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Last Chance to Apply for the 2023/2024 United Nations Young Professionals Programme

United Nations Young Professionals Programme (Exams now Open)

Duty Station:NEW YORK; ADDIS ABABA; BANGKOK; BEIRUT; GENEVA; NAIROBI; SANTIAGO; VIENNA; OTHER;
Posting Period:01 May 2023 – 29 June 2023

Application Deadline: 29 June 2023

About the United Nations Young Professionals Programme

The United Nations Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative for talented, highly qualified professionals to start a career as an international civil servant with the United Nations Secretariat. It consists of an entrance examination and professional development programmes once successful candidates start their career with the UN.

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Details of the United Nations Young Professionals Programme

What is the United Nations Young Professionals Programme?

  • Initially you will be appointed for two years and then be reviewed for a continuing appointment.
  • The Organization promotes mobility within and across duty stations and job families.
  • As a new recruit you are expected to work in a different duty station for your second assignment.
  • You will be offered orientation and mobility training as well as career support.
  • This will help you adapt and accelerate the learning period leading to productive work and job satisfaction as an international civil servant. 

Who we are

  • The world looks to the United Nations for solutions to complex problems everywhere; from ending conflict and alleviating poverty, to combating climate change and defending human rights. The issues on our agenda are manifold and diverse as are the careers we offer. Among our ranks you will find staff members who monitor elections, disarm child soldiers, coordinate relief in humanitarian crises and provide administrative as well as logistical support to carry out our complex mandates. These are just a few examples amongst our many other equally critical and necessary functions.
  • The wide array of jobs means that you may change functions, departments, geographic locations, and even organizations or fields of work throughout your career in the Organization.
  • The diversity of our people, some 41,000 staff from our 193 Member States, means that you will find yourself working in multi-cultural teams with people from all backgrounds and cultures who have wide perspectives, experiences, expectations as well as approaches.
  • As an international civil servant, you are expected to uphold the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity in all matters affecting your work and status. Integrity includes probity, impartiality, fairness, honesty and truthfulness. Those we serve have a right to expect no less.

What we do

  • The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 and committed to maintaining international peace and security; developing friendly relations among nations; promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
  • Due to its unique international character, and the powers vested in its founding Charter, the Organization takes action on a wide range of issues, and provides a forum for its 193 Member States to express their views, through the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and other bodies and committees.
  • The work of the United Nations touches every corner of the globe and focuses on a broad range of fundamental issues, like sustainable development, protection of the environment and refugees, disaster relief and mitigation, counter terrorism, as well as disarmament and non-proliferation.
  • In September 2015, world leaders gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a new universal standard for development that will ensure no one is left behind.
  • 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the cornerstone of the historic, transformational Agenda. Building on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs aim to go further to end all forms of poverty. Universal and indivisible, the SDGs call for action by all countries—developed, developing and middle-income—to promote prosperity while protecting the planet over the next fifteen years.
  • The SDGs officially came into force on 1 January 2016. Governments, businesses and civil society have started mobilizing efforts to achieve the goals, by aligning their priorities with the SDGs and adopting plans to achieve them.

Application Process of the United Nations Young Professionals Programme

United Nations Young Professionals Programme Opportunity is About


Administration Agriculture, Biology & Animal Science Architecture & Construction Computers & IT Economics & Business Education Energy Environment History & Anthropology Human Rights International Affairs Languages Law Media, Marketing & PR Medicine, Nursing & Psychology Military & Security Politics Society

Eligibility Criteria of the United Nations Young Professionals Programme

Candidates should be from:


Find the eligible countries from https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=NCE&lang=en-US

Description of Ideal Candidate for the United Nations Young Professionals Programme

Who can apply for the United Nations Young Professionals Programme?

The United Nations Young Professionals Programme (YPP) examination is held once a year and is open to nationals of countries participating in the annual recruitment exercise. The list of participating countries is published annually and varies from year to year.

Basic United Nations Young Professionals Programme application criteria:

  • You must have the nationality of a participating country.
  • You must hold at least a first-level university degree relevant for the exam subject you are applying for.
  • You must be 32 or younger in the year of the examination.
  • You must be fluent in either English or French. 

Participation of staff of the United Nations

This examination is also held for staff members of the United Nations Secretariat who work within the General Service and other related categories and aspire to a career within the Professional and higher categories. For more information about staff members participating in the young professionals programme, click here.

United Nations Young Professionals Programme Exam subjects

Depending on the staffing needs of the United Nations, applicants are invited to apply for different exam subjects. Descriptions of responsibilities, expected competencies and education requirements differ depending on the area.


 Deadline: Applications will be accepted through 29 June 2023 (closes at 11:59 PM New York time).


Cost/funding for participants

Fully Funded

The United Nations offers you an attractive remuneration package with competitive pay and benefits. The level of pay for staff in the Professional and higher categories that are recruited internationally is set by reference to the highest paying national civil service. Staff members in categories that are locally recruited are compensated in accordance with the best prevailing conditions of service locally. The is no fee for this process or application.

Please log in to inspira.un.org to view and apply to the Job Openings (JO).

Economic Affairs: job opening #207015

Information Systems and Technology: job opening #207005

Remember to watch the application guidance video to learn more about the process. And a quick reminder that candidates are allowed to submit an application for only one YPP job opening. Submissions to multiple YPP exams will result in an automatic disqualification.

For UN staff members: please note that the job openings for internal YPP applicants are only accessible through inspira, via “G to P” or “G to N” job openings, and are not available on the Careers Portal.

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