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 165 people from 25 countries, supplies a full range of services to its members in over 140 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 a position as an ISO 9000 or ISO 14000 auditor at 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 certificates' don't exist!

Vacant positions

Presently there are no vacant positions at the ISO Central Secretariat. We are a relatively small organization and the turnover of staff is accordingly limited

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 :

Last modified 2004-06-19