United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Last updated 2 August 2026
All organisations · Specialised agency · Specialised agencies
Where it posts vacancies
What it hires
- Education specialists (policy, curriculum, teacher development)
- Cultural heritage and World Heritage management professionals
- Science policy, ocean science and bioethics profiles
- Media development and freedom-of-expression specialists
Contract types
FTA (staff), project appointments, service contracts and consultancies in field offices.
Headquarters and footprint
Paris HQ; regional and cluster offices plus category institutes (education, water, statistics) worldwide.
Before you apply
Portals, contract names and recruitment routes change. Verify against the organisation’s own pages before relying on anything here: careers.unesco.org. This entry was last verified 2026-06.
What the full directory adds
Enrolled students get the rest of this entry: how the portal actually behaves and where applications die in it, what the organisation is like to work in, the mistakes that recur in applications to it, and the realistic route in at each level. See what is included.