Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, Programmes, the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (PME) will coordinate the planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting functions for the Country Programme and support child rights monitoring in the country, in close collaboration with the various teams in the country and field offices, and relevant external partners.
Drive rapid, evidence-based social and behaviour change action in emergency settings by supporting the design, coordination and delivery of inclusive, high-impact SBC strategies that protect children and communities.
UNICEF Ukraine is looking for the Emergency Officer will implement the country office emergency preparedness and response on the ground. The holder of the position will carry the responsibility for leading emergency response activities in Kherson Oblast and provide support for small‑scale emergency responses in Mykolaiv and Odesa Oblasts, including those related to strike impacts. The incumbent will be responsible for the technical contribution to the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the emergency interventions to advance the survival and well-being of children and mothers and affected communities in an emergency situation.
UNICEF China is looking for qualified candidates for the position - Executive Specialist (P-3). This post is responsible for supporting the supervisor in implementing and following up on key strategic priorities; coordinating, managing, and planning activities in a systematic and organized manner; and lastly, managing an effective system for incoming information, including correspondence and decision memos.
An individual consultant is required for the temporary provision of technical support of the Access to Education Output 2 of the UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office Education Programme. The purpose of the activity is specifically related to time-bound education project evaluations, and related activities. This will require the main deliverables as detailed below.
The Federal Ministry of Education launched the Nigeria Education Sector Renew Initiative (NESRI) with education data as one of the core pillars for education reform. Subsequently, the Ministry initiated the Nigerian Education Data Initiative (NEDI) to strengthen sector-wide data collection, management, analysis and use. The initiative aims to enable the federal, state and local governments and school authorities to leverage the education data for policy making, programme development, and improvement of teaching and learning activities. To achieve the goal, UNICEF has been supporting the Ministry to operationalize education information management systems (EMIS) across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In 2025, UNICEF supported the Ministry to launch the EMIS with annual school census module, safe school module and student registry module. The EMIS system has been developed by the University Oslo (UiO) that has provided a DHIS platform.
To help the government mainstream the EMIS in the education sector and institutionalize it as a sustainable system, UNICEF seeks to hire a national consultant who provides technical expertise to lead the data systems interventions with the Federal Ministry of Education and state governments.
The Senior Programme Associate (G‑7) is embedded within the Child Protection Programme Section, reporting to the Section Chief. Positioned at the functional categories of technical, operational, and financial areas the incumbent partners closely with other teams/sections (Operations, Finance, Supply), as well as with external stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), and CoE-based units to implement strategic priorities into concrete activities on the ground.
Reporting to the Immunization Specialist and under the general overall guidance of the Chief of Health & Nutrition, the SBC Officer (P-2) TA is responsible for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based, inclusive and innovative SBC strategies in support of the country programme. By following the UNICEF SBC global programme and operational guidances, the role designs, plans and implements activities that are backed by social and behavioural evidence and strong engagement and participation mechanisms in both development and humanitarian contexts.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation, coordination, and learning journey of the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education (2026–2027).
Building on earlier research and documentation phases, this consultancy will support:
• The delivery and coherence of the fellowship learning journey
• Coordination across fellows, senior fellows, and partners
• Development of curriculum, session design, and learning materials
• Structured documentation and synthesis of youth-led climate education Bright Spots
• Identification and documentation of additional promising initiatives from 18K broader applicant pool
• Translation of insights into evidence, policy-relevant outputs, and knowledge products
The consultant will contribute to ensuring that the Fellowship functions as a coherent, connected learning and systems platform, supporting UNICEF’s broader work on climate education, youth participation, and intergenerational governance.
This position is located within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation (PRM) team of the UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO). Sudan currently manages one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian appeals globally, approaching one billion USD annually. The PRM team is structured around two core functions: budget management and partnerships.
The Regional Staff Counsellor serves as a senior adviser on staff wellbeing and psychosocial risk, providing strategic leadership and confidential counselling support across the region. They lead the regional counselling team and ensure effective wellbeing systems, resilience strategies, and staff care services, including in emergency and high-risk settings.
Join UNICEF Somalia as an Advocacy Specialist and help advance children’s rights in a complex humanitarian and development context. In this role, you will lead strategic advocacy and communication initiatives, strengthen partnerships with government, donors, media, and civil society, and help influence policy and public engagement on key child-focused issues. Working closely with senior leadership and programme teams, you’ll play a key role in amplifying UNICEF’s impact and visibility across Somalia.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, Programmes, and in line with the established policies, guidelines, procedures, and the Technology Playbook, the T4D Specialist will coordinate and support the growing demand for T4D programmatic and operational needs.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and innovative professional to lead integrated Child Protection and Education initiatives that strengthen national systems, promote safe and inclusive environments, and accelerate sustainable results for children and adolescents at scale.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations, the Supply and Logistics Specialist leads and oversees the country office’s supply chain operations, ensuring effective planning, procurement, logistics, and delivery of supplies and services. The role also supports emergency preparedness, collaborates with programme teams, and provides technical and advisory support to governments and partners to enhance national supply chain systems.
As emergencies become more frequent, the expectations of UNICEF to deliver on the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) in a timely and effective manner will continue to increase. Emergency preparedness significantly enhances UNICEF’s ability to meet these expectations and save time and resources in the response. Newly created People-Centered and Humanitarian Partnership Section manages partnership with UN agencies, International Organizations, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Member States, and NGO networks as well as the Standby Partnerships for external experts on surge missions, technical support and service packages deployment to UNICEF offices. This position contributes to this goal.
JJoin UNICEF Mozambique as a Knowledge Management Intern – Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and support how programme knowledge is captured and shared to improve learning and results for children. You will work with the SBC team to document experiences, organize programme information, and support simple knowledge products such as case studies and summaries. You will gain hands-on experience in knowledge management, SBC programming, and development communication in a UN environment.
UNICEF Montenegro is looking for national consultant who will provide technical support to in reviewing the implementation of the Action Plan for 2025-2026, as well as to facilitate the development and finalization of the Action Plan for 2027, the final plan under Montenegro’s first Early Childhood Development Strategy (2023–2027).
The Social Policy Officer (Social Registry / Social Protection System Design) will play a key role in strengthening coordinated social assistance delivery in Sudan by supporting the design of social protection systems, interoperability frameworks, and data-driven coordination mechanisms. The position focuses on connecting programme-level delivery systems with emerging system-wide platforms to strengthen coordinated support for vulnerable children and families, in line with UNICEF’s social protection frameworks, Core Commitments for Children, and international standards.
In April 2021, UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO) launched a new Mother and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) in two eastern states of Kassala and Red Sea States, with the funding support from KfW/BMZ. MCCT+ is an integrated social protection programme for pregnant women and children during the first 1,000 days of life. MCCT+ builds on UNICEF’s ongoing support to primary health care (PHC) facilities which serve as the platforms for an integrated package of services and support to vulnerable women and children. The programme is expected to contribute to a reduction in child and maternal mortality and malnutrition through improved family practices and access to essential services for to first 1,000 days of life. To date, the MCCT+ programme has successfully enrolled approximately 52,000 women benefiting 312,600 individuals in 4 localities in Kassala and 5 localities in Red Sea state. In early 2024, UNICEF will expand the programme to reach an additional 30,000 pregnant women in additional states. In this expansion, UNICEF will collect data through KoboCollect and import this data into HOPE, UNICEF’s management information system for humanitarian cash programme operations. The incumbent of this post will be responsible for delivering timely beneficiary data management services while upholding UNICEF data protection policies.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, Programmes, the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (PME) will coordinate the planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting functions for the Country Programme and support child rights monitoring in the country, in close collaboration with the various teams in the country and field offices, and relevant external partners.
Drive rapid, evidence-based social and behaviour change action in emergency settings by supporting the design, coordination and delivery of inclusive, high-impact SBC strategies that protect children and communities.
UNICEF Ukraine is looking for the Emergency Officer will implement the country office emergency preparedness and response on the ground. The holder of the position will carry the responsibility for leading emergency response activities in Kherson Oblast and provide support for small‑scale emergency responses in Mykolaiv and Odesa Oblasts, including those related to strike impacts. The incumbent will be responsible for the technical contribution to the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the emergency interventions to advance the survival and well-being of children and mothers and affected communities in an emergency situation.
UNICEF China is looking for qualified candidates for the position - Executive Specialist (P-3). This post is responsible for supporting the supervisor in implementing and following up on key strategic priorities; coordinating, managing, and planning activities in a systematic and organized manner; and lastly, managing an effective system for incoming information, including correspondence and decision memos.
An individual consultant is required for the temporary provision of technical support of the Access to Education Output 2 of the UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office Education Programme. The purpose of the activity is specifically related to time-bound education project evaluations, and related activities. This will require the main deliverables as detailed below.
The Federal Ministry of Education launched the Nigeria Education Sector Renew Initiative (NESRI) with education data as one of the core pillars for education reform. Subsequently, the Ministry initiated the Nigerian Education Data Initiative (NEDI) to strengthen sector-wide data collection, management, analysis and use. The initiative aims to enable the federal, state and local governments and school authorities to leverage the education data for policy making, programme development, and improvement of teaching and learning activities. To achieve the goal, UNICEF has been supporting the Ministry to operationalize education information management systems (EMIS) across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In 2025, UNICEF supported the Ministry to launch the EMIS with annual school census module, safe school module and student registry module. The EMIS system has been developed by the University Oslo (UiO) that has provided a DHIS platform.
To help the government mainstream the EMIS in the education sector and institutionalize it as a sustainable system, UNICEF seeks to hire a national consultant who provides technical expertise to lead the data systems interventions with the Federal Ministry of Education and state governments.
The Senior Programme Associate (G‑7) is embedded within the Child Protection Programme Section, reporting to the Section Chief. Positioned at the functional categories of technical, operational, and financial areas the incumbent partners closely with other teams/sections (Operations, Finance, Supply), as well as with external stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), and CoE-based units to implement strategic priorities into concrete activities on the ground.
Reporting to the Immunization Specialist and under the general overall guidance of the Chief of Health & Nutrition, the SBC Officer (P-2) TA is responsible for the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based, inclusive and innovative SBC strategies in support of the country programme. By following the UNICEF SBC global programme and operational guidances, the role designs, plans and implements activities that are backed by social and behavioural evidence and strong engagement and participation mechanisms in both development and humanitarian contexts.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation, coordination, and learning journey of the Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education (2026–2027).
Building on earlier research and documentation phases, this consultancy will support:
• The delivery and coherence of the fellowship learning journey
• Coordination across fellows, senior fellows, and partners
• Development of curriculum, session design, and learning materials
• Structured documentation and synthesis of youth-led climate education Bright Spots
• Identification and documentation of additional promising initiatives from 18K broader applicant pool
• Translation of insights into evidence, policy-relevant outputs, and knowledge products
The consultant will contribute to ensuring that the Fellowship functions as a coherent, connected learning and systems platform, supporting UNICEF’s broader work on climate education, youth participation, and intergenerational governance.
This position is located within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation (PRM) team of the UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO). Sudan currently manages one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian appeals globally, approaching one billion USD annually. The PRM team is structured around two core functions: budget management and partnerships.
The Regional Staff Counsellor serves as a senior adviser on staff wellbeing and psychosocial risk, providing strategic leadership and confidential counselling support across the region. They lead the regional counselling team and ensure effective wellbeing systems, resilience strategies, and staff care services, including in emergency and high-risk settings.
Join UNICEF Somalia as an Advocacy Specialist and help advance children’s rights in a complex humanitarian and development context. In this role, you will lead strategic advocacy and communication initiatives, strengthen partnerships with government, donors, media, and civil society, and help influence policy and public engagement on key child-focused issues. Working closely with senior leadership and programme teams, you’ll play a key role in amplifying UNICEF’s impact and visibility across Somalia.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, Programmes, and in line with the established policies, guidelines, procedures, and the Technology Playbook, the T4D Specialist will coordinate and support the growing demand for T4D programmatic and operational needs.
UNICEF is seeking a strategic and innovative professional to lead integrated Child Protection and Education initiatives that strengthen national systems, promote safe and inclusive environments, and accelerate sustainable results for children and adolescents at scale.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations, the Supply and Logistics Specialist leads and oversees the country office’s supply chain operations, ensuring effective planning, procurement, logistics, and delivery of supplies and services. The role also supports emergency preparedness, collaborates with programme teams, and provides technical and advisory support to governments and partners to enhance national supply chain systems.
As emergencies become more frequent, the expectations of UNICEF to deliver on the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) in a timely and effective manner will continue to increase. Emergency preparedness significantly enhances UNICEF’s ability to meet these expectations and save time and resources in the response. Newly created People-Centered and Humanitarian Partnership Section manages partnership with UN agencies, International Organizations, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Member States, and NGO networks as well as the Standby Partnerships for external experts on surge missions, technical support and service packages deployment to UNICEF offices. This position contributes to this goal.
JJoin UNICEF Mozambique as a Knowledge Management Intern – Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and support how programme knowledge is captured and shared to improve learning and results for children. You will work with the SBC team to document experiences, organize programme information, and support simple knowledge products such as case studies and summaries. You will gain hands-on experience in knowledge management, SBC programming, and development communication in a UN environment.
UNICEF Montenegro is looking for national consultant who will provide technical support to in reviewing the implementation of the Action Plan for 2025-2026, as well as to facilitate the development and finalization of the Action Plan for 2027, the final plan under Montenegro’s first Early Childhood Development Strategy (2023–2027).
The Social Policy Officer (Social Registry / Social Protection System Design) will play a key role in strengthening coordinated social assistance delivery in Sudan by supporting the design of social protection systems, interoperability frameworks, and data-driven coordination mechanisms. The position focuses on connecting programme-level delivery systems with emerging system-wide platforms to strengthen coordinated support for vulnerable children and families, in line with UNICEF’s social protection frameworks, Core Commitments for Children, and international standards.
In April 2021, UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO) launched a new Mother and Child Cash Transfer Plus (MCCT+) in two eastern states of Kassala and Red Sea States, with the funding support from KfW/BMZ. MCCT+ is an integrated social protection programme for pregnant women and children during the first 1,000 days of life. MCCT+ builds on UNICEF’s ongoing support to primary health care (PHC) facilities which serve as the platforms for an integrated package of services and support to vulnerable women and children. The programme is expected to contribute to a reduction in child and maternal mortality and malnutrition through improved family practices and access to essential services for to first 1,000 days of life. To date, the MCCT+ programme has successfully enrolled approximately 52,000 women benefiting 312,600 individuals in 4 localities in Kassala and 5 localities in Red Sea state. In early 2024, UNICEF will expand the programme to reach an additional 30,000 pregnant women in additional states. In this expansion, UNICEF will collect data through KoboCollect and import this data into HOPE, UNICEF’s management information system for humanitarian cash programme operations. The incumbent of this post will be responsible for delivering timely beneficiary data management services while upholding UNICEF data protection policies.
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