As the Adolescent Health Specialist, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in advancing adolescent health and well-being as a core component of UNICEF’s global health agenda.You will lead efforts to strengthen systems for adolescent-responsive health services and to promote integrated, life-course approaches that address adolescents’ unique needs. This includes advancing multisectoral programming across health, nutrition, education, protection, and WASH, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use prevention, early interventions to reduce non-communicable disease risks, and HIV prevention.
India Country Office is seeking an experienced Social Policy Specialist for its Guwahati office. The position reflects UNICEF India’s increasing emphasis on upstream engagement and policy influence and serves as a strategic interface with the Government of Assam.
The Specialist will serve as UNICEF’s lead advisor in Assam on child poverty, social protection, public finance for children, governance and local systems strengthening. The role provides technical support across all stages of social policy programming and advocacy, with a focus on reducing child poverty, strengthening social protection, improving child-focused public investments and financial management, and enhancing governance, decentralization and accountability.
In the context of Assam’s recurrent floods, erosion, displacement and climate vulnerability, the position will support evidence-informed policy and systems reforms that strengthen public systems and improve outcomes for children, particularly those affected by poverty and exclusion.
The role has a strong focus on upstream policy advocacy, systems strengthening, strategic partnerships and UNICEF’s 3Cs approach: Convene, Converge and Catalyze.
Nepal Country Office is seeking qualified and experienced Senior Operations Associate for the management of operational functions including administration and logistics for programme implementation in Karnali and Sudurpaschim Province being based in Surkhet Field office.
Reporting to the Deputy Representative Operations, you will lead UNICEF's end-to-end supply chain operations, ensuring the timely, efficient and accountable delivery of goods, services and construction works that enable programme results for children.You will oversee supply planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, inventory management, logistics, and distribution in line with UNICEF policies and ethical standards. You will manage and develop the supply team, foster strong internal and external collaboration, and provide strategic technical support to governments to strengthen national supply chain systems. You will also drive innovation, promote local market development, and enhance supply chain performance to improve efficiency and value for money. In emergencies, you will lead logistics preparedness and response by developing operational strategies, coordinating with key partners, and ensuring business continuity. Your leadership will strengthen operational resilience, mitigate supply chain risks, and directly contribute to achieving impactful and sustainable results for children.
The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE), under the leadership of the Chief Data Officer, is implementing a portfolio of data governance initiatives designed to operationalize UNICEF's Data Governance Framework and accelerate data maturity across the organization. To support the delivery, operationalization and socialization of these initiatives, UNICEF seeks an experienced consultant with strong knowledge of data governance, technical expertise in data management, and experience in organizational change in international and multilateral environments. The consultancy is remote / home-based. The team is in Florence, Italy and the consultant is expected to be available CET working hours.
Bhutan is increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change, with rising temperature variability, changing weather patterns, and growing pressure on natural resources affecting children’s learning environments. Many schools, particularly in remote areas, rely heavily on fuelwood for cooking and heating, contributing to deforestation and indoor air pollution. At the same time, frequent power outages and inefficient energy systems disrupt teaching and learning, limit access to digital education, and compromise safety. School infrastructure is often not climate resilient. Poor insulation, lack of heating or cooling, and inadequate lighting affect student comfort, concentration, and performance, while weak waste management systems pose environmental and health risks.
The consultant will provide strategic programming and design, technical guidance and support to UNICEF and government partners to operationalize the Climate Smart School Initiative, oversee technical quality, support strengthening stakeholder coordination, develop implementation frameworks, support capacity building, establish monitoring systems, and contribute to national scale-up of climate-smart school models.
Join our team as a Nutrition Specialist (Health) and play a key role in supporting the development and preparation of UNICEF’s nutrition programme and ensuring its effective implementation across the country programme. The position is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting programme progress, while providing technical guidance and management support throughout the programming process. Applying a results-based management approach, the Specialist works closely with partners and stakeholders to facilitate the achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant, and child nutrition. Through strong programme leadership and coordination, the role contributes to delivering meaningful impact for children and women in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, performance standards, and accountability framework.
Join UNICEF and help transform partnerships into impact for children across Latin America and the Caribbean. As a Market Development Specialist (P-3), you will play a key role in driving private sector fundraising, strategic partnerships, and resource mobilization initiatives that support UNICEF's mission. Working with country offices, regional leaders, and global teams, you will help identify growth opportunities, foster innovation, strengthen donor engagement, and maximize sustainable resources to create lasting change for children. If you are a strategic thinker with experience in fundraising, partnerships, business development, or resource mobilization and are passionate about making a meaningful impact, we invite you to join our team in Panama and help shape the future of private sector engagement in the region
UNICEF Bolivia requiere contratar los servicios de un/una profesional para el servicio de consultoría en asistencia técnica a la UEGG para actualización de normativa y lineamientos institucionales sobre la prevención y actuación ante la violencia en el ámbito educativo. La consultoría tiene una duración de 145 días laborales y sede en La Paz.UNICEF trabaja en algunos de los lugares más difíciles del mundo para llegar a los niños más desfavorecidos: Para salvar sus vidas, para defender sus derechos, para ayudarlos a desarrollar todo su potencial. En 190 países y territorios, trabajamos por cada niño, en todas partes, todos los días, para construir un mundo mejor para todos, y nunca nos rendimos. ¡Trabajamos para la niñez con Esperanza!
UNICEF Bolivia requiere contratar los servicios de un/una profesional para el servicio de consultoría en asistencia técnica a la UEGG para actualización del currículo integrando transversalmente la prevención y actuación ante la violencia y factores de riesgos en el ámbito educativo. La consultoría tiene una duración de 100 días laborales y sede en La Paz.
UNICEF trabaja en algunos de los lugares más difíciles del mundo para llegar a los niños más desfavorecidos: Para salvar sus vidas, para defender sus derechos, para ayudarlos a desarrollar todo su potencial. En 190 países y territorios, trabajamos por cada niño, en todas partes, todos los días, para construir un mundo mejor para todos, y nunca nos rendimos. ¡Trabajamos para la niñez con Esperanza!
Join our team and help advance mental health and psychosocial well-being for children, adolescents and families across Colombia. As a Programme Officer (MHPSS), you will support the design, implementation, coordination and monitoring of UNICEF’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Support programme, contributing to national and subnational efforts to strengthen sustainable, community-based support systems. Working closely with government counterparts, partners and UNICEF teams, you will help drive strategic partnerships, provide technical assistance, generate evidence for decision-making, and promote quality, evidence-based interventions. Through a rights-based and multisectoral approach that connects health, education, child protection and social welfare systems, you will contribute to strengthening protective environments, reducing inequalities, building resilience, and advancing policies and programmes that improve mental health outcomes for children and adolescents.
UNICEF Haiti is looking for a committed and results-oriented Child Protection Specialist to help strengthen programmes that protect children from violence, abuse, exploitation and other forms of harm. Based in Port-au-Prince and reporting to the Chief, Child Protection, you will play an important role in supporting the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of child protection programmes, ensuring that interventions are timely, effective and focused on results.Experience working at the international level, in a developing country and in an emergency context is required. And in this role, you will provide technical and operational support throughout the programme cycle, contribute to coordination and partnerships with government counterparts and other stakeholders, and support knowledge sharing, innovation and capacity building. Through your work, you will help translate UNICEF’s priorities into concrete and sustainable results and contribute to a stronger protective environment for children across Haiti.If you have the experience, commitment and passion to make a meaningful difference for children in Haiti, we encourage you to apply and join UNICEF Haiti in advancing the rights, protection and well-being of every child.
L’UNICEF travaille dans plus de 190 pays et territoires pour sauver la vie des enfants, défendre leurs droits et les aider à réaliser leur plein potentiel, de la petite enfance à l’adolescence.
À l’UNICEF, nous sommes engagés, passionnés et fiers de ce que nous faisons, aussi longtemps que notre présence est nécessaire. Promouvoir les droits de chaque enfant n’est pas simplement un métier - c’est une vocation.
L’UNICEF est un lieu où les carrières se construisent : nous offrons à notre personnel des opportunités variées de développement professionnel et personnel, leur permettant de renforcer leur sentiment d’utilité tout en servant les enfants et les communautés à travers le monde, avec en prime un ensemble attractif de rémunérations et d’avantages.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of the Education Management Information System through advanced data analysis, production of periodic statistical and thematic reports, and the generation of evidence-based insights ,that support strategic planning, policy formulation, programme implementation, performance monitoring, and decision-making within and beyond the education sector.The assignment will contribute to fostering a culture of data use and evidence-informed decision-making, thereby improving education sector performance and accountability.
The Project Associate will provide PMO, project, procurement, financial, cost recovery and operational coordination support to ensure continuity of critical digital operations. The role will support work planning, project meetings and documentation, project monitoring and reporting, end-to-end procurement processing, individual contractor recruitment coordination, vendor and consultant follow-up, budget monitoring, chargeback processing and service request follow-up.The position requires a highly organized, service-oriented and detail-focused colleague who can work independently, coordinate across multiple stakeholders, manage competing deadlines, maintain accurate records and help ensure that operational processes are completed in a timely and compliant manner.
A minimum of two years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.Experience working in Digital Learning is an asset.
This consultancy is in line with ongoing UNCIEF efforts to strengthen national immunization system in accordance with National Immunization Programme 2026-2030. This technical assistance will complement ongoing country support in the areas of vaccine cold chain strengthening, vaccine supply planning and forecasting.
The Child Protection Specialist report to Chief of Field Office in developing, managing, implementing, monitoring, reporting, and evaluating UNICEF’s child protection programmes. The role provides technical guidance and management support to strengthen child protection systems, promote children’s rights, and prevent and respond to all forms of harm. The Specialist ensures programme results are achieved in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, Results-Based Management (RBM) principles, resource allocations, performance standards, and accountability frameworks, while contributing to national and international child protection priorities.
As the Adolescent Health Specialist, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in advancing adolescent health and well-being as a core component of UNICEF’s global health agenda.You will lead efforts to strengthen systems for adolescent-responsive health services and to promote integrated, life-course approaches that address adolescents’ unique needs. This includes advancing multisectoral programming across health, nutrition, education, protection, and WASH, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use prevention, early interventions to reduce non-communicable disease risks, and HIV prevention.
India Country Office is seeking an experienced Social Policy Specialist for its Guwahati office. The position reflects UNICEF India’s increasing emphasis on upstream engagement and policy influence and serves as a strategic interface with the Government of Assam.
The Specialist will serve as UNICEF’s lead advisor in Assam on child poverty, social protection, public finance for children, governance and local systems strengthening. The role provides technical support across all stages of social policy programming and advocacy, with a focus on reducing child poverty, strengthening social protection, improving child-focused public investments and financial management, and enhancing governance, decentralization and accountability.
In the context of Assam’s recurrent floods, erosion, displacement and climate vulnerability, the position will support evidence-informed policy and systems reforms that strengthen public systems and improve outcomes for children, particularly those affected by poverty and exclusion.
The role has a strong focus on upstream policy advocacy, systems strengthening, strategic partnerships and UNICEF’s 3Cs approach: Convene, Converge and Catalyze.
Nepal Country Office is seeking qualified and experienced Senior Operations Associate for the management of operational functions including administration and logistics for programme implementation in Karnali and Sudurpaschim Province being based in Surkhet Field office.
Reporting to the Deputy Representative Operations, you will lead UNICEF's end-to-end supply chain operations, ensuring the timely, efficient and accountable delivery of goods, services and construction works that enable programme results for children.You will oversee supply planning, procurement, contracting, customs clearance, warehousing, inventory management, logistics, and distribution in line with UNICEF policies and ethical standards. You will manage and develop the supply team, foster strong internal and external collaboration, and provide strategic technical support to governments to strengthen national supply chain systems. You will also drive innovation, promote local market development, and enhance supply chain performance to improve efficiency and value for money. In emergencies, you will lead logistics preparedness and response by developing operational strategies, coordinating with key partners, and ensuring business continuity. Your leadership will strengthen operational resilience, mitigate supply chain risks, and directly contribute to achieving impactful and sustainable results for children.
The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE), under the leadership of the Chief Data Officer, is implementing a portfolio of data governance initiatives designed to operationalize UNICEF's Data Governance Framework and accelerate data maturity across the organization. To support the delivery, operationalization and socialization of these initiatives, UNICEF seeks an experienced consultant with strong knowledge of data governance, technical expertise in data management, and experience in organizational change in international and multilateral environments. The consultancy is remote / home-based. The team is in Florence, Italy and the consultant is expected to be available CET working hours.
Bhutan is increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change, with rising temperature variability, changing weather patterns, and growing pressure on natural resources affecting children’s learning environments. Many schools, particularly in remote areas, rely heavily on fuelwood for cooking and heating, contributing to deforestation and indoor air pollution. At the same time, frequent power outages and inefficient energy systems disrupt teaching and learning, limit access to digital education, and compromise safety. School infrastructure is often not climate resilient. Poor insulation, lack of heating or cooling, and inadequate lighting affect student comfort, concentration, and performance, while weak waste management systems pose environmental and health risks.
The consultant will provide strategic programming and design, technical guidance and support to UNICEF and government partners to operationalize the Climate Smart School Initiative, oversee technical quality, support strengthening stakeholder coordination, develop implementation frameworks, support capacity building, establish monitoring systems, and contribute to national scale-up of climate-smart school models.
Join our team as a Nutrition Specialist (Health) and play a key role in supporting the development and preparation of UNICEF’s nutrition programme and ensuring its effective implementation across the country programme. The position is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting programme progress, while providing technical guidance and management support throughout the programming process. Applying a results-based management approach, the Specialist works closely with partners and stakeholders to facilitate the achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant, and child nutrition. Through strong programme leadership and coordination, the role contributes to delivering meaningful impact for children and women in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, performance standards, and accountability framework.
Join UNICEF and help transform partnerships into impact for children across Latin America and the Caribbean. As a Market Development Specialist (P-3), you will play a key role in driving private sector fundraising, strategic partnerships, and resource mobilization initiatives that support UNICEF's mission. Working with country offices, regional leaders, and global teams, you will help identify growth opportunities, foster innovation, strengthen donor engagement, and maximize sustainable resources to create lasting change for children. If you are a strategic thinker with experience in fundraising, partnerships, business development, or resource mobilization and are passionate about making a meaningful impact, we invite you to join our team in Panama and help shape the future of private sector engagement in the region
UNICEF Bolivia requiere contratar los servicios de un/una profesional para el servicio de consultoría en asistencia técnica a la UEGG para actualización de normativa y lineamientos institucionales sobre la prevención y actuación ante la violencia en el ámbito educativo. La consultoría tiene una duración de 145 días laborales y sede en La Paz.UNICEF trabaja en algunos de los lugares más difíciles del mundo para llegar a los niños más desfavorecidos: Para salvar sus vidas, para defender sus derechos, para ayudarlos a desarrollar todo su potencial. En 190 países y territorios, trabajamos por cada niño, en todas partes, todos los días, para construir un mundo mejor para todos, y nunca nos rendimos. ¡Trabajamos para la niñez con Esperanza!
UNICEF Bolivia requiere contratar los servicios de un/una profesional para el servicio de consultoría en asistencia técnica a la UEGG para actualización del currículo integrando transversalmente la prevención y actuación ante la violencia y factores de riesgos en el ámbito educativo. La consultoría tiene una duración de 100 días laborales y sede en La Paz.
UNICEF trabaja en algunos de los lugares más difíciles del mundo para llegar a los niños más desfavorecidos: Para salvar sus vidas, para defender sus derechos, para ayudarlos a desarrollar todo su potencial. En 190 países y territorios, trabajamos por cada niño, en todas partes, todos los días, para construir un mundo mejor para todos, y nunca nos rendimos. ¡Trabajamos para la niñez con Esperanza!
Join our team and help advance mental health and psychosocial well-being for children, adolescents and families across Colombia. As a Programme Officer (MHPSS), you will support the design, implementation, coordination and monitoring of UNICEF’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Support programme, contributing to national and subnational efforts to strengthen sustainable, community-based support systems. Working closely with government counterparts, partners and UNICEF teams, you will help drive strategic partnerships, provide technical assistance, generate evidence for decision-making, and promote quality, evidence-based interventions. Through a rights-based and multisectoral approach that connects health, education, child protection and social welfare systems, you will contribute to strengthening protective environments, reducing inequalities, building resilience, and advancing policies and programmes that improve mental health outcomes for children and adolescents.
UNICEF Haiti is looking for a committed and results-oriented Child Protection Specialist to help strengthen programmes that protect children from violence, abuse, exploitation and other forms of harm. Based in Port-au-Prince and reporting to the Chief, Child Protection, you will play an important role in supporting the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of child protection programmes, ensuring that interventions are timely, effective and focused on results.Experience working at the international level, in a developing country and in an emergency context is required. And in this role, you will provide technical and operational support throughout the programme cycle, contribute to coordination and partnerships with government counterparts and other stakeholders, and support knowledge sharing, innovation and capacity building. Through your work, you will help translate UNICEF’s priorities into concrete and sustainable results and contribute to a stronger protective environment for children across Haiti.If you have the experience, commitment and passion to make a meaningful difference for children in Haiti, we encourage you to apply and join UNICEF Haiti in advancing the rights, protection and well-being of every child.
L’UNICEF travaille dans plus de 190 pays et territoires pour sauver la vie des enfants, défendre leurs droits et les aider à réaliser leur plein potentiel, de la petite enfance à l’adolescence.
À l’UNICEF, nous sommes engagés, passionnés et fiers de ce que nous faisons, aussi longtemps que notre présence est nécessaire. Promouvoir les droits de chaque enfant n’est pas simplement un métier - c’est une vocation.
L’UNICEF est un lieu où les carrières se construisent : nous offrons à notre personnel des opportunités variées de développement professionnel et personnel, leur permettant de renforcer leur sentiment d’utilité tout en servant les enfants et les communautés à travers le monde, avec en prime un ensemble attractif de rémunérations et d’avantages.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of the Education Management Information System through advanced data analysis, production of periodic statistical and thematic reports, and the generation of evidence-based insights ,that support strategic planning, policy formulation, programme implementation, performance monitoring, and decision-making within and beyond the education sector.The assignment will contribute to fostering a culture of data use and evidence-informed decision-making, thereby improving education sector performance and accountability.
The Project Associate will provide PMO, project, procurement, financial, cost recovery and operational coordination support to ensure continuity of critical digital operations. The role will support work planning, project meetings and documentation, project monitoring and reporting, end-to-end procurement processing, individual contractor recruitment coordination, vendor and consultant follow-up, budget monitoring, chargeback processing and service request follow-up.The position requires a highly organized, service-oriented and detail-focused colleague who can work independently, coordinate across multiple stakeholders, manage competing deadlines, maintain accurate records and help ensure that operational processes are completed in a timely and compliant manner.
A minimum of two years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required.Experience working in Digital Learning is an asset.
This consultancy is in line with ongoing UNCIEF efforts to strengthen national immunization system in accordance with National Immunization Programme 2026-2030. This technical assistance will complement ongoing country support in the areas of vaccine cold chain strengthening, vaccine supply planning and forecasting.
The Child Protection Specialist report to Chief of Field Office in developing, managing, implementing, monitoring, reporting, and evaluating UNICEF’s child protection programmes. The role provides technical guidance and management support to strengthen child protection systems, promote children’s rights, and prevent and respond to all forms of harm. The Specialist ensures programme results are achieved in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, Results-Based Management (RBM) principles, resource allocations, performance standards, and accountability frameworks, while contributing to national and international child protection priorities.
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