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.
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.
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 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 !
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.
UNICEF Supply Division seeks to establish a roster of pre-qualified external consultants to augment its in-house capacity for (A) technical assessment of medicinal product dossiers ('dossier assessors') and (B) audits against Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP) ('auditors'). The roster will also be used to engage experts, under UNICEF supervision to support increasing demand related to UNICEF localization agenda for medicinal products and expanded supply operations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Quality assurance (QA) is central to UNICEF’s mandate to provide timely access to safe, efficacious, and quality-assured medicines. Robust QA processes—including rigorous technical assessment, GMP audits, GSDP assessments, and quality control—are essential to manage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and safeguard beneficiaries across global and local supply chains.
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.
To support the achievement of health outcomes under the 2026–2030 Strategic Plan, the Health Programme Team will develop and implement a Knowledge and Research Approach aligned with corporate standards to strengthen the work of the UNICEF health workforce across Centers of Excellence (CoEs) and country offices. The Center of Excellence needs robust, rigorous and in some cases, empirical evidence to support the technical assistance provided. UNICEF Country offices need increased knowledge access to achieve quality programming and CoEs need mechanisms and feedback loops to return country knowledge for organizational decision making. UNICEF partners need to be clear on UNICEF knowledge positions, production and stance. Strategic vision, systems and processes are needed to grow this knowledge evidence base and make use of new technologies such as AI and others optimally, to crawl through evidence tracks. Evidence tracks need cohesion with webinars and policy papers disseminated. There needs systems coherence across sections. This Knowledge and research Approach needs to provide an institutionalized way of growing, synergizing and governing evidence generation of child thought leadership as well as children’s program implementation, for optimal programming and advocacy for children. UNICEF has developed a TA Hub with an AI function to search evidence and this is a new development internally but how much of this valuable information can also be shared externally will need to be considered in this new Knowledge and research Approach.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Education Specialist, the consultant will support the implementation of two flagship education programmes aimed at strengthening skills development in children and youth, as well as school safety in Greece: the U Talent programme, implemented in partnership with DYPA, and the Safe Schools Alliance anti-bullying initiative, a joint initiative with Piraeus Bank, implemented in collaboration with Regional Education Directorates and academic institutions.
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.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
Climate change disproportionately affects women and girls, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and increasing vulnerabilities during climate-related shocks and stresses. Structural barriers, discriminatory gender norms, unequal access to resources and services, and limited participation in decision-making processes place women and girls at heightened risk in the context of climate change and disasters. Women and girls often face unequal access to climate information, early warning systems, and recovery support, while also carrying disproportionate caregiving responsibilities during crises.
Certain groups, including adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous populations, migrant communities, and those living in poverty, may experience compounded risks due to intersecting forms of discrimination and exclusion. At the same time, women and girls are critical agents of change and play a central role in strengthening climate resilience, adaptation, and community recovery efforts.
UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029, Gender Equality Action Plan (2026–2039), and Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (2023-2030) emphasize the importance of integrating gender equality and adolescent-responsive approaches across climate and resilience programming. UNICEF’s programming increasingly recognizes that climate action must move beyond gender-responsive approaches toward gender-responsive programming that addresses unequal power relations, harmful social norms, and systemic barriers limiting women’s and girls’ participation, leadership, and access to opportunities.
UNICEF Centre of Excellence for Climate Resilience for Children is seeking a consultant to support the development, implementation, and operationalization of gender-responsive climate resilience programming across policy, systems strengthening, sectoral programming, and institutional capacity development.
UNICEF Kiribati is seeking an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (MICS) to provide technical leadership for the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and deliver high-quality, disaggregated evidence to inform national priorities for children and women. Based in Tarawa, you will oversee the full survey cycle—working with the Kiribati National Statistics Office (KNSO), UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office and the global MICS team to strengthen methodology, support CAPI-enabled fieldwork, ensure robust data processing and analysis, and guide timely reporting and dissemination—while building sustainable national capacity and upholding MICS standards at every stage.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed professional to work in the role of an Health Specialist and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant / report producer to develop and support the launch of a global report on private sector engagement in education. This report will build on the existing UNICEF in-house work, which reviews and analyses the triple crises of learning, resource and employability. The report will elaborate on the private sector’s triple roles of being provider, financier and broker. The report will also consider the time frame, system levels and intervention areas for private sector engagement.
The assignment involves supporting the field implementation of Component 1 – PNG Community-based Approach to Reduce and End Stunting (PNG CARES) under the Child Nutrition and Social Protection (CNSP) project in East New Britain, Simbu, and Western provinces. Working under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Specialist and in collaboration with the Component One Manager.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Supply and Logistics officer and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
To support the implementation of these priorities, UNICEF Kosovo seeks to engage a local Child Protection Consultant on Violence Against Children for six months to provide technical, advisory, coordination and implementation support across key child protection interventions. The consultant will support UNICEF and partners in strengthening the practical links between policy, service delivery and frontline response, including multidisciplinary coordination and case management mechanisms, social service workforce capacity development, piloting of minimum social service packages, development of specialized foster care services, advancement of child-friendly justice, and support to the establishment of the Child Helpline and Child Protection Houses. The assignment will also support the implementation of specialized prevention and response mechanisms related to sexual violence against children.
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
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.
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.
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 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 !
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.
UNICEF Supply Division seeks to establish a roster of pre-qualified external consultants to augment its in-house capacity for (A) technical assessment of medicinal product dossiers ('dossier assessors') and (B) audits against Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP) ('auditors'). The roster will also be used to engage experts, under UNICEF supervision to support increasing demand related to UNICEF localization agenda for medicinal products and expanded supply operations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Quality assurance (QA) is central to UNICEF’s mandate to provide timely access to safe, efficacious, and quality-assured medicines. Robust QA processes—including rigorous technical assessment, GMP audits, GSDP assessments, and quality control—are essential to manage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and safeguard beneficiaries across global and local supply chains.
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.
To support the achievement of health outcomes under the 2026–2030 Strategic Plan, the Health Programme Team will develop and implement a Knowledge and Research Approach aligned with corporate standards to strengthen the work of the UNICEF health workforce across Centers of Excellence (CoEs) and country offices. The Center of Excellence needs robust, rigorous and in some cases, empirical evidence to support the technical assistance provided. UNICEF Country offices need increased knowledge access to achieve quality programming and CoEs need mechanisms and feedback loops to return country knowledge for organizational decision making. UNICEF partners need to be clear on UNICEF knowledge positions, production and stance. Strategic vision, systems and processes are needed to grow this knowledge evidence base and make use of new technologies such as AI and others optimally, to crawl through evidence tracks. Evidence tracks need cohesion with webinars and policy papers disseminated. There needs systems coherence across sections. This Knowledge and research Approach needs to provide an institutionalized way of growing, synergizing and governing evidence generation of child thought leadership as well as children’s program implementation, for optimal programming and advocacy for children. UNICEF has developed a TA Hub with an AI function to search evidence and this is a new development internally but how much of this valuable information can also be shared externally will need to be considered in this new Knowledge and research Approach.
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Education Specialist, the consultant will support the implementation of two flagship education programmes aimed at strengthening skills development in children and youth, as well as school safety in Greece: the U Talent programme, implemented in partnership with DYPA, and the Safe Schools Alliance anti-bullying initiative, a joint initiative with Piraeus Bank, implemented in collaboration with Regional Education Directorates and academic institutions.
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.
UNICEF seeks to recruit a dedicated consultant to develop a national climate change adaptation plan for the education sector that helps to maximize co-benefits between efforts to ensure quality and equitable education for all, to build climate resilience and to restore environmental integrity across the education sector. The body of work must be aligned with the new National Education Action Plan of 2027-2031 as a way to operationalise national climate adaptation goals into education sector planning. As well as the National Adaptation Plan for the Solomon Islands process which will run at the same time.
Climate change disproportionately affects women and girls, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and increasing vulnerabilities during climate-related shocks and stresses. Structural barriers, discriminatory gender norms, unequal access to resources and services, and limited participation in decision-making processes place women and girls at heightened risk in the context of climate change and disasters. Women and girls often face unequal access to climate information, early warning systems, and recovery support, while also carrying disproportionate caregiving responsibilities during crises.
Certain groups, including adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous populations, migrant communities, and those living in poverty, may experience compounded risks due to intersecting forms of discrimination and exclusion. At the same time, women and girls are critical agents of change and play a central role in strengthening climate resilience, adaptation, and community recovery efforts.
UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029, Gender Equality Action Plan (2026–2039), and Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (2023-2030) emphasize the importance of integrating gender equality and adolescent-responsive approaches across climate and resilience programming. UNICEF’s programming increasingly recognizes that climate action must move beyond gender-responsive approaches toward gender-responsive programming that addresses unequal power relations, harmful social norms, and systemic barriers limiting women’s and girls’ participation, leadership, and access to opportunities.
UNICEF Centre of Excellence for Climate Resilience for Children is seeking a consultant to support the development, implementation, and operationalization of gender-responsive climate resilience programming across policy, systems strengthening, sectoral programming, and institutional capacity development.
UNICEF Kiribati is seeking an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (MICS) to provide technical leadership for the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and deliver high-quality, disaggregated evidence to inform national priorities for children and women. Based in Tarawa, you will oversee the full survey cycle—working with the Kiribati National Statistics Office (KNSO), UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office and the global MICS team to strengthen methodology, support CAPI-enabled fieldwork, ensure robust data processing and analysis, and guide timely reporting and dissemination—while building sustainable national capacity and upholding MICS standards at every stage.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed professional to work in the role of an Health Specialist and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
UNICEF seeks to engage a consultant / report producer to develop and support the launch of a global report on private sector engagement in education. This report will build on the existing UNICEF in-house work, which reviews and analyses the triple crises of learning, resource and employability. The report will elaborate on the private sector’s triple roles of being provider, financier and broker. The report will also consider the time frame, system levels and intervention areas for private sector engagement.
The assignment involves supporting the field implementation of Component 1 – PNG Community-based Approach to Reduce and End Stunting (PNG CARES) under the Child Nutrition and Social Protection (CNSP) project in East New Britain, Simbu, and Western provinces. Working under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Specialist and in collaboration with the Component One Manager.
UNICEF Nigeria is seeking a passionate and committed person to work in the role of a Supply and Logistics officer and invites applications from highly motivated and committed persons who want to contribute to results for children. If you are that person, we encourage you to apply and become part of a highly motivated and committed team.
To support the implementation of these priorities, UNICEF Kosovo seeks to engage a local Child Protection Consultant on Violence Against Children for six months to provide technical, advisory, coordination and implementation support across key child protection interventions. The consultant will support UNICEF and partners in strengthening the practical links between policy, service delivery and frontline response, including multidisciplinary coordination and case management mechanisms, social service workforce capacity development, piloting of minimum social service packages, development of specialized foster care services, advancement of child-friendly justice, and support to the establishment of the Child Helpline and Child Protection Houses. The assignment will also support the implementation of specialized prevention and response mechanisms related to sexual violence against children.
UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children’s lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.
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