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)

UN Youth Volunteers 
(application deadline: 29 August 2023, planned start date in February 2024)

• UNDP Burundi, Programme Associate
• UNHCR Burundi, Associate Protection Officer
• RCO Colombia, Peace and Development Associate
• UN Women DR Congo, Associate Transitional Justice Officer
• RCO Kosovo, Peace and Development Youth Associate
• OHCHR Mexico, UN Human Rights Monitoring Assistant
• RCO Serbia, Peace and Development, Transitional Justice, and Reconciliation Youth Associate
• IOM Sri Lanka, Peace and Development Support Officer
• UN Women Tunisia, Project Support Officer
• UN Women Venezuela, Gender equality Junior Officer

Recruitment by cinfo

State job portal (de, fr, it)

Senior Political Adviser for Nigeria, Abuja
(Planned publication of advertisements from 16 to 29 October 2023, at the same time as the second internal advertisement. Planned start date is summer 2024)

Human Security Adviser for Lebanon, Beirut
(Planned publication of advertisements from 16 to 29 October 2023, at the same time as the second internal advertisement. Planned start date is summer 2024)

Senior Adviser (PDF, 3 Pages, 65.7 kB, English)
Secondment to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

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

Election Observers (recruitment is planned for 2025 or 2026) (PDF, 8 Pages, 142.9 kB, English)

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.

Roster Call: International Consultant - Mediation Expert - OSCE Careers
Application deadline: 31 August 2023

Head of Office of Legal Affairs, P5
OSCE / OSG (Recruitment Q3/2023)

Associate Anti-Corruption Officer, P2
OSCE / OCEEA, Economic Governance Unit (Recruitment Q3/2023)

Head, External Co-operation Section, P5
OSCE / OSG, Office of the Secretary General (Recruitment Q3/2023)

Chief, Treasury and Extra-Budgetary Contributions, P4
OSCE / DMF, Treasury (Recruitment Q1/2024)

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 Q2/2024)

Senior Co-ordination Adviser, P4
OSCE / CTHB, Office of Special Rep/Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (Recruitment Q2/2024)

Adviser, P3
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (Recruitment Q4/2023)

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