This consultancy is an opportunity to advance child online protection across East Asia and the Pacific by strengthening regional and national engagement with governments, industry and ASEAN bodies. The consultant will support the roll‑out of the extended ASEAN Regional Plan of Action, coordinate major regional events including the 2026 ASEAN ICT Forum, and help develop an industry framework to guide online child protection standards. The role also provides technical assistance to UNICEF Country Offices on digital safety, policy review, AI-related child rights issues, and evidence generation. This position helps shape safer digital ecosystems for children across a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
UNICEF Maldives has an exciting vacancy for a Climate Resilience Officer, NOB (Temporary Appointment) UNICEF MALDIVES (for Maldivian Nationals only) all qualified nationals are invited to apply!
¡UNICEF Guatemala esta buscando a su próximo consultor! como consultor aportarás asistencia técnica especializada para la implementación de los planes de suministro y distribución, fortalecer la coordinación con socios, y asegurar una transferencia adecuada de información y procesos.
The consultancy aims to update the 2024 Landscape Analysis of Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) in Indonesia to reflect progress from 2024–2026, including developments in regulations, industry compliance, monitoring, and coordination.
¡Únete a nuestro equipo de UNICEF Colombia y marca la diferencia en la vida de niños, niñas y adolescentes! Esta consultoría busca contratar un profesional para fortalecer las capacidades institucionales en la prevención del reclutamiento, uso, utilización y violencia sexual contra niñas, niños y adolescentes, así como la incorporación de temas de género, VBG y violencia sexual en los Equipos de Acción Inmediata y las rutas institucionales. Esta consultoría debe facilitar la articulación de la respuesta institucional con los estándares mínimos de protección de la niñez y adolescencia indígena, afrocolombiana y negra en construcción, en el marco del MPTF, así como consolidar el modelo de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas de los Comités de PRUUVS y EAI, incorporando los enfoques de género y étnico.
UNICEF is looking for an International Individual Consultancy for development of national standards, guidelines and procedures for ECI services and staff.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates from diverse populations, including but not limited to people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
UNICEF Mozambique is recruiting an Emergency Manager (P3) to lead integrated humanitarian and development programmes in Cabo Delgado based in Pemba, Mozambique on Temporary Appointment basis for 6 months. This strategic role advances the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, overseeing emergency response, risk analysis, and capacity building for local systems. The manager will ensure effective use of USA OCHA grants and collaborate with government, UN, and NGO partners to deliver sustainable results for children. If you are passionate about impactful humanitarian action and resilient systems, this is your opportunity to make a difference
The Health Specialist (Health Economics and Financing), based in UNICEF’s Nairobi Centre of Excellence, plays a pivotal role in advancing the Financing for Scale agenda. As part of UNICEF’s first cross-cutting health economics and financing team (IHEFPI), the Specialist strengthens internal capacity across health teams while positioning UNICEF as a trusted partner in global health financing. The role delivers high-quality technical assistance to over 20 countries in sub-Saharan and North Africa, supporting governments in designing sustainable health financing strategies, improving efficiency in resource allocation, and embedding resilience into systems.
The Driver, at the G-2 level, provides reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
Join UNICEF in Advancing Child Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). This role will be part of the Deputy Representative Programme’s Office. The incumbent will work under the direct supervision and overall guidance of the Deputy Representative Programmes and will collaborate closely with all Programme sections, including dedicated MHPSS specialists or focal points in Health, Child Protection, ADAP, and Education at national level and subnational level, to provide strategic and technical guidance to support the MHPSS intersectoral agenda and related thought leadership across UNICEF programme areas, including its leadership areas in the Ukraine Country Programme 2025-2029 ( Better Start, Better Care, and Better Learning and Skills). The incumbent will also engage key partners (government counterparts, WHO, UNHCR, other UN agencies, CSOs, subject matter experts, academic research institutions, to assist in ensuring that quality MHPSS services are developed, monitored and effectively scaled up and integrated for children, adolescents, and caregivers.
While this position is Kyiv-based, the incumbent should expect to travel to field locations throughout Ukraine as per programmatic needs and in coordination with UNICEF field teams and partners.
UNICEF Mozambique is hiring a Youth Engagement Manager (P4) in Maputo to lead a cross sector strategy for adolescent learning, skills development, engagement, and earning. You will drive coherence and scale across sections, accelerating pathways that prepare young people, especially adolescent girls, youth with disabilities, and those affected by crises for lifelong learning, decent work, and meaningful social engagement and action. This role blends strategic leadership with hands on delivery and partnership building to achieve measurable, system level impact. If you meet the requirements and are motivated to make a difference at scale, we highly encourage you to apply.
If you are a dedicated professional who is passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Philippines is looking for a Nutrition Officer who will provide technical, operational, and administrative support for the implementation of the Philippines Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) and contribute to the nutrition component of the Country Programme for Children 2024–2028 (CPC9). The incumbent will support key stages of the programme cycle- including planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting—while assisting in programme management, stakeholder coordination, and knowledge-sharing initiatives to ensure effective and high-quality programme delivery. This post will be based in UNICEF Philippines in Manila.
Under the direct supervision of the Health and Nutrition Specialist with reporting line to Chiefs of Health & Nutrition, the incumbent will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the health and nutrition programmes mainly World Bank Thabat programme from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results
The consultant will contribute their international expertise to advance the implementation of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) across the Bangladesh Country Office. Specifically, the assignment will focus on:
•Strengthening climate programme coordination, delivery, and reporting across UNICEF sections and partners to ensure coherence and measurable results under the SCAP framework.
•Expanding climate finance mobilization and resource partnerships for child-sensitive mitigation, adaptation, and social-sector resilience, including initiatives addressing loss and damage.
•Enhancing policy engagement, advocacy, and evidence generation to position UNICEF as a key actor in national and international climate dialogue and to influence policies that protect children and young people from climate risks.
This international consultancy will support the UNICEF Iraq Country Office (CO) in developing a foundational skills (literacy and numeracy) training package for primary school teachers and delivering Training of Trainers (ToT) for lead trainers from the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the General Directorates of Education (GDoEs). The initiative aims to strengthen teachers’ capacity to support children with special needs, girls, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and returnees, thereby addressing high rates of repetition and dropout in the early grades.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enable the team to conduct more effective quantitative research. UNICEF is increasingly leveraging self-serve quantitative survey scripting platforms as in-house scripting and data collection tool for quantitative research. To support the growing number of global and local research initiatives, AMI seeks a Scripting and Data Processing Consultant to script surveys, coordinate translations and link checks, liaise with panel vendors for survey fielding, conduct data quality control, and perform basic data processing including weighting and tabulations.
Ukraine is facing one of the most complex youth development challenges in Europe. UNICEF seeks to promote integrated learning-to-earning pathways, linking training, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship into coherent transitions toward sustainable employment, aligned with labor market demand and national recovery priorities, and responsive to current and emerging labor market needs.
UNICEF’s Adolescent Development & Participation (ADAP) program in Ukraine is positioned at the center of these national priorities. the Programme Officer will coordinate UNICEF Ukraine’s work on youth employment, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship, contributing directly to the ADAP strategy’s economic opportunities and livelihoods outcomes. The Officer will design, implement, and scale evidence-based models that increase access to decent work and entrepreneurship pathways for young people, with particular focus on the most vulnerable groups, including displaced youth, NEETs, and youth in rural or conflict-affected areas. The role will require close collaboration with national and local government partners (e.g., Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Youth and Sports, local hromadas), as well as strategic engagement with private sector, CSO, and UN partners to create integrated, sustainable, and replicable youth employment solutions aligned with the EU Youth Guarantee and national recovery priorities. This position is pivotal for strengthening systems, scaling impact, and ensuring continuity in youth economic programming.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the Child Protection Officer, the Programme Assistant provides a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the Programme Section. The Programme Assistant facilitates the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring the timely and effective execution of tasks in accordance with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Assistant has a cross functional role and works in coordination with other sections
Afghanistan country office is seeking an experienced Health Specialist responsible for providing technical support for the implementation of MNH projects, including community-based MNH. This includes technical support, managing, implementation, coordination, integration, evidence generation, monitoring, and supervision. This encompasses both direct program work with relevant stakeholders including civil society partners, and contractors as well as strengthening linkages and support to UNICEF teams working on health, nutrition, child protection, gender, water, and sanitation.
This consultancy is an opportunity to advance child online protection across East Asia and the Pacific by strengthening regional and national engagement with governments, industry and ASEAN bodies. The consultant will support the roll‑out of the extended ASEAN Regional Plan of Action, coordinate major regional events including the 2026 ASEAN ICT Forum, and help develop an industry framework to guide online child protection standards. The role also provides technical assistance to UNICEF Country Offices on digital safety, policy review, AI-related child rights issues, and evidence generation. This position helps shape safer digital ecosystems for children across a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
UNICEF Maldives has an exciting vacancy for a Climate Resilience Officer, NOB (Temporary Appointment) UNICEF MALDIVES (for Maldivian Nationals only) all qualified nationals are invited to apply!
¡UNICEF Guatemala esta buscando a su próximo consultor! como consultor aportarás asistencia técnica especializada para la implementación de los planes de suministro y distribución, fortalecer la coordinación con socios, y asegurar una transferencia adecuada de información y procesos.
The consultancy aims to update the 2024 Landscape Analysis of Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) in Indonesia to reflect progress from 2024–2026, including developments in regulations, industry compliance, monitoring, and coordination.
¡Únete a nuestro equipo de UNICEF Colombia y marca la diferencia en la vida de niños, niñas y adolescentes! Esta consultoría busca contratar un profesional para fortalecer las capacidades institucionales en la prevención del reclutamiento, uso, utilización y violencia sexual contra niñas, niños y adolescentes, así como la incorporación de temas de género, VBG y violencia sexual en los Equipos de Acción Inmediata y las rutas institucionales. Esta consultoría debe facilitar la articulación de la respuesta institucional con los estándares mínimos de protección de la niñez y adolescencia indígena, afrocolombiana y negra en construcción, en el marco del MPTF, así como consolidar el modelo de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas de los Comités de PRUUVS y EAI, incorporando los enfoques de género y étnico.
UNICEF is looking for an International Individual Consultancy for development of national standards, guidelines and procedures for ECI services and staff.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates from diverse populations, including but not limited to people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
UNICEF Mozambique is recruiting an Emergency Manager (P3) to lead integrated humanitarian and development programmes in Cabo Delgado based in Pemba, Mozambique on Temporary Appointment basis for 6 months. This strategic role advances the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, overseeing emergency response, risk analysis, and capacity building for local systems. The manager will ensure effective use of USA OCHA grants and collaborate with government, UN, and NGO partners to deliver sustainable results for children. If you are passionate about impactful humanitarian action and resilient systems, this is your opportunity to make a difference
The Health Specialist (Health Economics and Financing), based in UNICEF’s Nairobi Centre of Excellence, plays a pivotal role in advancing the Financing for Scale agenda. As part of UNICEF’s first cross-cutting health economics and financing team (IHEFPI), the Specialist strengthens internal capacity across health teams while positioning UNICEF as a trusted partner in global health financing. The role delivers high-quality technical assistance to over 20 countries in sub-Saharan and North Africa, supporting governments in designing sustainable health financing strategies, improving efficiency in resource allocation, and embedding resilience into systems.
The Driver, at the G-2 level, provides reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
Join UNICEF in Advancing Child Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). This role will be part of the Deputy Representative Programme’s Office. The incumbent will work under the direct supervision and overall guidance of the Deputy Representative Programmes and will collaborate closely with all Programme sections, including dedicated MHPSS specialists or focal points in Health, Child Protection, ADAP, and Education at national level and subnational level, to provide strategic and technical guidance to support the MHPSS intersectoral agenda and related thought leadership across UNICEF programme areas, including its leadership areas in the Ukraine Country Programme 2025-2029 ( Better Start, Better Care, and Better Learning and Skills). The incumbent will also engage key partners (government counterparts, WHO, UNHCR, other UN agencies, CSOs, subject matter experts, academic research institutions, to assist in ensuring that quality MHPSS services are developed, monitored and effectively scaled up and integrated for children, adolescents, and caregivers.
While this position is Kyiv-based, the incumbent should expect to travel to field locations throughout Ukraine as per programmatic needs and in coordination with UNICEF field teams and partners.
UNICEF Mozambique is hiring a Youth Engagement Manager (P4) in Maputo to lead a cross sector strategy for adolescent learning, skills development, engagement, and earning. You will drive coherence and scale across sections, accelerating pathways that prepare young people, especially adolescent girls, youth with disabilities, and those affected by crises for lifelong learning, decent work, and meaningful social engagement and action. This role blends strategic leadership with hands on delivery and partnership building to achieve measurable, system level impact. If you meet the requirements and are motivated to make a difference at scale, we highly encourage you to apply.
If you are a dedicated professional who is passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF Philippines is looking for a Nutrition Officer who will provide technical, operational, and administrative support for the implementation of the Philippines Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) and contribute to the nutrition component of the Country Programme for Children 2024–2028 (CPC9). The incumbent will support key stages of the programme cycle- including planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting—while assisting in programme management, stakeholder coordination, and knowledge-sharing initiatives to ensure effective and high-quality programme delivery. This post will be based in UNICEF Philippines in Manila.
Under the direct supervision of the Health and Nutrition Specialist with reporting line to Chiefs of Health & Nutrition, the incumbent will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the health and nutrition programmes mainly World Bank Thabat programme from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results
The consultant will contribute their international expertise to advance the implementation of UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (SCAP) across the Bangladesh Country Office. Specifically, the assignment will focus on:
•Strengthening climate programme coordination, delivery, and reporting across UNICEF sections and partners to ensure coherence and measurable results under the SCAP framework.
•Expanding climate finance mobilization and resource partnerships for child-sensitive mitigation, adaptation, and social-sector resilience, including initiatives addressing loss and damage.
•Enhancing policy engagement, advocacy, and evidence generation to position UNICEF as a key actor in national and international climate dialogue and to influence policies that protect children and young people from climate risks.
This international consultancy will support the UNICEF Iraq Country Office (CO) in developing a foundational skills (literacy and numeracy) training package for primary school teachers and delivering Training of Trainers (ToT) for lead trainers from the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the General Directorates of Education (GDoEs). The initiative aims to strengthen teachers’ capacity to support children with special needs, girls, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and returnees, thereby addressing high rates of repetition and dropout in the early grades.
This role is being established to increase the capacity of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, specifically to enable the team to conduct more effective quantitative research. UNICEF is increasingly leveraging self-serve quantitative survey scripting platforms as in-house scripting and data collection tool for quantitative research. To support the growing number of global and local research initiatives, AMI seeks a Scripting and Data Processing Consultant to script surveys, coordinate translations and link checks, liaise with panel vendors for survey fielding, conduct data quality control, and perform basic data processing including weighting and tabulations.
Ukraine is facing one of the most complex youth development challenges in Europe. UNICEF seeks to promote integrated learning-to-earning pathways, linking training, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship into coherent transitions toward sustainable employment, aligned with labor market demand and national recovery priorities, and responsive to current and emerging labor market needs.
UNICEF’s Adolescent Development & Participation (ADAP) program in Ukraine is positioned at the center of these national priorities. the Programme Officer will coordinate UNICEF Ukraine’s work on youth employment, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurship, contributing directly to the ADAP strategy’s economic opportunities and livelihoods outcomes. The Officer will design, implement, and scale evidence-based models that increase access to decent work and entrepreneurship pathways for young people, with particular focus on the most vulnerable groups, including displaced youth, NEETs, and youth in rural or conflict-affected areas. The role will require close collaboration with national and local government partners (e.g., Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Youth and Sports, local hromadas), as well as strategic engagement with private sector, CSO, and UN partners to create integrated, sustainable, and replicable youth employment solutions aligned with the EU Youth Guarantee and national recovery priorities. This position is pivotal for strengthening systems, scaling impact, and ensuring continuity in youth economic programming.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the Child Protection Officer, the Programme Assistant provides a broad range of administrative, operational, and procedural support to the Programme Section. The Programme Assistant facilitates the implementation, monitoring, and delivery of programme results by ensuring the timely and effective execution of tasks in accordance with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Programme Assistant has a cross functional role and works in coordination with other sections
Afghanistan country office is seeking an experienced Health Specialist responsible for providing technical support for the implementation of MNH projects, including community-based MNH. This includes technical support, managing, implementation, coordination, integration, evidence generation, monitoring, and supervision. This encompasses both direct program work with relevant stakeholders including civil society partners, and contractors as well as strengthening linkages and support to UNICEF teams working on health, nutrition, child protection, gender, water, and sanitation.
