UNICEF is seeking a dynamic and committed professional to join its team as a Child Protection Specialist, supporting the delivery of high-impact programmes that safeguard children’s rights and well-being. The role plays a critical part in the Approx. 2hours/month provision of technical assistance to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, exploitation, and harmful practices, and supporting programme design and implementation, monitoring progress, and strengthening child protection systems, contributing to reaching the most vulnerable children with critical services. You will work closely with government counterparts, civil society, and development partners to support systems strengthening, evidence-based approaches, and scalable solutions.
UNICEF OOI is seeking for a consultant who will operate as part of a distributed team led by the Office of Innovation, providing direct governance mentoring to country offices, and contributing expert inputs to methodology alignment, guidance products, and institutional learning processes.
This remote consultancy drives the global visibility and strategic communication of UNICEF Innocenti's Intergenerational Governance and Participation (IGP) initiatives. Building on successful initial phases, you will lead advocacy, storytelling, and dissemination strategies with a specific focus on the Youth Fellowship on Climate Education. By translating knowledge across global platforms, you will amplify youth voices and strengthen interconnected portfolios in foresight and climate governance.
Support the procurement and timely delivery of essential child survival supplies by managing purchase orders, tenders, supplier coordination, and order tracking. Ensure compliance with UNICEF procurement procedures, maintain procurement systems and records, and collaborate with suppliers and country offices to support efficient supply chain operations.
The Security Manager (P-4), serving as Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security, provides leadership, analysis, and technical support to strengthen security risk management across the ECAMENA region. The role focuses on guiding country offices, enhancing preparedness and coordination, and integrating security into operations to reduce risks in complex and high-risk environments.
Since 24 February 2022, the escalation of the war in Ukraine has severely affected children and families, leaving millions in need of humanitarian assistance and disrupting access to essential services such as health, education, WASH, and social protection. In response, UNICEF has implemented an emergency response while supporting recovery and strengthening national systems. High-quality, timely evidence and evaluation are essential to ensure programmes remain effective, accountable, and responsive to the evolving needs of children. To strengthen its evaluation function, the UNICEF Ukraine Country Office is recruiting an Evaluation Specialist (NO-C) to support the planning, implementation, and dissemination of evaluations and contribute to the office's evidence generation strategy.
The Nutrition Specialist is based at the UNICEF Field Office in Ambovombe and operates under a matrix management arrangement, reporting to the Nutrition Chief and the Chief of Field Office Ambovombe. In addition to managing the nutrition programme in the assigned area, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating nutrition interventions across the three regions of the Grand Sud (Androy, Anosy, and Atsimo-Andrefana), providing technical leadership and oversight to sub-national nutrition stakeholders and partners in these regions. The Nutrition Specialist supports the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Nutrition Specialist to the preparation, planning and implementation of nutrition programmes/projects contributes to and accelerates the national development efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants and children in the country. This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to mothers and children that promotes greater social equity in the country.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and UNICEF in developing and piloting an integrated parenting support programme within primary health care (PHC) services and selected preschool education (kindergarten) facilities. The consultant will design an evidence-based, culturally appropriate training package based on UNICEF's Early Childhood Development (ECD) guidance, the UNICEF Parenting Framework, and the Child Development Guide for Turkmenistan. The consultancy will include the development of training and facilitation materials, delivery of a Training of Trainers (ToT), piloting of parent education sessions, refinement of the package based on feedback, and preparation of recommendations for institutionalizing and scaling up the programme nationwide.
The purpose of this assignment is therefore to generate robust evidence on children’s engagement with the digital environment in Bhutan, with a particular focus on online risks and digital safety including from the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The study will support UNICEF and national stakeholders to better understand the nature, prevalence, and impacts of online and AI‑related risks affecting children, and to inform evidence‑based policy, programming, and safeguarding responses that both protect and empower children in an increasingly digital society
The Royal Government of Cambodia has identified the strengthening of the social service workforce as a key priority to improve the effectiveness, quality, and sustainability of services provided to vulnerable populations, particularly children, women, persons with disabilities, and other at-risk groups. The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY), through the Technical Working Group on Social Service Workforce Development, has been leading efforts to develop a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework to guide the professionalization, institutionalization, management, and expansion of the social service workforce in Cambodia. However, the efforts meet some challenges and gaps including the absence of a comprehensive legal framework defining the functions, roles, responsibilities, competencies, and professional standards of social workers, as well as the lack of a formal system for registration, licensing, accreditation, and quality assurance of social service professionals. These gaps undermine the Government’s ability to plan, budget, recruit, develop and retain qualified personnel across sectors such as social affairs, health, education, and justice, and limit the capacity of the social service workforce to deliver services that are rights-based, gender-responsive, disability inclusive, and sensitive to the needs of marginalized and at-risk groups.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Operations Officer to join its team in Honiara, Solomon Islands, on a 364-day temporary appointment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operations professional to play a key role in enabling UNICEF’s work for children by providing strategic, risk-informed and solution-oriented operational support across finance, administration, supply and logistics, ICT, human resources, safety and security. Working closely with the Chief Field Office and the Deputy Representative, Operations, the successful candidate will help strengthen systems, support effective programme delivery, and lead a small operations team while championing UNICEF’s core operational pillars: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, and Valuing Partners.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen disaster risk financing (DRF) systems for social sectors in selected Pacific
Island Countries (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) by improving the capacity of governments and
partners to mobilize and deliver financial resources effectively to protect children and essential services during shocks.
The consultancy will support UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) to enhance its role as a strategic partner in DRF
by working closely with Ministries of Finance and line ministries responsible for education, health & nutrition, child
protection, WASH, and social protection to strengthen the integration of social sectors within DRF frameworks. This
includes assessing and improving shock-responsive delivery systems (“money-out”), identifying systemic bottlenecks, and
providing targeted technical support and initial capacity-building to ensure that financial resources translate into timely
and effective support for children.
The assignment will further contribute to elevating the role of social sectors within national DRF approaches, ensuring
that financing mechanisms explicitly account for the protection of essential services and the needs of children in disaster
contexts.
In parallel, the consultancy will facilitate engagement with key regional and international partners, including PCRIC, the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), to align UNICEF’s work
with broader DRF initiatives and promote coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Finally, the consultancy will contribute to the development of donor-ready proposals and a UNICEF DRF roadmap,
ensuring that country-level engagement and systems improvements are translated into actionable strategies,
strengthened partnerships, and resource mobilization opportunities to better protect children from disaster impacts.
La/el Gestor/a de la Línea de Contacto será responsable del fortalecimiento y adaptación de la Línea de Contacto para asegurar la continuidad operativa en Venezuela, alineado con la planificación estratégica y el Plan de respuesta Humanitaria, ofreciendo un mecanismo seguro, confiable y accesible, en complementariedad a los mecanismos establecidos por las agencias y organizaciones socias.
UNICEF Sudan continues to respond to one of the world’s most complex humanitarian crises, marked by escalating conflict, widespread internal displacement, and the collapse of essential services. Compounding these challenges, a nationwide cholera outbreak that began in 2024 has continued to spread in 2025, further straining an already fragile health and WASH infrastructure. In this context, high-quality donor reporting and well-articulated funding proposals are critical to sustain donor confidence, ensure accountability, and mobilize much-needed resources to scale up life-saving interventions. To meet growing demands in donor reporting and proposal development, UNICEF Sudan seeks a qualified consultant to support the WASH Section and the Resource Mobilization Unit in preparing timely, accurate, and strategic documentation aligned with UNICEF and donor standards.
Sous la supervision du Chef de la Protection de l’Enfant, le/la titulaire du poste contribue à la planification, la mise en œuvre, le suivi et l’évaluation des programmes de protection de l’enfant, avec un accent particulier sur l’engagement communautaire et la prévention des pratiques traditionnelles néfastes aux droits des enfants au Togo. Le/la titulaire assure l’intégration des approches innovantes et des mécanismes de suivi-évaluation pour garantir des résultats mesurables et durables.
The Child Survival Advocacy Team, UNICEF Division of Global Communication and Advocacy, New York, USA, is seeking an Advocacy Consultant, Polio Outbreaks, office based with travel, for a period of 11 months.
The Evaluation Officer is responsible for contributing to the planning, design, effective conduct and uptake of quality evaluations, lessons learned, research and overall Learning and Review function in accordance with UNICEF mission, guiding principles, standards, commitments, regulatory framework (including evaluation policies, procedures, and guidance), supporting Knowledge Management as well as professional norms and standards (such as the 2016 UN Evaluation Group norms, the 2023 UNICEF Evaluation Policy and standards for evaluation). The Evaluation Officer will also be responsible for helping with the earthquake emergency response related evaluation-work.
The MoH/UNEPI with support from UNICEF seeks to engage a National Individual Consultant to provide technical and coordination support to the Ministry of Health and partners in the development, consolidation, review, and finalization of the Uganda Gavi 6.0 country application package, including roadmap development, technical assessments, prioritization processes, costing alignment, stakeholder consultations, and final application drafting and submission readiness.
UNICEF is seeking a dynamic and committed professional to join its team as a Child Protection Specialist, supporting the delivery of high-impact programmes that safeguard children’s rights and well-being. The role plays a critical part in the Approx. 2hours/month provision of technical assistance to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, exploitation, and harmful practices, and supporting programme design and implementation, monitoring progress, and strengthening child protection systems, contributing to reaching the most vulnerable children with critical services. You will work closely with government counterparts, civil society, and development partners to support systems strengthening, evidence-based approaches, and scalable solutions.
UNICEF OOI is seeking for a consultant who will operate as part of a distributed team led by the Office of Innovation, providing direct governance mentoring to country offices, and contributing expert inputs to methodology alignment, guidance products, and institutional learning processes.
This remote consultancy drives the global visibility and strategic communication of UNICEF Innocenti's Intergenerational Governance and Participation (IGP) initiatives. Building on successful initial phases, you will lead advocacy, storytelling, and dissemination strategies with a specific focus on the Youth Fellowship on Climate Education. By translating knowledge across global platforms, you will amplify youth voices and strengthen interconnected portfolios in foresight and climate governance.
Support the procurement and timely delivery of essential child survival supplies by managing purchase orders, tenders, supplier coordination, and order tracking. Ensure compliance with UNICEF procurement procedures, maintain procurement systems and records, and collaborate with suppliers and country offices to support efficient supply chain operations.
The Security Manager (P-4), serving as Deputy to the Regional Adviser Security, provides leadership, analysis, and technical support to strengthen security risk management across the ECAMENA region. The role focuses on guiding country offices, enhancing preparedness and coordination, and integrating security into operations to reduce risks in complex and high-risk environments.
Since 24 February 2022, the escalation of the war in Ukraine has severely affected children and families, leaving millions in need of humanitarian assistance and disrupting access to essential services such as health, education, WASH, and social protection. In response, UNICEF has implemented an emergency response while supporting recovery and strengthening national systems. High-quality, timely evidence and evaluation are essential to ensure programmes remain effective, accountable, and responsive to the evolving needs of children. To strengthen its evaluation function, the UNICEF Ukraine Country Office is recruiting an Evaluation Specialist (NO-C) to support the planning, implementation, and dissemination of evaluations and contribute to the office's evidence generation strategy.
The Nutrition Specialist is based at the UNICEF Field Office in Ambovombe and operates under a matrix management arrangement, reporting to the Nutrition Chief and the Chief of Field Office Ambovombe. In addition to managing the nutrition programme in the assigned area, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating nutrition interventions across the three regions of the Grand Sud (Androy, Anosy, and Atsimo-Andrefana), providing technical leadership and oversight to sub-national nutrition stakeholders and partners in these regions. The Nutrition Specialist supports the development and preparation of the nutrition programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the nutrition programme within the country programme. The Nutrition Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results in maternal, infant and child nutrition programmes/projects. This is carried out according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Nutrition Specialist to the preparation, planning and implementation of nutrition programmes/projects contributes to and accelerates the national development efforts to improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants and children in the country. This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to mothers and children that promotes greater social equity in the country.
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and UNICEF in developing and piloting an integrated parenting support programme within primary health care (PHC) services and selected preschool education (kindergarten) facilities. The consultant will design an evidence-based, culturally appropriate training package based on UNICEF's Early Childhood Development (ECD) guidance, the UNICEF Parenting Framework, and the Child Development Guide for Turkmenistan. The consultancy will include the development of training and facilitation materials, delivery of a Training of Trainers (ToT), piloting of parent education sessions, refinement of the package based on feedback, and preparation of recommendations for institutionalizing and scaling up the programme nationwide.
The purpose of this assignment is therefore to generate robust evidence on children’s engagement with the digital environment in Bhutan, with a particular focus on online risks and digital safety including from the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The study will support UNICEF and national stakeholders to better understand the nature, prevalence, and impacts of online and AI‑related risks affecting children, and to inform evidence‑based policy, programming, and safeguarding responses that both protect and empower children in an increasingly digital society
The Royal Government of Cambodia has identified the strengthening of the social service workforce as a key priority to improve the effectiveness, quality, and sustainability of services provided to vulnerable populations, particularly children, women, persons with disabilities, and other at-risk groups. The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY), through the Technical Working Group on Social Service Workforce Development, has been leading efforts to develop a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework to guide the professionalization, institutionalization, management, and expansion of the social service workforce in Cambodia. However, the efforts meet some challenges and gaps including the absence of a comprehensive legal framework defining the functions, roles, responsibilities, competencies, and professional standards of social workers, as well as the lack of a formal system for registration, licensing, accreditation, and quality assurance of social service professionals. These gaps undermine the Government’s ability to plan, budget, recruit, develop and retain qualified personnel across sectors such as social affairs, health, education, and justice, and limit the capacity of the social service workforce to deliver services that are rights-based, gender-responsive, disability inclusive, and sensitive to the needs of marginalized and at-risk groups.
UNICEF Pacific is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Operations Officer to join its team in Honiara, Solomon Islands, on a 364-day temporary appointment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operations professional to play a key role in enabling UNICEF’s work for children by providing strategic, risk-informed and solution-oriented operational support across finance, administration, supply and logistics, ICT, human resources, safety and security. Working closely with the Chief Field Office and the Deputy Representative, Operations, the successful candidate will help strengthen systems, support effective programme delivery, and lead a small operations team while championing UNICEF’s core operational pillars: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, and Valuing Partners.
The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen disaster risk financing (DRF) systems for social sectors in selected Pacific
Island Countries (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu) by improving the capacity of governments and
partners to mobilize and deliver financial resources effectively to protect children and essential services during shocks.
The consultancy will support UNICEF Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) to enhance its role as a strategic partner in DRF
by working closely with Ministries of Finance and line ministries responsible for education, health & nutrition, child
protection, WASH, and social protection to strengthen the integration of social sectors within DRF frameworks. This
includes assessing and improving shock-responsive delivery systems (“money-out”), identifying systemic bottlenecks, and
providing targeted technical support and initial capacity-building to ensure that financial resources translate into timely
and effective support for children.
The assignment will further contribute to elevating the role of social sectors within national DRF approaches, ensuring
that financing mechanisms explicitly account for the protection of essential services and the needs of children in disaster
contexts.
In parallel, the consultancy will facilitate engagement with key regional and international partners, including PCRIC, the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), to align UNICEF’s work
with broader DRF initiatives and promote coordinated, multi-sectoral approaches.
Finally, the consultancy will contribute to the development of donor-ready proposals and a UNICEF DRF roadmap,
ensuring that country-level engagement and systems improvements are translated into actionable strategies,
strengthened partnerships, and resource mobilization opportunities to better protect children from disaster impacts.
La/el Gestor/a de la Línea de Contacto será responsable del fortalecimiento y adaptación de la Línea de Contacto para asegurar la continuidad operativa en Venezuela, alineado con la planificación estratégica y el Plan de respuesta Humanitaria, ofreciendo un mecanismo seguro, confiable y accesible, en complementariedad a los mecanismos establecidos por las agencias y organizaciones socias.
UNICEF Sudan continues to respond to one of the world’s most complex humanitarian crises, marked by escalating conflict, widespread internal displacement, and the collapse of essential services. Compounding these challenges, a nationwide cholera outbreak that began in 2024 has continued to spread in 2025, further straining an already fragile health and WASH infrastructure. In this context, high-quality donor reporting and well-articulated funding proposals are critical to sustain donor confidence, ensure accountability, and mobilize much-needed resources to scale up life-saving interventions. To meet growing demands in donor reporting and proposal development, UNICEF Sudan seeks a qualified consultant to support the WASH Section and the Resource Mobilization Unit in preparing timely, accurate, and strategic documentation aligned with UNICEF and donor standards.
Sous la supervision du Chef de la Protection de l’Enfant, le/la titulaire du poste contribue à la planification, la mise en œuvre, le suivi et l’évaluation des programmes de protection de l’enfant, avec un accent particulier sur l’engagement communautaire et la prévention des pratiques traditionnelles néfastes aux droits des enfants au Togo. Le/la titulaire assure l’intégration des approches innovantes et des mécanismes de suivi-évaluation pour garantir des résultats mesurables et durables.
The Child Survival Advocacy Team, UNICEF Division of Global Communication and Advocacy, New York, USA, is seeking an Advocacy Consultant, Polio Outbreaks, office based with travel, for a period of 11 months.
The Evaluation Officer is responsible for contributing to the planning, design, effective conduct and uptake of quality evaluations, lessons learned, research and overall Learning and Review function in accordance with UNICEF mission, guiding principles, standards, commitments, regulatory framework (including evaluation policies, procedures, and guidance), supporting Knowledge Management as well as professional norms and standards (such as the 2016 UN Evaluation Group norms, the 2023 UNICEF Evaluation Policy and standards for evaluation). The Evaluation Officer will also be responsible for helping with the earthquake emergency response related evaluation-work.
The MoH/UNEPI with support from UNICEF seeks to engage a National Individual Consultant to provide technical and coordination support to the Ministry of Health and partners in the development, consolidation, review, and finalization of the Uganda Gavi 6.0 country application package, including roadmap development, technical assessments, prioritization processes, costing alignment, stakeholder consultations, and final application drafting and submission readiness.
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