Under the overall guidance and direction of the Chief of Child Rights Advocacy, the Advocacy Specialist will be responsible for supporting the National Committees in the design, implementation and monitoring of foundational advocacy and platform initiatives. The position will:1. Support foundational advocacy by National Committees, specifically CRE and child and youth participation;2. Provide support to National Committees on Platform Initiatives, either directly or through supervising dedicated consultancies when available;3. Identify and pursue opportunities for synergies among foundational advocacy and platform initiatives.
To provide technical assistance to TASAF in the design, operationalization, capacity-building, and rollout of an integrated Social and Behaviour Change strategy for PSSN III (Imarisha Kaya),
The Security Specialist advises and supports the Representative, Chief Field Office or Country Security Manager in fulfilling security duties and responsibilities under the UNSMS and UNICEF security policies. This role contributes to UNICEF’s mandate by enabling principled and timely delivery within acceptable levels of risk through security risk analysis, planning, preparedness, access support, incident management and implementation of appropriate risk mitigation measures. In Nairobi, the Security Specialist leads and manages a team of national security professionals to provide integrated, scalable, coordinated and responsive security support across all UNICEF offices in Nairobi, meeting the needs arising from UNICEF’s growing operational footprint, staff presence, premises, missions, events and regional programme support requirements. The Security Specialist manages and supports security activities for all UNICEF Nairobi offices and designated locations, in coordination with UNDSS, the Security Cell, other UNSMS actors and relevant partners, including under the Saving Lives Together framework.
While existing learning frameworks and diagnostic assessment tools provide valuable guidance for assessing foundational learning, these were primarily developed for stable learning environments. Their application in emergency settings requires adaptation to account for interrupted schooling, psychosocial stress, multi-grade teaching arrangements, learning loss, student displacement, and challenges related to inclusive education.
Particular attention is required to ensure assessment approaches are appropriate for children with disabilities, children from diverse linguistic backgrounds, and those experiencing prolonged learning disruption.
Strengthening emergency responsive learning frameworks and diagnostic tools will support evidence-based planning, targeted learning support, and improved learning recovery efforts at national and subnational levels.
Under the supervision and technical guidance of the Supply Chain Manager, the Cold Chain and Energy Systems Engineer will provide hands-on engineering support to the Country Office for the active and passive cold chain, the associated energy systems and technical infrastructure.
Join UNICEF as a Senior Communication Associate (Writer & Editor) within the Global Internal Communication and Staff Engagement (ICSE) team. As a principal writer and editor, you will develop clear, accurate and compelling organizational communications, stories and editorial content that keep personnel informed about UNICEF’s priorities, initiatives, organizational developments and impact. Through strong writing, editing, and storytelling, you will help inform, engage and connect UNICEF personnel worldwide.
The Child Protection Officer (GBViE) is responsible for providing the South Sudan Country Office with technical support on GBViE response, prevention and risk mitigation programming ensuring implementation of high-impact interventions in acute and chronic emergencies in line with UNICEF’s GBViE Operational Guide, and IASC technical guidelines.
The P4 Human Resources Manager has a key role in leading, coordinating and quality-assurance under the overall direction of the Chief of People and Culture. The incumbent supports coherent client allocation and workload management across HRBPs; provides technical guidance and escalation support on complex or sensitive cases; promotes consistent application of policy across client groups; and ensures that business partnering is integrated with the team's functional focal-point model. Functional leads retain technical ownership and quality assurance for designated areas such as talent acquisition, employee lifecycle and entitlements, learning and performance management, workforce analytics and post management, while HRBPs coordinate client needs and refer matters requiring specialist review or approval to the relevant focal point. Given the demands of the L3 emergency, the model is deliberately flexible. The incumbent is expected to facilitate cross-pillar support during recruitment surges, staffing gaps, R&R and other absences, and periods of heightened operational demand, ensuring continuity of P&C service delivery and appropriate Officer-in-Charge arrangements when required. The role also uses workforce data and analytics to identify emerging people risks, staffing requirements and service-delivery bottlenecks, and to support evidence-based decisions by senior management.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Under the guidance of the Nutrition Specialist, the Nutrition Officer will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance and support to state level government and implementing partners to facilitate the formulation, design, planning, monitoring and evaluation for the achievement of concrete results in nutrition interventions as well as support the delivery of quality nutrition interventions, through strengthen nutrition monitoring system and ensuring that technical protocols are followed. Furthermore, the officer will support field team in responding to nutrition emergencies ensuring timely needs assessments, analysis and provision of feedback and technical assistance for development of timely response actions, emergency preparedness, and the provision of timely and comprehensive emergency nutrition response among IDPs, refugees and newly accessible populations.
Unicef Afghanistan Country Office is looking for an experienced Contract Specialist responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective and efficient procurement of institutional services for the Country Office and ensuring that the contracting function produces affordable and quality outputs with a significant impact on program delivery of much-needed services.
El/la consultor(a) será responsable de formular una estrategia y una propuesta de Plan Estratégico Institucional (Autoridad Nacional del Agua) a nivel nacional y local para el período 2027-2032, orientados al fortalecimiento de la gestión integral, sostenible, equitativo y resiliente de los recursos hídricos y de los servicios de agua, saneamiento e higiene (ASH). La propuesta deberá definir objetivos estratégicos, líneas de acción, indicadores, metas y mecanismos de seguimiento que permitan orientar la toma de decisiones y la implementación de intervenciones en el sector. Asimismo, deberá contribuir al fortalecimiento de la coordinación interinstitucional, la gobernanza del sector y la promoción de prácticas responsables para la gestión del agua y los servicios ASH, garantizando un acceso equitativo, seguro, sostenible y resiliente para la población, con especial énfasis en la preparación, respuesta y recuperación ante situaciones de emergencia y desastres.
The Programme Assistant (G5) is positioned in the Programme Section, reporting directly to the Supervisor or Section Chief. This position carries cross-sectoral functions of programme planning and operations, ensuring seamless coordination between technical teams, operations units, and external partners/service providers. Depending on programme priorities, the Incumbent may be positioned in sector-specific teams (e.g., Health, Education, Child Protection) or in crosscutting initiatives (e.g., equity, emergency response).
The Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
Under the overall guidance and direction of the Chief of Child Rights Advocacy, the Advocacy Specialist will be responsible for supporting the National Committees in the design, implementation and monitoring of foundational advocacy and platform initiatives. The position will:1. Support foundational advocacy by National Committees, specifically CRE and child and youth participation;2. Provide support to National Committees on Platform Initiatives, either directly or through supervising dedicated consultancies when available;3. Identify and pursue opportunities for synergies among foundational advocacy and platform initiatives.
To provide technical assistance to TASAF in the design, operationalization, capacity-building, and rollout of an integrated Social and Behaviour Change strategy for PSSN III (Imarisha Kaya),
The Security Specialist advises and supports the Representative, Chief Field Office or Country Security Manager in fulfilling security duties and responsibilities under the UNSMS and UNICEF security policies. This role contributes to UNICEF’s mandate by enabling principled and timely delivery within acceptable levels of risk through security risk analysis, planning, preparedness, access support, incident management and implementation of appropriate risk mitigation measures. In Nairobi, the Security Specialist leads and manages a team of national security professionals to provide integrated, scalable, coordinated and responsive security support across all UNICEF offices in Nairobi, meeting the needs arising from UNICEF’s growing operational footprint, staff presence, premises, missions, events and regional programme support requirements. The Security Specialist manages and supports security activities for all UNICEF Nairobi offices and designated locations, in coordination with UNDSS, the Security Cell, other UNSMS actors and relevant partners, including under the Saving Lives Together framework.
While existing learning frameworks and diagnostic assessment tools provide valuable guidance for assessing foundational learning, these were primarily developed for stable learning environments. Their application in emergency settings requires adaptation to account for interrupted schooling, psychosocial stress, multi-grade teaching arrangements, learning loss, student displacement, and challenges related to inclusive education.
Particular attention is required to ensure assessment approaches are appropriate for children with disabilities, children from diverse linguistic backgrounds, and those experiencing prolonged learning disruption.
Strengthening emergency responsive learning frameworks and diagnostic tools will support evidence-based planning, targeted learning support, and improved learning recovery efforts at national and subnational levels.
Under the supervision and technical guidance of the Supply Chain Manager, the Cold Chain and Energy Systems Engineer will provide hands-on engineering support to the Country Office for the active and passive cold chain, the associated energy systems and technical infrastructure.
Join UNICEF as a Senior Communication Associate (Writer & Editor) within the Global Internal Communication and Staff Engagement (ICSE) team. As a principal writer and editor, you will develop clear, accurate and compelling organizational communications, stories and editorial content that keep personnel informed about UNICEF’s priorities, initiatives, organizational developments and impact. Through strong writing, editing, and storytelling, you will help inform, engage and connect UNICEF personnel worldwide.
The Child Protection Officer (GBViE) is responsible for providing the South Sudan Country Office with technical support on GBViE response, prevention and risk mitigation programming ensuring implementation of high-impact interventions in acute and chronic emergencies in line with UNICEF’s GBViE Operational Guide, and IASC technical guidelines.
The P4 Human Resources Manager has a key role in leading, coordinating and quality-assurance under the overall direction of the Chief of People and Culture. The incumbent supports coherent client allocation and workload management across HRBPs; provides technical guidance and escalation support on complex or sensitive cases; promotes consistent application of policy across client groups; and ensures that business partnering is integrated with the team's functional focal-point model. Functional leads retain technical ownership and quality assurance for designated areas such as talent acquisition, employee lifecycle and entitlements, learning and performance management, workforce analytics and post management, while HRBPs coordinate client needs and refer matters requiring specialist review or approval to the relevant focal point. Given the demands of the L3 emergency, the model is deliberately flexible. The incumbent is expected to facilitate cross-pillar support during recruitment surges, staffing gaps, R&R and other absences, and periods of heightened operational demand, ensuring continuity of P&C service delivery and appropriate Officer-in-Charge arrangements when required. The role also uses workforce data and analytics to identify emerging people risks, staffing requirements and service-delivery bottlenecks, and to support evidence-based decisions by senior management.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Under the guidance of the Nutrition Specialist, the Nutrition Officer will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance and support to state level government and implementing partners to facilitate the formulation, design, planning, monitoring and evaluation for the achievement of concrete results in nutrition interventions as well as support the delivery of quality nutrition interventions, through strengthen nutrition monitoring system and ensuring that technical protocols are followed. Furthermore, the officer will support field team in responding to nutrition emergencies ensuring timely needs assessments, analysis and provision of feedback and technical assistance for development of timely response actions, emergency preparedness, and the provision of timely and comprehensive emergency nutrition response among IDPs, refugees and newly accessible populations.
Unicef Afghanistan Country Office is looking for an experienced Contract Specialist responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective and efficient procurement of institutional services for the Country Office and ensuring that the contracting function produces affordable and quality outputs with a significant impact on program delivery of much-needed services.
El/la consultor(a) será responsable de formular una estrategia y una propuesta de Plan Estratégico Institucional (Autoridad Nacional del Agua) a nivel nacional y local para el período 2027-2032, orientados al fortalecimiento de la gestión integral, sostenible, equitativo y resiliente de los recursos hídricos y de los servicios de agua, saneamiento e higiene (ASH). La propuesta deberá definir objetivos estratégicos, líneas de acción, indicadores, metas y mecanismos de seguimiento que permitan orientar la toma de decisiones y la implementación de intervenciones en el sector. Asimismo, deberá contribuir al fortalecimiento de la coordinación interinstitucional, la gobernanza del sector y la promoción de prácticas responsables para la gestión del agua y los servicios ASH, garantizando un acceso equitativo, seguro, sostenible y resiliente para la población, con especial énfasis en la preparación, respuesta y recuperación ante situaciones de emergencia y desastres.
The Programme Assistant (G5) is positioned in the Programme Section, reporting directly to the Supervisor or Section Chief. This position carries cross-sectoral functions of programme planning and operations, ensuring seamless coordination between technical teams, operations units, and external partners/service providers. Depending on programme priorities, the Incumbent may be positioned in sector-specific teams (e.g., Health, Education, Child Protection) or in crosscutting initiatives (e.g., equity, emergency response).
The Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of technical and specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
According to UNICEF Afghanistan MICS 2022-2023 data, 29.8 per cent of children aged 3-17 years have some type of functional difficulty.3 According to evidence, challenges in analysis and design of programmes for people and children with disabilities limited their access to services and equitable outcomes. A lack of specific indicators to track progress for people and children with disabilities hampers the ability to measure and prioritize their needs effectively.
This assessment is needed because children with disabilities in Afghanistan face heightened and often invisible barriers to accessing essential services, including health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection, particularly in a context of increasing poverty, displacement, and restrictions on participation. At the same time, disability data and systematic analysis remain limited, constraining evidence-based planning, equitable targeting, and accountability to Leave No One Behind commitments. By combining a situation analysis with an internal readiness assessment, UNICEF Afghanistan and partners will be better positioned to identify practical entry points for disability inclusion, strengthen program design and implementation, and ensure that interventions reach and benefit children with disabilities in a measurable and sustainable way.
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