Employment opportunities

The Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding (SEP) selects vacancies in international organisations based on Switzerland's thematic and geographic priorities and then proposes specialists with the corresponding profile to the organisation.

The FDFA sponsors the deployment and issues the successful applicant with a contract under the Ordinance on Personnel for Peace Support, the Promotion of Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (POPHAO). The expert becomes a member of the SEP.

Ordinance on Personnel for Peace Support, the Promotion of Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, POPHAO (fr)

Applicant profile for membership of the SEP (PDF, 47.9 kB, English)

Other languages

Das Anforderungsprofil für Bewerberinnen und Bewerber um Aufnahme in den SEF
Profil requis des candidates et candidats au PEP
Profili dei requisiti delle candidate e dei candidati al PEP

SEP personal history form (DOCX, Number of pages 8, 99.9 kB)

Current vacancies – SEP-sponsored positions

Instructeur « expert civil » (homme ou femme) (titre temporaire)
mis à disposition de l’Ecole de Maintien de la Paix Alioune Blondin BEYE (EMPABB) à Bamako nouveau poste prévu, le processus de recrutement n'a pas encore commencé

Electoral Assistant, P3 or P4 (working title)
Secondment to UNDP in New York planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started

Conflict Senitivity Adviser (working title)
Secondment to the UN Resident Coordinator, Libya planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started

Human Rights Officer (working title)
Secondment to UNJHRO/MONUSCO planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started

Professional (working title)
Secondment to the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in Geneva planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started

Lawyer, P3 or P4 (working title)
Secondment to the Office of the Prosecutor, ICC International Criminal Court (ICC-CPI) The Hague, The Netherlands planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started

Professional “Human Rights at Borders” (working title)
Secondment to Frontex, Warsaw planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started

UNPOL
Planned secondment to MONUSCO, DRC
Application: ongoing
See: https://www.eda.admin.ch/civpol

UNPOL
Planned secondment to MINUSMA, Mali planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started
See: https://www.eda.admin.ch/civpol

UNPOL
Planned secondment to UNSOM, Somalia planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started
See: https://www.eda.admin.ch/civpol

UNPOL
Planned secondment to UNMISS, South Soudan planned new job position, the recruitment process has not yet started
See: https://www.eda.admin.ch/civpol

Junior Professional Officer
Direct contracted by OSCE

Junior Professional Officer on the Safe and Secure Management of Ammunition
UNODA in New York the recruitment process starts in March or April 2020 by cinfo (the start of assignment is desired in September / October 2020)

10 UN Youth Volunteers,
UNV, various duty stations. The recruitment process starts in September 2020 by cinfo (the start of assignment is desired in February / March 2021)

Current vacancies – positions not sponsored by the swiss expert pool

The positions below correspond with Switzerland's thematic and geographic policy priorities in peace and human rights but cannot be sponsored by the FDFA. The organisations directly recruit and employ the candidate. We kindly request you to send your application to the relevant organisation. Candidates can inform the SEP of their application.