Frontlines Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Specialist

This is a Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) to attract suitable talent for inclusion in UNICEF Frontlines — the organisation's emergency surge roster. The purpose of Frontlines is to support emergency preparedness and response through a predictable and coordinated approach, ensuring UNICEF can rapidly deploy technically cleared professionals when humanitarian emergencies and public health crises arise.

With this campaign, UNICEF is building a pipeline of SBC in Emergencies (SBCiE) and RCCE in PHE specialists who can be deployed at short notice to support country offices in response to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, conflict-driven humanitarian crises, and complex emergencies. The roster targets professionals at NOC, P3, and P4 levels with strong technical grounding in behavioural evidence, community engagement, data systems, coordination, and multilingual capacity.

Recurrent humanitarian crises and public health emergencies — including Ebola, cholera, mpox, and conflict-related displacements — have confirmed that SBCiE and RCCE are not support functions: they are core response infrastructure. Evidence-based community engagement, functional feedback mechanisms, and accountability to communities directly determine whether response interventions are trusted, accessed, and effective. UNICEF's reduced pool of SBC in Emergency and RCCE specialists and increased demand across regions makes this Frontlines pipeline a strategic priority.