri, and Siem Reap.
The assignment will contribute to enhancing government capacity to effectively collect, generate, analyze, and use child protection data, strengthen the quality and consistency of case management, and ensure that child protection priorities are systematically integrated into subnational planning and budgeting processes.
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.
ECA PSFR Cluster seeks a Direct Response Television (DRTV) Specialist to support ECA PSFR Cluster with DRTV market development, to implement the 2026/2027 DRTV activity constituting one campaign implemented in 2 waves:
- Wave 1: Mid-October until Mid-December 2026 and
- Wave 2: January 2027
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen disaster risk financing (DRF) systems for social sectors in selected Pacific
Island Countries (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) by improving the capacity of governments and
partners to mobilize and deliver financial resources effectively to protect children and essential services during shocks.
The consultancy will support UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) to enhance its role as a strategic partner in DRF
by working closely with Ministries of Finance and line ministries responsible for education, health & nutrition, child
protection, WASH, and social protection to strengthen the integration of social sectors within DRF frameworks. This
includes assessing and improving shock-responsive delivery systems (“money-out”), identifying systemic bottlenecks, and
providing targeted technical support and initial capacity-building to ensure that financial resources translate into timely
and effective support for children.
The assignment will further contribute to elevating the role of social sectors within national DRF approaches, ensuring
that financing mechanisms explicitly account for the protection of essential services and the needs of children in disaster
contexts.
In parallel, the consultancy will facilitate engagement with key regional and international partners, including PCRIC, the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), to align UNICEF’s work
with broader DRF initiatives and promote coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Finally, the consultancy will contribute to the development of donor-ready proposals and a UNICEF DRF roadmap,
ensuring that country-level engagement and systems improvements are translated into actionable strategies,
strengthened partnerships, and resource mobilization opportunities to better protect children from disaster impacts.
UNICEF Haiti is looking for a passionate and results-driven Advocacy and Communication Officer to join our team in Port-au-Prince. If you're passionate about using strategic communications to drive change for children, this is your opportunity to make an impact. Reporting to the Chief of Communication, you will lead and support high-impact advocacy campaigns, media engagement, strategic partnerships, and digital communications to influence policy, mobilize support, and amplify children's voices. Your work will help strengthen UNICEF's visibility, secure greater commitment for children's rights, and deliver meaningful results for every child in Haiti.
Under the supervision of the Communication Specialist (NO-3), and in close coordination with the Advocacy and Media Officer and the Digital Communication Officer, the Communication Associate (GS-6) provides technical and administrative support to the implementation of communication strategies. This includes supporting the planning, production, and monitoring of digital and media content, campaigns, and communication activities.
In this context, UNICEF Senegal is supporting interventions aimed at improving girls’ education, vocational training, inclusive education and empowerment, while promoting gender-transformative and disability-inclusive approaches enabling children and adolescents to develop their full potential.UNICEF Senegal is also engaged in initiatives related to inclusive education, assistive technology and disability inclusion in partnership with government counterparts, WHO, ATscale and other stakeholders, as well as regional and global initiatives related to girls’ education and gender equality in education, including the Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI) and collaboration with the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI).UNICEF Senegal is therefore recruiting an Education Officer to support the interventions of the Education Section related to girls’ education, inclusive education, assistive technology and empowerment of vulnerable children and adolescents.
The P&C Officer reports to the Deputy Representative for close guidance, training and supervision. The Officer provides support to the supervisor and colleagues by executing P&C services through applying knowledge of theoretical P&C models, as well as understanding of organizational P&C policies and procedures.
UNICEF is seeking a qualified national or international consultant to support the Ministry of Health in Lesotho in strengthening the country’s environmental health framework.
The consultant will review, update, and finalize the National Environmental Health Policy to ensure alignment with national priorities, global standards, and emerging issues such as climate resilience. Additionally, they will develop a costed Environmental Health Strategic Plan (2027–2031), including priority interventions, implementation arrangements, financing strategies, and a monitoring and evaluation framework.
This assignment aims to deliver a comprehensive and actionable policy and strategic plan aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and relevant global environmental health frameworks.
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