Every year, close to 8,000 qualified and experienced women and men of 160 nationalities serve as UNV volunteers in 130 countries. They are professionals who play key roles contributing to peace and making an impact on development results.

UNV recruits a great diversity of talents and offers a variety of volunteer opportunities. We encourage you to look at both focus areas:

• Development Assistance
• Humanitarian and Peacekeeping Operations 

Be aware that many UNV volunteers work in remote, isolated duty stations where basic comforts are limited. There may be no electricity or running water, there may be no recreation facilities to speak of and work may continue seven days a week.

Though UNV assignments can be very rewarding, applicants thus need to be prepared to be deployed to difficult places and they need to be able to adjust to fast-changing living and working circumstances. They need to be aware that they may not have a choice regarding their duty station (it is determined by operational requirements, not personal preferences); and that their final duty station may only be known after they have been recruited and have arrived on the ground.

To fully understand what is required of an international UNV volunteer, we strongly encourage you to read the qualifications and Conditions of Service page. 

If ready to register, go straight to the registration page. Please do not register more than once.

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UNDP and UNV, as a matter of practice, do not charge any application, processing or training fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions as to UNV volunteer opportunities you may have received, please refer to this website.

UNDP and UNV are currently aware of fictitious vacancy announcements that are being circulated through the Internet which ask you to remit a fee before you can be given a UNV position or  before you can register for training. If you believe that you have received such a notice, please forward it, and any other related information you have received, to scamalert@undp.org.

Since logos, emblems, names and addresses can be easily copied or reproduced, you are advised to take particular care in applying for vacancies, including undertaking all appropriate measures to protect against the unauthorised use of any personal information you may have provided as a result of the scam.