Education: Advanced university degree in Economics, Public Policy, Development Studies, or related field entailing strong quantitative OR qualitative training is required.PhD in Economics, Public Policy, Development Studies, or related field entailing strong quantitative and/or qualitative training is an asset.Specialized training in evaluation methods and methodologies and in causal inference is desirable.Experience:Required: 8+ years conducting global (portfolio) thematic evaluations using robust qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including for the last 3 years is required.• 5+ years (most recent) applying AI and machine learning to the evaluation process including text mining and evaluation synthesis.• Proven ability to work with internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels, including providing technical support and capacity building.• Proven track record producing user-centered outputs, including briefs, working papers, peer-reviewed journals, that contribute to awareness, knowledge, valuing and use of corporate thematic evaluations is required.DesirableThematic expertise in a programmatic area associated with UNICEF work, such as Education, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, Child protection and Water, Sanitation, Climate Resilience is desirable.• Experience in fragile and humanitarian setting is desirable.• Experience in integrating cross-cutting issues of gender, disability and equity in global thematic evaluations is desirable.Technical skills:Proficiency in statistical software for qualitative (MAXQDA, Atlas, NVivo) and/or quantitative analysis (R, Stata, Python), familiarity with relevant applications of Large Language Models (LLM) is required.• Advanced data visualization tools is an assetLanguage: Fluency in written and oral English
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Office aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
As UNICEF Libya prepares for the next Country Programme cycle (2028-2032), a comprehensive Situation Analysis (SitAn) is required to provide evidence-based insights on the state of child rights and well-being in Libya. This analysis will inform strategic planning, policy dialogue, and programme design to ensure that UNICEF’s interventions achieve lasting and transformational changes for children and adolescents, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalized.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
The Global Learning Innovation Hub under the UNICEF Office of Innovation is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Developer to join the Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADT) team. The ADT initiative transforms PDF textbooks into rich, accessible digital learning materials for children with and without disabilities. The selected consultant will take the lead on the continued development of ADT Studio — a TypeScript monorepo application that automates the production of accessible digital textbooks through AI-powered pipelines. This role is central to making educational content universally accessible and available to millions of children worldwide.
The ADT initiative converts PDF textbooks into structured, accessible digital content — including HTML storyboards, quizzes, glossaries, image captions, translations, and text-to-speech audio — packaged as self-contained web bundles, EPUBs, or WebPubs. The production pipeline is powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and controlled through a configuration-driven architecture that supports per-book customization of text classification, rendering strategies, and model settings.
ADT Studio is the successor to ADT Press, rebuilt as a TypeScript monorepo using AI-assisted development (Claude Code). It represents a significant architectural advancement: a two-level DAG pipeline model with a React frontend and Hono backend. The codebase is open-source, hosted on UNICEF’s GitHub, and designed for extensibility by third-party developers and country offices.
UNICEF Somalia is seeking a Nutrition Officer (Level 1) to join our Nutrition Programme within Central & Southern States (CSS – Kismayo). Reporting to the Nutrition Specialist (Level 3), this role provides the ideal opportunity to build practical experience across nutrition programming—while supporting Government to deliver high impact interventions, processes, and procedures that support long-term career growth. As a Nutrition Officer, you will deliver technical, operational, and administrative support throughout the programme cycle, including researching, collecting, analyzing, and presenting nutrition programme information. Your work will contribute to the development and formulation of the Nutrition Programme, ensuring high-quality technical inputs that strengthen planning and decision-making.
The objective of this consultancy is to work under the supervision of the ADAP Officer and in close cooperation with national partners to design, plan, and ensure the effective implementation of skills development programmes that reach the most disadvantaged youth. The consultant will coordinate and monitor programme delivery, while systematically tracking results and impact on participants.
UNICEF Islamabad Office is seeking an experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Communication Officer at the NOB level to join the Polio team on a Temporary basis.
India Country Office is seeking an experienced Education Specialist responsible for providing technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of results on education programmes/projects to improve learning outcomes and equitable and inclusive education, especially for children who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society. The position requires a candidate with ability to apply differentiated strategies (convening, converging, catalysing, influencing, advocating, leveraging, monitoring, building senior-level partnerships, south-south cooperation) to education programming in an upstream context.
The Nutrition Specialist supports the development, preparation and operationalization of the emergency nutrition response in a humanitarian and development nexus and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress in the Rohingya response and host community. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects within the emergency response and host community. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
The Health Manager will coordinate the implementation of Lao PDR’s Pandemic Fund project “Advancing Lao PDR’s Pandemic Response and Transformation (ALERT LAO)” on the human health component. This includes supporting the Ministry of Health in facilitating and managing a national coordination mechanism for the Pandemic Fund project, clarifying roles and responsibilities among the Ministry of Health, Implementing Entity of the project, and other development partners who will implement the proposed activities.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking an International Consultant to provide specialised technical guidance, quality assurance, and support for programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting for the ATscale-supported programme “Unlock Healthy Learning in the Pacific: Improving Access to Assistive Technology and Related Rehabilitation Services for School-Aged Children” in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, and Vanuatu.
The consultant will report to the Chief of Health and Nutrition, UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, and work closely with UNICEF Field Offices and government counterparts in FSM, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. Apply now!
Join UNICEF Iraq and support management collaboration with programmes in defining supply interventions to meet programmatic needs and achieve results for children, and provides technical and advisory support to governments, national systems and partners on supply chain management.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the P3 Administrative and Finance Specialist the incumbent supports the effective management of the CSC budget, payroll for all UNICEF staff based in Rome, while providing technical guidance and oversight to the Finance Assistant and Finance Associate to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely service delivery of finance related transactions. The role requires the incumbent to have a strong understanding of both programmatic and funding components of UNICEF’s work. The position involves the supervisory responsibility of others.
Join UNICEF’s Global Programme Division and help drive global progress in maternal and newborn health. As a Health Specialist (MNH), you will lead data‑driven analysis, strengthen accountability mechanisms, and support countries in accelerating high‑impact MNCH interventions. You will guide EWENE‑CSA progress tracking across 100+ countries, support MNCH acceleration plans in more than 60 countries, and coordinate global partnerships that shape policy and implementation. This role blends technical expertise, programme monitoring, and partnership coordination to advance UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and contribute to preventing millions of maternal and newborn deaths.
The Senior Driver, at the G-3 level, provides reliable and safe driving services to the head of office, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol, whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
The Child Protection Specialist is part of Unicef Gabon Team, where the Child Protection Programme is a component of the Country Programme. The Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Programme with the dotted-line reporting to the Representative
The Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Child Protection programme(s) and is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of the child protection programmes/projects within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes. H/She facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international
Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Administrative Associate will be responsible for executing a broad variety of procedural and specialized administrative tasks for the respective section requiring in-depth knowledge of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and policies. This role will be focused on Premises Management while supporting as a backup for other Admin functions.
The post of Operations Manager, Common Services Center (CSC) reports to the PFP Deputy Director, Operations and Finance. The role will provide strategic leadership and overall direction to the CSC activities to support UNICEF’s core values and business objectives.
The incumbent will lead the multi-disciplinary teams and manage cross-functional services that directly impact the CSC performance. As a Strategic Business Partner, the incumbent will be responsible for leading results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, and contribute to delivering results for children.
The CSC serves multiple Divisions including their Senior Management team with very specific functional needs and work mandates. The role has a critical accountability to these Divisions, must balance competing priorities while ensuring equity in service delivery and maintain neutrality across the diverse mandates.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for Education Specialist (Foundational Skills) who will support the development and preparation of the education programme, particularly activities related to foundational (literacy and numeracy) learning, including gender and disability inclusive education in the context of reaching ‘last mile’ learners in early education, overall education sector system capacity strengthening, including informed by key research programmes. This is a Temporary Appointment contract with duration of 5 months.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for a Nutrition Officer who will support the Nutrition Specialist NCO, School age and adolescent nutrition and under the general guidance of Chief Nutrition in strengthening efforts to prevent overweight and obesity among children under five, school-age children, adolescents and women. The officer will contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of integrated nutrition interventions that promote healthy diets, physical activity and healthy food environments through health facility, school and community platforms. Specifically, the Nutrition Officer will provide technical and operational support to relevant government counterparts, including the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and other line ministries, in integrating overweight and obesity prevention into existing nutrition, health and school-based programmes. This includes contributing to the development or revision of technical guidelines, tools, training modules and communication materials that promote balanced diets, improved food environments and healthy behaviours across the life course. The officer will also support programme planning, coordination and implementation, including engagement with government partners, UN agencies and other stakeholders to strengthen multisectoral approaches to obesity prevention. In addition, he/she will contribute to programme monitoring, documentation of good practices and reporting of results to ensure evidence-based implementation and continuous programme improvement. This is a Temporary Appointment contract with duration of 364 days.
Education: Advanced university degree in Economics, Public Policy, Development Studies, or related field entailing strong quantitative OR qualitative training is required.PhD in Economics, Public Policy, Development Studies, or related field entailing strong quantitative and/or qualitative training is an asset.Specialized training in evaluation methods and methodologies and in causal inference is desirable.Experience:Required: 8+ years conducting global (portfolio) thematic evaluations using robust qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including for the last 3 years is required.• 5+ years (most recent) applying AI and machine learning to the evaluation process including text mining and evaluation synthesis.• Proven ability to work with internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels, including providing technical support and capacity building.• Proven track record producing user-centered outputs, including briefs, working papers, peer-reviewed journals, that contribute to awareness, knowledge, valuing and use of corporate thematic evaluations is required.DesirableThematic expertise in a programmatic area associated with UNICEF work, such as Education, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, Child protection and Water, Sanitation, Climate Resilience is desirable.• Experience in fragile and humanitarian setting is desirable.• Experience in integrating cross-cutting issues of gender, disability and equity in global thematic evaluations is desirable.Technical skills:Proficiency in statistical software for qualitative (MAXQDA, Atlas, NVivo) and/or quantitative analysis (R, Stata, Python), familiarity with relevant applications of Large Language Models (LLM) is required.• Advanced data visualization tools is an assetLanguage: Fluency in written and oral English
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, and concern, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Office aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
As UNICEF Libya prepares for the next Country Programme cycle (2028-2032), a comprehensive Situation Analysis (SitAn) is required to provide evidence-based insights on the state of child rights and well-being in Libya. This analysis will inform strategic planning, policy dialogue, and programme design to ensure that UNICEF’s interventions achieve lasting and transformational changes for children and adolescents, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalized.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfil their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
The Global Learning Innovation Hub under the UNICEF Office of Innovation is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Developer to join the Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADT) team. The ADT initiative transforms PDF textbooks into rich, accessible digital learning materials for children with and without disabilities. The selected consultant will take the lead on the continued development of ADT Studio — a TypeScript monorepo application that automates the production of accessible digital textbooks through AI-powered pipelines. This role is central to making educational content universally accessible and available to millions of children worldwide.
The ADT initiative converts PDF textbooks into structured, accessible digital content — including HTML storyboards, quizzes, glossaries, image captions, translations, and text-to-speech audio — packaged as self-contained web bundles, EPUBs, or WebPubs. The production pipeline is powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and controlled through a configuration-driven architecture that supports per-book customization of text classification, rendering strategies, and model settings.
ADT Studio is the successor to ADT Press, rebuilt as a TypeScript monorepo using AI-assisted development (Claude Code). It represents a significant architectural advancement: a two-level DAG pipeline model with a React frontend and Hono backend. The codebase is open-source, hosted on UNICEF’s GitHub, and designed for extensibility by third-party developers and country offices.
UNICEF Somalia is seeking a Nutrition Officer (Level 1) to join our Nutrition Programme within Central & Southern States (CSS – Kismayo). Reporting to the Nutrition Specialist (Level 3), this role provides the ideal opportunity to build practical experience across nutrition programming—while supporting Government to deliver high impact interventions, processes, and procedures that support long-term career growth. As a Nutrition Officer, you will deliver technical, operational, and administrative support throughout the programme cycle, including researching, collecting, analyzing, and presenting nutrition programme information. Your work will contribute to the development and formulation of the Nutrition Programme, ensuring high-quality technical inputs that strengthen planning and decision-making.
The objective of this consultancy is to work under the supervision of the ADAP Officer and in close cooperation with national partners to design, plan, and ensure the effective implementation of skills development programmes that reach the most disadvantaged youth. The consultant will coordinate and monitor programme delivery, while systematically tracking results and impact on participants.
UNICEF Islamabad Office is seeking an experienced, knowledgeable, and dynamic individual to take on the role of Communication Officer at the NOB level to join the Polio team on a Temporary basis.
India Country Office is seeking an experienced Education Specialist responsible for providing technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of results on education programmes/projects to improve learning outcomes and equitable and inclusive education, especially for children who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society. The position requires a candidate with ability to apply differentiated strategies (convening, converging, catalysing, influencing, advocating, leveraging, monitoring, building senior-level partnerships, south-south cooperation) to education programming in an upstream context.
The Nutrition Specialist supports the development, preparation and operationalization of the emergency nutrition response in a humanitarian and development nexus and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress in the Rohingya response and host community. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects within the emergency response and host community. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
The Health Manager will coordinate the implementation of Lao PDR’s Pandemic Fund project “Advancing Lao PDR’s Pandemic Response and Transformation (ALERT LAO)” on the human health component. This includes supporting the Ministry of Health in facilitating and managing a national coordination mechanism for the Pandemic Fund project, clarifying roles and responsibilities among the Ministry of Health, Implementing Entity of the project, and other development partners who will implement the proposed activities.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking an International Consultant to provide specialised technical guidance, quality assurance, and support for programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting for the ATscale-supported programme “Unlock Healthy Learning in the Pacific: Improving Access to Assistive Technology and Related Rehabilitation Services for School-Aged Children” in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, and Vanuatu.
The consultant will report to the Chief of Health and Nutrition, UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office, and work closely with UNICEF Field Offices and government counterparts in FSM, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. Apply now!
Join UNICEF Iraq and support management collaboration with programmes in defining supply interventions to meet programmatic needs and achieve results for children, and provides technical and advisory support to governments, national systems and partners on supply chain management.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the P3 Administrative and Finance Specialist the incumbent supports the effective management of the CSC budget, payroll for all UNICEF staff based in Rome, while providing technical guidance and oversight to the Finance Assistant and Finance Associate to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely service delivery of finance related transactions. The role requires the incumbent to have a strong understanding of both programmatic and funding components of UNICEF’s work. The position involves the supervisory responsibility of others.
Join UNICEF’s Global Programme Division and help drive global progress in maternal and newborn health. As a Health Specialist (MNH), you will lead data‑driven analysis, strengthen accountability mechanisms, and support countries in accelerating high‑impact MNCH interventions. You will guide EWENE‑CSA progress tracking across 100+ countries, support MNCH acceleration plans in more than 60 countries, and coordinate global partnerships that shape policy and implementation. This role blends technical expertise, programme monitoring, and partnership coordination to advance UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and contribute to preventing millions of maternal and newborn deaths.
The Senior Driver, at the G-3 level, provides reliable and safe driving services to the head of office, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol, whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
The Child Protection Specialist is part of Unicef Gabon Team, where the Child Protection Programme is a component of the Country Programme. The Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative Programme with the dotted-line reporting to the Representative
The Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Child Protection programme(s) and is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of the child protection programmes/projects within the country programme. The Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes. H/She facilitates the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international
Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Administrative Associate will be responsible for executing a broad variety of procedural and specialized administrative tasks for the respective section requiring in-depth knowledge of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and policies. This role will be focused on Premises Management while supporting as a backup for other Admin functions.
The post of Operations Manager, Common Services Center (CSC) reports to the PFP Deputy Director, Operations and Finance. The role will provide strategic leadership and overall direction to the CSC activities to support UNICEF’s core values and business objectives.
The incumbent will lead the multi-disciplinary teams and manage cross-functional services that directly impact the CSC performance. As a Strategic Business Partner, the incumbent will be responsible for leading results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, and contribute to delivering results for children.
The CSC serves multiple Divisions including their Senior Management team with very specific functional needs and work mandates. The role has a critical accountability to these Divisions, must balance competing priorities while ensuring equity in service delivery and maintain neutrality across the diverse mandates.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for Education Specialist (Foundational Skills) who will support the development and preparation of the education programme, particularly activities related to foundational (literacy and numeracy) learning, including gender and disability inclusive education in the context of reaching ‘last mile’ learners in early education, overall education sector system capacity strengthening, including informed by key research programmes. This is a Temporary Appointment contract with duration of 5 months.
UNICEF Jakarta is looking for a Nutrition Officer who will support the Nutrition Specialist NCO, School age and adolescent nutrition and under the general guidance of Chief Nutrition in strengthening efforts to prevent overweight and obesity among children under five, school-age children, adolescents and women. The officer will contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of integrated nutrition interventions that promote healthy diets, physical activity and healthy food environments through health facility, school and community platforms. Specifically, the Nutrition Officer will provide technical and operational support to relevant government counterparts, including the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and other line ministries, in integrating overweight and obesity prevention into existing nutrition, health and school-based programmes. This includes contributing to the development or revision of technical guidelines, tools, training modules and communication materials that promote balanced diets, improved food environments and healthy behaviours across the life course. The officer will also support programme planning, coordination and implementation, including engagement with government partners, UN agencies and other stakeholders to strengthen multisectoral approaches to obesity prevention. In addition, he/she will contribute to programme monitoring, documentation of good practices and reporting of results to ensure evidence-based implementation and continuous programme improvement. This is a Temporary Appointment contract with duration of 364 days.
