Applications for advertised vacancies and skills always in demand

• Once you have completed your application, you will receive an e-mail confirming the creation of your personal account for future visits. This mail will come from the address jobs.gva. If you use a spam filter, please configure it to allow messages from jobs.gva, otherwise you may not receive an acknowledgement.

• If your application meets the ICRC's basic selection criteria, we will tell you about the next steps in the recruitment process.


• If your application does not meet our basic selection criteria we will inform you, but we will not give further details.

Because we receive so many applications, we can only enter into oral discussions with candidates whose applications have reached the interview stage.

Interviews for specialists
If we select your application we will invite you to ICRC headquarters in Geneva for a day of interviews. You will have one-on-one interviews with two or three members of ICRC staff from different units. The interviews will enable us to add to the information contained in your application and to assess your motivation for humanitarian work. They last 60 to 90 minutes each.

You will also take written and oral language tests in English, French and any other language mentioned in your application.

We will let you know the results of your application no later than two weeks after your interviews.

If you are successful, you will receive an offer of employment.

Interviews, tests and assessment days for delegates and administrators
If we have selected your application, we will invite you to ICRC headquarters in Geneva for an in-depth interview with a recruitment officer, who will assess your motivation and your professional and personal experience.

You will also take written and oral language tests in English, French and any other language mentioned in your application.

If you are successful at the initial interview stage, we will invite you to attend an assessment day in Geneva at a later date.

The assessment day enables us to decide whether you have the necessary skills for ICRC field work, such as motivation, leadership, stress management, decision-making, communication, team work and the capacity to conceptualize. This is not a competition between candidates: our board of observers assesses each candidate individually.

We will let you know the results of your application no later than two weeks after your assessment day.