Safe to Learn (STL) is a global initiative hosted by UNICEF that brings together governments, civil society, and international partners to end violence in and around schools so that every child is safe to learn. The initiative supports countries to strengthen policies, systems, and practices that prevent and respond to all forms of violence—physical, sexual, psychological, and online—while promoting positive, inclusive, and gender-responsive learning environments.
The Safe to Learn Secretariat, housed in UNICEF’s Education Section, provides technical guidance, coordination, and knowledge management for partners, governments, and field practitioners. STL is intensifying efforts to generate and use evidence through STL benchmarking assessments, diagnostic tools, and country-led learning to inform national policy and programming. To ensure high-quality implementation, learning, and reporting, the Secretariat requires additional capacity to strengthen its monitoring and learning functions, and provide field facing technical support to country partners.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support at the global and country level to the Safe to Learn Initiative. The consultant will work closely with the STL Secretariat, UNICEF Country Offices, and members of the STL Country Engagement Task Force, under the supervision of the Head of the Safe to Learn Secretariat.
The scope of work is as follows, in line with the STL 2026 work plan objectives;
The Consultant will provide technical leadership and operational support for the national rollout and systems integration of Primero across MoSW, MoWCA, and MoYS, including interoperability with OCMS and humanitarian implementations in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.
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 Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Section (PSFP) within UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) collaborates with National Committees and Country Offices to maximize revenue and drive income growth. The Digital Fundraising team is implementing a Digital Revenue Strategy to collaborate and grow capacity in markets and improve their digital fundraising results. The vision is to become the largest and most successful non-profit digital fundraising program globally. The strategy aims to increase donations through improved digital capabilities, integrating digital channels to support activities like telemarketing, face-to-face fundraising, DRTV, and telethons.
As a Digital Paid Media Specialist, the consultant will focus on performance marketing and ad operations on paid media channels (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Google, Bing, and YouTube). The role primarily involves Paid Social, Paid Search, programmatic display, with exposure to mobile DSP, video DSP, and direct publisher buys. The consultant will provide digital marketing consultancy across paid media channels (Meta and Google ads).
The UNICEF Learning Innovation Hub is seeking a consultant to lead partnership development, coordination, and research under the Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADT) initiative. The consultant will engage with governments, donors, UN agencies, and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) to advance national ownership and sustainable implementation. The role includes supporting country teams in the rollout of the ADT initiative, coordinating training and stakeholder engagement, and contributing to research and evidence generation in collaboration with UNICEF’s Global and Innocenti teams.
UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire recrute un(e) Consultant(e) international(e) pour conduire une analyse des risques et conflits incluant les effets du changement climatique en Côte d’Ivoire. Si vous êtes intéressé(e) et possédez les qualifications requises, postulez et rejoignez-nous pour contribuer à faire progresser la cause des droits des enfants en Côte d'Ivoire.
The purpose of the post is to strengthen resilience of girls and children with disabilities including other vulnerable children through provision of access to equitable education. The Gender and Inclusion Specialist will lead activities in the MYRP to empower women and other stakeholders for promoting girls’ education and provide appropriate learning environments and opportunities children with disabilities.
Specific objectives:
Strengthen the capacities of grantees and sub-grantees including the National Ministry of Education to implement gender inclusive practices to enable girls, children with disabilities and other vulnerable children have access to education support in Central African Republic.
Improve the Central African Republic national policies and institutional capacities to implement, coordinate and monitor gender and inclusive education in the education interventions in the country.
To provide access to inclusive and equitable quality education and life-long learning opportunities for girls, children with disabilities and other vulnerable children.
To strengthen resilience through awareness and promotion of gender and inclusion in the communities
The purpose of this consultancy is to lead the child-protection design and operationalization of the dedicated child pathway within 1146, laying the conceptual and procedural foundation for the potential transition to a standalone child helpline.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support NASP to design, configure, and operationalize the systems, data flows, and operational mechanics for the child pathway within Helpline 1146, while ensuring scalability and interoperability for a potential future standalone child helpline. This consultant will work jointly with the Lead Consultant, who leads safeguarding/SOPs, workforce training, supervision, quality assurance, and child-safe communications.
The Social Policy Officer (Public Finance for Children – PF4C) supports the implementation of UNICEF Ukraine’s agenda on equitable, transparent, and child-centred public finance and local governance. The incumbent provides technical assistance, analytical support, and coordination for national and subnational efforts to strengthen budget planning, public investment management, and fiscal decision-making that advance children’s and families’ well-being in both humanitarian and recovery contexts.
Ukraine is undergoing a complex fiscal and institutional transformation, including amid recovery from war, decentralization, and integration with the EU. Local governments play an increasing role in service delivery, while fiscal space remains constrained and public investment needs are unprecedented. Against this backdrop, UNICEF’s PF4C work aims to ensure that every hryvnia invested by the state contributes to inclusive human-capital development and the realization of child rights. the Social Policy Officer contributes directly to this goal by helping partners integrate equity, gender, and child-sensitivity principles into national and local budgeting and planning processes.
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.
Sous la supervision du Supply & Logistics Manager et l’assistance technique du Manager Construction, basé à Kinshasa, le/la Construction Specialist sera chargé(e) de coordonner les activités de construction d'infrastructures de l'UNICEF en Congo RDC, spécifiquement mais pas limité aux Province de Nord Kivu, Sud Kivu, Ituri, Haut-Uele et Maniema.
L'objectif principal du poste est de fournir une expertise technique dans la gestion et le suivi des projets de construction/réhabilitation au profit des diverses activités du programme de pays, en étroite coordination avec les sections des Operations, de l’Éducation, la Sante & Nutrition, la Protection de l'enfance, WASH, C4D et Urgence.
UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja, is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an organizational Development consultant for Entrepreneurship and Financial Wellbeing 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’s Vaccine Centre (VC) has played a central role in coordinating vaccine access and deployment during the mpox response, in collaboration with WHO, Gavi, Africa CDC, and other partners. The response has generated a wealth of operational experience, data, and tools that now need to be consolidated into a structured knowledge management (KM) system.
To ensure institutional readiness for future outbreaks of novel pathogens, UNICEF seeks to build on the mpox experience by developing standardized tools, templates, and repositories for use in future outbreak vaccine responses. This includes strengthening the architecture for knowledge sharing, establishing streamlined workflows, and ensuring interoperability with UNICEF’s internal systems and partner frameworks (e.g., WHO, Africa CDC, Gavi).
In addition, the consultant is expected to provide support with ongoing mpox tendering for establishing the global mpox stockpile and development of relevant Gavi program infrastructure.
The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. The Child Protection Officer reports to Child Protection Specialist for supervision.
Provide specialized technical expertise in identification, design, implementation, and integration of innovative solutions into UNICEF Ethiopia’s programming.
The purpose of the consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of the State Control Service in Medical Activity and Social Protection of Population in monitoring of implementation of the national standards establishing the principles of Baby-Friendly Hospitals and the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding and breastfeeding counselling by the maternity departments of the hospitals and primary healthcare facilities through the revision and updating of existing accreditation and certification standards to ensure stronger adherence to the BFHI and IYCF requirements and updating the ToRs and work plans of IQC Commissions at health facilities to assume responsibility for internal assurance of counselling activities.
Under the supervision of the Representative, the Communication Specialist is accountable for developing, managing, co-ordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children’s and women’s rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office/regional office/media hub, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
The United Nations Children’s Fund in Cambodia is looking for a Cambodian national consultant to provide technical and operational support to MOH’s DPHI, Department of Digital Health (DDH), and NIP, for the effective implementation, coordination, and sustainability planning of the phase 2 roll-out of Health Management Information System (HMIS) using DHIS2 platform, alongside targeted enhancements to complementary digital health tools, including for immunization. Specifically, the consultant will:
• Oversee and ensure the successful migration and implementation of HMIS using DHIS2 platform.
• Strengthen the capacity of government counterparts in digital health, with a specific focus on the management of HMIS on DHIS2 platform.
• Design and deploy digital health solutions to support the immunization program and other priority health initiatives.
If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children in Cambodia, UNICEF would like to hear from you.
Safe to Learn (STL) is a global initiative hosted by UNICEF that brings together governments, civil society, and international partners to end violence in and around schools so that every child is safe to learn. The initiative supports countries to strengthen policies, systems, and practices that prevent and respond to all forms of violence—physical, sexual, psychological, and online—while promoting positive, inclusive, and gender-responsive learning environments.
The Safe to Learn Secretariat, housed in UNICEF’s Education Section, provides technical guidance, coordination, and knowledge management for partners, governments, and field practitioners. STL is intensifying efforts to generate and use evidence through STL benchmarking assessments, diagnostic tools, and country-led learning to inform national policy and programming. To ensure high-quality implementation, learning, and reporting, the Secretariat requires additional capacity to strengthen its monitoring and learning functions, and provide field facing technical support to country partners.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support at the global and country level to the Safe to Learn Initiative. The consultant will work closely with the STL Secretariat, UNICEF Country Offices, and members of the STL Country Engagement Task Force, under the supervision of the Head of the Safe to Learn Secretariat.
The scope of work is as follows, in line with the STL 2026 work plan objectives;
The Consultant will provide technical leadership and operational support for the national rollout and systems integration of Primero across MoSW, MoWCA, and MoYS, including interoperability with OCMS and humanitarian implementations in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.
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 Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Section (PSFP) within UNICEF's Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) collaborates with National Committees and Country Offices to maximize revenue and drive income growth. The Digital Fundraising team is implementing a Digital Revenue Strategy to collaborate and grow capacity in markets and improve their digital fundraising results. The vision is to become the largest and most successful non-profit digital fundraising program globally. The strategy aims to increase donations through improved digital capabilities, integrating digital channels to support activities like telemarketing, face-to-face fundraising, DRTV, and telethons.
As a Digital Paid Media Specialist, the consultant will focus on performance marketing and ad operations on paid media channels (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Google, Bing, and YouTube). The role primarily involves Paid Social, Paid Search, programmatic display, with exposure to mobile DSP, video DSP, and direct publisher buys. The consultant will provide digital marketing consultancy across paid media channels (Meta and Google ads).
The UNICEF Learning Innovation Hub is seeking a consultant to lead partnership development, coordination, and research under the Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADT) initiative. The consultant will engage with governments, donors, UN agencies, and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) to advance national ownership and sustainable implementation. The role includes supporting country teams in the rollout of the ADT initiative, coordinating training and stakeholder engagement, and contributing to research and evidence generation in collaboration with UNICEF’s Global and Innocenti teams.
UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire recrute un(e) Consultant(e) international(e) pour conduire une analyse des risques et conflits incluant les effets du changement climatique en Côte d’Ivoire. Si vous êtes intéressé(e) et possédez les qualifications requises, postulez et rejoignez-nous pour contribuer à faire progresser la cause des droits des enfants en Côte d'Ivoire.
The purpose of the post is to strengthen resilience of girls and children with disabilities including other vulnerable children through provision of access to equitable education. The Gender and Inclusion Specialist will lead activities in the MYRP to empower women and other stakeholders for promoting girls’ education and provide appropriate learning environments and opportunities children with disabilities.
Specific objectives:
Strengthen the capacities of grantees and sub-grantees including the National Ministry of Education to implement gender inclusive practices to enable girls, children with disabilities and other vulnerable children have access to education support in Central African Republic.
Improve the Central African Republic national policies and institutional capacities to implement, coordinate and monitor gender and inclusive education in the education interventions in the country.
To provide access to inclusive and equitable quality education and life-long learning opportunities for girls, children with disabilities and other vulnerable children.
To strengthen resilience through awareness and promotion of gender and inclusion in the communities
The purpose of this consultancy is to lead the child-protection design and operationalization of the dedicated child pathway within 1146, laying the conceptual and procedural foundation for the potential transition to a standalone child helpline.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support NASP to design, configure, and operationalize the systems, data flows, and operational mechanics for the child pathway within Helpline 1146, while ensuring scalability and interoperability for a potential future standalone child helpline. This consultant will work jointly with the Lead Consultant, who leads safeguarding/SOPs, workforce training, supervision, quality assurance, and child-safe communications.
The Social Policy Officer (Public Finance for Children – PF4C) supports the implementation of UNICEF Ukraine’s agenda on equitable, transparent, and child-centred public finance and local governance. The incumbent provides technical assistance, analytical support, and coordination for national and subnational efforts to strengthen budget planning, public investment management, and fiscal decision-making that advance children’s and families’ well-being in both humanitarian and recovery contexts.
Ukraine is undergoing a complex fiscal and institutional transformation, including amid recovery from war, decentralization, and integration with the EU. Local governments play an increasing role in service delivery, while fiscal space remains constrained and public investment needs are unprecedented. Against this backdrop, UNICEF’s PF4C work aims to ensure that every hryvnia invested by the state contributes to inclusive human-capital development and the realization of child rights. the Social Policy Officer contributes directly to this goal by helping partners integrate equity, gender, and child-sensitivity principles into national and local budgeting and planning processes.
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.
Sous la supervision du Supply & Logistics Manager et l’assistance technique du Manager Construction, basé à Kinshasa, le/la Construction Specialist sera chargé(e) de coordonner les activités de construction d'infrastructures de l'UNICEF en Congo RDC, spécifiquement mais pas limité aux Province de Nord Kivu, Sud Kivu, Ituri, Haut-Uele et Maniema.
L'objectif principal du poste est de fournir une expertise technique dans la gestion et le suivi des projets de construction/réhabilitation au profit des diverses activités du programme de pays, en étroite coordination avec les sections des Operations, de l’Éducation, la Sante & Nutrition, la Protection de l'enfance, WASH, C4D et Urgence.
UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja, is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of an organizational Development consultant for Entrepreneurship and Financial Wellbeing 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’s Vaccine Centre (VC) has played a central role in coordinating vaccine access and deployment during the mpox response, in collaboration with WHO, Gavi, Africa CDC, and other partners. The response has generated a wealth of operational experience, data, and tools that now need to be consolidated into a structured knowledge management (KM) system.
To ensure institutional readiness for future outbreaks of novel pathogens, UNICEF seeks to build on the mpox experience by developing standardized tools, templates, and repositories for use in future outbreak vaccine responses. This includes strengthening the architecture for knowledge sharing, establishing streamlined workflows, and ensuring interoperability with UNICEF’s internal systems and partner frameworks (e.g., WHO, Africa CDC, Gavi).
In addition, the consultant is expected to provide support with ongoing mpox tendering for establishing the global mpox stockpile and development of relevant Gavi program infrastructure.
The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. The Child Protection Officer reports to Child Protection Specialist for supervision.
Provide specialized technical expertise in identification, design, implementation, and integration of innovative solutions into UNICEF Ethiopia’s programming.
The purpose of the consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of the State Control Service in Medical Activity and Social Protection of Population in monitoring of implementation of the national standards establishing the principles of Baby-Friendly Hospitals and the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding and breastfeeding counselling by the maternity departments of the hospitals and primary healthcare facilities through the revision and updating of existing accreditation and certification standards to ensure stronger adherence to the BFHI and IYCF requirements and updating the ToRs and work plans of IQC Commissions at health facilities to assume responsibility for internal assurance of counselling activities.
Under the supervision of the Representative, the Communication Specialist is accountable for developing, managing, co-ordinating, networking, implementing and monitoring an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities on on-going basis with public audiences, with the objective of promoting awareness, understanding, support and respect for children’s and women’s rights, and support for UNICEF's mission, priorities and programmes in the country office/regional office/media hub, and at a global level and those of the UN Country Team.
The United Nations Children’s Fund in Cambodia is looking for a Cambodian national consultant to provide technical and operational support to MOH’s DPHI, Department of Digital Health (DDH), and NIP, for the effective implementation, coordination, and sustainability planning of the phase 2 roll-out of Health Management Information System (HMIS) using DHIS2 platform, alongside targeted enhancements to complementary digital health tools, including for immunization. Specifically, the consultant will:
• Oversee and ensure the successful migration and implementation of HMIS using DHIS2 platform.
• Strengthen the capacity of government counterparts in digital health, with a specific focus on the management of HMIS on DHIS2 platform.
• Design and deploy digital health solutions to support the immunization program and other priority health initiatives.
If you are passionate about making a lasting difference for children in Cambodia, UNICEF would like to hear from you.
