To support UNICEF in positioning and operationalizing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSI) as a flagship mechanism for accelerating political commitment, financing, and accountability in the WASH sector. The consultant will provide technical, advocacy, and coordination support to UNICEF’s WASH Partnerships and Advocacy and WASH Systems and Governance teams in advancing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSi), ASWA III programme priorities, and global engagements with key partners (Sanitation and Water for All) and major events (UN 2026 Water Conference), while ensuring coherence between political advocacy, systems strengthening, and UNICEF’s global advocacy plan.
WASH Officer is accountable for professional technical contribution to programme/project design, planning, administration, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH programme/project activities, data analysis and progress reporting, and commitment to the enhancement of teamwork and capacity building, in support of the achievement of planned objectives of the work plan, aligned with country programme goals and strategy
The WASH Officer works as part of a team of WASH Officers at the Dnipro Field Office, coordinating closely with colleagues covering complementary geographic and thematic areas. The WASH Officer is expected to operate with a significant degree of autonomy in their assigned area of responsibility, while contributing to team-wide programme coordination. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme.
The objective of this consultancy is to support the operationalisation of a coordinated, decentralised, and data-driven rural WASH system in Lesotho by strengthening planning, monitoring, and coordination mechanisms across national, district, and community levels.
L’UNICEF Haïti est à la recherche de trois stagiaires ayant un intérêt marqué pour le secteur de l’Eau, de l’Assainissement et de l’Hygiène (EPAH/WASH). Cette offre s’adresse aux étudiants, aux ingénieurs juniors et aux jeunes diplômés en ingénierie souhaitant acquérir une expérience pratique dans le domaine de l’EPAH tout en contribuant à l’action humanitaire.
Basés dans leurs bureaux respectifs à Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes et Gonaïves, les stagiaires rejoindront l’équipe EPAH de l’UNICEF Haïti et collaboreront étroitement avec les équipes des bureaux de terrain. Ils contribueront aux activités de la section EPAH en apportant un appui technique et opérationnel, dans le respect des procédures, des normes et des principes de l’UNICEF. Vous êtes passionné(e) par l’EPAH et souhaitez contribuer à une cause qui compte ? Nous serions ravis d’en savoir plus sur vous !
Make a lasting impact in the Central African Republic.Join UNICEF in Bangui and across the country to strengthen child protection, education, and health systems. Your expertise can help build resilience and hope for children and families.
In line with the UNICEF Guinea Learning and Development Plan 2026, UNICEF's Learning and Development Procedure and the office commitment to continuous staff development, UNICEF Guinea seeks to engage a National English Language Consultant to design and deliver workplace-focused English language training for staff members.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking a highly qualified and competent to join his team in Yaounde to work in an exciting construction project. aimed at creating safe and sustainable facilities. This role involves providing technical support for planning, procurement, and monitoring of construction activities to ensure compliance with UNICEF's standards. The position requires a commitment to improving public infrastructure in particularly in education, health, and WASH sectors.
The Health Specialist is accountable for providing technical support for the implementation of MNH projects, including community-based MNH. This includes technical support, managing, implementation, coordination, integration, evidence generation, monitoring, and supervision. This encompasses both direct program work with relevant stakeholders including civil society partners, and contractors as well as strengthening linkages and support to UNICEF teams working on health, nutrition, child protection, gender, water, and sanitation.
As part of preparations for its next Country Programme Document (CPD) 2028-2032, the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office (CO) is undertaking a comprehensive evidence synthesis process that includes a Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR). This review is critical to inform the CPD design, ensuring alignment with the UNICEF SP and UGEAP, and strengthen the integration of gender equality approaches across the CO’s strategic priorities.
This position plays a key role in safeguarding data integrity and continuity during a critical transformation phase. By enabling reliable, high‑quality data and supporting modern engineering and governance practices, you will help strengthen UNICEF’s analytics capabilities, reduce operational risk, and ensure trusted insights remain available to drive impact at scale.Your role is to support UNICEF’s transition to a modern data ecosystem by contributing to the migration from legacy systems to a scalable lakehouse architecture. Working closely with the ICT Manager/Data & Analytics Lead, you will help design, test, and implement data solutions, ensuring seamless migration, strong performance, and uninterrupted business reporting. Your role spans planning, validation, and delivery of data products that empower smarter, faster decision-making across the organization.
This role supports scaling UNICEF’s Last Mile Supply Monitoring (LMSM) platform by leading technical implementation and development. It involves managing rollouts in multiple earmarked countries, improving system features and performance, collaborating with stakeholders, managing the project execution, and contributing hands-on to backend development and reporting.The successful candidate will have combined skills of technical leadership, backend development, and project management to drive efficient and scalable solutions. The role focuses on improving development processes by implementing DevOps practices, automating release and testing workflows, and enhancing reporting systems. In addition, it involves designing and maintaining backend systems using Django, ensuring code quality, performance, and security, and collaborating with frontend teams to deliver integrated solutions through efficient project planning and execution, including defining scope, managing timelines, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams, while continuously evaluating outcomes for improvement.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated, and results-oriented Construction Specialist to join its team based in Les Cayes. Given the scale of construction and rehabilitation activities in southern Haiti, this role plays a critical part in ensuring the successful delivery of safe, sustainable, and child-friendly infrastructure that supports UNICEF's programmes and improves access to essential services for children and communities.Reporting to the Chief of Supply and Logistics in Port-au-Prince, the Construction Specialist will provide technical leadership and oversight for UNICEF's construction portfolio in the southern departments of Haiti. The role involves managing construction activities, supporting programme planning and implementation, coordinating the preparation of technical designs and documentation, contributing to construction-related procurement processes, and ensuring effective monitoring and quality assurance of construction projects.If you are a proactive professional with strong construction project management expertise, excellent coordination skills, and a passion for improving the lives of children through quality infrastructure, we would love to hear from you.
The Digital Education Officer provides technical, operational, and administrative support for digital transformation in education programmes. The role contributes to research, data collection, and analysis on digital education trends, such as school connectivity, digital learning, and data use, while applying UNICEF procedures to support programme development and implementation. It also supports UNICEF’s involvement in digital initiatives, including school connectivity under the Giga initiative, and contributes to digital transformation efforts across other programme areas (e.g. health, nutrition, and social protection), including activity design.
The objective of this mission is to provide specialised technical assistance to support the preparation, coordination, design, organisation and delivery of the National Education Forum, which will bring together the sector’s key stakeholders. The Forum should ensure a participatory and inclusive process geared towards concrete and actionable outcomes, recognising the severity of the learning crisis in Guinea-Bissau.
UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a qualified Programme Specialist – P3 to strengthen safeguarding systems and protect children and vulnerable communities. Based in Kabul, the role leads prevention, risk mitigation, and response to safeguarding and PSEA concerns across programmes and operations. The incumbent ensures safe programme design, survivor‑centred responses, and accessible, confidential reporting mechanisms. The Programme Specialist will build staff and partner capacity, promote accountability, and embed safeguarding standards across all interventions. The position also supports partners in compliance with international safeguarding policies and strengthens community trust.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MLSP) in analysing the disability system, progress, achievements, and challenges in the disability determination process in the Republic of Moldova. This includes assessing the existing disability framework to develop a Road Map for the designing criteria for determining disability in children and adults, in line with international/EU Member States’ practices, aligned with the biopsychosocial model and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - Children and Youth version (ICF-CY). The main deliverable will be a practical, forward-looking roadmap for revising and piloting the disability assessment criteria in the Republic of Moldova.
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 National Consultant on Career Guidance will provide technical support and contextual expertise for the design and development of a comprehensive Career Guidance Model for the Albanian education system under the “Life Skills and Career Guidance Programme,” in close coordination with UNICEF, national stakeholders, and the International Consultant on Career Guidance. The consultancy will support the development of evidence-based outputs aligned with EU standards, national education priorities, and international best practices, while ensuring full adaptation to the Albanian context. Over an 11-month period, the consultant will contribute to the design of the Career Guidance Model based on the UNICEF and Ministry of Education “DOTS” framework, support a system review of the policy and implementation of Career Education in Albania, contribute to the development of a Career Guidance competency framework, and support the design of a Training of Trainers (ToT) curriculum package. The consultant will also co-facilitate ToT trainings with project experts and supervise 45 ToT experts during the training cascade for the rollout of the Career Guidance model.
We are looking for a Communication Specialist (Engagement) who will be responsible for strategizing, shaping, orchestrating the delivery of how Digital Inclusion engages with, is positioned in and represented within various ecosystems and events ranging across high-stakes/high-visibility opportunities, events we will host, and leveraging other’s platforms, events and engagement opportunities. The role encompasses the design and production of strategic convenings, industry sector events (tech, development, media, geographic etc.), donor-facing events, high-level roundtables, intimate engagement, curated engagement formats and frugal and creative engagements that directly advance programme objectives and resource mobilization goals.
To support UNICEF in positioning and operationalizing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSI) as a flagship mechanism for accelerating political commitment, financing, and accountability in the WASH sector. The consultant will provide technical, advocacy, and coordination support to UNICEF’s WASH Partnerships and Advocacy and WASH Systems and Governance teams in advancing the Heads of State Initiatives (HoSi), ASWA III programme priorities, and global engagements with key partners (Sanitation and Water for All) and major events (UN 2026 Water Conference), while ensuring coherence between political advocacy, systems strengthening, and UNICEF’s global advocacy plan.
WASH Officer is accountable for professional technical contribution to programme/project design, planning, administration, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH programme/project activities, data analysis and progress reporting, and commitment to the enhancement of teamwork and capacity building, in support of the achievement of planned objectives of the work plan, aligned with country programme goals and strategy
The WASH Officer works as part of a team of WASH Officers at the Dnipro Field Office, coordinating closely with colleagues covering complementary geographic and thematic areas. The WASH Officer is expected to operate with a significant degree of autonomy in their assigned area of responsibility, while contributing to team-wide programme coordination. The WASH Officer provides technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the WASH programming process. The Officer prepares, manages and implements a variety of technical and administrative tasks, related to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the WASH output results of the country programme.
The objective of this consultancy is to support the operationalisation of a coordinated, decentralised, and data-driven rural WASH system in Lesotho by strengthening planning, monitoring, and coordination mechanisms across national, district, and community levels.
L’UNICEF Haïti est à la recherche de trois stagiaires ayant un intérêt marqué pour le secteur de l’Eau, de l’Assainissement et de l’Hygiène (EPAH/WASH). Cette offre s’adresse aux étudiants, aux ingénieurs juniors et aux jeunes diplômés en ingénierie souhaitant acquérir une expérience pratique dans le domaine de l’EPAH tout en contribuant à l’action humanitaire.
Basés dans leurs bureaux respectifs à Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes et Gonaïves, les stagiaires rejoindront l’équipe EPAH de l’UNICEF Haïti et collaboreront étroitement avec les équipes des bureaux de terrain. Ils contribueront aux activités de la section EPAH en apportant un appui technique et opérationnel, dans le respect des procédures, des normes et des principes de l’UNICEF. Vous êtes passionné(e) par l’EPAH et souhaitez contribuer à une cause qui compte ? Nous serions ravis d’en savoir plus sur vous !
Make a lasting impact in the Central African Republic.Join UNICEF in Bangui and across the country to strengthen child protection, education, and health systems. Your expertise can help build resilience and hope for children and families.
In line with the UNICEF Guinea Learning and Development Plan 2026, UNICEF's Learning and Development Procedure and the office commitment to continuous staff development, UNICEF Guinea seeks to engage a National English Language Consultant to design and deliver workplace-focused English language training for staff members.
UNICEF Cameroon is seeking a highly qualified and competent to join his team in Yaounde to work in an exciting construction project. aimed at creating safe and sustainable facilities. This role involves providing technical support for planning, procurement, and monitoring of construction activities to ensure compliance with UNICEF's standards. The position requires a commitment to improving public infrastructure in particularly in education, health, and WASH sectors.
The Health Specialist is accountable for providing technical support for the implementation of MNH projects, including community-based MNH. This includes technical support, managing, implementation, coordination, integration, evidence generation, monitoring, and supervision. This encompasses both direct program work with relevant stakeholders including civil society partners, and contractors as well as strengthening linkages and support to UNICEF teams working on health, nutrition, child protection, gender, water, and sanitation.
As part of preparations for its next Country Programme Document (CPD) 2028-2032, the UNICEF Nigeria Country Office (CO) is undertaking a comprehensive evidence synthesis process that includes a Gender Equality Programmatic Review (GPR). This review is critical to inform the CPD design, ensuring alignment with the UNICEF SP and UGEAP, and strengthen the integration of gender equality approaches across the CO’s strategic priorities.
This position plays a key role in safeguarding data integrity and continuity during a critical transformation phase. By enabling reliable, high‑quality data and supporting modern engineering and governance practices, you will help strengthen UNICEF’s analytics capabilities, reduce operational risk, and ensure trusted insights remain available to drive impact at scale.Your role is to support UNICEF’s transition to a modern data ecosystem by contributing to the migration from legacy systems to a scalable lakehouse architecture. Working closely with the ICT Manager/Data & Analytics Lead, you will help design, test, and implement data solutions, ensuring seamless migration, strong performance, and uninterrupted business reporting. Your role spans planning, validation, and delivery of data products that empower smarter, faster decision-making across the organization.
This role supports scaling UNICEF’s Last Mile Supply Monitoring (LMSM) platform by leading technical implementation and development. It involves managing rollouts in multiple earmarked countries, improving system features and performance, collaborating with stakeholders, managing the project execution, and contributing hands-on to backend development and reporting.The successful candidate will have combined skills of technical leadership, backend development, and project management to drive efficient and scalable solutions. The role focuses on improving development processes by implementing DevOps practices, automating release and testing workflows, and enhancing reporting systems. In addition, it involves designing and maintaining backend systems using Django, ensuring code quality, performance, and security, and collaborating with frontend teams to deliver integrated solutions through efficient project planning and execution, including defining scope, managing timelines, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams, while continuously evaluating outcomes for improvement.
UNICEF Haiti is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated, and results-oriented Construction Specialist to join its team based in Les Cayes. Given the scale of construction and rehabilitation activities in southern Haiti, this role plays a critical part in ensuring the successful delivery of safe, sustainable, and child-friendly infrastructure that supports UNICEF's programmes and improves access to essential services for children and communities.Reporting to the Chief of Supply and Logistics in Port-au-Prince, the Construction Specialist will provide technical leadership and oversight for UNICEF's construction portfolio in the southern departments of Haiti. The role involves managing construction activities, supporting programme planning and implementation, coordinating the preparation of technical designs and documentation, contributing to construction-related procurement processes, and ensuring effective monitoring and quality assurance of construction projects.If you are a proactive professional with strong construction project management expertise, excellent coordination skills, and a passion for improving the lives of children through quality infrastructure, we would love to hear from you.
The Digital Education Officer provides technical, operational, and administrative support for digital transformation in education programmes. The role contributes to research, data collection, and analysis on digital education trends, such as school connectivity, digital learning, and data use, while applying UNICEF procedures to support programme development and implementation. It also supports UNICEF’s involvement in digital initiatives, including school connectivity under the Giga initiative, and contributes to digital transformation efforts across other programme areas (e.g. health, nutrition, and social protection), including activity design.
The objective of this mission is to provide specialised technical assistance to support the preparation, coordination, design, organisation and delivery of the National Education Forum, which will bring together the sector’s key stakeholders. The Forum should ensure a participatory and inclusive process geared towards concrete and actionable outcomes, recognising the severity of the learning crisis in Guinea-Bissau.
UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a qualified Programme Specialist – P3 to strengthen safeguarding systems and protect children and vulnerable communities. Based in Kabul, the role leads prevention, risk mitigation, and response to safeguarding and PSEA concerns across programmes and operations. The incumbent ensures safe programme design, survivor‑centred responses, and accessible, confidential reporting mechanisms. The Programme Specialist will build staff and partner capacity, promote accountability, and embed safeguarding standards across all interventions. The position also supports partners in compliance with international safeguarding policies and strengthens community trust.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MLSP) in analysing the disability system, progress, achievements, and challenges in the disability determination process in the Republic of Moldova. This includes assessing the existing disability framework to develop a Road Map for the designing criteria for determining disability in children and adults, in line with international/EU Member States’ practices, aligned with the biopsychosocial model and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - Children and Youth version (ICF-CY). The main deliverable will be a practical, forward-looking roadmap for revising and piloting the disability assessment criteria in the Republic of Moldova.
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 National Consultant on Career Guidance will provide technical support and contextual expertise for the design and development of a comprehensive Career Guidance Model for the Albanian education system under the “Life Skills and Career Guidance Programme,” in close coordination with UNICEF, national stakeholders, and the International Consultant on Career Guidance. The consultancy will support the development of evidence-based outputs aligned with EU standards, national education priorities, and international best practices, while ensuring full adaptation to the Albanian context. Over an 11-month period, the consultant will contribute to the design of the Career Guidance Model based on the UNICEF and Ministry of Education “DOTS” framework, support a system review of the policy and implementation of Career Education in Albania, contribute to the development of a Career Guidance competency framework, and support the design of a Training of Trainers (ToT) curriculum package. The consultant will also co-facilitate ToT trainings with project experts and supervise 45 ToT experts during the training cascade for the rollout of the Career Guidance model.
We are looking for a Communication Specialist (Engagement) who will be responsible for strategizing, shaping, orchestrating the delivery of how Digital Inclusion engages with, is positioned in and represented within various ecosystems and events ranging across high-stakes/high-visibility opportunities, events we will host, and leveraging other’s platforms, events and engagement opportunities. The role encompasses the design and production of strategic convenings, industry sector events (tech, development, media, geographic etc.), donor-facing events, high-level roundtables, intimate engagement, curated engagement formats and frugal and creative engagements that directly advance programme objectives and resource mobilization goals.
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