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, 101.8 kB, English)

Human Security Adviser for DRC
Embassy of Switzerland in Democratic Republic of Congo
Application deadline: 26.05.2022

Various UN Missions
Opening on State job portal (de, fr, it): 
Application deadline: 27.05.2022

Dealing with the Past Adviser (working title)
Secondment to the UN Verification Mission Colombia

Electoral Project Manager/ Elections Project Officer (working title)
Secondment to UNDP Zimbabwe

Associate Information Management Officer / Data Analyst (DOC, 89.6 kB)
Secondment to Secretary-General's UN Operations and Crisis Centre

Mediation Support Officer (PDF, 3 Pages, 32.6 kB)
Secondment to the OSCE Secretariat, Vienna

Police Affairs Officer, Adviser on Police Reform (PDF, 3 Pages, 33.8 kB, English)
Secondment to the OSCE Secretariat, Vienna (Recruitment Q2)

Peacebuilding & Conflict Sensitivity Specialist
Secondment to the Resident Coordinator Office Syria

Junior Professional Officer
International Criminal Court of Justice
Recruitment by cinfo

UN Youth Volunteers
Recruitment by cinfo (Q3)

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.

Deputy Head of SPMU, Adviser on Cybercrime (P4) (PDF, 3 Pages, 87.5 kB)
OSCE Secretariat Vienne
Direct contracted
Deadline for application : 19.05.2022

Election Adviser (PDF, 2 Pages, 33.4 kB)
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Warsaw
Direct contracted (Recruitment Q1)

Police Affairs Officer on Combating Illicit Drugs, P4 (PDF, 2 Pages, 13.8 kB)
OSCE Secretariat, Vienna
Direct contracted (Recruitment Q1)

Senior Adviser, CIS and Baltics Section, P4 (PDF, 2 Pages, 84.9 kB) 
High Commissioner on National Minorities
Direct contracted (Recruitment Q3)

Senior Adviser, SEE and West Section, P4 (PDF, 2 Pages, 84.9 kB) 
High Commissioner on National Minorities
Direct contracted (Recruitment Q3)

First Deputy Director of ODIHR, D1 (PDF, 3 Pages, 112.7 kB)
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Warsaw
Direct contracted (Recruitment Q4)

Associate Democratic Governance Officer, P2 (PDF, 3 Pages, 37.1 kB)
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Warsaw
Direct contracted (Recruitment Q4)