Overall, the project aspires to enable Greece to efficiently protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and their families, including those at risk. In addition, the project is expected to produce additional effects in the short and/or medium term (outcome): namely, to support the Greek authorities in safeguarding the rights of children and operationalizing an effective and mature child protection system.
The Senior Programme Associate (G‑7) is embedded within the Programme Section, reporting to Chief of field Office, the Section Chief or a Principal Programme Specialist/Manager. Positioned at the functional categories of technical, operational, and financial areas the incumbent partners closely with other teams/sections (Program, Operations, Finance, Supply), as well as with external stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), and HQ-based units to implement strategic priorities into concrete activities on the ground. Depending on programme needs of the hiring office, the role may span sectoral portfolios (e.g., WASH, Nutrition, Education) or cross‑cutting themes (e.g., emergency preparedness).
Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Janakpur Field Office the Senior Programme Associate supports leading and coordinating programme support functions across the project cycle, specializing in planning, budgeting, CSO partnership management, monitoring, reporting, and closing‑out financial commitments. The role ensures that programme activities are technically robust, financially sound, and fully compliant with UNICEF policies and donor agreement. The incumbent of this position contributes to informed decisions by presenting synthesized data, flagging risks, and recommending corrective measures, to achieve results aligning with programme goals. The role ensures quality programme financial management, compliance with UNICEF policies, effective utilization of resources, and coordination with government and implementing partners. Janakpur field office engaged with Province, local government to provide technical and financial support in program implementation, capacity building and system strengthening and government and managed different sector program management and partnership (Heath, Nutrition, WASH, Child protection, SPG, Education, Planning/DRR, SBC etc.)
Child and adolescent participation are a fundamental right and an important priority under Indonesia’s national development agenda. The RPJMN 2025–2029 promotes and monitors youth participation through indicators related to the involvement of children in development planning processes. This is also aligned with the joint commitment of UNICEF and the Government of Indonesia under the new Country Programme to promote adolescent participation and civic engagement, including by strengthening platforms, systems, and accountability mechanisms that enable children and adolescents to express their views and have their voices considered in decision-making processes.
To support this agenda, the Government of Indonesia, through the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas and the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP), with support from UNICEF, developed a monitoring information system for child and adolescent participation (Suara Makna). Suara Makna is designed to document and track children’s and adolescents’ voices in development planning processes, particularly through Forum Anak and Musrenbang, and to monitor whether these inputs are followed up by relevant government actors. The system aims to strengthen meaningful child participation by ensuring that children’s voices are not only collected, but also recorded, considered, responded to, and used as evidence for more child-centred planning and governance.
The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is a global UNICEF-led initiative that supports local governments to put children’s rights at the centre of local governance, planning, budgeting, service delivery and community engagement. The initiative promotes the realization of child rights at the local level by encouraging local authorities to work with children, families, civil society, communities and other stakeholders to make cities safer, more inclusive, more responsive and more supportive of children’s wellbeing. UNICEF Malaysia is therefore seeking a qualified consultant to conduct a mid-term evaluation of MBPJ’s implementation of its second Child Friendly City Action Plan.
The Project for the Prevention Measures against Drug Use among Children and Youth in Fiji and Samoa, funded by the Government of Japan, aims to address Fiji and Samoa’s escalating drug crisis by strengthening prevention, protection, and response mechanisms for children and adolescents. A key component of Output 3 involves the rehabilitation and establishment of child friendly service hubs in hospitals, police stations, and community spaces, as well as student friendly spaces in schools (counselling rooms and extracurricular activity rooms).
To support the design and implementation of these hard‑component interventions, UNICEF requires a qualified technical consultant to undertake facility assessments, carry out community and stakeholder consultations, prepare construction-related documentation, and advise on suitable implementation modalities.
Objectif de la mission:
La présente étude a pour objet de mesurer, décrire et analyser la monoparentalité au Maroc, sous ses formes visible et invisible, et d’évaluer les vulnérabilités économiques, résidentielles, éducatives et relationnelles auxquelles sont exposés les enfants vivant dans ces configurations familiales en tenant compte des besoins spécifiques selon les différentes étapes du développement de l'enfant, notamment la petite enfance, l'enfance et l'adolescence. Elle doit produire une lecture à la fois statistique et sociologique de la monoparentalité, en distinguant ce qui apparaît au niveau du ménage et ce qui n’est révélé qu’au niveau du noyau familial, cas de la monoparentalité invisible. Cette orientation est cohérente avec le cadre conceptuel de l’ENF 2025, qui analyse la structure familiale à partir des liens de parenté, des statuts matrimoniaux et des noyaux familiaux.
The purpose of this position is to support the UNICEF Mali Country Office in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) and Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE).
Under the supervision of the Chief of Education, the consultant will lead a comprehensive documentation, systematization, and institutionalization process of the I Am Music initiative, a flagship intervention that uses artistic and cultural expression as a catalyst for behaviour change, social inclusion, gender transformation, protection, and learning among children and adolescents, particularly girls and children and adolescents living with disabilities. The initiative contributes directly to UNICEF Cameroon Country Programme (2022–2026), Education Output 4:
"Children, adolescents, including those living with disabilities, parents, teachers, and communities are engaged and promote a transformative approach towards creating safe, inclusive and non-violent environments."
Under the direct supervision of the UNICEF Education Specialist and in close collaboration with the Republican In-Service Teacher Training Institute (RITTI), the Republican Teacher Methodological Centre (RTMC), the MoES department responsible for higher and pedagogical education, focal points from each pilot university, the international TA Group, and UNICEF technical staff, the National Consultant will lead the day-to-day coordination of the implementation and restructuring of Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) between RITTI and RTMC and of related pre-service teacher education activities under Subcomponent 2.2. The role is coordination-focused: the Consultant does not produce subject-matter content directly, but ensures that activities planned by the international TA Group, national experts, RITTI, RTMC, and pilot universities are aligned, sequenced, qualityassured, and implemented as planned.
As the Adolescent Health Specialist, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in advancing adolescent health and well-being as a core component of UNICEF’s global health agenda.You will lead efforts to strengthen systems for adolescent-responsive health services and to promote integrated, life-course approaches that address adolescents’ unique needs. This includes advancing multisectoral programming across health, nutrition, education, protection, and WASH, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use prevention, early interventions to reduce non-communicable disease risks, and HIV prevention.
Lead UNICEF's engagement in multi-stakeholder partnerships and collective action initiatives, bringing together private sector, public sector and other stakeholders to advance child rights at scale. Drive strategic partnership development, influence agendas and portfolio management to maximize impact, resources and sustainable outcomes for children globally.
Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Administrative Associate (People and Culture) is responsible for executing a broad variety of procedural and specialized administrative and people and culture tasks requiring in-depth knowledge of UNICEF administrative and people and culture procedures, processes and policies.
UNICEF Tanzania Country Office is seeking a passionate and committed professional to join its team as Deputy Representative, Operations (P-5), in an exciting and impactful leadership role. The Operations function supports the Head of the Office on managing the office and monitoring operations and programmes as needed, while providing advice on best and innovative management practices to enhance office performance. The function is a strategic Business Partner role within the Senior Management team, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Education in developing child friendly, a realistic and costed National Action Plan for the expansion of pre-primary education in Eritrea, based on the needs assessments and implementation plans submitted by all Zobas.
The consultancy will also support the development of a Multisectoral Early Childhood Development (ECD) Coordination Framework that defines institutional arrangements, roles and responsibilities, governance structures, and coordination mechanisms among key sectors and stakeholders involved in supporting young children's development.
Through a consultative process, the consultant will consolidate Zoba-level requirements, estimate resource and financing needs, identify implementation priorities, and propose practical coordination arrangements to support effective delivery of integrated ECD services.
The purpose of this assignment is to review existing health and nutrition policies, strategies and guidelines for adoption of the essential maternal nutrition package within the Essential Primary Health Services, and development of maternal nutrition training package for health workers.
The post is responsible for conducting desk research on cultural norms, customs, and behavioral drivers of the key target populations to support the research and studies initiated by the Polio programme. Through engagement with and participation of stakeholders, communities, children, civil society partners and government counterparts, the researcher/anthropologist undertakes field research and observations to understand how the programme can refine its campaign strategies to improve polio acceptance. This subsequently contributes to polio campaign efforts in reducing missed children towards achievement of Polio eradication in Pakistan.
India Country Office is seeking an experienced Social Policy Specialist for its Guwahati office. The position reflects UNICEF India’s increasing emphasis on upstream engagement and policy influence and serves as a strategic interface with the Government of Assam.
The Specialist will serve as UNICEF’s lead advisor in Assam on child poverty, social protection, public finance for children, governance and local systems strengthening. The role provides technical support across all stages of social policy programming and advocacy, with a focus on reducing child poverty, strengthening social protection, improving child-focused public investments and financial management, and enhancing governance, decentralization and accountability.
In the context of Assam’s recurrent floods, erosion, displacement and climate vulnerability, the position will support evidence-informed policy and systems reforms that strengthen public systems and improve outcomes for children, particularly those affected by poverty and exclusion.
The role has a strong focus on upstream policy advocacy, systems strengthening, strategic partnerships and UNICEF’s 3Cs approach: Convene, Converge and Catalyze.
Nepal Country Office is seeking qualified and experienced Senior Operations Associate for the management of operational functions including administration and logistics for programme implementation in Karnali and Sudurpaschim Province being based in Surkhet Field office.
Short free text, that is visible in TMS without opening the actual VA on the job portal. It is not part of the branded VA, but it is needed in the VA front page. Under the general guidance of the Chief Social Policy, the Social Policy Officer is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy, from strategic planning and formulation to the delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public financial management (PFM) in the social sectors, primarily social protection, with supporting contributions to health and education; (b) institutional capacity for improved and sustainable social sector financing; (c) the use of data and evidence to inform strategic policy decisions; and (d) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on health, education, child protection, emergency and gender.
The main purpose of this consultancy is to work with international consultant in the review of the relevant documents from Khmer to English and English to Khmer related to performance informed budgeting and also development of the cost efficiency review framework in line with the final phase of Public Financial Management Reform Programme 2023-2027 (PFMRP Phase 4) and national budget system reform strategy 2025-2028.
Overall, the project aspires to enable Greece to efficiently protect and promote the rights and well-being of children and their families, including those at risk. In addition, the project is expected to produce additional effects in the short and/or medium term (outcome): namely, to support the Greek authorities in safeguarding the rights of children and operationalizing an effective and mature child protection system.
The Senior Programme Associate (G‑7) is embedded within the Programme Section, reporting to Chief of field Office, the Section Chief or a Principal Programme Specialist/Manager. Positioned at the functional categories of technical, operational, and financial areas the incumbent partners closely with other teams/sections (Program, Operations, Finance, Supply), as well as with external stakeholders (government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors), and HQ-based units to implement strategic priorities into concrete activities on the ground. Depending on programme needs of the hiring office, the role may span sectoral portfolios (e.g., WASH, Nutrition, Education) or cross‑cutting themes (e.g., emergency preparedness).
Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Janakpur Field Office the Senior Programme Associate supports leading and coordinating programme support functions across the project cycle, specializing in planning, budgeting, CSO partnership management, monitoring, reporting, and closing‑out financial commitments. The role ensures that programme activities are technically robust, financially sound, and fully compliant with UNICEF policies and donor agreement. The incumbent of this position contributes to informed decisions by presenting synthesized data, flagging risks, and recommending corrective measures, to achieve results aligning with programme goals. The role ensures quality programme financial management, compliance with UNICEF policies, effective utilization of resources, and coordination with government and implementing partners. Janakpur field office engaged with Province, local government to provide technical and financial support in program implementation, capacity building and system strengthening and government and managed different sector program management and partnership (Heath, Nutrition, WASH, Child protection, SPG, Education, Planning/DRR, SBC etc.)
Child and adolescent participation are a fundamental right and an important priority under Indonesia’s national development agenda. The RPJMN 2025–2029 promotes and monitors youth participation through indicators related to the involvement of children in development planning processes. This is also aligned with the joint commitment of UNICEF and the Government of Indonesia under the new Country Programme to promote adolescent participation and civic engagement, including by strengthening platforms, systems, and accountability mechanisms that enable children and adolescents to express their views and have their voices considered in decision-making processes.
To support this agenda, the Government of Indonesia, through the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas and the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MoWECP), with support from UNICEF, developed a monitoring information system for child and adolescent participation (Suara Makna). Suara Makna is designed to document and track children’s and adolescents’ voices in development planning processes, particularly through Forum Anak and Musrenbang, and to monitor whether these inputs are followed up by relevant government actors. The system aims to strengthen meaningful child participation by ensuring that children’s voices are not only collected, but also recorded, considered, responded to, and used as evidence for more child-centred planning and governance.
The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is a global UNICEF-led initiative that supports local governments to put children’s rights at the centre of local governance, planning, budgeting, service delivery and community engagement. The initiative promotes the realization of child rights at the local level by encouraging local authorities to work with children, families, civil society, communities and other stakeholders to make cities safer, more inclusive, more responsive and more supportive of children’s wellbeing. UNICEF Malaysia is therefore seeking a qualified consultant to conduct a mid-term evaluation of MBPJ’s implementation of its second Child Friendly City Action Plan.
The Project for the Prevention Measures against Drug Use among Children and Youth in Fiji and Samoa, funded by the Government of Japan, aims to address Fiji and Samoa’s escalating drug crisis by strengthening prevention, protection, and response mechanisms for children and adolescents. A key component of Output 3 involves the rehabilitation and establishment of child friendly service hubs in hospitals, police stations, and community spaces, as well as student friendly spaces in schools (counselling rooms and extracurricular activity rooms).
To support the design and implementation of these hard‑component interventions, UNICEF requires a qualified technical consultant to undertake facility assessments, carry out community and stakeholder consultations, prepare construction-related documentation, and advise on suitable implementation modalities.
Objectif de la mission:
La présente étude a pour objet de mesurer, décrire et analyser la monoparentalité au Maroc, sous ses formes visible et invisible, et d’évaluer les vulnérabilités économiques, résidentielles, éducatives et relationnelles auxquelles sont exposés les enfants vivant dans ces configurations familiales en tenant compte des besoins spécifiques selon les différentes étapes du développement de l'enfant, notamment la petite enfance, l'enfance et l'adolescence. Elle doit produire une lecture à la fois statistique et sociologique de la monoparentalité, en distinguant ce qui apparaît au niveau du ménage et ce qui n’est révélé qu’au niveau du noyau familial, cas de la monoparentalité invisible. Cette orientation est cohérente avec le cadre conceptuel de l’ENF 2025, qui analyse la structure familiale à partir des liens de parenté, des statuts matrimoniaux et des noyaux familiaux.
The purpose of this position is to support the UNICEF Mali Country Office in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) and Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies (GBViE).
Under the supervision of the Chief of Education, the consultant will lead a comprehensive documentation, systematization, and institutionalization process of the I Am Music initiative, a flagship intervention that uses artistic and cultural expression as a catalyst for behaviour change, social inclusion, gender transformation, protection, and learning among children and adolescents, particularly girls and children and adolescents living with disabilities. The initiative contributes directly to UNICEF Cameroon Country Programme (2022–2026), Education Output 4:
"Children, adolescents, including those living with disabilities, parents, teachers, and communities are engaged and promote a transformative approach towards creating safe, inclusive and non-violent environments."
Under the direct supervision of the UNICEF Education Specialist and in close collaboration with the Republican In-Service Teacher Training Institute (RITTI), the Republican Teacher Methodological Centre (RTMC), the MoES department responsible for higher and pedagogical education, focal points from each pilot university, the international TA Group, and UNICEF technical staff, the National Consultant will lead the day-to-day coordination of the implementation and restructuring of Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) between RITTI and RTMC and of related pre-service teacher education activities under Subcomponent 2.2. The role is coordination-focused: the Consultant does not produce subject-matter content directly, but ensures that activities planned by the international TA Group, national experts, RITTI, RTMC, and pilot universities are aligned, sequenced, qualityassured, and implemented as planned.
As the Adolescent Health Specialist, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in advancing adolescent health and well-being as a core component of UNICEF’s global health agenda.You will lead efforts to strengthen systems for adolescent-responsive health services and to promote integrated, life-course approaches that address adolescents’ unique needs. This includes advancing multisectoral programming across health, nutrition, education, protection, and WASH, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance use prevention, early interventions to reduce non-communicable disease risks, and HIV prevention.
Lead UNICEF's engagement in multi-stakeholder partnerships and collective action initiatives, bringing together private sector, public sector and other stakeholders to advance child rights at scale. Drive strategic partnership development, influence agendas and portfolio management to maximize impact, resources and sustainable outcomes for children globally.
Under the supervision and guidance of the supervisor, the Administrative Associate (People and Culture) is responsible for executing a broad variety of procedural and specialized administrative and people and culture tasks requiring in-depth knowledge of UNICEF administrative and people and culture procedures, processes and policies.
UNICEF Tanzania Country Office is seeking a passionate and committed professional to join its team as Deputy Representative, Operations (P-5), in an exciting and impactful leadership role. The Operations function supports the Head of the Office on managing the office and monitoring operations and programmes as needed, while providing advice on best and innovative management practices to enhance office performance. The function is a strategic Business Partner role within the Senior Management team, assuring the best use of UNICEF assets in alignment with sound management practices, office priorities and goals to deliver results for children.
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the Ministry of Education in developing child friendly, a realistic and costed National Action Plan for the expansion of pre-primary education in Eritrea, based on the needs assessments and implementation plans submitted by all Zobas.
The consultancy will also support the development of a Multisectoral Early Childhood Development (ECD) Coordination Framework that defines institutional arrangements, roles and responsibilities, governance structures, and coordination mechanisms among key sectors and stakeholders involved in supporting young children's development.
Through a consultative process, the consultant will consolidate Zoba-level requirements, estimate resource and financing needs, identify implementation priorities, and propose practical coordination arrangements to support effective delivery of integrated ECD services.
The purpose of this assignment is to review existing health and nutrition policies, strategies and guidelines for adoption of the essential maternal nutrition package within the Essential Primary Health Services, and development of maternal nutrition training package for health workers.
The post is responsible for conducting desk research on cultural norms, customs, and behavioral drivers of the key target populations to support the research and studies initiated by the Polio programme. Through engagement with and participation of stakeholders, communities, children, civil society partners and government counterparts, the researcher/anthropologist undertakes field research and observations to understand how the programme can refine its campaign strategies to improve polio acceptance. This subsequently contributes to polio campaign efforts in reducing missed children towards achievement of Polio eradication in Pakistan.
India Country Office is seeking an experienced Social Policy Specialist for its Guwahati office. The position reflects UNICEF India’s increasing emphasis on upstream engagement and policy influence and serves as a strategic interface with the Government of Assam.
The Specialist will serve as UNICEF’s lead advisor in Assam on child poverty, social protection, public finance for children, governance and local systems strengthening. The role provides technical support across all stages of social policy programming and advocacy, with a focus on reducing child poverty, strengthening social protection, improving child-focused public investments and financial management, and enhancing governance, decentralization and accountability.
In the context of Assam’s recurrent floods, erosion, displacement and climate vulnerability, the position will support evidence-informed policy and systems reforms that strengthen public systems and improve outcomes for children, particularly those affected by poverty and exclusion.
The role has a strong focus on upstream policy advocacy, systems strengthening, strategic partnerships and UNICEF’s 3Cs approach: Convene, Converge and Catalyze.
Nepal Country Office is seeking qualified and experienced Senior Operations Associate for the management of operational functions including administration and logistics for programme implementation in Karnali and Sudurpaschim Province being based in Surkhet Field office.
Short free text, that is visible in TMS without opening the actual VA on the job portal. It is not part of the branded VA, but it is needed in the VA front page. Under the general guidance of the Chief Social Policy, the Social Policy Officer is accountable for providing technical support and assistance in all stages of social policy programming and related advocacy, from strategic planning and formulation to the delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public financial management (PFM) in the social sectors, primarily social protection, with supporting contributions to health and education; (b) institutional capacity for improved and sustainable social sector financing; (c) the use of data and evidence to inform strategic policy decisions; and (d) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on health, education, child protection, emergency and gender.
The main purpose of this consultancy is to work with international consultant in the review of the relevant documents from Khmer to English and English to Khmer related to performance informed budgeting and also development of the cost efficiency review framework in line with the final phase of Public Financial Management Reform Programme 2023-2027 (PFMRP Phase 4) and national budget system reform strategy 2025-2028.
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