United Nations Development Programme
Last updated 2 August 2026
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Where it posts vacancies
What it hires
- Governance, elections and rule-of-law advisers
- Climate, energy and environment programme specialists
- Economists and poverty/inclusive growth analysts
- Crisis prevention, recovery and stabilisation profiles
- Monitoring and evaluation, digital, procurement and operations professionals
Contract types
FTA (full staff entitlements, internal candidate status), IPSA (International Personnel Services Agreement; the primary non-staff modality, paid roughly against P-grade levels with a supplement in lieu of benefits, no pension), NPSA for national personnel, plus consultancies.
Headquarters and footprint
New York HQ; regional hubs and one of the widest country-office networks in the system; the overwhelming majority of jobs are in country offices, not New York.
Before you apply
Portals, contract names and recruitment routes change. Verify against the organisation’s own pages before relying on anything here: www.undp.org/careers · jobs.undp.org. This entry was last verified 2026-06.
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