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Support the delivery of strategic HR initiatives within UNICEF's Supply Division by driving project management, strengthening coordination across People & Culture functions, and enhancing HR service delivery. Contribute to change initiatives, process improvements, and client-focused solutions while ensuring continuity and efficiency across HR operations in a dynamic, global environment. 

The Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) helps UNICEF achieve its mission by increasing private-sector income and influence, working with National Committees and country offices to raise over $2 billion annually. Within PFP, the Market Development and Performance Team (MDT) connects national fundraising plans to global priorities and oversees allocation of centrally managed Investment Funds.The Fundraising Specialist (Analyst) is primarily a business analyst role focused on analyzing and interpreting fundraising results, plans, and trends, and clearly communicating robust insights that inform major strategic decisions. The role also includes managing analytical tools and supporting project management of the annual Investment Fund allocation process across 50+ countries. 

UNICEF is looking for Market Research Specialist who drives an audience-informed approach across private-sector fundraising and partnerships in the Americas, while contributing to AMI's global insight streams. Partnering and consulting with teams across Communications, Fundraising and Advocacy to: 1. Listening & scope - surface stakeholder objectives and translate them into clear insight plans 2. Planning & execution - deploy the right blend of qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g., ethnography, focus groups, surveys, depths, media analysis) to address each need. 3. Synthesize & interpret - turn data into compelling narratives and concrete, actionable recommendations. 4. Drive uptake - package findings through workshops, briefs and tools that help teams act decisively on the insights. 5. Collaborate globally - align methodologies and share learnings with peer specialists and managers in Latin America, Europe, and HQ to ensure consistency and cross-pollination of best practice. 6. Evaluation - ensure team's feedback on the effectiveness or not of the insight solutions, both for AMI's accountability and to ensure lessons can be brought into the team. 

GCA is looking for a Spanish Editor to ensure the translation of UNICEF content into Spanish for all platforms, as well as maintaining and coordinating the roster of Spanish translation services and revising outsourced translations when applicable. The Editor oversees the planning of Spanish translation work for the Division, maintains terminological databases, contributes to the planning of Spanish translation activities of other UNICEF divisions and offices, maintains Spanish language press releases on UNICEF.org and is responsible for ensuring that all Spanish content produced is of the requisite high standard and conforms to UNICEF's editorial guidelines for Spanish content. 

UNICEF's core mission is to uphold the rights of every child by prioritizing equity and focusing on the most disadvantaged, recognizing that addressing inequities not only fulfills children's rights but also promotes sustainable national development. Through strategic leadership from the Global Programme Division and support from Centres of Excellence, UNICEF advances maternal and child nutrition by integrating a life-cycle, systems-based approach across key sectors, with maternal nutrition recognized as a foundational priority in achieving global development and health goals. 

The Coordinator (Polio Outbreak Response) provides strategic and technical leadership for UNICEF's polio eradication efforts in the region, supporting policy development, outbreak preparedness, and technical assistance to countries. They are responsible for coordinating and managing all phases of the regional polio program, ensuring effective implementation in line with UNICEF's strategic plans, performance standards, and accountability frameworks. 

Support global action for better nutrition outcomes for children and women. UNICEF is recruiting a Programme & Planning Specialist (P‑3) to strengthen programme planning, performance monitoring, and knowledge management within its Child Nutrition and Development team. Based in Nairobi within UNICEF's Global Programme Division, this role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of global strategy and country implementation?supporting technical assistance, partnerships, and evidence‑driven decision‑making to advance UNICEF's Nutrition Strategy 2030 and deliver results at scale. 

Join UNICEF and help deliver life-saving supplies to children worldwide. As a Supply & Logistics Officer in the Supply Division, you will support global emergency responses by ensuring rapid procurement, delivery, and coordination of critical supplies in humanitarian and fragile contexts. 

The Ukraine Country Office is a large Country Office, with one of the largest budgets in UNICEF globally, that is implementing both a humanitarian and NEXUS response due to the challenging and sensitive political environment. The Finance/Budget Manager, under the general guidance of the Deputy Representative Operations, will oversee the management of the finance functions and budget for the office and is expected to exhibit a high level of maturity and set high quality objectives, both internally and externally, to deliver results. 

The Legal Affairs Specialist will provide legal advice to internal clients on UNICEF's arrangements with private sector and other partners, digital and other service providers and partners, and data, as well as supporting other business units globally on a broad spectrum of legal matters ranging from commercial contracts, disputes, and institutional matters. The Legal Affairs Specialist will report to the Senior Legal Affairs Specialist who reports to the Chief Legal Counsel. 

Under the supervision of the Digital Impact Specialist (P3), the incumbent will design, build, manage, and monitor the essential hardware (firewalls, routers, switches, etc.) and related software (security, operating systems, etc.) that form an organization's digital backbone, ensuring reliable, secure, and efficient data flow to support business operations, communication, and growth. The incumbent will keep the digital environment running smoothly by handling everything from initial setup and configuration to ongoing performance monitoring, security enforcement, troubleshooting, and planning for future needs. The role will also provide a general guidance and supervisory role to a Digital Impact Associate. 

Under the supervision of the Operations Manager P4, the Rome Common Services Center (CSC) will be newly established following the relocation of several UNICEF HQ Divisions to Rome, where they will be co-located with WFP HQ. This move is part of the Future Focus Initiative, aimed at achieving cost savings and supporting broader UN80 objectives. The Rome CSC will play a critical role in delivering operational support to all UNICEF Divisions based at WFP HQ, as well as coordinating closely with WFP on the services provided to UNICEF staff. 

The Administrative and Finance Specialist reports to the Chief of Rome Common Services for general direction and guidance. The specialist is responsible for providing support to the Chief of Common Services in managing, monitoring and overseeing the full range of financial and administrative services in support of operational activities ensuring compliance with organizational plans, policies, procedures, guidelines, standards of performance, ethics, and integrity. In addition, the Administrative and Finance Specialist is also accountable for providing support to the Chief of Common Services in overall running of the office, quality assurance of services provided and staff capacity development. The Administration and Finance Specialist, when supervising support staff, will be responsible for planning and guiding work in progress and for reviewing work completed by subordinate staff to verify accuracy and compliance with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), UNICEF Financial Regulation and Rules, policies, procedures, guidelines, standards of accountability, and ethics. In summary, the Administrative and Finance Specialist will be responsible for the management of the Finance, and Administration units for UNICEF Rome Common Services Centre, providing technical guidance, demand management, timely action, and quality assurance of services. The post will serve as a back-up to the P4 Common CSC Operations Manager and P2 People and Culture Officer, as required. 

The post of Operations Manager, Common Services Center (CSC) reports to the PFP Deputy Director, Operations and Finance. The role will provide strategic leadership and overall direction to the CSC activities to support UNICEF's core values and business objectives. The incumbent will lead the multi-disciplinary teams and manage cross-functional services that directly impact the CSC performance. As a Strategic Business Partner, the incumbent will be responsible for leading results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, and contribute to delivering results for children. The CSC serves multiple Divisions including their Senior Management team with very specific functional needs and work mandates.  The role has a critical accountability to these Divisions, must balance competing priorities while ensuring equity in service delivery and maintain neutrality across the diverse mandates. 

Join the Office of the Director, Global Programme Division, and play a key role in shaping programme thought leadership and driving strategic engagement. In this role, you will help build and operationalize new knowledge platforms, including field insights publications, staff working papers, and internal learning initiatives, while coordinating end‑to‑end project delivery. You will also strengthen the Division's visibility by supporting external communications, managing the Director's LinkedIn presence, refining newsletters, exploring new digital channels, and crafting strategic messages for internal and external audiences. This is a dynamic opportunity to combine project management, communications, and creative thinking to elevate organizational learning and influence.