Employment opportunities

General information

ISO (International Organization for Standardization), a non-governmental organization, is one of the world's foremost developers of voluntary technical standards. The ISO Central Secretariat manages an international standardization system, prepares, produces and disseminates International Standards and standards-related documents.

Job vacancies posted on this Web site concern the ISO Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.

The ISO Central Secretariat, which employs some 150 people from 20 countries, supplies a full range of services to its members in over 157 countries and standards developers (several thousand in some 200 committees around the world). These services include coordination of the standards development programme, administration of voting on draft standards, the final editing and publication of standards, and information, communication and public relations.

The Central Secretariat of ISO is subject to the Swiss federal and cantonal employment laws. Priority is given, therefore, to persons of Swiss nationality or holding a valid work permit for the Canton of Geneva

Working languages at the ISO Central Secretariat are English and French. More than 20 languages are spoken with varying degrees of proficiency.

The ISO Central Secretariat has achieved full-site certification to the ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard.

The ISO Central Secretariat is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from women and men.

Internship, scholarship, sponsorship

Due to a very limited budget and human resources, the ISO Central Secretariat has no internship or scholarship programmes. For the same reason, we are not in a position to make donations.

ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 auditors

There is no such position as an ISO 9000 or ISO 14000 auditor at the ISO Central Secretariat!

ISO operates no system for assessing the conformity of organizations' management systems with standards in the ISO 9000 family, or the ISO 14000 family. ISO itself carries out neither ISO 9000 nor ISO 14000 audits and awards no certificates attesting to conformity with the standards

Both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 auditing and certification are carried out independently of ISO by certification bodies under their own responsibility.

For more information on this subject, see ISO does not carry out ISO 9001:2000 or ISO 14001:2004 certification

Vacant positions

Vacancy title	Deadline for applying
Manager, Electronic publishing	30 November 2006
Translator, From French into English	30 November 2006
System Developer for Web-based services	30 November 2006
Journalist / PR writer	30 November 2006
International Helpdesk Assistant	30 November 2006
English-language Technical Editor	30 November 2006
Dessinateur(trice) en construction mécanique à 50%	30 November 2006

How to apply

You can send us your candidature by e-mail. Please submit a supporting letter with your application and copies of your diploma, whether for a spontaneous offer or in response to a vacancy notice.

We reply to all spontaneous offers. Those that we keep are filed for up to six months.

Your candidature must be addressed to :

ISO Central Secretariat Head, Human Resources Services 1, rue de Varembé CP 56 1211 Genève 20 Switzerland E-mail hrl@iso.org Fax +41 22 749 09 48

Last modified 2006-11-27