Launched in 2019, the Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) initiative was established by UNICEF to promote the responsible use of data in ways that advance children’s well-being while minimizing risks and potential harms associated with data collection, processing, and use. Grounded in seven principles, RD4C provides a framework for dialogue and action on how to embed responsible data governance practices centering child rights and needs across diverse contexts. Through practical tools and case studies, the initiative supports stakeholders in translating the RD4C principles into concrete, context-specific practices.
The purpose of this consultancy is to assess the RD4C initiative and to identify opportunities to strategically evolve it to maximize its scale and impact.
The consultancy also aims to refresh the unique scope and value proposition of the RD4C initiative in this context and to strengthen its partnerships and governance for greater, collective impact in support of children. Specifically, UNICEF seeks a consultant to carry out the following activities:
Are you a strategic relationship-builder passionate about creating global impact? UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) seeks a dynamic Partnerships Specialist to drive resource mobilization and forge alliances that combat child malnutrition worldwide. In this high-visibility role, you’ll craft winning funding proposals, engage bilateral and private-sector partners, and champion evidence-based solutions to end stunting and wasting. Leverage your expertise in donor relations and strategic advocacy to amplify CNF’s reach—ensuring children in vulnerable communities receive life-saving nutrition interventions. If you’re ready to turn partnerships into measurable change, join us in delivering on the promise of the SDGs
Join UNICEF Mexico as a Chief of Field Office in Tuxtla, Chiapas.
Lead impactful humanitarian action for children! Drive innovative programmes, champion children’s rights, and collaborate with local and national partners to deliver life-changing results for vulnerable children, especially those affected by migration and humanitarian challenges.
If you’re passionate about making a difference, thrive in dynamic environments, and want to shape a brighter future for every child, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and inspire lasting change. Apply today!
UNICEF operates one of the world's largest humanitarian supply networks, managing warehouses and distribution centers across multiple countries to deliver life-saving assistance to vulnerable populations. With increasing complexity in humanitarian crises, climate-related disasters, and supply chain disruptions, there is an urgent need to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to optimize warehouse operations, improve inventory management, and enhance emergency response capabilities.
UNICEF Supply Division conducted a survey of potential use cases for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) implementation for the humanitarian warehouse. These use cases covered areas such as predictive analytics for demand forecasting to automated warehouse management systems. This consultancy will assess the feasibility of implementing these use cases by assessing practical needs, working with the current capabilities, and identifying gaps and opportunities to enhance technology adoption. Beyond feasibility assessment, the consultant will develop digital prototype(s) that can showcase a proof of concept for how UNICEF Supply Division can transform how it manages its humanitarian supply chain.
Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the Digital Vaccine Intelligence Platform (working name), combining solution architecture, business analysis, and agile delivery leadership. The role translates business outcomes (forecast-to-stock transparency, co-financing insights, early warnings) into an interoperable, secure platform that provides ‘everything in one place’ views for countries and partners.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking for passionate and committed persons to work in the role of People & Culture Officer with the People & Culture team 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 Gambia is looking for talented and motivated individual to join our CSD team as Child Survival & Development (CSD) Manager and help shape the future for children. The CSD Manager supports the development and preparation of the Child Survival and Development program/s and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting of the Child Survival and Development program progress (i.e. Health, Nutrition and WASH) within the country program.
The candidate will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and HIV.
The Communication & Partnerships Officer (NO-2) reports to the Deputy Representative and plays a pivotal role in advancing UNICEF São Tomé e Príncipe’s communication, advocacy, and partnership efforts. The officer is responsible for:
• Supporting engagement with media and partners under the guidance of a supervisor.
• Supporting in drive resource mobilization efforts through evidence-based advocacy and engagement with key stakeholders.
• Supporting the implementation of communication strategies developed by senior staff or regional/HQ offices Supporting the implementation of communication strategies developed by senior staff or regional/HQ offices.
• Ensuring strategic alignment with programmatic priorities, working closely with the Deputy Representative to integrate communication and advocacy strategies into UNICEF’s broader agenda.
• Leveraging a multitasking approach to efficiently support cross-sectoral initiatives, ensuring agility, adaptability, and responsiveness in a dynamic operational environment.
This role requires a versatile and proactive professional capable of support cross-sectoral initiatives, fostering collaboration, and ensuring that UNICEF’s communication and partnership efforts contribute to long-term sustainability and impact in São Tomé e Príncipe, working under close supervision with clearly defined tasks.
The Government of Tanzania has articulated its vision through the new Digital Health Strategy 2025–2030, which outlines transformative shifts in digital governance and leadership, data interoperability, ICT infrastructure, digital competencies across the health workforce, and the adoption of data-driven practices for planning, monitoring, and policy formulation. The strategy represents a significant evolution from earlier digital health initiatives by emphasizing system integration, scalability, sustainability, cybersecurity, and the long-term institutionalization of digital health within the broader health sector architecture
To translate this strategic vision into implementable actions, the Government, with technical and financial assistance from UNICEF, is developing a Digital Health Investment Roadmap 2025–2030. This roadmap identifies the priority interventions, sequencing, institutional responsibilities, partnerships, and investment areas necessary to build a resilient, interoperable, and user-centered digital health ecosystem. It aims to consolidate fragmented digital initiatives, align them with national priorities, and provide a coherent framework for coordinated implementation
UNICEF Gambia invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the position of Executive Associate. The Executive Associate is accountable for procedural communications, operations and administrative support services, as well as specialized administrative functions, to enhance the smooth running of the Representative's day-to-day activities, as well as his/her section.
The consultant will facilitate meetings in person at the conference venue in Florence. Partner Days will take place at the Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy, from 16 to 17 March 2026. The event will run from 1pm to 5.30pm on 16 March and from 9am to 5pm on 17 March. The Staff Retreat of the new Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) – Innocenti will take place on 14-17 April 2026 in Florence.
Le Bureau de l’UNICEF en RDC est à la recherche d'un (e) professionnel(le), engagé(e), créatif(ve) pour les postes de Health Specialist au niveau NO-3 basé à Goma et Kananga.
Si vous êtes cette personne passionnée par l'idée de faire une différence durable pour les enfants, rejoignez l'UNICEF, la première organisation mondiale de défense des droits de l'enfant.
Following the outcomes of COP and the growing expectation that UN agencies shift from advocacy to structured, investable partnership propositions, UNICEF must rapidly strengthen its internal alignment and external positioning on climate partnership engagement. Governments, donors, investors, and private-sector actors are actively seeking credible partners capable of shaping and delivering the next generation of climate adaptation finance and resilience solutions.
At present, UNICEF’s engagement across climate finance, partnerships, and programmatic channels remains fragmented, risking duplication of outreach, missed opportunities, and weakened institutional influence in global decision-making processes, including the New Quantified Collective Goal (NQCG).
To address this, UNICEF Partnerships Division seeks to engage a senior expert consultant to:
1. Develop a clear and compelling Climate Partnerships Strategy – defining how UNICEF will engage governments, private investors, impact funds, philanthropic actors, multilateral institutions, and corporate partners in advancing climate adaptation and resilience for children.
2. Lead a coordinated information-gathering and intelligence process – ensuring that data, policy signals, partner insights, internal reporting, and regional perspectives are consolidated into a coherent UNICEF contribution to the evolving global climate finance architecture.
3. Strengthen internal alignment across the Partnerships Cone and Programme Division around priority partners, approaches, and messaging.
This consultancy will enable UNICEF to speak with one coherent voice, grounded by evidence and structured propositions, thereby strengthening its visibility, credibility, and capacity to secure transformational climate partnerships at a pivotal moment fin global climate governance.
UNICEF Kosovo is currently transitioning towards the implementation of the new Kosovo Programme (2026 – 2030), which will begin next year. The Programme is centered on delivering results for children in a holistic manner and is grounded in a life-cycle approach. Among its key priorities are strengthening the capacities of national institutions for data collection and analysis on the situation of children, as well as enhancing child rights
governance mechanisms at both the national and local levels. These efforts aim to ensure that children are prioritized in planning processes and that robust tools are used to monitor, finance, implement, and evaluate policies and programmes to ensure children benefit from quality services.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a Gender Analyst Consultant to support Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) in compiling and analyzing the available gender-related data and in drafting a comprehensive statistical report on the situation of women and girls in Lebanon. The report will cover key thematic areas such as education, health, protection, labor force participation, decision-making, and access to services, among others.
Join UNICEF Madagascar as a Programme Associate (Education) and contribute to promoting the rights of every child by supporting education programmes that ensure equitable access to quality learning. You will play a key role in monitoring budgets, managing programme transactions, and supporting partnerships to deliver impactful results for children.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. Learn more about us at https://www.unicef.org.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The purpose of this assignment is to support operationalize and strengthen World Bank Grievance Redressal Mechanism (GRM) within UNICEF-supported project structures, ensuring that grievance and feedback systems are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of affected populations. The assignment will support the development and rollout of GRM procedures and tools, build the capacity of implementing partners, ensure timely and confidential case management, and monitor performance against agreed KPIs and Service Level Agreements. It will also provide incidents reporting, inform adaptive programming, and generate evidence-based recommendations to improve accountability, service delivery, and alignment with World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) and UNICEF’s accountability framework.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to provide technical assistance to UNICEF EAPRO and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO, the two co-chairs of SEA-PLM. The consultancy will focus on conducting secondary analysis, preparing reports and supporting the organization and smooth running of several key SEA-PLM events in 2026.
Launched in 2019, the Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) initiative was established by UNICEF to promote the responsible use of data in ways that advance children’s well-being while minimizing risks and potential harms associated with data collection, processing, and use. Grounded in seven principles, RD4C provides a framework for dialogue and action on how to embed responsible data governance practices centering child rights and needs across diverse contexts. Through practical tools and case studies, the initiative supports stakeholders in translating the RD4C principles into concrete, context-specific practices.
The purpose of this consultancy is to assess the RD4C initiative and to identify opportunities to strategically evolve it to maximize its scale and impact.
The consultancy also aims to refresh the unique scope and value proposition of the RD4C initiative in this context and to strengthen its partnerships and governance for greater, collective impact in support of children. Specifically, UNICEF seeks a consultant to carry out the following activities:
Are you a strategic relationship-builder passionate about creating global impact? UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) seeks a dynamic Partnerships Specialist to drive resource mobilization and forge alliances that combat child malnutrition worldwide. In this high-visibility role, you’ll craft winning funding proposals, engage bilateral and private-sector partners, and champion evidence-based solutions to end stunting and wasting. Leverage your expertise in donor relations and strategic advocacy to amplify CNF’s reach—ensuring children in vulnerable communities receive life-saving nutrition interventions. If you’re ready to turn partnerships into measurable change, join us in delivering on the promise of the SDGs
Join UNICEF Mexico as a Chief of Field Office in Tuxtla, Chiapas.
Lead impactful humanitarian action for children! Drive innovative programmes, champion children’s rights, and collaborate with local and national partners to deliver life-changing results for vulnerable children, especially those affected by migration and humanitarian challenges.
If you’re passionate about making a difference, thrive in dynamic environments, and want to shape a brighter future for every child, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and inspire lasting change. Apply today!
UNICEF operates one of the world's largest humanitarian supply networks, managing warehouses and distribution centers across multiple countries to deliver life-saving assistance to vulnerable populations. With increasing complexity in humanitarian crises, climate-related disasters, and supply chain disruptions, there is an urgent need to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to optimize warehouse operations, improve inventory management, and enhance emergency response capabilities.
UNICEF Supply Division conducted a survey of potential use cases for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) implementation for the humanitarian warehouse. These use cases covered areas such as predictive analytics for demand forecasting to automated warehouse management systems. This consultancy will assess the feasibility of implementing these use cases by assessing practical needs, working with the current capabilities, and identifying gaps and opportunities to enhance technology adoption. Beyond feasibility assessment, the consultant will develop digital prototype(s) that can showcase a proof of concept for how UNICEF Supply Division can transform how it manages its humanitarian supply chain.
Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of the Digital Vaccine Intelligence Platform (working name), combining solution architecture, business analysis, and agile delivery leadership. The role translates business outcomes (forecast-to-stock transparency, co-financing insights, early warnings) into an interoperable, secure platform that provides ‘everything in one place’ views for countries and partners.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking for passionate and committed persons to work in the role of People & Culture Officer with the People & Culture team 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 Gambia is looking for talented and motivated individual to join our CSD team as Child Survival & Development (CSD) Manager and help shape the future for children. The CSD Manager supports the development and preparation of the Child Survival and Development program/s and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting of the Child Survival and Development program progress (i.e. Health, Nutrition and WASH) within the country program.
The candidate will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and HIV.
The Communication & Partnerships Officer (NO-2) reports to the Deputy Representative and plays a pivotal role in advancing UNICEF São Tomé e Príncipe’s communication, advocacy, and partnership efforts. The officer is responsible for:
• Supporting engagement with media and partners under the guidance of a supervisor.
• Supporting in drive resource mobilization efforts through evidence-based advocacy and engagement with key stakeholders.
• Supporting the implementation of communication strategies developed by senior staff or regional/HQ offices Supporting the implementation of communication strategies developed by senior staff or regional/HQ offices.
• Ensuring strategic alignment with programmatic priorities, working closely with the Deputy Representative to integrate communication and advocacy strategies into UNICEF’s broader agenda.
• Leveraging a multitasking approach to efficiently support cross-sectoral initiatives, ensuring agility, adaptability, and responsiveness in a dynamic operational environment.
This role requires a versatile and proactive professional capable of support cross-sectoral initiatives, fostering collaboration, and ensuring that UNICEF’s communication and partnership efforts contribute to long-term sustainability and impact in São Tomé e Príncipe, working under close supervision with clearly defined tasks.
The Government of Tanzania has articulated its vision through the new Digital Health Strategy 2025–2030, which outlines transformative shifts in digital governance and leadership, data interoperability, ICT infrastructure, digital competencies across the health workforce, and the adoption of data-driven practices for planning, monitoring, and policy formulation. The strategy represents a significant evolution from earlier digital health initiatives by emphasizing system integration, scalability, sustainability, cybersecurity, and the long-term institutionalization of digital health within the broader health sector architecture
To translate this strategic vision into implementable actions, the Government, with technical and financial assistance from UNICEF, is developing a Digital Health Investment Roadmap 2025–2030. This roadmap identifies the priority interventions, sequencing, institutional responsibilities, partnerships, and investment areas necessary to build a resilient, interoperable, and user-centered digital health ecosystem. It aims to consolidate fragmented digital initiatives, align them with national priorities, and provide a coherent framework for coordinated implementation
UNICEF Gambia invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the position of Executive Associate. The Executive Associate is accountable for procedural communications, operations and administrative support services, as well as specialized administrative functions, to enhance the smooth running of the Representative's day-to-day activities, as well as his/her section.
The consultant will facilitate meetings in person at the conference venue in Florence. Partner Days will take place at the Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy, from 16 to 17 March 2026. The event will run from 1pm to 5.30pm on 16 March and from 9am to 5pm on 17 March. The Staff Retreat of the new Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) – Innocenti will take place on 14-17 April 2026 in Florence.
Le Bureau de l’UNICEF en RDC est à la recherche d'un (e) professionnel(le), engagé(e), créatif(ve) pour les postes de Health Specialist au niveau NO-3 basé à Goma et Kananga.
Si vous êtes cette personne passionnée par l'idée de faire une différence durable pour les enfants, rejoignez l'UNICEF, la première organisation mondiale de défense des droits de l'enfant.
Following the outcomes of COP and the growing expectation that UN agencies shift from advocacy to structured, investable partnership propositions, UNICEF must rapidly strengthen its internal alignment and external positioning on climate partnership engagement. Governments, donors, investors, and private-sector actors are actively seeking credible partners capable of shaping and delivering the next generation of climate adaptation finance and resilience solutions.
At present, UNICEF’s engagement across climate finance, partnerships, and programmatic channels remains fragmented, risking duplication of outreach, missed opportunities, and weakened institutional influence in global decision-making processes, including the New Quantified Collective Goal (NQCG).
To address this, UNICEF Partnerships Division seeks to engage a senior expert consultant to:
1. Develop a clear and compelling Climate Partnerships Strategy – defining how UNICEF will engage governments, private investors, impact funds, philanthropic actors, multilateral institutions, and corporate partners in advancing climate adaptation and resilience for children.
2. Lead a coordinated information-gathering and intelligence process – ensuring that data, policy signals, partner insights, internal reporting, and regional perspectives are consolidated into a coherent UNICEF contribution to the evolving global climate finance architecture.
3. Strengthen internal alignment across the Partnerships Cone and Programme Division around priority partners, approaches, and messaging.
This consultancy will enable UNICEF to speak with one coherent voice, grounded by evidence and structured propositions, thereby strengthening its visibility, credibility, and capacity to secure transformational climate partnerships at a pivotal moment fin global climate governance.
UNICEF Kosovo is currently transitioning towards the implementation of the new Kosovo Programme (2026 – 2030), which will begin next year. The Programme is centered on delivering results for children in a holistic manner and is grounded in a life-cycle approach. Among its key priorities are strengthening the capacities of national institutions for data collection and analysis on the situation of children, as well as enhancing child rights
governance mechanisms at both the national and local levels. These efforts aim to ensure that children are prioritized in planning processes and that robust tools are used to monitor, finance, implement, and evaluate policies and programmes to ensure children benefit from quality services.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a Gender Analyst Consultant to support Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) in compiling and analyzing the available gender-related data and in drafting a comprehensive statistical report on the situation of women and girls in Lebanon. The report will cover key thematic areas such as education, health, protection, labor force participation, decision-making, and access to services, among others.
Join UNICEF Madagascar as a Programme Associate (Education) and contribute to promoting the rights of every child by supporting education programmes that ensure equitable access to quality learning. You will play a key role in monitoring budgets, managing programme transactions, and supporting partnerships to deliver impactful results for children.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. Learn more about us at https://www.unicef.org.
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The purpose of this assignment is to support operationalize and strengthen World Bank Grievance Redressal Mechanism (GRM) within UNICEF-supported project structures, ensuring that grievance and feedback systems are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of affected populations. The assignment will support the development and rollout of GRM procedures and tools, build the capacity of implementing partners, ensure timely and confidential case management, and monitor performance against agreed KPIs and Service Level Agreements. It will also provide incidents reporting, inform adaptive programming, and generate evidence-based recommendations to improve accountability, service delivery, and alignment with World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) and UNICEF’s accountability framework.
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking an individual consultant to provide technical assistance to UNICEF EAPRO and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO, the two co-chairs of SEA-PLM. The consultancy will focus on conducting secondary analysis, preparing reports and supporting the organization and smooth running of several key SEA-PLM events in 2026.
