Scholarship: Call for operations World Trade Organization Young Professionals Programme for 2024
Deadline for operations: 11th May 2024
Yearly Payment CHF
The reclamation policy of the WTO is to seek to attract and retain staff members offering the loftiest norms of capability, effectiveness and integrity. As an Equal Openings Employer, the WTO gives full regard to merit and diversity.
The Secretariat of the WTO is seeking campaigners for THE WORLD TRADE Association Youthful PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME for 2024.
The WTO Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a unique occasion for good youthful professionals up to the age of 32 times, as at 1 January 2024, from WTO Members with low or no professional representation in the WTO Secretariat, to enhance their knowledge and chops on WTO and transnational trade issues. The Programme aims to widen the pool of professionals from these WTO Members, who can latterly be more competitive with respect to reclamation in the WTO and/ or other indigenous and transnational associations.
ALL Operations MUST BE ACCOMPANIED In A COVER LETTER OF Provocation, WHICH SHOULD INDICATE UP TO THREE AREAS OF WORK ( SEE DETAILS UNDER GENERAL FUNCTIONS), IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE, THAT THE Aspirant WOULD BE INTERESTED IN. Operations with no coexisting letter of provocation won't be considered.
This programme offers named youthful professionals with the occasion to gain work experience in the WTO.
General Functions
The named Young Professional will be placed in a specific Division of the WTO Secretariat in agreement with the requirements and precedences of the Organization; and grounded on the linked areas of interest of the Young Professional. Each Young Professional may express interest in not further than three areas of WTO work; and in order of preference.
The areas of work may include, inter alia, the following (in alphabetical order)
Accessions
– Husbandry
– Climate change
– Dispatches
– Council and Trade Accommodations
– Digital Trade
– Disagreement Agreement
– Economic Research and Statistics
– External relations
– Government Procurement
– Intellectual Property Rights
– Investment Facilitation for Development
– Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)
– Market Access (tariffs andnon-tariff walls)
– Aseptic and Phytosanitary measures
– Specialized Walls to Trade
– Trade and Development
– Trade and Terrain
– Trade Facilitation
– Trade Finance
– Trade and Gender
– Trade in Services and Investment
– Trade Policy Analysis
– Trade- Related Specialized Backing.
– Trade Remedies (anti-dumping and countervailing duties)
Needed QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Advanced university degree in economics, econometrics, transnational relations, law, terrain studies, or other trade- related subjects applicable to the work of the WTO and/ or ongoing conversations in the WTO (e.g. transnational investment law, trade and gender,etc.). Aspirants must have attained their advanced university degree by the time they submit their operation.
Knowledge and Chops
General knowledge of the work of the WTO.
Specialized knowledge in one or further of the areas of work indicated above.
Good drafting chops in English. Capability to draft in French and/ or Spanish would be an advantage.
Capability to work singly and as part of a platoon, in a multilateral terrain.
Demonstrated strong interest in transnational trade and the multinational trading system.
Commitment and passion for trade or WTO- related work.
Work Experience
Minimal two (2) times of professional experience applicable to the work of the WTO.
Languages
Ignorance in English. A good working knowledge of either French or Spanish would be an advantage.
Information
Preference shall be given to citizens from WTO Members without any representation as well as from developing and least developed countries (LDCs) Members with low representation (one or two staff members) at the professional position in the Secretariat (list below). Particular attention will be given to developing and LDCs WTO Members that haven't shared in former cohorts of the YPP ( marked with an asterisk in list below).
Only operations from citizens of WTO Members will be accepted. Womanish campaigners are explosively encouraged to apply to this Programme.
The WTO may use colorful communication technologies similar as videotape or teleconference for the assessment and evaluation of campaigners. The reclamation process may also involve the use of colorful forms of testing, assessment centres, interviews and reference checks.
Fresh Information
Only operations from citizens of WTO Members will be accepted.
The WTO may use colorful communication technologies similar as videotape or teleconference for the assessment and evaluation of campaigners. The reclamation process may also involve the use of colorful forms of testing, assessment centres, interviews and reference checks.
All aspirants are encouraged to apply online as soon as possible after the vacancy has been posted and well before the ending date – Geneva (Switzerland) time – stated in the vacancy advertisement.
PLEASE NOTE THAT Operations Entered AFTER THE CLOSING DATE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
The WTO is a non-smoking terrain.
