Senior Professional Officer in the Baby Friendly Team

Senior Professional Officer in the Baby Friendly Team

FTE £45,000 per annum

14 hours per week, permanent

Part home based with travel around the UK as required

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as a Neonatal Senior Professional Officer in the Baby Friendly Initiative team.

This remote-based role has a primary focus on supporting and delivering Baby Friendly assessments and training. You will play a key role in undertaking online and in-person assessments of services seeking Baby Friendly accreditation across the UK and supporting the facilitation and delivery of training. Travel to in-person assessments is integral to this role with assessments being planned well in advance to enable team members to plan around travel requirements.

You will be an experienced practitioner with a strong track record of leading the implementation of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative standards within a relevant UK public service, alongside delivering infant feeding training to health professionals. In addition to assessment and training activity, the role contributes to the effective delivery of the Baby Friendly programme, supports the development and ongoing delivery of new and existing initiatives, and provides support to the National Infant Feeding Network. We particularly welcome interest from applicants with current experience in neonatal services.

Closing date: 18^th June 2026.

Interview date: online via Microsoft Teams 27^th and 28^th July 2026.

In return, we offer:

• excellent pay and benefits (including flexible working, generous annual leave and pension, big brand discounts and wellbeing tools)
• outstanding training and learning opportunities and the support to flourish in your role
• an open culture and workplace with colleagues who share our values, enjoy their work and are motivated to do their utmost for children.
• the opportunity to work in a leading children’s organisation making a difference to children around the world

Our application process: We use a system called "Applied" that anonymises your application and focuses on your actual skills that are relevant to this role. This benefits you because giving you a greater chance of expressing your skills in the objective selection process.

We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, and disabled candidates because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level at UNICEF UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for children.

UNICEF UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

We welcome a conversation about your flexible working requirements, personal growth, and promoting a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.

We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.

If you require support in completing the online form or an application form in an alternative format, please contact Supporter Care on 0300 330 5580 during office hours.

If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.

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