UNICEF Innocenti regularly requires specialist work from researchers who have expertise in comparative international research and analysis on issues of child rights and well-being and who can provide support to UNICEF offices on the usage of such data and analysis.
As convenor and administrative agent of this joint nutrition programme, UNICEF is responsible for ensuring the quality of program implementation and financial management and therefore, a Project Coordinator is required to provide direct technical guidance, coordination, and management support for the joint nutrition programme, ensuring effective implementation, quality assurance, and financial oversight of multi-sectoral interventions by UN agencies and the Government of Sierra Leone to achieve the programme’s overall goal to improve climate-resilient systems and improve food and nutrition security by 2029 in the target districts.
The GSSC is currently undergoing significant transition and organizational adjustment across several service areas. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide organizational design and transition support to Payroll and Offboarding and BIS over a three-month period, with a focus on practical recommendations, implementation.
Support and advice UNICEF in finalization of the module and the assessment of the psychometric properties of reading items designed for the new Foundational Learning Module (FLM2.0) that will be implemented in MICS and other household surveys.
This is an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented finance professional to contribute to global financial stewardship within UNICEF. Working with complex financial processes, reporting, compliance, and data analytics, you will help drive informed decision-making, mitigate financial risks, and ensure the effective use of resources to advance children's rights around the world.
Under the guidance of the Market Development Manager, the incumbent will contribute as a specialist to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of data-driven market development and fundraising approaches that support the sustainability and growth of UNICEF’s private sector fundraising operations across multiple regions..
Join a dynamic global team driving over US$500 million in annual partnerships with foundations and faith‑ and membership‑based organisations, helping to secure transformative support for children worldwide.This unique role offers the opportunity to shape high-impact global partnerships, strengthen fundraising capacity across markets, and influence strategies that advance UNICEF’s mission and results for every child.
UNICEF seeks to engage an individual consultant to (1) develop a series of advocacy briefs on tackling child labour and related child rights issues through responsible business conduct, grounded in gaps and needs in existing approaches; and (2) identify and deliver strategic opportunities to position and disseminate these briefs to key stakeholder groups, including governments, private sector actors, industry platforms, and multi-stakeholder initiatives across high-risk sectors, remote basis/no travel for 5 months.
The consultant will support the establishment and implementation of a Digital Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Health and Mental Wellbeing Promotion, as part of the Initiative “Promoting a comprehensive, prevention-oriented approach to children’s health”. The consultant will report to the ECARO Regional Health Adviser and work in close collaboration with UNICEF’s Regional Office specialists (ECD, Nutrition, and Immunization), the DG SANTE Project Manager, and relevant UNICEF Procurement, counterparts. The role encompasses end-to-end technical advisory and oversight to ensure the effective procurement, design, development, and deployment of the Digital Toolkit platform.
UNICEF seeks an international consultant to help countries strengthen the alignment between education systems, skills development programmes, and labor market needs. While many countries track educational participation and completion, there is limited evidence on employment outcomes, employer satisfaction, school-to-work transitions, and the relevance of skills training to labor market demand.
The consultant will support the development of global tools and provide technical assistance on labor market monitoring systems, graduate tracer studies, employer surveys, and education–labor market observatories. The work aims to improve evidence-based policymaking, strengthen education and skills programmes, and support successful transitions from education to employment for young people.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry to recruit an experienced consultant to facilitate the national consultation process and lead the drafting, validation, and finalization of the NM-AHWP 2026/27–2030/31. UNFPA will be supporting the costs related to stakeholder consultations, printing, and dissemination.
Resource Mobilization and Marketing Consultant will support the development of high-quality fundraising and engagement materials, including proposals, presentations, investment cases, and tailored assets for partner outreach. These materials will play a critical role in positioning the Learning Passport as a scalable, high-impact digital learning solution and in supporting both ongoing and new partnership opportunities.
The People and Culture Manager will serve as a strategic HR partner, anticipating people-related needs and developing proactive solutions that align human resources management with organizational objectives. The role provides strategic leadership on workforce planning, talent management, organizational change, emergency preparedness and response, and duty of care, enabling UNICEF Lebanon to deliver results for children in a complex operating environment.
Join UNICEF to help transform food systems and improve the diets of children, adolescents and women in Madagascar.As the Nutrition Specialist, you will lead and support the design, implementation, monitoring and innovation of programmes that strengthen nutrition-sensitive value chains, food systems and nutrition governance. Working closely with government, development partners and communities, you will provide strategic and technical leadership to advance evidence-based policies and multi-sectoral interventions, with a particular focus on agriculture and food systems.Through your expertise in programme management, partnership building and results-based management, you will contribute to delivering sustainable improvements in nutrition outcomes and advancing every child's right to survive, grow and thrive.
Under the overall supervision of UNICEF Syria (Adolescent Development and Participation Section) and in close coordination with the Ministry of Sports and Youth, the International Consultant will provide strategic, technical, and facilitation support to strengthen youth governance and institutional systems in Syria.
The Chief of Health will provide strategic leadership for UNICEF's health programme, overseeing a broad portfolio encompassing maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, disease prevention, health system strengthening, emergency preparedness and response, and health equity. The role requires a leader who can navigate complexity, engage effectively with de facto authorities and partners, and balance immediate humanitarian priorities with sustainable systems strengthening.
UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking a dynamic and analytically strong Programme Officer (Budget), P2 to support programme financial management for the Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox’s Bazar. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a large-scale and complex humanitarian operation, supporting the planning, allocation, and monitoring of a diverse portfolio of grants from multiple donors. Working at the intersection of programme and grant management, you will play a critical role in ensuring resources are used efficiently, compliantly, and strategically to maximize results for children and vulnerable communities. In this role, you will go beyond traditional budgeting by providing high-quality financial analysis, funding gap insights, and decision support to senior management in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment. You will contribute to inter-agency financial transparency through reporting to platforms such as the Rohingya Coordination Platform (RCP) and the Financial Tracking Service (FTS), while strengthening grant management systems and capacity across programme teams. If you are detail-oriented, solutions-driven, and motivated to apply your financial expertise to humanitarian impact on a scale, this role offers a meaningful opportunity to shape how resources translate into results on the ground.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical leadership and programme guidance to operationalize the Clean Air for Healthy Children agenda by delivering air-quality monitoring and data expertise, exposure and health-impact assessment, a maintained global knowledge library, direct Country Office support, and coordination of cross UN reporting.
The efficiency and effectiveness of support provided by the Communication Associate (Digital) to the planning, development, implementation and monitoring of communication programme facilitates the delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the respective section, which in turn enhances the offices and UNICEF’s capacity in helping the most vulnerable women and children.
Join UNICEF as a Immunization Specialist (P-3) in Honiara, Solomon Islands, and play a pivotal role in advancing children’s rights and wellbeing across the Pacific. This exciting fixed-term appointment offers the opportunity to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise, and effective coordination to support the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of national immunization programmes. Working closely with government, development partners, and communities, you will help strengthen vaccine delivery systems, improve equitable access to life-saving vaccines, enhance programme performance, and contribute to more resilient health systems for children and families across Solomon Islands. The role offers a unique opportunity to support sustainable, system-level change while gaining valuable international experience in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic Pacific Island contexts.
UNICEF Innocenti regularly requires specialist work from researchers who have expertise in comparative international research and analysis on issues of child rights and well-being and who can provide support to UNICEF offices on the usage of such data and analysis.
As convenor and administrative agent of this joint nutrition programme, UNICEF is responsible for ensuring the quality of program implementation and financial management and therefore, a Project Coordinator is required to provide direct technical guidance, coordination, and management support for the joint nutrition programme, ensuring effective implementation, quality assurance, and financial oversight of multi-sectoral interventions by UN agencies and the Government of Sierra Leone to achieve the programme’s overall goal to improve climate-resilient systems and improve food and nutrition security by 2029 in the target districts.
The GSSC is currently undergoing significant transition and organizational adjustment across several service areas. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide organizational design and transition support to Payroll and Offboarding and BIS over a three-month period, with a focus on practical recommendations, implementation.
Support and advice UNICEF in finalization of the module and the assessment of the psychometric properties of reading items designed for the new Foundational Learning Module (FLM2.0) that will be implemented in MICS and other household surveys.
This is an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented finance professional to contribute to global financial stewardship within UNICEF. Working with complex financial processes, reporting, compliance, and data analytics, you will help drive informed decision-making, mitigate financial risks, and ensure the effective use of resources to advance children's rights around the world.
Under the guidance of the Market Development Manager, the incumbent will contribute as a specialist to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of data-driven market development and fundraising approaches that support the sustainability and growth of UNICEF’s private sector fundraising operations across multiple regions..
Join a dynamic global team driving over US$500 million in annual partnerships with foundations and faith‑ and membership‑based organisations, helping to secure transformative support for children worldwide.This unique role offers the opportunity to shape high-impact global partnerships, strengthen fundraising capacity across markets, and influence strategies that advance UNICEF’s mission and results for every child.
UNICEF seeks to engage an individual consultant to (1) develop a series of advocacy briefs on tackling child labour and related child rights issues through responsible business conduct, grounded in gaps and needs in existing approaches; and (2) identify and deliver strategic opportunities to position and disseminate these briefs to key stakeholder groups, including governments, private sector actors, industry platforms, and multi-stakeholder initiatives across high-risk sectors, remote basis/no travel for 5 months.
The consultant will support the establishment and implementation of a Digital Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Health and Mental Wellbeing Promotion, as part of the Initiative “Promoting a comprehensive, prevention-oriented approach to children’s health”. The consultant will report to the ECARO Regional Health Adviser and work in close collaboration with UNICEF’s Regional Office specialists (ECD, Nutrition, and Immunization), the DG SANTE Project Manager, and relevant UNICEF Procurement, counterparts. The role encompasses end-to-end technical advisory and oversight to ensure the effective procurement, design, development, and deployment of the Digital Toolkit platform.
UNICEF seeks an international consultant to help countries strengthen the alignment between education systems, skills development programmes, and labor market needs. While many countries track educational participation and completion, there is limited evidence on employment outcomes, employer satisfaction, school-to-work transitions, and the relevance of skills training to labor market demand.
The consultant will support the development of global tools and provide technical assistance on labor market monitoring systems, graduate tracer studies, employer surveys, and education–labor market observatories. The work aims to improve evidence-based policymaking, strengthen education and skills programmes, and support successful transitions from education to employment for young people.
UNICEF is supporting the Ministry to recruit an experienced consultant to facilitate the national consultation process and lead the drafting, validation, and finalization of the NM-AHWP 2026/27–2030/31. UNFPA will be supporting the costs related to stakeholder consultations, printing, and dissemination.
Resource Mobilization and Marketing Consultant will support the development of high-quality fundraising and engagement materials, including proposals, presentations, investment cases, and tailored assets for partner outreach. These materials will play a critical role in positioning the Learning Passport as a scalable, high-impact digital learning solution and in supporting both ongoing and new partnership opportunities.
The People and Culture Manager will serve as a strategic HR partner, anticipating people-related needs and developing proactive solutions that align human resources management with organizational objectives. The role provides strategic leadership on workforce planning, talent management, organizational change, emergency preparedness and response, and duty of care, enabling UNICEF Lebanon to deliver results for children in a complex operating environment.
Join UNICEF to help transform food systems and improve the diets of children, adolescents and women in Madagascar.As the Nutrition Specialist, you will lead and support the design, implementation, monitoring and innovation of programmes that strengthen nutrition-sensitive value chains, food systems and nutrition governance. Working closely with government, development partners and communities, you will provide strategic and technical leadership to advance evidence-based policies and multi-sectoral interventions, with a particular focus on agriculture and food systems.Through your expertise in programme management, partnership building and results-based management, you will contribute to delivering sustainable improvements in nutrition outcomes and advancing every child's right to survive, grow and thrive.
Under the overall supervision of UNICEF Syria (Adolescent Development and Participation Section) and in close coordination with the Ministry of Sports and Youth, the International Consultant will provide strategic, technical, and facilitation support to strengthen youth governance and institutional systems in Syria.
The Chief of Health will provide strategic leadership for UNICEF's health programme, overseeing a broad portfolio encompassing maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, disease prevention, health system strengthening, emergency preparedness and response, and health equity. The role requires a leader who can navigate complexity, engage effectively with de facto authorities and partners, and balance immediate humanitarian priorities with sustainable systems strengthening.
UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking a dynamic and analytically strong Programme Officer (Budget), P2 to support programme financial management for the Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox’s Bazar. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a large-scale and complex humanitarian operation, supporting the planning, allocation, and monitoring of a diverse portfolio of grants from multiple donors. Working at the intersection of programme and grant management, you will play a critical role in ensuring resources are used efficiently, compliantly, and strategically to maximize results for children and vulnerable communities. In this role, you will go beyond traditional budgeting by providing high-quality financial analysis, funding gap insights, and decision support to senior management in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment. You will contribute to inter-agency financial transparency through reporting to platforms such as the Rohingya Coordination Platform (RCP) and the Financial Tracking Service (FTS), while strengthening grant management systems and capacity across programme teams. If you are detail-oriented, solutions-driven, and motivated to apply your financial expertise to humanitarian impact on a scale, this role offers a meaningful opportunity to shape how resources translate into results on the ground.
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical leadership and programme guidance to operationalize the Clean Air for Healthy Children agenda by delivering air-quality monitoring and data expertise, exposure and health-impact assessment, a maintained global knowledge library, direct Country Office support, and coordination of cross UN reporting.
The efficiency and effectiveness of support provided by the Communication Associate (Digital) to the planning, development, implementation and monitoring of communication programme facilitates the delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the respective section, which in turn enhances the offices and UNICEF’s capacity in helping the most vulnerable women and children.
Join UNICEF as a Immunization Specialist (P-3) in Honiara, Solomon Islands, and play a pivotal role in advancing children’s rights and wellbeing across the Pacific. This exciting fixed-term appointment offers the opportunity to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise, and effective coordination to support the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of national immunization programmes. Working closely with government, development partners, and communities, you will help strengthen vaccine delivery systems, improve equitable access to life-saving vaccines, enhance programme performance, and contribute to more resilient health systems for children and families across Solomon Islands. The role offers a unique opportunity to support sustainable, system-level change while gaining valuable international experience in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic Pacific Island contexts.
Careers