The clearest path
into the UN system
Find the UN positions you can realistically land. Understand exactly what’s missing, what they pay, and how to get there — with the voice of someone who has worked inside the system. We’re opening access gradually — request an invite below.
A sample fit report · UNICEF Jordan, P3
Not the inflated number you get elsewhere. Calibrated against real outcomes.
Strong technical fit; the gap is UN-system experience, not capability.
The UN system processes more than 200,000 applications a year. Almost none of those applicants have any idea what they’re actually competing for.
A typical applicant submits to a P3 post with a private-sector CV that doesn’t translate, no idea what the salary actually is in Amman versus Bangkok, no sense of whether this agency sponsors visas at this grade, and no way to track whether they’re still in the running 14 weeks later.
Meanwhile, insiders move through the same system with WhatsApp groups, mentors, and accumulated context. We’re building what the insiders have. Calibrated, dated, sourced — never inflated, never hyped.
The system isn’t broken. It’s opaque.
We close the gap between applicant and institution — with calibrated odds, dated salary numbers, sourced patterns, and a tracker that knows when to nudge.
Across the 10 launch agencies. The pool is wider than headlines suggest.
Most applicants apply to many posts — often without a calibrated read on which ones are worth the weekend.
The funnel is narrow because the institution is opaque, not because the talent pool is thin.
Applicants commonly hear nothing at all. The silence itself is a feature of the system.
Figures are best-available estimates from public agency reports, ICSC statistical bulletins, and a 2026 survey of UN applicants conducted by Multilat. Decision-notification rate is a 12-month rolling average across the 10 launch agencies; smaller agencies tend to skew higher.
Six things that should already exist for UN applicants. They don’t. We built them.
Fit analysis with a calibrated number
Two scores — a CV match and a realistic competitiveness estimate, capped at 90% because nothing is certain. With a gap report that tells you precisely what to fix.
CV tailoring with zero fabrication
Every generated CV, cover letter, and motivation statement is post-checked against your source CV. Any added entity, number, or claim gets flagged for review before you ever see it.
Salary clarity from ICSC scales
Net base, post adjustment, dependency allowance, education grant, rental subsidy, mobility — built entirely from public ICSC data. No invented numbers, no private offer leaks.
A tracker with insider timing
Every application and roster, plus aging context that knows when UNICEF longlists usually drop and when WFP has gone quiet. Mentor voice, not marketing automation.
Visa and contract pattern intelligence
Whether this office sponsors visas at this grade. Whether consultants here actually convert to FTAs. Whether national contracts renew. The patterns insiders learn by accident — now sourced and dated.
Every open posting across 10 UN agencies
UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, WFP, WHO, FAO, IOM, UNESCO, ILO, UN Secretariat. Refreshed every 6 hours. Filter by anything. Deep-link to the official portal for every application.
Two scores, because they answer two different questions.
The first score asks: does your CV explicitly cover what the JD asks for? Skills overlap, vocabulary, years of experience, education match, languages.
The second score asks: if you apply with this CV as-is, what’s the realistic estimate of your odds? Same inputs plus UN-system experience, nationality vs geographic representation status, agency-specific preferences, internal-candidate likelihood inferred from posting metadata.
The number is calibrated. If we say 30%, roughly 3 out of 10 candidates at that profile should plausibly succeed. Confidently inflating to flatter users is a product defect here, not a UX choice.
Your fit · UNICEF Jordan P3
Sample reportYour CV covers most of the explicit JD requirements.
Adjusted for UN-system experience, agency norms, and panel context.
“This is an estimate based on your CV and the JD. Real outcomes depend on factors we can’t see — internal candidates, geographic representation, panel composition.”
The patterns insiders learn by accident — now sourced, dated, and visible.
Does this office sponsor work visas at P3? Do consultants here actually convert to FTAs, or is that a myth? Do national contracts renew, or does the office cycle through fresh hires every two years?
We extract these patterns from four sources — JD text, applicant surveys, public community discussions, and publicly visible career paths — and publish them with explicit confidence, evidence counts, and the source mix that produced each claim.
No LLM ever produces a probability. Probability bands are computed deterministically. Where the data won’t support a number, you see “moderate” or “insufficient data” — never a confident-sounding lie.
UNICEF Kenya country office sponsors international staff visas at P3 and above; sponsorship for SC and SSA contracts is not observed in the corpus.
UNDP Bangkok regional hub consultants at P2–P3 show a ~31% observed conversion-to-FTA rate within 24 months in the tracked cohort.
ICSC scales, post adjustment, allowances. Every number sourced and dated.
We don’t use private offer data. We don’t guess. Every figure comes from a published ICSC circular, an agency HR manual, or a Tax Equalization Fund methodology. Tooltip on every number tells you exactly which one.
P3 step 4 · Geneva, Switzerland
Married, 2 dependents
Sources: ICSC scale 2026-01 · PAI circular 2026-04 · Hardship A (no hardship pay — Geneva is a no-hardship duty station). Rental subsidy and education grant here are flat illustrative estimates; see the calculator for your personalized figures.
From student
to senior staff
The UN career arc is unusual — graduate, then NGO or private sector, then JPO or P2 entry, then climb. We map the typical path for your background, with timing, pivots, and what each step pays.
Read the full P2→P4 trajectory guide- 01
Undergraduate / master's
Years 0–2Pick a discipline UN agencies hire from — public health, economics, international relations, engineering for specific portfolios. Build language skills early. An internship at a UN-adjacent NGO is worth more than the prestige of where you study.
Pay bandUnpaid → modest - 02
NGO or private sector
Years 2–5Build a real track record. UN rarely hires P-level externals without prior development, humanitarian, or relevant sectoral experience. Three to five years here will matter more than another degree.
Pay band$30K–$70K - 03
First UN entry
Years 5–7UNV, JPO, consultancy, or P2 fixed-term. Most common first roles are duty-station and emergency posts. Consultancy can convert, but the conversion rate is lower than people assume — about 22–31% depending on duty station.
Pay band$60K–$150K - 04
P3 and beyond
Years 7–12+Build a portfolio across duty stations. Mobility is itself a hiring signal at the next grade. Languages matter more here. The jump to P4 typically takes 5–7 years inside the system; D-levels start opening at P5+12.
Pay band$100K–$200K+
Early users — five UN aspirants, one P4 hire, one current P5 panelist.
“I’ve applied to 14 UN positions over three years. I’ve never seen a tool tell me clearly which ones I shouldn’t bother with. Saved me weeks of writing the wrong cover letters.”
“The gap report is the bit. Not the score — the gap report. It reads like a former HR officer wrote it. Because, apparently, one did.”
“I sit on P4 panels. The CVs that come out of this tool are not over-optimized. They are clean, factual, and use the right vocabulary. That is more rare than you would think.”
We’re opening access gradually. Put your name down, and we’ll show you — when you’re in — whether the next role you’re thinking about is worth your weekend.
We’ll be in touch as access opens · your data is yours