Now Open for Applications Junior Professional Officer Positions for 2024
Calling on all junior professionals to apply for open job vacancies at UNHCR and protect the rights of refugees across the world. Click on the job titles below to apply. Before applying find out a brief about Junior Proffessional Programmes below :
About UNHCR
UNHCR leads international action to protect people forced to flee conflict and persecution and those denied a nationality.
About Junior Professional Officer Positions
The Junior Professional Officers (JPO) programme brings new talent and ideas to UNHCR while providing a unique opportunity to obtain training and exposure to UNHCR’s work.
Junior Professional Officers (JPOs) are young professionals who are interested in the UN and humanitarian work, who prove able to contribute to UNHCR’s future and its work on behalf of refugees, internally displaced people and the stateless.
The areas of expertise that the organization looks for in particular are: law, public administration and social sciences.
Most JPOs are between ages 25 and 35, depending on donor country policy, and are recruited as professional staff members at the P2 level. While most JPOs are citizens of their donor countries, the Netherlands may also sponsor citizens of other countries under the Developing Countries Scheme (JPO/DC). Nearly 69 per cent of JPOs continue in UNHCR as regular staff at the end of their assignment. UNHCR manages around 60 JPOs yearly sponsored by 15 Governments. Most JPO assignments last from two to three years.
Eligibility
- Degree equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree or a Master’s Degree in a field relevant to the functions requested in the job description.
- At least two to four years of relevant work experience (two years with a Master Degree – or higher – or four years with a Bachelor Degree).
- Proficiency in English (spoken and written) and working knowledge of a second language of the United Nations is strongly recommended asset (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish).
- Keen and demonstrated interest in the United Nations and humanitarian issues, in particular, and ability to live and/or serve in hardship locations.
Applicants interested in pursuing a JPO experience need to regularly consult the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a governmental institution of their country.
Current opportunities
- Associate Programme Officer locations Chisinau, Moldova
- Assc Programme CBI Officer locations Mexico City, Mexico
- Assc Protection Officer locations Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh
- Assc Protection Officer locations Bangkok (MCO), Thailand
- Assc Child Protection Officer locations Jijiga, Ethiopia
- Assc Reset & Compl Pathws Off locations Guatemala City, Guatemala
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