The Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding (SEP) selects vacancies in international organisations based on Switzerland's thematic and geographic priorities and then proposes specialists with the corresponding profile to the organisation.
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.
Applicant requirement profile for SEP-jobs (PDF, 47.9 kB, English)
SEP personal history form (DOCX, Number of pages 8, 101.8 kB, English)
Current vacancies – SEP-sponsored positions
Gender Co-ordinator (PDF, 109.8 kB, English)
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in Donetsk
Application Deadline: 12 April 2021
Political Analyst (PDF, 106.1 kB, English)
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in Kyiv
Application Deadline: 12 April 2021
Senior Political Officer (PDF, 101.2 kB, English)
OSCE Mission to Moldova
Application Deadline: 12 April 2021
Kosovo Specialist Chambers & Specialist Prosecutor's Office
Application deadline: 20 April 2021
Please send this requested form
back to pd-ams-expertenpool@eda.admin.ch
- 133-3 Senior Legal Officer (Constitutional Court Chamber)
- 507 Operational Security Officer
- 516 Witness Security Officer
- 527 Senior Prosecutor
- 528 Prosecutor
Peace and Development Specialist (PDS) (PDF, 116.2 kB, English)
Office of the Resident Coordinator in Táchira, Venezuela
Application Deadline: 25 April 2021
Associate Expert in Political Affairs (UN JPO, P2) - New York
Application deadline: 2 Mai 2021
Recruitment by cinfo
Junior Professional Officer Assistant to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association in Geneva (PDF, 141.3 kB, English)
Application deadline: 2 Mai 2021
Recruitment by cinfo
Planned positions
Learning Solutions Specialist (PDF, 389.7 kB, English)
United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Geneva
Human Security Adviser for Sudan
Peace and Development Adviser Burundi in Bujumbura
Secondment to the Office of the Resident Coordinator
Peacebuilding Adviser Palestine
Secondment to the Office of the Resident Coordinator
Several positions
Secondment to the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, OSCE
Monitoring Officer, Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, OSCE
Junior Professional Officer (Human Dimension), OSCE
Junior Professional Officer on Gender OHCHR East Africa Regional Office in Addis Abeba (PDF, 111.9 kB, English)
Recruitment by cinfo
Junior Professional Officer Assistant to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, OHCHR in Geneva (PDF, 126.7 kB, English)
Recruitment by cinfo
Junior Professional Officer Assistant to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association in Geneva (PDF, 141.3 kB, English)
Recruitment by cinfo
Current vacancies – positions not sponsored by the swiss expert pool
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.
No current vacancies.
Application dossier
A complete application dossier contains the following documents:
- Letter of application
- Copies of diplomas and references
- Curriculum vitae in English
- SEF personal data sheet
For OSCE and EU applications with the documents requested in the job advertisement.
Unsolicited applications will not be considered.
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