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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| Consultants and Experts | Call for proposals: Drafting a handbook on “Migration: a Manual for Radio Stations” for Communication & Information Sector. | 08 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Associate Project Officer (Coordination, Communication and Advocacy/Outreach Officer) - P-2 Re-advertisement | 10 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Project Officer (P-3) - Education | 13 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Project Officer - Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Research (P-3) - Education | 13 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Associate Project Officer, P-2 for Education Sector. | 14 September 2019 | Kabul, Afghanistan |
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| Consultants and Experts | Call for proposals “Update to GEM Report’s data management pipeline” for Education Sector. | 15 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | Call for proposals - Ocean Best Practices System Project (OBPS). | 15 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | Call for proposals - Central Equatorial Africa’s coastal and marine management and planning. | 18 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Consultants and Experts | Call for Individual Authors for Education sector. | 29 September 2019 | Paris, France |
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| Project Appointments | Liaison and Partnership Development Officer Resource mobilization and donor relations P-4 (re-advertisement) | 30 September 2019 | DU, United Arab Emirates |
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| Project Appointments | Programme Specialist, P-3 for UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP). | 03 October 2019 | Paris, France |
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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 |
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