UNICEF Burkina Faso is seeking a highly qualified and experienced professional to join the team as Chief Social Policy. The incumbent will provide strategic leadership and technical guidance to advance social policy priorities, including social protection, public finance for children, child poverty and equity, and evidence-based policy advocacy.
La persona consultora brindará asistencia técnica al equipo nacional, bajo el liderazgo técnico del Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Guinea Ecuatorial (INEGE),
UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series focused on burnout prevention, recovery, resilience, and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver two cohorts of interactive sessions, providing participants with practical, evidence-based tools to better understand burnout, regulate stress, strengthen resilience, enhance self-care practices, and reconnect with purpose in both their professional and personal lives. The assignment requires demonstrated expertise in psychology, counselling, staff wellbeing, or a related field, along with experience facilitating engaging virtual learning programmes within multicultural and complex organizational environments. Experience working with the United Nations system or international organizations and delivering similar wellbeing initiatives is highly desirable.
UNICEF Uganda is recruiting a Social Policy Specialist (P-3 TA) to support national efforts to reduce child poverty, strengthen social protection systems, improve public financing for children, and enhance the use of evidence in policymaking. The role will provide technical leadership for major national surveys, including MICS and Violence Against Children Survey initiatives, while supporting partnerships with government, development partners, research institutions, and civil society. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced development professional to contribute to high-impact policy, data, and programme initiatives that improve outcomes for children across Uganda.
Join UNICEF as a Child Protection Officer (Justice for Children) and help strengthen child protection systems that safeguard vulnerable children. This role supports programme planning, implementation, partnership development, monitoring, and capacity building while working closely with government, community, and humanitarian partners to deliver meaningful results for children and families.
UNICEF seeks to hire a consultant to work jointly with UNHCR and UNICEF to ensure the effective coordination of the child protection implementation of the global PROSPECTS initiative, fostering coherence and synergies between the different streams of work and providing technical assistance to country teams, with support from the global UNICEF and UNHCR team members.
UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking a highly qualified health professional to support the delivery of equitable and resilient health services for women and children. Operating within a decentralized and complex environment, the role will contribute to strengthening primary health care, immunization, health systems, and emergency preparedness and response, with a particular focus on reaching underserved, hard-to-reach, and crisis-affected populations across Ethiopia.
Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer – Digital Learning will provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for UNICEF Syria's digital learning interventions across Formal Education, NFE, ELC digitalization and inclusive/teacher-training initiatives, ensuring alignment with the Learning Passport approach, sound MoE engagement, effective device/utilization management, and robust monitoring and evidence generation to support evidence-based scale-up decisions.
🚀 Shape the future of Operations at UNICEF Bangladesh. UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking a qualified and motivated professional for the position of Administrative Associate, based in Cox’s Bazar. The position will support the effective delivery of administrative services, including office and facilities management, travel, fleet coordination, procurement support, contract monitoring, and other operational requirements of the Field Office. As the GS-6 Administrative Associate in UNICEF’s Cox’s Bazar Field Office, you will be a key member of the Operations team, providing essential administrative and operational support for the timely delivery of UNICEF’s programmes. Working under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Officer, you will support administrative coordination, travel and mission management, office operations, protocol services, and liaison with the Bangladesh Country Office in Dhaka. You will collaborate closely with programme and operations colleagues, UN agencies, government counterparts, partners, service providers, and other stakeholders.
UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking a dedicated and responsible Driver (G-2) to provide safe, reliable, and timely transportation services for staff, officials, and visitors. The role involves maintaining assigned vehicles, ensuring compliance with local traffic regulations, and keeping accurate vehicle documentation. The ideal candidate will demonstrate professionalism, integrity, discretion, and a strong client-service orientation while contributing to the smooth functioning of the office and UNICEF's mission to support the most vulnerable women and children in Bangladesh.
UNICEF’s Myanmar Child Protection Section seeks to maintain a roster of qualified experts to provide technical support for Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) in the following 2 thematic areas:
1. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
2. Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC)
Interested applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
Long Term Agreement (LTA) for Engagement of Individual Consultants as Experts on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Emergencies.
Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field. An advanced university degree is an asset.Experience: A minimum of two years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas is required. Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization, in particular related to Child Protection In Humanitarian Action (CPHA), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), or preventing and mitigating violence against children in all settings, is considered as an asset. Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
To advance and finalize the evaluation report, UNICEF is seeking an independent senior consultant to conduct further analysis and triangulate the existing primary and secondary evidence in order to improve the existing report and finalize a high-quality evaluation report in accordance with UNICEF and UNEG standards. The assignment will build on the initial data analysis and reporting already completed. The consultant will present the findings, incorporate feedback from UNICEF and the Evaluation Reference Group, and finalize the report and related communication products.
UNICEF works to realize every child’s rights, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF supports resilient systems and communities through risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness. As humanitarian and development financing becomes increasingly constrained, UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) plays a critical role in mobilizing private sector partnerships and resources to drive results for children.
UNICEF is seeking a national consultant to support the Aleppo Field Office in revitalizing and advancing the Child Friendly City initiative in Aleppo. The consultant will support the development of a results framework and a multi-sectoral action plan aligned with recognized Child Friendly City criteria and the priorities of the Aleppo local government.
The consultancy will be implemented in two phases over an initial period of six months, with each phase lasting three months. Subject to progress, results achieved, and the continued needs of the initiative, the consultancy may be extended.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Fundraising Officer, the Digital Fundraising (FR) Consultant provides specialized technical support to the Communications and Fundraising Section in the development, implementation, execution and monitoring of private sector fundraising activities, with a particular focus on digital donor acquisition.
The Consultant contributes to the effective and timely delivery of digital fundraising initiatives, ensuring alignment with UNICEF strategies, policies, procedures, standards and applicable rules and regulations, while supporting the achievement of agreed fundraising objectives and results.
UNICEF Romania CO is looking for a National Coordinator (NOC) to support UNICEF’s country-level engagement within the EU HIC MCO. The Coordinator will provide national technical advice, coordination and contextual analysis for assigned country-level priorities, supporting UNICEF’s strategic cooperation agenda through technical inputs to policy dialogue, evidence-based advocacy, child rights monitoring, partnership follow-up, public finance engagement, knowledge generation, and coordination of UNICEF-supported catalytic initiatives and technical assistance.
This consultancy is to develop a practical toolkit to support country teams responsible for leading or promoting vaccine acceptance and uptake during public health emergencies. The toolkit will provide practical guidance and tools for integrating vaccine demand and acceptance throughout the emergency vaccination cycle, from preparedness and activation through vaccine deployment, monitoring, and adaptation.
The consultancy will also provide technical support to promote vaccine uptake and demand for vaccine trials and vaccine roll out in response to ebola disease outbreaks.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering all countries and territories for which authoritative legal information can be verified. The Atlas will document the statutory age of majority and MACR, including exceptions, differentiated thresholds and relevant implementation provisions, and assess alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 24,
UNICEF Burkina Faso is seeking a highly qualified and experienced professional to join the team as Chief Social Policy. The incumbent will provide strategic leadership and technical guidance to advance social policy priorities, including social protection, public finance for children, child poverty and equity, and evidence-based policy advocacy.
La persona consultora brindará asistencia técnica al equipo nacional, bajo el liderazgo técnico del Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Guinea Ecuatorial (INEGE),
UNICEF ESARO is seeking an experienced mental health and wellbeing professional to design and facilitate a virtual webinar series focused on burnout prevention, recovery, resilience, and sustainable wellbeing for UNICEF staff. The consultant will deliver two cohorts of interactive sessions, providing participants with practical, evidence-based tools to better understand burnout, regulate stress, strengthen resilience, enhance self-care practices, and reconnect with purpose in both their professional and personal lives. The assignment requires demonstrated expertise in psychology, counselling, staff wellbeing, or a related field, along with experience facilitating engaging virtual learning programmes within multicultural and complex organizational environments. Experience working with the United Nations system or international organizations and delivering similar wellbeing initiatives is highly desirable.
UNICEF Uganda is recruiting a Social Policy Specialist (P-3 TA) to support national efforts to reduce child poverty, strengthen social protection systems, improve public financing for children, and enhance the use of evidence in policymaking. The role will provide technical leadership for major national surveys, including MICS and Violence Against Children Survey initiatives, while supporting partnerships with government, development partners, research institutions, and civil society. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced development professional to contribute to high-impact policy, data, and programme initiatives that improve outcomes for children across Uganda.
Join UNICEF as a Child Protection Officer (Justice for Children) and help strengthen child protection systems that safeguard vulnerable children. This role supports programme planning, implementation, partnership development, monitoring, and capacity building while working closely with government, community, and humanitarian partners to deliver meaningful results for children and families.
UNICEF seeks to hire a consultant to work jointly with UNHCR and UNICEF to ensure the effective coordination of the child protection implementation of the global PROSPECTS initiative, fostering coherence and synergies between the different streams of work and providing technical assistance to country teams, with support from the global UNICEF and UNHCR team members.
UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking a highly qualified health professional to support the delivery of equitable and resilient health services for women and children. Operating within a decentralized and complex environment, the role will contribute to strengthening primary health care, immunization, health systems, and emergency preparedness and response, with a particular focus on reaching underserved, hard-to-reach, and crisis-affected populations across Ethiopia.
Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Education Officer – Digital Learning will provide technical leadership, coordination and quality assurance for UNICEF Syria's digital learning interventions across Formal Education, NFE, ELC digitalization and inclusive/teacher-training initiatives, ensuring alignment with the Learning Passport approach, sound MoE engagement, effective device/utilization management, and robust monitoring and evidence generation to support evidence-based scale-up decisions.
🚀 Shape the future of Operations at UNICEF Bangladesh. UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking a qualified and motivated professional for the position of Administrative Associate, based in Cox’s Bazar. The position will support the effective delivery of administrative services, including office and facilities management, travel, fleet coordination, procurement support, contract monitoring, and other operational requirements of the Field Office. As the GS-6 Administrative Associate in UNICEF’s Cox’s Bazar Field Office, you will be a key member of the Operations team, providing essential administrative and operational support for the timely delivery of UNICEF’s programmes. Working under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Officer, you will support administrative coordination, travel and mission management, office operations, protocol services, and liaison with the Bangladesh Country Office in Dhaka. You will collaborate closely with programme and operations colleagues, UN agencies, government counterparts, partners, service providers, and other stakeholders.
UNICEF Bangladesh is seeking a dedicated and responsible Driver (G-2) to provide safe, reliable, and timely transportation services for staff, officials, and visitors. The role involves maintaining assigned vehicles, ensuring compliance with local traffic regulations, and keeping accurate vehicle documentation. The ideal candidate will demonstrate professionalism, integrity, discretion, and a strong client-service orientation while contributing to the smooth functioning of the office and UNICEF's mission to support the most vulnerable women and children in Bangladesh.
UNICEF’s Myanmar Child Protection Section seeks to maintain a roster of qualified experts to provide technical support for Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) in the following 2 thematic areas:
1. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
2. Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC)
Interested applicants with relevant qualifications and experience are eligible to apply.
Long Term Agreement (LTA) for Engagement of Individual Consultants as Experts on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Emergencies.
Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field. An advanced university degree is an asset.Experience: A minimum of two years of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas is required. Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization, in particular related to Child Protection In Humanitarian Action (CPHA), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), or preventing and mitigating violence against children in all settings, is considered as an asset. Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is an added advantage.Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
To advance and finalize the evaluation report, UNICEF is seeking an independent senior consultant to conduct further analysis and triangulate the existing primary and secondary evidence in order to improve the existing report and finalize a high-quality evaluation report in accordance with UNICEF and UNEG standards. The assignment will build on the initial data analysis and reporting already completed. The consultant will present the findings, incorporate feedback from UNICEF and the Evaluation Reference Group, and finalize the report and related communication products.
UNICEF works to realize every child’s rights, everywhere. Grounded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, UNICEF supports resilient systems and communities through risk-informed programming, social protection and preparedness. As humanitarian and development financing becomes increasingly constrained, UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) plays a critical role in mobilizing private sector partnerships and resources to drive results for children.
UNICEF is seeking a national consultant to support the Aleppo Field Office in revitalizing and advancing the Child Friendly City initiative in Aleppo. The consultant will support the development of a results framework and a multi-sectoral action plan aligned with recognized Child Friendly City criteria and the priorities of the Aleppo local government.
The consultancy will be implemented in two phases over an initial period of six months, with each phase lasting three months. Subject to progress, results achieved, and the continued needs of the initiative, the consultancy may be extended.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Fundraising Officer, the Digital Fundraising (FR) Consultant provides specialized technical support to the Communications and Fundraising Section in the development, implementation, execution and monitoring of private sector fundraising activities, with a particular focus on digital donor acquisition.
The Consultant contributes to the effective and timely delivery of digital fundraising initiatives, ensuring alignment with UNICEF strategies, policies, procedures, standards and applicable rules and regulations, while supporting the achievement of agreed fundraising objectives and results.
UNICEF Romania CO is looking for a National Coordinator (NOC) to support UNICEF’s country-level engagement within the EU HIC MCO. The Coordinator will provide national technical advice, coordination and contextual analysis for assigned country-level priorities, supporting UNICEF’s strategic cooperation agenda through technical inputs to policy dialogue, evidence-based advocacy, child rights monitoring, partnership follow-up, public finance engagement, knowledge generation, and coordination of UNICEF-supported catalytic initiatives and technical assistance.
This consultancy is to develop a practical toolkit to support country teams responsible for leading or promoting vaccine acceptance and uptake during public health emergencies. The toolkit will provide practical guidance and tools for integrating vaccine demand and acceptance throughout the emergency vaccination cycle, from preparedness and activation through vaccine deployment, monitoring, and adaptation.
The consultancy will also provide technical support to promote vaccine uptake and demand for vaccine trials and vaccine roll out in response to ebola disease outbreaks.
UNICEF is seeking for a Consultant who will support the development of a global Legal Atlas covering all countries and territories for which authoritative legal information can be verified. The Atlas will document the statutory age of majority and MACR, including exceptions, differentiated thresholds and relevant implementation provisions, and assess alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 24,
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