UN DESA Junior Professional Officers Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 16, 2025

Applications are open for the UN DESA Junior Professional Officers Programme 2025. The Italian Junior Professional Officers Programme – often known as the JPO Programme – is a multilateral improvement cooperation initiative sponsored by the Government of Italy and carried out by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA).

The function of the Programme is 2-fold: to help worldwide organizations in finishing up their actions by offering them with free of charge expert personnel and to permit certified younger professionals looking for a world profession to make a related expertise that might broaden their possibilities of recruitment in worldwide organizations or within the worldwide discipline.

The Programme stems from a United Nations Economic and Social Council decision adopted in 1961, which accredited and inspired the collaboration of volunteers (funded by their respective nations of origin) in improvement cooperation initiatives and programmes.

Eligibility

• Born on or after 1 January 1994 (1 January 1993 for graduates in Medicine; 1 January 1991 for graduates in Medicine who’ve already been awarded a publish-graduate medical specialization on diploma)
• Italian nationality
• Fluency in English and Italian (in all 4 areas: Read, Speak, Write, Understand)
• Advanced college diploma awarded earlier than the applica on deadline, akin to:
  • Laurea Magistrale/Specialistica
  • Laurea Magistrale a ciclo unico
  • University Master’s diploma awarded a er a Laurea/Laurea Triennale
  • University Master’s diploma awarded a er a Bachelor’s diploma.

For admission to the Italy-funded JPO Programme candidates from growing nations should meet
the next common necessities:

• Hold the nationality of one of many growing nations eligible for the place.
• Born on or a er 1 January 1994 (1 January 1993 for graduates in Medicine; 1 January 1991 for graduates in Medicine who’ve already been awarded a publish-graduate medical specialization diploma)
• Fluency in English (in all 4 areas: Read, Speak, Write, Understand)
• Advanced college diploma awarded earlier than the applica on deadline, akin to:
  • Laurea Magistrale/Specialistica
  • Laurea Magistrale a ciclo unico
  • University Master’s diploma awarded after a Laurea/Laurea Triennale
  • University Master’s diploma awarded after a Bachelor’s diploma

Application

The deadline for submitting purposes to the 2025 spherical of the Italian JPO Programme is 16 June 2025 at 3pm (Italy native time).

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For extra info, go to UN DESA JPO Programme.