Under the guidance of the Digital Impact Manager for AI Solutions Engineering, the AI Applications Developer supports UNICEF’s digital transformation by designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered applications and services. The role focuses on hands-on implementation of AI and machine learning, including AI-enabled coding, model integration, user-facing feature development, and AI-driven automation, while upholding responsible AI practices related to security, privacy, and ethics.
If you are passionate about data and analytics, UNICEF GSSC is providing an exciting opportunity for an experienced data professional to work with diverse internal and external datasets to design, develop, test, deploy, and continuously improve analytical and predictive models that support both strategic and operational decision-making
Mali CO is looking for a dedicated and professional Programme Officer at P2 level. Under the guidance of the Deputy Representative Program, the Programme Officer provides technical support in programme design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, including data analysis and reporting to advance programme objectives. The role emphasizes multisectoral, coordinated approaches to maximize impact and deliver results for children and communities.
The candidate will be responsible for providing expertise to strengthen national climate–health desk through the development of integrated early warning systems (EWS), predictive analytics, and decision-support tools that translate data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and preparedness. This initiative builds on existing national systems and priorities, including climate-resilient health systems, One Health coordination, and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H‑NAP)
Angola has made progress in child survival, with under-five mortality declining from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, between 2015 and 2024. This trajectory confirms that targeted investments in primary health care is yielding results. However, these gains remain fragile and uneven, with persistent geographic and socio-economic disparities requiring sustained, equity-focused efforts. At the same time, stagnation in key maternal and child health and nutrition indicators signal systemic bottlenecks. Rates of stunting (40 per cent), wasting (5 per cent), full immunization coverage (28 per cent), and access to WASH have shown limited improvement. This reflects structural challenges across the health system, including access to health care facilities, weak last-mile and community-based service delivery and quality gaps.
In close coordination with the UNICEF project team and key national stakeholders, the International Consultant will provide technical leadership for the design and development of a comprehensive Career Guidance Model for the Albanian education system, as part of the “Life Skills and Career Guidance programme.”
The Consultant will ensure that the model is evidence-based, aligned with EU standards and national education priorities, and informed by international best practices, while being tailored to the Albanian context. The consultant is expected to be engaged for a period of 5 months.
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
Le/la consultante sera responsable de la conduite du processus de développement de la stratégie, de la revue documentaire à la validation finale de la Stratégie, en assurant sa cohérence, son ancrage institutionnel et son caractère inclusif et opérationnel. Il/elle veillera notamment à assurer l’articulation entre les différentes sources d’information (consultations, revue documentaire, étude, analyse), et à traduire les contributions en orientations stratégiques claires et opérationnelles.
The purpose of the assignment, is to engage a technical expert for a short-term consultancy to conduct a situation analysis of current Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) practices, including the management of immunization sharps waste, in public health care facilities in Myanmar. The consultant will adapt the existing guidelines and ensure their alignment with international standards. In addition, the consultant will review the existing policy and guidelines, update training materials, develop a costed five-year roadmap of activities with feasible business models, and conduct Training of Trainers (TOT) sessions on waste management, including immunization and sharp waste management.
UNICEF Ghana, in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, is seeking the services of an experienced national consultant to lead the development of the PAPBIM Toolkit. The toolkit is expected to comprise the Standard Activity Planning and Budgeting (SAPB), Micro-planning, and Results-Based Financing tools, together with all corresponding guidelines.
The consultancy contract will be implemented in two phases, with Phase II being subject to the satisfactory performance of the selected consultant, continued relevance of the assignment, and availability of funds. The scope of work is outlined below.
NB: This opportunity is open to Ghanaian nationals only.
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.
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.
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.
The Regional Staff Counsellor serves as a senior adviser on staff wellbeing and psychosocial risk, providing strategic leadership and confidential counselling support across the region. They lead the regional counselling team and ensure effective wellbeing systems, resilience strategies, and staff care services, including in emergency and high-risk settings.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, Programmes, and in line with the established policies, guidelines, procedures, and the Technology Playbook, the T4D Specialist will coordinate and support the growing demand for T4D programmatic and operational needs.
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.
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 position aims to strengthen financial inclusion and livelihoods within UNICEF-supported social protection programmes to enhance women’s economic resilience, access to financial services, and sustainable wellbeing outcomes.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for talented personnel to provide technical, programmatic and operational support to the effective implementation of the Formal Education programme and related interventions.
Under the guidance of the Digital Impact Manager for AI Solutions Engineering, the AI Applications Developer supports UNICEF’s digital transformation by designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered applications and services. The role focuses on hands-on implementation of AI and machine learning, including AI-enabled coding, model integration, user-facing feature development, and AI-driven automation, while upholding responsible AI practices related to security, privacy, and ethics.
If you are passionate about data and analytics, UNICEF GSSC is providing an exciting opportunity for an experienced data professional to work with diverse internal and external datasets to design, develop, test, deploy, and continuously improve analytical and predictive models that support both strategic and operational decision-making
Mali CO is looking for a dedicated and professional Programme Officer at P2 level. Under the guidance of the Deputy Representative Program, the Programme Officer provides technical support in programme design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, including data analysis and reporting to advance programme objectives. The role emphasizes multisectoral, coordinated approaches to maximize impact and deliver results for children and communities.
The candidate will be responsible for providing expertise to strengthen national climate–health desk through the development of integrated early warning systems (EWS), predictive analytics, and decision-support tools that translate data into actionable insights for policy, planning, and preparedness. This initiative builds on existing national systems and priorities, including climate-resilient health systems, One Health coordination, and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H‑NAP)
Angola has made progress in child survival, with under-five mortality declining from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, between 2015 and 2024. This trajectory confirms that targeted investments in primary health care is yielding results. However, these gains remain fragile and uneven, with persistent geographic and socio-economic disparities requiring sustained, equity-focused efforts. At the same time, stagnation in key maternal and child health and nutrition indicators signal systemic bottlenecks. Rates of stunting (40 per cent), wasting (5 per cent), full immunization coverage (28 per cent), and access to WASH have shown limited improvement. This reflects structural challenges across the health system, including access to health care facilities, weak last-mile and community-based service delivery and quality gaps.
In close coordination with the UNICEF project team and key national stakeholders, the International Consultant will provide technical leadership for the design and development of a comprehensive Career Guidance Model for the Albanian education system, as part of the “Life Skills and Career Guidance programme.”
The Consultant will ensure that the model is evidence-based, aligned with EU standards and national education priorities, and informed by international best practices, while being tailored to the Albanian context. The consultant is expected to be engaged for a period of 5 months.
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
Le/la consultante sera responsable de la conduite du processus de développement de la stratégie, de la revue documentaire à la validation finale de la Stratégie, en assurant sa cohérence, son ancrage institutionnel et son caractère inclusif et opérationnel. Il/elle veillera notamment à assurer l’articulation entre les différentes sources d’information (consultations, revue documentaire, étude, analyse), et à traduire les contributions en orientations stratégiques claires et opérationnelles.
The purpose of the assignment, is to engage a technical expert for a short-term consultancy to conduct a situation analysis of current Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) practices, including the management of immunization sharps waste, in public health care facilities in Myanmar. The consultant will adapt the existing guidelines and ensure their alignment with international standards. In addition, the consultant will review the existing policy and guidelines, update training materials, develop a costed five-year roadmap of activities with feasible business models, and conduct Training of Trainers (TOT) sessions on waste management, including immunization and sharp waste management.
UNICEF Ghana, in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, is seeking the services of an experienced national consultant to lead the development of the PAPBIM Toolkit. The toolkit is expected to comprise the Standard Activity Planning and Budgeting (SAPB), Micro-planning, and Results-Based Financing tools, together with all corresponding guidelines.
The consultancy contract will be implemented in two phases, with Phase II being subject to the satisfactory performance of the selected consultant, continued relevance of the assignment, and availability of funds. The scope of work is outlined below.
NB: This opportunity is open to Ghanaian nationals only.
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.
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.
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.
The Regional Staff Counsellor serves as a senior adviser on staff wellbeing and psychosocial risk, providing strategic leadership and confidential counselling support across the region. They lead the regional counselling team and ensure effective wellbeing systems, resilience strategies, and staff care services, including in emergency and high-risk settings.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, Programmes, and in line with the established policies, guidelines, procedures, and the Technology Playbook, the T4D Specialist will coordinate and support the growing demand for T4D programmatic and operational needs.
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.
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 position aims to strengthen financial inclusion and livelihoods within UNICEF-supported social protection programmes to enhance women’s economic resilience, access to financial services, and sustainable wellbeing outcomes.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for talented personnel to provide technical, programmatic and operational support to the effective implementation of the Formal Education programme and related interventions.
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