The DRC was certified free of wild poliovirus in 2015 but circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV1 and cVDPV2) remain a significant public health threat. Between 2017 and 2025, the country reported 1,292 variant poliovirus cases. Intensified response efforts reduced cases from 540 in 2022 to 18 in 2025. In 2026, four cVDPV2 cases were detected in Maniema Province, while the latest cVDPV1 case was reported in June 2025 in Tsopo Province. The DRC remains among the highest-risk countries in the WHO African Region, requiring sustained campaigns and stronger routine immunization.
Routine immunization is hindered by persistent bottlenecks, limited cold chain capacity, weak stock management, inadequate temperature monitoring, poor equipment maintenance, stock-outs, and inconsistent data quality, all of which undermine vaccine potency and programme performance.
Under the technical supervision of the Polio Coordinator, the Health Specialist (Data Management – Polio) will strengthen the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 outbreak response, focusing on data quality, equity analysis, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making.
The incumbent will contribute to: (i) improved quality, availability, and use of polio and routine vaccination data; (ii) evidence-based decision-making for outbreak response; (iii) improved performance and equity of vaccination campaigns; (iv) strengthened accountability through digital payment systems; and (v) sustained progress toward interruption of cVDPV transmission in the DRC.
In keeping with UNICEF's global mandate to advocate for the rights of all the world’s children, UNICEF OSE- Innocenti acts as the organization’s foremost analytical capacity and serves as the lead for excellence in research and foresight on children and child rights within UNICEF. UNICEF Innocente is seeking for consultancy to support the coordination and finalization of key outputs under the Future of Immunization project,
La oficina de UNICEF Uruguay busca una persona consultora que brinde apoyo técnico y operativo al área de Protección, contribuyendo al desarrollo de documentos clave y al seguimiento de iniciativas programáticas estratégicas. Esta posición ofrece la oportunidad de trabajar en articulación con equipos y contrapartes, apoyando la planificación, implementación y sistematización de acciones orientadas a la protección de niños, niñas y adolescentes.
UNICEF Rwanda Country Office is looking for a qualified candidate for the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, to ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information about children’s and women’s rights and the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.
Drive sustainable financing solutions to protect children from violence. UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (Financing for Scale) to strengthen public financing systems, investment cases and innovative financing approaches that enable equitable, scalable child protection and violence prevention programmes. Based in Nairobi within UNICEF’s Global Programme Division, this role offers a unique opportunity to influence national and global financing agendas, support governments and partners, and help deliver lasting impact for children worldwide.
The incumbent will lead high-level policy dialogue supports evidence-based reforms and strengthens financing strategies, and partnerships to ensure that successful models are institutionalized through domestic systems.
The post Statistics and Monitoring Manager, P-4 level, is situated in the Strategic Programme Planning, Monitoring, and Data section at the WCA Regional Office. The incumbent reports to the Regional Chief Programme Planning. The incumbent supervises the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist, NOC level and provides overall strategic direction, technical oversight, quality assurance and performance management for the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (NOC), ensuring coherence, prioritization and compliance with regional, global and corporate standards across all data, analytics and monitoring deliverables.
The Central African Republic continues to face structural challenges affecting equitable access to basic social services, particularly in areas with limited-service coverage. These constraints, combined with population movements observed in certain parts of the country, continue to affect the protective environment of children.
Children are consequently exposed to protection-related vulnerabilities, including family separation, limited access to essential services, and harmful practices. The availability and accessibility of child protection services and community-based mechanisms remain limited, particularly in remote or underserved areas.
Recent regional developments, including the situation in neighboring Sudan, have contributed to population movements toward the northern regions of the country, requiring sustained attention to ensure that services remain responsive to the needs of affected populations, particularly children.
In response, UNICEF supports national authorities in strengthening child protection systems and delivering prevention and response services, including case management, psychosocial support, and reintegration assistance for children in vulnerable situations.
These efforts are complemented by the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda which supports the protection of children from grave violations, promotes their release and reintegration, and strengthens prevention and response mechanisms in line with international standards.
Against this backdrop, the Consultant will support the strengthening of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) in the Central African Republic, with a focus on advancing the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda. The Consultant will contribute to enhancing the quality, coherence, and reach of child protection responses in complex operational settings, including by strengthening linkages between prevention, service delivery, and coordination mechanisms, in alignment with international standards.
UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office is looking for a Digital Communication Specialist (P-3) to lead and enhance its regional digital and social media communications in support of advocacy for children’s rights.
Reporting to the Regional Chief of Advocacy and Communications, the role focuses on developing and implementing digital, social media, and content strategies, managing high-impact campaigns, overseeing paid digital marketing, and strengthening audience engagement across platforms. The position also supports the social media presence of the Regional Director and contributes to regional capacity building and digital innovation.
We are seeking a creative and strategic digital communications professional with strong editorial skills, experience managing complex digital campaigns, fluency in English and Spanish, and a passion for creating meaningful impact through digital storytelling.
Join UNICEF and help amplify children’s voices across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health (MOH), Maternal and Child Health Programme, with technical assistance to design, develop, and standardize a comprehensive self-paced digital training package for Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) services.
The assignment aims to strengthen health workforce capacity by ensuring equitable access to high-quality, competency-based learning aligned with national guidelines and integrated within the Ministry’s learning hub, simulation-based education, and tele-mentoring framework. The consultancy will contribute to improved quality of care, enhanced clinical competencies, and reductions in preventable maternal, neonatal, and child morbidity and mortality in Lesotho.
UNICEF’s Independent Evaluation Office partners in a variety of other ways, from joint and inter-agency evaluation collaborations to networks to strengthen linkages between evaluation and programming (e.g., ALNAP), coordinate its evaluations with those of other agencies (e.g. through the United Nations Evaluation Group, the United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation Office and the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations mechanism) and the broader UN and evidence/evaluation synthesis community (e.g. the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition, the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative). It also partners to communicate its work e.g., through national, regional and global evaluation associations and other Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs).The Evaluation Specialist (Partnerships and National Evaluation Capacity Development) will deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, policy influence and potential resource mobilization within the scope of assignment. S/He will also serve as a focal point and resource for colleagues in the area of national evaluation capacity development (NECD) partnerships, including country-led NECD initiatives. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF’s partnerships and NECD work and influence in support of its mission.
The role provides strategic and technical leadership to implement UNICEF’s Digital Education Strategy, focusing on empowering teachers with digital and AI-enabled tools and embedding these approaches into proven instructional models. It also leads policy dialogue, technical assistance, cross-country learning, and partnerships to help countries scale inclusive, ethical, and sustainable digital education systems.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical analytical support to the Urban Poverty study in the United Republic of Tanzania and produce a working paper for publication and a policy brief for advocacy.
Background
UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti (UNICEF Innocenti) and UNICEF Tanzania Country Office (TCO) are collaborating to generate high-quality, policy-relevant evidence on urban poverty and deprivation in Tanzania. The collaboration aims to produce a peer-reviewed working paper and a policy brief that will inform UNICEF advocacy, programme design, and resource mobilization in support of urban social protection, targeting, and inclusive urban development.
Rapid urbanization in Tanzania has intensified spatial inequalities, particularly within large urban centres where informal settlements and localized deprivation are often masked by aggregate statistics. While recent global studies have produced micro-estimates of wealth and poverty, these models lack the spatial granularity required to map intra-urban disparities relevant for city-level planning and intervention.
This research addresses that gap by developing an urban-focused, high-resolution poverty mapping approach, integrating geospatial data and machine-learning techniques. The analysis will focus on six Tier-1 cities—Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya, and Zanzibar City—where the density of survey data enables robust model training and validation.
Within this context, UNICEF Innocenti seeks to recruit a Research Analyst (Consultant) to provide technical and analytical support to the study, contributing directly to the processing of geospatial data, predictive modelling, analysis, and drafting of the working paper and the policy brief
Objetivo de la consultoría: Apoyar la implementación del plan de trabajo IMEP 2026, mediante el desarrollo de análisis de datos, generación de evidencia estratégica y monitoreo de derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes, que permitan fortalecer el análisis de situación, el seguimiento de desigualdades y brechas, y la toma de decisiones basadas en evidencia en el marco del Programa de Cooperación de UNICEF Chile.
The purpose of this consultancy is to promote, strengthen and organize Data and Monitoring efforts that cut across UNICEF Boa Vista Field Office programme areas. The consultant must make sure that situation monitoring and data gathering is properly undertaken to monitor both the situation of Venezuelan children on the move and UNICEF’s development interventions.
The purpose of this advertisement is to establish a pre-qualified roster of HIV/AIDS technical experts who can provide specialized technical support to UNICEF Country Offices, Regional Offices, and Headquarters. Experts selected for this roster will be engaged on an as-needed basis over 2026–2029 to deliver time-bound, deliverable-based technical assistance across a range of HIV thematic areas in response to country and programme needs.
UNICEF is seeking to engage a qualified consultant to accelerate adolescent and youth participation activities under the ACAR project. This includes the development of a robust project implementation tracking modality, with particular emphasis on the youth engagement component, alongside the design of a comprehensive and results-oriented reporting mechanism.
The consultant will establish an action plan and a structured framework that strengthens and systematizes collaboration between pilot municipalities and civil society organizations (CSOs) in their engagement with children and young people in pilot provinces. In addition, the framework will serve as a scalable and replicable model that can be adopted by other municipalities. In line with the developed action plan, the consultant will advance adolescent and youth participation efforts across the pilot provinces through close collaboration with CSOs, municipalities, and local stakeholders, as well as through the strategic use of social media and digital platforms.
UNICEF is seeking an experienced and strategic Chief of Social Policy (P5) to lead and advance a high‑impact social policy programme in a complex Ukraine country office environment. Reporting to the Deputy Representative, the role provides overall leadership for policy dialogue, advocacy, and programme delivery aimed at reducing child poverty, strengthening social protection systems, and improving child‑focused public investments. The Chief of Social Policy leads and develops a Social Policy team, ensuring high performance, strong collaboration, and results‑driven delivery across sectors. The role works closely with government counterparts, donors, civil society, and UN partners to strengthen governance, decentralization, accountability, and community participation. It also supports integrated programming with education, health, child protection, and WASH teams to maximize impact for children. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence national policy, strengthen systems, and deliver sustainable outcomes for children’s rights and well‑being. UNICEF is committed to equity and encourages candidates who are passionate about advancing social justice and inclusive development.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking for a passionate and committed person to work in the role of Chief Education (Programme/Cluster) 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.
The DRC was certified free of wild poliovirus in 2015 but circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV1 and cVDPV2) remain a significant public health threat. Between 2017 and 2025, the country reported 1,292 variant poliovirus cases. Intensified response efforts reduced cases from 540 in 2022 to 18 in 2025. In 2026, four cVDPV2 cases were detected in Maniema Province, while the latest cVDPV1 case was reported in June 2025 in Tsopo Province. The DRC remains among the highest-risk countries in the WHO African Region, requiring sustained campaigns and stronger routine immunization.
Routine immunization is hindered by persistent bottlenecks, limited cold chain capacity, weak stock management, inadequate temperature monitoring, poor equipment maintenance, stock-outs, and inconsistent data quality, all of which undermine vaccine potency and programme performance.
Under the technical supervision of the Polio Coordinator, the Health Specialist (Data Management – Polio) will strengthen the cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 outbreak response, focusing on data quality, equity analysis, accountability, and evidence-based decision-making.
The incumbent will contribute to: (i) improved quality, availability, and use of polio and routine vaccination data; (ii) evidence-based decision-making for outbreak response; (iii) improved performance and equity of vaccination campaigns; (iv) strengthened accountability through digital payment systems; and (v) sustained progress toward interruption of cVDPV transmission in the DRC.
In keeping with UNICEF's global mandate to advocate for the rights of all the world’s children, UNICEF OSE- Innocenti acts as the organization’s foremost analytical capacity and serves as the lead for excellence in research and foresight on children and child rights within UNICEF. UNICEF Innocente is seeking for consultancy to support the coordination and finalization of key outputs under the Future of Immunization project,
La oficina de UNICEF Uruguay busca una persona consultora que brinde apoyo técnico y operativo al área de Protección, contribuyendo al desarrollo de documentos clave y al seguimiento de iniciativas programáticas estratégicas. Esta posición ofrece la oportunidad de trabajar en articulación con equipos y contrapartes, apoyando la planificación, implementación y sistematización de acciones orientadas a la protección de niños, niñas y adolescentes.
UNICEF Rwanda Country Office is looking for a qualified candidate for the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, to ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information about children’s and women’s rights and the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.
Drive sustainable financing solutions to protect children from violence. UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (Financing for Scale) to strengthen public financing systems, investment cases and innovative financing approaches that enable equitable, scalable child protection and violence prevention programmes. Based in Nairobi within UNICEF’s Global Programme Division, this role offers a unique opportunity to influence national and global financing agendas, support governments and partners, and help deliver lasting impact for children worldwide.
The incumbent will lead high-level policy dialogue supports evidence-based reforms and strengthens financing strategies, and partnerships to ensure that successful models are institutionalized through domestic systems.
The post Statistics and Monitoring Manager, P-4 level, is situated in the Strategic Programme Planning, Monitoring, and Data section at the WCA Regional Office. The incumbent reports to the Regional Chief Programme Planning. The incumbent supervises the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist, NOC level and provides overall strategic direction, technical oversight, quality assurance and performance management for the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (NOC), ensuring coherence, prioritization and compliance with regional, global and corporate standards across all data, analytics and monitoring deliverables.
The Central African Republic continues to face structural challenges affecting equitable access to basic social services, particularly in areas with limited-service coverage. These constraints, combined with population movements observed in certain parts of the country, continue to affect the protective environment of children.
Children are consequently exposed to protection-related vulnerabilities, including family separation, limited access to essential services, and harmful practices. The availability and accessibility of child protection services and community-based mechanisms remain limited, particularly in remote or underserved areas.
Recent regional developments, including the situation in neighboring Sudan, have contributed to population movements toward the northern regions of the country, requiring sustained attention to ensure that services remain responsive to the needs of affected populations, particularly children.
In response, UNICEF supports national authorities in strengthening child protection systems and delivering prevention and response services, including case management, psychosocial support, and reintegration assistance for children in vulnerable situations.
These efforts are complemented by the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda which supports the protection of children from grave violations, promotes their release and reintegration, and strengthens prevention and response mechanisms in line with international standards.
Against this backdrop, the Consultant will support the strengthening of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) in the Central African Republic, with a focus on advancing the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda. The Consultant will contribute to enhancing the quality, coherence, and reach of child protection responses in complex operational settings, including by strengthening linkages between prevention, service delivery, and coordination mechanisms, in alignment with international standards.
UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office is looking for a Digital Communication Specialist (P-3) to lead and enhance its regional digital and social media communications in support of advocacy for children’s rights.
Reporting to the Regional Chief of Advocacy and Communications, the role focuses on developing and implementing digital, social media, and content strategies, managing high-impact campaigns, overseeing paid digital marketing, and strengthening audience engagement across platforms. The position also supports the social media presence of the Regional Director and contributes to regional capacity building and digital innovation.
We are seeking a creative and strategic digital communications professional with strong editorial skills, experience managing complex digital campaigns, fluency in English and Spanish, and a passion for creating meaningful impact through digital storytelling.
Join UNICEF and help amplify children’s voices across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health (MOH), Maternal and Child Health Programme, with technical assistance to design, develop, and standardize a comprehensive self-paced digital training package for Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) services.
The assignment aims to strengthen health workforce capacity by ensuring equitable access to high-quality, competency-based learning aligned with national guidelines and integrated within the Ministry’s learning hub, simulation-based education, and tele-mentoring framework. The consultancy will contribute to improved quality of care, enhanced clinical competencies, and reductions in preventable maternal, neonatal, and child morbidity and mortality in Lesotho.
UNICEF’s Independent Evaluation Office partners in a variety of other ways, from joint and inter-agency evaluation collaborations to networks to strengthen linkages between evaluation and programming (e.g., ALNAP), coordinate its evaluations with those of other agencies (e.g. through the United Nations Evaluation Group, the United Nations Sustainable Development Group System-Wide Evaluation Office and the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations mechanism) and the broader UN and evidence/evaluation synthesis community (e.g. the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition, the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative). It also partners to communicate its work e.g., through national, regional and global evaluation associations and other Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs).The Evaluation Specialist (Partnerships and National Evaluation Capacity Development) will deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, policy influence and potential resource mobilization within the scope of assignment. S/He will also serve as a focal point and resource for colleagues in the area of national evaluation capacity development (NECD) partnerships, including country-led NECD initiatives. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF’s partnerships and NECD work and influence in support of its mission.
The role provides strategic and technical leadership to implement UNICEF’s Digital Education Strategy, focusing on empowering teachers with digital and AI-enabled tools and embedding these approaches into proven instructional models. It also leads policy dialogue, technical assistance, cross-country learning, and partnerships to help countries scale inclusive, ethical, and sustainable digital education systems.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical analytical support to the Urban Poverty study in the United Republic of Tanzania and produce a working paper for publication and a policy brief for advocacy.
Background
UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti (UNICEF Innocenti) and UNICEF Tanzania Country Office (TCO) are collaborating to generate high-quality, policy-relevant evidence on urban poverty and deprivation in Tanzania. The collaboration aims to produce a peer-reviewed working paper and a policy brief that will inform UNICEF advocacy, programme design, and resource mobilization in support of urban social protection, targeting, and inclusive urban development.
Rapid urbanization in Tanzania has intensified spatial inequalities, particularly within large urban centres where informal settlements and localized deprivation are often masked by aggregate statistics. While recent global studies have produced micro-estimates of wealth and poverty, these models lack the spatial granularity required to map intra-urban disparities relevant for city-level planning and intervention.
This research addresses that gap by developing an urban-focused, high-resolution poverty mapping approach, integrating geospatial data and machine-learning techniques. The analysis will focus on six Tier-1 cities—Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya, and Zanzibar City—where the density of survey data enables robust model training and validation.
Within this context, UNICEF Innocenti seeks to recruit a Research Analyst (Consultant) to provide technical and analytical support to the study, contributing directly to the processing of geospatial data, predictive modelling, analysis, and drafting of the working paper and the policy brief
Objetivo de la consultoría: Apoyar la implementación del plan de trabajo IMEP 2026, mediante el desarrollo de análisis de datos, generación de evidencia estratégica y monitoreo de derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes, que permitan fortalecer el análisis de situación, el seguimiento de desigualdades y brechas, y la toma de decisiones basadas en evidencia en el marco del Programa de Cooperación de UNICEF Chile.
The purpose of this consultancy is to promote, strengthen and organize Data and Monitoring efforts that cut across UNICEF Boa Vista Field Office programme areas. The consultant must make sure that situation monitoring and data gathering is properly undertaken to monitor both the situation of Venezuelan children on the move and UNICEF’s development interventions.
The purpose of this advertisement is to establish a pre-qualified roster of HIV/AIDS technical experts who can provide specialized technical support to UNICEF Country Offices, Regional Offices, and Headquarters. Experts selected for this roster will be engaged on an as-needed basis over 2026–2029 to deliver time-bound, deliverable-based technical assistance across a range of HIV thematic areas in response to country and programme needs.
UNICEF is seeking to engage a qualified consultant to accelerate adolescent and youth participation activities under the ACAR project. This includes the development of a robust project implementation tracking modality, with particular emphasis on the youth engagement component, alongside the design of a comprehensive and results-oriented reporting mechanism.
The consultant will establish an action plan and a structured framework that strengthens and systematizes collaboration between pilot municipalities and civil society organizations (CSOs) in their engagement with children and young people in pilot provinces. In addition, the framework will serve as a scalable and replicable model that can be adopted by other municipalities. In line with the developed action plan, the consultant will advance adolescent and youth participation efforts across the pilot provinces through close collaboration with CSOs, municipalities, and local stakeholders, as well as through the strategic use of social media and digital platforms.
UNICEF is seeking an experienced and strategic Chief of Social Policy (P5) to lead and advance a high‑impact social policy programme in a complex Ukraine country office environment. Reporting to the Deputy Representative, the role provides overall leadership for policy dialogue, advocacy, and programme delivery aimed at reducing child poverty, strengthening social protection systems, and improving child‑focused public investments. The Chief of Social Policy leads and develops a Social Policy team, ensuring high performance, strong collaboration, and results‑driven delivery across sectors. The role works closely with government counterparts, donors, civil society, and UN partners to strengthen governance, decentralization, accountability, and community participation. It also supports integrated programming with education, health, child protection, and WASH teams to maximize impact for children. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence national policy, strengthen systems, and deliver sustainable outcomes for children’s rights and well‑being. UNICEF is committed to equity and encourages candidates who are passionate about advancing social justice and inclusive development.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking for a passionate and committed person to work in the role of Chief Education (Programme/Cluster) 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.
