UN FAO Young Professionals Programme (YPP) 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 7, 2026

Applications are open for the UN FAO Young Professionals Programme (YPP) 2026. The Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative focused at proficient, certified younger professionals who’re primarily nationals of non or underrepresented members. Priority consideration might be given to candidates from Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and growing nations normally, to start out a profession as a global civil servant with FAO.

Under the supervision of a senior employees member, Young Professional Officers work with worldwide and nationwide employees and are concerned within the identification, design, implementation, monitoring and analysis of FAO actions. Purposes of assignments fluctuate and should have a rustic-particular, regional, sector-based mostly or thematic focus.

Young Professional Officers are provided two years mounted time period contracts topic to a one-12 months probationary interval. They will typically be employed at P-1 step 1 degree on preliminary appointment and can transfer to P-1 step 2 degree for the second 12 months of their task.

Eligibility

Candidates for the YPP are chosen on a extremely aggressive foundation. The {qualifications} under are required for consideration:

• Candidates ought to be 32 years of age or youthful as of 31 December of the 12 months of application;
• Academic {qualifications}: Advanced college diploma (Master’s, Ph.D. or equal) in a area related to the work of FAO;
• A minimal of 1 12 months {of professional} expertise in a area related to the work of FAO;
• Working data of English and restricted data of one other FAO official language (French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese or Russian);
• Candidates should not bear any of the next relationships to employees members of the Organization: son, daughter, brother or sister.

Application

Visit the listing of YPP opportunities presently obtainable within the Organization (for vacancies, click on the YPP (Young Professionals Programme) hyperlink from the banner on the left of the newly opened web page).

Kindly word that the application and choice course of might be carried out in English. 

For extra info, go to UN FAO Young Professionals Programme.