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
Type | Deadline | Location | Download | ||
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Consultants and Experts | Call for proposals "Drafting a handbook on the portrayal of men and masculinities in media" for Communication & Information sector. | 28 October 2019 | Paris, France | Download (654.58 KB) | |
Consultants and Experts | Audiovisual Archives Consultant for Division of Knowledge Management and Information Systems (KMI), Archives, Library and Records Management Unit (KMI/ALR). | 03 July 2019 | Paris, France | Download (119.49 KB) | |
Consultants and Experts | Business Intelligence Developer for Division of Knowledge Management and Information Systems (KMI) | 28 June 2019 | Paris, France | Download (153.93 KB) | |
Consultants and Experts | Author for Communication & Information sector (CI). | 17 July 2019 | Paris, France | Download (22.94 KB) | |
Consultants and Experts | Consultancy services for the maintenance and promotion of the website dedicated to empowerment of persons with disabilities. | 05 July 2019 | Paris, France | Download (105.5 KB) | |
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 | Download (749.63 KB), Download (683.29 KB) | |
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 | Download (30.06 KB) | |
Project Appointments | PROJECT OFFICER, P-3 for Education Sector. | 22 June 2019 | Juba, South Sudan | Download (92.36 KB) | |
Project Appointments | Regional HIV and Health Education Adviser for Education sector. | 27 June 2019 | Thailand | Download (74.15 KB) | |
Project Appointments | Associate Project Officer (Cultural Development), P-2, for Culture sector. | 30 June 2019 | Erbil, Iraq | Download (107.53 KB) | |
Project Appointments | Associate Project Officer (Preservation Architecture), P-2, for Culture sector | 30 June 2019 | Erbil, Iraq | Download (107.48 KB) | |
Project Appointments | Programme Assistant, G-5 for Social Human Sciences sector (SHS). | 02 July 2019 | Paris, France | Download (153 KB) | |
Project Appointments | Project Officer, P-3 for Education sector. | 09 July 2019 | Amman, Jordan | Download (110.75 KB) | |
Project Appointments | Project Officer, P-3 for section of Teacher Development, Education sector. | 28 June 2019 | Paris, France | Download (136.58 KB) | |
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 | Download (77.38 KB) | |
Short-Term Support Services | Associate Project Officer for Science sector. | 03 July 2019 | Paris, France | Download (80.77 KB) | |
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 | Download (163.66 KB) | |
UN Opportunities | Inspector General, D2 for UNHCR. | 09 July 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland | Download (58.97 KB) | |
UN Opportunities | Registrar of the International Tribunal for the law of the Sea (ITLOS). | 31 July 2019 | Hamburg, Germany | Download (121.93 KB) |