Work with the United Nations

I am from Africa but currently in the US. I have a Bachelor degree in engineering and now pursuing MBA in project management. I have been chasing my dream for some years now to work for the UN.

When I look back at some of the appauling and deplorable situations in Africa and other developing countries, I wish I had the voice or means to make a difference but would like to start by gaining the exposure working with the UN. I heard it takes to know someone from within to be given the opportunity, I’m not sure if I know anybody who works there but at the same token, I would like to give a shot at any position that fits my background and qualifications.

Hope to hear from somebody.

Thanks.

I am Iranian/Canadian live in Toronto and work for government utility company. I have a master degree in electrical engineer and I am willing to work for united nation. I always want to help other people and I really enjoy it. I would like to make myself dedicated to make the better world for all the people. I wish I could use my skills and knowledge in order to participate in united nation projects, because I think it is the best way I can help.

I have just graduated from NYU with the Bachelor of Science in Finance. I have been interning in Private Equity for the past couple of years. However, during my couple of years on Wall Street, I realized that eventually I want my work to be related to people. I mean real people and real problems.

I was born and raised in Belarus, and Russian is my native language. Additionally, I speak/ understand basic Japanese and German. I believe that my unique cultural background, personality, and overall life vision make me very fit for the work with the United Nations. Most importantly, I really want to help people, and it seems to be one of the top priorities in my life. Therefore, UN seems to be an ideal place for my career and life. Working for the UN is my dream. I know it’s really tough to get in. First, I simply have to START trying. I’ll try to stay as optimistic as possible while trying. haha

I am a film maker and want to bring the plights of suffering people throughout the world to the worlds media with the help of the UN.

www.trinitymotionpictures.com

Film / tv are the most powerful visuals on opur planet today and I want to show the world what is really happening.

I am also a fully qualified teacher in England. With a small film crew I would like to show the real plights of people in poverty, in war zones etc as documentary films. The Western cinema has grown into a world of fantasy with millions upon millions of writers, directors and producers and actors making vast sums of money for their abilities; but what of their subject matter: often fantasy, action, thriller; sometimes with deep moralities like THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and others, but mostly designed to make money and often deny the truth of what is going on in the world. 25 years as a professional stuntman, I have seen and made enough false action and movies albeit entertaining to the public. I am seeking help and sponsorship through the United Nations to go into the darkest places of the world; where the darkest suffering exists and to show that the UN can make a difference and that lives of hopelesness, filled with the fallibilty of human nature can be helped; where people have been on the edge of giving up, but continue to strive to be happy and these are often, ironically the people with the least wealth and the greatest faith. As a devout christian I know the pain and suffering and loss of following Christ; but out there are greater sufferings, more powerful stories of hope than my own where people are striving to come through the worst of atrocities.

After the War In Sarajevo I went to film Welcome To Sarajevo and on a day off went to a refuge camp where one small girl had ran home to her Grandparents crying; her mother had had her arms and legs blown off by a bomb blown up in the market and was thrown into the back of a car to go top hospital. She died. Her father was shot and killed in the streets of Sarajevo and as she arrived at her Grandparents house, they had fled, but her baby sister had a spear through her heart and was pinned to the door. When I went to the refuge camp where I met this little girl and learnt of her story, I kept my eyes pressed to my 35 mil camera to try and show people that I was not crying.

I need sponsorship through the United Nations. I am a serious film and documentary maker requiring funding to take my crew out into the world and bring back stories of great hope from the greatest moments of despair. Jehovah Giro. I hope to obtain sponsorships for my films also here at home in England; Christian stories of great hope about the most unselfish of lives where we need to lose our lives in Christ in order to save them. So, the UN, any philanthropists or evangelical financiers out their that want to place their finance at the foot of the cross, please contact me at RWTMP@aol.com and look at www.trinitymotionpictures.com. to make films through the UN.

What you will have assisted to finance and create will change this world and make it a wonderful place to be a part of ‘knowing’ in the very sense of the word. Do we really know Jesus as our own personal saviour; look at the wonderful unselfish work Mother Teresa did (I would also like to make a film about her) I am currently seeking finanance to start this slate of films with a story called SEEDS FOR SID about a 2nd world war vetran who befriends a young boy in this rights of passage film. I want to make films that will inspire people to do greater things in their own lives and give these words to God that someone out there might be equally inspired to be a part of creating something totally unique in the world of film making.
God bless all those who read and respond.

I have being a Nurse for seven years. A graduate from Hunter College New York. I’ve worked in med surg, The Emergency Dept, Trauma, The operating Room, ICU etc. Now I am praying for a job with the United Nations in the United States.

As a newly registered nurse, I want to work for the UN someday.. It’s a great feeling that you’ve done something to reach out to those in need…..

Everytime I think about my life I can’t help feeling blessed.But not everyone can say the same.By working with the UNITED NATIONS I want to help such people in anyway I can,to bring sunshine in their lives.Thats a small way in which I want to help.

I declare that I am from now on working for the United Nations, whether recognized by the leaders of the entity with such a name or not. I am working on my own accord for the United Nations. We have no choice. We know our brutality, it has taken many, many traumas, many deadly, violent, suicidal encounters, but all the nations of this planet have now met and we cannot allow blood to be shed any more. We have to recognize our brotherhood right now and stop everything we are doing. The whole world should be in a state of emergency. We still have wars, famine, cruelty among us; our planet is dying, we need to communicate and change our ways immediately. Our industrial revolution has taken over and gotten out of our hands; we must take charge of our world and think of the generations ahead.

The United Nations is an obligation of all people today. We must stand united, heal our mother earth, heal our wounded, our hungry, our children and our old. It is criminal to sell powdered milk to starving African mothers, enslaving them to the lie of consumption, the mistrust in nature, the lack of faith and independence. Feed the Earth, it will feed the mothers who will nurse their infants. The Earth nurses her but we are treating our mother like a crazy old hag we’ve come to detest, ungrateful for our precious lives. Let us no longer, ever, deprecate life.

Here we are, let this be our purpose: the brotherhood, sisterhood of all beings to be manifest, here and now.

I live in New York and I’ve been applying for about 7 years. I want to work for UNICEF with children’s rights. I’ve spoken to several people who work at the UN/UNICEF and their advice to getting a job at the UN includes:

-know someone (higher up) there. Your experience/knowledge makes no difference as long as you know the right people.

-apply at a foreign post (other than NY). Supposedly it’s less hard.

-get an administrative job and work your way up. I’ve been told it takes about 5 years of doing filing in G-level for you to move up to a P-level.

I’ve applied for my first job within the UN! I came across a vacancy that I had no second thoughts about applying to: Associate Graphic Presentation Officer for the UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya. I would love to get the job, but having just graduated (BA Honours) I wonder if that will be good enough for the UN. Fingers crossed. If I don’t hear back from the UNEP, I now know what to do: work for a few more years, then get a Masters degree.

Here’s how i found the vacancy: jobs.un.org
Another good one (unofficial) is unjoblist.org, which can send you email updates when new vacancies are posted..

good luck to the rest of you!