The Education Research Unit at UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti is looking for a Research Specialist (Asia-South Pacific). This role will support implementation and coordination of research activities globally and will be the focal point for research in Asia and South Pacific. The research specialist will 1) provide research support to countries where Innocenti has research activities, including the development and uptake of research and evidence into programming, planning and policy. 2) support coordination and research activities for implementation research programmes with governments and country teams 3) act as a focal point for the education implementation research team for the Asia and South Pacific Region, supporting the coordination of key partnerships and programmes.
This position will contribute to the wider objective of strengthening data management and data use at country level as well as building capacity of national governments/immunization programmes to forecast demand and optimize supply chain processes as outlined above.
Join UNICEF as a Strategic Business Partner, accountable for operations functions, facilitate change, provide risk-informed/ solution-focused analysis, advice, and services, and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts.
The Education Officer (MHPSS) is to be used in a Country Office (CO) where the Education Programme is a component of the Country Programme (or UNDAF). The Officer reports to the Chief of Education who is at Level 5. Under the guidance and general supervision of the Chief of Education, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education and MHPSS programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
The purpose of this national consultancy is to provide field-level coordination and qualitative research support for the mixed-methods impact assessment of the FunDoo in Uganda. This will include:
• Conducting qualitative data collection in selected communities and transcribing the qualitative data for the qualitative component of the study
• Support preliminary qualitative analysis
• Support the coordination of the recruitment of eligible adolescents and young people into the quantitative component of the study
• Supporting participant tracking and completion of baseline and follow-up surveys as part of the quantitative component of the study
The Kenya Country Office SBC Manager will play a pivotal role in advancing UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and the UNICEF Kenya Country Programme by embedding Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) across sectoral programmes. The role will ensure UNICEF’s technical assistance integrates evidence-based SBC, community engagement, feedback and accountability, demand generation, and equity as central drivers of results for children.The incumbent will provide cross-cutting technical leadership in SBC and AAP to UNICEF KCO and across sectors. This will include building institutional capacity, strengthening normative guidance, and ensuring behavioral and social sciences evidence informs policy and programme design.
UNICEF Office of Innovation, in collaboration with UNICEF India, and the office for Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and the Government of Tamil Nadu's State Planning Commission (SPC), OOI, and OECD-OPSI, is supporting Tamil Nadu as the first sub-national government globally to pilot structured public sector innovation.
This assignment aims to support the UNICEF Tamil Nadu State Office and the Government of Tamil Nadu in catalyzing innovation policies and initiatives that prioritize children’s rights and well-being. By framing Tamil Nadu’s transformation as a primary global pilot, the consultancy serves as a strategic laboratory to update UNICEF Innovation’s COMPASS public sector innovation module, creating a standardized global blueprint for how UNICEF offices engage with governments.
UNICEF Bhutan seeks proposal from eligible national consultants to conduct Situation Analysis on Pediatric and Childhood Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). This consultancy services is expected to generate comprehensive evidence on the burden, risk factors, service availability, system readiness, and policy landscape related to pediatric and childhood NCDs , in Bhutan to inform strategic policy shifts, planning, programming, and resource allocation.
Join UNICEF as a Communication Associate! You will play a key role in supporting the implementation of regional communication and advocacy priorities and ensuring the timely and impactful delivery of communication initiatives in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and the APRO Digital Communication Strategy.
You will support and assist with the efficient implementation of courses in Agora, UNICEF’s learning management system as the Learning & Development Assistant (Course Developer) with the Global Learning Centre team.
The Office of Strategy & Evidence - Innocenti (OSE) sets global standards, provides Organization-wide oversight and governance of evidence for the effective and methodologically sound and ethical collection, production of publications, disclosure and use of data, research and knowledge, and validates the quality of evidence, including the development of standards, tools, and systems for capturing, sharing, and applying learning across all levels of the organization. UNITE is a new corporate system that will serve as UNICEF’s next-generation platform for indicator management and reporting. It provides a unified, integrated and user-centric solution designed to streamline indicator management, enable real-time analytics and simplify reporting across the organization. To ensure the successful delivery of the UNITE system, a dedicated temporary assignment is required to support in managing the UNITE project.
The development of the National Primary Health Care (PHC) Strategy forms part of the broader process of consolidating the reform of Angola’s National Health System (SNS). The National Directorate of Public Health is leading this reform through a dedicated technical working group (TWG) which includes experts from Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA, however due to its nature, specialized technical assistance is essential to methodologically facilitate the development process, ensuring technical rigor, systemic coherence, and interinstitutional articulation.
L’UNICEF s’est engagé à appuyer le ministère de la Santé Publique dans la mise en œuvre et la coordination des interventions de santé numérique identifiées dans le plan de mise en œuvre de la stratégie nationale de santé numérique 2023-2027. Par ailleurs, Dans le cadre des initiatives de transformation numérique soutenues par la Mastercard Foundation, l’UNICEF et le ministère de la Santé Publique s’engagent concrètement à renforcer les systèmes de santé communautaire par l’intégration de solutions numériques durables, interopérables et centrées sur les agents de santé communautaires. Ce processus comprend le développement et l’extension de registres géoréférencés qui gère la Liste Maitresse des Agents Communautaires (LMAC), le renforcement des capacités via des plateformes d’e-learning, ainsi que la mise en place ou le renforcement des systèmes électroniques d’information sanitaire communautaires (eCHIS).
UNICEF is seeking a proactive and solutions-oriented Operations Officer to join our new Centre of Excellence in Amman. In this role, you will provide risk-informed, solution-oriented analysis to ensure efficient business transactions and value for money. You will serve as the main operational focal person—managing budgets, procurement, asset management, consultant rosters, and Long-Term Agreements—while maintaining smooth working relations with Global Shared Service Centres (CSCs). You will support Results-Based Management frameworks, review transactions for performance and fraud prevention, and lead capacity-building initiatives. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of UNICEF's programme support, directly contributing to results for children across the region
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (NOC) to join our team in Suva.
In this role, you will support the development, implementation, and monitoring of child protection programmes across the Pacific Multi-Country Office. Working under the guidance of the Chief, Child Protection, you will provide technical expertise, strengthen protection systems, and contribute to national and regional efforts to create safe, nurturing environments for all children. This position plays a critical role in advancing children’s rights to protection, survival, development, and wellbeing, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. If you are passionate about child rights and driven by impact, apply now and help make a lasting difference for children across the Pacific.
We are seeking a highly qualified consultant to support a key milestone under the SDG Joint Programme; helping to strengthen inter‑ministerial coordination across Jamaica’s social protection, health, and education sectors.
Help us drive better results for Jamaica’s children!
UNICEF is implementing the Emergency Preparedness Platform 3.0 (EPP) as a core corporate system to strengthen emergency preparedness and response planning across Country Offices (COs). The global launch of EPP 3.0 is planned for early July.
To support a coherent, structured and scalable global roll-out, UNICEF requires a comprehensive EPP 3.0 roll-out package across the organization with COs.ROs and HQ.
This package will encompass the creation of corporate guidance documents, detailed operational instructions embedded to be within the online platform, the creation of standardized design templates, a training package including a training of Trainers (ToT), the design and delivery of multilingual webinars, support for a global launch event and the establishment of a post-launch helpdesk function.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide strategic and technical advice in the development and delivery of the package set out above, ensuring that Regional Offices and Country Offices are equipped with authoritative guidance, practical tools, and high-quality training materials to effectively implement and operationalize the EPP in all country offices over the course of the coming two years.
The Finance Assistant will be responsible for providing a variety of 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
The purpose of this assignment is to enhance the engagement and management of global multi-generational families by developing and implementing strategic initiatives, communication strategies, and events that align with UNICEF’s philanthropic goals. This includes developing new family engagement opportunities specifically designed for age groups and/or generations currently not served by any offerings; creating content that effectively communicates the impact of family philanthropic donations and engagements; planning and executing donor engagement events, such as Supply Division Family day visits, Innocenti Family day visits and other regional events. Additionally, the role involves collaborating with various teams and stakeholders to ensure effective stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement within the Global Philanthropy team and across other teams.
The Consultant will work under the supervision and report to the Chief Global Philanthropy, based in Geneva. Further engagement may come in the form of communication with the other potential team members from UNICEF who will be identified separately. Additional relevant UNICEF staff from headquarters, national committees, and regional/country offices may be consulted throughout the process.
The Education Research Unit at UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti is looking for a Research Specialist (Asia-South Pacific). This role will support implementation and coordination of research activities globally and will be the focal point for research in Asia and South Pacific. The research specialist will 1) provide research support to countries where Innocenti has research activities, including the development and uptake of research and evidence into programming, planning and policy. 2) support coordination and research activities for implementation research programmes with governments and country teams 3) act as a focal point for the education implementation research team for the Asia and South Pacific Region, supporting the coordination of key partnerships and programmes.
This position will contribute to the wider objective of strengthening data management and data use at country level as well as building capacity of national governments/immunization programmes to forecast demand and optimize supply chain processes as outlined above.
Join UNICEF as a Strategic Business Partner, accountable for operations functions, facilitate change, provide risk-informed/ solution-focused analysis, advice, and services, and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in specific operational contexts.
The Education Officer (MHPSS) is to be used in a Country Office (CO) where the Education Programme is a component of the Country Programme (or UNDAF). The Officer reports to the Chief of Education who is at Level 5. Under the guidance and general supervision of the Chief of Education, the Education Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for education and MHPSS programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
The purpose of this national consultancy is to provide field-level coordination and qualitative research support for the mixed-methods impact assessment of the FunDoo in Uganda. This will include:
• Conducting qualitative data collection in selected communities and transcribing the qualitative data for the qualitative component of the study
• Support preliminary qualitative analysis
• Support the coordination of the recruitment of eligible adolescents and young people into the quantitative component of the study
• Supporting participant tracking and completion of baseline and follow-up surveys as part of the quantitative component of the study
The Kenya Country Office SBC Manager will play a pivotal role in advancing UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and the UNICEF Kenya Country Programme by embedding Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) across sectoral programmes. The role will ensure UNICEF’s technical assistance integrates evidence-based SBC, community engagement, feedback and accountability, demand generation, and equity as central drivers of results for children.The incumbent will provide cross-cutting technical leadership in SBC and AAP to UNICEF KCO and across sectors. This will include building institutional capacity, strengthening normative guidance, and ensuring behavioral and social sciences evidence informs policy and programme design.
UNICEF Office of Innovation, in collaboration with UNICEF India, and the office for Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and the Government of Tamil Nadu's State Planning Commission (SPC), OOI, and OECD-OPSI, is supporting Tamil Nadu as the first sub-national government globally to pilot structured public sector innovation.
This assignment aims to support the UNICEF Tamil Nadu State Office and the Government of Tamil Nadu in catalyzing innovation policies and initiatives that prioritize children’s rights and well-being. By framing Tamil Nadu’s transformation as a primary global pilot, the consultancy serves as a strategic laboratory to update UNICEF Innovation’s COMPASS public sector innovation module, creating a standardized global blueprint for how UNICEF offices engage with governments.
UNICEF Bhutan seeks proposal from eligible national consultants to conduct Situation Analysis on Pediatric and Childhood Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). This consultancy services is expected to generate comprehensive evidence on the burden, risk factors, service availability, system readiness, and policy landscape related to pediatric and childhood NCDs , in Bhutan to inform strategic policy shifts, planning, programming, and resource allocation.
Join UNICEF as a Communication Associate! You will play a key role in supporting the implementation of regional communication and advocacy priorities and ensuring the timely and impactful delivery of communication initiatives in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and the APRO Digital Communication Strategy.
You will support and assist with the efficient implementation of courses in Agora, UNICEF’s learning management system as the Learning & Development Assistant (Course Developer) with the Global Learning Centre team.
The Office of Strategy & Evidence - Innocenti (OSE) sets global standards, provides Organization-wide oversight and governance of evidence for the effective and methodologically sound and ethical collection, production of publications, disclosure and use of data, research and knowledge, and validates the quality of evidence, including the development of standards, tools, and systems for capturing, sharing, and applying learning across all levels of the organization. UNITE is a new corporate system that will serve as UNICEF’s next-generation platform for indicator management and reporting. It provides a unified, integrated and user-centric solution designed to streamline indicator management, enable real-time analytics and simplify reporting across the organization. To ensure the successful delivery of the UNITE system, a dedicated temporary assignment is required to support in managing the UNITE project.
The development of the National Primary Health Care (PHC) Strategy forms part of the broader process of consolidating the reform of Angola’s National Health System (SNS). The National Directorate of Public Health is leading this reform through a dedicated technical working group (TWG) which includes experts from Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA, however due to its nature, specialized technical assistance is essential to methodologically facilitate the development process, ensuring technical rigor, systemic coherence, and interinstitutional articulation.
L’UNICEF s’est engagé à appuyer le ministère de la Santé Publique dans la mise en œuvre et la coordination des interventions de santé numérique identifiées dans le plan de mise en œuvre de la stratégie nationale de santé numérique 2023-2027. Par ailleurs, Dans le cadre des initiatives de transformation numérique soutenues par la Mastercard Foundation, l’UNICEF et le ministère de la Santé Publique s’engagent concrètement à renforcer les systèmes de santé communautaire par l’intégration de solutions numériques durables, interopérables et centrées sur les agents de santé communautaires. Ce processus comprend le développement et l’extension de registres géoréférencés qui gère la Liste Maitresse des Agents Communautaires (LMAC), le renforcement des capacités via des plateformes d’e-learning, ainsi que la mise en place ou le renforcement des systèmes électroniques d’information sanitaire communautaires (eCHIS).
UNICEF is seeking a proactive and solutions-oriented Operations Officer to join our new Centre of Excellence in Amman. In this role, you will provide risk-informed, solution-oriented analysis to ensure efficient business transactions and value for money. You will serve as the main operational focal person—managing budgets, procurement, asset management, consultant rosters, and Long-Term Agreements—while maintaining smooth working relations with Global Shared Service Centres (CSCs). You will support Results-Based Management frameworks, review transactions for performance and fraud prevention, and lead capacity-building initiatives. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of UNICEF's programme support, directly contributing to results for children across the region
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (NOC) to join our team in Suva.
In this role, you will support the development, implementation, and monitoring of child protection programmes across the Pacific Multi-Country Office. Working under the guidance of the Chief, Child Protection, you will provide technical expertise, strengthen protection systems, and contribute to national and regional efforts to create safe, nurturing environments for all children. This position plays a critical role in advancing children’s rights to protection, survival, development, and wellbeing, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. If you are passionate about child rights and driven by impact, apply now and help make a lasting difference for children across the Pacific.
We are seeking a highly qualified consultant to support a key milestone under the SDG Joint Programme; helping to strengthen inter‑ministerial coordination across Jamaica’s social protection, health, and education sectors.
Help us drive better results for Jamaica’s children!
UNICEF is implementing the Emergency Preparedness Platform 3.0 (EPP) as a core corporate system to strengthen emergency preparedness and response planning across Country Offices (COs). The global launch of EPP 3.0 is planned for early July.
To support a coherent, structured and scalable global roll-out, UNICEF requires a comprehensive EPP 3.0 roll-out package across the organization with COs.ROs and HQ.
This package will encompass the creation of corporate guidance documents, detailed operational instructions embedded to be within the online platform, the creation of standardized design templates, a training package including a training of Trainers (ToT), the design and delivery of multilingual webinars, support for a global launch event and the establishment of a post-launch helpdesk function.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide strategic and technical advice in the development and delivery of the package set out above, ensuring that Regional Offices and Country Offices are equipped with authoritative guidance, practical tools, and high-quality training materials to effectively implement and operationalize the EPP in all country offices over the course of the coming two years.
The Finance Assistant will be responsible for providing a variety of 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
The purpose of this assignment is to enhance the engagement and management of global multi-generational families by developing and implementing strategic initiatives, communication strategies, and events that align with UNICEF’s philanthropic goals. This includes developing new family engagement opportunities specifically designed for age groups and/or generations currently not served by any offerings; creating content that effectively communicates the impact of family philanthropic donations and engagements; planning and executing donor engagement events, such as Supply Division Family day visits, Innocenti Family day visits and other regional events. Additionally, the role involves collaborating with various teams and stakeholders to ensure effective stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement within the Global Philanthropy team and across other teams.
The Consultant will work under the supervision and report to the Chief Global Philanthropy, based in Geneva. Further engagement may come in the form of communication with the other potential team members from UNICEF who will be identified separately. Additional relevant UNICEF staff from headquarters, national committees, and regional/country offices may be consulted throughout the process.
