Each year, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), in partnership with the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), conducts a recruitment drive to identify qualified experts for the Standby Team of Senior Mediation Advisers (SBT).

The SBT consists of full-time experienced mediation practitioners who can provide remote assistance or deploy on very short notice to support the good offices, preventive diplomacy, and mediation efforts of senior envoys and representatives of the UN and its partners. The full-time team is supplemented by a pool of part-time experts that can be drawn upon for specific assignments in cases where support requests cannot be met from the full-time SBT.

This mechanism complements the existing capacities of the DPPA Mediation Support Unit (MSU) which provides support to senior UN envoys and partners engaged in mediation and peace-making efforts and serves as a repository for expertise and knowledge.

The vacancy announcement for the 2023-2024 recruitment drive is now closed. Future openings will be posted on this website as well as the UNOPS recruitment portal.