The Programme Assistant (GS-5 Temporary Appointment) is positioned in the Programme Section, reporting directly to the Programme Coordinator. This position carries cross-sectoral functions of technical assistance programme planning and operations, ensuring seamless coordination between technical teams, operations units, and external partners/service providers. The incumbent will be situated within the protection area, with a particular focus on the special protection system, deinstitutionalization processes, justice administration, migration, and the monitoring of children’s rights.
The Federal Ministry of Education launched the Nigeria Education Sector Renew Initiative (NESRI) with education data as one of the core pillars for education reform. Subsequently, the Ministry initiated the Nigerian Education Data Initiative (NEDI) to strengthen sector-wide data collection, management, analysis and use. The initiative aims to enable the federal, state and local governments and school authorities to leverage the education data for policy making, programme development, and improvement of teaching and learning activities. To achieve the goal, UNICEF has been supporting the Ministry to operationalize education information management systems (EMIS) across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In 2025, UNICEF supported the Ministry to launch the EMIS with annual school census module, safe school module and student registry module. The EMIS system has been developed by the University Oslo (UiO) that has provided a DHIS platform.
To help the government mainstream the EMIS in the education sector and institutionalize it as a sustainable system, UNICEF seeks to hire a national consultant who provides technical expertise to lead the data systems interventions with the Federal Ministry of Education and state governments.
UNICEF Supply Division, Financial Management Centre is seeking a consultant to lead and execute the full ISO 9001:2015 (2026) Quality Management System (QMS) certification project for Supply Division (SD), including planning, system design, documentation, implementation oversight, internal audit preparation, staff training, and coordination with the selected certification body. Ensure SD is audit‑ready and achieves certification within the project timeline.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation, coordination, and learning journey of the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education (2026–2027).
Building on earlier research and documentation phases, this consultancy will support:
• The delivery and coherence of the fellowship learning journey
• Coordination across fellows, senior fellows, and partners
• Development of curriculum, session design, and learning materials
• Structured documentation and synthesis of youth-led climate education Bright Spots
• Identification and documentation of additional promising initiatives from 18K broader applicant pool
• Translation of insights into evidence, policy-relevant outputs, and knowledge products
The consultant will contribute to ensuring that the Fellowship functions as a coherent, connected learning and systems platform, supporting UNICEF’s broader work on climate education, youth participation, and intergenerational governance.
Education:Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business.Qualified accountant (accredited membership of CA, CPA or equivalent) OR Currently completing professional accounting qualification plus recent experience with the functions in the JD is required Experience: At least two (2) years of experience in positions of increasing responsibility in the field of accounting, financial analysis and monitoring, or financial auditing, with a preference for not for profit sector experience.Experience in applying International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is required Experience working with enterprise resource management (ERP) systems for financial processing and reporting. Experience with SAP ECC or S/4 HANA is an advantage.Advanced proficiency in Excel, data analytics, attention to detail, and ability to translate data into business language, interpret trends and identify risk areas are requiredKnowledge of the UN system and the humanitarian sector is an advantage.Language: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.
Join UNICEF Somalia as an Advocacy Specialist and help advance children’s rights in a complex humanitarian and development context. In this role, you will lead strategic advocacy and communication initiatives, strengthen partnerships with government, donors, media, and civil society, and help influence policy and public engagement on key child-focused issues. Working closely with senior leadership and programme teams, you’ll play a key role in amplifying UNICEF’s impact and visibility across Somalia.
To strengthen UNICEF Kosovo’s digital presence, audience reach, and advocacy impact through strategic digital media management, campaign execution, and data-driven optimization aligned with the 2026–2030 communication and advocacy strategy.
This position is located within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation (PRM) team of the UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO). Sudan currently manages one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian appeals globally, approaching one billion USD annually. The PRM team is structured around two core functions: budget management and partnerships.
Under the overall supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager in Rome, Italy and the technical supervision of the Digital Engagement and Youth Participation Project Manager (U-Report), in Rome, Italy, the Social Mobilizer is primarily responsible for promoting the U-Report On The Move platform and related tools in first and second reception centres in Italy reaching unaccompanied and separated children, young migrants and refugees.
The Representative serves as the accredited representative of UNICEF in the country and reports to the Regional Director for general direction and oversight. The Representative is responsible for establishing dialogue with the Government to develop the framework of cooperation in the country and for working closely and collaboratively with the Government and national institutions, stakeholders and partners, to develop the Government-UNICEF Country Programme of Cooperation in active support of efforts to advance children’s rights as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, other international treaties/frameworks, the SDGs, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and innovative professional to lead integrated Child Protection and Education initiatives that strengthen national systems, promote safe and inclusive environments, and accelerate sustainable results for children and adolescents at scale.
The Child Protection Officer (NOA) will support the coordination, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian child protection interventions in the Dominican Republic, with a focus on children affected by human mobility and other vulnerabilities. The role contributes to the delivery of an integrated response that combines protection, health, nutrition and WASH interventions, ensuring that services are aligned with humanitarian standards and donor requirements.
Provide technical expertise for obstetric/midwifery components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing obstetric clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
Provide technical expertise for neonatal components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting neonatal related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing neonatal clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
Join UNICEF GSSC as Sr. Contracts Associate to actively engage with the processing agents and Officers within ICS, to approve transactions and to provide guidance on procedures and compliance. All activities are carried out in accordance with Division of People & Culture (DPC) Individual Consultant Procedures, ensuring timely, accurate delivery aligned with GSSC service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
As emergencies become more frequent, the expectations of UNICEF to deliver on the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) in a timely and effective manner will continue to increase. Emergency preparedness significantly enhances UNICEF’s ability to meet these expectations and save time and resources in the response. Newly created People-Centered and Humanitarian Partnership Section manages partnership with UN agencies, International Organizations, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Member States, and NGO networks as well as the Standby Partnerships for external experts on surge missions, technical support and service packages deployment to UNICEF offices. This position contributes to this goal.
JJoin UNICEF Mozambique as a Knowledge Management Intern – Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and support how programme knowledge is captured and shared to improve learning and results for children. You will work with the SBC team to document experiences, organize programme information, and support simple knowledge products such as case studies and summaries. You will gain hands-on experience in knowledge management, SBC programming, and development communication in a UN environment.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
This consultancy supports UNICEF Egypt’s “Nourishing Futures” programme (2025–2030) by engaging a Gender Expert to conduct a comprehensive Gender-Based Analysis Plus to strengthen gender equality outcomes across maternal and girls’ nutrition interventions.
In response to the protracted conflict in Sudan, UNICEF has rapidly scaled up cash-based interventions across multiple states. UNICEF delivers multi-purpose cash assistance and sector-specific top-ups, including support for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and vulnerable households, while expanding incentive payments for frontline workers in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, and Social and Child Protection. UNICEF maintains a leading role in cash assistance in Sudan, leveraging large-scale delivery systems to reach vulnerable populations efficiently. In the context of the rapid scale-up of humanitarian cash operations across Sudan, UNICEF Sudan Country Office is seeking a Programme Officer (Beneficiary Data) to oversee the beneficiary data lifecycle through the Humanitarian Cash Operations and Programme Ecosystem (HOPE). The role will provide technical support on beneficiary and payee registration, data verification and targeting quality, coordination with Financial Service Providers (FSPs), grievance redress mechanisms, payment verification, and the use of HOPE reporting and dashboards to support implementation, compliance, and reporting
The Programme Assistant (GS-5 Temporary Appointment) is positioned in the Programme Section, reporting directly to the Programme Coordinator. This position carries cross-sectoral functions of technical assistance programme planning and operations, ensuring seamless coordination between technical teams, operations units, and external partners/service providers. The incumbent will be situated within the protection area, with a particular focus on the special protection system, deinstitutionalization processes, justice administration, migration, and the monitoring of children’s rights.
The Federal Ministry of Education launched the Nigeria Education Sector Renew Initiative (NESRI) with education data as one of the core pillars for education reform. Subsequently, the Ministry initiated the Nigerian Education Data Initiative (NEDI) to strengthen sector-wide data collection, management, analysis and use. The initiative aims to enable the federal, state and local governments and school authorities to leverage the education data for policy making, programme development, and improvement of teaching and learning activities. To achieve the goal, UNICEF has been supporting the Ministry to operationalize education information management systems (EMIS) across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In 2025, UNICEF supported the Ministry to launch the EMIS with annual school census module, safe school module and student registry module. The EMIS system has been developed by the University Oslo (UiO) that has provided a DHIS platform.
To help the government mainstream the EMIS in the education sector and institutionalize it as a sustainable system, UNICEF seeks to hire a national consultant who provides technical expertise to lead the data systems interventions with the Federal Ministry of Education and state governments.
UNICEF Supply Division, Financial Management Centre is seeking a consultant to lead and execute the full ISO 9001:2015 (2026) Quality Management System (QMS) certification project for Supply Division (SD), including planning, system design, documentation, implementation oversight, internal audit preparation, staff training, and coordination with the selected certification body. Ensure SD is audit‑ready and achieves certification within the project timeline.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation, coordination, and learning journey of the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education (2026–2027).
Building on earlier research and documentation phases, this consultancy will support:
• The delivery and coherence of the fellowship learning journey
• Coordination across fellows, senior fellows, and partners
• Development of curriculum, session design, and learning materials
• Structured documentation and synthesis of youth-led climate education Bright Spots
• Identification and documentation of additional promising initiatives from 18K broader applicant pool
• Translation of insights into evidence, policy-relevant outputs, and knowledge products
The consultant will contribute to ensuring that the Fellowship functions as a coherent, connected learning and systems platform, supporting UNICEF’s broader work on climate education, youth participation, and intergenerational governance.
Education:Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business.Qualified accountant (accredited membership of CA, CPA or equivalent) OR Currently completing professional accounting qualification plus recent experience with the functions in the JD is required Experience: At least two (2) years of experience in positions of increasing responsibility in the field of accounting, financial analysis and monitoring, or financial auditing, with a preference for not for profit sector experience.Experience in applying International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is required Experience working with enterprise resource management (ERP) systems for financial processing and reporting. Experience with SAP ECC or S/4 HANA is an advantage.Advanced proficiency in Excel, data analytics, attention to detail, and ability to translate data into business language, interpret trends and identify risk areas are requiredKnowledge of the UN system and the humanitarian sector is an advantage.Language: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.
Join UNICEF Somalia as an Advocacy Specialist and help advance children’s rights in a complex humanitarian and development context. In this role, you will lead strategic advocacy and communication initiatives, strengthen partnerships with government, donors, media, and civil society, and help influence policy and public engagement on key child-focused issues. Working closely with senior leadership and programme teams, you’ll play a key role in amplifying UNICEF’s impact and visibility across Somalia.
To strengthen UNICEF Kosovo’s digital presence, audience reach, and advocacy impact through strategic digital media management, campaign execution, and data-driven optimization aligned with the 2026–2030 communication and advocacy strategy.
This position is located within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation (PRM) team of the UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO). Sudan currently manages one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian appeals globally, approaching one billion USD annually. The PRM team is structured around two core functions: budget management and partnerships.
Under the overall supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager in Rome, Italy and the technical supervision of the Digital Engagement and Youth Participation Project Manager (U-Report), in Rome, Italy, the Social Mobilizer is primarily responsible for promoting the U-Report On The Move platform and related tools in first and second reception centres in Italy reaching unaccompanied and separated children, young migrants and refugees.
The Representative serves as the accredited representative of UNICEF in the country and reports to the Regional Director for general direction and oversight. The Representative is responsible for establishing dialogue with the Government to develop the framework of cooperation in the country and for working closely and collaboratively with the Government and national institutions, stakeholders and partners, to develop the Government-UNICEF Country Programme of Cooperation in active support of efforts to advance children’s rights as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, other international treaties/frameworks, the SDGs, and UN intergovernmental bodies.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and innovative professional to lead integrated Child Protection and Education initiatives that strengthen national systems, promote safe and inclusive environments, and accelerate sustainable results for children and adolescents at scale.
The Child Protection Officer (NOA) will support the coordination, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian child protection interventions in the Dominican Republic, with a focus on children affected by human mobility and other vulnerabilities. The role contributes to the delivery of an integrated response that combines protection, health, nutrition and WASH interventions, ensuring that services are aligned with humanitarian standards and donor requirements.
Provide technical expertise for obstetric/midwifery components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing obstetric clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
Provide technical expertise for neonatal components of the assessment by supporting tool adaptation, conducting neonatal related evaluations across facilities, contributing to draft and final reports, developing neonatal clinical protocols and training materials, and participating in workshops under the guidance of the Team Leader.
Join UNICEF GSSC as Sr. Contracts Associate to actively engage with the processing agents and Officers within ICS, to approve transactions and to provide guidance on procedures and compliance. All activities are carried out in accordance with Division of People & Culture (DPC) Individual Consultant Procedures, ensuring timely, accurate delivery aligned with GSSC service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
As emergencies become more frequent, the expectations of UNICEF to deliver on the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) in a timely and effective manner will continue to increase. Emergency preparedness significantly enhances UNICEF’s ability to meet these expectations and save time and resources in the response. Newly created People-Centered and Humanitarian Partnership Section manages partnership with UN agencies, International Organizations, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Member States, and NGO networks as well as the Standby Partnerships for external experts on surge missions, technical support and service packages deployment to UNICEF offices. This position contributes to this goal.
JJoin UNICEF Mozambique as a Knowledge Management Intern – Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and support how programme knowledge is captured and shared to improve learning and results for children. You will work with the SBC team to document experiences, organize programme information, and support simple knowledge products such as case studies and summaries. You will gain hands-on experience in knowledge management, SBC programming, and development communication in a UN environment.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
This consultancy supports UNICEF Egypt’s “Nourishing Futures” programme (2025–2030) by engaging a Gender Expert to conduct a comprehensive Gender-Based Analysis Plus to strengthen gender equality outcomes across maternal and girls’ nutrition interventions.
In response to the protracted conflict in Sudan, UNICEF has rapidly scaled up cash-based interventions across multiple states. UNICEF delivers multi-purpose cash assistance and sector-specific top-ups, including support for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and vulnerable households, while expanding incentive payments for frontline workers in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, and Social and Child Protection. UNICEF maintains a leading role in cash assistance in Sudan, leveraging large-scale delivery systems to reach vulnerable populations efficiently. In the context of the rapid scale-up of humanitarian cash operations across Sudan, UNICEF Sudan Country Office is seeking a Programme Officer (Beneficiary Data) to oversee the beneficiary data lifecycle through the Humanitarian Cash Operations and Programme Ecosystem (HOPE). The role will provide technical support on beneficiary and payee registration, data verification and targeting quality, coordination with Financial Service Providers (FSPs), grievance redress mechanisms, payment verification, and the use of HOPE reporting and dashboards to support implementation, compliance, and reporting
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