The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, including, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of development opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, including, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of development opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the roster of SOCIAL POLICY OF CONSULTANTS. The roster of consultants is being established to support ongoing and future interventions in all areas of the social policy programme: public finance, social protection, and local governance. The consultants will contribute to evidence generation, technical assistance and documentation of results.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the
roster of MHPSS specialists.
The recruitment of MHPSS consultants aims to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of evidence-based interventions that promote mental well-being and resilience among children and families. Consultants will contribute to UNICEF’s efforts to enhance coordination with government and civil society partners, ensuring that MHPSS services are inclusive, culturally appropriate, and accessible to those most in need.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the roster of consultants for the EDUCATION SECTION. This consultancy roster is established to meet the increasing demand for specialized technical assistance in areas such as inclusive education, teacher training, curriculum development and assessment reform, socio-emotional learning, digitalization in education etc., domains that require targeted expertise to support UNICEF Romania’s Education Team actions.
The roster will serve as a human resources repository, that will enable UNICEF Romania to rapidly mobilize pre-vetted professionals with proven experience in the areas on which a need for support will be identified.
This consultancy will produce an evidence-based analytical report and operational toolkit enabling governments and UNICEF to plan, cost, and finance regular MICS and child-centred household surveys through domestic PFM systems (budget lines, MTEF, program budgeting)—including tested guidance and country-ready templates.
This assignment helps ensure the ranking of UNICEF’s Parenting Hub on traditional search engines and strengthens its visibility in AI platforms. It takes place during a period of transition, limited staffing and major technological shifts in these areas. Operating under a deliverables-based contract, the consultant will play a critical role in researching keyword gaps and opportunities, developing content to rank on search engines and feature in AI responses, as well as tracking and optimizing performance.
Working closely with the Web Editorial team, the consultant will combine an editorial and technical lens to develop and optimize content that is 1. Engaging and useful for its target audience, and 2. Maximizes the likelihood of the audience discovering this content on search engines and AI platforms. The work will directly support UNICEF’s Parenting Hub by ensuring the accessibility, visibility and relevance of content, which is key to our ability to achieve our digital goals and grant deliverables.
Support the UNICEF Angola Country Office (ACO) on quality review of reporting, knowledge management and evidence generation activities to ensure high-quality products developed, when the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation team’s human resource capacity is constrained during year-end reporting and planning period.
UNICEF in North Macedonia is hiring a National Consultant for legal review and adaptation of key healthcare laws. This is home-based, short-term consultancy in a duration of four months.
This assignment is a specialized consultancy designed to accelerate progress in strategic data and statistics system work during the organizational transition. It aligns with UNICEF’s commitment to act as “One UNICEF”—a unified team making courageous decisions and collaborating across the evidence ecosystem to achieve results for children at scale.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
L'objectif de cette mission est de réviser et d'actualiser la Stratégie nationale multisectorielle de développement de la petite enfance (SNDPE) ainsi que son plan opérationnel sur la base d’un examen externe et en tenant compte des progrès réalisés, des nouveaux défis et priorités du pays pour le développement de la petite enfance durant la période 2026-2035.
The Programme Specialist (Digital Research) will be a central part of the Digital Engagement and Protection unit, supporting its flagship project Disrupting Harm and help coordinate research projects across the unit's portfolio. With an expanding area of work and increasing demand for high-quality evidence on the impact of digital transformation on children’s lives, this role will be responsible for project planning, timeline management, budget monitoring, reporting, stakeholder engagement and communications.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support to the Nutrition Programme. The consultant will conduct a comprehensive situation analysis on adolescent nutrition in Lebanon, adapt UNICEF’s participatory adolescent nutrition research methodology to the local context, and implement formative research with adolescents to generate evidence-based insights. The findings will inform the development of the POWER4Girls life skills package, with a focus on gender responsiveness and cultural relevance.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support for the Nutrition programme through a comprehensive landscape analysis of childhood overweight and obesity in Lebanon. The consultant will adapt UNICEF’s global protocol to the local context, facilitate a stakeholder validation workshop to identify priority actions, and develop a final report with policy recommendations to support national efforts in preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
The P4 Disability Inclusion Specialist is a strategically vital role for UNICEF Ukraine, designed to address a critical gap in disability-inclusive technical expertise at a time when national reform momentum and donor expectations are rapidly increasing. The position is essential not only for the Social Policy Section and the Social Recovery Unit, but for the broader country office and the country programme leadership areas (Better Start, Better Learning and Skills and Better Care), enabling UNICEF to effectively engage in and influence disability-inclusive reforms and where applicable, support service delivery scalable models. To ensure comprehensive support and alignment across the organisation, the role will have a dotted reporting line to the Deputy Representative – Programmes, while being line-managed by the Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis to ensure strong technical leadership and integration within core social policy workstreams.
This position will equip UNICEF Ukraine to provide high-level, technically sound guidance that ensures disability inclusion is embedded in the design and implementation of national reforms. It will support the development of inclusive policies, legislation, and service delivery systems that align with international standards and UNICEF’s strategic priorities.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a dynamic qualified candidate to join our team as Communication Specialist at the P-4 level based in Gaza, SOP.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. UNICEF through its programs works tirelessly to save their lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, at UNICEF we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
BACKGROUND
Digital health is a broad multidisciplinary concept that embraces intersections between technology and healthcare. The scope of digital health includes mobile health (mHealth), electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), digitized health information systems and real-time monitoring of health services and systems, tracking and monitoring of medical supplies and equipment through the supply chain, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, personalized medicine as well as geospatial data and technologies applied too health care (“geospatial health”). Geospatial health is an interdisciplinary field that combines geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and public health to understand how location and place influence health outcomes. Geospatial health combines GPS, satellite imagery, advanced mapping software and mobile health apps to collect and analyze location-based health data, highly intersects with the digital health field.
In recent years, country demand for global guidelines and deployment support for digital health and geospatial health has increased, following the experiences and lessons learned from digital health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing access to information, and increasing digital literacy alongside a concurrently widening digital divide. As part of UNICEF’s new Strategic Plan, Programme Group (PG) Health created the Digital Health & Information Systems (DHIS) unit under the Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Section (MNCAH). DHIS supports the use of digital health interventions and data to strengthen programmes across all sections in program group Health whereas facilitating Regional Offices to support country level digital health interventions.
UNICEF has previously advertised and maintained Digital Health Rosters, with the initial version launched in 2019 and subsequently updated in 2021. Both rosters have been actively used to support regional and country office digital health consultancies, attracting a mix of short and long-term candidates. These consultancies have contributed to the implementation of a wide range of digital health interventions, including digital health strategy development, data digitization, and geospatial mapping.
Given that the current rosters have been in use for nearly four years and considering the evolving demands in the digital health landscape, along with the updated Program Group Health Strategic Plan, there is a need to review and update the digital health roster. This should include revised terms of reference that align with emerging priorities and technical requirements.
The purpose of this individual consultancy is to strengthen UNICEF’s Social and Community Listening (SCL) capacity of UNICEF SBC teams at global level. The consultancy is hosted by the Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) PG HQ team, transitioning into the new Global Programme Division. The expert is meant to provide targeted advisory support to leverage SCL within specific global programme priorities, with a focus on immunization demand, public health emergencies & climate, and a third sectoral priority to be determined, while supporting ROs and COs with, training, technical support, and knowledge products.
The support and expected deliverables will enable UNICEF to systematically capture, analyse, and act on community and digital insights, while also integrating misinformation management and sectoral applications. This work builds on the progress made by SBC teams globally in scaling up SCL and will support the mainstreaming of the frameworks, guides, and technical guidance developed by the SBC HQ team in 2024–2025. By combining strategic positioning of SCL to inform global and country programmes and the provision of capacity building, evidence generation, and knowledge management technical support, the consultant will ensure that SCL becomes an operational tool for decision-making, and programme design across global, regional, and country levels.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, including, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of development opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will give recommendations and advice on a wide range of organizational activities and interests, including, among other things, the interaction of UNICEF with governments and other key partners as well as on strategic initiatives across UNICEF. This support helps UNICEF to take advantage of development opportunities as well as safeguard the organization from risk. The Legal Team aims to identify and mitigate exposure to potential liability and financial loss, to safeguard the ability of the organization to be accountable to its stakeholders, and to preserve credibility as well as funding from member states and other donors, both public and private.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the roster of SOCIAL POLICY OF CONSULTANTS. The roster of consultants is being established to support ongoing and future interventions in all areas of the social policy programme: public finance, social protection, and local governance. The consultants will contribute to evidence generation, technical assistance and documentation of results.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the
roster of MHPSS specialists.
The recruitment of MHPSS consultants aims to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of evidence-based interventions that promote mental well-being and resilience among children and families. Consultants will contribute to UNICEF’s efforts to enhance coordination with government and civil society partners, ensuring that MHPSS services are inclusive, culturally appropriate, and accessible to those most in need.
UNICEF Romania invites qualified candidates to express their interest to be included in the roster of consultants for the EDUCATION SECTION. This consultancy roster is established to meet the increasing demand for specialized technical assistance in areas such as inclusive education, teacher training, curriculum development and assessment reform, socio-emotional learning, digitalization in education etc., domains that require targeted expertise to support UNICEF Romania’s Education Team actions.
The roster will serve as a human resources repository, that will enable UNICEF Romania to rapidly mobilize pre-vetted professionals with proven experience in the areas on which a need for support will be identified.
This consultancy will produce an evidence-based analytical report and operational toolkit enabling governments and UNICEF to plan, cost, and finance regular MICS and child-centred household surveys through domestic PFM systems (budget lines, MTEF, program budgeting)—including tested guidance and country-ready templates.
This assignment helps ensure the ranking of UNICEF’s Parenting Hub on traditional search engines and strengthens its visibility in AI platforms. It takes place during a period of transition, limited staffing and major technological shifts in these areas. Operating under a deliverables-based contract, the consultant will play a critical role in researching keyword gaps and opportunities, developing content to rank on search engines and feature in AI responses, as well as tracking and optimizing performance.
Working closely with the Web Editorial team, the consultant will combine an editorial and technical lens to develop and optimize content that is 1. Engaging and useful for its target audience, and 2. Maximizes the likelihood of the audience discovering this content on search engines and AI platforms. The work will directly support UNICEF’s Parenting Hub by ensuring the accessibility, visibility and relevance of content, which is key to our ability to achieve our digital goals and grant deliverables.
Support the UNICEF Angola Country Office (ACO) on quality review of reporting, knowledge management and evidence generation activities to ensure high-quality products developed, when the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation team’s human resource capacity is constrained during year-end reporting and planning period.
UNICEF in North Macedonia is hiring a National Consultant for legal review and adaptation of key healthcare laws. This is home-based, short-term consultancy in a duration of four months.
This assignment is a specialized consultancy designed to accelerate progress in strategic data and statistics system work during the organizational transition. It aligns with UNICEF’s commitment to act as “One UNICEF”—a unified team making courageous decisions and collaborating across the evidence ecosystem to achieve results for children at scale.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
L'objectif de cette mission est de réviser et d'actualiser la Stratégie nationale multisectorielle de développement de la petite enfance (SNDPE) ainsi que son plan opérationnel sur la base d’un examen externe et en tenant compte des progrès réalisés, des nouveaux défis et priorités du pays pour le développement de la petite enfance durant la période 2026-2035.
The Programme Specialist (Digital Research) will be a central part of the Digital Engagement and Protection unit, supporting its flagship project Disrupting Harm and help coordinate research projects across the unit's portfolio. With an expanding area of work and increasing demand for high-quality evidence on the impact of digital transformation on children’s lives, this role will be responsible for project planning, timeline management, budget monitoring, reporting, stakeholder engagement and communications.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support to the Nutrition Programme. The consultant will conduct a comprehensive situation analysis on adolescent nutrition in Lebanon, adapt UNICEF’s participatory adolescent nutrition research methodology to the local context, and implement formative research with adolescents to generate evidence-based insights. The findings will inform the development of the POWER4Girls life skills package, with a focus on gender responsiveness and cultural relevance.
UNICEF Lebanon is looking for a consultant to provide technical support for the Nutrition programme through a comprehensive landscape analysis of childhood overweight and obesity in Lebanon. The consultant will adapt UNICEF’s global protocol to the local context, facilitate a stakeholder validation workshop to identify priority actions, and develop a final report with policy recommendations to support national efforts in preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
The P4 Disability Inclusion Specialist is a strategically vital role for UNICEF Ukraine, designed to address a critical gap in disability-inclusive technical expertise at a time when national reform momentum and donor expectations are rapidly increasing. The position is essential not only for the Social Policy Section and the Social Recovery Unit, but for the broader country office and the country programme leadership areas (Better Start, Better Learning and Skills and Better Care), enabling UNICEF to effectively engage in and influence disability-inclusive reforms and where applicable, support service delivery scalable models. To ensure comprehensive support and alignment across the organisation, the role will have a dotted reporting line to the Deputy Representative – Programmes, while being line-managed by the Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis to ensure strong technical leadership and integration within core social policy workstreams.
This position will equip UNICEF Ukraine to provide high-level, technically sound guidance that ensures disability inclusion is embedded in the design and implementation of national reforms. It will support the development of inclusive policies, legislation, and service delivery systems that align with international standards and UNICEF’s strategic priorities.
If you are a committed, creative professional and you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better and safe world for children, we would like to hear from you. The State of Palestine office is seeking a dynamic qualified candidate to join our team as Communication Specialist at the P-4 level based in Gaza, SOP.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. UNICEF through its programs works tirelessly to save their lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, at UNICEF we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
BACKGROUND
Digital health is a broad multidisciplinary concept that embraces intersections between technology and healthcare. The scope of digital health includes mobile health (mHealth), electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), digitized health information systems and real-time monitoring of health services and systems, tracking and monitoring of medical supplies and equipment through the supply chain, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, personalized medicine as well as geospatial data and technologies applied too health care (“geospatial health”). Geospatial health is an interdisciplinary field that combines geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and public health to understand how location and place influence health outcomes. Geospatial health combines GPS, satellite imagery, advanced mapping software and mobile health apps to collect and analyze location-based health data, highly intersects with the digital health field.
In recent years, country demand for global guidelines and deployment support for digital health and geospatial health has increased, following the experiences and lessons learned from digital health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing access to information, and increasing digital literacy alongside a concurrently widening digital divide. As part of UNICEF’s new Strategic Plan, Programme Group (PG) Health created the Digital Health & Information Systems (DHIS) unit under the Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Section (MNCAH). DHIS supports the use of digital health interventions and data to strengthen programmes across all sections in program group Health whereas facilitating Regional Offices to support country level digital health interventions.
UNICEF has previously advertised and maintained Digital Health Rosters, with the initial version launched in 2019 and subsequently updated in 2021. Both rosters have been actively used to support regional and country office digital health consultancies, attracting a mix of short and long-term candidates. These consultancies have contributed to the implementation of a wide range of digital health interventions, including digital health strategy development, data digitization, and geospatial mapping.
Given that the current rosters have been in use for nearly four years and considering the evolving demands in the digital health landscape, along with the updated Program Group Health Strategic Plan, there is a need to review and update the digital health roster. This should include revised terms of reference that align with emerging priorities and technical requirements.
The purpose of this individual consultancy is to strengthen UNICEF’s Social and Community Listening (SCL) capacity of UNICEF SBC teams at global level. The consultancy is hosted by the Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) PG HQ team, transitioning into the new Global Programme Division. The expert is meant to provide targeted advisory support to leverage SCL within specific global programme priorities, with a focus on immunization demand, public health emergencies & climate, and a third sectoral priority to be determined, while supporting ROs and COs with, training, technical support, and knowledge products.
The support and expected deliverables will enable UNICEF to systematically capture, analyse, and act on community and digital insights, while also integrating misinformation management and sectoral applications. This work builds on the progress made by SBC teams globally in scaling up SCL and will support the mainstreaming of the frameworks, guides, and technical guidance developed by the SBC HQ team in 2024–2025. By combining strategic positioning of SCL to inform global and country programmes and the provision of capacity building, evidence generation, and knowledge management technical support, the consultant will ensure that SCL becomes an operational tool for decision-making, and programme design across global, regional, and country levels.
