UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Knowledge Management and Communication Consultant to structure lessons learned captured through meta-analysis, a combination of multiple sources of information including evaluative exercises and other documentation of ECA region work on humanitarian programming, humanitarian preparedness, and humanitarian-development nexus.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Innovative Financing and Partnerships Consultant – ECEC to advise and support the Childcare Accelerator Fund (CAF), particularly to shape and refine the partnership framework and its operational aspects.
The International Consultant will technically lead the process of modelling school-based inclusive technologies, devices and equipment for inclusive education.
Partnerships Consultant will support the Myanmar Country Office (MCO) in deepening collaboration with key resource partners and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of the assignment.
UNICEF Pacific seeks for a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will work in a consultative and participatory manner, ensuring ownership and relevance of the final outputs, and contributing toward the development of a sustainable plan for their effective implementation thereafter. The consultancy will review the development and use of storybooks in ECE, early primary and parenting programmes across a select number of Pacific countries, identifying common trends, unique differences, good or innovative practices, challenges, opportunities and key recommendations across content and approaches to use.
To provide technical support to design, implement, and operationalize child-centered Early Warning Systems (EWS) in Nepal and Maldives. The focus will be on enhancing the resilience of children by conducting child-centered risk assessments, integrating the Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Disaster Risk Management (DRM) frameworks, and developing climate-change-calibrated scenarios for targeted interventions.
In a global context characterized by ever shrinking international development assistance, especially in countries passing the middle- and high-income threshold, UNICEF country offices have increasingly been relying on funding from the private sector to develop and sustain critical programmatic interventions for the most vulnerable children in their own countries. Moreover, business and other key private entities are increasingly becoming critical partners in addressing key child rights violations and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more broadly.
Over the past decade, over twenty UNICEF country offices have established structured private sector fundraising (PSFR) operations as part of their country office model, allowing them to generate significant funding not only for their own country programme, but also for the rest of the organization, including donor orphan countries in their own regions.
In this context, in 2021 UNICEF established a financial instrument in partnership with the World Bank to raise additional financing for investment in private sector fundraising as a pilot project limited to an amount of $50 million. To meet its obligations with the World Bank, UNICEF needs to produce annual narrative report on the impact on children’s lives that this investment has indirectly contributed to by enabling to raise more funds from the private sector.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking an Individual Giving Fundraising Specialist to carry out specific fundraising support to support emerging markets in the MENA, ESA, ECA and WCA regions.
This role will be critical for Country Offices (COs) and Clusters in terms of establishing an infrastructure for the growth of Individual Giving (IG) and helping offices deliver their 2025 Private Sector Plan (PSP) targets and testing plans. In addition, the incumbent will help develop high growth targets as part of future strategic plans.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with the Regional Offices (including the Procurement and Ops team), COs, Cluster PSFR teams, and CODAS, as well as with the relevant agencies.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6.
The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. Solutions are selected based on their potential to accelerate results for children across multiple countries and regions. One of the solutions in the portfolio, Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment, is a nature-based WASH innovation aiming to provide sustainable, cheaper, climate-resilient wastewater treatment services.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by documenting the experience of the UNICEF teams currently implementing Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment with the objective of optimizing the approach for impactful scaling both within Bangladesh and into other countries in a range of regions and national contexts.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring an Education Specialist (Early Childhood Development) at the NOC level on a temporary appointment to be based in Apia, Samoa. Under the supervision of the Chief of Field Office and with guidance from the Education team in Suva, the Education Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Education and ECD programmes across Samoa, Niue, Tokelau, and the Cook Islands and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting the progress of education programmes/projects within the multi-country programme. The Specialist will also provide technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of results on the programme to improve learning outcomes and equitable and inclusive education, as well as holistic early childhood development (ECD) especially for children who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society.
UNICEF DRC is seeking a highly qualified and dedicated professional to fill the position of Program Officer (Cash Transfer, Beneficiary Data Management) at the P-2 level in Kinshasa.
In this critical role, you will oversee activities related to the DRC's cash transfer modality as part of humanitarian cash transactions with social protection programs to help the country's most vulnerable populations meet basic and sectoral needs and services.
We are looking for someone who is not only committed to UNICEF's mission, but also possesses strong leadership skills, creative problem-solving and a passion for making a lasting impact on the lives of children, who can provide rapid responses to humanitarian transactions for basic needs, Cash+ programs focused on nutrition, GBV and child protection, long-term cash-based social protection programs and incentive payments for sector system strengthening. If you are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to the rights and well-being of children, we invite you to apply and join UNICEF DRC.
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) seeks a highly experienced Regional Adviser Adolescent Participation, Skills and Employability to join our dynamic team. South Asia has the largest number of adolescents in the world. And reporting directly to the Deputy Regional Director, the Regional Adviser will provide senior thought and programmatic leadership through evidenced-based advocacy to accelerate progress on adolescent skills development, participation, employability, empowerment and participation across our region.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking to recruit an Evaluation Officer at the NO-A level on a temporary appointment of 364 days to be based in the Pacific Multi-Country Office in Suva, Fiji.
Under the guidance of the Evaluation Specialist the Officer will strengthen evaluation partnerships, toward national and Pacific wide evaluation capacity building and innovation in localized evaluation approaches. This in turn will help strengthen the UNICEF Pacific evaluation processes, systems and tools, and provide technical analytical and methodological support across the multi-country office and field offices.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a WASH Officer (Engineer) at the NOB level to be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The WASH Officer will provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. Specifically, this Officer will provide dedicated WASH engineering expertise to the WASH Programme in the country office, including working closely with key government stakeholders and selected contractors in planning of improvement works, and to provide close technical oversight and regular reporting of implementation of the construction works.
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is recruiting a qualified consultant to undertake two principal analyses: (a) an analysis of local governance and public service delivery for children, particularly services related to UNICEF Thailand’s programmatic areas2; and (b) a mapping and analysis of the Decentralization to the Local Government Organization Committee (DLOC). Additionally, the role of the consultant includes providing advisory services concerning Thailand’s decentralization characteristics and its ramifications for UNICEF’s programming.
Under the direct supervision of the SWA Programme Specialist, Country Engagement, the consultant will provide support for partner engagement to develop efficient plans and processes for the engagement of three SWA constituencies, with a particular focus on Heads of State Engagement, High-Level Meetings, Mutual Accountability Mechanism, as well as mobilisation in underrepresented constituencies.
UNICEF Lebanon is committed to support Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and UNRWA to ensure efficient management of the immunization supply chain and achieving improvements in the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) system. The EVM Assessment and subsequent Improvement Plan (IP) aim to strengthen Lebanon’s immunization supply chain management (iSCM) systems to handle current and future vaccine introductions.
A national consultant will play a crucial role in assisting in optimizing program frameworks, developing data-driven monitoring systems, and supporting advocacy efforts to secure long-term funding and support from the government. Their involvement will ensure the necessary context-specific expertise and knowledge are applied, ensuring that the program can achieve its intended outcomes while adapting to the national context.
The role of the UNICEF humanitarian evaluation portfolio (HEP) established within the Evaluation Office, which the post being advertised is attached to, is to ensure that all L3 crises be evaluated and that the evaluations of L2 and L1 be conducted systematically so as to produce rigorous and useful findings, conclusions and recommendations that could inform the Organization’s decision-making in humanitarian action. Besides supporting learning and decision-making, the HEP team also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for its contributions to results for children in L3, L2 and L1 contexts. In this vein, the HEP team conducts a diverse set of independent, credible and impartial corporate thematic humanitarian evaluation as well as L3 evaluations (currently 15) and contributes to a variety of other evaluations, including Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations (IAHE). Evaluation at UNICEF is a largely decentralized function with senior-level regional evaluation advisers and multi-country evaluation specialists based in the seven UNICEF regional offices, as well as dedicated country evaluation specialists currently based in 15 UNICEF country offices around the world, with many additional staff providing part-time support to the evaluation function as part of their broader set of responsibilities. The Director of Evaluation provides strategic leadership to the global evaluation function at all three levels of the organization (global, regional, and country).
The UNICEF Pacific Multi- Country office is hiring a Driver/Messenger on fixed term appointment to be based in Tarawa field office in Kiribati. Under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Associate in Kiribati, the Driver/Messenger is responsible for providing reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Knowledge Management and Communication Consultant to structure lessons learned captured through meta-analysis, a combination of multiple sources of information including evaluative exercises and other documentation of ECA region work on humanitarian programming, humanitarian preparedness, and humanitarian-development nexus.
UNICEF ECARO is looking for a qualified Innovative Financing and Partnerships Consultant – ECEC to advise and support the Childcare Accelerator Fund (CAF), particularly to shape and refine the partnership framework and its operational aspects.
The International Consultant will technically lead the process of modelling school-based inclusive technologies, devices and equipment for inclusive education.
Partnerships Consultant will support the Myanmar Country Office (MCO) in deepening collaboration with key resource partners and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of the assignment.
UNICEF Pacific seeks for a dedicated and proactive international Consultant. The consultant will work in a consultative and participatory manner, ensuring ownership and relevance of the final outputs, and contributing toward the development of a sustainable plan for their effective implementation thereafter. The consultancy will review the development and use of storybooks in ECE, early primary and parenting programmes across a select number of Pacific countries, identifying common trends, unique differences, good or innovative practices, challenges, opportunities and key recommendations across content and approaches to use.
To provide technical support to design, implement, and operationalize child-centered Early Warning Systems (EWS) in Nepal and Maldives. The focus will be on enhancing the resilience of children by conducting child-centered risk assessments, integrating the Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Disaster Risk Management (DRM) frameworks, and developing climate-change-calibrated scenarios for targeted interventions.
In a global context characterized by ever shrinking international development assistance, especially in countries passing the middle- and high-income threshold, UNICEF country offices have increasingly been relying on funding from the private sector to develop and sustain critical programmatic interventions for the most vulnerable children in their own countries. Moreover, business and other key private entities are increasingly becoming critical partners in addressing key child rights violations and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more broadly.
Over the past decade, over twenty UNICEF country offices have established structured private sector fundraising (PSFR) operations as part of their country office model, allowing them to generate significant funding not only for their own country programme, but also for the rest of the organization, including donor orphan countries in their own regions.
In this context, in 2021 UNICEF established a financial instrument in partnership with the World Bank to raise additional financing for investment in private sector fundraising as a pilot project limited to an amount of $50 million. To meet its obligations with the World Bank, UNICEF needs to produce annual narrative report on the impact on children’s lives that this investment has indirectly contributed to by enabling to raise more funds from the private sector.
The UNICEF Country Office Development and Support (CODAS) section within Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) in Geneva, Switzerland, is seeking an Individual Giving Fundraising Specialist to carry out specific fundraising support to support emerging markets in the MENA, ESA, ECA and WCA regions.
This role will be critical for Country Offices (COs) and Clusters in terms of establishing an infrastructure for the growth of Individual Giving (IG) and helping offices deliver their 2025 Private Sector Plan (PSP) targets and testing plans. In addition, the incumbent will help develop high growth targets as part of future strategic plans.
The incumbent of this consultancy assignment will work directly with the Regional Offices (including the Procurement and Ops team), COs, Cluster PSFR teams, and CODAS, as well as with the relevant agencies.
The vision of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a global
home for building, accelerating and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future of universal and equitable access to services, addressing the full ambition of the SDG6.
The WASH Hub sources, pilots and scales transformational climate-resilient solutions that respond to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock faster progress for a water secure future for children and young people. Solutions are selected based on their potential to accelerate results for children across multiple countries and regions. One of the solutions in the portfolio, Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment, is a nature-based WASH innovation aiming to provide sustainable, cheaper, climate-resilient wastewater treatment services.
The Consultant will support the WASH Hub by documenting the experience of the UNICEF teams currently implementing Urban Wetlands Wastewater Treatment with the objective of optimizing the approach for impactful scaling both within Bangladesh and into other countries in a range of regions and national contexts.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring an Education Specialist (Early Childhood Development) at the NOC level on a temporary appointment to be based in Apia, Samoa. Under the supervision of the Chief of Field Office and with guidance from the Education team in Suva, the Education Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Education and ECD programmes across Samoa, Niue, Tokelau, and the Cook Islands and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting the progress of education programmes/projects within the multi-country programme. The Specialist will also provide technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of results on the programme to improve learning outcomes and equitable and inclusive education, as well as holistic early childhood development (ECD) especially for children who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society.
UNICEF DRC is seeking a highly qualified and dedicated professional to fill the position of Program Officer (Cash Transfer, Beneficiary Data Management) at the P-2 level in Kinshasa.
In this critical role, you will oversee activities related to the DRC's cash transfer modality as part of humanitarian cash transactions with social protection programs to help the country's most vulnerable populations meet basic and sectoral needs and services.
We are looking for someone who is not only committed to UNICEF's mission, but also possesses strong leadership skills, creative problem-solving and a passion for making a lasting impact on the lives of children, who can provide rapid responses to humanitarian transactions for basic needs, Cash+ programs focused on nutrition, GBV and child protection, long-term cash-based social protection programs and incentive payments for sector system strengthening. If you are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to the rights and well-being of children, we invite you to apply and join UNICEF DRC.
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) seeks a highly experienced Regional Adviser Adolescent Participation, Skills and Employability to join our dynamic team. South Asia has the largest number of adolescents in the world. And reporting directly to the Deputy Regional Director, the Regional Adviser will provide senior thought and programmatic leadership through evidenced-based advocacy to accelerate progress on adolescent skills development, participation, employability, empowerment and participation across our region.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking to recruit an Evaluation Officer at the NO-A level on a temporary appointment of 364 days to be based in the Pacific Multi-Country Office in Suva, Fiji.
Under the guidance of the Evaluation Specialist the Officer will strengthen evaluation partnerships, toward national and Pacific wide evaluation capacity building and innovation in localized evaluation approaches. This in turn will help strengthen the UNICEF Pacific evaluation processes, systems and tools, and provide technical analytical and methodological support across the multi-country office and field offices.
UNICEF Pacific is hiring a WASH Officer (Engineer) at the NOB level to be based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The WASH Officer will provide technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. Specifically, this Officer will provide dedicated WASH engineering expertise to the WASH Programme in the country office, including working closely with key government stakeholders and selected contractors in planning of improvement works, and to provide close technical oversight and regular reporting of implementation of the construction works.
UNICEF Thailand Country Office is recruiting a qualified consultant to undertake two principal analyses: (a) an analysis of local governance and public service delivery for children, particularly services related to UNICEF Thailand’s programmatic areas2; and (b) a mapping and analysis of the Decentralization to the Local Government Organization Committee (DLOC). Additionally, the role of the consultant includes providing advisory services concerning Thailand’s decentralization characteristics and its ramifications for UNICEF’s programming.
Under the direct supervision of the SWA Programme Specialist, Country Engagement, the consultant will provide support for partner engagement to develop efficient plans and processes for the engagement of three SWA constituencies, with a particular focus on Heads of State Engagement, High-Level Meetings, Mutual Accountability Mechanism, as well as mobilisation in underrepresented constituencies.
UNICEF Lebanon is committed to support Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and UNRWA to ensure efficient management of the immunization supply chain and achieving improvements in the Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) system. The EVM Assessment and subsequent Improvement Plan (IP) aim to strengthen Lebanon’s immunization supply chain management (iSCM) systems to handle current and future vaccine introductions.
A national consultant will play a crucial role in assisting in optimizing program frameworks, developing data-driven monitoring systems, and supporting advocacy efforts to secure long-term funding and support from the government. Their involvement will ensure the necessary context-specific expertise and knowledge are applied, ensuring that the program can achieve its intended outcomes while adapting to the national context.
The role of the UNICEF humanitarian evaluation portfolio (HEP) established within the Evaluation Office, which the post being advertised is attached to, is to ensure that all L3 crises be evaluated and that the evaluations of L2 and L1 be conducted systematically so as to produce rigorous and useful findings, conclusions and recommendations that could inform the Organization’s decision-making in humanitarian action. Besides supporting learning and decision-making, the HEP team also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for its contributions to results for children in L3, L2 and L1 contexts. In this vein, the HEP team conducts a diverse set of independent, credible and impartial corporate thematic humanitarian evaluation as well as L3 evaluations (currently 15) and contributes to a variety of other evaluations, including Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations (IAHE). Evaluation at UNICEF is a largely decentralized function with senior-level regional evaluation advisers and multi-country evaluation specialists based in the seven UNICEF regional offices, as well as dedicated country evaluation specialists currently based in 15 UNICEF country offices around the world, with many additional staff providing part-time support to the evaluation function as part of their broader set of responsibilities. The Director of Evaluation provides strategic leadership to the global evaluation function at all three levels of the organization (global, regional, and country).
The UNICEF Pacific Multi- Country office is hiring a Driver/Messenger on fixed term appointment to be based in Tarawa field office in Kiribati. Under the supervision and guidance of the Administrative Associate in Kiribati, the Driver/Messenger is responsible for providing reliable and safe driving services, demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol whilst ensuring compliance with local driving rules and regulations.