Careers
Temporary assistance
Occasionally, UNESCO needs services provided by persons other than its own permanent staff. These temporary services enable the Organization to deal with a short-term overload of work or to bring in ad-hoc outside expertise. Temporary contracts at UNESCO fall within the following categories:
- Project Appointments
- Short-Term Support Services
- Consultants and Experts
- Internships
Project Appointments
A Project Appointment (PA), is a contractual modality to cover specific projects or activities of a time-limited duration financed by extra-budgetary funds, in the field and at Headquarters and for technical cooperation in UNESCO Category I Institutes and Centres.
Short-Term opportunities
If you are looking for a short term opportunity in support functions such as office assistance, secretarial, building services at Headquarters (Paris), you may wish to register your CV on UNESCO Experts/Support Services Roster under Short term support services at Headquarters.
Please note that only residents in France may be considered for a short term assignment in a support function at Headquarters.
Consultants and Experts
A consultant/expert is a recognized specialist with particular skills, expertise or knowledge who is contracted by UNESCO for a short period, either in an advisory or consultative capacity or to provide a product or service.
UNESCO encourages men and women candidates from all geographical areas to register their interest for consultancy opportunities on the Experts/Support Services Roster.
Open temporary positions
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| Short-Term Support Services | Project Assistant for Education Sector. | 12 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| UN Opportunities | Senior Data Scientist, Expert, P4 (Job ID 17312) UNHCR. | 12 June 2019 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| UN Opportunities | Deputy Head of Joint Data Centre, Standard, P5 (Job ID 17309) UNHCR. | 12 June 2019 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| UN Opportunities | Senior Statistician, Expert, P4 (Job ID 17311) UNHCR. | 12 June 2019 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| UN Opportunities | Senior Economist, Expert, P4 (Job ID17310) UNHCR. | 12 June 2019 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Project Appointments | Programme Specialist, P-3, Institute for Statistics, Learning Outcomes Section. | 14 June 2019 | Montreal, Canada |
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| UN Opportunities | Chief, Human Resources Division, for Administrative Services (ADM) Department (WMO). | 14 June 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Consultants and Experts | MSPglobal Data and Information, Consultant for the Southeast Pacific. | 14 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | MSPglobal Data and Information Consultant for the West Mediterranean. | 14 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | MSPglobal Policy Consultant for the Southeast Pacific. | 14 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | MSPglobal Policy Consultant for the Western Mediterranean. | 14 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | Project Evaluation Consultant for Education sector. | 15 June 2019 | Kabul, Afghanistan |
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| UN Opportunities | Manager, Information and Communication Technologies, P-3 for UNWTO. | 15 June 2019 | Madrid, Spain |
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| UN Opportunities | Deputy Director of UNRWA Affairs (Operations), P5 for UNRWA. | 17 June 2019 | West Bank, Palestine |
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| Project Appointments | National Project Officer for Culure sector. | 18 June 2019 | Erbil, Iraq |
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| UN Opportunities | Head, Field Legal Office, P-4 for UNRWA. | 18 June 2019 | Gaza, Palestine |
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| Project Appointments | Administrative Assistant, G-5 for Administrative Unit, Executive Office, Culture Sector. | 20 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Project Officer, P-3, Ecological and Earth Sciences for Natural Sciences Sector. | 20 June 2019 | Venice, Italy |
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| Project Appointments | Associate Programme Specialist, P-2 for Communication and Information Statistics. | 21 June 2019 | Montreal, Canada |
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| Project Appointments | PROJECT OFFICER, P-3 for Education Sector. | 22 June 2019 | Juba, South Sudan |
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| Short-Term Support Services | Call for proposal of interest for the production, editing, graphic design and sound mixing of video and audio services for the production of video materials for Communication & Information sector (CI). | 25 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | Appel d'offres "Rédaction d'un manuel", secteur de la Communication et de l'Information / Call for proposals "Drafting a handbook", Communication & Information sector. | 25 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Project Officer, P-3, Section of Education for Inclusion and Gender Equality, Division for Education 2030 Support and Coordination (ED/ESC/IGE). | 26 June 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | Digital archivist for the Division of Knowledge Management and Information Systems (KMI), Archives, Library and Records Management Unit (KMI/ALR). | 05 July 2019 | Paris, France |
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| UN Opportunities | Inspector General, D2 for UNHCR. | 09 July 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland |
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