Under the guidance of the Digital Impact Manager for AI Solutions Engineering, the AI Applications Developer supports UNICEF’s digital transformation by designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered applications and services. The role focuses on hands-on implementation of AI and machine learning, including AI-enabled coding, model integration, user-facing feature development, and AI-driven automation, while upholding responsible AI practices related to security, privacy, and ethics.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
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.
We are looking for a Programme Manager (Infrastructure Finance) who will play a key role in operationalizing Giga’s financing strategy, building on existing approaches and project finance tools. The role leads and coordinates engagement with international financial institutions (IFIs), development finance institutions (DFIs), and private sector partners, and contributes to the structuring of financing solutions and the development of digital infrastructure investment pipelines.
To strengthen UNICEF Kosovo’s digital presence, audience reach, and advocacy impact through strategic digital media management, campaign execution, and data-driven optimization aligned with the 2026–2030 communication and advocacy strategy.
UNICEF seeks to create a digital platform to connect universities across Africa. This platform will serve as a network for academia to share resources, optimize faculty development programs, discuss pedagogical approaches to integrating SBC courses into current curricula, and provide a space to share success stories.
This internship offers a valuable opportunity for a student or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in responsible AI for development, digital transformation, innovation portfolio coordination, and the safe and ethical use of emerging technologies within the UN system.
UNICEF The Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to lead the development of a Digital and AI Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT for 12 months with travel.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que nos apoye con la Estrategia de implementación de los Entornos Virtuales Móviles incluyendo un Manual metodológico para el uso de los kits tecnológicos para el aprendizaje digital.
UNICEF seeks a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Digital Content Consultant (Individual Consultancy, 3 months, with possible extension) to support digital engagement and training initiatives. Under the guidance of the Adolescent Development Manager, the consultant will contribute to UNICEF’s National Response programme in Italy, promoting inclusion and non-discrimination among unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), and refugee and migrant youth. The role involves developing and delivering online trainings, supporting youth engagement and social media content, monitoring digital platforms, and contributing to programme coordination and reporting. The assignment supports efforts to strengthen inclusive practices, amplify youth voices, and address discrimination through innovative digital and educational approaches.
As a digital specialist in the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) plays a pivotal role in executing UNICEF’s strategy to scale donor acquisition through digital innovation. In alignment with the PSFR team's strategic emphasis on funnel-based marketing, segmentation, and audience-centric growth, this role leads the planning, execution, and optimization of digital campaigns across platforms such as social media, email, and paid advertising. By leveraging audience insights, campaign analytics, and emerging digital trends, the incumbent ensures that acquisition efforts are both data-driven and responsive to evolving donor behaviors. Their collaboration with the marketing team and focus on maximizing ROI directly supports the team’s broader objectives of expanding reach, enhancing engagement, and driving sustainable revenue growth under the 2026–2030 strategy.
Under the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving on the PSFR team, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) focuses on planning, executing, and evaluating digital marketing campaigns with a goal of acquiring new donors across online platforms (e.g., social media, email, paid advertising). Responsibilities include campaign management across analysis, audience insights, and campaign optimization. This role involves collaborating with the marketing team, analyzing digital campaign data, optimizing campaigns for maximum ROI, and staying updated with the latest digital marketing trends. The incumbent will play a key role in driving the organization's growth by ensuring effective digital marketing efforts.
Digital Paid Media Consultant is responsible for driving financial growth and ensuring sustainability in their assigned UNICEF markets. They collaborate closely with global UNICEF teams and regional squads to offer expertise in digital performance marketing and advertising across owned, earned, and paid media channels—primarily focusing on AI, Meta, and Google ads. The ideal candidate empowers markets and provides hands-on support to other paid media consultants for launching and optimizing performance marketing and paid media campaigns, aiming to achieve each market’s business goals. Responsibilities include reviewing UNICEF’s current approach, campaign structure, paid media set up, pixels, conversion tracking, preparing and presenting strategies, learnings, insights, toolkits, guidelines, checklists, SOPs, and media plans based on business goals, and historical data. They also produce assessment reports from channel reviews and test-and-learn recommendations on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis, tailored per market or as required.
Synthesize and integrate qualitative and quantitative evidence across UNICEF Innocenti’s Digital Engagement & Protection portfolio into clear, audience-tailored knowledge products that inform advocacy, communications, programming, and policy engagement on children’s rights in digital environments.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Tanzania in strengthening its engagement with the Ministry of Youth (MoY) through the design and operationalization of integrated digital Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) systems. The assignment will use MoY as a strategic entry point and institutional anchor to develop and demonstrate a scalable digital engagement ecosystem, which can be adapted and applied across other priority sectors and line ministries.
UNICEF Comoros is seeking a Senior Digital Impact Associate to support the management and operation of ICT systems and digital solutions. The role provides technical expertise in systems administration, user support, and digital/data solution implementation to enable efficient programme delivery. Working within a multi-country office setup, the position collaborates closely with the Madagascar Digital Impact team while serving as the sole Digital Impact focal point in Comoros.
The incumbent supports the design, coordination, implementation, monitoring and optimization of annual pledge donor acquisition plans. The role contributes to the achievement of income, donor volume, donor quality and cost-efficiency targets through the coordinated implementation of acquisition campaigns across Face-to-Face, telemarketing, DRTV, Corporate Pathway to Pledge, digital lead conversion and other emerging acquisition opportunities.
The incumbent works closely with the Individual Giving, Digital, Retention, Communications, Operations and external vendor teams to ensure that acquisition activities are planned, executed, tracked and reported in a timely and compliant manner. The post provides analysis and recommendations to improve campaign performance, strengthen donor journeys, support testing and innovation, and contribute to a stronger and more diversified acquisition pipeline for UNICEF Chile.
Under the overall supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager in Rome, Italy and the technical supervision of the Digital Engagement and Youth Participation Project Manager (U-Report), in Rome, Italy, the Social Mobilizer is primarily responsible for promoting the U-Report On The Move platform and related tools in first and second reception centres in Italy reaching unaccompanied and separated children, young migrants and refugees.
The Communication Officer - Social Media is based in Almaty to strengthen digital engagement in Russian and ensure proximity to Country Offices in Central Asia. The post supports the regional digital media stream under the supervision and editorial direction of the Digital Communication Specialist - Digital Media, and contributes to coherent regional digital public engagement, content adaptation, moderation, and performance monitoring across assigned regional-language digital channels, including primary responsibility for Russian-language social media content and engagement.
The Ministry of Education with UNICEF support is looking for an International Consultant to support the process of revision of ICT policy in Education. Government of Timor-Leste has a Digital 2032 policy with Education as key pillar. Timor-Leste's existing ICT in Education Policy was developed in a context marked by limited infrastructure, connectivity, and digital capacity. Since its adoption, significant changes have occurred during the decade. The purpose of this assignment is to revise and update the ICT in Education Policy for Timor-Leste, providing a clear, coherent, and costed policy framework that guides the effective, equitable, safe, and sustainable use of ICT across the education sector. The revised policy will serve as a strategic reference for government institutions, development partners, education providers, and other stakeholders involved in planning, financing, and
implementing ICT-enabled education initiatives.
Safe Online has a decade of impact in child online protection and is expanding its scope into children's wellbeing in the
digital age. The team has built a strong foundation for resource mobilisation — including a financing narrative,
engagement through the Coalition for Financing of Safe Digital Futures, a robust evidence base, and active donor
relationships. What is now needed is dedicated capacity to help the team translate these assets into systematic outreach
that secures new funding commitments for the next replenishment cycle, with a particular focus on the European
philanthropy and partnership landscape.
The consultant will work in close partnership with the Safe Online team, guided by the Executive Director. This is not a
standalone exercise — it builds directly on the body of work the team has developed and translates it into outreach-ready
formats and concrete funder conversations. The consultant brings dedicated fundraising bandwidth, network access
within the European landscape, and pitch development skills to complement the team's existing strengths.
Under the guidance of the Digital Impact Manager for AI Solutions Engineering, the AI Applications Developer supports UNICEF’s digital transformation by designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining AI-powered applications and services. The role focuses on hands-on implementation of AI and machine learning, including AI-enabled coding, model integration, user-facing feature development, and AI-driven automation, while upholding responsible AI practices related to security, privacy, and ethics.
Since 2014, UNICEF has invested significantly in Digital Public Goods (DPGs) that support programme delivery at scale across sectors and countries. These platforms are important institutional assets for delivering reusable, adaptable, cost-effective solutions and scalable digital impact for children.
As UNICEF strengthens digital transformation as an accelerator for results, there is an opportunity to build on the experience of existing DPG teams and make UNICEF’s collective DPG expertise more visible and accessible across the organization and beyond. This includes strengthening collaboration across DPG teams, documenting good practices, identifying opportunities for efficiency, and developing service offerings for country offices and partners.
Since 2025, DID DCOE has convened the DPGs at Scale initiative through business model financial analysis, bilateral consultations, and working group discussions. This has created a strong foundation for advancing structured collaboration, shared learning, and portfolio-level thinking on how UNICEF can sustain and scale DPGs effectively.
The purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate and coordinate the DPGs at Scale community and help translate the work to date into practical, decision-ready outputs. The consultant will support the development of an operating model for DPGs at Scale, a productized DPG service offering, cost-efficiency options, knowledge products, and structured inputs for senior management consideration.
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.
We are looking for a Programme Manager (Infrastructure Finance) who will play a key role in operationalizing Giga’s financing strategy, building on existing approaches and project finance tools. The role leads and coordinates engagement with international financial institutions (IFIs), development finance institutions (DFIs), and private sector partners, and contributes to the structuring of financing solutions and the development of digital infrastructure investment pipelines.
To strengthen UNICEF Kosovo’s digital presence, audience reach, and advocacy impact through strategic digital media management, campaign execution, and data-driven optimization aligned with the 2026–2030 communication and advocacy strategy.
UNICEF seeks to create a digital platform to connect universities across Africa. This platform will serve as a network for academia to share resources, optimize faculty development programs, discuss pedagogical approaches to integrating SBC courses into current curricula, and provide a space to share success stories.
This internship offers a valuable opportunity for a student or recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in responsible AI for development, digital transformation, innovation portfolio coordination, and the safe and ethical use of emerging technologies within the UN system.
UNICEF The Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to lead the development of a Digital and AI Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT for 12 months with travel.
¡En UNICEF Guatemala estamos contratando! Buscamos a un consultor que nos apoye con la Estrategia de implementación de los Entornos Virtuales Móviles incluyendo un Manual metodológico para el uso de los kits tecnológicos para el aprendizaje digital.
UNICEF seeks a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Digital Content Consultant (Individual Consultancy, 3 months, with possible extension) to support digital engagement and training initiatives. Under the guidance of the Adolescent Development Manager, the consultant will contribute to UNICEF’s National Response programme in Italy, promoting inclusion and non-discrimination among unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), and refugee and migrant youth. The role involves developing and delivering online trainings, supporting youth engagement and social media content, monitoring digital platforms, and contributing to programme coordination and reporting. The assignment supports efforts to strengthen inclusive practices, amplify youth voices, and address discrimination through innovative digital and educational approaches.
As a digital specialist in the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) plays a pivotal role in executing UNICEF’s strategy to scale donor acquisition through digital innovation. In alignment with the PSFR team's strategic emphasis on funnel-based marketing, segmentation, and audience-centric growth, this role leads the planning, execution, and optimization of digital campaigns across platforms such as social media, email, and paid advertising. By leveraging audience insights, campaign analytics, and emerging digital trends, the incumbent ensures that acquisition efforts are both data-driven and responsive to evolving donor behaviors. Their collaboration with the marketing team and focus on maximizing ROI directly supports the team’s broader objectives of expanding reach, enhancing engagement, and driving sustainable revenue growth under the 2026–2030 strategy.
Under the Acquisition unit of Individual Giving on the PSFR team, the Fundraising Officer (Digital Growth) focuses on planning, executing, and evaluating digital marketing campaigns with a goal of acquiring new donors across online platforms (e.g., social media, email, paid advertising). Responsibilities include campaign management across analysis, audience insights, and campaign optimization. This role involves collaborating with the marketing team, analyzing digital campaign data, optimizing campaigns for maximum ROI, and staying updated with the latest digital marketing trends. The incumbent will play a key role in driving the organization's growth by ensuring effective digital marketing efforts.
Digital Paid Media Consultant is responsible for driving financial growth and ensuring sustainability in their assigned UNICEF markets. They collaborate closely with global UNICEF teams and regional squads to offer expertise in digital performance marketing and advertising across owned, earned, and paid media channels—primarily focusing on AI, Meta, and Google ads. The ideal candidate empowers markets and provides hands-on support to other paid media consultants for launching and optimizing performance marketing and paid media campaigns, aiming to achieve each market’s business goals. Responsibilities include reviewing UNICEF’s current approach, campaign structure, paid media set up, pixels, conversion tracking, preparing and presenting strategies, learnings, insights, toolkits, guidelines, checklists, SOPs, and media plans based on business goals, and historical data. They also produce assessment reports from channel reviews and test-and-learn recommendations on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis, tailored per market or as required.
Synthesize and integrate qualitative and quantitative evidence across UNICEF Innocenti’s Digital Engagement & Protection portfolio into clear, audience-tailored knowledge products that inform advocacy, communications, programming, and policy engagement on children’s rights in digital environments.
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Tanzania in strengthening its engagement with the Ministry of Youth (MoY) through the design and operationalization of integrated digital Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) systems. The assignment will use MoY as a strategic entry point and institutional anchor to develop and demonstrate a scalable digital engagement ecosystem, which can be adapted and applied across other priority sectors and line ministries.
UNICEF Comoros is seeking a Senior Digital Impact Associate to support the management and operation of ICT systems and digital solutions. The role provides technical expertise in systems administration, user support, and digital/data solution implementation to enable efficient programme delivery. Working within a multi-country office setup, the position collaborates closely with the Madagascar Digital Impact team while serving as the sole Digital Impact focal point in Comoros.
The incumbent supports the design, coordination, implementation, monitoring and optimization of annual pledge donor acquisition plans. The role contributes to the achievement of income, donor volume, donor quality and cost-efficiency targets through the coordinated implementation of acquisition campaigns across Face-to-Face, telemarketing, DRTV, Corporate Pathway to Pledge, digital lead conversion and other emerging acquisition opportunities.
The incumbent works closely with the Individual Giving, Digital, Retention, Communications, Operations and external vendor teams to ensure that acquisition activities are planned, executed, tracked and reported in a timely and compliant manner. The post provides analysis and recommendations to improve campaign performance, strengthen donor journeys, support testing and innovation, and contribute to a stronger and more diversified acquisition pipeline for UNICEF Chile.
Under the overall supervision of the Adolescent Development Manager in Rome, Italy and the technical supervision of the Digital Engagement and Youth Participation Project Manager (U-Report), in Rome, Italy, the Social Mobilizer is primarily responsible for promoting the U-Report On The Move platform and related tools in first and second reception centres in Italy reaching unaccompanied and separated children, young migrants and refugees.
The Communication Officer - Social Media is based in Almaty to strengthen digital engagement in Russian and ensure proximity to Country Offices in Central Asia. The post supports the regional digital media stream under the supervision and editorial direction of the Digital Communication Specialist - Digital Media, and contributes to coherent regional digital public engagement, content adaptation, moderation, and performance monitoring across assigned regional-language digital channels, including primary responsibility for Russian-language social media content and engagement.
The Ministry of Education with UNICEF support is looking for an International Consultant to support the process of revision of ICT policy in Education. Government of Timor-Leste has a Digital 2032 policy with Education as key pillar. Timor-Leste's existing ICT in Education Policy was developed in a context marked by limited infrastructure, connectivity, and digital capacity. Since its adoption, significant changes have occurred during the decade. The purpose of this assignment is to revise and update the ICT in Education Policy for Timor-Leste, providing a clear, coherent, and costed policy framework that guides the effective, equitable, safe, and sustainable use of ICT across the education sector. The revised policy will serve as a strategic reference for government institutions, development partners, education providers, and other stakeholders involved in planning, financing, and
implementing ICT-enabled education initiatives.
Safe Online has a decade of impact in child online protection and is expanding its scope into children's wellbeing in the
digital age. The team has built a strong foundation for resource mobilisation — including a financing narrative,
engagement through the Coalition for Financing of Safe Digital Futures, a robust evidence base, and active donor
relationships. What is now needed is dedicated capacity to help the team translate these assets into systematic outreach
that secures new funding commitments for the next replenishment cycle, with a particular focus on the European
philanthropy and partnership landscape.
The consultant will work in close partnership with the Safe Online team, guided by the Executive Director. This is not a
standalone exercise — it builds directly on the body of work the team has developed and translates it into outreach-ready
formats and concrete funder conversations. The consultant brings dedicated fundraising bandwidth, network access
within the European landscape, and pitch development skills to complement the team's existing strengths.
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