Employment opportunities

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 requirement profile for SEP-jobs (PDF, 47.9 kB, English)

SEP personal history form (DOCX, 8 Pages, 102.8 kB, English)

“Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration” Strategic Planning Officer, MONUSCO, Goma (PDF, 3 Pages, 243.9 kB, English)

Secondment to the MONUSCO, Goma
Expiry date: 20.03.2023

Junior Programm Officer in Human Rights, OHCHR - Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association, Geneva
(Recruitment is planned for Q1/2023, planned start of work in September 2023) 

Recruitment by cinfo
Expiry date:  02.04.2023

Junior Programm Officer, individual complaints at treaty body strengthening, OHCHR, Geneva 
(Recruitment is planned for Q1/2023, planned start of work in September 2023) 

Recruitment by cinfo
Expiry date:  02.04.2023

State job portal (de, fr, it)

Expert in Transitional Justice Processes and Customary/Traditional/Indigenous Law (PDF, 2 Pages, 67.6 kB, English)

Secondment to the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Bogota

Reserve lists for the following international magistrate profiles:

• Special Prosecutor (“Procureur spécial”) (PDF, 4 Pages, 937.6 kB, French)
• Assistant Special Prosecutor (“Substitut du Procureur spécial”) 
• Investigative Judge (“Juge d’instruction”) (PDF, 4 Pages, 890.0 kB, English) 
• Judge of the Pre-Trial Chamber (“Juge de la Chambre d’accusation spéciale”)  Trial Chamber Judge (“Juge de la Chambre d’assises”) 
• Appeals Chamber Judge (“Juge de la Chambre d’appel”) 
• International Deputy Registrar (“Greffier adjoint international”)

Secondment to the Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic 
Background information (PDF, 7 Pages, 200.1 kB, German)

UN Youth Volunteers (recruitment is planned for Q3/2023, planned start of work in February 2024)

Junior Programm Officer, OSRSG Children and Armed Conflict, New York

Junior Programm Officer in Human Rights, OHCHR -  Prevention and Sustaining Peace Section, New York

Junior Programm Officer, DPA-  Mediation Support Unit, New York

Junior Programm Officer in Correction, OROLSI, New York

Junior Programm Officer in Human Rights, OHCHR - Special Rapporteur on Torture, Geneva (recruitment is planned for Q1/2023)

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.

Political Adviser, P3
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, CIS and Baltics Section (Recruitment Q1/2023)

Senior Adviser, P3
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, SEE and West Section (Recruitment Q1/2024)

Senior Election Adviser, P4
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Elections Department (Recruitment Q2/2023)

Senior Election Adviser, P4
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Elections Department (Recruitment Q2/2024)

Chief, Rule of Law Unit, P4
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Democratization Department (Recruitment Q2/2023)

Rule of Law Adviser, P3
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Democratization Department (Recruitment Q4/2023)