The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 195 members - 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.
Join us in creating a world without hunger and poverty.
In 1945, In Quebec City, Canada, the first session of the newly created United Nations established the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a specialized UN agency. Washington D.C. is designated as a temporary FAO headquarters.
FAO is at the heart of the UN development system (UNDS), leading efforts to tackle the world's most pressing challenges related to food and agriculture.
To achieve its mandate of ending hunger, FAO collaborates closely with other UN agencies, funds, and programs, leveraging their respective strengths and comparative advantages.
FAO is actively pursuing this objective by promoting innovative approaches to UN collaboration, tapping into the strength of transformative partnerships, which are powerful alliances that are designed to deliver sustainable outcomes through systemic, long-term and disruptive action, as highlighted in the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031.
FAO also plays a prominent role in the ongoing UNDS reform and participates in global and regional UN system-wide mechanisms to better coordinate action and respond to present and future threats to global food security. Through strengthened advocacy and communication, along with its strategic engagement across initiatives such as the Secretary General’s Our Common Agenda, FAO has strategically positioned agrifood systems transformation at the center of the UN’s sustainable development agenda.
At the country level, FAO is a major contributor to the reinvigorated Resident Coordinator system and delivers integrated actions and robust policy advice to countries in collaboration with UN Country Teams. Leveraging the planning and programming instruments provided by the UNDS reform, the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, and the UN Common Country Analysis, FAO prioritizes and integrates food security and agrifood systems transformation as part of the overall UN support for national governments.
Current Vacancies at FAO:
Technical Specialist (Agriculture Statistics) (2402900)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: Consultant
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 17/Sep/2024
Closure Date: 02/Oct/2024, 12:59:00 AM
National Adviser - Community-based Small-Scale Fisheries Development (2402762)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 16/Sep/2024
Closure Date: 01/Oct/2024, 12:59:00 AM
Specialist in the theme of Institutional Purchase – PAA and PNAE (2402806)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 16/Sep/2024
Closure Date: 01/Oct/2024, 12:59:00 AM
Specialist in the theme of the National Council for Sustainable Rural Development – CONDRAF (2402807)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 16/Sep/2024
Closure Date: 01/Oct/2024, 12:59:00 AM
Specialist in the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) (2402810)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 16/Sep/2024
Closure Date: 01/Oct/2024, 12:59:00 AM
Forestry Specialist (2402839)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 10/Sep/2024
Closure Date: 25/Sep/2024, 12:59:00 AM
Cooperative Assistant (2402650)
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Location: Home-Based
Posting Date: 16/Aug/2024
Closure Date: 01/Oct/2024, 12:59:00 AM